What was a Warrior’s basic foundation? Their physical body constitution, of course!
By using gravitational pull as a means of evaluation, the ones with a strong body would pass while the ones with a weak body would be eliminated.
This was an evaluation that tested one’s absolute strength. There was no way to muddle through it at all.
I’ve never experienced a gravitational space before, though!
Meng Lei’s eyes swiveled around, and he entered the entrance on the left.
“Uh...”
“Isn’t he a Magician? Why did he go through the Warriors’ entrance?”
Meng Lei’s choice filled the contestants, who constantly had their eyes on him, with utter confusion. Why was a Magician like him going through the Warriors’ entrance instead of the Magicians’? What the heck was he trying to do?!
The so-called gravitational space looked like an enclosed corridor, yet also like a tunnel. Gravitational magic circles were engraved on the floor, walls, and ceiling, and they constantly exerted a gravitational pull.
Meng Lei sensed his body becoming heavy and weighted down after he entered the place, as if invisible shackles had been placed on him—it was the gravitational pull!
A gravitational pull that reached every nook and cranny!
However, this bit of gravitational pull was nothing to Meng Lei, of course. He sauntered about leisurely as if he was taking a stroll and advanced forward.
Then, completely unaffected, he walked out of the gravitational space in one go and passed the so-called elimination round.
Right after that, he arrived at an arena-like area. In front of him was a fighting ring several meters above the ground, and around it were rows and rows of spectators.
This scene looked awfully familiar to the eye—this was exactly what it looked like back when he had been participating in the Flame Arena battles!
“Why am I all the way here at an arena?”
Meng Lei was rather bewildered.
The audience in the benches weren’t, however. They looked at Meng Lei at once, their eyes twinkling with excitement and anticipation.
“The 100th one is here!”
“Haha! The 100th one is here!”
“We’ve finally reached 100 people now. Hurry and start the competition!”
“What’s going on?” Meng Lei found himself rather baffled. “What do they mean by the 100th one?”
“That contestant over there!”
Just as Meng Lei was in total confusion, a staff member ran over quickly and said, “Sir, you’re the 100th contestant to pass the elimination round. Please, go up the fighting ring immediately and get ready for the arena battle that’ll be starting right away...”
It was only when he heard the staff member’s explanation that Meng Lei finally understood what was going on.
What came after the elimination round was the arena battle. However, the arena battle wasn’t a one-on-one showdown but a 100-man free-for-all arena battle!
It was an intense free-for-all close-quarters battle with 100 contestants in a group and would go on until only ten people remained in the arena.
These ten people would then enter the next round.
Meng Lei was unfortunately the 100th person to pass the elimination round. Therefore, he needed to take part in the free-for-all battle right away without being given even a bit of time to rest.
“A free-for-all arena battle? Who came up with the goddamn idea?”
Meng Lei was rendered rather speechless, though he went up the battle arena nonetheless. Meng Lei sensed the other 99 contestants’ hostile gazes in an instant.
A 100-man free-for-all that would leave behind only ten people in the end. Everyone was an enemy!
“Dear guests and audience! Good morning, everyone! Welcome to the qualifying round of this year’s inter-academy exchange competition! I am your host for today, Jim!”
A middle-aged Dragon Person dressed in a magic robe went up the arena and began a short and concise but passionate and fervent pre-competition speech.
He then went on to explain the free-for-all’s rules—though there weren’t actually any, despite calling it so. There was only one key point—”Do everything you can to stay in the arena!”
Be it being a coward and staying low-profile or crushing others in a dominating show of power, as long as they could stay in the arena, then victory would be theirs!
A competition mechanism like this was evidently unfair, especially toward contestants that were the last to pass the basic evaluation like Meng Lei.
Additionally, it was full of loopholes. Things like acquaintances grouping together, weaker contestants teaming up, experts being ganged up upon, and so on... Various situations like these could happen, and it highly likely would lead to a situation where the ones remaining on the arena in the end wouldn’t necessarily be the strongest.
There was nothing to be done about this, however—these were the rules.
In this clearly-hierarchic society that revered the strong, the concept of fairness had never once existed.
“I hereby declare that the first arena battle of the qualifying round officially starts now!”
Boom!
The moment the host finished speaking, the entire venue instantly quietened, and innumerable pairs of eyes flicked toward the arena.
The arena that had originally been quiet... erupted into a mad frenzy!
Chapter 127: Brilliant Dragon Might, Bombing The Arena Again
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
99 contestants simultaneously started to move!
Some charged brazenly toward the contestants nearest to them, some retreated out of the battle zone immediately, some formed directly into small groups...
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The area outside the fighting ring also turned incredibly chaotic in no time. As the ferocious battle broke out and demons and monsters entered a dance of madness, the passion that the audience had accumulated over the last four years also fully erupted in this instant, and they started to scream and howl fervently.
“Come on, Allen! Kill those bastards!”
“Victory is yours, Jarvis!”
“Look out to your left! The left, you idiot...”
“Brat, this place isn’t somewhere that you should
