Chapter 261: Survival Battle Rules of the Year

“Final Afternoon Session! Winner! The Kingdom of Lingaria!”

In the end, Bequa didn’t play a role in the representative round, and we ended up winning four consecutive matches until Elira.

“The representative round went to the Kingdom of Lingaria (1st place), the Military Kingdom of Galatein (2nd place), the Anatite Mining Kingdom (3rd place), and the Holy Taglion (4th place)!”

“Well then, shall we go too?”

“Yes, we shall.”

The match was over, so we went to Bequa and the others.

Because after this the rules for the survival match will be announced.

“Good work, all four of you.”

“Good work.”

When we went to the waiting room, all the members who participated in the representative match were there. After us, the other members of the school competition came in.

“I didn’t get a chance to compete after all.”

“That’s a good thing, because it means the frontrunners have won four in a row.”

“I guess so… but”

Bequa seemed to feel incomplete because he didn’t get a chance to fight.

“Then why don’t you just try your best in the survival battle?”

“Right!”

After half an hour of such conversation, an announcement was made that we should enter the stage. We followed the instructions and went on stage.

“We all had a good time at the preliminary round. I will now explain the rules for this year’s survival match.”

After everyone had entered, the rules were explained. This time, the heroes also entered. When the heroes entered, the audience was excited. The heroes kept looking at us, but we pretended not to notice and ignored them.

The rules of this year’s Survival Battle can be summarized as follows.

Survival battle rules

• A square of rocky wasteland, about 600 meters on each side, will be created as the arena using magic tools, and will be used as the stage.
• Each country is randomly placed in the four corners of the square. Therefore, it’s completely random which country is next to which country and which country is facing which country.
• The time limit is 8 hours, and the country with more players remaining after the time limit is up wins.
• The country whose entire team leaves the stage will finish in fourth place. The country whose team leaves the stage after that will be placed 3rd, and the country whose team leaves the stage after that will be placed 2nd.
• If only one country is left on the stage before the time limit is up, the survival game will end at that point.
• If there’s a tie in the number of remaining players at the end of the time limit, the ranking will be determined by the same ratio. In such a case, the ranking of the match will be determined by the result of the representative match.
• The map of the stage will be displayed for 5 minutes once an hour to show where people are on the stage with the magic tool given to each team. The information is only that of the person present, not of the country in which he or she belongs.
• When the time limit reaches one hour, the magic tool will always display the map and the person’s location.
• Three magic tools that can be used for long-distance conversation will be distributed to each country.
• If a person is damaged to the point of death within the barrier, the magic tool will reduce the damage and the person will be forced to leave the stage.
• Those who have been ejected from the stage will not be allowed to participate in the survival game again.

“Any questions, please raise your hands.”

No hands were raised, as if there were no questions in particular.

This year’s survival battle was simpler than last year. To win, all you had to do was to beat your opponents. It would be best if we could kill them all at that time.

The stage is a rocky terrain, which is probably made to make it easier to hide. However, if you hide in the same place all the time, they might find out that you are not moving with your magic tools and find you.

According to the rules, you don’t get any points if you make someone leave the stage. So there would be no problem if they continued to run away and survive.

“This concludes the explanation of the rules for the survival battle.”

With this, the explanation of the rules was over. We quickly left the stage before the heroes got involved. And so, we were dismissed for the day. Tomorrow, we will start working towards the Survival Battle in earnest. The day after tomorrow, three days after today, the Survival Battle will be held.

“This year’s Survival Battle is simpler than last year’s, isn’t it?”

“Yes, it is.”

Sophie and I started a meeting after we returned home.

“With these rules, it looks like we’ll be able to use the team divisions we had planned.”

“Yes, you’re right.”

There’s nothing much to talk about in our meeting. We have already decided on the team divisions, so there’s nothing to decide.

“Perhaps the heroes will act in teams of four.”

“Right…”

We can expect the heroes and the saint to work as a set. The reason is that there is no merit in splitting them up separately.

“As for the heroes, all I can say at this point is that we will respond flexibly.”

“That’s right.

I have no idea how powerful the heroes are, so she can’t tell you what we will do at this point.

“Well, Sophie, today was the first time you tried talking to the saint, how was it?”

“It was creepy.”

“Creepy…”

It seemed that Sophie felt the same creepiness that I had felt from the saint. I was surprised when she told me that she felt the same way.

“Maybe the saint had a purpose other than to incite the heroes.”

“What purpose?”

“I don’t know.”

In the end, we still didn’t have an answer as to what the saint wanted to do.

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