Book 1: Chapter 99: Second Round Rules
<strong>Scarlet</strong>
I wee you all back from the first round of the tournament! the vice-headmasters voice echoes throughout the auditorium before he continues, Behind me you will see the results of your hard work, and the initial ranking after the first round!
Most of the students in the room were already reading the names on the list, with many of them voicing surprise at the sight of a ss I first year so high up on them. But the vice-headmaster doesnt give them any time to talk about it as he says, Now we will be moving onto the second round of the tournament! This one is quite different from the first round. He suddenly begins to levitate into the air with a small cloud of greenish ck mist beneath his feet before moving up to the rules and magnifying them to berger for us.
<strong><em>The secondary round of the tournament will take ce in a magical reality imitating a forest on Tartarus.</em></strong>
<em>Every student will be ced in the same forest in the same magical reality, and they will be given points for ying demons.</em>
<em>The forest will be separated into two parts.</em>
<em>The outer ring of the forest will have only ss I demons, with their levels increasing as the students get closer to the inner ring.</em>
<em>The inner ring of the forest will have ss II demons, with their levels increasing as the students get closer to the center, which will have a single ss III demon.</em>
<em>Demons will give points depending on their levels.</em>
<em>Demons at levels 1-50 will give one point apiece to all students involved in their killing, including nonbat focused Guardians.</em>
<em>Demons at levels 51-100 will give two points apiece to all students involved in their killing, including nonbat focused Guardians.</em>
<em>Demons at levels 101-150 will give three points apiece to all students involved in their killing, including nonbat focused Guardians.</em>
<em>Demons at levels 151-200 will give four points apiece to all students involved in their killing, including nonbat focused Guardians.</em>
<em>The ss III demon will give a total of fifty points spread across whoever kills it.</em>
<em>Furthermore, killing another student of the same ss as you or higher will give you a fifth of their points.</em>
<em>Should a student be killed by another student and not by a demon they will be revived in the magical reality.</em>
<em>The rankings will be determined through whoever has the most points.</em>
<em>However, should abat focused Guardian decide to remove other Guardians from y through killing them and are believed to be specifically targeting nonbat focused Guardians during the tournament, or a higher ss Guardian targets a lower ss one, they will receive a severe handicap in the form of a quantity of their points taken away and distributed to every targeted Guardian they killed, with the specific quantity being decided upon by a panel of professors watching the tournament.</em>
<em>Unrted to the rankings, five Top ss student spots will be added in addition to the top one hundred corresponding to the top five scoring ss I students and 50 Advanced ss spots will be added in addition to the nine hundred current spots corresponding to the next highest ranking ss I students not already in that ss.</em>
Now, you can all read this for the exact rules should you choose to do so, but be warned that not reading them does not mean you will be exempt from them, Alfred says, clearly warning everyone while also giving people a chance to show off theirzy side should they choose to be stupid. Youll all be ced in a magical reality that is meant to imitate a forest on Tartarus. One ruled by a ss III Taracht demon. He pauses as the image of a massive spider with ck hair streaked with red, which seems to be amon color scheme amongst demons, sitting in the middle of arge nest of webs in the middle of arge forest on the magical reality screen. The screen then zooms out to show arge forest surrounding the demon with thicker trees spread less sparsely in the inner ring of it and thinner trees spread more sparsely in the outer ring. The ss II and III students amongst you will all be spawned in the inner ring of the forest, which will be infested with various ss II demons of different types. Meanwhile the ss I students will be spawned in the outer ring, which is filled with various ss I demons instead.
Whispers grow amongst the gathered students, most of which are rather excited, but some are quite frightened instead.
Killing a demon gives points corresponding to the level of the demon to everyone who participated in its death, with every fifty levels giving an additional point starting at level 1 giving a single point to each person who participated in its hunt, and the ss III demon giving fifty total points spread across whoever kills it instead of each participant getting the same reward, the vice-headmaster continues while floating up to the very center of the auditorium in the air. You may kill other students to steal a fifth of their points but be warned that you can only do this if that student is of the same ss as you or higher. He nces at several people who Im assuming are ss III judging by their mana. And there are punishments for a student killing students of a lower ss than themselves. He returns his gaze to everyone again. Last but not least, if you are killed by a fellow student, you will be respawned somewhere at random in the same ring of the forest you spawned in. But if youre killed by a demon then youre out for good.
Nothing that isnt already said in the rules posted on the screen. Although I guess some people just have the attention spans of a gnat and dont want to read, having to be told bluntly by someone instead. Which is a little sad, but true, nheless.
Even I felt a little annoyed at the idea of reading through a couple of the contracts I had to sign for joining the Silver Association. Because those things were really long.
The chatter in the auditorium raises slightly in volume for a few seconds before the vice-headmaster finishes, You will all be sent to the magical reality in ten minutes. Take this small break as a time to mentally prepare yourselves for the second round. He then vanishes as arge amount of ck and dark green mist begin to swallow him up before disappearing into the ground.
At his exit, the chatter bes a low roar as full blown conversations break out everywhere. Many of which are talking about the top one hundred, including people talking about myself. But I ignore them to focus on the others as Belle asks, How did you manage to make it into the top one hundred?
I answer rather bluntly, By challenging everyone in my dome.
Her eyes practically bug out at that, but I continue before she can say anything, Although around half or so of them declined, which was disappointing.
That doesnt seem to help her surprise.
I just give a mental shrug at that before turning to Michael to find him not surprised. And neither are Emily or Denise. Although Denise was there, so this isnt any news for her.
Anyways, Emily and Michael begin talking about their own domes, leaving me to just sit back and listen to them for a while. Until Belle gets over her shock that is and joins in.