Book 5: Chapter 93: Teamwork Competitions
<strong>Scarlet</strong>
Well, thats certainly one way to end the first half of the ascension tournament.
After Titania vanishes, King Oberon quickly picks things up and shows the rules of the nextpetition. Which is some sort of test to see how well the fae and partnerpetitor pairs know each other. And its onepetition that almost everyone does pretty closely on in terms of sess. Although some a little bit better than others.
Surprisingly, me and Tar end up being almost directly in the middle in terms of how well we do. Probably because a lot of these demons are a lot older than us.
Of course, the audience never grows to the excited fervor it was at before. Both because Oberon is doing the announcing again, and because of what Titania did. Just dropped all of that info and vanished without a trace.
The seventeenthpetition of the tournament is a maze thats rather simr to the maze I did in the first tenpetitions. What with the finishing puzzles to get to the next room thing. But this one our partner is our fae instead of someone else.
And there are no monsters this time around. Just a time limit that sends you back to a previous room if you dont finish in time.
I ignore everything though and break through to the end again just like thest time.
To Oberons irritation.
He doesnt say anything this time. But I see his eyebrow twitching, so I know hes upset.
After the maze is the eighteenthpetition. Which is just a single very difficult puzzle that we have to solve, with whoever finishes first being named the winner. And then second ce, and third after that.
A puzzle that Aria actually wins, surprisingly enough.
I end up in third though.
Because Xyvandra gets second this time.
Meanwhile the neenthpetition is another quiz. Just that this one focuses on anything fae, human, or demon rted, with an especiallyrge focus on the war between humans and demons.
And just like thest time, Leonidas wins this one. Except that I dont even ce in the top three this time. Instead second ce goes to Xyvandra, and third is a tie between Amelia and Vorgrim.
Kind of unfair having those four who are all much older and actually experienced a lot of this history themselves in it.
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Then we finally move onto the twentiethpetition. Or rather, we stop for the day before doing it. Because we managed to fit every otherpetition after the fourth in a single day.
Certainly goes to show how much shorter these arepared to thebatpetitions.
But King Oberon does at least show us the rules for the twentiethpetition before closing things out for the night, not even bothering with the duels this time around. Probably because he just wants to leave by the looks of it.
Hes been a lot less enthusiastic since returning after Titania left.
Anyways, I look up at the rules before frowning.
Huh.
Interesting.
<strong><em>Tag-Team Elimination</em></strong>
<strong><em>Description:</em></strong><em> All of the contractedpetitors will be ced within onerge arena and given three marks. Each of these marks will count as lives for thepetitors. Meanwhile the fae will all be ced each in a puzzle room of their own, where they will be required toplete puzzles until they reach the end of the puzzle room and escape. However, thepetitor teams will be eliminated whenever thepetitor loses all of their marks, and they will be given another mark for each mark puzzlepleted by their contracted fae.</em>
<strong><em>Rules:</em></strong><em> Anything goes. Those who have all of their marks erased will be eliminated from the round. Allpetitors are required to use the anti-death use within thispetition.</em>
<strong><em>Goal:</em></strong><em> For the human and demonpetitors, survive until the end of the Competition without getting all of your marks erased. For the faepetitors,plete every puzzle until the end of the Competition or until your contracted partner loses all of their marks.</em>
<strong><em>Rewards:</em></strong><em> Allpetitors will rue points for every ten minutes of thepetition theyst through. Bonus points will also be awarded for every mark apetitor manages to save by the end of thepetition. Further points will be awarded for every puzzle the fae of the duo manages toplete. And the first fae to escape the puzzle room will be given one three hundred points. Then the second fae to escape will be given two hundred and fifty points, and the third to escape two hundred points. Lastly, every duo that manages to keep at least a single mark until the end will be given one hundred points.</em>
Very interesting.
That tournament relies on both the fae and the human or demon to win. The fae to actually win the race, and the human or demon contractor to survive so that their fae <em>can </em>win the race.
Of course, the contractors can also just go around hunting the other contractors, killing all of them so that they wont be able to win.
But I honestly cant help but feel excited for thispetition.
Because its my firstbat orientedpetition for me at least that I get topete in after my lovely little powerup.
A powerup that includes attacks that dont require my Red gue, and are therefore safe to fight others with.
Without permanently erasing and then eating them, of course.
<strong>Guess you havent gotten your battle-fix yet in this tournament, </strong>Tarments, making me turn my head to re at him as we both stand on our tower.
Its not my fault I havent been able to test out my powers yet on someone else. Anyone would want to test out a transcendent skill after getting one.
<strong>Scarlet </strong>Tar mutters, sounding exasperated for some reason. <strong>Youre in the level 2300s and you have Dragon yer now, which gives you a fifty percent bonus to your stats. Do you think <em>anyone </em>here would survive even being punched by you now?</strong>
I stare at him without saying a word for a while.
Oh.