I wake up, and see Valenta sleeping beside me. I walk quietly out of the bed, and walk into the living room. I am still naked so i decide to make new clothes, since the ones i am wearing is quite boring. I make the clothes i thought of yesterday, and make a pair of boxers, and a black shirt. I put them on, and i feel comfy in them. They are neither too tight nor too loose. I take the trench coat and pants off, and enchant them both with 'Indestructible', and 'Fits to user.' I take them both on again, and walk back into the bedroom. Inside Valenta is still sleeping. I walk over to my clothes, and put them in my inventory. Valenta is starting to wake up. She opens her eyes, and look at me, and immediately blush. "Good morning." I say to her. "G-Good morning.'"(Valenta) She is hiding under the blanket. "Shouldn't you go to work?" I ask her because it's the time around when i usually come to the guild. "No, i'm off today."(Valenta) "Okay. Well i'm going to the guild today to do a quest or two." I say to her. "Okay."(Valenta) I walk out of the house, and head towards the adventurer guild.
I arrive infront of the guild, and walk in. I walk towards the wall with quests, and look over them. After looking at everyone, i couldn't find any that piqued my interest. There is only one S-rank quest, which will have you escort a wealthy merchant to the demon lands, and since it will take a lot of time i'm not interested. The rest are boring ones that i could do in my sleep, but there is something that isn't a quest that interested me. There is going to be a tournament in Qato in 2 days. The reward is 50 platinum coins, and you can request something of the king of Qato. The last day you can register is the day before the tournament, so i only have till tomorrow. Instead of doing any quests, i walk home to tell Valenta that i am going to participate.
I walk home, and look for Valenta. She is currently in the bath. I walk in and see her sitting with her back against me. When i opened the door, she seemed to have noticed me. "Kyaaaa!!"(Valenta) She covers herself with her hand, and tries to hide behind the edge of the bath. "What are you doing? I already saw everything about you yesterday." If she wasn't blushing before, she defintely is now. "It's still embarrasing."(Valenta) "Do you want me to join you?" I say with slight grin. "It's your house, you do what you want."(Valenta) She says while trying to reach towards her clothes. "I'm gonna stop teasing you. In a few days there is going to be a tournament in Qato, so will be gone a few days." She is starting to dress. "A few days? Okay."(Valenta) We walk out of the bath, and walk towards the living room. "Bye, oh and." I wrap my arms around her waist, and close in towards her head. Our lips meet for a few seconds, and the seperate. "Thanks for that wonderful view. Bye" She is blushing, and looking down. I walk downstairs, and walk out. I walk out of the city, and continue until i am out of sight from the gates. I speed up to mach 12. When i do that there is a huge sonic boom behind me. I run towards Qato's capital, Aque.
After running for about 2 minutes, i can see the capital, and slow down to a normal speed of walking. I walk towards the gate, which has a long line, and i get in line also. The capital is circular with 20 meter tall walls like Caule, and it's about as big. The castle is square here instead of circular like in Solisa, and the castle here is slightly bigger. There are three zones in the capital, the first one being the royal zone, the second one being the noble zone, and the last one is the commoner zone. The royal zone is the smallest with it only being the castle, the ones living there is the royal family. The noble zone is slightly bigger, which of course where only nobles, high ranking officials, and people that the king has allowed to live there, are allowed to live there. The commoner zone is the biggest zone, and the ones who live there are the poor, and shops. Solisa got a similar system, but the noble zone is bigger. After waiting for about 30 minutes, it's finally my turn. The soldier turns towards me, and says. "Do you have any kind of guild card?"(Soldier) He asks me. "Yes i have an adventurer card." I take the card and show it to him." "An S-rank adventurer from Solisa? Are you here for the tournament?"(Soldier) Looks like it isn't usual for S-rank adventurer from another country to be here. "Yes i am." "Okay, then you may pass."(Soldier) I walk through the gate, and continue walking towards the adventurer guild, because that is where the registration is taking place. How come i could pass with another country's adventurer card Aterna?
That is because there is only one adventurer guild, but there are 3 guildmasters. One for each country. The guildmasters can't be ordered by the king of any country. The enchanted cards were only used in Solisa, because if a guildmaster of another country found out it would be bad for them. The only reason the guildmaster of Solisa helped the king, was because he would get a lot of money.
That is good to know. I walk for a few minutes, and arrive at the guild. It is right next to the wall to the noble zone. I walk inside, and see a line going towards the reception. I also stand in line. After waiting about 10 minutes, it is my turn. There has come people behind me, so it's just as long. The receptionist is a young man, and he asks me. "Are you here to register for the tournament?"(Young man) "Yes i am." "Then can you please tell me your name?"(Young man) "Yes, it's Matthew Hill." As he heard that, he writes something on a piece of paper. He gives it to me, and what is written there is, my name, the number 3, and the number 327. I look towards the young man for clarification, and looks like he was going to explain any way. "The sole number, is when you are going to fight, and the large number is your tag number. The tournament starts contestants from number 1 fighting in a battle royale, and when there are 5 people left, it ends. The same happens with the rest of the contestants. It starts 08:00 am, and it ends 03:00 pm. The next day the matches continues from where it left of. The Arena is outside the city."(Young man) "Thanks." I leave, and decide what i am going to do till the tournament starts. I decide on not doing anything, and just sleep until it starts. I put the paper i got into my inventory. I find an abandoned shack in the slums, and go inside and lay down, and turn invisible. I also conceal my mana. Recently i found out that i don't need food if i feed myself mana. That way i won't starve if i don't have food. Aterna can you wake me up an hour before the tournament starts?
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Yes master.
Thanks. I relax, and let myself be engulfed by the forces of sleep. Matt slept the whole time.
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I hear a buzzing sound in my head, and open my eyes. Is it time Aterna?
Yes master.
Thanks. I stand up, and dust myself off. Well, let's go. I walk out of the slum area, and walk the way everyone is walking, towards the arena. Just behind the city is a large circular building made of stone. The length is about 200 meters, and the height is 30 meter-ish. I see a sign that says 'All participants, go this way.' with and arrow point towards an entrance. The entrance has a line that extends a good 10 meters outside the gate thing. Before getting there i pull out the paper i got 2 days ago, and stand in line too. I stand there about 10 minutes until it's my turn. There is a desk with an old man inside. He says. "Show me your registration paper."(Old man) "Sure." I give it to him. "Walk down the hall to your right, and when you can see the entrance to the fighting ring, look for a door labeled 3.5. You will get notified when it's your turn."(Old man) He says as he hands me the paper back. "Thanks." I walk the way he said, and after walking a bit, i could hear a lot of people talking. I could soon see the entrance to the fighting ring. There were a lot of people sitting in the seats, but it wasn't completely filled yet. In the middle of the seating area is a raised platform, with stone fences, and expensive looking furniture. I think that is the royal viewing box. The seating area is 50 meter-ish long on each end, so it is 100 meter long together. In the middle is the fighting stage, that is made of squared sandstone. The stage is 50 meters long, and there are 2 entrances, with a walkway to the stage. I begin to look after the door with the number 3.5, and see doors with the numbers 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5. They are all 10 meters apart from eachother. I walk into the room with the number 3.5, and inside there already is about 60 people. Some of them look at me when i walk in, but turns away after looking at me a little bit. I walk over to a wall, and lean on it. The room is 30 meters long, and in the corner of the roof is quartz panel, that has a picture of the arena. I guess that is a magic item.
After waiting for about 30 minutes, there has come about 10 more people. On the magic item, there is a man that is walking to the middle of the stage of the fighting ring. He is wearing formal wear, and is holding a long trumpet. When he reached the middle, he begins blowing in the trumpet, which creates a loud sound. "Welcome his majesty the king!"(Announcer) When he says that, a middleaged man walks into view in the royal viewing box, and everyone in the arena stands up, and waits for the king. "Thank you. We are gathered here for the glorious event, where honorable warriors put their wellbeing on the line, to find the strongest, and test their skills. May you enjoy yourselves, and may the strongest warrior win!"(King) After he says that he sits down, and everyone claps, and cheers. After everyone has seated themselves again, the announcer says loudly. "Contestants from number 1 come forth."(Announcer) After he says that, he walks of the stage, and the contestants start coming. When every fighter from number 1 has arrived, the announcer once again says. "The rules are simple, you fall off the stage, you are disqualified. You are knocked out, you are disqualified. If you kill someone, you are disqualified. The last 5 people standing can continue. The match starts in 3... 2... 1..."(Announcer) When he says start, every contestant tensed up, and the ones in the middle starts fighting eachother, while the outer doesn't fight as much. There was about 150 people at the start, and now barely a minute has passed, and the number has gone down to 120. That just comes to show that are some strong people... or maybe there are alot of weak people. I hope for the first option.
I don't want to bother watching because i'm only interested in fighting myself, and the ones who win. In only about 10 minutes, the number has been dragged down to 9 people. The ones left are the strongest of that group. I checked them with analyze, and none of them are able to actually hurt me, but they are superhuman to normal people, because they have stats in the thousands, whereas normal soldiers only have it in the hundreds. There is a few magicians there that has more mana than strength, and there is also a few magic swordsmen. Magic swordsmen usually use mana to support and/or strengthen themselves. While i was thinking of that, the battle royale has finished. The ones still standing is mostly swordsmen, but there is 2 magic swordsmen there too. Good magic swordsmen are really strong, but they are also very rare, because to be good you have to have talent in both swordfighting, and magic. There is also the problem about teachers, so only about 1 in 10 000 are able to become really strong that way. That is what i've heard anyways.
The next one went about the same. People got knocked out, few people left, and 5 people win. This group's winners has slightly worse stats than the previous one, but whatever, none of them are going to win this thing anyway. Well it's my turn now, so all of the people in the room, began walking out, which caused that there was a lot of people around the door, because the door is so small that only 1 can go through at once. I thought this was going to happen so i stayed still, and only went over when i could go through. As a result of that i am one of the last people to reach the stage. But whatever. I'm going to have fun toying with them.