Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 2 - Chapter 37.2 - The Opening Ceremony Part II (Patreon)

                                                               Scarlet

A massive screen appears above the one showing the Chairman and Black with the rules clearly depicted on it. A very, very long list.

“Just like always, I’ll only go over the most important things,” the Chairman adds, making the people in the audience calm down a bit. “To start off, all of the primaries will be held in this very stadium, and there will not be any other tournaments going on during them. Each primary will last for three days, with two days of secondary tournaments in between them. There will be a total of six primary tournaments, three for solos and three for teams, and the exact specifics and rules will be announced on the first day of each primary tournament.”

That’s nothing new.

“Cheating is not allowed during any of the tournaments and will be harshly punished. Foul play outside of the tournament is not allowed either, and any committing it will be arrested on the spot and given a decade long sentence in prison,” the Chairman continues, whispers running throughout the stadium at these words. “All participants are scanned upon coming into the magical reality for any sorts of illegal magical items that are not allowed in the tournaments, and should the participant be caught with it, they will be marked by the staff and the item will not appear with them in the magical reality.”

Then the Chairman proceeds to drone on and on about more rules like that until he finally gets to the more interesting stuff, “The secondary tournaments of the Interschool Tournaments will all be conducted on the two off days between primaries, and they will each have a Class V guest speaker attending the commentators booth. These secondary tournaments can include various different formats such as team Death Match, Fortress Siege, Demon Hunt, and Healer’s Gambit.” He pauses for a second before glancing off the screen then focusing on us again. “Getting first place in a secondary tournament will grant the university that the victor or victorious team goes to a total of five points, while second place will give three and third place will give one. And as always, getting first place in a primary will grant the university attended by the participant or participants a total of thirty points, with second place getting twenty, and third place ten.”

By the looks of the bored faces on the field, my own included, none of us really care about the rewards for the universities. What we all want to hear…

“Moving onto the individual rewards for the winning students,” the Chairman continues with great timing. “As many of you already know, we use a point based system for the winners along with a flat monetary prize. Each of the winning students will be able to trade their points for items they wouldn’t normally be able to purchase such as favors from the government and various other things that I believe you might be interested in as young Guardians.”

This time the massive number of Guardians gathered on the field go wild at his words, everyone here being rather excited over the prospect of rewards.

“Now, outside of the primaries, the set prizes for the secondary tournaments will be decided upon on the day of each secondary tournament,” the Chairman adds, making the excitement die down ever so slightly before rising again as he finishes, “but as always, the prizes for the primaries are shown on the screen above!”

The rules and regulations screen changes to show a different one.

Even though I expected it, the sight of the massive amount of credits given as a reward still has my eyes bugging out. Although I’m not exactly sure how much each point is worth, I’m guessing it’s a lot.

“The rewards listed here for teams are per person in the team,” Black suddenly speaks up again before tapping his head and adding, “just wanted to mention that since a lot of folks tend to ask that first thing.” He then shrugs as he finishes, “I’ve tried asking them to fix the darned thing, buuuut no luck there. Sorry ‘bout that!”

A wave of laughter tears through the audience as the Chairman very skillfully avoids showing any of the irritation I’m sure he’s feeling at the Knight’s callous words.

But Black’s explanation did help, so I’m siding with him on this. That really should be changed.

If I had to guess, the reason they aren’t changing it probably has something to do with tradition.

The Chairman clears his throat, making the laughter die down before he says, “If you wish to know some of the benefits you may trade your points for, you can find it on the government’s official website.” He then spreads his arms out and says, “Now, to the beginning of another year, we mark it with a bang! Guardians! Raise your hands into the air and let loose!”

Almost all at once, tens of thousands of Guardian in the stadium – both those on the field and those in the bleachers – raise a single arm, myself included, and use a ranged skill that shoots upwards into the air before hitting something and exploding in a form of celebration. The skill that I use being blood manifestation.

“The Interschool Tournaments for the year 2223 has officially begun!” the Chairman shouts, raising a fist into the air.

The crowd goes absolutely wild as the skills continue hitting some sort of magical point in the stadium where they disappear and turn into mini-fireworks instead.

Well, this will certainly be an interesting month. That’s for sure.

One with plenty of interesting battles for me.

“Always with the battles with you…” Tar mutters, sounding both amused and exasperated at the same time.

I crack a smile at that as I watch the fireworks.

Maybe.

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First Place

Class I

Class II

Class III

Credits

Points

Credits

Points

Credits

Points

Solo

10,000,000

100

100,000,000

250

1,000,000,000

500

Team

5,000,000

50

50,000,000

125

500,000,000

250

Second Place

Class I

Class II

Class III

Credits

Points

Credits

Points

Credits

Points

Solo

5,000,000

50

50,000,000

125

500,000,000

250

Team

2,500,000

25

25,000,000

63

250,000,000

125

Third Place

Class I

Class II

Class III

Credits

Points

Credits

Points

Credits

Points

Solo

1,000,000

10

10,000,000

25

100,000,000

50

Team

500,000

5

5,000,000

13

50,000,000

25