Chapter 75 The Race Begins
Chapter 75 The Race Begins
As time passed quickly, the preliminary round ended quickly and 128 students were selected.
These days, Russell and other students who skipped a round sat in the stands to watch the game every day at the mandatory request of the organizing committee.
There was nothing to do except watching the game, which in Russell's opinion was a pure waste of time.
"Tsk, bureaucracy."
Normally, these players should be able to go back and wait for the main competition to begin after participating in the opening ceremony.
Instead of watching the game, you might as well spend more time meditating.
However, it seems that the officials of the Ming Dynasty court did not think so.
If Russell is not counted, then only Jiang Nanxi from Shanghai No. 1 Middle School entered the finals.
However, it is not surprising to Russell that Jiang Nanxi can enter the main competition.
After all, she had already created other Iron-level cards to make up for the shortcomings of the Three-Tailed Fox.
However, according to Russell's inference, the next advancement of the three-tailed fox should be to the gold-level six-tailed fox.
After all, Jiang Wang’s six-tailed fox Russell had seen it, and it was at least above the silver level.
But it’s said that the Yaohu series has a wide range.
From three tails to six tails to nine tails, the gap in between is too big, and you have to figure out a way to make the transition entirely on your own.
Unless the other party can make up an extra story like he did with Tsugaru Yoriichi.
If it weren't for the bronze level, Jiang Nanxi would probably have stopped in the main competition.
Fortunately, Jiang Nanxi has some talent, otherwise he might not even make it past the preliminaries.
After all, in his observations over the past few days, Russell discovered that in addition to those of them who were already bronze-level players before the start of the competition, there were also many in the preliminaries.
It may be that they are hiding their abilities, or they have just made a breakthrough, which is why they still need to participate in the preliminaries.
Russell's group has also been announced. Since he skipped the preliminaries, there are five people in his group, and each of them needs to play four games.
In addition to him, Russell's team also has a bronze-level card maker named Tian Lan.
It was only revealed in the preliminaries.
Moreover, in Russell's opinion, their strength was not very strong, and the cards used in the preliminaries were only of bronze-level purple quality.
Of course, this is already a dimensionality reduction blow to other Black Iron-level students.
If the group was changed, Tian Lan would even have a chance to sneak in and advance.
Unfortunately, she met Russell.
Since a card will enter a 24-hour cooldown period after death, the competition in the same group cannot be completed within one day.
I don't know if it was a special arrangement by the organizing committee or Russell was just lucky, but he didn't have any competition today.
In fact, it’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad. In the end, you will have to fight with everyone in a cycle.
But it was also a good opportunity to observe Tian Lan's cards. After all, Russell only took a quick look at them in the preliminaries.
In the stands, Russell looked at Tian Lan's cards with a fixed gaze.
“Is it a ghost?”
As for why Russell made such a judgment, which normal human card has both feet off the ground and floating in the air?
Ghosts have a big advantage over low-level, physical-oriented cards.
However, as the saying goes, a ghost that has endured ten thousand damnations cannot become a saint, and pure ghosts will be greatly restrained at high levels.
For example, each country’s mythology system related to death or the sun has means of restraint.
Although high-level cards from the underworld also have characteristics of ghosts, they are more like gods.
If Russell only had Luffy, it might indeed be a bit difficult.
But it is impossible to lose, it will just expose Luffy's third gear trump card.
After all, right now Luffy can't even use the Haki of Armament, let alone the Haki of Conqueror.
Fortunately, Russell changed the demon Yoshitsugu Yukimura into the god of death.
In the field, under the triple attack of Tianlan's card level, quality and characteristics, she won both rounds today easily. However, this made Russell certain of another thing.
That means that apart from him and Tian Lan, there is no third bronze-level card maker in their group.
After a period of competition, the first few rounds of the game ended quickly.
Russell met Tian Lan in the last round.
At this time, both of them had a perfect record and nine points.
So today's match will also determine who will advance to the knockout stage.
In the stands, almost all the guests who had participated in the opening ceremony came to watch the game.
Firstly, this is the last day of the competition and there are not many matches at all.
Secondly, Russell is a key subject of observation.
Not to mention that the opponents in the previous rounds were all Iron-level, today I am finally going to fight against a Bronze-level card maker. How can I not come and watch?
In the field, Tian Lan looked at Russell opposite her with a serious face. She was from Pengcheng, the northernmost part of Jiang Province, so she was not familiar with the opponent.
All we know is that Russell was a seeded player who got a bye in the preliminaries.
Therefore, I dare not underestimate it.
"As long as the opponent's cards don't have energy-type attacks, there's a chance we can win."
Tian Lan had encountered bronze-level students in the preliminaries before, but they were obviously not aware of the characteristics of ghost cards and were defeated by her due to carelessness.
What she is thinking about now is naturally to replicate the scene of the preliminary round.
In the stands, Jiang Nanxi frowned.
With her father being the director of the association, she naturally understood how difficult it was to deal with ghost-type cards at low levels, and she happened to know that the bronze-level cards made by Russell were more physical.
Lin Yue, who was standing by, said with concern: "Can Luo Ge win?"
As an ordinary student, in Lin Yue's eyes, there is not much difference between Russell and Tian Lan, who are bronze-level card makers.
Therefore, even though they are classmates, Lin Yue still doesn't have the confidence to believe that Russell will definitely win.
Jiang Nanxi shook his head slightly upon hearing this and said, "Winning shouldn't be a problem, but I'm afraid his card information has been figured out by someone."
That’s right, Jiang Nanxi didn’t think Russell would lose.
Although Russell has never said anything about Luffy's quality, from her point of view, the quality is definitely not lower than gold.
But faced with the restraint of characteristics, I am afraid that all my cards will be revealed.
This is not good news.
Now that all the cards have been revealed, he will have no advantage against other players in the knockout rounds.
"Unless, Russell has other cards."
It’s no wonder Jiang Nanxi thought so. After all, Russell was already a bronze-level card maker a month and a half ago.
It is normal to have some improvement nowadays.
As the referee blew his whistle, a figure dressed in black appeared in front of Russell.
Seeing this figure, Jiang Nanxi's pupils suddenly contracted: "This is..."
She naturally recognized that the card Russell summoned was the card used in the previous ranking test.
But at that time, Yoriichi Tsugikuni was still at the Black Iron level.
In this situation, Russell chose to use Yuichiro Tsugakuni, and Yuichiro Tsugakuni's appearance was obviously different from before.
"Advanced to bronze level?"
But she remembered that when Tsugikoku Yoshiichi was at the Black Iron level, he did not show the ability to suppress ghosts.
I just remember that I was good at dealing with flesh-eating creatures like zombies and ghouls.
“Russell.”
(End of this chapter)