
The announcement had ended and neither Duke nor Sam bothered to explain themselves to the candidates.
Duke continued the event after announcing the rankings as he spoke to the candidates again.
"The names I announced were the fifty people promoted to the next round."
The chosen candidates were all cheering, but the Duke's subsequent words dampened their excitement again.
“So, now let's discuss the next round. There were only ten people who would qualify for the next round and the rest of the forty would also be eliminated. So don't celebrate it too early.
Because, the next round will be done today, right here, right now."
The audience became silent. They did not expect this turn of events.
Ten minutes later, fifty candidates gathered in the arena within the same estate, while 150 eliminated candidates took seats as spectators.
The Duke, along with General Spark, the regimental commander, and the mercury General who came later, sat on a special observation platform to oversee the next round.
"The last round of competition in the southern star city will take place now and it will happen in two stages.
In the first stage, ten candidates will be selected from your fifty with the roar of the kingdom.
The last ten remaining candidates would fight tomorrow at the second stage to rank within themselves.
So, for the first round, the entire field is your battleground. The stage around, anything outside the barrier separating the pitch and the audience is out of bounds and inside the pitch you can do anything.
The first round would end only if there were ten people left.
A candidate would be considered defeated and eliminated, if he surrendered willingly or fainted, left the field or died."
As he spoke to this point, his voice was still as calm as ever, but the candidates did not feel so. Mentioning death means, killing is not forbidden in battle. It makes them feel cold.
Only Nicholas showed an excited expression.
He was passionate for a battle.
The duke looked at the candidates with a sweeping look and without even giving them time to mentally prepare, he said loudly.
"start."
The candidates were slightly stunned and then immediately came to a realization.
One person even launched the first attack on the person standing in front of him.
Sam was in the last row, but he didn't directly attack anyone. And he was not the only one to do so, the top ten candidates took a step back and did not act offensively.
As Sam scanned the surroundings, he suddenly sensed something and dodged to the side. A dagger hit the air where he had previously been.
He turned around and saw someone in black looking at him coldly.
"You are the weakest of all the people here, so why bother staying? You better give up now or you might not survive this."
Sam then looked around and saw some people were staring at him.
They all want to beat Sam first. They might say that he was the weakest and had no right to participate, but they only wanted to eliminate him first because they were envious of his points.
They wanted to enjoy his agony of being knocked out first even after earning so many points in the military and business phase. These people have disgusting qualities hidden in almost all humans.
Sam did not answer at all and just stood there with his hands in his pockets. His expression was calm and focused.
The one who attacked Sam was a little annoyed by Sam's indifference, he waved immediately moving as he blurred into a dark shadow.
This person was a user of the dark element and that too, his dark element was a type of shadow. After all, not all dark element users are the same and pure dark elements are rare. Even pure light elements were rare, but since light elements were not considered useful in battle by this world, they did not research it further.
Sam saw the man jump from one shadow to another with a dagger in his hand. He used the shadows of people and objects around him as a transfer point as he moved from one place to another.
At the same time, he started moving on Sam.
Within seconds, Sam knew this guy's fighting style. He was a murderer. He was not even a Warrior magician, he was just a magician, but the norm was to limit his shadow elements to use it with flexibility and he did not have many attacks.
All one could do was sneak attack someone to kill, but if that one chance was lost, it would be difficult to attack again. Sam even guessed that this fellow was continuously attacking just because Sam was a Novice, he would retreat if his opponent was a Great Realm Cultivator.
Sam didn't even take his hand out of his pocket, but he kept dodging. He was like the wind, light and flexible. He moved nimbly as he dodged every dagger attack and the main thing was that he did not use a single unit of spiritual energy.
He just uses his body. He felt that since he had to fight, he could at least test the results of his new cultivation.
So, the first test is agility and endurance.
As Sam stepped from place to place without taking his hand out of his pocket while dodging the dagger attack without even sweating, the surrounding candidates grew more and more interested in his battle.
They did not expect Sam to last this long but his endurance was even better than the great magician who attacked him. They were surprised, but Sam had a different thought.
It was a thought of pity and it was not for the candidate or the attacker, it was for the shadow element of the attacker. Sam felt that this man was really a donkey who could not appreciate the smell of sandalwood. The shadow element was completely wasted on him.
So, he did not want to amuse this person anymore. This time, Sam not only dodged, he dodged the attack and gave a kick to the jaw of the attacker to make him faint.
Before the people around reacted, someone from the crowd shouted attracting the attention of everyone.
“Everything, if you all fight each other from the start, the top ten candidates will get an edge over us and we will be done. I suggest we join hands and eliminate them first before deciding which of us can get those ten places. ."
The one who shouted was one of the noble children who did not enter the top ten.
The whole group started discussing and thinking but only briefly, in three seconds, one by one they agreed with the suggestion.
The top ten candidates were a little surprised. Well, not everything. Nicholas was probably the most pleased of all the people and included the son of nobility, who came forward to propose this alliance.
The top ten candidates started walking towards the stage so that they could stay together. If a group of people ostracizes some people in it, they will unknowingly create another group.
Sam, who was closest to the stage, was the first to climb so he could have more space around him to face the attackers. But he did not expect the remaining nine people would follow in his footsteps.
Jack and Philip are close to getting started. As they all went up on stage, the remaining members also started to surround them and Sam saw that this instigating noble boy was slowly moving behind the crowd unseen.
This person was a cunning fox, he only wanted to weaken the top candidates. But what surprised Sam was that both Zeke and Blue Fire brothers did the same. In reality, none of them moved back, instead the other crowd moved forward.
Beside Sam, Nicholas had already taken out his spear, the aura of his Level 3 great mage was completely unleashed as the other top ten also began to make their preparations. Sam shook his head at the stupidity of the crowd surrounding them. They are just waiting to be slaughtered.
Although these people were elites, it was no big deal for the top ten to fight one against three.
And the next time the fight starts.
Sam took out a stick and started fighting as well. He only used the strength of his body and restricted himself to using spiritual energy.
He faced two people and Jack who was also at the second lowest cultivation stage level 1 Great mage in the field also got two people.
Zeke, Blue fire and the instigator did not even bother to move. They only made a few shallow spells and moved to bully the remaining crowd.
As Sam dealt with the two candidates, he thought of something and immediately changed his fighting style. For the sake of his convenience, the two of them were warriors and one of them was a level 1 cultivator of the Great Realm.
Sam uses his wind element and along with the movement of his powerful stick, the tail wind of each attack is quite ferocious and with the added sharpness Sam adds, it punches the skin of the opponent's surface with every move, and with every sharpness, shows some muscle fibers.
In the next ten steps, they were already in a bad stage and even had thoughts of retreating.
But Sam did not let them and led them to do a mock battle as he held his staff with one hand.
After ten seconds. He threw a glass capsule at someone who was right beside the Blue fire and a small blue fireball hit the person.
"What's wrong with you?" The person who was hit by the blue flame turned towards the Blue flame who had just conjured a fireball.
That blue fireball made irrefutable evidence.
The blue flames did not know what was happening and could not respond.
The person looked at the blank expression and said with annoyance.
"See where you hit next time."
He was an archer and was busy protecting the crowd, so he left Blue fire alone thinking it was an accident and since the damage was low, there was no need to make a fuss.
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