Book 5: Chapter 93: Teamwork Competitions

Book 5: Chapter 93: Teamwork Competitions

Scarlet

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 next competition. Which is some sort of test to see how well the fae and partner competitor pairs know each other. And its one competition that almost everyone does pretty closely on in terms of success. 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 seventeenth competition of the tournament is a maze thats rather similar to the maze I did in the first ten competitions. 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 the last 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 eighteenth competition. Which is just a single very difficult puzzle that we have to solve, with whoever finishes first being named the winner. And then second place, and third after that.

A puzzle that Aria actually wins, surprisingly enough.

I end up in third though.

Because Xyvandra gets second this time.

Goal: For the human and demon competitors, survive until the end of the Competition without getting all of your marks erased. For the fae competitors, complete every puzzle until the end of the Competition or until your contracted partner loses all of their marks.

Rewards: All competitors will accrue points for every ten minutes of the competition they last through. Bonus points will also be awarded for every mark a competitor manages to save by the end of the competition. Further points will be awarded for every puzzle the fae of the duo manages to complete. 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.

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 can 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 this competition.

Because its my first combat oriented competition for me at least that I get to compete in after my lovely little powerup.

A powerup that includes attacks that dont require my Red Plague, and are therefore safe to fight others with.

Without permanently erasing and then eating them, of course.

Guess you havent gotten your battle-fix yet in this tournament, Tar comments, making me turn my head to glare 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.

Scarlet Tar mutters, sounding exasperated for some reason. Youre in the level 2300s and you have Dragon Slayer now, which gives you a fifty percent bonus to your stats. Do you think anyone here would survive even being punched by you now?

I stare at him without saying a word for a while.

Oh.