After daybreak, the Crown of Late Autumn conference finally began.
The opening ceremony of this grand event was not like the Olympic Games in Roddy's mind, where everyone had to show off and walk around. What Lachman did was to gather the representatives of all the countries in the conference hall of the Colommill Magic Tower and sign the agreement with the parliament members.
The simple ceremony did not take more than ten minutes. Including the speech by the speaker, Jeremy, it only took half an hour. After that, everyone went their separate ways. Roddy admired the simple and efficient style of the mages. After the ceremony, he immediately ran to the emissary of Eiseka and invited Doris to watch the competition with a "gentlemanly" expression. However, there were people from other countries present, and Doris was afraid that it would affect Eiseka's impression of the parliament, so she politely declined.
Roddy looked regretful, but he was happy. He directly brought Akasha and Merinsera to watch the preliminaries of the "Construct Puppets" event.
In this era, there were no broadcasts or live broadcasts. If you wanted to watch the competition, you had to go to the venue. Because there were many types of competitions, the six large arenas in Duriel held all kinds of competitions at the same time. According to the schedule of the competition, the first events to start were those that the Laximan Kingdom was not good at, especially equestrian, cavalry, and wrestling.
After all, the Crown of Late Autumn was held for all participating countries, and Lachman Kingdom could not take all the first places. These deliberately set up "not good at events" to save some face for the smaller countries. For "Bin Du Country", these were the few events that they had to secure first place in almost every year.
Bindu Kingdom was a nomadic country on the grasslands far from Lachman Kingdom. The king was also known as the "Khan". That's right, the "Khan's Son" who was stuffed into a wine barrel by Irwin for provoking Merinsera a few days ago was the king of this country.
As a people who lived on horseback, the people of Bindu Kingdom still had a primitive way of doing things. In short, they worshiped the strong. From top to bottom, this country only worshiped the strong. Even the royal family did not value bloodlines. If the king's strength was not recognized, he could not even think about ascending to the throne.
In such an environment, the Khan's son, Duke, was able to sit firmly on the throne. In terms of various abilities, he was naturally one of the best in the kingdom.
He started riding at the age of three, learned archery at the age of five, and studied with the strongest in the country for fifteen years. He participated in four wars since the age of twenty. So far, even if he did not have the title of "Son of Khan", Duke was still a very popular "Eagle Knight" in the Bindu Kingdom. This was a unique title for young knights with high abilities and superb combat skills. If he did not fall, he would definitely become the pillar of the country in the future.
However, the ever-confident 'Eagle Rider' had a terrible expression on his face. He was trying his best to stay close to his horse as he charged forward frantically. From the corner of his eyes, he saw two figures, one on his left and one on his right, crossing the finish line at almost the same speed …
The "Equestrian" competition had five distance events, and Duke was currently participating in the most entertaining 3000m short distance race. In the previous competition, he won the championship with a huge lead of more than 50 meters, but he never thought that he would be forced to use his full strength in the preliminaries!
Although the final result was that he won the preliminaries with a slight advantage, but what made him gloomy was … the gap between him and the second and third place was less than a meter.
The results of the competition with the matrix would not be questioned. Duke could only wonder if he was really not in good condition. But after looking at the time, he realized that the result was even faster than the previous finals …
The only explanation was that the strength of these two unfamiliar knights was on par with him.
Pulling his sweaty mount to the resting area, Duke could not suppress the throbbing in his heart. He turned around and said to his subordinates, "Go find out who those two are. Why haven't I seen them before?"
It was easy to find out the answer to this question. In just a few minutes, he found out that the two knights were actually from the "Kingdom of Karen".
"How could it be here …"
When he heard this name, he felt a chill down his spine. Because after being "educated" by Irwin, he naturally sent someone to investigate the origin of Merinthra and the others, and the result he got was the "Kingdom of Karen". When he thought about how the "Royal Tutor" who was protecting him was easily forced to retreat by that mage, he already knew that this country was not easy to deal with.
"I have never heard of this country before … Why did so many powerful people suddenly appear?"
As he pondered on this question, he strode towards the arena of Ketzmore Academy to watch his subordinates' "wrestling" preliminaries. This was also an event that Bin Duguo would win every time. However, before he could step out of the racecourse, he saw seven or eight subordinates returning together.
Duke suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He called out to the strongest among them, "Maqira! Why are you guys back so soon? "
Maqira was the champion of the last competition. He was 1.9 meters tall and looked like an iron tower in the Lassiman crowd, whose average height was 1.6 meters. But now, he had a helpless look on his face. When he saw Duke, he immediately knelt on one knee and said, "Maqira is incompetent … He was eliminated in the preliminaries."
"What?! Who did it? "
Duke did not believe that anyone could defeat Maqira in wrestling. This warrior was the most powerful wrestler in the kingdom. His skills, strength, and explosive power were all top notch. Wrestling was not a match against a mage. Could there be someone stronger?
"Little Khan … He is the bodyguard of that woman from the Kingdom of Karen."
The subordinate who knew the inside story immediately explained, and Duke could not even reprimand him. He had personally experienced Irwin's two-meter tall figure and unstoppable monstrous strength. Now that he thought about it, perhaps only this guy could defeat Maqira.
But Duke did not give up. He wanted to know how big the gap was between Bin Du Guo and the Kingdom of Karen in this aspect, so he asked:
"How many rounds did you fight with him?"
This sentence made Maqira lower his head in shame, "Little Khan, I was thrown out in the first round …"
Duke could not catch his breath and almost choked on his saliva. He stood on the street for a long time and did not know what to say for a while. And before the people of Bin Du Guo moved away, a team of mages in blue robes came to the street.
"Duriel Ring Rally, clear the road, unrelated personnel please give way."
Lassman's "Champion of Twilight Autumn Competition Committee" executive team was planning the competition road. Duke and the others had to make way no matter how high their status was. They could only change the route and detour around the alley.
"Little Khan, then our next match …"
"Continue! We have to continue the competition even if we have to grit our teeth! "
Although he said so, but when he thought of the two cold-faced knights from the Kingdom of Karen who sandwiched him in the middle, he could not help but feel a chill in his heart. This "Kingdom of Karen" that suddenly appeared, how strong was it? The horse was not weak, the hand-to-hand combat was strong, and the mage did not seem to be a small character …
He regarded that encounter as a humiliation. These days, Duke almost did not stop thinking about how to take revenge, but now it seemed that the hope was getting slimmer.
*****
"The third match, Kingdom of Karen, Naifei, versus … Lassman, Moffett Academy, Kattraci!"
In order to save time, there were more than eight matches in the arena at the same time. The "Construct Puppet Combat Competition" was divided into six levels. Naifei's Type III puppet was limited to four Intermediate Magic Crystal, so she could only participate in the lowest level "Low Level Group". But even though she was using the "mass-produced" Construct Puppet she bought from the street, she was not afraid of the strong opponents from the "Puppet Academy".
Because she could see the flow of elements, Naifei had optimized her Type III puppet when she was assembling it, so her Type III puppet had a smoother and more agile movement speed. And most importantly, she did not use the traditional Magic Crystal as the driving energy.
The use of four standard "Charging Crystals" had made the Type III puppet surpass the current Lassman puppet technology by a generation.
"Little girl from the Kingdom of Karen, although the Type III puppet you bought from the street is the optimized version, it's not suitable for the competition!"
Although Kattraci was participating in the lowest level group competition, she had many fans in the Moffett Academy. There were thirty or forty students cheering for her in the audience outside the arena. It seemed that she was a popular figure in the lower grades.
Naifei just smiled sweetly at these seemingly polite words, "You'll know after you try —"
"Let's start!"
Cattrakii drove her two-meter-tall "Crusher" forward, intending to use its size advantage to smash Naifei's Type III puppet into pieces. However, before her puppet could take the third step, the Type III puppet in front of her had already rushed over …
"Bang!"
In front of the Type III Puppet, the "Crusher" was like a sluggish blockhead. He did not even have the time to put up a defensive stance before the seemingly unremarkable punch smashed the weakest part of his spine. If this punch had landed on his chest, it probably would not have been able to break through his defense. But here, it directly caused the upper body of the "Crusher" to bend forward.
Just when Kattraci was about to save the situation in a panic, Naifei lightly flicked her finger on the control panel, and the Type III puppet's left claw accurately grasped the Magic Crystal hidden on the back of the Crusher's neck. With a casual pull, the huge body of the Crusher lost its power and fell to the ground with a "Clang" sound …
The "support group" who were ready to cheer were like ducks that had their necks strangled. Each and every one of them was dumbfounded as they watched the "Crusher" turn into a pile of mud. Naifei still had a sweet smile on her face as she waved her hand and said, "Thank you, big sister!"
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