One day later, the preliminary stages of the mercenary competition ended.
The 100 players who won the preliminary round, plus the 28 seed players selected by the Mercenary Association, a total of 128 players will compete in the finals of the Mercenary Competition.
For the mercenary association, the final stage of the mercenary competition is the beginning of the real competition, which can truly attract rich and distinguished nobles to come and watch, and is the beginning of real money making.
For some nobles and wealthy people, the finals of the mercenary competition are worth watching. Otherwise, do we expect the nobles to lower themselves to watch two rough guys who only have some superficial martial arts skills and no fighting spirit?
Are you going to fight? This is too embarrassing.
Therefore, as soon as the finals of the mercenary competition arrived, the Mercenary Association directly increased the ticket price tenfold. In addition to intending to make more money, the Mercenary Association also wanted to recruit some poor and undocumented people.
Stay away from the door.
The skyrocketing ticket price has not reduced the number of spectators. The real aristocrats and the real rich people will not care about this small ticket fee. What they care about is being able to have fun watching the game.
In addition, the Mercenary Association has also set up some boxes, which are prepared for some more distinguished nobles. No matter how much money ordinary people spend, they cannot buy tickets to these boxes.
Another way for the Mercenary Association to make money is gambling. They not only bet on which player will win the championship in the end, but also bet on who will win in every game.
In response, the Mercenary Association compiled information on the 128 finalists into a booklet and sold it to those who wanted to place bets.
It can be said that gambling is human nature no matter what world you are in. Therefore, gambling in every mercenary competition will attract countless people to participate and a large amount of money will be injected. Even Ruian wants to use this gambling to
Make a fortune.
As soon as the booklet introducing player information was released, it was snapped up by people. The very cheap price made almost everyone who paid attention to the mercenary competition want to buy one. Unfortunately, the quantity was limited, and in the end the Mercenary Association had to print another copy.
To meet people's needs.
The release of the booklet also made Ryan a celebrity besides the favorite to win the championship.
A person who can't express fighting spirit and is not even a swordsman can make it to the finals. Ryan relies on a strange stick, a set of magical stick techniques, his legs can kick people unexpectedly, and he has no sword.
With his scholarly spirit and some despicable means, he broke into the finals beyond all expectations. This in itself is a very eye-catching thing.
Many people hate Ruian so much that they gnash their teeth with hatred, but they still have to admit that Ruian still has certain strengths, although these strengths are very contrary to the spirit of a swordsman.
After reading the brochure carefully, Ruian found that the odds of him winning the championship were as high as 1,000 to 1. This odds was not the last one. Although it was ranked among the last few, it can be seen that the Mercenary Association still believed that Ruian had a chance to win.
A little bit of strength.
However, Ryan is very self-aware. Even if the odds of losing a thousand to one are very high, he will not bet on himself to win the championship. This is simply like a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return.
The booklet only has the original winning odds of each player. The actual winning odds are constantly changing. You need to go to the Mercenary Association's betting point to understand clearly.
The booklet does not have odds for each game, and the odds for each game are constantly changing.
Ryan looked at the schedule to find out his opponent for the next game, and found that his luck was not very bad, but not very good either.
Ruian successfully avoided the favorites to win the championship. This mercenary competition attracted more than ten high-level swordsmen to participate, including several level 6 swordsmen.
Ruian's luck is not very good. The reason is that although Ruian's opponent is not a high-level swordsman, only a level 4 swordsman, his opponent has very rich combat experience. This is because his opponent is the deputy leader of a small mercenary group.
You can see it.
Ryan's opponent in the next match is Nateside, a 35-year-old level 4 swordsman who serves as the deputy leader of the Tiger Mercenary Group. He has rich combat experience and is good at fire-based fighting spirit.
Ruian carefully compared his own strength with that of his opponent, and simulated the situation of the match in his mind. He came to the conclusion that even if he used all his methods, including his trump card, he would only be 50% sure of defeating his opponent. This was very certain.
High, after all, Ruian had just defeated a level 3 swordsman before. Compared with the level 3 swordsman, there was no fundamental change between the level 4 swordsman and the level 3 swordsman except that the level of fighting spirit was much higher.
So Ryan is going to see what the odds are for his next fight?
Ryan put on a little disguise and did not bring his iconic vaginal stick or other equipment. He put on his coat and a hat, and then walked slowly to the mercenary association.
There are many more people on the streets of Kata City than before, and there are also many more people doing business. There are all kinds of hawking sounds everywhere.
Ruian didn't pay much attention to the people around him. He had passed the same road several times recently and it had lost its novelty. Besides, he was currently thinking about betting.
After a while, Ryan came to the Mercenary Association. There was no game today, so there were not many people in the arena. Almost everyone was concentrated in the mission hall.
Recently, the mission hall of the Mercenary Association has stopped publishing missions and has become a betting point for mercenary competitions. Therefore, anyone who wants to place bets will basically come here to understand the odds and bets.
Ryan came to the wall where the odds for each game were posted and looked up the odds for his own game.
Soon, Ryan found the field where he was playing. He saw that his odds of winning were 3 to 1, while Ryan's opponent, Netstead, was odds of winning at 1.5 to 1.
Obviously, the Mercenary Association is not optimistic about Ruian. Although Ruian has won many games before, it has never happened for a player who is not even a swordsman to win against a level 4 swordsman. Now.
Therefore, we did not set Ryan's odds any higher because we were worried that Ryan could miraculously defeat his opponent.
Ruian thought about it carefully and finally decided to bet all his wealth, one gold coin, on himself to win. This was the money Ruian had worked hard for more than half a year at Moya's father's blacksmith shop. After betting this one gold coin, Ruian
He only had a few silver coins left with him.
But Ryan is not worried. If he wins the game, he also wins the bet, which is naturally good. If he loses the game and loses the bet, it doesn't matter. Because he won so many games in the previous preliminary round, the bonus
He hasn't claimed it from the Mercenary Association yet. Ruian doesn't know exactly how much prize money he won, but it's probably at least a few gold coins.
After placing the bet, Ruian returned to the blacksmith shop with the betting coupon.
Father Moya has long known that Ryan participated in the mercenary competition and entered the finals. He also knows about the equipment that Ryan built himself. However, Father Moya really has no interest in these fighting competitions. Maybe when he was young, he
would be interested, but now he is only interested in his own business. So Father Moya still asked Ruian to make iron as usual, but the amount was slightly reduced than before.
The next thing Ruian has to do is to repair the Yin Stick. In the last game, the Yin Stick was cut with several gaps by his opponent. The biggest gap was when the opponent's last sword strike almost cut off the Yin Stick and cut it in.
Nearly more than half the depth.
As a blacksmith, it is very simple for Ruian to repair the Yin Stick. But now Ruian is thinking about another thing, that is, he met a level 3 swordsman in the last game and had already cut half of the diameter.
, and the next game is against a level 4 swordsman, will the Yin Stick cut off the opponent with a sword? This possibility is very high.
So now Ruian not only needs to repair the Yin stick, but also needs to make the body of the Yin stick thicker and harder.
After busy for a long time, Ruian completed the work of repairing and thickening the body of the Yin stick. A thickened Yin stick was born. The new Yin stick is about ten kilograms heavier than before.
Ruian briefly waved the Yin stick a few times and found that the weighted Yin stick did not have much impact on the performance of the stick technique.
Ruian breathed a sigh of relief and became more confident about defeating his opponent.
Next, Ryan needs to rest well and be prepared for a tough battle. Ryan has already simulated the situation of the game in his mind before, but Ryan also knows that these are just words on paper. When the time comes, adapting to circumstances and performing on the spot are the most important.