Five days passed quickly, and the much-anticipated Holy Feather Festival arrived as scheduled.
During these five days, in addition to the small amount of training required every day, Shen Yun and other contestants were fully enjoying the fiery passion in the entire Licai City. For a mature warrior, there is no point in cramming, so Kris did not ask everyone to increase their training intensity during this period. Instead, she encouraged them to go out on the street more often.
"For you now, it is much more useful to go outside and feel the passion of civilians than to stay here and practice. The meaning of jihad is not just to let you fight a few times. Strength, will, and belief are all jihad. The benefits it may bring to you. Although it sounds a bit unreliable, in the past holy wars, there have indeed been students who were forcibly promoted because they were stimulated by the atmosphere of the competition. Of course, don’t count too much on this." Chris. So said.
Following Chris's instructions, Shen Yun and others did have a good stroll around Licai City. It must be said that after five days, there were some subtle changes in everyone's hearts.
Jihad is an honor and a responsibility, and every student here knows this. But no one can tell what kind of honor it is and what kind of responsibility it is. In the final analysis, these are nothing more than word of mouth passed down by the seniors. , just like the well-known Olympic mathematics competition on earth, almost every child with some ability will be encouraged by the teacher to compete. However, when the child who won the first place stood on the podium, he really Does he understand the significance of his medal? Does he really understand how this competition is different from other competitions?
Shen Yun and the others didn't know about it originally, especially Shen Yun. He had always thought that this holy war was nothing more than the elites of all the forces on the continent gathering together to decide a champion. And the so-called honor was nothing more than winning this He was ranked number one in the mainland, and all his students became famous all over the world. But now, five days later, he no longer thinks so!
The colorful decorations in the city, the performances organized by civilians spontaneously, and the merchants distributing goods for free to celebrate the festival. Of course, the most important thing is the kind and expectant eyes of everyone when they learned that Shen Yun and the others were Jihad players. Shen was moved. Yun and others deeply realized that this game was not as casual as they thought, and this festival was not as boring as they thought. Although they could not fully interpret what the expectations in everyone's eyes were, Shen Yun and his party You know, at least it's not just a good ranking for Jihad...
For the members of Blue Water, five days is just to maintain their condition and understand the meaning of holy war. But for Li Caicheng, there is obviously more than that.
First of all, in these five days, all the preparations for the Holy Feather Festival in Licai City have been completed. Including the renovation and reinforcement work of the giant fighting arena in the center of the city, which is like a giant bowl, it was also officially completed the day before the Holy Feather Festival. Completed. Secondly, various performance activities, celebration program preparations and rehearsals were also confirmed to be completed within five days. Of course, these actually have little to do with Shen Yun and the others. For the Blue Water Academy and his team, the most important thing But it was the last thing - all the teams participating in this holy war across the continent arrived two days ago!
According to statistics, this time there are 426 teams from all over the continent coming to participate in the Holy War. 8 of them are seed teams. They do not need to participate in the initial knockout rounds, but the remaining 400-odd teams need to be divided into 8 groups and go through several rounds.
In the knockout round, until there is only one team left in each group, it will mix with the 8 seed teams to enter the semi-finals. The top 8 in the semi-finals will be the next seed team.
It should be said that this kind of competition arrangement is very unfavorable for the strong dark horses, because they have to go through many obstacles before they can get the chance to meet the seeded teams. But how much strength will be left at that time?
It's hard to say.
But even so, the first round of each semi-final is extremely cruel, and its intensity is even more intense than the subsequent top four battles. The dark horse teams have experienced it themselves and know the hardships along the way, so they fight hard. The seeded teams are also under pressure.
Shandong University. All the team members know very well that if the identity of the seed team is lost in their own hands, they will never raise their heads as a human being again after returning to the academy.
Although it has maintained its status as a seed team since the rules of the Holy War were stabilized, Blue Water Academy has not been without experiences on the verge of life and death. The most dangerous one was the class of Cousin the Glasses, where 8 main players were first
They all played in the first round, but were beaten half-disabled by a dark horse team, and ended up with a 4-4 tie. Although they relied on substitutes to play extra games to narrowly retain their position as the seed team, they were also defeated by another dark horse team in the second round.
The team managed the draw with almost no injuries, which can be called the shame of Blue Water.
"However, it's quite surprising that the remaining two teams in our annex are the Beast King Academy and the Holy Light Academy." Chen Yun sat in the Licai City martial arts arena with a bunch of snacks in his mouth.
In the stands, this place will be used as a holy battlefield tomorrow, but today, it is the venue for the opening ceremony of the Holy Feather Festival.
Because it is a participating college, the area assigned to Blue Water and the group is very good. It is very close to the competition stage and has a very wide view. Now, all the jihadists of Blue Water Academy, including the cheerleaders, are gathered here to wait for the opening ceremony.
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"It's not surprising that the Beast King Academy has a lot in common with the dwarves of the Earth's Core Furnace. In the past, the organizers would often arrange for these two families to live together." The glasses man was sitting in the front row of Shen Yun and heard Shen Yun's muttering at this moment.
He turned around and frowned: "But Holy Light Academy is very strange. Logically speaking, they should be with the elves of Kaguya Forest. Why did the Crystal Alliance arrange for them to come here this time? It's really..."
"Hmph! Are those white guys so noble that they can't live with us roughnecks?" Olaf was unhappy when he heard this, and immediately opened his big eyes and looked at the glasses man: "Old Olaf
Aren’t you surprised to be in the same yard with them? All of them have eyes on the top of their heads. Isn’t it great to be tall?”
The glasses geek was waving his hands to express his regret that he had said the wrong thing, but when he heard Olaf's last words, he couldn't help but burst out laughing. He muttered in his heart: "Hey, you really don't care about this.
If you are not convinced, they are just taller than you!"
Shen Yun's words made Olaf almost hit Ken, the glasses geek. At this moment, he was leaning on the chair and teasing the little girl in his arms with an innocent look. However, his eyes subconsciously glanced at a group of people not far away from him from time to time.
The silver-white exquisite armor and the snow-white robe with complicated runes are actually dazzling... (To be continued...)