When Joshua woke up early in the morning he was t with a system ssage window that surprised him. It wasn't normal for the system to do an announcent early in the morning, but seeing as it was the day of the tournant it was likely that the ssage was going to be about the procedures for how things were going to work. There was no way that the system expected everyone to be at the battle arena all ready to go at a specific ti. The amount of people that signed up for the tournant were far too many along with the fact that there were definitely going to be spectators at the battle arena as well which would make things an even bigger ss.
Joshua heard a loud thump from the room across the hall which told him his sister had been woken up by the ssage as well. It was likely that the ssage had been sent to everyone at the exact sa ti which would explain his sister's reaction. The ssage must have done sothing to wake her up so it was important for them to read it now instead of waiting around or going back to sleep. Joshua got out of bed and stretched a bit before gathering so clothes and opening the ssage to read on his way to the bathroom. Seeing as how neither his mother nor father had jolted up out of bed it was clear that the ssage had only been sent out to contestants.
[Congratulations on being a participant in the first major local tournant of the battle arena system. This tournant will begin in three hours with the preliminary rounds that will trim down the thousands of participants that have signed up. Before that ti you need to make sure that you have all your equipped gear in your inventory that you plan on using throughout the tournant. When it is ti for the tournant to begin you will be transported to the waiting area via teleportation where you will wait for your match.]
When Joshua had read up to this part of the ssage he was relieved that the system had a decent way to resolve the log jam that would have happened if everyone had to head to the battle arena before the matches would begin. It also made sure everyone had ti to get ready beforehand so that there wouldn't be anyone just showing up with no gear after being teleported. Joshua turned the shower on so he could continue to read the rest of the ssage while the water got hot.
[The tournant will be available to watch live in person at the battle arena and will also be broadcasted on the battle arena network for free throughout the entire process. Only seats in the battle arena itself will cost any system points. For those participating in the tournant you will be automatically disqualified if you are not in the hub city at the ti that the system starts teleporting everyone to the battle arena. You will also be disqualified if your level or experience amounts are different from the ti that you registered for the tournant.]
That was an easy way to root out so of the people that planned on trying to break the most obvious rule that the system had set up for the tournant. The broadcasting of the tournant wasn't a surprise to Joshua since it would bring a lot of attention to the battle arena and it explained why Garlin had said she would be watching so of the matches last night.
[The tournant will be a week-long event with the preliminaries taking up the first three days so that a bracket can be set up for the strongest explorers in the hub city. Each of the first three days will have everyone fighting at least five battles to judge whether or not you will make the final bracket and what position you will be placed in on the bracket. The fourth day will be spent finding out who the last few people will be to make the bracket while also figuring out the positioning of those that will have high seeding in the final bracket. The remaining three days will be spent going through the brackets until we co down to the winner of the tournant. The prizes for the tournant will be listed in full once the bracket has been finalized. Good luck to all participants.]
Joshua thought on all of the information he had gotten from the system ssage as he finished up his showering and got freshened up for the day. He didn't put on his gear just yet since he still had a few hours before things would get started. One of the main things Joshua noticed about the system ssage was sothing that wasn't focused on this tournant in particular. He noticed the fact that this tournant was called a local tournant which ant that there would eventually be tournants on a larger scale. It would be interesting to fight against people from other hub cities that Joshua hadn't even been able to interact with up to this point outside of at the auction house in a limited way.
That thought was sothing Joshua was going to have to keep in mind for later, but when it ca to the tournant Joshua realized from the system ssage just how many people were going to be involved in it. The fact that it would take three days just to get through the preliminaries and a fourth day to get the brackets set completely showed the sheer volu of people that had decided to enter this tournant. Five matches a day just to figure out seeding was going to be a lot, but Joshua was fairly sure the higher level fighters wouldn't be fighting against each other during the preliminaries. That was especially the case since they were planning to weed out the weaker participants as soon as possible.
It did catch Joshua's interest when the system ssage said sothing about a special way of figuring out the seeding on the fourth day, but for now Joshua was focused on the preliminaries. It would be a huge disappointnt if his seeding got ruined because he underestimated soone early on and was forced to fight soone from his own guild earlier than he wanted simply because his seeding wasn't high enough.
After getting cleaned up Joshua headed to the kitchen to get so coffee started. He knew his mother would be down soon and would want so so he started it up before heading over to the television and seeing what was going on with the news stations when it ca to the upcoming tournant. He wasn't surprised when he saw an advertisent for the tournant itself scrolling across the bottom of the screen even when the reporters were already discussing the tournant. The more guild friendly news station was discussing all sorts of known participants that were supposedly big nas going into the tournant. Joshua wasn't surprised when his na was shown on the list of people that the news crew was discussing along with so other key alliance mbers.
When he turned over to the propaganda filled news station that was backed by the World Governnt Guild it was a similar situation, but the news crew seed to be only focused on World Governnt Guild participants in the tournant along with participants from guilds or rcenary groups that were known to work alongside the world governnt guild. Either way both channels were describing who they figured were going to be the favorites to when the tournant. Joshua didn't watch either station for very long since he wanted to relax and focus instead of constantly thinking about his possible opponents in the future. This tournant was going to be a bit of a marathon instead of a sprint, so focusing on specific competition wasn't a good idea.
While thinking along those lines Joshua could suddenly sll food from the kitchen along with the coffee he had already set up for his mother. It didn't take very long before his mother ca over and sat down next to him with a cup of coffee in hand as she started watching the television with him. At the ti Joshua had already turned it to the channel that was broadcasting stuff for the battle arena. When the tournant started this channel would broadcast several of the different fights throughout the day, but at the mont it was basically just scrolling through the match venues while trying to get people to co out to the battle arena to see the event in person.
"So are you and dad going to co out to the battle arena to watch the two of us in the tournant or are you just going to watch from ho?" Joshua questioned after a brief bout of silence. He knew that his mother still had to go work at the hospital for so parts of the week, but with Grace being able to split the work with her now she had more ti to sit around and rest. Plus the hospital wouldn't be nearly as busy with most of the high level explorers entering the tournant instead of going out on expeditions and dungeon diving.
"Your father has decided that he won't go watch you guys in the tournant until the bracketed portion of the tournant starts. He said sothing stupid about not wanting to waste ti watching you two take down small fries." She said with an annoyed glance towards the stairs where the topic of the discussion was starting to make his way down. "You know how I feel about watching you two fight, but I'll make sure to co see so of them when I'm not working at the hospital."
"I'll get through them quickly so you don't have to worry." Joshua said as his father walked over and sat down in a nearby chair. The man was stone faced and completely silent at the mont. Joshua knew his father only got like this whenever he or his sister were about to get into a match. In the past when his father fought on his own he was as boisterous as normal before one of his own matches, but when it ca to his children it was like a switch had flipped.
Eventually Amy made her way down stairs too and they all had a nice breakfast before it started getting close to the ti for the tournant to start. Joshua went ahead and got all of his gear on and counted down the ti for when he would be teleported to the arena. When the ti finally he ca he took in a deep calming breath before he was taken away in a blink of an eye.
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