Chapter 249: Opening Ceremony and Rules (First Update)
July 15 was the official start of the High School League.
Early in the morning, Su Hao and the others set off from the Pro League Village to a large battle hall in Dragon City University.
On the way, he noticed that there were more people on campus, but it wasn’t as crowded as he had imagined.
Su Hao knew the reason.
The High School League was indeed the only large-scale competition made public to ordinary people, but it was a live broadcast. Although there were live audiences present, the audience were elites from various industries, leaders from various schools, reporters who were permitted to co, and cheerleaders from various schools, etc.
Fatty Ren wanted to co, but he couldn’t get a slot. The only way he could enter was to dress as a cheerleader… But Fatty Ren wasn’t one. With that figure, even if he was dressed as a female, he would be eliminated.
Su Hao heard that Fatty Ren rented a villa outside Dragon City University and watched the TV live stream “up-close” in a rich and benevolent way.
They entered the battle hall through a small door. The whole battle hall was bustling with noise and excitent, but when it was about ti, Su Hao discovered that only half of the audience seats were occupied. Those who didn’t know much would think that the High School League wasn’t popular.
The opening ceremony was approaching. At this mont, a figure in a black suit flew into the sky, as his penetrating voice spread far and wide.
“Everyone, please be quiet. Now, let introduce the important guests of this year’s league.”
A certain president, a certain Heavenly King, a certain…
So of the people ntioned were big bosses that Su Hao had heard of, while so others were big bosses that he had never heard of before.
“Those should be big bosses active in the New World.”
The host in a suit didn’t give a very grand introduction, nor were there any caras around. After the host read out the nas of so big bosses, he changed the topic, “Now, the two specially invited comntators will explain the rules of the competition to everyone.”
With the help of Psychic power, the host flew down from the audience seats. At the sa ti, the central screen finally started to function as a man and a woman appeared on the screen.
“Hello, everyone. I’m Huang Tianlei, the comntator for this season,” the man in his thirties on the left said with a smile.
“Hello, everyone. I’m the comntator for this tournant, Si Yue Rong,” the young woman on the right said with a smile too.
The big screen displayed their identities.
They were both master-level Sprite Trainers.
Among them, Huang Tianlei had beco a master eight years ago, and was now a quasi-Heavenly King. He possessed very rich battle and comntary experience. He had once comnted on the “Supernova Cup”, a competition of higher standard than the High School League.
It was just not publicized.
The beautiful female comntator, Si Yuerong, was also an experienced comntator who explained countless competitions of various sizes.
“In the following matches, we will explain the unique skills, profound anings, and secret teachings of sprites to the audience and unveil the mystery of the world of Sprite Trainers.”
Huang Tianlei said, “For this league, the participants include Dragon City University, Whale Island University, Fiery Bird University, Black Dragon University, Magic City Sprite University, Yunhua Sprite University… The 108 universities have gathered the top students from the various universities and ford 108 teams to bring us exciting battles.”
“Now, let read the rules of the league.”
He paused for a mont before continuing, “The High School League is a team competition with schools as units. The whole league is divided into two stages, the group stage and the elimination stage.”
“During the group stage, the 108 universities will be divided into four groups. Each group will consist of 27 universities, and each university team will have to battle the other schools in the group. Finally, the four teams with the highest scores in each group, which makes it a total of 16 teams, will advance to the elimination round.”
“The group match is a round-robin battle. Five contestants from each school team will take turns to fight and each contestant can only send out one sprite. Once all five opponents and their five sprites are defeated, the team will win.”
In the lounge, Su Hao slowly typed out a question mark.
The league rules that he previously understood didn’t seem to be like this?
ntor Ma gave him a look and said, “Every team has to fight 26 rounds during the group match. If we fight according to the combat simulation rules, how long would it take? Besides, Dragon City University doesn’t have that many combat venues.”
“There’s also an unspoken rule. Among the four groups, we, Dragon City University, and Fiery Bird University are definitely divided into different groups to avoid encountering each other in the early stages.”
As expected, comntator Huang continued,
“The top 16 elimination rounds will be carried out in the form of team combat. What is team combat? I’ll explain it in detail…”
“The team to reach the top is the final champion of this High School League. They will receive rich prizes provided by the Association of Sprite Trainers, the sponsors Green Shade Group, Red Lotus Group…and other partners.”
…
At the opening ceremony, after announcing the rules of the competition, the two sprites of the comntators started a performance match on the battlefield below.
There was no clear winner, but the cool effect of the two extraordinary-level sprites’ unique skills was enough to make every ordinary person kneel down in front of the TV while watching the live stream.
Many audience and participating students were also staring fixedly at the two sprites on the field.
A Moon Empress and a Thunderous Pig King.
Especially that graceful and noble Moon Empress who wore its crown like a moon flower on its head. Every ti it made a move, beautiful petals danced, causing waves of screams in the stadium.
It was beautiful and powerful.
No wonder Huang had the ability to beco the comntator for the league.
In the Whale Island University lounge, the information about the two sprites in Su Hao’s eyes beca more and more detailed as the battle continued.
“That Moon Empress is probably at extraordinary mid-level while the Thunderous Pig King is much stronger than the Moon Empress, be it in terms of accumulation or killer moves.”
But on the field, the two sprites were evenly matched. They fought back and forth, surrounded by danger.
Actually it was all acting.
“Indeed, it doesn’t matter whether it’s strong or not. Eventually, beauty is the matter of a lifeti.”
…
In the afternoon, Su Hao was browsing the forum.
There were a lot of hot posts about the morning opening ceremony of the league.
But the most popular topic among the idiotic netizens wasn’t discussing which team would win the championship, or which was the most handso contestant, but…
Moon Empress!
The man whose dream is to beco the crown: “The Moon Empress is so beautiful, so strong! When I’m 16 years old, I must contract a confinent flower, sob sob sob!”
Can sprites have babies: “I love it, i love it. The Moon Empress is mine. Draw your swords, everyone ~!”
The human-shaped sprite is very tall: “Moon Dancer, Moon Empress, Fluorescent Demon, Fairy Yue Ying, Trading Puppet… When I have money, I must contract all the human-shaped sprites!”
A passerby: “Go wash up and sleep upstairs. That sprite is not sothing that can be obtained with money. Don’t ask how I know. I spent 5 million and still failed to evolve my sprite into a fairy Yue Ying!”
The head of the Moon Empress fan club: “I just want to see the Moon Empress. How is a rough battle in the league interesting~!”
Su Hao was rendered speechless.
The style of this High School League was indeed not right, but one thing was for sure — having a Moon Empress, debuting as an idol was sothing that could be done in minutes!
Why not…
He looked at Butterfly. Butterfly was also browsing the forum as it replied with a “Gurgle ~!”
He could only continue to browse the forum. After browsing for dozens of minutes, he ca across so posts discussing the players of the league, but… none of them ntioned him.
“The audience this year is really bad!”
At this mont, NPC ntor Ma pushed open the door and entered. “Co, co, co, take a look at our grouping and battlefield number.”
“We’re in the third group. The stronger schools in the group include Yunhua Sprite University and Magic City Sprite University…”
“We’re going to fight four rounds tomorrow. Our first opponent is Vine Demon University.”
ntor Ma glanced at the school team mbers present. “Who’s going up tomorrow?”
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