On the morning of the game, Lawrence and his team took a carriage from St. Sklodowska Cathedral to the competition venue early in the morning. After becoming the captain of the team, Lawrence lived with the team members in the church dormitory these days.
The carriage stopped 20 minutes later, and the coachman who was driving in front knocked on the carriage and said: "Everyone, the competition venue has arrived. I can only send you here. You need to walk along the road for the rest of the way."
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After hearing these words, Lawrence and the others immediately got off the carriage. Only then did they find themselves in an open space surrounded by hills, with some carriages parked neatly around them.
These carriages all belong to the contestants, and the contestants either go alone or gather in small groups and follow a path on the edge of the open space in the direction pointed by a wooden red arrow.
"Okay, let's set off now." After everyone got off the carriage, Lawrence waved and then walked forward along the path with the flow of people.
The road condition of this path is a bit bad, but it is generally flat. On both sides of the road are hills with tropical rainforest. From time to time, a gust of wind blows in the distance, making the forest make a rustling sound.
Except for the sound of swaying branches and leaves in the forest and the occasional cry of some animal, the entire road was very quiet. All the contestants walked forward with their heads buried in silence. In this case, even before
Kaoge, who had been talking all the way in the carriage, also remained quiet, and could only hear the clanking sound of the magic steam robot he was carrying with his big feet on the ground.
"Oh——!" Just when Lawrence and the others were advancing to a corner, there was a suppressed exclamation from the front, so they also quickened their pace out of curiosity. When they rounded the hill
, the scene in front of them also made them exclaim.
At the end of the path is a black beach. A peninsula made of white rocks extends into the sea like a giant python. At the top of the peninsula is a high bulging white hill. The venue for today's competition is on that hill.
Above, there is a very flat open space, as if someone had flattened the top of the hill.
What amazed everyone was that there were more than a dozen large and small stone animal heads under the platform at the top of the hill. These animal heads were spewing out large amounts of lava from their wide-open mouths.
After the hot lava fell into the sea water, it stirred up large clouds of white mist, which even completely covered the bottom of the hill and the peninsula from time to time, making the platform on the top of the hill seem to be floating in the clouds. And this kind of manpower-driven
The wonders formed together with nature make everyone who sees the scenery here for the first time unable to help but make a sound of surprise.
After walking along the narrow road opened on the peninsula to the platform, everyone looked around curiously. Unfortunately, they found that the ground in this place was really flat, and it was a whole stone.
Lawrence didn't see anything other than what ordinary people could build.
There were many and varied people on the platform, and Lawrence found that at least 1/5 of them were extraordinary creatures that looked completely different from humans. For example, the ones with wings on their backs, the ones with horns on their heads, and even the whole thing were just human beings wearing clothes.
Some kind of animal gets up.
Of course, the number of non-human intelligent creatures in this competition definitely exceeds this ratio. For example, short creatures like Cogg or elves that generally look like human beings like Lawrence.
They must have been excluded from non-human creatures.
At this time, Lawrence realized that he was indeed in a world full of magic, not another Earth during the First Industrial Revolution.
After a while, more and more people walked along the peninsula to the platform. In the end, there were nearly a thousand people crowded on the platform. Naturally, the platform became quite noisy.
When... when... when... when all the contestants had arrived, a bell rang from a distance. After hearing this sound, the contestants on the platform immediately lowered their voices and then raised their heads.
Look in the direction where the bell is ringing.
In everyone's sight, a platform the size of a basketball court flew over from a distance. After the platform quickly approached, Lawrence and the others discovered that standing on the platform were some officials in formal attire and others in their respective professional attires.
Representatives of extraordinary organizations.
A middle-aged man with sharp eyes and thick brown hair, who looked like a lion, walked to the front from the flying platform, then took out a brooch inlaid with sapphire and hung it on his chest and coughed lightly.
In an instant, everyone on the entire platform heard his voice. Then the whispers that were still on the platform disappeared, leaving only the voice of this middle-aged man.
According to his self-introduction, this middle-aged man is the supreme consul of the New Hanseatic Republic. And he, the landlord, is responsible for hosting this black iron-level competition among the countries in the New World.
"The Black Iron-level competition of this competition among the countries in the New World will officially start today. I will make some brief introductions and specific content, and the organizing committee will send the information to you later."
"The astral plane that this Black Iron-level competition is going to is named "Sea and Fire". It originally belonged to an ogre tribe in a new continent. It was later acquired by us during the war and transformed into a competition venue."
"But this does not mean that the entire astral plane is under our control. As far as I know, when the ogre tribe was defeated and fled, Xing also took away some of the keys to this astral plane. And
In several previous games, we have encountered ogres that have infiltrated into this astral plane."
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, because everyone knew that compared with brainless monsters and intelligent evil creatures, the former is definitely much easier to fight. And the contestants standing here had never heard of this before.
, and at the same time, everyone is a low-level transcendent, so they seem a little nervous when faced with problems that exceed expectations.
"There is no need to be too nervous," said the Supreme Archon, looking at the change in the atmosphere on the platform. "Although they will infiltrate that space, the restrictions on those who enter the space are the same. In other words, even if these cannibals
The devil enters this plane this time just like the previous times, and the monsters you encounter will not be stronger than you."
As soon as these words were said, the atmosphere on the platform immediately relaxed. The people who can stand here are all excellent in terms of ability and will. The tension just now was purely due to worry about the group of ogres who were the original owners.
Is there any way to bypass the restrictions and insert some powerful people into this astral plane?
Now that they knew the general situation of the opponent, these elite contestants were naturally not so nervous. After watching everyone turn their attention to themselves again, the Supreme Archon began to announce to everyone something related to this competition.
Content.
"The New World Nations Competition is an occasion for young people from the extraordinary worlds of the New World countries to compete with each other and communicate with each other. Through this method, everyone can promote each other and improve together. Of course, based on the performance of the contestants, we will also