702 RULES OF THE PRELIMINARIES 2
The contestants mounted on the flying mounts one by one. If a mount has reached it's weight limit, then the cultivators mount on another mount. Like this, every mount brought by the city Lord were occupied by the contestants. After everyone mounted, all the animals or other mount species started to take off.
As they were flying, they were using a mesmerising state when they looked at the tiny world beneath them. Mounts might be common in the God Realm, but it is limited to only the rich people. A poor person doesn't afford to buy amount for himself. Hence, it will become one of those times where the poor kid looks at the rich kid with the envious gazes.
Jimmy and others for setting an a mount silently. They didn't care to enjoy the tiny world like others from the sky. Of course, apart from Jimmy and Dick, others wanted to enjoy the scenery. But they know that they had to be stay united at this moment. So they pulled themselves back from their desires. And they all know very much why Jimmy and Dick were showing no interest in this.
Jimmy and Dick were both dragons to begin with. They both could transform into a real dragons. That means they will have their own wings through which they could fly in the sky. But apart from those two, none of the others have the ability to fly in the sky on their own accord. Jimmy and Dick saw this mesmerising world more thoroughly than any of the one present here.
Sometimes they felt envious of both Jimmy and Dick for their ability to fly in the sky. It is the advanced transformation of the Dragon's power. That means at one stage of time even they also could grow their own wings and fly in the sky. They were waiting for that moment. But they knew that it is easier said than done. Only in a better life and death struggle, a Dragon Slayer could grow wings and achieve dragon's transformation.
So far they all have participated in only one life and death struggling battle. And that was against the assassins organisation back in the Life Realm. But it was not enough for them to grow their wings and achieve dragon's transformation.
Farah tried to communicate with Jimmy as they were travelling on a same mount. But she failed as Jimmy maintained cold attitude towards her. Looking at this, everyone were stunned for a moment. Everyone knew about the bet between Jimmy and Young Master Luke.
And they knew that this bet was over a beautiful girl. So logically, both Farah and Jimmy needs to stick together. But why exactly Jimmy is maintaining the cold attitude towards a beautiful girl like Farah? This doesn't make any sense.
No one day to go and ask or do anything funny. All the mounts were flying in an order side by side. Even though they were flying at a top speed, they could still see what was happening on other mounts. And Young Master Luke was watching everything clearly and cleanly.
He could only grit his teeth and look at everything that is being unfold from his mount. He don't want to make any scene in the presence of the City Lord. So they flew with their own emotions in check.
As time passed, they finally entered a dense forest. This forest was so big that one couldn't see where it's limit lies at all. And what's more, the atmosphere was so dark that, they couldn't see anything. It was as if in the forest it was night time, while outside the forest it was daytime.
Everyone dismounted from their mounts and looked at the entrance of the forest. They kind of understood where exactly they are going to fight.
City Lord Alger said, "Everyone, the competition will be conducted in two phases. One with the Lifestyle Masters. And the other one with the Combat Masters. Here the preliminaries will be conducted on a team basis. That means, here you don't fight for your own individual glory. Here you will fight for a team. And that team is none other than the team you have registered yourselves with. So whenever you fight, think that you are fighting for your team. Don't fight for your own personal glory."
City Lord Alger continued, "And now I will tell you all the content of the preliminaries. The content of this preliminaries is divided into two sections. One is for the Lifestyle Masters. And the other one is for the Combat Masters. You people could chose for yourselves who is going to be the one participating in which section. You can chose either your Combat Masters to fight and win points for you. Or you can choose to let your Lifestyle Masters to participate and win points for your team by forging what we ask them to."
"So I will first tell you what a Lifestyle Master has to do to win points for your team." ,City Lord Alger continued, "The Lifestyle Masters will be given a set of tasks. And for every task, a fixed points will be allocated. The points will be only given when a Lifestyle Master successfully forge the required item mentioned in the task. On failure, you will not be given any points. All the required materials will be given to you by us."
As the City Lord Alger concluded, a heavy discussion started to take place among the participants. It was especially so from the Lifestyle Masters.
City Lord Alger didn't wait for the crowd to calm down as he said, "Now I will tell you the content of the competition for the Combat Masters. So listen carefully."Do you see this forest. This forest is very huge and big as well. The trees are so huge that it has covered the entire sky to the point where it blocked even the sun rays from falling within the forest."
City Lord Alger continued, "This Forest is filled with the monsters with different colours starting from Violet Colour to Red Colour. The Violet colour monster will give you ten points. Indigo monster will give you twenty points. Blue colour monsters will give you thirty points. Green colour monster will give you forty points. Yellow colour monster will give you fifty points. But the Orange and Red colour monsters will be difficult to handle. If you clash against them, you might even lose your lives!"
Everyone were stunned. They might even lose their lives? Then why would they fight in this battle? Why would the emperor make this competition a mandatory for everyone?