The next day, Gu Shi followed the other three to watch the excitement of the preliminaries.
Because there are so many people who signed up, it would take too much time to play them one by one, so the school set up a preliminary round to screen out a group of people who are not strong enough.
After arriving at the venue, Gu Shi realized that this campus exchange competition not only had individual competitions, but also team competitions. However, there were fewer teams registered for the team competitions, so their presence was not as high as that of the individual competitions.
Gu Shi walked around the qualifying venue a few times and watched a few games, but felt it was boring and went back early.
Like Gu Shi, Qi Yu was not particularly interested in the preliminaries, so he went back to the dormitory with him.
Cheng Xuqing was quite popular, and several friends from other colleges invited him to watch the game, but Zhao Zhize was pulled away by his friends from the club.
Cheng Xuqing and Zhao Zhize's qualifying matches were scheduled for three days and five days later respectively, which were considered to be the later batch.
The preliminaries were not like the official competitions where people fought against each other. Their opponents were a group of alchemical puppets that the school had obtained from somewhere, and their strength was uniformly at the advanced level of the second order.
Dealing with such an alchemical puppet is not a problem at all for Cheng Xuqing and Zhao Zhize.
Zhao Zhize has now reached the beginner level of the fourth level. With one strike of his sword, he broke the alchemical puppet's legs, and the referee immediately announced his victory.
Although Cheng Xuqing's strength was not as good as Zhao Zhize's, he was still a whole level higher than the alchemy puppet, and he also ended the battle easily.
The two of them passed the preliminaries smoothly.
The next schedule will last for fifteen days. All players who pass the preliminaries will be arranged to compete. Each win will earn 1 point. The 32 players with the highest points will enter the next round.
Unexpectedly, at this stage, both of them successfully advanced.
Zhao Zhize made it to the top purely based on his strength, while Cheng Xuqing was very lucky. The opponents he was matched with were not very strong each time, but in the end he took advantage of the opportunity and successfully advanced to the top 32.
However, Cheng Xuqing also knew that his strength was limited. Among the remaining 32 people, no one was easy to deal with except him. He would probably be eliminated in the next round.
After all, apart from him, there was only one other advanced level three person who had successfully made it into the top 32, and that person had made it through based on his own strength and had his own unique skills that Cheng Xuqing could not compete with at all.
On the day of the 32-to-16 match, in the preparation area.
Cheng Xuqing was spinning around anxiously, muttering to himself, "What should I do? What should I do? How can I lose in a more dignified way?"
Qi Yu offered his suggestion, "Why don't you just admit defeat right away? That way, you can at least come down with some dignity."
Cheng Xuqing retorted, "Although I definitely can't beat her, I still have to struggle a bit. At least I can fight her off for a few moves. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing."
The opponent Cheng Xuqing was matched with this time was a fourth-level advanced water mage. Not only was his strength much higher than his, but his attributes were also completely restrained. It could be said that he had no chance of winning at all.
Qi Yu continued, "You go up and immediately put up a shield, then seize the opportunity to throw a fireball first, just two moves."
Cheng Xuqing had no way of refutation.
Zhao Zhize patted Cheng Xuqing on the shoulder and said, "Okay, don't be nervous. It's useless to be anxious now. Just go up and fight normally later."
Cheng Xuqing nodded silently and finally sat down in his seat.
After a while, his name was called on the radio. Cheng Xuqing took a deep breath and walked onto the ring with a fearless expression.
Cheng Xuqing's opponent is a very tall girl with neat short hair. Her fair face reveals seriousness and she seems to take this game very seriously.
Even though her opponent is far weaker than her, she does not relax.
The water mage's name is Dong Xuan, and she is one of the seeded players in this campus exchange competition.
Gu Shi always felt that she looked familiar. After staring at her for a while, he remembered that he had seen Dong Xuan once at the meeting where Yang Jianguo informed them of further studies.
But Dong Xuan did not choose to go to Congleton to study, so Gu Shi did not have a deep impression of her.
After the two teams stood on the ring, at the referee's command, Cheng Xuqing and Dong Xuan both raised their elemental shields.
What happened next was just as Qi Yu described. After Cheng Xuqing released a fireball, he was sent off the ring by Dong Xuan's water flow and even had a free bath.
Just a few minutes after Cheng Xuqing left the preparation area, he came back soaking wet.
Cheng Xuqing sighed, "Ah, in the end, he only used two moves. I was thinking of staying in the ring for a few more seconds."
Qi Yu comforted him, "At least you made it down safe and sound. It's better than the person who was charred by lightning before."
Cheng Xuqing thought so and realized that no matter what, he was not the one who suffered the most.
Gu Shi handed the towel and clothes that he had prepared in advance to Cheng Xuqing, "Hurry up and change your clothes. Be careful not to catch a cold."
After knowing that his opponent was a water mage, Cheng Xuqing brought an extra set of clothes with him, because Zhao Zhize's match was right next to his, and Cheng Xuqing was afraid that it would be too late to change clothes when he returned to the dormitory.
Zhao Zhize's opponent this time is an archer of the same level as him. Although the damage of this archer is not low, as long as he can find a way to get close to him, he will be halfway to success.
Zhao Zhize struggled with the archer on the ring for a long time, and finally succeeded in finding his weakness and won the match.
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