Chapter 181 Fun Sports Meet Gymnasium
After the rainy season began, although it didn't rain in the Land of Sin, the hot spring canals that covered the planting area and provided timely irrigation in the morning and evening kept the air humidity and soil moisture stable. Of course, the concentration of magic in the air was also stable, so the crops grew quite well and there were hardly any pests.
Therefore, Shu Xin felt confident and bold enough to hold the first sports meet in the Land of Sin.
Shu Xin initially planned to list several sports events and try to get everyone in the territory to participate in the sports meet. However, while writing the plan, Shu Xin discovered a problem. If the sports meet were held in this way, it would be a competition between demons, civilians, and slaves. But her original intention was just to add a form of entertainment for everyone, not to pursue anything like "higher, faster, stronger"!
This was just a fun sports meet, so Shu Xin considered it carefully, went to the Tree of Life again, and finally only launched one sport, which was ball flying sports - actually a combination of ball sports and flying competitions, which Shu Xin simply and bluntly named Flying Ball Competition.
The playing field for the Flying Ball game is divided into a ground field and an air field, with obstacles and speed-up magic circles set up in both fields.
After the game starts, the referee will serve the ball to both sides simultaneously. Within the time limit, the players need to navigate through obstacles and get the ball out of their own court as quickly as possible to score a point by sending the ball into the opponent's court. Naturally, they also need to try their best to prevent the opponent from taking the ball out of the court and sending it into their own court to score a point.
In the first two games, the referee serves the ball to the ground court and scores by throwing the ball into the hoop in the air court. In the last two games, the referee serves the ball to the air court and scores by throwing the ball into the hoop on the ground court.
The participants in the ground and air are not fixed, but once the game starts, the participants cannot leave their designated area. Leaving their designated area is considered a foul and results in immediate ejection from the game.
In this way, the demons, elves, commoners, and slaves participating in the competition must cooperate well in order to defend their own goal while trying their best to throw the ball into the opponent's goal.
Because it was a large-scale event open to the entire territory, Shuxin specially built a new stadium in the cultural and educational area. In reality, it was more like a super-sized sunshade. All the snow dragon fruit branches delivered by the Snow Clan had been used up, and the plant leather made from the snow dragon fruit branches had become a huge canopy suspended high in the air to block out the sunlight.
Beneath the enormous canopy, two Trees of Life served as decorative supports. Since the canopy was suspended in the air by a levitation magic circle, the true purpose of these two trees was to act as obstacles in the aerial arena, where the flower fairies had to race against time to navigate through their incredibly lush foliage.
As for the obstacles on the ground, they are color-changing wind chime vines that grow and cover the ground directly. Magic circles such as confusion magic, speed-up magic, and slow magic are drawn on the ground under the cover of the vines. Demons or elves running on the ground need to be vigilant to avoid being hit. Of course, they can also use these magic circles to intercept their opponents.
The Tree of Life will maintain a completely random growth rate, and the density of branches and leaves that the flower fairies in the aerial arena need to adapt to will naturally change accordingly; the magic circles in the ground arena are drawn on plant leather, and Shu Xin will shuffle and rearrange the positions of these plant leathers after each event to ensure that the demons and elves on the ground have a fresh experience every time.
Shu Xin used readily available materials to make a flower ball out of wind chime flowers. The competition and throwing during the game would definitely cause damage to the wind chime flower ball, so when the flower ball broke apart, the game was over. She could just make a new one before the next game started.
Shu Xin didn't plan to let the flower fairies and demons form teams on their own. The population of the Land of Sin was already quite large, and many newly arrived flower fairies hadn't even seen demons yet. After announcing the sports meet, Shu Xin directly instructed the Tree of Life to randomly form teams of the participating flower fairies and demons. Each flying team would have a minimum of 65 and a maximum of 70 people, as long as each team included both slaves and commoners, demons or elves.
The competition format is a best-of-three series. Shu Xin arranged two Trees of Life as obstacles in the air because she planned to hold competitions on both sides at the same time. After the winning teams competed to determine the top 100, the entire field was used for the competition. From the top 100, the top 50, top 10, and top 3 were determined. This is definitely enough to keep the competition going until the next harvest month!
The rewards for winning teams in the sports meet are quite generous. The top 100 teams will receive magic gems or magic materials, the top 50 teams will receive magic gems or magic materials as well as a custom magic wand and magic robe, the top 10 teams will also receive the privilege of enjoying desserts, and the top three teams will receive all the above rewards. Demons will have the right to go out hunting freely, flower fairies and commoners will have priority to restore their fairy form, flower fairy slaves will have priority to restore their commoner status, and elves who have restored their normal form will have priority to obtain the status of flower fairy subordinates.
The land of sin was practically boiling over, with demons and flower fairies alike eagerly signing up.
“We’re on the same team now,” Blackfoot excitedly told Ananna. “We can compete together, Ananna! We’re teammates.”
Ananna was also very happy: "Wow, really! I haven't received the notification yet. Your dungeon's news comes so fast. Should we familiarize ourselves with the area beforehand? I'm getting nervous and excited just thinking about fighting like a patrol!"
“Because we demons are few in number, we were notified very quickly. I think you'll receive the message tonight too. It's necessary to familiarize yourself with the location beforehand. We can call our teammates to go together.” Blackfoot said earnestly, then handed over a large bouquet of flowers he was holding. “Look, the golden wheat in the underground lake has very, very blue flowers. Doesn't it smell fragrant and sweet? Can you eat these flowers?”
Ananna took it, sniffed it, and said, "It is indeed sweet, but I don't know if it's edible yet. Many water plants become less tasty after they bloom. Wait for me to take it back and study it. If it's delicious, I'll cook it and bring it over so we can eat it together."
Blackfoot nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I also got the ice grass cake with honey today. Shall we go make some honey ice water before we go look at the competition venue?"
Ananna held up the flowers in her hand, very happy: "I also got snow dragon fruit ice cream today! Let's put ice grass cake in the ice cream today too! By the way, didn't Meimeilin say that adding some acorn wine and magic powder to the honey ice water would make it taste better? She said that the Flower Fairy also adds some salt powder. She tried it recently, and the taste is indeed better after adding salt powder. Let's try it today!"
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