◎Warm-up activities before the sports meet◎
The sport of football in Demon Realm has undergone the least changes of all sports. Compared with the rules of the game that Warren first saw on the cards, the main change is that the demons are allowed to use any non-lethal magic in the game.
Athletes are not allowed to use any magic weapons or magic arrays for assistance. They can only use their own magic. Once there is a mistake in team coordination, several magic spells may collide and even directly send the ball to the opponent. Therefore, prior training becomes extremely important.
Of course, at this time, sports such as football had only been promoted in the Demon Realm for a few months, and had not yet formed the lively scene of various magic tactics competing in the future. Everyone was a beginner groping forward, and the action of grabbing the ball was more like hunting than a game.
The members of the football team are equipped with their own team uniforms. The team uniforms of the Brave Forward Team are fiery red vests with the pattern of the Greedy Beast printed on them, while the team uniforms of the Potato-flavored Lollipops Team are white vests with a potato pattern printed on them.
This made Xiaolong in the audience very conflicted, and he had no idea which side he should cheer for - he thought potato-flavored lollipops were the worst tasting lollipops, but he hated the Greedy Beast. In the end, he simply supported no one and would just applaud when he saw a team member making a mistake and losing the game.
The goalkeeper of the red team was a burly stone monster. As soon as he came on the court, he enlarged himself to more than seven meters, tightly blocked the goal on his side, and looked at the opposite side proudly.
The dog demon, the center forward of the white team, grabbed the ball, and used floating magic to run wildly across the field with the ball. Just as he was about to kick the ball into the goal, he looked up and found the stone demon blocking the way. He was stunned. Before he could pass the ball to his own players, the ball was intercepted by the opponent - the tentacle demon pounced on the ball accurately, and dozens of tentacles wrapped the ball tightly, rolling all the way out.
A skeleton warrior simply cut off one of his legs and swung it at the tentacle demon like a boomerang, knocking the tentacle demon dizzy and causing it to subconsciously let go of the football. The bat demon then swooped down quickly and kicked the football towards the dog demon.
At the same time, a Nightmare Demon used invisibility magic to evade the Red Team's pursuit and interception, and rushed straight to the goalkeeper Stone Demon. A shrinking magic was cast at it, and the unsuspecting Stone Demon was reduced to a few dozen centimeters.
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The Red Team's goal was wide open.
In the audience, the demons couldn't help but gasp and stared at the football with wide eyes.
The chief of the Stone Demons, Dob, slapped his legs hard and gnashed his teeth in anger: "I have said it so many times before, the Stone Demons have high defense, but they have no resistance to magic that can't cause real damage! They actually dared to resist it, it seems that they didn't train enough!"
At the critical moment, the Red Team's Dark Iron Dwarf gritted his teeth and rammed his teammate with his tail, smashing the little demon into the midfield like a cannonball. The little demon reacted quickly, adjusted his posture, pounced, caught the football before the dog demon, rolled on the ground, and passed the football to the tentacle demon next to him.
The Stone Demon also reacted, breaking the Nightmare Demon's shrinking magic and returning to his previous size. This time he was more alert and guarded his team's goal.
This set of moves was performed smoothly and the demons watching the battle cheered and the applause resounded through the sky.
Even the orcs became excited, shouting "Come on!". Bamboo Bear Huabai jumped onto the back of a chair, with a serval standing on each of its paws, both waving flags with the Demon King's crown printed on them - this was the only thing sold by the Puppet Bird that they could buy.
Warren sat on the throne at the top, discussing fiercely with the system who would win and who would lose, and finally they just placed a bet.
[I bet on the Red Team to win! If I win, you have to change the name of badminton to Quidditch, and make all the demons sit on flying brooms to grab the ball!]
"But we can all fly, why do we have to sit on a broom?" Warren had no idea where the system's obsession with Quidditch came from. "Then if I win, you have to sing a song every night before you go to bed."
[Sing? ]
The system is very disgusted.
[Can't you make some substantial requests, such as one hundred magic crystals?]
"No, I want one song every night," Warren refused decisively, and used provocation in secret, "You're not scared, are you?"
[Don't think I can't see that you are trying to provoke me.]
The system hummed in frustration, thought about it, and agreed.
[You definitely can’t win anyway! This round is definitely going to be won by the Red Team!]
At the end of the first half, the red team was far ahead.
The stone demon who was in charge of the goal took the most credit for this. Apart from being accidentally hit by the Nightmare Demon's shrinking magic at the beginning of the game, he did not make any mistakes and guarded the goal tightly without any flaws.
Compared to him, the goalkeeper of the White Team, Tree Demon, although his goalkeeping skills are also pretty good, there are still some shortcomings.
During the halftime break, when discussing tactics, the Stone Demon said proudly: "Don't worry, there will be no problem in the second half!"
The system is also complacent.
[I said the Red Team would definitely win! The White Team has no chance of winning at all!]
Warren tapped the Demon King's crown with his fingers, his eyes fell on the nightmare demon of the white team, and said in a light tone: "That's not necessarily true."
With the whistle of the skeleton warrior chief, the second half officially began. The dog demon still reacted the fastest. He waved his claws forward and the fire magic rushed straight to the opposite side. When the opponent put up defense to resist the fire, he was shocked to realize that this guy's fire was not attacking him at all. The fire wrapped around the football and was carried by the dog demon across the field.
"Guo Hu is right. Football does need to be fireproof." Tie Chui smacked his lips in the audience, remembering his previous doubts about why a football had to be made invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire. "Given the intensity of this football field, adding ten protective magic circles would not be enough."
Beside Tiechui, Yinding nodded in agreement: "We have to improve the magic defense of these balls when we go back - oh! God!"
He screamed, forgetting his work for a moment, staring at the battle on the football field with wide eyes.
The dog demon passed the ball to the nightmare demon in his team. The nightmare demon moved behind the stone demon with the ball. The stone demon didn't have time to turn around. He could only watch the audience shout and applaud. When he turned around, the nightmare demon had moved back to the original place and made a face at him with a smile.
"When I went to the Beast Realm with him, Silvester taught Sur a lot of space magic," Warren smiled slightly, listening to the complaints of the system in the Demon King's Crown. "Sur asked Silvester if he could teach other Nightmare Demons, so I think this Nightmare Demon should also be able to use teleportation magic."
Although teleportation magic is not omnipotent, there is also magic in the Demon Realm that is specifically used to restrain teleportation. However, this magic is relatively unpopular, and few demons will use it unless they specifically learn it.
Warren guessed that the White Team intended to keep the Nightmare Demon's teleportation magic as a trump card in case all the athletes learned magic to restrain teleportation after the game. However, they did not expect that the Red Team on the opposite side was equally strong and forced them to use the teleportation magic.
The Stone Demons have never had an advantage in agility. Once the Nightmare Demon received the ball, it could immediately use teleportation to kick the ball into the goal. The gap between the two sides quickly narrowed, and before long, the White Team surpassed the Red Team, leading by six goals and winning the first game.
The sound of Warren's applause was drowned out by the cheers of the demons. He laughed and shook the Demon King's Crown, urging the puppet bird to fly to the stadium and deliver specially prepared hazelnut chocolate to both sides of the game.
The system angrily replaced all of the red team's hazelnut chocolates with bitter almond flavors. Seeing the red team members sweating and panting, it sullenly replaced them with more delicious wine-filled chocolates.
[They just lost because they were caught off guard. If there is a next time, they will definitely defeat the opponent!]
Seeing that the system was so angry that it was about to retreat back into the depths of the Demon King's Crown, Warren stopped teasing him, curved his eyes happily, stood up and left the table, preparing to go back to the Demon King's Palace for dinner.
The demons in the audience also stood up, still immersed in the atmosphere of the sports game, enthusiastically discussing the exciting game that had just happened, and walked towards the restaurant with their arms around each other.
This football match was both the first and last game of the day, and was considered a warm-up event before the start of the sports meeting. Of course, the effect was surprisingly good, which made the servant Liel, who designed the game process, extremely proud. He stayed in the stadium and discussed the performance process of tonight with Tono.
The Demon Realm Art Troupe usually holds a performance in various cities every month. Considering that there will be many demons staying in the Demon Realm tonight and the stadium is fully decorated, the art troupe has also prepared performances and will perform publicly in the stadium after dinner time.
In order to fit the theme of the Games, the performance script prepared by Tono was adapted from the story "The Bragging Athlete" from Aesop's fables.
However, this time he adapted the story very thoroughly, and the plot has almost nothing to do with the original. It turned out that a black bear gave himself wings in order to participate in a flying sports competition, disguised himself as a fat black swan, and used magic props to secretly cheat.
As a result, halfway through the flight, all the feathers on the black bear's wings fell off. In order to cover up his bald wings, he had to pluck out his own bear hair and stick it on his wings. When he reached the finish line, the animals mistook him for a flamingo - because all his bear hair had fallen off, leaving only pink skin.
In the end, the flamingo, who had not participated in the competition at all, accepted the championship award in a daze, while the black bear, whose magic props malfunctioned, plunged into a beehive and was chased by the bees.
Warren held his chin with one hand and did not find this outrageous story so funny. It was just that the little devil who played the black bear had excellent acting skills, and his funny movements and expressions were quite amusing.
Instead, the orcs were laughing so hard that they were rolling on the floor, clapping their thighs and cheering loudly. When the performance was over, they clapped their hands excitedly, wishing the art troupe could perform another piece.
"This black bear looks so much like the Beast King!" The Golden Lion Beastman laughed like a duck, "If I get the chance in the future, I will definitely pluck out his bear hair!"
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I finally finished writing this. It was so difficult.
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Aesop's fable "The Bragging Athlete": An athlete was criticized for lacking courage in his usual competitions, so he had to travel. After a few days, he came back and boasted that he had participated in many competitions in other cities and was very brave. He jumped very far in Rhodes Island, and even the Olympic champion could not compete with him. He also said that if those who were watching at the time could come here, they could testify for him. At this time, a person next to him said to him: "Hey, friend, if all this is true, there is no need for any witnesses. Just treat this place as Rhodes Island and jump!"
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