They blocked all the ports along the coast of Xen'drik and sent out a tracking team composed of several major dragonmark families, including the Guardian, Exploration, Detection and Shadow, determined to hunt down the Takkanan assassin involved in the previous case.

The atmosphere inside Storm Bay became somewhat tense with their actions, but fortunately, the Spirit King Competition that the adventurers had been looking forward to for a long time finally began.

"The competition uses a multi-round competition method to select candidates! In the first round of the competition, everyone needs to fight six rounds. Those who get four valid wins will advance to the next round. If you only get three valid wins, you will enter the waiting group and compete in the resurrection match in the next round."

Inside the largest egg-shaped stadium in Storm Bay, the host stood on a suspended structure kindly provided by Carl and read out the rules of the competition.

However, these rules had already been disseminated when the competition was confirmed. They are being repeated again now only out of caution, fearing that some participants may not know them.

It is worth mentioning that in this first round of competition, there are actually more contestants than pure spectators.

Therefore, in order to be as fair as possible, we can only fight in groups and batches.

The first group competing today is the group of adventurers who are most enthusiastic about the Spirit King game.

On the day the registration was opened, these people rushed to the city hall to register.

Because there were too many people, the city hall was almost shut down and paralyzed. Later, Carl sent the Moon Spirit maid over, and the situation gradually improved.

It is precisely because of this that the competitors in the first group are not very random, and matches between strong opponents are very frequent, making it a veritable hell group.

In order to allow the audience to watch and study carefully, Carl installed a transcription device on the dedicated competition table, which can record the game using the shooting technique of a phantom device for others to watch.

At the same time, the audience seats are equipped with devices similar to VR glasses so that every audience member can see the battle in an immersive way.

Different battles are broadcast live in the form of "channels". Viewers can see the number of views and popularity of each channel and choose more exciting battles to watch and study.

After reading out the rules, the host controlled the construct to fly into the air, and then pressed a button on the construct's operating console.

Suddenly, three gorgeously shaped spirit cards with star ratings appeared in the air above the stadium.

Unlike the empty Spirit Cards on the front today, the three huge Spirit Card phantoms in mid-air use special magic patterns to outline the image of the Spirit and the corresponding abilities of the Spirit.

The atmosphere in the venue suddenly became unprecedentedly heated, especially when seeing the two distinctive Spirit Cards, one Holy and one Bewitching, which were made in imitation of Angewomon and Ladymon, many adventurers came up with the idea of ​​"must capture them".

On the contrary, the pitch-black humanoid mechanical dinosaur located in the middle of the C position is so black that not many people want to take it.

The host waited until the atmosphere in the venue calmed down a little before introducing enthusiastically:

“This is a new generation of Spirit Cards made by the inventor of Spirit Cards, Mr. Karl Iris, the Artificer. It not only displays the Spirit’s portrait, but also directly marks the star rating, so there is no need for the card table to help identify it. After this tournament, players can go and buy it on their own!

At the same time, these three spirit cards are also the prizes of the competition sponsored by Mr. Carl. The top three can choose their favorite cards according to the order of seats, so don’t worry even if you get third place, maybe the first and second place didn’t like the card you like? "

In the special guest room, Karl listened to the host's words and laughed softly.

This host knows how to add fuel to the fire, and seems to be quite familiar with the "fan circle".

Now, before the game even starts, the adventurers will probably start arguing over which of the three cards is better.

"Karl, are we really not going to join in? The players might be happy if the founder of the game joins in the game."

Looking at the stadium below, Hope said with a little excitement.

"But it would be embarrassing for the creator of the game to be defeated in the first round! After the rules were updated, I never summoned the Cloud Giant Spirit card again!"

After hearing Hope's suggestion, Carl's smiling face suddenly became much more depressed.

Because it requires a large number of sacrifices to summon, early operations and strategies become the key to summoning the spirit of the Cloud Giant, but Carl is always defeated before that time comes.

At this moment, Nia on the side spoke:

"Besides, if the Dragon Mark Family knew that while they were searching with all their might, Karl was enjoying himself here with the people, they might ask Karl to help them. It's fine like this now, let them be busy."

Hearing this, Hope sighed, and the shadow beside her also showed a look of pity.

"By the way, where are Elise and Ashe?"

Looking around, Hope suddenly remembered the two drow who had always been inseparable from Carl.

Because those two people often followed Karl, she was even a little used to it. Now that they were not there, she was a little uncomfortable.

Carl looked back at Hope, then pointed at the competition area below and said, "They are participating in the competition below. At first, it was Ashe who wanted to participate, and then Iris probably thought there was something wrong with Ashe, so she went along as well. According to the footage captured by the Mystic Eye, Ashe did seem to have some relationship with someone from the Rose Cult, but they later fell out. I don't know what exactly happened."

As he spoke, Carl snapped his fingers to lock the door of the private room, then took out a videotape and put it into the playback device.

The scene in the private room suddenly began to change, and everything that happened the night before was quickly restored.

…

The day before yesterday, in a square in underground zone 6.

As midnight approached, Area 6, the lowest area of ​​the man-made underground city, was extremely busy.

I don’t know if it’s because they’ve seen the situation in Sharn, but the residents of Storm Bay have spontaneously divided the residential areas into good and bad areas according to Sharn’s special structure.

The closer to the surface the better, and the closer to the underground the worse.

Although only a little over a month has passed, chaos has already begun to appear in the bottom 6 districts.

Fortunately, the Public Security Bureau led by Lisana did not give up on this place, so the people living here are still those young people who are more like "Shamatte", and it has not developed into a gathering place for evil people.

At this moment, among these young people who hated dogs, several drow were wearing cool clothes and playing exciting music.

Among the audience below, Ashe, wearing a standard rogue outfit, looked at the drow on the stage with complicated eyes.

She had already recognized those people; they were members of the Rose Cult, soul blades sent out to practice psychic powers.

Of course, the current name for this type of drow is - fallen drow.

(End of this chapter)