Chapter 382 Figures in the Finals
After entering the finals, Tilan simply scanned the list and saw familiar faces, such as Li Qingfei, who had seen him in the first round, and Sally Yeh in the second round.
"In the finals, in addition to the existing rules, such as scoring points for defeating opponents and deducting points for destroying scenes, other supplementary rules have been added." The host announced the difference of the finals.
"First, there are twelve red marrow crystal gems hidden in the twelve copper mechanical creations flying around. The contestants can get 3 points if they get one of them. In addition, there is a disc on the hour and minute hands of the clock. After standing on it, you can get a certain amount of magic blessing and recover quickly. The contestants can try their best to fight for it to gain an advantage." In order to increase the fun and variables of the game, the official added some easter eggs in the finals.
Listening to the host's introduction, the contestants also turned their eyes to the huge mechanical clock running in the air. There was a cyan disc at one-fifth of the hour hand, and a purple disc on the minute hand. This structure reminded people of the fluorescent dots specially made on those retro mechanical watches for night display, so as to facilitate the marking of the position of the hands at night.
As for the twelve red marrow crystal gems introduced, they were not obvious in the copper mechanical creation. Some were held in the mouth of the "swan", and some were embedded inside the mechanical creation. If you follow the rules, it is not an easy task to take out these red marrow crystals without destroying the overall structure. You probably have to observe the structure carefully to find a suitable method, which will inevitably distract your attention and make it easy for your opponent to attack.
After understanding the rules, the host announced the list of players for the first game. This time, there were eight groups of eight people, until the last three were decided.
"The first game, Riddle, Jenny, Li Qingfei, Shelley..." After the announcement, there was no one from Tilan's team this time.
Sitting in the viewing seat, the girl couldn't help but look at the familiar Su Qing girl. She looked calm at the moment, just slowly pulled out the sword, and then stepped onto the stage.
After the competition started, Li Qingfei did not waste her thoughts on solving the puzzle of mechanical creations, but focused on defeating her opponent. She first won the position on the hour hand, stood on the disk on the hour hand, and her body followed the pointer on the clock. At this time, some other contestants on the stage were trying to get the red marrow crystal gems in the creation, and some were fighting each other.
Even though she stood differently, the hour hand slowly rotated, bringing her to the vicinity of the creations that were being fought over. One of the contestants decisively attacked when Li Qingfei approached, and the two fought in space.
Su Qing's sword light flashed across, and a contestant was eliminated by Li Qingfei. Facing the red marrow crystal that was only a few feet away, Li Qingfei did not stop to continue solving puzzles and picking up, but rushed to the next contestant.
However, this time the opponent was not a contestant who was obsessed with solving puzzles, but a mermaid woman who also occupied the minute hand. She had a purple fishtail, and the sword blade in her hand was made of dark blue metal. She wore a sea blue dress on her upper body, with white waves dotted on the corners, and her figure was graceful.
Unlike other contestants, this mermaid's attack route does not need to rely on the watch parts for strength. It is closer to swimming like a fish, shuttling in the air. Her sword moves are also very different. She does not insist on parrying and responding, but cares more about stabbing, just like a swordfish galloping in the sea. It is fast and unreserved, making it difficult to resist head-on. People either exchange injuries with it or avoid the edge.
The discomfort during the fight frustrated even Li Qingfei a lot. A long cut was cut on her wrist, while her opponent, the merman, only scratched the corner of her dress, and a few scales fell off her tail.
Seeing Li Qingfei accept her attack, the mermaid woman was slightly surprised, and then changed her moves and rolled up again, but this time the unstoppable stabbing turned into a dance in the air. The blue sword marks surrounded her body like star tracks, intersecting with Li Qingfei.
After that, Li Qingfei had another tiny wound on her cheek, while her opponent, the mermaid, had two more terrible wounds on her body, one piercing her shoulder and the other cutting the fish tail, with layers of scales rolling and blood flowing.
The first fight failed only because she was not familiar with the mermaid's attack method, but she would not show mercy the second time. The swordsmanship like misty rain was not only beautiful, but also extremely dangerous.
In the subsequent battles, Li Qingfei defeated the remaining people one after another until the end of the game.
"In the first game, Li Qingfei won..." The host announced the result.
"'Misty Rain' Li Qingfei has brought us surprises again. This girl in oriental clothes has impressed people with her swordsmanship that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, her focused belief, and her decisive and fast fighting style. Although I don't know who will be the final winner of this competition, I think she is definitely one of the most anticipated candidates." After
the host commented on the situation of the first game, the second game began. At this time, Tilan still did not play, but Zhuogosi from the team appeared.
In the chaos, he sometimes looked for opportunities to quickly defeat the weak opponent, sometimes hid his body, took the red marrow crystal from the copper machine, and finally won the second place in the group.
There was no familiar figure in the third game. In the fourth game, Wei Ke appeared. This time, she seemed to be unable to hide her strength.
The silver mirror was broken, and the opponent in front of Wei Ke was stunned. Then a silver sword blade emerged from behind him. Wei Ke, who quickly shuttled through the mirror, pierced the opponent with one sword and defeated him.
The top genius he met later, although his swordsmanship and strength were stronger than Wei Ke, still found it difficult to gain the upper hand in the face of this elusive silver mirror girl. Then he had to give up the red marrow crystal that was about to be obtained and retreat to find other opponents.
In this game, Wei Ke won the first place, which surprised and cheered the audience.
"Student Wei Ke from the distant Four-leaf Crystal Star Region, the secret method she used is elusive. Even I know for the first time that there is such a school. However, after urgently supplementing my knowledge, I have already understood it clearly." The host's post-match comments made the audience curious.
"'Silver Mirror Killer' Wei Ke is a student of the 'Witch Sect'. People may not know much about this sect now, but it was once extremely glorious. The secrets of the sect are all imitated from those famous witches in history." The host's explanation made many people interested in the 'Witch Sect'.
The halftime break was over and the fifth game began.
Tilan still did not appear this time, but the girl named Sallyye came on stage.
The invisible flash sword technique she used once again showed its powerful power in the game. Even many players who were originally stronger than her in overall strength found it difficult to resist and were defeated one after another, unable to withstand a few rounds of attacks.
After the game, Sallyye won the first place, causing many audiences to exclaim and admire.
"What a special girl, she seems very polite and lovable."
"The rose decoration wrapped around the cross hilt is also very beautiful."
While everyone was discussing, the sixth match began. In this match, a special genius emerged. The swordsmanship he used was not so much swordsmanship as it was an advanced application of the Egeka formula. The light prisms he used were like cages that locked and trapped his opponent, and then he easily defeated his opponent with his sword.
"'Grating Seal' Trebin, this genius boy from the Sextant star field, is a child of the star who grew up in the space station. He is particularly good at calculating the Egeka formula, using various special secret techniques to seal the opponent's attack, and then easily won." The host introduced his style and then commented.
In the seventh match, a mermaid girl who used two swords won the first place. The whole process was almost crushing, which was surprising.
In the eighth match, the last match of the first round of the finals, Tilan finally appeared on the stage, as if to be the finale, and she was deliberately arranged at the end.
"Our Book Sword Princess, or 'Purple Lightning Sword Princess' Miss Danterian, who is loved and welcomed by everyone, is on the stage again. I wonder what surprises she will bring to everyone this time." The host announced the list and the match officially began.
Holding the sword, Tilan walked lightly onto the huge tilted and rotating clock. At this moment, the sky seemed to be tilted as well. Countless audiences waved glow sticks, and the noisy and lively sounds broke through the silence of space.
On the grand clock scale, contestants in different clothes also appeared one after another. Some of them were unknown, while others enjoyed the cheers and expectations of the crowd. This was a huge stage across the star field, a shining moment that countless people dreamed of. Being able to enter the finals was the dream and topic of conversation for many people in their lifetime.
Envy, longing, jealousy, admiration, excitement, countless emotions boiled and merged into the huge melting pot of the venue. Being in it, with countless lights added and countless details magnified, such a stage was enough to make some people with weak wills feel dazed and as if they were in a dream.
However, the huge bell ringing in the clock broke the silence and awakened the people who were addicted and absent-minded.
"The game begins!"
After the announcement, the contestants rushed to their own goals. Some were eager to defeat their opponents to get points, some tried to unlock the structure of the mechanical creation and take out the gems, and some occupied the position of two pointers, accumulating magic power and preparing powerful moves.
"Seal Snow Secret Realm·Ten Directions of Wind Arrives!" A young man dressed in oriental style shouted. The ground he was standing on was frosted. The ice and snow produced stuck his soles firmly to the ground, and at the same time, it could also better leverage the force. Then the frost under his feet spread all around, forming a complex texture on the copper clock.
"Jiu Yu Night Kill·Double Blade Piercing the Moon!"
Another black-clad contestant also leaped into the air, using the low gravity environment to fly very high, avoiding the icy sword wind of the young man below, and then suddenly turned back, with two sword beams intertwined and strangled, attacking the young man who was setting up the formation below.
The two fought several times on the surface of the clock dial, full of murderous intent, so that other contestants did not dare to approach easily, and could only pick up the red marrow crystals in the mechanical creations to accumulate points.
The cold sword wind slashed, showing its sharpness, and easily avoided the various structures on the clock dial, which was dazzling. In the repeated fights, the young man in black began to lose the upper hand. Later, in the pursuit of the cold sword wind, he hid in the hole of the clock and passed through it, entering the back of the clock.
Compared with the front, there are very few creations on the back of the clock, and the gravity generating device of the entire clock is on the dial. After passing through the central dial, under the action of gravity, it will be subject to the opposite force, like a pendulum.
After dodging the attack, the young man in black used this mechanism to shuttle back again in the gap when the clock was turning, and raided the opponent on the other side.
The pieces of clothing were flying, the sword lights were intertwined, and when the two were fighting, Tilan lightly jumped between the mechanical creations, curiously untied the components, and took out the real red transparent gems.
She also met other players several times along the way, but these people avoided her from a distance, and no one came forward.
Just kidding, the first and second place winners of the previous few games were easily defeated by this girl, so I will definitely lose if I go up. Why bother to seek defeat? It is better to accumulate some points first and survive to the end to advance.
In this way, in the first few minutes of this game, except for the two people who fought fiercely in the middle of the field, the others tried to avoid fighting as much as possible. They would only fight a few times when they met unexpectedly. If they could not fight quickly, they would quickly retreat.
Once again, the two young men in the center crossed each other, and the young man holding the Ice Wind Cold Sword finally injured the young man in black. The ice spikes extending from the ground pierced his body and fixed his opponent on the clock face.
After eliminating this old enemy, he turned around and began to deal with other players, taking the red marrow crystal gems from their hands one by one.
In this way, until he met Tilan with black hair and black skirt, the girl had four red marrow crystal gems in her hand, and the young man had five of them.
"You must be Danterian." He stood with a sword in his hand, his eyes focused.
Nodding slightly, Tilan also stood with a sword in
hand, looking at him from a distance. At this moment, the two stood on both sides of the dial. The exquisite mechanical creations in the distant sky slowly rotated according to the trajectory. There were no other contestants. Looking at the girl in front of him, the young man's eyes changed several times, and he was also thinking about how to deal with it.
He had seen the girl's previous battles, but he always felt that the other party did not try her best, which made him a little irritated. Because he didn't know the other party's true level and strengths, he couldn't formulate a favorable countermeasure, and could only try and fight like a blind box.
Taking a deep breath, he calmed himself down, and then the blade turned over, and the sword edge transformed by ten cold winds passed through the air, with an arc trajectory that was difficult to capture, and hit the girl.
As if facing a mirror, the black-haired girl also swung the sword body, and the sword blade transformed by ten cold winds flew, colliding with the opponent's sword wind to offset and annihilate.
Probably using the characteristics of the sword wind, if it can't hit the opponent, let it dissipate quickly, so that even if it doesn't hit the opponent, it won't damage the environment on the scene. The girl analyzed the characteristics of the opponent's moves in her heart.
It is precisely because of the rules that many long-range attacks and large-scale means are restricted, because this will cause great damage to the competition environment.
The same is true for flame skills. Excessively high temperature energy will melt the copper part of the surface, which will also result in a large number of deductions. The entire competition rules are designed to encourage players to use close combat and swift and light fighting methods.
Seeing that his moves were learned and mastered by the opponent, the young man was unhappy and used various sword moves, but they were always resolved one by one by Tilan.
It seems that there is nothing new. The girl commented in her heart that this young man is not at the same level as the previous Li Qingfei. It is like the kind of person who can only use the moves in the classics one by one stupidly. Not only has he not fully integrated them, but he also has no style of his own, which is very rigid and stiff. It
’s just that the moves he uses are designed so well, so it is difficult for outsiders to see the shortcomings, and they may even think it is very cool and beautiful.
Maybe he has a good master's inheritance and his talent is also decent, Tilan thought in her heart.
There was no need to continue. After making up her mind, Tilan changed the edge of the sword in her hand and rushed towards her opponent quickly. Her figure was graceful and erratic, making it difficult for the opponent to grasp her specific position. The sword skills that followed were like mist and rain, appearing and disappearing from time to time, making it difficult for the young man to deal with. If Tilan had not wanted to try her out and did not have the idea of defeating her opponent immediately, she would have forced her to leave the field during the fight.
Half a minute later, a sword pierced through the young man's collar. The cold edge of the sword passed through his neck. Although it only left a slight blood mark, the icy cold that seeped out of it made him feel like he was falling into an ice cave.
"Clang--"
The long sword in his hand fell, and the hilt hit the ground, making a tiny pit, then bounced up and floated in the air. He lost his fighting power and was announced to leave by the referee.
"In the eighth game, Miss Danterian won!" The host's excited voice sounded again, and the cheers in the venue were instantly drowned out.
(End of this chapter)
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