The Martial Unity

His eyes turned back to the format at hand.

He definitely liked it more than the preliminary contest.

It actually consisted of many rounds. A total of six rounds would determine who the strongest Martial Squire was. Each round actually served as a way to filter a fraction of the Martial Squires in the contest.

The first three rounds each filtered out eighty percent of the contestants, leaving only twenty percent of the contestants to move on to the next round. By the time the fourth round is finished, only zero-point-two-five percent of the contestants would remain. A total of eight individuals would remain after the third round.

From there on, an elimination tournament of three rounds would go on to decide the next Virodha Champion.

Because of the multi-layered filtering, Rui found that it was definitely much better than throwing all one thousand into a rumble where the last man standing wins.

"What kind of competition are the first three rounds going to be?" Rui asked.

He noticed that that hadn't been specified. It was particularly important too, since the first three rounds would eliminate more than ninety percent of the contestants.

"You will find that out just as you're about to take on the competition," Master Deivon informed him. "It's not something I can divulge. Still, you're smart enough to gain deeper insight."

Rui narrowed his eyes. He already had plenty of ideas of what they could be. It was easy for him to make inferences and deductions once he looked into what the goal of the first three rounds was.

and filter out all the contestants who definitely had zero chances of

the top one percent of the

three rounds sought to eliminate all those who simply weren't

Bare minimum as far as basic parameters such as offense, defense, and maneuvering. Even if the truly strongest Martial Squire, regardless of who that

far as their defense went. Because a single attack would be

Martial Artists. Specialist or not, there was a bare minimum in every category that one needed to be above in

how strong the strongest would need to be, that bare minimum was actually quite high and could serve as a good criterion to knock out many

rounds would serve as a basic parameter test, among

to facing each challenge and overcoming it. He hoped it wouldn't be like the preliminary contest with mass competition which he wasn't

up and get ready. You will be headed to the town of Li in the Virodha Theocracy, the only state that operates in the name of the Virodhabhasa Faith." Master Deivon informed him. "All one thousand representatives will be gathered there before the

nodded. "I'll do that. By the

"Hm?"

agreement, we didn't have the format when we made our

well enough to earn enough credit to purchase the

Rui nodded.

Contest as someone patroned by

the Martial Contest, you be able to redeem the highest quality of medical treatment guaranteeing a full recovery with no complications," Master Deivon explained. "Ordinarily, you'd have to go further. But you're patroned by me which lowers the barrier as I'd

Rui furrowed his eyebrows.