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.

of the first three rounds was to eliminate and filter out all the contestants who definitely

not mean that they were weak in a general sense. They weren't, since they could be considered the top one percent of the Squire Realm. However,

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

minimum standards that one could expect from anybody who was worthy of the title of the strongest. Bare minimum as far as basic parameters such

Because a single attack would be able to take them

Martial Artists. Specialist or not, there was a bare minimum in

high and could serve as a good criterion to knock out many people from consideration, leaving behind

likely that the the first three rounds

sure but he did look forward to facing each challenge and overcoming it. He hoped it wouldn't be

will be headed to the town of Li in the Virodha Theocracy, the only state that

do that.

"Hm?"

we didn't have the format when we made our agreement, but we do now," Rui told

Master Deivon immediately understood. "You're concerned about the clause of performing well enough to earn enough credit to

Rui nodded.

agreement had been that Rui did well in the Martial Contest as someone patroned by Master Deivon, earning the latter some credit as

tournament of 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 mentioned when we

Rui furrowed his eyebrows.