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.

rounds was to eliminate and filter out all the contestants who definitely had zero chances of winning the Martial Contest regardless of the format simply because they

considered the top one percent of the Squire Realm. However, when it

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

could expect from anybody who was worthy of the title of the strongest. Bare minimum as far as basic parameters such as offense, defense, and maneuvering. Even if the truly strongest Martial Squire, regardless of who that was, was a specialist,

went. Because a single attack would be able to take them down, and there

said for other kinds of Martial Artists. Specialist or not, there was a bare minimum in every category that one

and could serve as a good criterion to knock out many

likely that the the first three rounds would serve

to facing each challenge and overcoming it. He hoped it wouldn't be like the

only state that operates in the name of the

"I'll do that. By the

"Hm?"

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

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

Rui nodded.

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

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 first signed our agreement. Furthermore, you have been

Rui furrowed his eyebrows.