104: On the eve of the game

Chapter 104: Eve of the Tournament

Time quickly passed two weeks, and the date for the Underground City Championship was drawing closer.

Recently, a large number of foreigners have flooded into the Royal Capital. They come from countries surrounding Amyria and are all participating adventurers.

For nearly a thousand years, the Championship venue has been chosen in the Aimiya Empire. After all, it has three D-level Underground Cities, which are neither too difficult nor too easy, making them very suitable for hosting the Championship.

This edition of the Championship is held in an Underground City located in the northern suburbs of the Royal Capital. It is a D-level Underground City with extremely high difficulty, named Gaia.

Although Gaia is rated as a D-level Underground City, it has a difficulty close to C-level, making it arguably the most difficult D-level Underground City.

Many people feel that Gaia is not suitable for holding the Championship, as it is very unfriendly to some new teams, lacks entertainment, and is too competitive.

Moreover, the most crucial point is that Gaia is notorious in the Aimiya Empire, and even throughout the northern Demon Spirit Continent.

The reason is simple: it is too easy to die there, earning it the nickname "graveyard of novice adventurers."

Some professional adventurers even assert that half of the teams won't even pass the First Layer, and the number of teams that can reach the Fifth Layer is probably less than 1%!

As for casualties, it is estimated that there will be more than in several previous Championships combined.

On the eve of the Championship, various pessimistic views, including some alarmist remarks, could be heard in taverns, restaurants, and on the streets.

For instance, if the average level is not 30, participating is just making up the numbers and a waste of time.

Another example is that teams whose total equipment value is less than 100,000 gold coins won't even reach the Second Layer.

Furthermore, new participants without experience will surely die and won't even leave a corpse.

This directly discouraged many people, causing a significant drop in the number of participants in this Championship, even less than half of the previous one.

However, the majority of those who dropped out were trash teams. On the contrary, there were more teams with strength, and the number of favorite teams to win the Championship was as high as a hundred!

Undoubtedly, the champion of this Underground City Championship will have full value.

Dick was indifferent to this. The most important thing for reaching the peak is strength. As long as one is strong enough, all stumbling blocks will become stepping stones.

In the past two weeks, Dick has been teaching Elizabeth. Sometimes he almost lived in the Royal Palace, not returning to the Academy dormitory for several days.

Originally, the frequency of lessons was not high, at most two classes a week, as the Empress was not a student and had a country to govern.

But now, the frequency of lessons has become two classes a day, and Dick directly offered Elizabeth a monthly package.

Since Dick's time returning to the Academy was significantly reduced, Alice and Mina were quite unhappy, so they proposed to attend classes together.

Dick did not refuse. After all, Alice and Mina would always be by his side in the future. Having more skills is always good, and their becoming stronger would also benefit him.

As for Beyonce, this Blazing Fire Rabbit has been very disciplined recently. Apart from attending classes, she spends almost all her free time practicing "Transforming Water into Sword."

She swore to practice the Water God Style Sword Technique to the introductory level before the deadline and give Dick a big surprise.

For this reason, during this period, Beyonce did not even actively seek out Dick once, despite the extremely strong desires of Blazing Fire Rabbit Orcs.

However, the regular harvesting of the furnace tripod must still be carried out. Dick goes to the Li Huo Tu Manor every Sunday on time to stay overnight.

Once a week, Dick vividly calls it the "Sunday Plan."

In addition to visiting Beyonce, Dick also takes the opportunity to guide the Orcs of the Li Huo Rabbit Clan, teaching them some Fire Style Sword Techniques.

During this time, Dick also took time to train Xiao Nai. After all, she was the weakest one in the team, a weakness.

To be more stable in the Underground City Championship, Dick had to strengthen Xiao Nai, at least to the point where she wouldn't be a burden.

To Dick's surprise, Xiao Nai's talent inexplicably increased significantly. In just two weeks of training, she actually rose from the twelfth seat of the Berserker Department to the ninth seat!

Although this was a good thing, Dick keenly sensed a hint of abnormality.

Talent is something innate and cannot be changed through effort, unless some extraordinary means are used.

In the recent period, not only has Xiao Nai's talent increased, but Alice, Mina, Beyonce, and others have also improved to varying degrees.

However, after much thought, Dick believed that this should be his credit. After all, an excellent teacher can continuously tap into students' potential.

Perhaps the talents of the girls have not changed; they were already this outstanding.

It was just that the education they received before was too poor, forming a thin film that obstructed their vision and limited their development, preventing their talents from being fully utilized.

And he just happened to break open the thin film for the girls, allowing them to release their talents unimpeded, naturally creating the illusion of increased talent.

Currently, this is the only reasonable explanation. Having been reborn a hundred times, Dick has also seen many such examples.