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June 27th, 11: 40 PM. After nineteen rounds, there were twenty-two players and three non-player characters left in the Hero World's First Martial Arts Tournament.
There were only four rounds left in the schedule!
The two rounds on June 28th were the cruelest. In the twentieth round, twenty-two players and three non-player characters would fight for ten spots to advance!
That's right, ten spots to advance!
According to the rules of the competition, there should be thirteen people who could advance to the next round of the competition.
They were the lucky ones who received a bye and the twelve winners from the normal matches.
If there were thirteen people who advanced in the twentieth round, then the twenty-first round would follow the same rules. There would be one lucky person who received a bye and six winners, which meant that there would be seven people who advanced.
However, Dream Entertainment obviously did not follow the previous rules. Dream Entertainment directly cut off three of the contestants who would advance to the next round. They would only pick ten of the twenty-five contestants to advance to the next round.
The rules for the twentieth round were similar to the previous ones. The twenty-five participants would be randomly matched by the system and would fight in pairs.
The participants who received a bye would advance directly, and the remaining twelve groups would start their matches at the same time.
However, out of the twelve groups, only the winners of nine groups could advance to the next round.
The judging criteria was based on the time taken to obtain victory. The top nine victors would be qualified to advance to the next round.
After the nine winners were determined, the three groups that hadn't finished their matches would be disqualified. Victory or defeat wouldn't be considered.
In any case, the rewards for the eleventh to ninetieth places were the same. The players who hadn't finished their matches didn't need to participate in additional matches to determine their rankings.
This method of determining advancement based on winning time might not be absolutely fair, but it could at least force the players to use their hidden trump cards and make the matches more exciting.
The majority of spectators were naturally happy to see the rules of the twentieth round.
In the previous round, the Lijian Province player Blue Ocean had been forced to use his sword aura. The non-player character also had sword aura. This made the ordinary players very happy.
The spectators in the real world who were watching the live broadcast also expressed great interest in the battle between Blue Ocean and Qiao Mo.
This was because the scene of their sword aura clashing was as exciting as watching a wuxia TV show!
Time quickly passed. In the blink of an eye, a day had passed.
June 29th, seven o 'clock in the evening. The Hero World's main system announced the results of the twentieth round.
The lucky one was Blazing Sun Berserker, Qiao Mo. The 22 contestants all let out a sigh of relief when they saw Qiao Mo's elimination.
According to Qiao Mo's performance, any player who met him would be eliminated.
After all, the winning criteria for the twentieth round of the competition was based on the order of the winning time.
If he encountered Qiao Mo, even if he could defeat Qiao Mo, he would probably be dragged into the abyss of victory and unfortunately be eliminated.
Storm's luck was very good. He met an unknown player. Since there was still an hour before the start of the match, Storm checked the video records of the players' matches that he had prepared beforehand. He was prepared to use this one hour to quickly analyze his opponent's strength.
Currently, the only surviving players in Lijian Province were Storm and the Priests of Holy Light.
The other Blue Ocean was eliminated by Qiao Mo.
The Priest of Holy Light's opponent was Voisin's expert, Kawashima Shinji, who had a VR gaming helmet and a free-motion platform.
Other than Kawashima Shinji, only Voisin's Ishinomori Hattori hadn't been eliminated. The rest of the experts had all met a tragic end.
The match between the Priest of Holy Light and Kawashima Shinji was broadcast live on television in two countries.
Voisin's NHK TV even raised this match to the level of a national battle between Voisin and Lijian Province.
Kawashima Shinji was under a lot of pressure, but he also received a lot of help.
NHK TV had specially prepared a video of the Priest of Holy Light's match for Kawashima Shinji. There were also martial arts experts who analyzed the Priest of Holy Light's strength for him.
The Priest of Holy Light's class in the World of Heroes was Archer. The background of the World of Heroes was the fusion of ancient Chinese and Wuxia elements, not the West's magic and Gods.
Therefore, although the Priest of Holy Light's name leaned towards Western elements, his class wasn't some incompatible Priest of Light or Priest of Life. He was an Archer!
At the beginning of the World of Heroes' series promotional video, Sword vs Arrow, many players chose to be Swordsman and Archer. However, very few players chose Archer and persisted.
The Archers in the World of Heroes didn't have the system to guide their aim. Therefore, it was very difficult to play as an Archer well. This was especially true for players who didn't have a somatosensory control platform.
In order to play as an Archer well, in addition to talent, having a basic knowledge of archery in the real world would be a great advantage.
In the real world, the Priest of Holy Light had loved archery since he was young.
Starting from the age of eight, he would participate in outdoor archery hunts at least ten times a year.
In terms of familiarity with archery, the Priest of Holy Light could be said to be a professional Archer.
Back when the World of Heroes released the promotional video, the Priest of Holy Light was attracted to the World of Heroes. After joining the World of Heroes, the Priest of Holy Light, who used a somatosensory control platform, was like a god in the World of Heroes. For a long time, he was ranked first in terms of Archer level, combat power, and equipment.
The Priest of Holy Light's strength wasn't to be underestimated. In the previous matches, he had an absolute advantage in every match. His longbow suppressed his opponents until they couldn't resist.
Kawashima Shinji's class was Voisin's Wandering Samurai class. In the eighteenth and nineteenth rounds, Kawashima Shinji's victories were filled with luck.
However, Kawashima Shinji was confident that he could defeat the Priest of Holy Light through NHK's match records and the analysis of martial arts experts.
In the twentieth round, there were still quite a few players left in the World of Heroes. There were four of them: Jun Wu Hui, Lei Ting, Xin Zhou Zi, and the local super player Mu Feng.
Four players wasn't a lot. There were only twenty-two players participating in the twentieth round!
The four players in the World of Heroes were very lucky. They didn't have any internal conflicts, nor did they encounter White Swordsman Liu Rufeng or Shadow Assassin Mu Donglin. Their opponents weren't very strong either, so they had a chance to advance.
At eight o 'clock sharp, the twentieth round of the World of Heroes' First Martial Arts Tournament officially began!
Twelve groups of players would compete at the same time. Only the winners of the first nine groups would qualify for the twenty-first round.
In order to end the matches quickly, the players had to use their trump cards. They wouldn't be like the previous matches, where not only did they hide their strength, but they also tested each other's strength. The matches were far less exciting than Hu Qiaomo's match in the Blue Ocean.
Now, all twelve groups of players had to fight for the top nine spots. They had no way out. They could only charge forward and use their greatest strength to obtain victory in the shortest time possible!
In these twelve matches, the one that received the most attention wasn't Storm, nor was it Jun Wuhui, who was ranked first. It also wasn't the two matches that weren't controlled by players. Instead, it was the match between Lijian Province's Holy Light Priest and Voisin's Kawashima Shinji.
Shi Lei was also prepared to watch this match. Voisin's NHK TV station advertised this match as a virtual war between Voisin and Lijian Province. Shi Lei could only laugh at this.
Voisin and Lijian Province had a strange relationship. To put it bluntly, Voisin was a dog raised by Lijian Province and chained to Asia. When Lijian Province couldn't show up, they would release Voisin to bite people.
However, Voisin wasn't willing to become Lijian Province's dog. Voisin constantly wanted to break free from Lijian Province's control and even wanted to bite Lijian Province back.
In the real world, Voisin didn't dare to take revenge on Lijian Province.
The World of Heroes provided Voisin with this opportunity. The match between Kawashima Shinji and Holy Light Priest was elevated to the level of national glory.
As for who would win, Shi Lei couldn't make a definite guess.
In the World of Heroes, pure numbers weren't enough to determine the outcome of a match.
"Izur, check the bet between Holy Light Priest and Kawashima Shinji. How many copper coins did you get?" Shi Lei asked Izur.
Shi Lei accepted Mu Shuang's suggestion and didn't work with Bwin to launch a betting service in the real world. However, in the World of Heroes, the official betting system was popular among the players.
"Sir, we received a total of 12,276,163 copper coins. 87% of them chose Kawashima Shinji as the winner," Izur replied to Shi Lei.
Shi Lei nodded noncommittally. "After nineteen rounds of competition, how much have we gained in total?"
"Sir, in the first nineteen rounds, we spent a total of 238,184,923 copper coins."
Izur reported accurately. Through the betting system, they successfully spent more than two hundred million copper coins.
If converted to Western World Yuan, that was more than twenty million!
It wasn't easy to spend this amount of copper coins normally in the Hero's World.
After all, the game didn't provide a direct exchange service between real world currency and copper coins in the World of Heroes. If one wanted to obtain copper coins, they had to complete missions or collect raw materials in the World of Heroes.
In the arena where Kawashima Shinji and Holy Light Priest were competing, the main system sent out a notification, "Player, do you want to choose your own arena?
Or do you want to choose a random arena? "
Self-selection of the venue required the agreement of both participants before the venue could be freely selected.
If one of them didn't agree, the system would choose a random arena.
Kawashima Shinji looked at Holy Light Priest and asked in Voisin English, "Holy Light Priest, how about we choose the map freely?"
Holy Light Priest knew about the match between him and Kawashima Shinji and how he was deified in Voisin through Dream Entertainment's official forum.
If it was any other time, Holy Light Priest would agree to let his opponent choose the map freely.
Then, the system would randomly roll the dice, and the winner would choose the map according to the number of dice.
However, in the current situation, Holy Light Priest couldn't agree to Kawashima Shinji's request.
Although the mainstream media in Lijian Province didn't publicize the match between him and Kawashima Shinji, Holy Light Priest didn't want any accidents to happen.
Holy Light Priest looked at Kawashima Shinji and shook his head. "I refuse!"
"Hmm?
Are you afraid? "Kawashima Shinji taunted.
"Hmph!
System, randomly choose the map! "
The Priest of Holy Light snorted coldly and applied for a random map from the main system. After all, the outcome of the competition depended on strength, not words.
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