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Chapter 55 Claudia's Invitation

For the next period of time, Aize and Toto Qilin no longer went out on the streets.

Apart from the competition, the two of them stayed in the academy all the time, either training together or spending holidays together, and their days were quite fulfilling.

For the other contestants of the Phoenix Star Martial Festival, it is difficult for them to get through the days with ease even when there are no competitions. After all, they do not have the strength of Aize and Todo Kirin. They have to worry all the time whether they will be eliminated in the next round, so they have to make more efforts for this.

But contestants like Aize and Toto Qilin, who are capable and confident in themselves, don't feel any pressure at all.

Under the arrangement of the Operations Committee, strong teams will not meet strong teams during the preliminaries.

Therefore, for contestants like Aize and Todo Kirin, who can become candidates for the championship, it is almost impossible for them to be eliminated in the preliminaries, and the opponents they meet are destined to not be very strong.

The results of the game also proved this.

In the second round, Aize and Todo Kirin's opponents were students from the Alekanth Institute. Their rankings were lower than the two thugs from the Leiwolf Black Academy in the first round. The only thing they had was some outstanding features of the new Huang-style weapons in their hands. However, under Aize's Black Furnace Demon Sword, no matter how outstanding the Huang-style weapons were, they would be cut off in one move, so they easily won the victory.

In the third round, Aize and Toudou Qilin's opponents were students from St. Galletto's Academy. Their rankings were not low, one ranked 22nd and the other ranked 27th. Their sword skills were also quite outstanding. Their strength was not worse than the two thugs from Leiwolf Black Academy in the first round. But before Aize could make a move, Toudou Qilin solved them alone, still without using Lianhe, and easily won the victory.

In this way, Aize and Toto Qilin became the first team to advance to the top 32 and enter the official competition.

It can only be said that the preliminaries were not difficult at all for the two people who were ranked the highest in the entire Phoenix Star Martial Festival.

Not only did Aize and Todo Kirin successfully advance, but Amagiri Ayato and Julis also advanced smoothly and became among the top 32.

Naturally, all the strong teams that everyone had been paying attention to advanced one after another without any surprise and entered the official schedule.

On the sixth day of the Phoenix Star Martial Festival, the top 32 contestants were decided and the preliminaries were officially declared over.

The weekend is a rest day and there will not be any competitions, but come next Monday, the official schedule to decide the final winner of the Phoenix Star Martial Arts Festival will begin.

Everyone is looking forward to next week, including those contestants who can't wait to duel with the strong.

Those who can make it this far are undoubtedly elites in each academy, and there is absolutely no way that any of them would be afraid of fighting.

Some people may be nervous, and some may feel uneasy, but there is definitely no one who will back off because of this.

Anyway, Aize is ready to face it all.

However, just as Aize was getting ready and quietly waiting for the official competition to begin, an unexpected invitation came to him via text message...

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The seventh day of the Phoenix Star Martial Festival, the weekend.

On this day, Aize did not stay with Toudou Qilin, with whom he had become inseparable in recent times, but left the academy alone and came to the venue of the Sirius Dome.

Today, Aize wore a mask on his face and a baseball cap on his head, making some simple disguise.

There was no way. He was a celebrity now. If he didn't want to be surrounded and blocked on the road like last time, he needed to disguise himself a little.

Under such circumstances, Aize mixed in the crowd, walked into the Sirius Dome, and entered the audience seats of the stage through the internal passage.

His destination was a box that was closer to the stage and some distance away from the general audience seats.

The space here is not big and there are few seats, but you can watch the game from the best perspective, and it is definitely a first-class VIP seat.

When Aize entered here, there was only one person here.

"Welcome to the exclusive box of the Student Union of Seidoukan Academy."

Claudia seemed to have been waiting here for a long time. Seeing Aize pushing the door open, she immediately stepped forward to greet him with a smile on her face.

Aize took off his mask and hat and smiled. "It feels like we haven't seen each other for a long time, President."

Ever since the discussion about the Phoenix Star Martial Festival in the Student Union office that day, Aize hasn't seen Claudia again. If you count the time, it has been almost half a month.

In a way, it really can be said that it has been a long time since we last met.

"I can't help it. You need to concentrate on the competition. I also have work to do, so I can't disturb you." Claudia said with a proper smile, "It took a lot of effort to invite you here today. I hope I didn't disturb your training with Toudou, right?"

"Of course not." Aize sat down in the middle of the front row of seats and said, "Tomorrow is the official competition schedule. Instead of training for an extra day at the last minute, it is better to conserve our energy and adjust our condition. So Qilin and I don't plan to train anymore."

This is also because there is almost no time to rest afterwards.

Like the preliminaries, the official competition will also last for six days.

The first day was the fourth round of the competition from the top 32 to the top 16, with a total of sixteen games.

The next day was the fifth round of matches from the top 16 to the quarterfinals, with a total of eight games.

The third day is an adjustment day, the only opportunity to rest during the official schedule.

Then, on the fourth day, there were the semi-finals from the top eight to the top four, on the fifth day, there were the semi-finals from the top four to the top two, and finally on the sixth day, there was the final to decide the champion and runner-up. It lasted for three consecutive days without any rest.

Therefore, Aize decisively stopped the training and let Toto Qilin have a good rest this weekend.

Originally, he planned to spend the weekend leisurely in the academy, and then hold a combat meeting with Toto Kirin in the evening to prepare for the official competition the next day.

He never thought that Claudia would actually invite him over.

“When does the lottery start?”

At that moment, Aize asked casually while looking at the stage outside the box.

The reason why Claudia came here today was to draw lots for the contestants from Xingdaoguan Academy who advanced to the official competition.

After the preliminaries, the official competition grouping will no longer be decided unilaterally by the Operations Committee, but representatives from each school will come here to draw lots to decide.

The lottery ceremony is currently taking place in the Sirius Dome.

"It's still early." Claudia sat next to Aize, looked at his profile and smiled, "The drawing of lots will be the last one to be done. Before that, there will be speeches from important figures and a summary meeting for the first half of the war. We can delay it."

At this moment, the stage of the Sirius Dome was like the opening ceremony of the first day of the Phoenix Star Martial Arts Festival. Not only did people from the Operations Committee take turns to give speeches, but high-ranking officials such as the mayor were also discussing matters of the Star Martial Arts Festival with one another, such as how this year's Phoenix Star Martial Arts Festival compared to the previous one, and the discussions were quite heated.

The auditorium was also packed with people, but they were obviously there just to watch the draw and grouping. No one was interested in listening to the speeches, so many people looked uninterested.

"It looks like we'll have to wait."

Aize also quite hated this kind of segment. Although there were many important figures appearing, they were all passers-by who did not even have a name in the original book, and had nothing to do with them, the students. So in his opinion, this segment was a pure waste of time.

"It's really boring." Claudia seemed to share the same feeling, but she still had a smile on her face as she said to Aize, "But I'm still very happy that Ai accepted my invitation and came here to accompany me. Now I don't have to be bored anymore."

Hearing this, Aize turned his head and looked at Claudia, and suddenly his eyes met Claudia's who was also looking at him.

The beautiful and elegant student council president just stared at him, with no intention of looking away, which made Aize feel a little uneasy.

What does this woman mean?

Something feels wrong...

(End of this chapter)