Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 113 The most unbearable episode for animal protection organizations

Jia Xiu, standing in the arena leaning against the flagpole, felt that something was wrong with the commentary.

Ever since Sandro entered the scene, one of the commentators sounded angry.

Any opinions about Santello?
You can't possibly have something against him.

It's impossible. He is just an ordinary student. Who would pay attention to him?

Maybe the two commentators were fighting and competing with each other.

I heard that they hired a dwarf and an elf as commentators. In the end, they wanted to create the main theme but failed, and instead created a new genre of quarrel commentary.

As for the rest of the opening ceremony, it looked okay. Jia Xiu didn't have much attainments in aesthetics. It was too elegant and professional for him to appreciate.

So I didn't quite understand the elves' performance, but the magic fireworks were pretty good. The crimson fireworks turned into a giant flaming dragon, flying over the arena.

The opening ceremony was very brief, without even a lengthy speech, which was very different from other student sports meets that Jia Xiu had participated in.

The highlight of today is not the opening ceremony, but the first round of the official competition that begins in the arena right after the opening ceremony.

According to the tradition of the competition, there will be a total of five rounds of competition. The specific content of each round will be handled by a college, and the design of the host college will serve as the final deciding round.

The purpose of the first four rounds is to eliminate those contestants who come to join in the fun, of course, mainly the students of San Dero who come for fun.

The players who pass will be ranked, and the ranking will determine the advantage they can gain in the final round.

It is a bit like racing, with a qualifying round first, and the results of the qualifying round will determine the pole position for the final, except that this qualifying round also has the function of eliminating some people.

The reason for this regulation is to ensure the viewing experience.

The host college plays at home, and they can design the final round of the competition to ensure that it is detailed enough and the scene is grand enough.

Leave the suspense of victory to the last round. Although the advantage brought by the ranking is useful, the final victory or defeat still depends on performance and hard power.

There is no way. Although it is a competition organized between colleges, funding issues still need to be considered.

Funding mainly comes from sponsorship, and sponsors need the audience to love watching the game.

The dean of the Elven Silvermoon Court Academy took the stage and gave a speech that lasted less than two minutes. Then he said, "Next, I would like to invite Professor Stanley from the Uckermark Royal Spellcaster Academy to announce the details of the first round of the competition."

This professor also looks like an extreme Frankenstein in literary works.

He possesses the dual characteristics of a soldier and a madman, with an exaggerated scar on his face. Rather than a professor at the Spellcaster Academy, he looks more like a seasoned mercenary in a certain regiment.

Maybe this is the case throughout the empire.

"The content of the first round of competition is - Hellhound!"

As soon as the word "Hellhound" was uttered, violent cheers broke out in the arena.

No matter how the comparison is made, as long as it is related to hellhounds, it must be bloody and brutal, and the audience likes to see bloody things.

The so-called hellhound is an evil predator from hell that was domesticated by the demons.

Compared with animals of the same dog family on the mainland, they are much larger, even larger than ordinary wolves, and only slightly smaller than wargs.

It has sharp teeth and claws, breathes fire from its mouth, and is very cunning. It obeys its master's orders, but never absolutely.

The atmosphere at the scene became more heated as cages containing frenzied hellhounds appeared one after another.

The hellhound in the cage also became crazy because of the huge noise at the scene, and attacked the cage violently.

Students from other colleges are fine; they are mentally prepared for the challenges they will face.

Many people from St. Delo College who came to join in the fun are already considering whether to withdraw from the competition.

This isn't a trial taking place in a phantom world. Although high-ranking mages are maintaining security, it doesn't mean accidents won't happen. While running away is shameful, it might be useful.

It would be a big loss to come out for fun and get seriously injured. Many students felt unlucky. Why was the first round designed by the Ukrainians?

Only they would create such dangerous content.

If the first round of designs were from other colleges, we could at least experience the atmosphere of the competition.

"Ram is good at this, if it's about fighting a hellhound."

Ram said with a somewhat happy tone that he didn't need any magic and even the hellhound couldn't beat him in pure melee combat.

"Mia isn't good at this."

Mia imitated Ram's tone and said, "And I don't think the Ukram people would design something as direct as fighting a hellhound."

She had followed the competitions in previous years, and the rounds held by the Uckermarks always had the highest elimination rate.

Sure enough, the scarred professor continued, "In this competition, all the hellhounds have been hit by some kind of demonic poison spell. The competition requires that you subdue the hellhounds and, according to the provided poison manual, identify the poison and use the correct healing spell or scroll to prevent the hellhounds from dying from the poison."

After the specific rules were introduced, the contestants sighed.

It is much more difficult to subdue a hellhound than to kill one.

Amidst the complaints, the thirty-odd people from Uckermark remained in military posture and did not move.

The more I look at it, the more it looks like a war machine disguised as a country.

On this side, Jia Xiu felt that this requirement didn't matter. The content was difficult, and it was difficult for everyone, as long as there was no discrimination.

Besides, healing is what he is best at.

Who among the students can be more healing than him?

"You two should be able to pass it too. It seems this round is a single-player competition, so you can't team up."

"Ram is fine, Ram is a pastor."

Mia scratched her head. "Let me think of a way. If the hellhound can be poisoned, it should be infected as well. If I have Bubu, it will be easy. I can definitely subdue it in seconds."

"But then again, why does the Uckermark school have so many hellhounds?" Jia Xiu was a little curious.

"They're experimental dogs. They have a lot of projects directly researching demons, and they stumbled upon Hellhounds. They're cheap, easy to breed, hardy, and not very sensitive to pain. They're perfect experimental dogs. Maybe these are the ones they used to 'recycle' after testing demon toxins."

Mia, a document expert, replied.

"Thankfully, no one here treats animals as their ancestors."

"Huh? How could someone regard animals as their ancestors? Not even a druid would do that."

"You can't figure it out, right? That's right..."

……

At this time, under the arena, in the internal working area where no outsiders are allowed to enter, a man in work clothes was pretending to inspect the storage area of ​​the hellhounds that would soon go on stage.

Wherever he went, the barking hellhounds would droop their ears and become quiet.

It’s not that he’s good at training dogs, but that as fellow creatures of hell, the hellhounds smelled the scent of a more powerful demon.

"Ha, so it's here."

He stopped in front of a cage. The number on it matched Jia Xiu's number on the list in his hand.

(End of this chapter)