Arch-Sabre: The Inheritor of The Blade

Chapter 7: Arena of Warriors

--- [Azaria Prominent Heroic Academy Main Hall] ---

"Dear participants, I hope you all can hear my voice loud and clear!"

"Yes Sir!!"

Our principal, Professor Tony Valent, is currently giving a briefing for today. Oh, I forgot to mention that today is the Blade Festival opening day. This three consecutive day event will have every single student participate in every part of it such as opening food stalls, haunted house, games expo, and a lot more. It's basically the same as the school festival. For the last two years, I haven't even joined the festival, stay at home watching movies, reading novels and comics, playing video games, I may as well say I'd pretty much wasting my time.

But now I'm different. I've got goals. I've got to protect people around me. I will stand here all day if that, can save my whole family...

"So, thank you for coming today my dear student! Today I will brief about..."

Dear principle, can you just put the mic and end this briefing? I can't stand here all day just to hear you spouting unimportant details and bla bla..."

--- [One hour later] ---

"That's all from me, thank you."

The end of Professor Tony's briefing is replied with a round of lively applauses from all students. Based on the briefing that I barely able follow, the tournament will take place on the Azaria Prominent Heroic Academy Grand Arena, or we also called it Grand Arena, an amphitheatre to hold various events mainly for battleground of tournament. This arena is the vastest building in entire Azaria, countless organizations held their open tournaments here with numerous gifts to the participants.

The arena can accommodate more than 300,000 people at once which is six times bigger than our main hall. The external of the arena was built with compound steel that can prevent heavy strike from any direction even the sky as the arena have an extremely large automatic closable hatch which use to close the top to prevent unwanted weather, or destructive force from outside, it can even hold against the attack from a powerful monster.

The vast stage surrounded by the audience seat in the middle of the arena numerous seats is the main eyes-attracting spot for the audience to watch the participants on the stage. Besides, there are four giants holographic screen suspended by the arena ceiling that can display the battle on the stage more clearly on four sides of the oval-shaped arena.

So currently, I'm on my way to the arena, with Quinn who cannot stop being creepy by talking about my sister all the way from the main hall. We must gather our full member, ready for the briefing session at the arena. I heard there are about 180,000 audience will watch the tournament. Among them, most of the students should be here, but more than them, the people from the entirety of Azaria will come here to watch the tournament, either from Evora, Sylvia, Wisteria and Nyssa cities will come here for just this glorious event that will be held once a year here, in the Azaria academy grand arena.

And finally, we arrived at the exhibition area at the arena. Actually, I thought there was just about eight or nine hundred contestants only but...

"Hundreds is understatement..." Quinn said that in amazed tone.

"Yeah, hahaha, this is crazy..."

There are more than two thousand people enlisted as participant for the core event of the Blade Festival, 'Hero Armament Championship'. The area already flooded with numerous amounts of participants. While waiting for Elea who is still not in my range of vision, I try to take a look at my weapon, make sure that I'm ready to face any opponent with full focus and preparation. I need to focus to my purpose; I totally can't fail this.