Reborn as a Snake! (2.) [COMPLETED]

(54). - Tournament Ensues.

           Almost immediately after the Headmasters speech was over, the tournament had officially began, with the students - aka the participants - entering the stadium arena, being welcomed and greeted by loud cheers and clapping from the spectators, who were all rooting for them all to do their absolute best this year.

Gotta say, it was a sight to see all those participants walk out into the field, wearing full equipment, ready for this tournament and ready for what may come towards them in this tournament. It was a sight to behold — especially when I saw them.

My students.
The Misfits & The Heroes, who by my suprise, were allowed to compete in this tournament as well, despite them technically having the power advantage over literally everyone else who was participating in the tournament.

But even ignoring that fact, I was surprised that the Holy Church had allowed this. As far as I've understood, they've been kinda strict with the Heroes Party from the second they arrived into this world. Which if I am being honest, did make my older brother blood boil and make me wish I could just teleport to that church and burn it down to the ground with 'Abyss Flame Control' for possibly putting my little sister through who knows what.

However, I did hold my cool and with the Ancient Ones advice, did not let my 'emotions' get the better of me in this situation.

As soon as the students walked out into the field, they were invited to pick up their weapons - which this time around were no longer just training garbage.
Oh no — these guys were getting the real deal weapons this time around. That means that they were basically preparing like they were about to head off into war or something.

After all the students had picked up their weapons, they all lined up in one long line. Despite basically every student training for this Tournament, this day, which was the 'Solo' day of the tournament, only saw around 50 of all the students participating. Basically the best of the best - which 11 of them all were my students, so basically around 22% of this days participants.

I don't know math that well, but that was a LOT to be from 50 students. They were almost basically half of the participants this day — only being short by 14 people.

<Illio>;
"As it is known, the tournament is split into four days - the first day, which is this, is the Solo Section of the tournament, where fifty of the best students from our academy, will have a one on one against eachother to see who can prevail. The one who loses, does not drop out of the tournament yet, however a life is taken away from them."

The headmaster explained, before snapping his fingers, with sudden cilinder like statues appearing infront of each of the students, the statues having 3 hearts engraved onto them.

<Illio>;
"On these sacred logs, are the number of lives a student possess during the tournament. Each life is represented by a heart, which glows red. During a match, should one of the students suffer enough damage, one of the hearts will go from red to grey. Once that happens - the student that lost the life is considered the loser and the match is over. A student is only out of the tournament once all three of their lives have been used up and all three hearts have turned grey."

The Headmaster continued to explain — doing a better job at explaining the rules than I could ever do even if I tried. Sure - I didn't know anything about this stuff, but it seemed a lot similar to a video game, so I suppose it wasn't that hard for me to comprehend.

The students seemed to also understand everything the Headmaster stated, as he smiled and let lose a small laugh, before making the statues or 'logs' disappear once more.

<Illio>;
"Now then! Before we continue, allow me to state this — during the one on one fights, all students will be limited to fifty percent of their full strength, in order to ensure that no one accidentally dies. Should the match start getting out of control or something unexpected happens, or the someone simply breaks the rules, one of the three 'Guards' stationed in the field will immediately intervene and resolve the situation."