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Capítulo 476: Chapter 149: News Crew breaks down the first Day of Preliminaries

The moment Joshua arrived back at home he was met with his mother just arriving home while Amy was still fighting her matches and his father was still out at the dojo supposedly. She smiled as he came over to help her with the groceries that she must have gone shopping for after her day at the hospital. "So how did your day of matches go for the tournament? I'm sorry that I missed out on it, but I didn't expect you to finish so soon." Joshua's mother said as she gave him a quick hug for helping her with all of the bags.

"It's fine, I wasn't expecting it to go so fast either." Joshua said while putting some of the food up to cook later. "We can watch the rest of Amy's matches. At this point she's probably on her final match since I just finished and I doubt it would have taken her much longer than I did to get through all of her matches."

"Sure let me get some stuff started for dinner really quick. Some of the stuff I plan for us to eat later will take a long time to cook." She said as she made her way into the kitchen. Joshua quickly made his way over to the couch and turn on the television to see if he could find Amy's match. It didn't take long to find it and Joshua was glad to see that the countdown hadn't even started yet so the two contestants were going to be transferred to the arena soon. Joshua's mother came back to sit on the couch just in time as Amy and her opponent were both brought into the arena.

From the way Amy was casually stretching with a board expression Joshua was certain that she hadn't had any tough fights up to this point. Otherwise she would be taking things more seriously and have a more excited disposition, right now it looked as if she was ready to just get the match over with as quickly as possible. Her opponent was a mage that clearly relied primarily on earth magic just based off of some of the spells he had planted on his side of the field. The match up was already greatly in Amy's favor do to her opponent's level of fifty-nine and the moment the countdown came to an end it was clear that the fight wasn't going to last long.

Amy easily danced around all of the traps that the man had laid out for her with such speed that the moment the earth pillar shot out of the ground in an attempt to hit Amy, she was already moving over the next trap that would react to slowly as well. Joshua realized from his earlier fight against Marl that mages were at a huge disadvantage in one on one fights if they didn't set the stage well before the fight and have an ability to go toe to toe with close ranged fighters or keep them away long enough to do more powerful spells.

It was clear that Amy wasn't going to give her opponent the time to cast any spell more powerful than your basic ones and her opponent must have realized that as the spell he casted after getting as far away from her as possible was a spell that created several small spears of rocks that shot out all in front of him like a shot gun blast at the right moment. The spell wasn't strong enough to do much more than knock Amy back if it hit but instead of getting hit she dived under it using her flexibility to avoid any of the stray rocks that passed over.

A pillar of earth shot out of the ground right in front of the mage in an attempt to give him some separation, but Amy just punched straight through it and grabbed the mages shoulder keeping him from being able to get away. With a swift motion she pulled him through the collapsing earth pillar and with one heavy punch to the chest the mage vanished from the arena since the strength of the attack was too much for him to handle. Amy gave the audience an excited cheer before being teleported away from the battlefield. Joshua wasn't surprised when she ended up teleporting directly into the foyer of the house in a similar way that he had beforehand.

"That was so disappointing!" Amy shouted as soon as she saw Joshua and her mother turn around to look at her. "Where were all the cool opponents with hidden moves and powerful spells?"

"That's for later on. Judging by your current reaction I'm sure you won all of your matches?" Joshua asked getting a look that could be summed up with the word 'really'. "Even if the first day matches were easy you need to make sure you continue taking each match seriously. It could have an effect on your seeding later on in the tournament."

"Yeah, yeah. You get to serious about these things brother." Amy said as she made her way over to the couch to sit next to the both of them. "I guess you two were watching my match. How cool did I look?"

"You were great darling just try not to act out so much next time in front of the crowd." Their mother said as she patted Amy on the shoulder before getting up and heading to the kitchen to make sure dinner was coming along nicely.

"Hmm, I was just trying to be entertaining. There isn't much else to do when the matches are so one sided. I'm sure it was the same way for you as well." Amy said getting an agreeing shrug out of Joshua. "Do you know how everyone else did?"

"Not sure yet. I'm guessing all of the information will be published by the battle arena after all of the matches are finished. I'm waiting to see if the news crew will start reporting on such things after the last match." Joshua said as he turned from the battle arena channel towards the major news station that was backed by the guilds. They weren't showing specifically picked out matches with the most excitement like the last channel, but were instead discussing who the favorites were to win the tournament based off of what had happened in the first days matches.

"Looks like they're on top of things. I wonder if they'll interview some of the participants after all the matches are over." Amy wondered out loud getting Joshua to think along the same lines. It would make a lot of sense so Joshua was going to keep an eye out on his system messages just in case he got some kind of invitation. It ended up taking another hour's worth of time since the end of Amy's match for every match of the day to finally end. At this point it was around four in the afternoon which meant most of the day had gone by. The amount of channels that were discussing the tournament showed just how much attention it had grabbed up to this point. It would only become more influential after the preliminaries, where the real contest would begin.

Now that the matches had ended the news stations were starting to discuss how things went on the first day of preliminaries. Joshua was surprised that he was one of the first people to be discussed as a favorite in the competition. The news crew wasn't able to say much about his matches since they all ended within seconds, but they did bring up some of his past fights in the battle arena against stronger opponents where he actually fought with his scale blade.

Joshua wasn't the only person from the alliance that was singled out by the news crew as both Madalyn and Laura got a lot of spot light for their quick matches where they swept away all of their competition. Adrian, Aito, and even Henry were shown on the television as well along with several other people from the alliance that seemed to be standing out in the preliminaries so far. There weren't really any matches that showed off their abilities since they all ended quickly, but the news station did its research well and showed some footage from previous matches that they had participated in just like they had done with Joshua.

At first Joshua worried that the news station might be giving other competitors an advantage by showing off previous fights, but they seemed to be doing that with any and all participants that stood out on the first day of preliminaries. One of the funniest videos they showed was the match that Joshua had already seen of Lilly bringing out Momo to destroy her cocky opponent. The replay that was being shown by the news crew had a zoom in on the poor guys face and showed the moment he got slapped out of the arena from several different angles. Since the station had a chat window scrolling by of people commenting on the tournament Joshua was able to see how a lot of people were laughing at the arrogant guy's situation.

"It's a good thing that guy is already in a guild otherwise he might never be invited to one seriously after Lilly turned him into a laughing stock." Amy said after she finally stopped laughing at the scene. Joshua could only chuckle a bit before turning his attention to some of the other contestants that were being talked about. There were several large guild leaders that were being discussed but there were a few people that stood out to Joshua that were being shown off. Of course there were the members of the World Government Guild such as Charles and several of his higher level subordinates that were standing out, but it was the name that Joshua hadn't seen in a long time that grabbed his attention more than anyone else.

The man simply went by the name Iron Claw, he didn't sign up for the tournament with his personal name like most people did, but Joshua didn't need to know his name to know who he was. The moment he saw the man that was as tall as himself standing in the ring chocking someone out casually with one hand to win a match, he was able to recognize him. He didn't recognize the man because of him being someone he had faced in the past, but because of the fact that he was someone that was a rival of his father way back in his fighting days. The man casually through his opponent away as he vanished from the arena before the recording ended.

What surprised Joshua more than anything else was the fact that the man was higher level than anyone else. The man was level eighty-six.


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VivitheGreat VivitheGreat

Seems like my author's note didn't work for yesterday, but I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. A little bit of family time here, but expect some more tournament action coming up!

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Capítulo 477: Chapter 150: Drinking with Old Friends

After a dinner in which Joshua's father never showed up Joshua decided to go out drinking with Adrian who invited him, Aito, and Henry all to come out for the night. Amy was doing something similar with Naomi and Lilly since the three of them liked to spend time together. Whenever they went out as a group people around them would often think it was strange to see a six foot two inches tall girl going around with two girls that are a foot shorter than her. If they paid attention to them they'd be even more weirded out to find that the shortest one of the bunch in Naomi was the most mature while the other two could be a bit silly and carefree.

Joshua wondered why his father seemed to be avoiding him and Amy during the tournament based off of the way he didn't show up for dinner and barely talked during breakfast. He wanted to ask about Iron Claw showing up since his father would be the one to know the most about the man. They had been rivals in the world of mixed martial arts for more than a decade. Eventually Joshua decided to table that for later and went out to the restaurant that Adrian had invited him to and when he arrived he was surprised by how busy the place was. The crowd of people seemed to be a mixture of civilians that were still talking up the tournament along with a lot of explorers that were involved in the tournament itself.

Based off of how rowdy the place was getting it was clear that everyone was still riding the high that the tournament brought to the hub city. Joshua could see some of the explorers showing off to people about how they did in their matches for the day while others were drinking away their losses at the bar. The place definitely had a great atmosphere and Joshua knew that it was owned by a family member of someone from the alliance so Joshua just asked a random waiter to show him to whichever room Adrian was waiting in.

Knowing Adrian Joshua knew that he would want to join in on the fun atmosphere at some point, but he'd at least be smart enough to get a private room to start things off. The waiter quickly led him to a back room where Adrian, Aito, and Henry were already busy having their first round of drinks. "Good you made it just in time. The drinks just got here." Adrian said with a smile as he beckoned Joshua over.

The room was fairly simple, but had a bit of a Japanese design to it with sliding doors that locked and became sound proof. Outside of a television put on one of the walls it was a fairly simple room with decent décor. Instead of a table and chairs for everyone to sit around there was a kotatsu set up which was basically a shorter table big enough for four people to sit around easily and it was covered with a blanket. There were mats on the floor that would make it much more comfortable to sit on, but outside of that there wasn't any other furniture.

Joshua made his way over and sat down at the part that they had left open for him to sit at as he pulled a beer out of the bucket of ice that was put at the center of the table. Quickly twisting the top off Joshua took a swig of it and admired the nice taste of strong cold beer before looking up at his friends who were doing the same thing. By their either excited or nonchalant attitude Joshua was certain that they had all gotten through the first day of preliminaries without any problems.

"So how did things go on your guys' end?" Adrian said after a satisfying gulp of beer. "Things seemed way too easy to me, but I guess it is just the preliminaries."

"That might be the case but it is a well-designed set up for the tournament. The way things are going just about all of the low level participants will be taken out by the second day of preliminaries." Henry said getting everyone's attention. "There will be ten matches that you have to participate in over the first two days of the competition and if you lose eight of them then you're already out of the later portion of the tournament. After all you have to have a higher win total than loss total to even get the chance to get into the bracketed portion of the tournament later on."

"In other words if you are low leveled and have been forced to go up against people at our level over and over your likely to have lost at least eight times or more by the end of your second day." Aito said nodding in understanding at what Henry was getting at.

"Well then I guess on our third day we can expect to get some tougher matches, though probably nothing worth getting excited for." Adrian said with a frown. Just like usual he became more excitable within seconds as he gave a challenging look to the group. "I guess I won't get much of a real challenge until I start going up against you guys and the rest of the alliance members."

"I wouldn't count on that." Joshua said after sitting his beer down and sitting back with his hands on the floor. "Just look at how the news stations are going through all of the biggest contenders and you can find several people that might put up a challenge for us."

"Yeah I saw that they were showing off some highlights, but I wasn't really able to learn anything from it since so many of the matches ended so quickly." Henry replied. "None of us even did anything serious in our matches since our opponents were so weak. I only used basic spells without any element to them to take out my opponents, Adrian only swung his sword once to end each match which was ridiculous, Joshua just rushed in and ended every match with a punch, and Aito was the worse one here using a damn knife to win each match even though he's a gun specialist."

"No use showing off what kind of guns I like to use this early on." Aito said with a shrug before going back to drinking his beer.

"So you can imagine how little information we were able to get about any other participants that actually have a chance at winning the whole tournament." Henry said looking a little annoyed at the situation. "The only thing I did find out is that there is someone in this tournament that is actually higher level than all of us."

"You mean that Iron Claw guy right. I'm surprised that he was able to get away with just using that name more than the fact he is two levels higher than us. I should have registered with a show name too. It would have been so much cooler."

"Do you know anything about this guy Joshua? From what I could tell from his fights he seemed to be a former fighter like you with the way he man handled people. Two levels isn't all that big of a difference, but it does show that he had to do a lot to reach that point considering if we hadn't gone on the prairie expedition we would have still been around level eighty right now." Aito said pointing out just how odd it was for someone to be two levels higher than them even after their recent surge in leveling.

"I know him, but he was a fighter before my time. He and my father were rivals back in the day. I don't know much about the guy, but since he was the only person to ever win a match against my father I'd have to say no matter what his job is he will be great at close ranged combat. I know for a fact he's an amazing grappler so make sure he doesn't get ahold of you in a fight." Joshua said thinking about some of the things his father had used to tell him about the man known as the Iron Claw. Seeing as how father didn't like to talk too much about him he was sure that the man must have been really good at his job.

"Hmm that makes a bit of sense from what I saw. He tended to choke his opponents out quickly instead of just knocking them out with a punch like you did Joshua." Henry pointed out. "The only thing I was able to find out recently about him is that he's the leader of the number one mercenary group that Vince's group is just behind."

"So that means this is the guy that Vince is trying to compete with. That's a hell of a challenge for him." Adrian said as he watched some of the matches.

"The fact that Vince considers him a challenge and that he's hiding his job instead of just showing that he's a martial artist most likely means that he has a unique job. I've seen a few people in matches that seem to be hiding their unique jobs at this point. Wouldn't be surprised if he was as well." Henry explained.

"Vince would have trouble facing him with his illusions simply because he will likely have great instincts like I do. That's the entire reason why Vince wasn't able to catch me by surprise during the territory war. I can imagine it'll be the same against someone as experienced as this guy." Joshua said as he pulled out another beer and popped it open.

"Well make sure you get whatever information you can about him from your dad. We don't really know what he can do or what the other members of his little group can do as well. They all had no trouble on the first day just like all of us. I'd guess we won't really be able to figure out any useful information until the last day of preliminaries if we're lucky." Henry said before Adrian started to change the topic to some of the more interesting things that had been going on in the entertainment district.

Eventually Adrian got them all out of the room once they'd finished off the beer and they joined in on the madness that was going on in the bar down below. It was a long and fun night of nonsense that would close the day. The next morning they'd be back to doing it all over again.


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