The Dean Has Arrived

Although Tianqiu is very popular, it is actually not a national sport in the true sense.

In fact, there are football-like games in this world, but they have become similar to equestrian games on earth. For golf and other recognized aristocratic sports, the influence of football is too small.

Regardless of whether the noble mages will put down their bodies and run around the field with a group of mud legs, the magic swordsman's outstanding body material can easily crush some professional football players...

Under completely unequal conditions, sports such as basketball, football, and table tennis on Earth will be much less fun in this world—it’s like no one particularly likes someone who can’t recharge, but has a A large group of RMB players can wantonly crush the online games of ordinary players like themselves.

So instead of watching that kind of boring football game, it is better to watch this kind of civilians play a game that has been excluded from the beginning-only people with magical powers such as magic swordsmen and magicians can play celestial spheres. Compared with football, at least the celestial sphere looks more colorful and interesting.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are vicious audiences who just want to watch a group of people with noble status flying around on the court, fighting to the death for a ball. The proportion is not small...

Celestial Ball is played a bit like soccer with a tennis racket.

It is a game where two teams send eight players each, for a total of sixteen players. Athletes use their catching rackets to avoid the repulsive ball, and score the golden ball into the storage bubble guarded by the opposing team. There are only 60 minutes in a game, and it is divided into two games. The team with the highest score wins when the time expires, and the team with the same score enters overtime. The team that scores first wins.

While the rules are simple, the investment required for such a game is staggering.

The first is the most basic, the large-scale magic formation 'Ascension to Heaven' formed on the basis of a huge circular arena. This magic circle can form a spherical space with a diameter equal to the magic circle one meter above the ground. All athletes rely on this magic circle to maintain themselves suspended in mid-air, and move within it by releasing magic power.

Also there are balls. There are thirteen game balls in total, twelve of which are repulsive balls of different colors. These balls fly irregularly in the spherical space through the magic power provided by the ascending array, and as long as the distance between them and the athletes is below a certain value, they will be attracted to them. fly. In addition to the repulsive ball, there is another one that looks like a small sun. The golden ball emitting soft light, this is the scoring ball that the athletes will compete for, also known as the celestial ball.

Finally, there is the equipment for the players, a catcher and a jersey.

The scientific name of the ball-catching racket is the celestial ball restraint racket. It looks like a tennis racket without a net, but there is a special magic film on the original net. This film has a certain attraction to the celestial sphere. It can be glued to the celestial sphere. It's just that this kind of stickiness is not strong, a strong impact can shake it off from the top, and at the same time, a strong swing can also achieve the effect of knocking the celestial ball out. In addition, this layer of film has not weak repulsion to the repulsion ball. Even a light swipe can send it flying far away.

The length of the ball suit is very similar to the armor in the foil competition, but in fact it is not armor (although it can be considered armor in terms of hardness), and there are sensors all over the ball suit. The magic circle, as long as the player is hit by the repulsive ball, the signal will be transmitted to the racket in the player's hand through the ball uniform. The magic power acting as a net on the racket will be denatured, and the original gravitational force on the celestial sphere will directly become a repulsive force, and the celestial sphere will be ejected from the racket.

Therefore, as long as someone grabs the celestial ball, the players of the other team will try their best to hit him with the repulsive ball, and he must take the celestial ball across a certain distance under the cover of bullets and teammates, and then go outside the penalty area. Under the defense of the opponent's bubble defender, hit the sky ball into the receiving bubble similar to the goal.

Although it is a bit boring to say, but after the official game, the colorful repulsion balls and golden celestial balls are set against the athletes flying around the field, which is very good for viewing and fun. It is precisely because of this that this sport is so popular with magicians, swordsmen and people who can't play at all.

When Xi Wei followed Alina to the stadium that was still under construction, he was taken aback by the sight in front of him.

"What's with those two huge metal balls?" Xi Wei asked Elena, pointing to two spherical prototypes surrounded by a few thick steel bars not far away.

"That's a mark used to remind athletes of the effective range of the Ascension Array." Alina explained to Xi Wei, "Because there were a few times when a few careless players focused their attention on the celestial sphere when the competition was in full swing." In the past, I didn’t realize that I flew out of the effective range of the Ascension Formation, and fell to my death. Therefore, in recent competitions, it is required to make such markings. Because there are many teams participating in this competition , so we in Golovito are going to build two arenas. In this way, the competition will go much faster and the schedule will not be lengthened... Otherwise, even if the Sky Ball Competition can bring a lot of profits, it will consume a lot more, plus It is estimated that there will not be many people watching in the early stage, and it is not cost-effective in general. Of course, the last few games will not be held at the same time, and the time will be divided carefully, so that fans can fully enjoy this grand ceremony of the game!"

This is just to maximize the benefits of the game... Xi Wei slandered, but he didn't intend to say it out loud. After all, maximizing benefits is normal for businessmen.

And it seems that Elina has put a lot of thought into the celestial sphere competition, and she knows a lot about some things in detail.

"Then what about that thick metal pillar?" Xi Wei asked again.

"That one hasn't been finished yet. It is said that there will be a huge scoreboard on it, so that even those fans who haven't won the ticket can know the situation of the battle immediately." Elena also continued to answer without hesitation. Dao: "In fact, at the beginning, the largest chambers of commerce planned to broadcast the whole game live, but because the magic imaging technology is not yet mature. Not to mention the huge cost, there may be problems at any time, so in the end we can only pass the score cards and some text fact sheets to set the mood."

Although it is a bit of an old-fashioned method, Xi Wei has to admit that this method is very good. It can make some people who are interested in the game stay near the game and watch the scores and text live. At this time, some people who are in charge of selling drinks, snacks or The chamber of commerce that is other souvenirs can make a lot of money. Even if those chambers of commerce didn't intend to spend their minds on such a small place. By dividing up the stalls, it is also a good idea to charge the hawkers who come in and sell these things.

In addition, it is estimated that there will be things like gambling.

All in all, it is to maximize the value of the Sky Ball Competition without missing a chance at all...

But that's not what Xi Wei was concerned about.

"That...Mr. Edric. Do you find anything strange?" Alina looked at Xi Wei who had a strange expression, and asked cautiously.

"It should be said, isn't there anything strange about you?"

Xi Wei looked at the two iron balls not far away and the one between the two iron balls soaring into the sky. The black and thick iron rod asked Alina back.

"What?" The silver-haired girl followed Xi Wei's gaze to the court, with a puzzled expression on her face.

"No, nothing." Xi Wei shook his head.

Didn't expect this girl who has been wearing a bunny girl costume to be so pure, or is he himself too evil?

Xi Wei looked at the stadium and laughed haha ​​with a far-sighted expression on his face: "Isn't this the Armstrong cyclotron jet Armstrong cannon? The reduction is really high..."

Alina still had a puzzled expression.

Just when Xi Wei had a headache on how to get away with it, his savior appeared.

"Ah, found uncle!"

Because it was cloudy today, Sharanlia didn't go out with a parasol, or because it was cloudy today. As a vampire, she would only go out during this time period.

When the blue-haired girl saw Xi Wei, she ran towards him without hesitation.

So Xi Wei immediately pretended to be pleasantly surprised and ignored Alina who was still thinking, and greeted Shalanlia: "Hey, Shalan. Did you come out so early today?"

"Well, because I couldn't sleep." The blue-haired girl nodded. He said that he didn't think there was anything wrong with sleeping during the day.

Although she didn't feel much when she saw Xi Wei at first, after a few conversations between the two, she suddenly thought of what she said in the mirror.

Many people should have had the experience of reminding themselves not to think about something, but the more they remind, the harder it is to drive it out of their minds.

The same is true for Sharanlia now, she never cared about Xi Wei before. In other words, he didn't regard Xi Wei as a man at all, but now he couldn't help but start to care about it. Even though he tried his best not to think about it, he couldn't help but care more and more about Xi Wei.

"What's wrong?" Xi Wei noticed that Sharanlia was staring straight at his face, and couldn't help touching his face: "Is there something on my face?"

"No, it's nothing." The girl looked away in a panic, and then found Alina standing behind Xi Wei, who was looking at her curiously, so she quickly changed the subject: "Where are you two?" Are you dating?"

Although she didn't pay attention at first, but as soon as she uttered these words, the girl felt that her chest suddenly became stuffy, and an inexplicable feeling flooded in her chest.

It may be that Sharanlia's expression was a little too obvious. Alina showed a clear smile like a little fox, and generously stretched out to Shalanlia that she was a little rougher than her, but Hands as white as jade: "My name is Elena, Elena Simag. Just call me by my first name. Don't worry, Mr. Edric and I are just a business relationship."

"Why should I be worried?" Shalan blushed and muttered in a low voice, but she still reached out and shook Elina honestly: "My name is Shalan? Chikova, you can call me Shalan." OK."

"Okay, Miss Shalan." Alina's level of dealing with people is obviously much better than that of Shalan Leah. Even though the other party is a little reluctant to realize it, she still said with a gentle smile: "I I'm visiting the sky field with Mr. Eredek, would you like to come with us?"

Facing Elena's invitation. Sharanlia seemed a little hesitant.

But Xi Wei asked curiously: "The stadium hasn't been completed yet, so is it really okay for you to invite unrelated people like us?"

After all, I am a customer of the chamber of commerce she belongs to, and to a certain extent, I still have a relationship similar to an alliance, so I am well-known for taking myself there, but Shalan is purely the type that has nothing to do with her. It shouldn't be a good thing to bring strangers into the unfinished stadium.

"Will Miss Shalan destroy the stadium?" Alina asked.

"How is it possible!" Saranlia immediately denied.

Although she does have the ability to destroy the court, but even she would not do such a meaningless thing.

"That's all right?" Alina showed a sweet smile. Her eyes were also crescent-shaped, and even Xi Wei couldn't tell whether her smile was from the bottom of her heart or just a smirk for work purposes: "Although it's not finished yet. But the stadium was originally It's just for the audience, as long as it doesn't cause damage, it doesn't matter if I take you there."

Although Xi Wei was still a little hard to let go. But he didn't have a reason to refute, anyway, he was taken to the stadium out of good intentions, there was absolutely no need for him to refute the other party in this kind of place, to disappoint Alina's overtures.

Even for a competition of this level, it is impossible to build the arena in the city. It is too wasteful to build such a huge one-time building in a city where every inch of land is expensive. Naturally, a smart businessman will not do such a thing .

So the Tianqiu Stadium was actually built outside the city.

However, because it is not far from the city, and even the stadium can be seen in some places in the city, fans will not give up watching the game because of the long distance. Some scholars also believe that after the end of the celestial sphere competition, the lord is likely to use the celestial sphere stadium as a center point and start to expand the city of Golovito outward. The problems of insufficient urban living area and rising housing prices in the city that have appeared many times at the meeting will also be resolved together.

After some inspections, the group left Golovito City and came to the Celestial Stadium, which is still under construction.

In addition to the two huge iron balls and the pillar that can be seen in the distance, there are actually two buildings under the iron ball that look like the ancient Roman Colosseum, and that is where the spectators watch the game.

It was different from what Xi Wei thought at first. He still underestimated the enthusiasm of those celestial sphere enthusiasts, and the current celestial sphere competition has become very lively.

In addition to the enthusiastic builders, there are also many people who look like tourists visiting around, but they still need to show their IDs if they want to enter the stadium.

In addition, some clever stalls have also been placed near the stadium outside the city.

After all, in order to prevent the construction from being disturbed by monsters in the wild, the lord stationed a powerful army here, and the Chamber of Commerce also hired many magic swordsmen to clean up the surrounding area. With the addition of some defensive magic specially set up by the Qiyao Mage Association, the defensive ability here is only one wall less than that of the city. Unless there are natural disaster level monsters that are too strong to be suppressed by manpower, they will basically not threaten the arena. safety.

Therefore, there is no need to be afraid of being hurt if you set up a stall here, but the tax will be a little heavier than in the city, because the stationed army will collect a certain amount of money from the stall owners as an official protection fee.

Xi Wei even saw that some stall owners with strong hands-on skills were about to build a small house...

"It's amazing. I thought this place would be blocked before it was built." Seeing the busy traffic around, Xi Wei couldn't help sighing: "After all, it's more common to use hunger marketing to increase expectations at this time."

"Although it is good to block the news and increase the public's sense of expectation, several large chambers of commerce have decided to develop peripheral tour rights after discussion. Because our guests are not only residents of Golovito City, rather than using that kind of hunger Marketing methods to increase the desire of the audience in a city, it is better to open the outside tour to let more people know about this competition. Besides, since ordinary people are not allowed to enter it now, there is also a certain concept of hunger marketing in it.” Alina replied Dao, it was the first time she had heard of the term hunger marketing, but because she had been in the business world, she understood the meaning of this term in a short time, and she seemed to be very interested in this term.

"Although I don't know what you are talking about, but it feels so powerful..." Sharanlia was amazed.

Just as the three of them were talking about the competition, there was a sudden commotion among the sightseeing crowd not far away.

The three of them looked at that place at the same time, and saw a man wearing a heavy tuxedo on a scorching summer day, with an arrogant expression, leading a huge black wolfhound towards the arena.

The black wolfhound was still burning with blue flames, making it look extraordinarily mighty and domineering.

The strange thing is that not only were the people around not frightened by the wolf dog, but most of them wanted to gather around and say hello to the man holding the wolf dog.

"Who is that guy?" Xi Wei asked Alina beside him.

"Master Ronald, a very famous celestial player, and also an intermediate magician who passed the magic entrance examination." Alina did not disappoint Xi Wei, and immediately gave the answer: "The celestial ball skills are great, It is very popular among celestial enthusiasts. It is estimated that they came here to familiarize themselves with the field.”

"I don't like him." Saranlia said with a straight face, giving off the feeling of a child being angry.

"Me too." Xi Wei rarely agreed.

Although the other party was smiling and greeting the people around him, the contempt for others in his eyes made Xi Wei feel very uncomfortable.

"Then let's advance to the arena?" Alina suggested: "In this case, we don't need to meet him."

Just when Xi Wei and the others were going to follow Alina's suggestion to advance to the arena, the riot not far away suddenly became serious.

Unlike before, people wanted to squeeze there just now, but now people want to run outside.

"What's wrong?" Alina looked over there nervously.

"The monster that that guy is leading seems to have gone berserk." Xi Wei narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of the commotion.

"It's coming towards us!" Saranlia, who is a vampire, immediately grasped the whereabouts of the monster, and exclaimed. (To be continued..)

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