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his gladius, he thought that it would have been better if he bought a sword at the weapon shop. If only the prices weren't that high.
     
     
Then, Smoke recalled the prizes for the Swordsman to Knight tournament. They were all high class Knight equipments.
     
     
The tournament happens only twice a year. If they lost before, this would give them plenty of time to train and raise their levels and abilities.
     
     
Smoke thought that it was highly likely that Blastar and Cudny failed before and decided to try again this time. Six months is more than enough time for dedicated players to improve themselves.
     
     
They had six months to prepare for tomorrow's tournament, Smoke had less than twenty four hours. He tried imitating all the Swordsman skill's that he knew and thought if he could use them.
     
     
If he could fight at his full potential then he would fight all of the competitors now. But with the handicap that he should fight as a Swordsman was too much of a restriction.
     
     
He didn't even have a single Swordsman's ability. His only trump card was the 'Armadillo Bash' from his shield. Even that had a long cool down of ten minutes.
     
     
Dawny was watching Smoke from her front porch, he was clearly struggling. The old lady decided to give him some advice.
     
     
"Did you know, that most Swordsman abilities are enhanced by elemental magic?"
     
     
"Huh? What do you mean?"
     
     
"At the moment of impact on a Sword Smite's attack, a fire blast explodes which is directed towards the target. Knocking them back and increasing the damage by at least three times."
     
     
"Wow! I didn't know that at all. That isn't found in the ability's description."
     
     
"Of course not. Most users only use their abilities without fully understanding how it works."
     
     
"In that case, does that also mean that the Quadruple Lunge attack uses Wind or Lightning enhancements?"
     
     
"Right! That was very intuitive of you. Lightning impulses increase their attack speed and movement speed for a few seconds."
     
     
"Thank you very much! That was some really great advice. I think I'll try out a few modified 'Swordsman' moves now."
     
     
Smoke created a colossal square wall in one of the farm's open lands. He went inside and started honing his sword play for tomorrow's district tournament.
     
     
    * * * * * * 
     
     
The southern coliseum of Coatl held their district's Swordsman to Knight preliminaries. The winner of this competition would become the district's champion and would gain the right to fight at the round robin championships.
     
     
The coliseum was about as big as the one found in Rome. It had an area of six acres and could hold a total capacity of 80,000 spectators.
     
     
The center arena was an ellipse with a maximum length of 287 feet and a maximum width of 180 feet. The walls had a height of 15 feet.
     
     
Tickets sold at 10,000 zecs at the lower boxes and the furthest seats were priced at 1,000 zecs. Even at those prices, all the preliminary tickets were sold out.
     
     
There were only eight participants in the southern district preliminary round. In order to win in the preliminary you could either knock the enemy off the stage or kill them...
     
     
The winning player would not get the status of a Chaotic Evil player as it has been set inside a tournament. However, the dead player would incur the same normal penalties of dying. If the participant was an NPC then they would be killed.
     
     
     
    First Round:
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Cudny (Human)
  vs
Pantalla (Dwarf)
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Tarcza (Halfling)
  vs
Pedang (HighElf)
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Blastar (Lioumerean)
  vs
Ecran (Gnome)
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Ilad (DarkElf)
  vs
Szabla (Ork)
     
     
A loud announcer's voice was heard throughout the entire coliseum. It signaled the commencement of the game.
     
     
"Ladies and gentlemen, its time to start off our preliminary round for the Swordsman to Knight Tournament. For our first match its: Cudny vs.