second round had two matches and then two winning
teams went to the final. The champion could compete with first class species.
Each first class species had one team consisting of seven trainees. Plus the
champion team from the second class species, there were ten teams.
In the
game, all players wore heavy armor suits and used real weaponry to get their
hands on the ball. Two hands must be on the ball at the same time to start the
time count. If more than one team was holding the ball, no team got the time.
The ball was designed in a way that no team could hide it. Players in the game
could use whatever methods to disable other players. If a player was shot on
the helmet, even if the player was not injured, drones would take him or her
out. The heavy armor provided very good protections, but accidents did happen
from time to time.
Jason’s
first game would start in ten minutes. He didn’t worry about the game. He was
thinking about the date with Gloria tonight. He couldn’t believe it was
actually happening and it seemed to him that Gloria also liked him.
“Jason,
you alright?” Erikon asked.
“Yea,
you know, it is the first time.” Jason said uneasily.
“Yea, I
am nervous too. Some guys died in this game.” Erikon said in a worried voice.
“12 to
be exactly. It’s not that bad.” Lucis said nervously.
“You
didn’t count those died in matches with the first class species right?” Idi asked.
“There
were eight just for last year. Class of 82 and class of 83 each had four.”
Sayilin said.
“Did any
second species manage to kill a first class?” Orizy asked.
“No, our
weapons can only scratch their armors.” Sayilin said.
“It’s
good those first species kill each other.” Titainein said without emotion.
“For
them, that happens every year. Glycans, Estian and Uainanese are just killing
for fun.”Sayilin said.
“And
Diilres just shoot to show off their weapons.” Idi said angrily.
“They
use their own weapons and if we fight them with what we have. We don’t stand a
chance.” Erikon said reluctantly.
“Let’s
see the good side. We are not there yet. Besides there was one team from class
of 53. They made it to the second round.” Jason smiled.
“And you
know what happened to that team, right?” Sayilin asked.
“Yea.”
Jason nodded.
“What
happened?” Idi asked innocently.
Everyone
looked at Jason, waiting for his reply.
“They
all died.” Jason sighed.
They all
fell into silence.
The red
light was flashing. It was the time.
“Alright,
guys, I want to be the first one killing a first species and I need all of you
to fight beside me. We are the champion!” Jason shouted and pointed his index
figure at his teammates.
“Yea.
Yea.”
“Yea.”
Everyone yelled.
The
ceiling above them slowly opened and the ground beneath them rose, bringing
them up to the game ground the size of two football fields. There were hundreds
of trenches and barricades and the ball was at the center platform, guarded by
seven robots. Above the platform, there was a big light ball. Due to live fire,
there was no audience on the site. Drones were flying around and providing the
live feed of the game. Three teams were positioned on the edge of the field
with equal distance to each other. Beside Jason’s team, the other two were
Leseu’s team and Ruei’s team. Leseu was a Lozisusis and Ruei was a Dolanz.
“Buzz!”
The game started.
The
robots were shooting at all three teams.
“To the
left, we take out other teams first.” Jason said and led the team to Ruei who
was heading straight to the center.
As
Ruei’s team fought with robots, Jason’s team ambushed them at their right flank
and took out three of them. When the leftover were struggling to fight off
Jason’s team, three trainees from Leseu’s team attacked Ruei’s team at their
left flank. Soon, all members of Ruei’s team retired.
“Jason,
we should split.” Sayilin said as he ran to Jason.
“No,
stay together,
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