Chapter 349: Chapter 24 Xu Mo, 1 Chapter 349: Chapter 24 Xu Mo, 1 The Transcendent Tournament’s Top 100 battle was approaching.
Today, the top 100 players would gather together for a chaotic fight to determine a preliminary ranking.
Of course, this chaotic battle was different from the previous rules, only allowing one-on-one combat rather than multiple against one, to be as ‘relatively fair’ as possible.
The media went into a frenzy, and each seed player enjoyed extremely high popularity in Chuanxing City.
According to preliminary surveys, the most popular person was still Augustine from the Capital Royal Academy, the fifth seed player.
After all, those ranked ahead of him were not native to Byron Star, but belonged to alien races.
Augustine was considered the strongest existence on Byron Star.
Even though the Royal Academy’s reputation had suffered greatly from the previous conflict with Xu Mo, it still didn’t affect Augustine’s popularity.
Xu Mo also had many supporters.
According to surveys, this flamboyant genius from the Stark Group surprisingly ranked in the top five in terms of popularity.
Many people admired his proud and unrestrained character.
But that was not all, Xu Mo was voted the most disliked among the top 100 competitors by a landslide!
There were many who liked him, but even more who did not.
In this Transcendent Tournament, Xu Mo had become the most controversial figure.
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He was strong, had high talent, and his Mechanical Talent was also top-notch, but he had a flamboyant personality and held contempt for the audience.
In Chuanxing City, countless people stood on the streets, watching the screens.
Although the Transcendent Tournament could be watched on tablets and home electronic devices, everyone gathered together to watch on the huge screens outside, creating a completely different atmosphere.
Exhilarating!
“Competitors of the Transcendent Tournament, begin your entry.” As the commentator spoke, the voices fell, and immediately, the screens displayed one hundred competitors soaring into the sky, beams of light sweeping back and forth above their heads, setting off roars and cheers that reverberated incessantly.
Afterward, the screen shifted, zooming from the collective to the individual, focusing on one person—the number one seed player from the Titan Clan.
There were quite a few cheers in the arena; despite being an Alien, his overwhelming strength won many people’s acclaims.
Then, the screen switched again, a segment before the start of the Top 100 battle that allowed the audience to see every competitor who made it to the top 100.
After all, getting this far was not easy and deserved a moment on camera.
After this match, fifty competitors would be eliminated.
The screen continued to shift, and the lights moved with it.
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When they fell upon Augustine, the cheers were deafening, and the entire venue boiled over, making one feel the enormity of Augustine’s popularity.
It seemed that everyone was hoping he could make it into the top three.
At the venue of the Transcendent Tournament, Xu Mo stood on high ground, with a mecha beside him.
Before the match began, everyone had to show their face; when Xu Mo saw the lights fall on Augustine and the deafening cheers that followed, he felt somewhat surprised, not expecting that there were quite a few of his supporters in the stands.
This was a treatment he had not received before.
Before this match, booing drowned out everything else; he could barely hear any cheers.
Quickly, the lights swept over the one hundred competitors, and a mechanical voice announced, “All competitors, enter combat mode.”
After the mechanical voice sounded, Xu Mo entered his mecha, while other contestants began entering their mechas or putting on helmets, getting into battle readiness.
“Attention, competitors, the rules of the match dictate that each competitor must find your opponent and engage in combat, the first to be struck is considered chosen, once two individuals begin fighting, there is no switching opponents or interference in others’ fights.
Pair up, split into fifty groups to battle, winners progress, losers are eliminated.
The first winner is temporarily ranked first; the first loser is ranked one hundred and eliminated, and so on.”
The mechanical voice continued, “Reminder, the rankings determined in this match will decide opponents in subsequent battles.”
By this stage of the Transcendent Tournament, everyone was familiar with the rules of the competition.
This round was one-on-one, an individual confrontation, but the opponents were self-chosen; whoever was quick enough to choose a weaker opponent would gain an advantage.
If the opponent was one of the previous seed players, then it was just bad luck.
Furthermore, if one advanced early in this duel and secured a good position, one could temporarily rank among the top, which meant that in the next round, one would face an opponent with a lower ranking.
For instance, the one ranked first would fight the one ranked fiftieth.
If the former won and retained his ranking, the latter would be eliminated ranked fiftieth.
If the former were defeated, he would be eliminated ranked fiftieth and the latter would take his place.
This process continued until the end of the battle, determining everyone’s ranking.
Therefore, when the mechanical voice finished speaking, the one hundred competitors on the field were not the least bit affected; they were wholly focused, eyes scouting others, ready to select their opponents.