The first round begins!
Duong followed his teammates through the gate, and immediately the noise of the stadium was extinguished. Before his eyes was a patch of pristine, primitive tropical jungle.
“A jungle like this can only be found by faith?” Fire Lotus looked around and said angrily.
Duong was also a bit confused and asked quietly: “Google, do you know where the flag is?”
Google transmitted a map of the entire world into Duong’s head, showing Duong his current position, the positions of the other teams, and the locations of the 10 flags.
“This time I’m sure to win! Who can beat me with this kind of map hacking? Hehe!” Duong thought to himself, a sly smile on his face.
Pretending to be thoughtful, Duong suggested to his teammates to head to the nearest flag: “I have a feeling it’s this way…”
Hoa Lien frowned: “What kind of premonition?”
Duong said randomly: “Look, the broken branches over there are all pointing in the same direction!”
It is true that Duong’s place only has many broken branches, the branches all pointing in one direction.
Van Hai said: “Let’s just go in that direction, we don’t know where to start anyway.”
So the whole group went through the forest towards the first flag, Duong kept smiling happily, with such ease he thought that in just half a day his team would capture all 10 flags, his team under the leadership of a brilliant genius like him would definitely be the champion!
Two hours later.
Duong was lying stiffly on the stretcher made of tree branches carried by Van Hai and Chau Doc. It was true that he had gotten the first flag, but Duong hastily ran to get the flag without knowing that the flag was guarded by a gorilla spirit beast of the Linh Uy level. As a result, he was grabbed by the head by the giant monkey and beaten like a dog before Van Hai and Chau Doc could save him.
He wouldn’t have been in this situation if he had asked Google and turned on the self-protection mode of the Phù Đổng Thiên Vương armor, but Dương thought this spirit realm was as safe as the academy’s spirit realm, and at the same time he knew the other teams were very far away so he didn’t bother turning on the armor, leaving it for the next rounds.
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At the Goddess Academy, in the middle of the school yard, a grandstand and a screen were set up for students and teachers to watch the competition. Sinh, Chung, and Tran laughed so hard they burst out laughing when they saw Duong lying on the stretcher. My and Nhat looked worried about him.
“But how did he find the flag so quickly?” Sinh asked, holding his stomach which was aching from laughing.
“Because there were actually traces leading to the flag’s location, Duong was very smart so he found it easily.” My said with a look of admiration that made Sinh, Chung, and Tran curl their lips in envy.
“Oh, the Dragon team also found a card!” Someone in the stands shouted loudly, the screen split into 4 parts so the audience could see all 4 teams at the same time.
“The Ancient Capital team and the Imperial Academy team are heading straight towards each other! Will they clash?”
Not only at the Goddess Academy, academies and major cities across the country are also eagerly following this competition…
Long cung, Diem looked down from the room at the big screen in the middle of Long thanh, a proud smile, a tear of longing…
“My son…”
Two hours after the Survival round began, the Goddess team won the first flag after the youngest member Vo Phi Duong heroically sacrificed himself, then the Hoang Sa – Truong Sa team defeated a level 5 Spirit Beast to win a flag.
While the two teams that had captured the flag were resting to regain their spiritual energy, the two teams from Co Do and Quoc Tu Giam were both heading towards the same flag.
The Imperial Academy team led by Chong Hao walked along the border of the spiritual realm, following the traces to find a large ancient tree.
“Whist!”
Hao signaled his teammates to be quiet and hid in a bush. They discovered the national flag on the trunk of an old tree, but under the tree was a big bear sleeping.
“Iron Bear, a metal-attribute bear-like spirit beast, strong in both attack and defense but loves to sleep. This one is about 3 meters tall, probably has spiritual power around Spirit Commander level 5-6.” Ly Van Thong, the most knowledgeable member of the Imperial Academy team, said.
Thong continued: “Vu Van Tien has the best speed on the team, I suggest Tien sneak in to grab the flag and run, we will support from behind!”
Vu Van Tien nodded: “Okay! Let me go!”
“Wait!” Chong Hao stopped him: “There is a commotion ahead, it seems like there are other creatures!”
Hao pointed to a distance where the bushes were rustling. Then from the bushes emerged a group of five young men, each wearing a golden badge on their chest.
“It’s the Ancient Capital team!” Thong whispered.
The Ancient Capital team led by Nguyen Hoai Lam also quickly hid in the same place as the Imperial Academy team.
“Wait for them to clash with the bear, then we will reap the benefits!” Chong Hao said softly. He thought they had the advantage because the Ancient Capital team arrived later and couldn’t know that another team was hiding.
Sure enough, the Co Do team immediately took action. Le Van Luyen, the team’s speed member, tiptoed to the tree.
“Prepare for action!” Chong Hao softly ordered. Luyen was already very close to the bear. Chong Hao guessed that Luyen was about to jump up and grab the flag and run away. They just needed to intercept and grab it back. As for the bear, there were already 4 members of the Ancient Capital Academy blocking it.
But unexpectedly, Luyen did not capture the flag but pretended to wander around and stopped near where the Imperial Academy team was hiding, took the rock hidden in his hand and threw it at the bear’s head, then ran away, surprising the 5 members of the Imperial Academy team.
The angry bear swung its stick and roared loudly, looking straight at the direction of the Imperial Academy team and madly charging forward.
“Run!” Sung Hao was shocked and signaled his teammates to run. At this moment, he understood that he had fallen into the trap of the Co Do team.
It was the Imperial City team that hid first and discovered that the Imperial University team was coming later, but they pretended to be late to trick the Imperial University team. As a result, the Imperial University team ran away while the Imperial City team comfortably grabbed the flag. When the bear returned, the whole group was gone.