Chapter 258: Chapter 180: Is it Really a Sports Competition? _2
Ai Lin also participated in three events, all of which were technical, and unsurprisingly she won all three championships.
Long Yi originally thought winning a championship would involve being awarded a gold medal or something, but it turns out there was nothing at all. Moreover, this happened only to the White Dragon Empire.
In fact, champions from any other country would receive a gold medal, but they were not awarded to participants from the White Dragon Empire. The reason is simple, it’s all because of the White Dragon Emperor.
Back in the day, when the Black Dragon Empire participated in the games, the White Dragon Emperor refused to give gold medals to Black Dragon Empire athletes, as gold was considered a strategically valuable resource that cannot be given to enemy nations. This made the Black Dragon Empire lose face, and the royalty was furious when an incident of accidental death involving their top athlete occurred afterward.
It seems like history is repeating itself now.
Repeating history?
Long Yi couldn’t help but laugh. Did the Black Dragon Empire plan to kill one or two players from the White Dragon Empire in the upcoming matches?
Or, did they have no intention of letting these people leave? No matter what the outcome was, Long Yi was eager to see it, he felt too comfortable for too long. He grew up with a loving blacksmith family; everyone in the small town loved Long Yi, a big-headed, skilled blacksmith; his childhood sweetheart is not only beautiful and kind but also very powerful; when he came to the Dragon Knight Academy, he made many good friends.
Indeed, a comfortable life is the poison that erodes one’s fighting spirit. Long Yi didn’t dislike a comfortable life, but as a warrior, he needed to bear his own responsibilities.
A warrior belongs on the battlefield!
So Long Yi was eagerly waiting for the Black Dragon Empire to make a serious mistake.
Various matches were going on orderly. Although there were boos filling the competition field whenever the White Dragon Empire appeared, the people of the White Dragon Empire were well-prepared for this. After all, they were on someone else’s home turf, so they just had to turn a deaf ear and pretend not to hear.
Soon, all the competitions ended in five days. The White Dragon Empire won a total of thirty-five gold medals, sixteen silver medals, and seven bronze medals. It ranked first in the gold medal and the medal tally, with Black Dragon Empire following in second. However, none of the athletes from the White Dragon Empire had any medals around their necks. This time, the Black Dragon Empire went even more extreme, refusing to give not only gold medals but also silver and bronze ones. The emperor of the Black Dragon Empire stated that silver and copper are also important commodities and absolutely cannot be given to enemy nations.
The diplomats of the White Dragon Empire protested as a matter of routine, but ultimately, they could only laugh bitterly in their hearts.
On the sixth day, the highlight of the seven-nation competition finally arrived.
The seven-nation exhibition game officially began!
Throughout, although the sports games attracted many spectators, people clearly lacked interest in this kind of play-play match. However, when the seven-nation exhibition match began that day, the whole stadium was packed to the point where people were literally piling on top of each other.
War is, after all, too distant for common people, and this so-called exhibition game is a miniature of the war.
The most important thing is, today, the contradiction between the White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire might once again intensify!
"Long live the Black Dragon Empire! Kill all the White Dragon Idiots!"
"Long live the Black Dragon Empire! Kill all the White Dragon Idiots!"
"Long live the Black Dragon Empire! Kill all the White Dragon Idiots!"
In the stands, the cheers were louder than ever.
Inside the resting area, Long Yi clearly saw that the participants seemed to be more nervous.
However, Long Yi wasn’t nervous at all, he was very sincerely looking at the instructor leading the team this time.
"Instructor Uncle! Please let me participate, even though my dragon can’t fly, I can stand on the back of someone else’s dragon! Don’t worry, even if I fall and die, it’d be my own fault! What? You’re worried I might disrupt others’ battles, funny, you should worry if others would disrupt my battle because I’m very strong and quite competent! No one could rival me even if I’m on the ground!"
Yes! What Long Yi could never expect was, he wasn’t even allowed to participate!
The reason was quite simple! His dragon couldn’t fly!
The exhibition game was a competition of five-person teams, testing the teamwork and tactics in aerial combat, of course, the most important aspect was coordination.
All the participants today were sixth-year students and their dragons were full-grown, they had been teaming up for over a year and their coordination was amazing.
Whether a dragon is mature or not affects whether a Dragon Knight can demonstrate his maximum power.
Dragon Knights’ battles were far less exciting than Mages since there were only a few moves for Dragon Knights and a limited set of Fighting Aura techniques that most students would have mastered by their third year. The rest would depend on spontaneous actions at the moment. Long Yi’s dragon was not even a teenage dragon, facing a group of adult dragons, how could the team instructor allow Long Yi to participate? He knew Long Yi was strong but aerial combat was an entirely different ballgame from ground battles and they absolutely couldn’t be compared!
Moreover, this was an exhibition match. There is a very important rule in the so-called exhibition game, which is that no dragon is permitted to use Dragon Breath!
Dragon Breath is the dragon’s strongest weapon. To date, protecting against dragon breath is still a very tough issue in this world. Because of the enormous power and wide range of the dragon breath, it’s difficult to have effective targeted protection. Once the use of Dragon Breath is prohibited, the pure aerial combat would definitely not be something an outsider like Long Yi could figure out.
