Mixed Blessing System

In the blink of an eye, the first matches of the team warrior competition went through the first round.

In this round, Lothur's group moved up the combat platform since the teams had the means to neutralize Viktoria. So it made no sense to let them pass peacefully through to the semifinals.

But even though the opposing teams had their ways against Lothur's group, he, Viktoria, and Annaliese managed to get through the first combat, beating their opponents.

How had they done this with one less person and Annaliese on their side? Lothur and Viktoria had hurt their opponents whenever they could during the other competitions of this day's finals.

Because of this, several of their opponents had more injuries than they would have liked when they went up to face them in this first team-fighting match.

That resulted in their first victory, which took them to the quarter-finals.

Next, when they fought a group from the Frohberg family, Lothur's team faced an extremely tough match where two people from each side were standing at the end of the fight.

Fortunately for the Frost family group, the committee referees following that match gave the result in favor of their group.

Thus, to the joy of the many ordinary individuals in the coliseum, Lothur's group was guaranteed to continue fighting for two more rounds, the semifinals, finals, or third-place match.

The Frost family reached 83 points and was almost catching up with House Koch, which had 84. But if Viktoria's family won one more match, even with a draw, it would move to 5th place. After all, Anneke's family had already been eliminated from the competition. In contrast, the one point needed for the Frost family to draw would come from a match yet to be played.

And with that, while Annaliese's family members were cheering another victory, those of the Koch family were already sighing, knowing the risks of losing a position.

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[Name: Lothur Ritter]

[Physique: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger]

[Bloodline: Life Devourer]

[Cultivation: level 9]

[STR: 28.4] [CON: 100] [DEX: 24.6] [AGI: 32.8]

[INT: 68.8] [PER: 72] [WIL: 78.7]

[EVF: 623]

Lothur saw his status and the slight improvement he had gained after these last few matches, which had been quite demanding on his body.

He had to protect Annaliese and still combine his forces with Viktoria to compensate for the lack of a fourth member of this team. So his efforts had been great enough for him to get attribute points in these previous matches.

On the other hand, Lothur was a bit lucky to face a young man with flame-focused spiritual techniques once again, which helped him raise his resistance a bit more.

[Iron-grade flame resistance.]

[Progress: 98%.]

But since there were no other competitors with such techniques, he no longer expected to improve his flame resistance further in this competition.

He looked at his women and said. "I think the next match will be our limit..."

"Hmmm, it will be tough to beat the main group of the Waldauer family." Viktoria commented as she looked at the other side of the fighting platform, where the opponents were. "Anyway, I think we have a chance to take third place. With that, we will already achieve the best possible position."

"It's just a pity we won't get the Secret Realm slots from this competition," Annaliese commented regarding the prize for this warrior group competition.

The individual warrior competition also gave the winner one spot in the Secret Realm, which would open in a few weeks. But such a thing was only one slot and only for the winner. In the case of this team competition, there were two slots, and they could be given to anyone in the family who met the age requirements of the Secret Realm.

So the prize was much better, which is why Annaliese could not help but regret this situation.

That was particularly true since there would still be a competition at the Morning Star Academy with spaces for the Secret Realm. What did this mean? Well, the family that won those slots could not only choose two of their members to send to this event, but they could also do this with more people, provided, of course, that their youngsters won such a competition at the academy.

In the end, a family could take up to twice as many young people to the Secret Realm as other local organizations. And this could make a big difference in the future of these organizations!

After all, the Secret Realm was a land of opportunity, with unique places to advance the speed of comprehension and cultivation. Yet, at the same time, it was part of a battlefield full of resources lost in spatial rings or ancient caves.

Hence, the relevance of these slots to the Secret Realm was not minor and could raise the status of a family not only in the province but in the entire Empire!

"That doesn't matter. We'll get places through the competition within the academy..." Lothur commented before their group was called, and they set off for yet another battle.

After that, they soon began moving around that platform. Viktoria used her spiritual techniques to try to hold the strongest enemies while Lothur and Annaliese acted together.

At this part of the event, she could not do much against the remaining opponents. So Annaliese's role was to support Lothur, helping him entertain the opponents.

Their hope was for Viktoria to eliminate one of her opponents and help them.

But this was not easy. Four opponents could use energy attacks and fight while keeping their distance from the Frost family group members. At the same time, only Viktoria could do that on this team of hers.

Because of this, as much as Lothur could act against level 11 people if he fought against only such a person, he could not do it well in this situation.

One person might even have difficulty getting rid of Lothur and escaping his incredible speed. But two of them fighting against them were fully capable of doing that.

Because of this possibility, other fights from earlier had been quite tricky for Lothur and Annaliese. However, things only got worse for them in this semifinal!

This time, before the match had even ended, not only Annaliese but also Lothur were eliminated from the match by the two individuals who were not suffering from Viktoria.

Such individuals even suffered greatly and were then eliminated by Lothur's wife. However, at the end of the match, two people from the enemy group were left standing to fight her, giving victory to that rival family of House Frost!

Thus, the Frost family group lost the semifinal and would have to fight for third place, a match that did not take long to happen.

At the night's end, House Frost finished in 3rd place in the group contest, while Houses Klassen and Waldauer came in 2nd and 1st, respectively.

Thus, the final Province Conference ranking was released!

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