(Heartfelt thanks to 'Yunqi Qinggu,' 'Canglan Feixue,' and 'Xin Hun Luopo' for their rewards!)
The starting order for the contestants in the Aries Palace Dragon Riding Festival was carefully arranged as well...
At the Aries Palace Dragon Riding Festival, there was no such thing as fairness at the starting line. The contestants' positions were determined by their results in the regular practical training simulations, with a proper ranking from front to back.
In previous Aries Palace Dragon Riding Festivals, the riders with the best practical results and fastest speeds would start at the front, followed accordingly by the rest. The worse their results and the slower their speed, the farther back their starting positions would be. But this year's Dragon Riding Festival was different.
The contestants at the very front were not the best performers, but the worst!
This had been Rebecca's suggestion!
The reason was simple: it was more exciting this way!
Thus, under the new rules for this year's Aries Palace Dragon Riding Festival, Sylvia, who had taken first place in past simulations, obediently lined up at the very back of all the contestants atop the Holy Dragon Lancelot.
Besides Sylvia, Wu Yan was also one of those placed at the very back.
That was only natural. Wu Yan had enrolled just two days ago, so he had never participated in any simulations and had no results to speak of. But because he had displayed the miraculous Dragon Riding Skill of shifting through space during practical dragon-riding combat training, the students unanimously believed his speed was no less than Sylvia's.
So Rebecca had arranged for him to start at the back.
Of course, there was another reason besides that...
"No... way..."
Inside and outside the arena, everyone present, teachers and students alike, stared at a gigantic figure in