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Accompanied by the loud clatter of wheels, wooden chariots rolled grandly through the streets of Crocus.
The wooden chariots were linked together by iron chains, forming a long dragon-like procession as they traveled steadily toward the Grand Dome—Flavius amid the rumbling of wheels.
On the moving wooden chariots, the mages were racing.
That was right, racing.
Through the projection Magic Crystals installed within the Grand Dome—Flavius, mages and spectators from all across the continent could clearly watch the entire race.
Yet because of that, every spectator fell into an extremely bizarre silence as they watched the images displayed on the projection Magic Crystals.
The mages of Fairy Tail and Saber Tooth in particular had already been rendered utterly speechless.
There was no other reason.
The results had simply exceeded everyone's expectations.
The event on the second day of the Grand Magic Games was the chariot race.
The rules of this competition were very simple: the contestants from the eight teams had to race atop the chariots.
During the race, the contestants could not fall off their chariots.
The moment they touched the ground outside the chariots, they would be eliminated.
Magic and any other methods were permitted. As long as they did not fall from the constantly moving chariots and successfully reached the finish line, the race would be over.
In the end, each guild team would receive different scores according to the order in which they arrived at the finish line.
It was such a simple competition.
And yet, this very competition had left the entire audience speechless.
The reason lay in the scene shown