Trialist Maze.
This time, the site of the Cloth Contest was this enormous maze. After the Cloth War began, candidates from all over entered the maze together.
The Crane Cloth lay deep within the maze. Only those who reached its deepest point, found the Crane Cloth, and earned its recognition could become the new Silver Saint of the Crane.
"The Crane Cloth lies deep within the maze. This is a fair opportunity for everyone... Any means may be used in the maze to defeat your opponents, but there is one thing you must uphold!"
"You are all warriors of the allied army. You may die on the battlefield, and you may die at the hands of the enemy, but you absolutely cannot die at the hands of your comrades—as for this contest, killing your comrades is forbidden. Once discovered, even those capable of inheriting the Cloth will be executed... The goddess's Saints have no need for fools who would raise their blades against their comrades!"
"That is all!"
Thus, more than a thousand female warriors from all over entered the Trialist Maze from different locations at the same time.
The place where Lamias had been assigned was the entrance to the fifth zone of the maze... It was called a maze, but what they had actually entered was a vast forest.
The Trialist Maze seemed to be a special space composed of different zones.
"Don't waste too much time defeating opponents along the way." The moment Suya entered the maze, she already had a plan. "We need to pass through this zone in the shortest possible time. The real contest is in the deepest part of the maze—the Icefield where the Cloth is located!"
The Cloth War had only just begun, yet Suya already knew the name of the zone