The most closely watched teams this year were naturally the college teams with royal bloodlines. This was the tradition of the Crown Prince Year, and most of the betting was centered around these Crown Prince Teams.
However, outsiders had no clear idea of the true strength of the Crown Princes from the various major clans. All the higher-ups in the royal families shared a contradiction: they liked building momentum for their own Crown Princes, but they also disliked revealing their strength. As a result, the news reports contained elements of showing off their power, yet no one could say for certain which family's Crown Prince was stronger.
Take Bronze Academy, for example. Its news reports constantly proclaimed things like "Muradin Bronzebeard has emerged for the first time to accept a disciple" and "Crown Prince Kudlan Wildhammer possesses the exceptional talent of a generation's Bronze Emperor." The publicity was undeniably massive, but what exactly was this talent? How strong was he? No one knew.
In terms of publicity, Tyrande of Starry Sky Academy had been the most successful this year. She was hailed as the strongest Crown Prince in Starry Sky's history. At the Starry Sky Academy sacrificial ceremony ten years ago, her bloodline talent for summoning the Water Lord had displayed, to a certain extent, the ability of this so-called strongest Crown Prince in history. But as for how strong Tyrande really was, no one knew.
That was because there had been no news of this Crown Prince fighting anyone with sufficient credentials.
Everything was shrouded in mist. Everyone could only cast their votes based on the intensity of the publicity in the news and their own analysis, but that was exactly what the bookmakers wanted to see.
Although Tyrande's publicity had been the most successful and her support the