Chapter 408: Recruiting Manpower
"So the Cloud Marsh Cup is a proper competition prepared for a special war. It has its own evaluation standards."
Reading the materials, Locke mused, "The Cloud Marsh Cup's process is to first select, within each Wizard Land, a qualified Breeder team to represent that Wizard Land in the competition. So the teams must first compete within the major wizard academies. The winning teams will then participate in their Wizard Land's competition."
"The team that can represent that Wizard Land will be decided."
"Only after two preliminary rounds will the true inter-Wizard Land competition begin—the start of the Cloud Marsh Cup's main event."
"Because it's a cross-Wizard Land competition, there are four rounds in total. Two are preliminary rounds, and the other two are true cross-Wizard Land-level matches."
"After entering the main event, the first round requires each team to submit its concept drawings and materials to the committee in charge of the competition for evaluation. The top ten Breeder teams will receive financial support from the committee to cultivate the designed Magic Plant weapons and advance to the final round."
"The final round will be a joint defense by the ten Breeder teams. Each team will hand over the Magic Plants it cultivated to wizards from the affiliated races of the Cloud Marsh Wetland's subsidiary planes. Those wizards will use the plants in actual combat against the Mekanians."
"An academic defense is actually a real battlefield. What a massive undertaking!"
"The Magic Plants' battle records will speak for themselves."
Locke couldn't help marveling at the grand scale of this cross-Wizard Land competition. It was far beyond any internal Wizard Land competition he had participated in before.
Locke mused, "Come to think of it, I might be able to skip the first two preliminary rounds entirely.