This meant that even if you had a great many points, you could still lose them all in a single round.
And if your opponent was overly arrogant, you might even turn the tables in one go.
Of course, the prerequisite was that both sides held enough badges to use as stakes. Then—
After the second day began.
The Blue Restaurant would no longer retain its safe-zone properties. Naturally, there would no longer be a nine-point limit either.
However, the duel protection period would still exist. It would merely be reduced from thirty minutes to ten.
In addition, contestants would no longer be limited to initiating only one duel against the same contestant.
In other words, if the other party did not use their duel protection period, you could even challenge them to duels an unlimited number of times in succession.
Overall, the rules of the competition had become freer, and in theory, it would also become more intense.
But in reality.
Considering that most of the points had already been concentrated in the hands of the upper-year contestants, the lower-year contestants with few points remaining would likely be eliminated quickly.
Meanwhile, upper-year contestants holding more points would probably become more cautious out of a need to protect their scores.
Of course, what exactly would happen still depended on the actual circumstances. Just like today's competition, the coordination between Public Magic Armor Academy and the other two academies had changed the entire situation.
Now that their hopes of winning the championship had become slim, it was not impossible for the remaining academies to coordinate behind the scenes as well.
"In any case, we need to prepare ourselves mentally for the possibility of being besieged by every academy."
Emma set down her pen and spoke with some concern.
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