Unfair competition—this was a phrase witches revered, and almost the best summary of every form their matches took.
It meant that as long as a witch stood on the field, whatever props or spells she used were permitted, save for certain special items that witches deemed detrimental to watchability and thus banned.
And that meant:
Overgeared witches existed!
Witches with terrifying financial power could fully convert that financial power into combat strength!
Because in a witch's eyes, a match was a prepared encounter battle!
And in a prepared encounter battle, naturally, any means was allowed.
It was Jiang Han's first time watching matches played by these superstars. Since they were superstars, their matches were generally scheduled during prime time. Between three and five in the afternoon was the ideal time for a showdown—since they also had to account for the immovable evening news broadcast, those two hours from three to five were called Superstar Time.
The national team's arena was enormous: an eight-point Sky Island served as the battlefield, including dozens of miles of airspace around the island!
An eight-point Sky Island referred to a competition island designed with eight standard witch terrains. The eight terrain types were:
Jungle, lake, mountains, grassland, swamp, snowfield, ruins, and desert.
As for the basic rules, anyone who understood the three fundamental rules could understand a witch match.
Basic Rule 1: the Resistance Rule, also called the 31-Second Rule. Witches could evade, avoid battle, and wage guerrilla warfare, but the side avoiding battle had to pose an attack threat to the attacking witch every thirty-one seconds, or they would be judged defeated.
Basic Rule 2: the Offense Rule, also known as the Great Witch Angelite Rule. After Angelite had remained invincible for fifteen years, witches had been forced to revise the rules: a witch