"Is this all the Champion Mage Challenge amounts to? And they said it was an event everyone in the Alliance had to attend?!"
Nora grumbled as she walked down the street. She had spent the past two days watching the Champion Mage Challenge's group stage. Things had improved somewhat on the second day, but it still felt different from what she had imagined.
Why did the Champion Mage Challenge start with a half-hour pause? And why could the contestants who came out afterward barely walk? She had even seen several fall before they reached the Duel Arena.
It was the last thing any mage who had bought a group-stage ticket wanted to see, yet scenes like that were everywhere throughout the group stage.
Nora was starting to regret choosing the Champion Mage Challenge as her activity during her time off.
She would have been better off finding a few residents near the Northern Lands Society and going dire wolf riding in the Northern Territory.
The scenery amid the swirling snow might have been better than sitting here watching an ugly match.
"Oh well, I'm already here. If today's more of the same, I'll wait until the Top Thirty-Two matches before coming back."
"I'll go see that 'Philly' today. I didn't get a look at her face last time..."
Nora had been distracted last time. She did not know how she had spent so long lost in thought, but by the time she looked, all she could see was "Philly's" back.
To her surprise, that "Philly" had hair exactly like her friend Philly's from the Yobner Society. They were even about the same height.
It made her intensely curious about what this "Philly" looked like.
She had never considered that this "Philly" might be her friend, though. Wasn't Philly still over