A light rain pattered down. The weather was hardly pleasant, yet the atmosphere throughout the East Dragon Magic and Martial Arts Academy was exceptionally spirited, with matches in the East Dragon Tournament taking place simultaneously across the Trial Grounds.
The East Dragon Tournament was the East Dragon Magic and Martial Arts Academy's grandest annual event. Although outsiders were not permitted to enter the academy to watch, professional magical projections would broadcast the entire tournament to East Dragon City, allowing its ordinary citizens to enjoy this year's grand event as well.
As the East Dragon Empire's foremost academy, the East Dragon Magic and Martial Arts Academy also represented the empire's prestige. The stronger its students and the more outstanding their performances, the greater the strength the academy demonstrated.
There were six year groups, with magic and martial arts competing separately. In other words, matches were taking place in at least twelve regions at once.
The First Research Zone was the competition area for the first-year magic students. Today's opening match was between mages from the Space Department, one of the eight East Dragon departments, and the Fire Department.
Although the Fire Department was not one of the eight East Dragon departments, the explosive power of fire magic still attracted a large number of mages. Its enrollment consistently exceeded a hundred students, and every student admitted to the East Dragon Magic and Martial Arts Academy was a genius. The Space Department, meanwhile, was one of the eight East Dragon departments, and its mysterious spatial magic was sought after by the overwhelming majority.
This opening clash between the Fire Department and the Space Department would undoubtedly set the entire venue ablaze with excitement.
Even some senior students had come to the First Research Zone to watch the battles there.
The Trial Ground covered