With Giovanni leading the way, Stelle and March 7th registered their accounts and identities at the Aetherium Wars player terminal, then learned about the rules of the Interastral Tournament Festival.
Before officially entering the tournament, they first had to prove their strength during the festival.
That meant traveling to Victory Zones across the universe, completing their trials, and obtaining qualification badges.
In other words, the rules were similar to challenging Gyms. After all, this thing had been called "Honkaimon" in Jiang Yu's previous life.
Once they understood everything, March 7th and Stelle threw themselves wholeheartedly into the Interastral Tournament Festival.
Jiang Yu, meanwhile, had no intention of competing, so he went sightseeing and having fun around Belobog with the others.
During this time, Qingque began promoting Imperial Jade in Belobog. The pastime quickly caught on and swept through all of Belobog at an astonishing speed, proving especially popular among its older residents.
Bailu went to sample Belobog's local cuisine instead. Of course, while tasting the food, she made no particular effort to ask about or investigate how these dishes were made or what their ingredients originally looked like.
As a seasoned gourmet, Bailu clearly had ample experience in this regard. Indeed, once someone learned how certain dishes were made and what ingredients they used, they might lose the desire to eat them for all sorts of reasons.
Take Jiang Yu, for example. He might really enjoy a dish, but if its ingredients looked too ugly-not to his personal taste-he would never eat it again, and might even feel sick at the sight of it.
Or there were insect banquets, which some people enjoyed but Jiang Yu found very hard to stomach.
Bailu made no such mistakes, so she finished sampling all of Belobog's local specialties without a hitch.
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