The earth under everyone's feet began to tremble.
A huge stone tablet rose from the ground.
There were words written on the stone tablet using magic, which also explained the competition events of the Grand Magic Games in the next few days.
The competition time was a total of five days, divided into the competitive part and the battle part.
The competitive part could freely introduce participating players, while the battle part was for the organizers to select designated candidates for battle with reference to fan votes.
The score values for the competitive part were: 10 points for the first place, 8 points for the second place, 6 points for the third place, 4 points for the fourth place, 3 points for the fifth place, 2 points for the sixth place, 1 point for the seventh place, and 0 points for the eighth place.
The score values for the battle part were: 10 points for winning the game, 0 points for losing the game, and 5 points for each draw.
Day 1: Hidden + Battle
Day 2: ?? + Battle
Day 3: ?? + Battle
Day 4: ?? + Double Battle
Day 5: Grand Magic Games
As one after another of the magic crystal images for broadcasting appeared.
The images of the eight participants also floated on it.
The audience on the scene could also carefully watch the specific situation of the competition.
"Dear audience friends, the eight participating players are completely unable to know each other's whereabouts at this moment, and the rules of Hidden are very simple."
On the commentary seat, Ooba began to introduce the rules of Hidden.
"That is, each other is both the 'oni' and the object of pursuit, find each other in this town, and then use whatever magic to try to give the other party a blow."
"Regardless of whether or not it causes damage, anyone who successfully attacks will get one point."
"And the person who is attacked will also have one point deducted, and will be re-transmitted to other areas and can only start acting again after ten seconds."
At this time, rays of light lit up around Gray and others.
Immediately afterwards, countless figures filled the entire town, those figures were all participants in the Hidden competition.
Some of them were walking, some were leaning against the wall, some were looking into the distance, and some were standing in front of the shops on the street.
Just like real people.
On the Team A viewing platform.
Lucy looked at the many figures in the screen in surprise.
"There are so many of the same people."
Natsu next to her suddenly covered his mouth, his face turning ugly.
"Brother Natsu, don't you want to vomit?" Wendy looked at the strange Natsu with wide eyes.
"Because there are so many Grays, I feel so nausea," Natsu explained.
The sudden situation startled all the participants.
And Ooba's voice also sounded in everyone's ears at this time:
"These are everyone's clones, if you accidentally attack the clone, you will have one point deducted on the spot, the total game time is thirty minutes," Ooba explained.
"Alright, disappear into the silence, like a black cat lurking in the darkness!"
"Hidden, start!"
As Ooba's voice fell, the gong in the arena was struck heavily.
It also heralded the official start of the competition!
"Rather than hide-and-seek, it's more like competing on how to find the real enemy," Gajeel said.
"That's right, how to find the real person among the almost identical clones, and how to prevent the opponent's disguised attack, these are all great tests for the participants," Finn's gaze turned to Gray and Juvia in the screen.
"Then… what will you do?" He murmured.
"However…" He suddenly thought of something, his face became a little strange.
"What's wrong?" Mirajane, who was paying attention to Finn all the time, noticed Finn's abnormality at the first time, so she asked.
"I suddenly feel like I shouldn't have sent Juvia to play…" Finn's face became ugly.
Mirajane didn't seem to understand what Finn meant.
"If there are so many Grays…" Before Finn could finish his words, the situation he was worried about happened.
He saw Juvia's eyes emitting red hearts, her face a little flushed.
Her head was still looking around, looking at the Grays surrounding her, she only felt that happiness had descended on her in an instant.
"Wow, so many Gray-sama! Since there are so many… it shouldn't be too much for Juvia to take one back, right!"
Juvia, who had been blinded by Gray, completely forgot the rules just now.
She suddenly hugged the Gray clone in front of her.
"Juvia… is so happy!"
Doo Doo~~
A prompt sounded, and then before Juvia could react, a ray of light enveloped Juvia. In the next moment, Juvia was teleported away from the spot.
Juvia: -1 point
"That! Juvia took the lead in attacking the clone and had one point deducted!"
"At this time, you must start again in another area after ten seconds!" Ooba explained in a timely manner.
"Hahaha, are the people from Fairy Tail so stupid?"
"That's right, that's right, it's really killing me with laughter!"
"As expected, there's a reason for being at the bottom of the list!"
The audience's booing kept ringing out.
Even the Fairy Tail cheering stage seemed to be covered by black lines.
There wasn't a single sound for a long time.
On the Team B viewing platform, Finn smiled helplessly: "I was worried about this…"
"That idiot!" The corners of Gajeel's mouth kept twitching.
"It seems that this project is a bit unfavorable for Juvia," Mirajane covered her face with one hand and said with a smile.
Laxus's eyes widened: "If I had known she would be like this, I should have changed someone else to play…"
At this time, in the town.
Gray looked around and moved slowly.
"This competition, compared to hiding, it's even more difficult to find the other party, right," He murmured.
"No, the rules of the competition, it's still more beneficial to understand them earlier." A voice came from behind him.
Gray stopped and looked back.
He saw the short body of the figure, and the signature butt-shaped chin.
Gray had some impressions of this person.
"Raven Tail?" He asked.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Raven Tail… Nullpudding!" Nullpudding introduced himself.
Gray showed a trace of a smile and waved his hands.
The cold air diffuse around him.
"I was still worrying about where to find you, I didn't expect you to take the initiative to come to my door."
"Ice Make Sword Rain!"
A blue ice magic circle flashed.
Dozens of ice-made long swords shot towards Nullpudding at an extremely fast speed.
The sunlight shone on the blue ice sword tip, reflecting a dazzling cold light.
On the cheering stage, Jet's eyes widened.
"This seems to be a little different from his previous molding magic."
"That's for sure, Gray is not the Gray he used to be!" Happy crossed his arms, his expression very confident.
During the seven years, as a partner who had been walking with Gray, Happy knew very well how much Gray had changed.
However, in the face of Gray's attack, Nullpudding didn't mean to dodge at all.
He smiled at the corner of his mouth, watching the sword rain flying towards him.
But in the next moment, his smile froze on his face.
The ice-made flying sword seemed to have life, drawing arcs in the air.
It hit Nullpudding, who was hiding behind the clone, squarely.
Boom——!!
The ice sword carrying a huge impact hit him.
Among them, there were even two ice swords that directly penetrated his body, before the blood had time to flow out.
It was instantly frozen into a blood-red ice block.
"Ugh~~" The severe pain swept through his body, and he let out a wail.
His figure was directly blown to the ground.
"What's going on? Why didn't Gray attack the person in front of him, but rushed towards the back?"
"And successfully hit Nullpudding!"
On the commentary seat, Ooba was full of confusion.
Even the audience around him were a little confused.
__________________
for more advance chapters visit patreon.com/bars45.
For 10$- All advance chapters.
"Schedule"
Monday - Friday - Update 3 Chapters a Day
Saturday - Sunday - Off