Anticipation

"The first round will begin in 30 minutes, all participants have arrived, when you are ready approach the east mirror room there you will be teleported to the arena." The mechanical voice said as an audible crackle of lightning and boom of thunder could be heard from the cloud raising Lucian from his slumber.

Lucian got up from the cloud bed which was surprisingly easy and stretched before heading toward the shower room where all the different uniforms had already been placed.

He looked through the uniforms and decided to take the black shorts from one dummy and a black t-shirt from another once he'd changed he went through the east mirror before finding himself in the center of the arena hearing the roar of the crowds voices.

As he looked around he could see a few other youths had already entered the arena as well.

One was a female with Snow White hair and silver eyes. Her gaze dead as though nothing mattered to her.

Another was a boy, he had darker skin and a head full of hair, he excitedly kept turning and waving and bowing towards the crowd.

More and more participants appeared in the arena before the 30 minutes had passed.

"At last! We begin our annual Rankings exhibition, just like all years contestants will be split in groups of combatants, alchemist, and formation and technological experts." A woman with a powerful and booming voice spoke as an image of her appeared above the arena dwarfing everyone present.

As soon as the voice was heard the arena hushed to silence, a show of the respect and reverence the light held for the woman present. She had beautiful curly golden hair with a soft and innocent face, she had been the head for the light family over the past 2 eras and looked to still be in her prime her power and status were unquestionable.

"Participants can participate in however many groups they would like, however only if they are able to ontain enough points in events outside of their primary will they receive the rank 'ace' which will afford more opportunities to your branch of the family."

"Each event group has 4 activities over 4 days, for alchemist and formation experts you may participate in your events whenever you would like within these next few days. You may all now select your primary group and secondaries if you choose to do so."

After the family leader said this, a screen appeared in front of each participant present as some began to disappear from the arena.

After a few minutes only about half of the 100,000 or so participants remained in the arena before the light family leader began to speak again.

"You remaining participants chose combat as either your primary or secondary, either way this is the first combat event a royal rumble where you will fight with the aim of incapacitating one another. Each incapacitated participant will be teleported to the rest area of their locker room."

"The first 30,000 participants incapacitated will receive 1 point, the next 10,000 will receive 2 points. Rank 9,999-5,001 will receive 3 points, ranks from 5000-500 will receive 4 points, ranks 499-100 will receive 5 points

Rank 99-11 will receive 7 points, and each rank from 10 to one will receive one additional point then the rank proceeding it. This will be the scoring system for all events in all groups."

"The contestants will be teleported to their lockers for a 5 minute time out while the arena is prepared. During this time contestants are encouraged to retrieve a suitable weapon from the arms rack and all other appropriate attire."

After the woman said this Lucian found himself right back in the center of the mirror room as if he hadn't left. He walked forward into the north mirror and inspected the weapon rack on the wall.

There were lances, katanas, whips, daggers, guns any weapon you could think of you could find on this wall.

'How do they stop us from killing each other with all these weapons?' Lucian thought as he inspected the melee weapons more closely.

"Ahh here it is!" Lucian said as he reached for a dagger that had a curved blade commonly known as a sickle

He then grabbed one of the chain whips, he began channeling energy into his finger where a bright spark could be seen. He waved his finger through the hilt of the sickle cutting it off extremely smoothly.

He then used his finger to bore a hole into the curved blade which he used to connect it to the chain whip.

There was already a bladed whip on the wall however it lacked the curved blade Lucian wanted.

"The arena has been prepared contestants have 15minutes to use their teleportation room and arrive in the arena before they are disqualified and receive 0 points for this round." The automated voice sounded.

Lucian left the shower room and used the teleporting room arriving in a location he thought to be different than the arena. He attempted to walk around to see more of where he had been teleported to but found his body was stuck locked in place by some outside force.

'Great way to build anticipation.' Lucien thought as he observed the seemingly endless trees spread out in front of him.