Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 280: The Machine Empire Part One

Morning came and Mei and her group were back at the battle stages in the center of the city. This time Kang Bo was the one who was going to start things off by saying a few words. He hovered in the air to make sure everyone could see him with his hands behind his back. "Today we will be the start of the main tournament. I am not good with words, so I will not say much. I can only tell you all that I wish you luck. Let the battles begin!" 

A loud cheer was heard as the first ones up jumped up on their appointed battle stages. This was the preliminaries, basically a one on one knock out battle. Each person got to go on stage and fight against someone else. There were one hundred people per stage. If you were knocked out then you would only get a second chance at the end where you could challenge someone from the top ten of that battle stage. Only the top ten of each battle stage would get a chance to fight for a spot in the new generation rankings. 

Mei went up on stage and stood there waiting for her opponent. After almost five minutes of waiting and no sign of her opponent she looked at the overseer for the battle stage to find out what was going on. "Where is my opponent?"

As she asked this another person came running up and whispered into the overseer's ear. The overseer nodded his head and jumped up on stage. "Ahem... " Clearing his throat he looked at Mei with a wry smile and said: "Miss Mei, does not need to fight her matches, all one hundred competitors came to a unanimous vote and they will all forfeit their matches with Miss Mei. As such Miss Mei is now first place for this battle stage. "

Mei stood on stage feeling a bit dejected that no one was willing to fight her. But she also felt this was good too, it allowed her the chance to watch over everyone else's fights. Letting out a sigh Mei jumped down from the battle stage and walked over towards Frey's battle stage. But what she saw made her laugh. Frey was dancing around her opponent punching them in the eye over and over. Not too long after she arrived Frey's opponent gave up making Frey the winner. Seeing Mei, Frey happily shouted: "Mother!!!!! Frey won!!!!!" 

"I saw, good job!" Mei praised Frey and patted her head causing the little fairy to giggle. 

As Mei walked towards the next stage, to the east of Twin Dragon Pass in the Misty Woods, five figures appeared in the sky. "What the hell!? This place... It stinks!" A what seemed to be a young man said as he held his nose. Certain parts of the young man's body looked human while others were made out of metal. 

"Jay, You cant even smell why the hell are you holding your nose?" A young woman who was standing next to him asked. She lightly ran her fingers through her hair. She looked completely human except for her eyes. Her pupils rotated around and slightly glowed

"Lina why are you always ruining my fun! I said that because we are on a barbarian world! These people are test subjects to us!" The young man named Jay replied as he scratched his head.

"Both of you stop arguing, we came here on a mission. We are to set up a base of operations in this world, take control of the lower plane completely, and spread out from there. We are also here to search for a person as well. It seems that those above are looking for someone that goes against the taboo. Whichever race finds them will gain a large number of benefits." A man in a hooded cloak glared at Jay and Lina.

"Ahah Sorry GD. " Jay bowed his head. Out of everyone in this team, he was only scared of GD their commander for this mission. "GD, you said we are looking for a person too?"

"Mhm. You see, those scary guys who make the laws for all the lower realm races are looking for a certain group of people. One of them is said to be a mix of cultivation and celestial. One of the worlds not too long ago that we set an Omni Box on had picked up a faint trace of this kind of power. Those omni boxes are used so we can analyze many kinds of powers. We only put the teleport function on it as a joke! That is why we..."

"Shh!" GD suddenly stopped talking and turned serious, he tapped the side of his leg and a compartment opened up. He then pulled out a weapon that resembled a gun from Earth but something that could only be seen in science fiction movies. "Come out! We already detected you."

"Hmph!" An old man suddenly appeared in front of the group. "To think you beings of the Machine Empire would actually stretch your claws out all the way to this tiny planet." 

"We came for a few reasons. You have no right to interfere. It would be best if you left now old man or I do not mind blasting you out of here." GD said coldly. He raised his weapon and aimed it at the old man.

"Oh? But I believe I do. Did you really think you could come to this world and not be detected by me? " Another old man appeared out of nowhere standing in front of GD and his group. His hands clasped behind his back. His eyes calm and his aura showing that he was not an easy person to deal with. If Mei was here, she would easily recognize this old man.

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