Chapter 15 Chapter Thirteen Ball Game

Trouble before the ball game was not trouble. A ball game is a field of three hundred and forty-three feet by forty-five feet, with twenty people running around non-stop, trying to kick a soft wooden ball into the opponent's goal Inside, and in front of the six-foot-by-fifteen-foot netted door stood a janitor. The sport is only suitable for humans, ogres are too tall, dwarves and goblins are too short, elves are too slender, and in those savage collisions, bones must be broken. Human beings are crazy about this sport. Every time one person gets the ball, the watching crowd always makes a roar like a wave. Call: "Breakthrough from the left!", "Cross from the right!"

... There were simply not enough viewing seats, and the crowd listening to the cheers outside the wall tried to squeeze in.The human businessman said: "Where there is demand, there is a market." I agree with this sentence. I thought of the crystal ball and magic circle used by mages to transmit images, so I found a few human businessmen, and they quickly found a set for me. In addition to these things, in a place far away from the arena, crowds of humans watched the images from the arena.For this method, I created a vocabulary: live broadcast.Of course there is a fee. A good start does not necessarily have a good ending. The last day is the final of the round ball game. The two sides of the game are the Kingdom of Yuesea and the Kingdom of Ivek. For us goblins, we can't afford to mess with both sides.

On the day of the final, the sun was shining and the grass was green, and the audience in the stands nervously waited for the start of the game.Since this is a battle between powerful countries, two commentators were dispatched on the sidelines of the arena. "Everyone, all the guests. Now the Ivic team kicks off the ball first. The No. 3 Sauu of the Ivik team got the ball. After getting the ball, Sauu moved forward quickly. Look, the five of the Yuesai team No. 7 and No. 7 stepped forward to intercept. Sau was not flustered at all, he passed the wooden ball to No. 8 teammate behind him, and received the pass from his teammate after a quick breakthrough. Good, good, Sa Wu swayed back and forth with his good ball skills Passed several players from the opponent. The goal is approaching, well, look at the action and Saou is about to shoot with his foot. If he kicks it out, the wooden ball will fly directly to the goalkeeper's blind corner. It seems that the Ivek team Recording will be opened first.

"Everyone, the game has just started, and Sawu shot angrily. This was a goal that must be scored, but the moment the ball flew into the goal, it bounced out as if it hit something. From the object's From the level of transparency, I'm sure it's a wall of ice, but why would the keeper make a wall of ice?" At that time Lord Bart of Ivic and Lord Morton of Uesea were sitting beside me, and Lord Morton folded his arms and said, "Our gatekeepers are really good." After those brief words, he gave me a ring with a large gemstone. "Good job, good job." After getting the ring, of course I immediately expressed my position.Baron Bart called for a time-out and walked off the stands without a word.At this time, Ivek's audience on the stage condemned this as an unsportsmanlike behavior, saying it was an unfair and abnormal means of competition.

After more than ten minutes, the baron came back with a box. When he came back, the game restarted, but Ivek's players changed. When Ivek's centaur intercepted Yues's ball, Lord Morton protested loudly, saying that it was not an Ivek and had no right to represent them in the game.Baron Bart just touched the box with his foot, then glanced at the Lord, and said slowly: "With the approval of King Ivek, they are honorary citizens from today, and they are eligible to represent Ivek in the competition." Lord Morton blushed at this moment. Judging from his eyes at the time, he seemed to be counting on me to uphold justice, but I just shrugged like a human being. Compared with a ring, the big box is more attractive to me.

After the three centaurs became the forwards, Ivek was unstoppable. Since the centaurs lived in the kingdom of elves, they more or less had the ability to resist magic and cast spells. , With a whistling sound, the wooden ball flew into the goal with an abnormal rotation, and the Ivek team scored a point first.At this time, Ivic's audience cheered thunderously, and Yuesai's side expressed their dissatisfaction with boos. Human beings often say that "if there is one, there are two", Lord Morton called a pause not to be outdone, and gave a few instructions to his servants.After he also got a box, Yuesai's side replaced all of them, all of them were mages with staffs. Of course, Yuesai's opponents did not show any weakness, and they also replaced a full set of mages. .There were whispers from every corner of the pitch as the two sides changed players.

The game restarted, and this time the Yuesai team kicked off the ball. The No. 6 Mage who was dribbling the ball was as light as a feather. Facing the approaching opponent, he easily dribbled the ball into the mid-air. After walking in the air, he passed the ball sideways to number ten.However, the ball did not pass as expected. Ivek Team No. 9 waved the staff in his hand, and a series of spider webs fell in the air—that was the authentic spider web technique—the spinning wooden ball was suddenly stuck by the falling spider webs. On the ground, No. 7 of the Yuesai team was plugged in, and a fire snake spewed out from the tip of the staff in his hand, as if the flame with life not only drove away the opponent who grabbed the ball, but also swept away the spider webs on the wooden ball null.

Just when Yuesai No. 7 was about to get the ball with a scorched black side, his figure suddenly disappeared from the field.It did disappear, and there was a pit in the place where he last appeared, not far away.Number three of the Ivek team had a smirk on his face, it was obvious that this was his good deed. The No. 3 smile of the Ivek team was still on his face, and Yuesai began to retaliate.The No. 10 member of the Uesai team cast a freezing spell on the opposing player. At this critical moment, the No. 22 Ivek team called the ice wall to clear the siege. The air-conditioning hit the ice wall. Everyone can A creaking sound was heard.

It was a good magic fight, oh, I mean it was a good ball game. Although the ice wall blocked the freezing spell, the scene is still in chaos. After the freezing magic, Ivek's No. 14 hit the ball with a lightning spell, and Yuesai's No. 2 and Ivek's At the same time, Number Eight flew up using levitation.Yuesai's No. 6 fired a few ice fragments at the right time, but Ivek No. 8, who was in the air, flashed past them. At that moment, I seemed to see many afterimages in the air. At that time, the narrator was replaced by the chief archmage of the Magician Guild, and the mage named Metz began to explain the phenomenon: "First, Yuesai's No. 6 cast an ice bomb, but at this time Ivek's 10 No. 5 and No. 18 also cast a spell, but not too many people noticed it. This spell is called Slowness, which can slow down objects in a small space, and the ice fragments have become extremely slow when passing by. When the ice bomb passed through the slow space, there was something like a water pattern behind it, like a fish swimming rapidly in the water. At another moment, Yuesai's No. 1 and No. 3 felt the other party's intention to cast a spell , they cast an acceleration magic at the same time, but accidentally hit Ivek's No. The ice-crushing bombs in front, and then one bent down and then one sideways dodge, of course ordinary audiences can’t see all of this.”

In any case, the ball fell, and Yuesai's No. 2 successfully got the ball, but the players who participated in the battle just now all fell down, and the mages who had cast magic in the distance were standing and panting, it should be It's exhaustion.I blew the bone whistle, and the goblins on the sidelines ran onto the field, and they carried the exhausted mage, no, the player down. The game is still going on, the audience has stopped making a sound, they have been attracted by this wonderful game.As the game progressed, a burst of blue light burst from the left side of the field, after which a giant snake appeared on the field.

"This is a foul!" Baron Bart stood up.But before he finished speaking, the Ivek team made a huge vine without showing any weakness.Snakes and vines were entangled, and the ground was flying with dirt. The middle of the field was not much better. Ivic's players tried to freeze the opponent's No. 2 with the ball. Yuesai's players immediately counterattacked with flames. When the evenly matched ice met the heat, there was a loud noise in the field There was a loud sound, and the air wave overturned seven or eight mages at once. Under the restraint of his teammates, Yuesai's No. 2 dribbled the ball to the goal, and immediately formed a one-on-one with Ivek's goalkeeper.The Ivek keeper casts a fog spell, and the fog begins to engulf the pitch.The spectators became disgruntled and shouted in protest because they couldn't see anything in the pitch white. When the thick fog began to clear, there were no players standing on the field, but the wooden ball was in Ivic's goal. The score was one to one, and the two sides drew. That round ball game later became a classic, it was not only recorded in the history of the sports meeting, it was also regarded as a practical teaching of magic, and became a teaching material for magic apprentices. As for the result, since neither side was sure of winning, I stood up and waved my hand for the sake of both sides having a box, and then loudly announced that the two teams tied for first place. Anyway, the sports meeting is over anyway, but there has been no second session for quite a long time, and I don't think there will be a second session in my lifetime.