Elyon coughed , clearly embarrassed by Rudra's comments , he then said

" Well , it's good to see the spirits of the top performers , now onto the next rounds , I hope you guys can perform well there

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He continued

" The next stage of selections will last a long time , taking about 1 day for 3-4 events. In the coming two weeks , we will regularly hold events and selections , for today , the events Archers , Prison escape and One v One fighting has been selected. Please choose the events you wish to take part in and press select. Please note that you can only participate in 3 individual events and two team events for national selections total. Soo choose carefully

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Rudra chose one v one fighting , he had no interest in prison escape and archery. It would just add to the burden .

Because of the limited time , if one selected multiple events then they would be transported randomly from arena to arena , after rounds and rounds of selections to perform . One could be cliff fighting for one round , and be in a first blood match in another.

One could have just died inside prison escape event , or maybe even have just won the event , and immediately be transported to the second selection.

Rudra did not want such nonsense , he was initially planning on taking part in all 5 National events , however If any coincided , he would only choose the one he was going to go with finally.

Choosing the one v one duel , he pressed select.

He was immediately transported into a battle arena against a random opponent. The Beauty of the AI was that while inside the real world only a limited number of people could fight simultaneously , inside the virtual world any number of players could fight simultaneously without any issues.

Even if the entire 100,000 players chose to take part in the selections , only about 4-5 hours were needed to complete all matches .

This was because in 50,000 battlefields , 50,000 battles could take place simultaneously with the winner going up after every victory.

Rudra saw his first opponent who was terrified after seeing that his opponent was guild leader Shakuni, the number one player. Rudra sighed , the opponent had no spine , this was going to be easy.

Not saying a single word , Rudra charged in with Elven sword at hand , in the one second that the enemy blinked Rudra had covered about 20 meters of distance between them..... what incredible speed! The enemy was a tank hence he raised his shield in defense. However contrary to his expectations the sword never made contact. Instead a roundhouse kick landed squarely on his liver.

SPLAT!

The guy coughed as saliva came out of his mouth. He had lost his balance and battleposture.

BAM! , A sword pierced right through his neck , as he was defeated before he could even understand what was going on.

A System notification came : Round one cleared in 9 seconds .... Proceeding to round two. (12...11..10...)

Rudra sighed and said

" I hope round two atleast gives me a warm-up

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( Meanwhile inside the bunker in Japan )

The moment Rudra said those words , the entire room looked helplessly at the man .... While they were troubled by his attitude , a sense of calm began to spread in their heart. If he was truly that strong , he was a blessing for the country.

Ethan looked on as he raised two thumbs up

....' Great going '! , He murmured

The rooms focus was glued on Rudra , who went onto round two now

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( Meanwhile inside the UK)

The selections in the UK were not like in Japan , the government actually decided whom to let participate and whom not to , there was a general tryout , where one only had to send their entire stat details and achievements as a resume , and they would maybe be called for interview.

However the shocking development was that Edge Rothschild had been selected for one v one, first blood match and battle and as the captian of capture the flag team event. Seemed like he made his mark .

The Rothschild family , initially scorning him for loosing the management rights of Purplehaze , were silent now as he managed to land crutial spots in the UK' s team.

Edge himself was immune to all this , his eyes only set on the bigger goal , the bigger advantage of what if he won 3 medals for the nation.

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( Meanwhile in the USA )

The USA had approached a different way of selections , they only had a set of basic tests and drills , and selected the top 200,000 for further training camp.

The top performers of this camp were then selected for various events .

Adam was selected for 3 events with his extraordinary talent , as he competed in Cliff battle , Equestrian and national battleground.

He posted a tweet on the forums after being selected saying

" Brooooooooo , here to represent the nation , check it.... The homeboy ready to train , and get that gold! Let's goooooo!

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The post had 17 M likes .

Adam was a semi star in the region

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( Meanwhile in Pakistan )

Mithun Ambani sat with a team of analysts and they picked the best players from the country to directly form teams and start practicing. There was no selections at all !

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( Meanwhile in China )

The Chinese had adopted a simmilar approach to the Japanese for the selections , however they had much higher player numbers , hence their selections would last 3 weeks as opposed to Japan's ,2.

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( Meanwhile in India )

India also had fair selections , but there was no basic selections , everyone could compete in every event , and the AI would give the list of best capable players by analysis.

Every nation was currently undergoing the selections , as everyone wanted to have maximum time to train their players with a stable team.

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This is a small notice to let you know that a massive upgrade to the current privilage tiers would come under effect from 1st November. The advance chapter count will go up from 5 chapters to 15-20chapters.

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