>>6261605

Your team: 6, 89, 46, 95, 86, 45 Score: 307

You were labelled the weak one, but somehow you still get paired with a goddamn girl.

But the girl turned out to know some kind of martial art herself, and the two of you fought with great synergy, covering each other.

In the end, it was just you and two other martial artist guys at it.

Seems like knowing martial arts makes all the difference in these tournments.

You ask the girl's name when they are unchaining the two of you.

"You can call me Trixa."

The next stage of the tournment is next month. They will organize the sixteen fighters so that each week there will be one fight (16 -> 8), then the next stage one fight every two weeks (8 -> 4), the semifinal one fight per month (4 -> 2), then two months wait for the final (2 -> 1, prize of 1,000 gold).

"Most people that participate in this tournment get contracts with mercenary guilds. You already bested over a hundred guys back there.", says Master Rup.

"What do you know about this Trixa?"

"About her personally? Nothing. But she fights in the style of one of the northern tribes. Dushe, I think. It is a fighting style specific for daughters of chiefs."

"Why do they have such a specific fighting style?"

"In some tribes, women aren't allowed to touch weapons. They believe that a weapon touched by a woman is cursed and will fail in the hour of need. So the daughters of chiefs learn a martial art instead of armed combat."

"So she's the daughter of some chief?"

"Either that or learned with one. Could be a handmaiden."

The fights are being decided. For lack of a better room THEY PUT THE DAMN LIST IN THE MEDICAL ROOM.

You can just check who will be your opponents before they announce it, no one will even notice.

So you check it.

Your first fight is against a guy called Garad. You never heard about him at all.

They only announce it weeks later.