Journey Of A Legend

Chapter 61: Opening Ceremony

Greg and the others after a little more than 15 minutes of hurried walk, finally arrived before an enormous Arena, which size was twice as huge as the biggest football Stadium from the past in the world.

"Wow, it's huge. I think it is 5 times bigger than the one in our city, if not more.", said Greg as he looked at the building before him.

Joe and the others nodded in agreement. After they looked at the Arena for a bit more, they started to walk again, but just as they wanted to continue their way forward the entrance, suddenly Cloud appeared before them from a white mist.

"Hello! I hope you have slept well and feel as energetic as ever!"

Looking at the sudden appearance of the man in his same white suit, the others looked at each other, but in the end, they could just nod slightly.

"Amazing! Then, please take your cards out and show me.", said Cloud as he threw the stick smoothly from one hand to the other.

Doing as Cloud asked, Greg and the others took their cards out and showed them to him.

Looking at the cards, Cloud did something with his hand and a bit later he nodded and stepped to the side while saying, "Welcome to the Arena! Please walk inside, take a seat, and enjoy the ceremony."

With that, Cloud raised his hand and threw something before him, creating a huge mist before Greg and the others.

"Cough~Cough... He is a strange guy.", said Mila as she swung her arm here and there to make the mist to vanish.

When the white cloud finally disappeared, the four continued to walk forward and after stepping through the gate and walking up on the stairs, a huge field with an enormous platform in the middle appeared before them with hundreds of thousands of people, who were already sitting excitedly on the spectator seats.

Joe looked around for a free seat, but no matter what, he couldn't see even one.

"It seems we need to stand and watch.", said Joe and looked slightly at Greg.

Greg saw this and scratched his neck while smiling because he knew it was his fault that they didn't arrive in time.

As the four looked around, enjoying the huge amount of people before their eyes, suddenly the platform below them started to raise up high into the air.

Seeing this everyone around stopped talking and watched the scene with excited expressions.

Greg thought that it couldn't be that everyone here was excited just because of a floating platform, so he looked closer up into the sky and suddenly his mouth opened slightly.

*BOOOOM!*

With a huge explosion, a figure exploded onto the platform from the sky, while making the air around it tremble visibly.

When the figure stood up and showed itself to everyone, suddenly everybody cheered up at the same time, making a deafening roar.

Greg looked at the sky with awe. The one who was before his eyes were none other than the one and only man on earth who reached the summit of humanity with the first-ever white Soul Stone in human history.

Gossips say he is already on the verge of breaking through the sixth rank, but no one knows for sure if it was valid or not. But at the moment the most important thing was that, that the man, who was a legend was right before him.

Just as Greg wanted to say something, suddenly another light came toward the platform from the sky and exploded onto the platform.

When that someone stood up, it appeared that it was an old man with a stick in his hand.

"The Saint! Oh my Lord!", screamed up suddenly someone not far away from Greg, but he wasn't the only one who was that shocked.

As Greg wanted to ask who was this Saint guy, another light came from the sky, but instead of exploding onto the platform like the previous two, the figure just gently fell onto the platform, giving the onlookers a feeling like they were looking at a move of a fairy.

"Mistress of Fortune!", said Mila with stars in her eyes as she looked at the woman on the platform.

As they watched the three legend before them, suddenly a few more figures came down from the sky, making the spectators all flabbergasted. It was because every one of them, who stood on the platform, were on the summit and they were the best in their field making everybody feel respect toward them.

When no more people appeared from the sky, suddenly a white mist appeared on the platform and a while later Cloud walked out of it.

After he looked around, he raised his two hands high up into the sky, while talking spiritedly, "Welcome everyone here in Mythbreak, the city where everything is possible!"

In an instant, as he said that each and every man on the bleachers cheered up again with raised hands.

Cloud hearing the claps and the cheers smiled and shouted with a smile, "Hahaha! That's the spirit! Like all of you, I also waited for this moment. The 100th anniversary, when we remember back that our world changed to a new and better one and also the 25th Soul Tournament, which gets to be held here in Mythbreak, where it all began!"

*WOOOOOAAAHHHH!!!*

As the screams continued, Cloud touched his hat with his right hand and said, "Well then! Let's not waste any more time and let me tell everyone here what will happen in the following."

As he said this, the platform started to come down from the sky and a huge hologram with the shape of an orb appeared above in the air in the middle of the Arena.

As people watched it with curiosity, suddenly 3 column appeared on it with one word in each. Solo, Duo and Team. These were the three words, which appeared with huge letters on the hologram.

"As you can see, there will be three different events, where the participants can register to. And as to how they can, here it is."

As Cloud said that, he clapped and in an instant, several lights broke out among the spectators.

Greg, Joe, Mila and Emma watched as the cards they got started to shine with a silver light and looked at it with suprise.

Greg looked at the card in his hand and saw as a sentence appeared on it.

Please choose, which event you want to participate in.

Solo: Participate

Duo: Participate

Team: Already registered as Team 77!

Watching the card in his hand, Greg was quite suprised and thought,"Who knew this little thing can be useful in so many ways."

After reading the the information on the card, Greg saw as the Team part has already been registered so he nodded slightly, but he didn't know what to do with the other two.

"Joe, what do you think?", asked Greg as he looked at Joe next to him.

Joe looked deep in thought and after a second later he said,"If our aim is to win the tournament, then we need to focus on the Team event. Maybe we can participate on one more, but not on all of them, that's out of the question. Honestly I'm not interested in anything other than the Team event, so you can choose whatever you want, but remember, if you overwork yourself it can backfire on the team."

Hearing this, Greg nodded and started to think for a while. Just as he wanted to decide next to Solo, suddenly Emma on the side stepped forward and touched Greg's sleeve.

"Hm?"

Feeling the tug Greg looked down and saw Emma's blushful expression and was abit confused.

"C-Can we participate in Duo?"

Hearing her unexpected question, Greg was a bit suprised, but after thinking for a while he nodded and smiled.

"Sure, why not."

"Are you sure? Emma is a healer. If something happens with her then we are doomed.", said Joe on the side as he looked at Greg seriously.

Greg thought for a while, but before he could say anything Emma looked at Joe and said,"Maybe I can't fight as good as you guys, but I can protect myself. I appreciate your worry, but nothing will happen with me."

Joe looked at Emma seriously and after seeing the determination in her eyes, he sighed and said,"Okay, do as you please."

In an instant as Emma heard this, her eyes brightened and looked at Greg.

Greg just smiled and without any further hesitation he pressed the Participate word on the card and as he did, another question appeared before him.

Please choose the second member:

Dia Joseph

Emma Moore

Mila Darnell

Greg pressed Emma's name and in an instant the card in his hand shined even brighter.

A while later the shining started to dissipate and another sentence appeared on the card.

You have been registered as Duo 9.