With everyone's attention on the Olympus federation's representative, he made a simple announcement that caused everyone to look at the old dragonewt in astonishment.
"Now that we had two severe incidents during the first two combat rounds of the liberation tournament, we want to implement two changes!
The first and also most important rule we want to add is that the ancestors of the fighting participants are now allowed to end the fight by making their descendants give up.
We don't want to have any casualties and the old rules of the liberation tournament are not something we can use right now...not if we want to prevent any deaths from happening!"
This was interesting because it changed a rule that had been implemented 300 years ago, but everyone understood the cause.
It was evident that Jason didn't want to kill anyone because he could have done so otherwise, and in order to prevent more similar accidents from occurring, the government's higher-ups had implemented a new rule.
The old female dragonewt had already taken Olivia to the medic team that tended to the burns she had received.
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At the same time, Jason had already extinguished Solaris' flame within the dragonewt's body, preventing her from burning alive.
With the things both mankind and the Olympus federation had perceived during the last few hours, they realised that it would be best for them to work together.
At least if they were to try to elevate their respective status in the face of other races, preventing scenarios like the Great Argos war, even if the world bridges were becoming stabler with time!
At the same time, the combat prowess of the strongest individuals was evident and could be reinforced on both sides if their ties allowed them to trade resources, military forces, and so on.
The opportunities were endless, and there were more than enough world bridges that led to places with lots of resources that had yet to be conquered!
Thus they were happy about the newly implemented rule, and Jason was amongst the happiest.
'Good insights!' He thought while letting it slide that such a rule should have already been enforced. The fact that the rule didn't exist was weird, but Jason ignored it as he heard the second statement made by the Olympus federation's representative.
"Other than that, we want to change the combat rounds and implement a battle royale system! 50 participants will fight against each other at the same time, and only the last one standing will reach the quarterfinals!"
This was the announcement that astonished everyone because the combat rounds system had never been changed before.
As such, an uproar swept through the entire colosseum while Jason could only smile dryly as he returned to his friends.
They weren't even astonished and simply said "Good Job" without feeling any excitement.
Seeing this, Jason's smile widened as he remarked,
"The battle royal will probably split us apart. There should be around 300 participants left in the 3rd round, and we're a team of six."
Jason was not sure if his assumption was correct, but he thought that the reason for implementing a battle royale was not only because of the incidents he had caused.
They might be a part of the reason, but Jason knew how shrewd people could be.
As such, he assumed the worst while secretly hoping for the best.
Most spectators couldn't understand the reason for the sudden change and thought that this was simply not fair. In order to calm them down, the Olympus federation representative added that the races would be equally split into groups, making everything fair.
With that, Jason knew that he and the others would be split, turning the entire tournament against them.
From what he could tell, the Olympus federation was willing to establish a bond with them.
However, this didn't mean that they would allow the God's Children, let alone Jason to be rewarded with anything valuable.
The newest generation of the Olympus federation was the most talented which was the reason for the liberation tournament rewards to be so great, including the lower origin flame.
This was not difficult to understand, and Jason simply accepted the changed rules, while transmitting his voice to Merl Arths, explaining everything.
At the same time, he told the God's Children what was going on, and it was evident how displeased they were.
Nevertheless, because they had come to Janur with an official mission as mankind's embassy, they had to hold back and act accordingly.
Accepting the changes, the God's Children couldn't help but feel that their chances to emerge victorious in the liberation tournament hadn't changed.
They were still extremely low, and they had to be more focused now!
This should only be subtle and nothing evident as the Olympus federation seemed to be eager to turn the human race into their allies.
Jason found this great, and simply ignored the fact that he had to fight a total of 49 people in the next round at a time.
Wisse was still eying him but Jason decided to ignore this for now. There were more important things for him, and if the young dragon wanted something from him, he should wait until everything was completed.
Knowing that the next few weeks would be full of work, Jason could only hope that Wisse wouldn't try to kidnap him or anything like that.
That was a viable option for the dragon because he was stronger and his eyes seemed to eye Jason weirdly.
As such, his mind was bringing forth the worst-case scenarios.
'Maybe I can make use of that? I could tell him to follow me if he wants to hear answers, while I solve my problems….at the same time I wouldn't have to fight against the human powerhouses.
Is Wisse even strong and knowledgeable enough to close some unstable world bridges?'
Jason's mind was already running wild, in hopes of leaving Argos very soon because he wanted to adventure to other planets and leave the planet that had caused him more pain than anything else.
There were only a few people he would miss, and the Flers topped the list.
His masters were dead and the most important family he was left with was always with him; his loyal soulbonds!
Time passed slowly, and the first day of the liberation tournament ended with the conclusion of the second round and the announcement about who would fight in which of the 6 Battle royales the day after.
Unsurprisingly Jason was put into the group with the strongest opponents, and he could only sigh deeply, thinking that the Olympus federation was just too scheming.
However, at the same time, excitement ignited within him, and Jason simply told himself that he wouldn't allow anyone to take away the rewards he wanted to obtain.
He wanted the origin flame crystals for Solaris to allow its advancement and even the Olympus federation was not allowed to take this away from him.
A sly smile emerged on his face as he said,
"If they're going to play dirty, I won't hold back either."
Turning to Jarid, who looked at him with a dry smile, Jason added.
"If you don't want to join hands with me tomorrow, that's fine with me but I won't hold back, and can't promise anything!"
Jarid was not sure why Jason said this, but seeing that Jason's golden-silverish eyes stared behind him, he followed his gaze to see him looking straight at Old Sadran. The young Ilian immediately understood what Jason had meant.
"You knew?"
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