At the arena, the officers handling the tournament were all busy with the preparations, including all the high officials such as Gideon and Bartos, not to mention the Great Constable Gilas who was personally supervising the tournament, making sure that things would go on smoothly. And so far, those things were doing fine for the first few batches of one-on-one combat.
It wasn't a sight to behold, especially for the competitors who were willing to fight till the end. Gideon sighed as he saw another woman getting badly wounded before being carried out of the arena, moaning and crying as she wallowed in her failure.
Still, they were making decent time. They've put divisions in the wide center of the arena so that they could simultaneously run different tournament brackets and the same time, helping them save some more time than if they ran the tournament traditionally.
