In a well-maintained field, in one of the many valleys in the mountain range the verdant flame sect occupied, over five hundred young men and woman gathered, organized into neat rows and standing at attention.
To the last they were all the new outer disciples which have risen to the second stage of Qi condensation and in light of their achievement have been given the right to fight for their place in the sect.
Many have already been kicked out, the untalented and the lazy those without a future and no prospect.
In front of them, on a raised platform stood the reason for the crowed peacefulness, outer elder Mu Dong, his very presence pushing down on all of the cultivators present. He might have look like any second he's going to kneel over dead form old age, yet his aura was something different.
'Nascent soul' whisper Gunag Li ancestors, as he watched the elder slowly walk to the edge of the platform he was own and start a speech.
He talked of duty, of courage and how iron would sharpen iron this day.
Then he was gone, like he was never even there and his assistants have started moving between the disciples, organizing them into groups and distributing blunt weapons.
Guang Li found himself staring down Ma Rong a blunted spear in hand, the black-haired disciple seemed as nervus as Guang Li felt.
Swallowing his nerves, he immersed himself in his ancestors' whispers letting his worries melt away.
The inner disciple watching the pair signaled the fight beginning and Li rushed forth the anger flowing in his veins giving him the strength and speed to react first.
His spear thrusted forward, breaking through the clumsy guard attempt to draw first blood.
Not to be undone Ma Rong swiped the blunt end of the spear into Li stomach knocking the breath from his lungs.
Quickly recovering Guang Li sent a wide sweeping strike which Ma Rong dodged by hastily moving backwards before retaliating with a quick thrust which Li ducked under.
This continued for some time, as both Guang Li and Ma Rong exchanged strikes, achieving little else then tiring themselves out and a few minor cuts.
With his ancestor's rage flowing between his veins, it was Guang Li that broke the stalemate as Ma Rong tired guard broke before his anger filed stirks and pushed him to the ground where Guang li proceeded to rain blow after blow at Ma Rong prone body until at last the boy surrendered.
As Guang Li left the improvised arena, his soul screamed of triumph, he has passed, his place at the sect was secured and his vengeance was one step closer.
Now, he had to decide if what he achieved today was sufficient or should he risk more. Wining more fights would come with their own rewards and yet they also come with the chance of death and injury.
The chance was low, but it was risk all the same.
As Guang Li caught his breath form his match, he entreated his elders for advice and the whippers spoke.
[] Of courage and risk. (Gunag Li will fight the rest of his battles in the hopes of gaining prizes).
[] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury)
Guang Li currant state- Hp 18/24. 2 stacks of exhaustion.
Welcome to events, normally an event would be more then 1/2 posts and would have more choices/options for the ghosts to intervene but for this tutorial event you only have a single choice.
The choices you make in events effect more than just the event, they effect Guang Li personally and priorities. This effects both the choices he makes during events, as well as what kind of actions he chooses every turn.
So, keep him in mind when you're choosing your vote.
Now, votes during events are random in nature (when voting is done, I gather all the votes give each option a number depending on how many voted for it and then roll a die, the number it fell on is the what Guang Li heard) this is done for two reasons.
One, it retains the inherent riot quest trait where every vote changes the outcome and very vote matters and two, the ancestors cannot yet fully converse with Guang Li and doing things this way helps emphasize that what Guang LI hears form the whispers of his ancestors can be random at times.
That all for today, the vote would be left open for 2~ days and then well move to either T4 or to the next fights (depending on the option chosen).