Chapter 213: City of Kyotora
The following day, after camping next to the cherry blossom fields, we kept moving to the capital, which was only a few hours away from our location.
It was called the "City of Kyotora," and it was built around a hill that made the king’s castle at the top look even taller than it truly was.
The streets were bustling with people and merchants who wore kimonos of different colors, making me feel like I had landed in feudal Japan even more than in Yumiko Port.
Before we could enjoy ourselves in the city, we had to go to the "Ryuken Arena," which was the name for the squared colosseum where the tournament would take place.
It was a massive building with four different entrances, living quarters for the participants and chaperones, and could supposedly hold fifty-thousand spectators.
A bald old man with a long beard wearing a mage’s robe, similar to the one Devon used, greeted us when we entered the arena.
It turned out that he was the headmaster of the academy at Kyotora and introduced himself as "Sage Lang" to everyone present before giving us a tour of the installations.
There was a separate area for training that some of the participants were already using, and when we got to the living quarters where we would be staying, Sage Lang called me and Melina to talk with him.
"I received a letter from Sage Devon. It’s a pleasure to meet the couple of sages that he was talking about..." he said.
Sage Lang, being the one in charge of the academy at Kyotora, was also one of the main organizers for the tournament since it would take place in their country and kept explaining the details of the event as we walked inside the tunnels of the Ryuken Arena.
At one point, we reached the main platform where the fights would take place, and he told me everything I needed to remember when working as a referee.