Before, one could realise, the last day of the festival arrived and the entire kingdom was in full boost. The arena was already surrounded by a lot of people, not only belonging to the Heart kingdom but from faraway lands as well. Gambling had always been the biggest side event of the tournament, and so it was this year as well.
There were really rich merchants who would bet a whole lot of fortune on the participants, irrespective of whether they were familiar with them. The rules were simple- first two participants would open the matches where the winner would successively go on to fight the next person and so it went. Therefore, the event would often stretch right from the morning to late at night.
This year, the number of participants was incredibly huge. The king was accompanied by t
