The Reincarnation Room
The Phoenix Festa Final

After the Laminamors and Valda-Vaoth attacks, Ryan spent his time resting. This caused Ryan to not have time to meet Ayato to remove the seal.

At first, Ryan was still a bit worried that Ayato would lose and cause her side mission to fail.

However, it turns out Ayato can really win even with many limitations. He really is the main character of this world.

Ayato will now play Ryan in the Phoenix Festa Finals.     

'I didn't expect this to actually happen. Has the Reincarnation Room predicted all of these results?'

At this point, Ryan began to wonder about the three side missions that the Reincarnation Room provided. Ryan felt that this mission was not a coincidence, which came about as Ryan had underestimated Ayato before.

But after a moment of thought, Ryan chose to keep it and think about it later. There are still many mysteries and peculiarities of the Reincarnation Room that make Ryan increasingly curious about the God of the Creator of the Reincarnation Room.

'Alright, now I have to focus on the Final match tomorrow!'

With such thoughts in mind, Ryan went to the training room.

~***~

Phoenix Festa is held for two weeks. The first week is used for the preliminary round, while the second week is used for the main round.

In other words, it has been almost a week since the games against Ardi and Rimsy as well as the ambushes made by Laminamors and Valda-Vaoth.

In this week, in addition to the games against Ardi and Rimsy, Ryan has had another three games. 

However, in those three matches, Ryan did not use his Prana at all and simply stayed behind Cecily Wong, letting his partner fight alone.

Because of this, now Prana Ryan has fully recovered. Like running water, Ryan's body has now returned to the rich Prana.

For the first time this week, Ryan went to the training room to warm up.

Tomorrow's final is very important for Ryan. Because tomorrow's Finals greatly influenced Ryan's Main Mission and Side Mission.

Ryan's Main Mission 1 was to reach a minimum of quarter-finals in any Festa, and this mission has been easily accomplished.

But, the higher the rank, the higher the mission completion evaluation. And so Ryan was determined to win. 

Moreover, winning the Phoenix Festa was the only way to regain Ursula's body properly without needing to confront again with the organization behind her.

Then for the 2nd Main Mission, Ryan is required to get the Manadyte Urm. This mission can be completed with the Urm Manadyte Seraph. If, however, hand over the Seraph to the Reincarnation Room to complete the mission, Ryan will lose the Seraph.

Ryan certainly doesn't want to lose the Seraph. However, Urm Manadyte is the highest purity Manadyte in the world, plus it can be used to make Orga Lux. Therefore, almost all of Urm Manadyte is in the hands of the Integrated Enterprise Foundation. It is not something that can be easily obtained.

In light of this, Ryan hopes to use the wish as the Phoenix Festa winner to obtain the Manadyte Urm and complete the 2nd Main Mission.

On Mission 3, Ryan was required to earn 20,000 points. This was the total number of points one could earn if Ryan successfully completed all three Side Missions.

In other words, tomorrow's final will fully determine whether or not Ryan succeeds in completing the Main Mission. 

Only by winning could Ryan complete his Main Mission at the highest level and also help Sylvia.

When Ryan arrived at the training room, Cecily Wong arrived first.

Ryan saw Cecily Wong sitting on the floor, holding a writing brush and making calligraphy on a piece of white paper with a very serious expression.

Ryan could sense that in every move of his writing, Cecily Wong embedded his Prana into the white paper.

The paper subtly absorbed the Prana, and the calligraphy on its surface began to emit a hint of light, as if it was gaining strength.

That's a very strange thing.

Because Prana is unlike Mana, Prana cannot always be fused in all things. Only the Manadyte or Genestella body itself can absorb Prana well.

Ordinary weapons alone could not absorb Prana perfectly, let alone ordinary paper.

However, this paper written by Cecily Wong can absorb Prana and store it well. More precisely, the Prana was kept together with Seisenjutusu.

"So so ..." Ryan in a low tone asked, "Is Brother Cecily making a talisman?"

Cecily Wong heard Ryan's voice, but she did not turn her head towards him. He seemed to have noticed Ryan's arrival since.

Shortly after, Cecily Wong opened her mouth. “Strega, Dante, and Daoshi also require a lot of Prana consumption to use their abilities. Therefore, I need to prepare a lot of amulets, so that I do not run out of a lot of Prana when using Seisenjutsu tomorrow.”

Daoshi can seal the Seisenjutsu that will be used into the talisman. That way, Daoshi did not need to spend a lot of Prana while fighting. They only needed to inject a bit of Prana into the talisman to unseal within the talisman and unleash an extremely powerful attack..

“The last time I appeared in the final round was when I partnered with Hufeng. At that time, we lost and only became Runner-Up.”

Cecily Wong turned to look at Ryan. Cecily wong's eyes seemed to be filled with fighting spirit flames.

“Ryan-kun.” Cecily smirked and said: "This time, we have to win the Phoenix Festa."

This made Ryan understand. Tomorrow's final is not only important for him, but also important for Cecily Wong.

Ryan wants to win for his own goals. Cecily Wong wanted to win to remove the embarrassment of her loss to the Phoenix Festa the previous season.

In response to Cecily Wong's words, Ryan smiled and nodded.

~***~

The night passed quickly. The next day the citizens of Asterisk Academy City began flocking to Sirius Doma. 

Although they watched in different places, they all watched the Phoenix Festa finale with the same eye view, which is a hopeful eye view.

This is very reasonable, because today's match will be the last match of the Phoenix Festa this year.

What is more interesting is that, in this final match, three out of four participants are people who do not have a ranking. Before the Phoenix Festa, these three people were almost unheard of by name. This year's Phoenix Festa had truly been filled with powerful dark horses.

This point seems to have been used very well by the media as propaganda, so the popularity of this year's Phoenix Festa surged far beyond the previous Phoenix Festa.

Not to mention in this final match, two participants also have Orga Lux. Therefore, this last match has attracted the attention of the whole world.

With these circumstances, the time of the start of the Final is getting closer.

Outside the hustle and bustle of the audience, in the special Sirius Dome lounge of the participants from the Seventh Jie Long Institute, Ryan and Cecily Wong sat on the sofa while closing his eyes.

Terrace time passed so slowly. A quiet atmosphere filled the lounge.

If there was someone here, they would definitely be vaguely able to see the Prana fluctuations of Ryan and Cecily Wong's bodies.

That was the breathing technique taught by Fan Xinglou.

Using this breathing technique, not only can you make Prana recovery faster, but it can also keep Prana active for a short time, and it will be easier to mobilize in a fight.

Moreover, the breathing techniques Fan Xinglou taught varied, depending on the characteristics of each of his students.

For example, Ryan, he has Prana with a calm nature, like a murderous demon who hides in deep darkness and cold.

While Cecily Wong, he has the arrogant Prana trait, like lightning from heaven, strong and also bright.

Therefore, as Fan Xinglou's disciple, the breathing techniques Ryan and Cecily Wong used were different, according to their respective Pranic traits. However, the breathing techniques they used had a similar effect.

After a while, Ryan and Cecily Wong slowly opened their eyes.

"Sister Cecily." Ryan had not seen the clock, but he said with great confidence, "Our time is up, let's get to the arena."

"Good.” Cecily Wong nodded at the notice from Ryan.

The two of them then stood up from the sofa and walked towards the arena.

~***~

"Ooooooooooooooh!"

The audience cheers on Sirius Dome today were three times higher than usual. This caused the air to become turbulent so that the ceiling of the stadium seemed to tremble slightly.

In such a festive atmosphere, the commentator's voice started to sound.

"All the spectators! After two weeks of the Phoenix Festa being held, we have finally reached the last round of the Festa!"

"Like the Phoenix Festa before, one of the teams that competed in the final round this time also came from Jie Long. As an alumnus, I'm very proud."

"Of course, as opposed to them, the team that felt from Seidokan Academy was also very. I'm sure this Final match will definitely be exciting!"

"At least, the previous matches had proven this."

"Then, let's start welcoming performances from each team. First of all, let's welcome the representatives of Seidokan Academy, Amagiri Ayato and Sasamiya I!"

The lights above the arena suddenly darkened, and the lights were all gathered together into one on the east side door.

There, Ayato and I slowly walked out with different expressions. Ayato put on a serious face, whereas I put on an expressionless face. 

The crowd cheers immediately rose to welcome the appearance of Seidokan's representative.

The commentator's voice reverberated amidst the audience's boisterous voice.

"From the opposite side, was present the representative of the Seventh Jie Long Institute. Let's welcome Ryan Herlambang and Cecily Wong!"

Instantly, a portion of the floodlights above the arena began to illuminate the west side door.

Ryan and Cecily Wong walked slowly straight ahead towards the arena under the loud cheers of the spectators.

Both teams entered the arena. They looked at each other with serious eyes. 

Looking at the familiar face opposite him, Ryan smiled and said, "Finally we meet, Amagiri Ayato."

"Eh?" Ayato was a little surprised. Somewhat unconvinced, he asked Ryan, "Do you know me?"

"of course. It would be weird if I didn't know you." Ryan laughed, "I do know you, but this is the first time we've met."

"Hmm, so so." Ayato's expression did not show any tension at all. He then smiled confusedly, "Maybe you heard about me from your upperclassman."

After all, in the previous match, Ayato had defeated two Jie Long teams including the Li brothers, and all of them were disciples of Banyuu Tenra.

So, Ayato thought that Ryan knew information about her from her upperclassman and wanted to take their revenge.

Unfortunately, this is a big mistake.

"I hope that the victory and defeat in this match will not cause mutual hatred between us."

Ryan said indifferently. "I have to win this match for my own purposes. After that, I will defeat you!"