With the combination of hard training and actual combat, Adilheide, the slightly miserable son of Lucar, finally survived more than five months of hard training under Le Yuan's hands. When the time came to May 1997, By the end of the month, Le Yuan had used his ability to practice the fighting methods of 70% of the contestants in the KOF competition with Adil Hyde.
Although Adilhead has never participated in a KOF competition, his experience against enemies is no worse than those of his predecessors, and he may even have richer experience against enemies. However, after practicing hard for a long time, you still need to put it to use before you can show off the results of many days of training, and the stage where you can best test the results is the KOF competition.
After more than half a year, the enthusiasm that had already calmed down due to the end of the KOF96 competition at the end of May was once again ignited. Hosted by the Kagura Foundation and with the assistance of many other foundations around the world, the news of the upcoming KOF97 competition was announced in just a short time. Within days it spread around the world. The publicity intensity this time was ten times greater than that of 1996. Although the Kagura Foundation is the organizer, there are a lot of financial groups supporting this time. Many financial groups have seen so-called business opportunities in the KOF competition.
After the regulars of KOF become well known, these fighters will basically not be short of money. Various advertisers will automatically come to their door, and some people can even accept advertisements and receive mercy. The most famous among them is probably the clothing provider for each competition team. Star Athena Asamiya is the most famous one. Every piece of clothing she wears in the KOF competition is sponsored by a large amount of money. Sponsored and even signed by the company, she was heavily packaged during the KOF competition, making her the most popular singer in the world in a short period of time.
Other advertisers are also looking for a lot of business opportunities. Terry has already made a lot of money for a certain brand by wearing his hat. There is even a winery that has asked Zhenyuanzhai to represent its liquor brand. Even Zhiquan Chong also has famous steamed buns. Let him do the publicity...
Naturally, this kind of advertising is not suitable for everyone. After all, people like Chen Guohan and Cai Baojian are serving prison sentences. However, their masters, Jin Jiapan and Sakazaki Takuma, who opened the gym are very powerful. Taking advantage of the current situation With the momentum, it is not a problem to develop the original gym ten times its original size. Even Jin Jiapan has become a national hero in South Korea, and Kusanagi Kyo has also become a new generation idol in Japan and the champion of three King of Fighters tournaments. It's no joke, his fame is sky-high.
However, after KOF97 was announced, the global fighting circle has become a hubbub. For more and more fighters, not participating in such a grand event would be a disgrace to their status as fighters. But when they wanted to sign up for KOF97, they discovered that there was no way.
Although KOF97 has been held under the leadership of the Kagura Foundation, it has not yet explained what form the selection will take.
"Hey, beauty! Can you give me the invitation on the back of you? At the worst, I can support you for the rest of your life, how about that?"
While putting down his wine glass, Le Yuan said to his boss Jin, who had just returned from the back door. In Le Yuan's perception, he had already discovered the invitation letter for the female fighter team that had just been obtained in Jin's trouser pocket.
"Feed me? Can you really afford the price?" Jin Yuan was not shy at all about Le Yuan's teasing. As a bar owner, she was not the kind of girl who would be made blushing by rumors and jokes. Jin Yuan He is more mature and steady than most people, "Besides, I have already made an appointment with someone, and I don't intend to break their promise!"
"So, you always have other channels to get this invitation letter, right?" Le Yuan, the person Jin mentioned, has already made a guess, but Le Yuan is more concerned about getting the invitation letter from other channels than that person, "Don't tell All the contestants for my current session have been pre-determined. If that is the case, this competition will be a lot less impressive... "
But after all, Kagura is a woman who is proficient in business. Long before she became the shrine maiden of the Kagura family to replace her dead sister, she was the one who was appointed as the leader of the Kagura family. With the mission of sealing the Orochi, I'm afraid she won't be able to set foot in the fighting circle now.
The selection of this year's KOF contestants is divided into two parts. One of them is the teams designated by Kagura, the organizer of the competition, to directly enter the main competition. The strength of these teams has naturally been tested by time and the public. recognition. All teams that have participated in the main competition of previous KOF competitions can receive special invitations. The Japanese team led by Kusanagi Kyo, the Furious team under Hardilon, Jin Jiapan's Jin team, Sakazaki Ryo's Dragon Tiger team, Jin's female fighting team The family team, Zhen Yuan Zhai's Super Power Rangers Team, Terry's Hungry Wolf Team, and even the Athletes Team, Jess, Clausa and other powerful people all received invitations to enter the official competition, but who really agreed? I don’t know how many people participated.
It is said that Kagura is proficient in business and has a lot of skills, that is because she has given enough face to the consortiums who have invested in independent KOF97 to handle it. Of course, it is not possible to give these consortia the same invitation letters as the official competition teams, but this time involves another method of selection, and that is the global audition. Anyone who is willing to participate in the KOF competition can be selected in the auditions held in June around the world. Those with good fighting ability can naturally enter the official competition if they can pass the selection.
The invitation letters owned by each consortium allow the teams they select to skip the initial audition stage and directly advance to the qualifying stage. After the audition, the organizer will gather the veterans who have passed the preliminaries to start the preliminaries for half a month. Only the three teams that pass the final selection will have the right to compete with others in the official competition.
"How's it going? Have you found a teammate? You can't fight alone in the King of Fighters Tournament!"
"That's not necessarily true. Strength is the foundation. 1V3 is not impossible. But when it comes to teammates, I already have two candidates!"
One is Adirheid, and the other is Cornique. With such two characters existing, Le Yuan didn't think anyone could stop them before entering the official competition, but thinking about the troublesome audition gave Le Yuan a headache. It didn't take much to think about it, but he knew that even the people who participated in the audition were not very good. , but it is also very troublesome after each game. After all, you can get the invitation letter no matter what, which is a good thing to save trouble.
But before Le Yuan could do anything, Rose, the girl, did get the invitation letter first. She got an invitation letter with the help of Bernstein's connections, and the 97 Demon Team was officially established. The captain is of course Le Yuan. With Le Yuan's strength, there is no problem in defeating today's fighters. After a year of rest, his activity limit was relaxed to 30 minutes, which is enough for him to solve all problems. Team members Adil Hyde and Gao Nike are also not freeloaders. For Le Yuan, there was no suspense before the entire 97 competition started.