Chapter 421: NO．4：Even if you're just here to say hello, you'll still be roped in to help with training

NO．4：Even if you're just here to say hello, you'll still be roped in to help with training.

The Dream Cup, this competition standard Aomo had mentioned in passing in the Curious New Clause, but seeing the opponent's inexplicably formidable expression, he knew he had spoken in vain.

The Dream Cup, as its name suggests, is dreamlike, a legendary competition that allows 'all aptitudes, all distances to shine in the race'.

Its features are two: first——Horse Girls can sign up without any threshold.

In other words——Competing across generations on the same stage, even retired Horse Girls can appear, you have the chance to challenge past legends, and also become a new legend.

And the second feature——The racecourse exceeds standard specifications.

After all, it is a stage designed to let all aptitudes and all distances be fully expressed, not a 'strongest' contest like the classic Triple Crown, nor a 'fastest' contest like the 'Three History Floral Crown', but a contest for a pure 'invincibility'.

Short distance: m

Medium distance: m

Long distance: m

No longer restricting Horse Girls from obtaining physique and technology outside the Three Goddesses' Source Energy Tree, which functions like a passive skill in being naturally strong, nor completely restricting Horse Girls from learning source energy arts outside the Three Goddesses' Source Energy Tree.

But rather relaxing some aspects, such as implementing only frequency limits, duration limits, and venue damage ratio exceeding a certain amount leading to disqualification, to constrain some truly excessive means and source energy.

True speed, and true strength, are thus displayed.

It is not in any tier of the competition level standards set by the URA Association, like a hazy phantom about racing, lasting three years, one year corresponding to one distance, presenting to everyone the limits that this group of Horse Girls ought to display in different eras.

'The True Champion', the Dream Cup indeed bears such a title, but due to the competition involving too much, rules being too exaggerated, it is not actively proposed by the URA Association.

Every time it is initiated, it is done so by divine revelation.

Usually speaking, the vast majority of Horse Girls' golden racing years are from their debut race, the first three years.

So even if they can maintain a very long racing career, most also choose to retire after three years since debut.

Although their bodies remain strong, the youthful vigor of young people has, in the high-intensity competitive training and countless stories, become more substantial and introverted.

No longer deeply yearning to run, yearning to compete.

Not numb, not compromising, but looking back on the past, feeling a sense of 'no need to come again' fulfillment and serenity.

But not all Horse Girls are so fortunate.

Those whose yearning has not ceased, whose fervor has not been extinguished, whose dreams remain unfulfilled, will still be on the racecourse in a more mature period, attempting to defeat opponents younger and more vibrant than themselves……

——The Dream Cup is thus more perfectly aligned with their yearning fantasy than those 'races allowing careers of three years and above'.

Before these young people, their age is no longer merely a mental burden.

Their experience, what they excel at and have learned outside the racecourse, can also be transformed into accumulations surpassing the 'Golden Three Years'.

Young people think of defeating their seniors, seniors also want to defeat the young to achieve their relentless dream, not disappointing themselves and their peers.

Such a Dream Cup naturally should have such exaggerated specifications, and whenever the 'Dream Year' with the Dream Cup descending arrives, ordinary races will also dim in comparison.

This is also unavoidable.

Having seen Horse Girls in the true sense, with full power on a relatively common starting line, who would again want to watch Horse Girl races where restrictions are too many and the highest schedule is only ten thousand?

No matter how you struggle, even if it's a 1000-kilometer endurance race like the Mongolian Derby, it will still be limited in many ways due to primary race endurance, and thus not worthy of being mentioned alongside the Dream Cup.

In the past, when the URA Association encountered the Dream Cup, a breakout race that made several years' races dim in comparison, they almost never struggled.

A whole year of G1, G2, G3, etc., being overshadowed by the Dream Cup—isn't that very normal? ——As organizers and operators, they have fully accepted this fact.

But……taking advantage of the appearance of such an outrageous race as the Dream Cup to make large-scale changes to ordinary race regulations, this has been recorded in writing as having occurred seven times.

After all, people in this period have strong acceptance——or rather, they tend to ignore and become numb to situations outside the Dream Cup.

Using this to secretly conduct version adjustments is just perfect. jpg

Furthermore, with the record sent by Ailisuzhi, Aomo has reason to believe that the URA Association, which has not changed its race regulations and competition mechanisms for sixteen years, will not miss this opportunity for mischief.

After all, over these sixteen years, the stage-wise average speed of Horse Girl races has always been rising.

By contrast, the injury rate has not changed, which also suffices to prove that the average physique of Horse Girls is also increasing bit by bit.

After all, technology is developing, source energy is developing, and the conditions of all races will naturally change accordingly.

Although there is also the phenomenon of excessive reliance on something leading to degeneration in other aspects.

But only Horse Girls, this almost track-bound athlete race, their speed pursuit has not declined at all.

Expecting their athletic ability to degenerate is obviously impossible, at most it is only after genuine formalization gradually recedes that physical quality indeed declines in individual cases of 'degeneration'.

And when this kind of 'evolution' shows a clear change in coverage nearly encompassing an entire race……

"Not saying anything else, I think the distances and track terrain specifications of the three types of races will all be changed, what do you two think?"

After evaluating a regular lunch, Aomo then took the three Horse Girls to the suburbs of London to carry out routine duties——speed training.

As the capital of the Hongying District, London naturally has the Trenton branch school nearby, but this Trenton training ground is outside the school, and widely uses manual maintenance.

When Aomo registered to rent part of the facilities as a Central Training Instructor, he encountered no obstacles.

Instead, he felt the superiority of the 'Central Training Instructor' position itself——

——Even the rental procedures are much faster than those of other local training instructors, and the reservation process is omitted.

Even at the training ground, he would still be given looks of awe by other staff members, making him somewhat unaccustomed.

However, these problems become irrelevant during formal training, once away from those staff members, replaced by half an hour later, a visit from the Desert Heroine Miss carrying a small satchel, and——

"I don't mind, even if the track is extended by a full kilometer! Witch Sweepy won't mind either!

"Aren't you a magical girl?"

The long-unseen Eastern Commerce Reform (SweepTosho) Miss, although when last seen she was still looking around at the magical girl wand stall while saying she had her own wand and didn't like those automatic wands, but that longing in her eyes is not hard to detect.

But now, she is this able to call herself a 'witch'.

Only half a month apart, but as someone like Aomo who can live each day overly exciting, he also has no qualification to complain about others' changes in the short term.

Aomo still remembers that the other's grandmother is a color-position witch, permanently stationed at the Clock Tower headquarters, that is, Constant City, and on the Earth Plate, she is diametrically opposed to the Hongying District.

But nowadays' transportation, crossing districts really doesn't take much time, especially if you use relatively mystical, or overly high-tech methods.

So he could only respond with a questioning gentle smile.

"Magic, magic girl attributes are already too much! I've decided to become a witch!"

Ah this... aren't magic girls these days all teaming up to go out? Having many attributes doesn't mean anything?

Aomo tilted his head in confusion toward the desert hero beside him, and heard the other say in a meaningless low voice: "Two weeks ago, Class A, Grade 2 of the Senior Division, Sakura Keikan, received certification from the Magic Girl Association."

"Ah ah ah ah! Hero, you're not allowed to say that!"

Two weeks ago? That's exactly when the other was summoned back by their grandmother to study at the Clock Tower, right?

"Miss Dongshang?" "Not listening, not listening! I'm already Witch Sweep now!"

"Does Miss Witch Sweep also carry pink-system magic wand magazines?" Aomo's gaze fell on the other's satchel.

Same satchel, the desert hero's satchel shows three books at a glance, while the other's satchel is just a magazine with a very flashy cover.

All are artistic fonts, and on the surface it's still a pink heart magic wand.

"Ugh... you, you say that again and I'll ask about it on Umastagram——" "Miss Witch Sweep, could you listen with me to Hero Miss's views on competition reform?" Aomo interrupted quickly.

"Of, of course I can!"

After reaching this agreement, Aomo glanced at the stopwatch timing interface on the light screen, then looked toward the desert hero beside him.

"Should... count as a good thing?" The desert hero said conservatively, "Although the association probably will adjust distance and course design toward everyone's limits to avoid being broken too frequently, but precisely because of this, truly difficult trials tempering ability aren't they what forge the hero's resolve!?"

"Ah, here we go again, the hero's hero complex~" Dongshang Reform, shaking head and swaying body, obviously on good terms with the other, shook her head in a familiar manner, obviously shaking the witch hat on her head.

"Doesn't this make me look like a villain?"

"The opposition between witch and hero, being both enemies and friends, is also a fine tale." Aomo glanced at the two and said.

Then he looked toward the three horse girls running into the distance.

Even so, though he had just accommodated both parties' insistence, it obviously pleased the latter, and he didn't mind his field of view drifting.

"Oh~! Speaking is still as proper as ever! Mr. Linton!"

"Reform, I won't let you have your way." "No need for you to let me, I'll directly outrun the hero!"

"Then no delay, strike while the iron is hot..."

Between words, seeing the three horse girls successively rush to the nearest starting point, his fingers also clicked the light screen three times in quick succession with extreme precision, displaying three time differences—Aomo then turned to look at the two girls, rubbing his hands.

"The horse girls here are all aiming for the Dream Cup, and Bourbon has already won two classic crowns as a professional-level horse girl."

"Want to do a parallel run training with them later?"