The first event in the Inter-Academy Festival was the Mana Fortress Defense.
This event required the sixty participating students to deal with coordinated attacks from beasts captured by the Academy for the event. The setting was spectacular—a massive arena transformed into a battlefield with ten separate fortresses, each allocated to a team of six students from mixed academies. The fortresses weren't mere physical structures but advanced constructs that responded to their defenders' actions, growing stronger or weaker based on how well the team functioned together.
The design of each fortress reflected cutting-edge technological achievements—holographic reinforcement matrices overlaid on physical architecture, automated defense systems with advanced targeting algorithms, and central power cores that synchronized with the defenders' abilities. The arena itself was equipped with environmental monitoring systems and damage control protocols that could assess performance in real-time.
