Babylon Cup

***Spoiler Alert:** The following article has information not currently present in the anime or manga. Do not proceed unless you want to be spoiled.*
**Babylon Cup** (バビロンレース, *Babironrēsu*?) is an Ether Vehicle (魔動乗用車 (エーテルビークル) , *Ēterubīkuru*?) race event hosted by Duchy of Brunhild on the Drakliff Island.

## Race Participants

* **Griff** - the craftsman dwarf chief driving an ether vehicle named "The Steel Axe" built mostly with original Dwarf technology.
* **Monica & Rosetta** - driving an ether vehicle named "The Silver Star" built with normal technology aiming to have a fair race.
* **Lapis** - driving an ether vehicle named "The Swan", it was built by Monica and Rosetta.
* **Nia** - driving an ether vehicle named "The Red Cat", it was also built by Monica and Rosetta but was directed by Nia.
* **Berlietta** - driving a modified version of the 3.5 Fiat that Touya gave to her named "Strain".
* **Lupheus** - driving a modified version of the 3.5 Fiat that Touya gave to him named "Triharan".
* **Felsen King** - driving an ether vehicle, described as the culmination of Felsen's magitech research. A big car compared to the others, named "Felsen".
* **Touya and Paula** - driving a normal Renault K-type ether vehicle named "Brunhild".

## Race Courses

* **South area** - The pier track, basically a racecourse over a pier at the beach and sea zone.
* **East area** - The forest track, a set of dirt roads that pass through winding hills. It was divided in five sections.
	+ The first section road surface was so uneven that cars could be blown away if they went too fast
	+ The second section was inside a forest, the road was full of holes and the forest was so dense it was almost imposible to see the road.
	+ The third section was a flat long road with a shorcut shorter but with more obstacles, it had a jump over a river and a place with flying cakes,
	+ The fourth section was a wet and muddy track with water strong enought to flip a car being thrown by Merlion statues on the side of the road.
	+ The fifth section became a montanous one with a very uneven and rough road.
* **North area** - A cold snow track, described as slippery with magically generated snow around. It was divided in three sections.
	+ The first section was a sippery slope with massive falling snow balls from the top.
	+ The second section was long way down road.
	+ The third section was a giant snow maze.
* **West area** - The obstacle race, a dangerous zone full of mysterious hurdles. It was divided in four sections
	+ The first section was a road full of trap panels with only a aceleration one between them.
	+ The second section was an area of cliff with some oil on the road, the cars that fell were automatically disqualified.
	+ The third section was a slime bird zone where cars can get stuck.
	+ The fourth section was a long road with an illusion of a bunch of cats in the the first third.

## Race Rules

* The pilots needed to pass through the areas within a certain amount of time or they would be disqualified.
* If the car went bad the pilot can get down and push it through the zones.
* Each area has two pit zones where they can fix their cars, the pilots can also fix their cars inside the road.
* Pilots can interfiere with others as their cars are protected with magic, but if a big car colides with a small one it can be repelled like a magnet, the closer the cars can be is 10 cm.
* If the car crashes the pilot can be teleported to the pit, if the damage is enought to stay out the race the pilot will be disqualified, if not he can run to the car to fix it an keep on the run.
* There's a teleport button so the pilots that want to leave the race can press it, if a pilont wants to leave the race he can also sait it out loud.
* Magic is forbidden

The race was witnessed by the nations representatives from Touya's second world and Triharan, Strain, Primula and Gardio nations, being the last one represented by the King Lowe[*citation needed*] and his helper Prince Lucrecio[*citation needed*]. And the commentator was Mr. Mittens.

## Notable events during the race

* During the pier area Fensen's car fell on the water, seconds later Felsen King trew the car onto the road and kept racing. Touya thought that if he was the king of a Magic kingdom, then there was something fundamentally wrong with the whole world.
* During the forest area Nia was the only one who didn't overhauled her car.
* During the forest area, Nia, Lapis, The Steel Axe and Lupheus decided to take the shorcut, and a flying cake crashen on Nia's car.
* During the muddy track Rosetta and Monica's car was flipped and they ended up covered in mud, they returned to the race after cursing Babylon's name.
* During the montanous road Touya saw Nia throwing up at the side of the road.
* During the slippery slope the Steel Axe fell of the road as two giant snow ball crashed with the car.
* During the snow maze, Touya threw Paula into the air to know the way to get out the maze.
* Touya's car exploted after he passed over a panel with a skull, this resulted in them teleported to the garage, he self-desqualified when he left the circuit not realizing that he could go back and rebuild the car to keep on the race.
* During the cliff track seeing that Berlietta's car was about to fall due to the oil, he crashed his car saving her from being disqualified but resulting in both cars damagen enought to not be able to continue. Lupheus and Berlietta returned to the road aiming to restore their cars but realizing that they were out of salvation they decided to mix both and trie to continue the race. Karen helped them a bit making the car start with a speed bonus.
* Felsen car got stuck in the slime bird area, he got out trying to push the car but he ended up stuck too.
* Lapis, Monica and Rosetta stopped in front of the cats until they discovered it was an illusion
* Nia pased over a trap panel and ended up with a 60 seconds penalty, after the 60 second she passed over the only acceleration panel in the whole place

## Race results

* Nia won the first place, this made the Strain's queen realize about the relationship between Touya and the Red Cats.
* Lapis came in second place.
* Rosetta and Monica came in third place.
* Berlietta and Lupheus came in fourth place, moments later Lupheus proposed to Berlietta.

## After the race

After the race there was a party at the beach with royal chefs from both worlds and some culinary delights where Lupheus and Berlietta formally announced their engagement, The Felsen King told Touya that Horn was going to have a meeting with Felsen representatives as mediators in three days, he requested Touya to participate to know what was behind the conflict in the kingdom, he agreed and asked the Ramissh's Pope for help.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 **Light Novel** Volume 17 Chapter III.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `drakis ref5`