He was still holding a grudge after she rejected his romantic overtures and sent him home to his wife years earlier...not for the faint-hearted." Each school would select a single student to represent them, and "eternal glory" awaited the student who won the tournament, by surviving three "extremely dangerous" tasks.With the abducted Sorceress, they proceeded to the Valley of the Dead, although Arpid was fearful, comically: "Nobody goes to the Valley of the Dead.[The same flashback plot device, told by a dead man in voice-over, was copied byAmerican Beauty (1999).