Zavier felt slight humiliation when he had to take down such vigorless enemies but that didn't mean that he wasn't happy with the current situation. He wanted the current state of his enemies to last for as long as possible. This was also enough for his group to get a breathing room.
As he had expected, it was not long before a leader appeared out of the group. It was Gabby who had climbed up a favourable spot within the battlefield and was visible or at least audible to all the members of the alliance from his position.
In fact with his magic, he could have easily influenced everyone from wherever he was on the battlefield but visual stimulation was the best there was. Therefore, he not only used sonic waves to increase the amplitude of his voice, he also put on a brave front as he stood at the top looking down at his subjects with benevolence and grace that befitted a leader in times of crisis.
"Nothing has changed. Didn't we expect that it was going to be hard? Wasn't that why we gathered such huge numbers? Did you all think that it was easy to take down the enemy that we had gathered more than four hundred people to fight against?"
His voice echoed around the forest and resonated with the hearts of the alliance members who were all shaking their heads as if to answer Gabby's questions but none of them was able to utter the slightest sound from their mouths due to how ashamed they had been feeling.
"Then why have you forgotten that all of us are supposed to be a team to fight against these three inhumanly strong opponents. Since they have strength on their side, then we have the numbers. No matter how strong they are, they will eventually get tired. Even they have limitations while we still have quite a force that is enough to whittle their strength down little by little. So, stand up and fight together with your comrades who have sacrificed themselves so you would be able to take the enemy down. Don't let their efforts be in vain."
It was as if Gabby had ignited a fire inside the alliance members. Some even erupted like a volcano with overflowing emotions and rushed at Zavier's team without a thought for their own safety. These were the ones who had become too inspired by Gabby's words and had rushed to avenge the sacrifice of their comrades.
While these people were mindlessly rushing, the other alliance members were feeling re-energized and felt as if all their strength was being returned to them. Their trembling legs and shaking hands were now steady and there was a fire in their hearts that wouldn't be extinguished until they managed to defeat their common enemy.
Zavier knew that the effect of his psychological tactics had worn off. The bonus round was over and the difficulty had been raised quite a bit.
So Zavier too changed his approach. He was no longer worried about hurting others. He activated shared mode and called on his clones towards him. Both of his clones paved their way towards him with all their strength and many of the alliance members were sent flying in their attempt to do so.
Shared mode allowed them to feel and experience everything that the other clone was experiencing. It was like a multifaceted view of the same battlefield.
Zavier gathered up his clones and rushed into the huge group of enemies in front of him who had now gathered together like his group as a result of the inspiration provided by Gabby.
The alliance members had formed a defensive circle so that each of the members could reinforce the overall defence of the circle. This would also allow them to have each other's backs as they had the view of the whole situation. They could trust their teammates to have their backs.
Zavier charged towards them and used all his blood to coagulate into the shape of a heaven encompassing hammer. The three of them struck down at the same time as their movements were synchronized together through the shared mode.
The defenses that the alliance had managed to gather after a lot of effort were torn down in an instant. It was as if several maddened rhinoceroses had trampled their way through the enemy group and had rushed into their midst. The wolves had once again made their way into the flock of sheep and the result was bound to be a slaughter.
Many of the contestants were rendered unable to fight because of the heavy blows of the blood hammers. Some of the contestants had used earth walls right away and had tried to cushion the attacks headed towards the groups but the hammers had torn through the earthen barriers like they were made up of paper.
All their barriers had been unable to stop Zavier's dash as he rushed into them. Various attack spells and debuffs fell on him but his hammer had long since transformed into a blood cocoon around him. All of their attacks had been rendered useless through the use of his excellent defense that not a single participant had been able to penetrate until then.
So far the rain of attacks did not have an effect on him and his clones since those participating in this group raid were all on the weaker side. The ones who were stronger were waiting for a chance. They were trying to save their strength so that they would be able to take the cards of Zavier and his team for themselves.
For that to happen, they needed to preserve their strength in order to fight against the rest of the alliance members. After the trio, they thought themselves to be invincible so they had not thought of the remotest possibility of failures. All of them were expecting it to rain cards and points after the defeat of the legendary trio.
As expected, even though Gabby and his team were participating in the operation now, they were hesitant in using their true strength against him. One reason was that they knew that even their full strength was useless against them. And the second reason was that they only wanted to put up appearances in front of the alliance members so that they would have the leadership card at the end of the battle as well. They were doing all this to make their right over the card stronger.
Macbeth and Ibeniah used the same techniques as earlier while Gabby supported them with his sound magic. The three of them carried out an offensive on one of the clones of Zavier.
Zavier had seen their skills beforehand and he had already figured out that they were not really putting in their best effort so he didn't pay much attention to their play and continued to take down more and more of the enemy group.
While Ibeniah continued to attack him in his half werewolf form, Macbeth used his swordsmanship skills to fight but Zavier knew that this wasn't the extent of their abilities.
Bat explosives soon surrounded him and this gave Macbeth and Ibeniah the chance to back off and take a breather.
Even though the bats were too much in number, there explosive radius wasn't as large and the damage they cause was almost nonexistent to Zavier, he still had to watch out for them which annoyed him to no end.
As soon as he got rid of the shadow bats, Zavier rushed towards more group members but the bulky Ibeniah once again attacked him from behind. Both Macbeth and Ibeniah continued to pester him with silly attacks like these. The only thing that they managed to pull off with this was that they had successfully pissed off Zavier.
The alliance members on the other hand thought that the three leaders had finally managed to control the masked men. For a few minutes since they had taken the lead in battle, the masked men had been unable to attack others. They were too preoccupied handling the leader's team.
In reality, Zavier wasn't too bothered about their little play since the others had slightly backed off of him ever since Gabby and the others had started to put on their show. As the three tried to consume his strength as much as possible while saving on their own strength, Zavier too stopped responding to their little diversions and flashy displays. He was busy recuperating as well.
Zavier also got to witness the ultimate technique of their group as Macbeth once again conjured up a horn that was slightly smaller in size compared to the one he had conjured in the past to escape from him. Ibeniah too acted in the same manner as if he was supplying him with the mana to cast the spell. Gabby then moved forwards and screamed in the horn in order to cast his illusion on the trio.
Although it looked quite a powerful attack to the others, Zavier knew that it was only a hollow shell. It was basic sound amplification and nothing else. Even the horn hadn't materialized properly like it had in the past. It still looked all blurry and transparent like it was only the ghost of the original.
Zavier didn't even bother protecting himself since it was a common shriek to him due to his high spiritual strength.
Gabby's own teammates on the other hand were affected by the sound blown out by the horn. They felt slightly dizzy which only worked in the favour of Zavier who pounced on target after target and looked as if he was unstoppable.
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