This was going to solve a major hurdle in this war so Zavier wasn't about to let anyone mess up his plan.
The clone with the Mesmer system started to gather his spiritual energy and magical energy at the same time. The same continued for a few seconds after which the clone brought the palm of his hands together in front of him before pulling them apart by moving his hands sideways.
Unlike before, his palms now held something between them. It was a red orb that gave out devilish light that seemed so eerie and outwardly that it would have spooked even ghosts had they been looking at it.
The orb in the hands of the clone didn't stop growing as the hands were pulled apart. It was as if the orb was being spread to the limit.
It slowly but gradually took the form of a blood red moon that was slowly but gradually changing the environment all around them.
The orb left his hands and got suspended in the air like the real moon and gradually overlapped it as well. It was like it had killed off the previous moon and had taken its place. While the previous moon spread light, this one only brought about darkness and bloodshed.
To the alliance members the moon looked like the collection of everything that was evil in the world while Zavier didn't feel anything at all as he was the caster.
To everyone else though, the whole world was suddenly plunged into darkness and the blood red moon was the only source of light. Even that looked like a giant devilish eye that was looking at them with murderous intent. There was cacophony of caw-caws as the crows started to fly around them wildly crying bloody tears at the same time.
Some began to madly rush about while some stayed rooted in place terrified to the point of being unable to hold their bowels but it was not the end at all. The tree around them started to twist and the branches began to move about freely. Thorns began to sprout all over the branches and the thorny wines began to wriggle on the ground like snakes looking for prey.
The participants forgot to breathe; some began to fight back against the tree branches and vines entangling them and unhesitatingly started to cast their powerful skills to get a chance to escape.
Some were so terrified that they did not even have it in them to try to escape. Such students were devoured instantly. The vines entangled around their body and pulled them all into the ground. The forest itself was out for their lives. The students were in despair thinking of any way to save themselves but there was nothing that they could do because even those who had tried to run away had found themselves entangled by the devilish vines. The pain of being wrapped in thorny bushes made them scream out in agony and their screams echoed in the darkness but no one came to help them as their lives were snuffed out by the forest.
All of this was of course the result of an illusion and the alive forest was only in the imaginations of all those who had gotten caught up in the mass illusion that the clone with the Mesmer system had cast earlier.
Outside in the real world, it was the still the same as before. Those who were suffering due to the illusion and had been unable to get rid of the illusion all fell to the ground unconscious. They would remain unconscious for the time that Zavier needed to wipe out the rest of the forces. Therefore he didn't concern himself with the fallen anymore.
He was more worried about the people who had somehow managed to escape the illusion. The reason that these individuals had managed to escape his illusions was because the Blood Moon was a mass illusion and it was unable to focus the entirety of the spiritual energy on a single individual. Therefore, the effect was considerably weaker compared to an illusion cast on a single target.
Therefore, those who had the slightest bit of knowledge about illusions were able to figure out the way to escape the illusion. Gabby who had some knowledge about illusions was able to break free based on his instinct and skill in illusions. But the others weren't as lucky as him.
The others had to put in the requisite effort to break free. Since they couldn't solve the puzzle properly, they had to destroy the illusion to bits in order to get free and that took a considerable amount of mana or spiritual energy.
Any individual who managed to survive past the illusion was a strong competitor but due to the excessive consumption of mana they were all considerably tired.
The awe inspiring team of nearly three hundred and fifty students had been reduced to less than fifty participants who were still standing. Others had either been eliminated already or had been taken away by the medics or they were lying on the ground in an incapacitated state. The morale of the team was at an all time low but the elimination of the weak meant that the top fifty among the group were still standing and were definitely top of the food chain.
This group also included those that had yet to participate among the strife of the battle. They had been waiting for a chance so far so they had yet to participate in the battle. Therefore, these people were almost in a perfect condition.
The main targets of his illusion were still running about and Kacie was also running around with her teammates who had even helped her get rid of the illusion that had been cast on her through the Blood Moon.
Zavier couldn't have her waking up everyone else. Therefore, he ordered the clone with the Mesmer system to keep his family in check since that was the only feasible solution at the moment. The illusions were the best methods to stop his school mates for a while as he got rid of all the alliance members.
While the clone with the Mesmer system had been assigned to deal with his family, he fought against the remaining enemies along with the clone having the Magus system.
The remaining participants were being defeated one after the other and the already low number was dwindling faster than Gabby had anticipated. He had never imagined that the person he had managed to escape from was so peerless. Gabby felt that he had underestimated the abilities of the masked men. They were even more mysterious than he had previously imagined them to be.
In fact, Gabby and his two teammates still had some trump cards that they were unwilling to take out considering the situation on the outside. This wasn't something that could be revealed to just anyone for trivial reasons. He wanted to save his strength for later.
Therefore he and his two teammates began to call out for the other participants who had refrained from taking part in the war so far. Based on their earlier play, Gabby and his two teammates were busy feigning exhaustion and had the right to criticize others since they had already put in their best. In the eyes of the weaker participants, they were practically angels who had willingly sacrificed themselves for the good of the alliance.
"There won't be another chance like this even if you wait till the end of the competition. The chance has been earned through the sacrifice of so many of our comrades. Please don't let it go to waste and take action right now. If only I hadn't been so spent, I would have rushed in myself but my legs won't move."
Gabby pretended to be stuck in place as he sat on one knee and tried to push himself up only to fall down a second later. This was definitely a good piece of acting. Zavier felt like giving him a reward.
"If you don't take action right away, you will only end up harming yourself. In the end, no one will be able to stop the trio and they would definitely help you in getting eliminated soon."
Gabby had been the leader of an entire group and he had already experienced the internal scuffles between the sub groups. Some wanted to make use of the time to escape since most of them had lost anyway. Some of them wanted to fight till the end. These people had been influenced by his earlier speech and were operating on borrowed sentiments and lacking strength so they were not of much use since they were low in number.
There was another group that was acting as vultures preying upon the fallen. This group had sneakily stolen some of the cards of those who had fallen to the ground after being incapacitated by the trio of masked men. They had no regard for the comradeship or even the slightest bit of integrity or teammate spirit since they were practically stabbing their earlier teammates in the back by falling back from the battlefield in order to collect spoils.
Moreover, theses people didn't belong to any team. Rather they wanted to take advantage of the both the parties. They were imagining a fantasy where the alliance and the trio would both fall and the vultures would then be able to loot all of them at once to win the competition.
Of course reality was not that sweet. Not everyone was a complete idiot who would fall for their petty schemes.
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