"There are only thirty minutes left." Kanaria glanced at Clovis. "Should we stop here or continue to aim for the top spot?"
"We’ll continue." Clovis’s expression turned serious.
"Alright." Kanaria nodded. "Though I don’t really like the fact that we’re giving them more information... I mean, they are going to review our performance, right?"
"Yes. However, it’s not like we’re giving them the correct information. We’re still holding back to a certain degree."
"So you want them to think that our strength is only limited to this level? And the rest will be just speculation?"
Clovis answered it with a nod.
"Alright, then."
"Wait, guys." Melody suddenly frowned. "I seem to find people coming from that direction."
Clovis glanced in the direction Melody was pointing. Kanaria did the same and noticed the shadow approaching. They were still a bit too far, so they got some time to react.
"Jay, Melody."
"Leave them to us!" Jay stepped forward with Melody. Melody hid behind a tree while Kanaria climbed a tree. The people weren’t much of a problem, but they had to be cautious against beasts. Kanaria was there just to ensure that no beasts approached them, considering they hadn’t cleared this area.
"There are a total of four people coming toward us. I will be giving you the route, Jay." Melody started picking up the route among the trees.
"Roger." Jay immediately followed the directions. His gaze met two pairs of eyes in the distance.
Now that they were spotted, there was no need to sneak around anymore.
The two guys rushed toward Jay, holding their weapons.
Kanaria looked at their positioning and said, "I found one gunner. They’re probably trying to lure you before taking you out, Jay."
"I will take care of the gunner." Melody hurriedly moved forward, looping around so that she didn’t get found out.
At the same time, the fourth person was actually injured before coming here. He was coming from the opposite direction, as if trying to cut down Jay’s path.
"Jay, be careful!" Melody warned Jay while furrowing her eyebrows.
Jay’s expression turned serious as he approached the two guys. When the radar showed him that the fourth person had almost reached his position, Jay abruptly came to a halt.
All of a sudden, a big injured guy emerged from behind a tree that was almost unable to cover his body.
The big guy waved his warhammer as if trying to crush Jay.
From his strength alone, this injured guy was a Tier 3. However, Jay wasn’t the type to retreat from a challenge.
He stomped the ground and waved his sword, meeting the warhammer head-on.
Clink!
The clicking sound echoed. With just the weapon type alone, it was clear that the warhammer would win. In addition, the wielder was a big guy who could throw more weight.
Unfortunately, Jay was an abnormal target that had been equipped with both a technique and items from Another World Mall.
Jay actually knocked the big guy’s warhammer away.
"!!!" The big guy was shocked. Even his two friends who were about to arrive widened their eyes.
’What? This strength… No, we still haven’t lost yet. I’m injured, so…’ The big guy suddenly changed his stance, letting the warhammer slip away from his hand so that his entire body didn’t arch back due to the momentum.
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Jay was stunned because the big guy actually tilted his upper body down and threw himself at him, tackling him on the stomach.
"W-wha—?!" Jay was shocked as he was about to fall to the ground. With a glance to the side, he also found the two guys desperately coming toward him. They seemed to be planning to defeat him while the big guy pinned him down.
Jay gritted his teeth. If this was a real fight, he could simply cut down the big guy, but because this was a competition, he would get disqualified if he killed this guy.
But he couldn’t recover from his position, and it would only take an instant for these two guys to kill him. Even Jay couldn’t defeat his opponents in this position.
"Die!" The two guys approached him and swung their blades, planning to just hit Jay.
However, they soon heard a gunshot from the side. The next thing they realized, one of them had already been shot in the head. The momentum of the bullet knocked him to the side as the paint spread all over his hair.
At the same time, a short sword suddenly flew from the side and appeared between them, almost hitting the other guy’s blade.
"!!!" Even though the short sword missed, the person was already stunned, instinctively taking a step back to avoid whatever was coming.
He glanced to the side, finding Clovis approaching them.
Clovis took out his pistol and shot the guy and the big one in rapid succession, eliminating them.
All three of them were shocked that they were eliminated all of a sudden. The remaining guy emerged from his hiding spot, wanting to do the same thing. He planned to shoot Clovis and Jay in rapid succession.
However, when he came out of his hiding spot, Melody did the same, shooting him first from behind.
"Gah!" Their gunner was pushed down by the force of the bullet and glanced at the shooter, realizing that he was also already defeated.
Jay simply couldn’t believe that they would resort to such a thing. In a real battle, they would have died before attempting such a thing.
At the same time, he couldn’t find any rules that they broke. The rules merely stated that they couldn’t kill, so as long as they weren’t ’killed,’ they could still do something.
"NO! We’re still able to fight!" One of them roared, standing up again and marching toward Jay, planning to cut him down. They didn’t want to lose the preliminary match.
Jay hurriedly pushed away the big guy that restrained him and tried to get back up. ’Tsk. It’s too late.’
Unfortunately for that guy, Clovis appeared at a timely manner, kicking him on the cheek and blowing him away.
"Tsk. I really hate this type of fight." Clovis sighed after landing.