"They’re coming!" Melody’s expression turned serious as she pointed her gun at the one in the front, Roberto.
Bang!
Bang!
Several gunshots instantly echoed inside the arena. Roberto simply blocked her with his shield and continued onward.
Both Kanaria and Imemine’s gunner, Clara, were approaching, but they couldn’t be too reckless. A single mistake would definitely let one of those bullets hit their vital area, which would eliminate them from this competition.
The first one to make the move was Kanaria. She came out of her hiding spot, aiming for Roberto’s side.
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"Tsk." Roberto moved back and used the tree to cover himself, causing the bullets to hit the tree.
Melody pressed on, trying to use this opportunity to somehow destroy Roberto. She also maintained a portion of her attention on the radar, watching out for Clara.
"!!!" Instead of stopping Kanaria’s barrage, Clara actually looped around and aimed at her. Melody clicked her tongue and hurriedly looped around the tree, hiding from her. She grabbed the soil underneath his foot while taking out a small paper wrap from her pocket.
Then she tossed this lump of soil toward Roberto.
Roberto panicked and hurriedly moved back with his shield in front. At the same time, Clara hid behind a tree, wondering what kind of grenade it was.
However, this was just a trick. Now that both of them had retreated, it was time for Kanaria and Melody to push on.
While Libation Fiesta had the upper hand on the left side, it was a bit different on the right side.
Jay saw Gilza coming with his glaive. This muscular man was like a bull, charging straight ahead until it hit its target.
"There you are! Jay Havenson! I am Gilza, the strongest man! I’ll defeat you!" Gilza shouted, taunting Jay. He stomped the ground while waving his glaive, planning to crush Jay in a single swing.
"Then you better train for another decade." Jay harrumphed and swung his sword downward.
"!!!" Gilza noticed that Jay was actually aiming at his weapon. He suddenly raised his glaive a bit so that Jay couldn’t knock it down.
Unfortunately for Gilza, Jay took advantage of the new technique he got from Clovis. While he hadn’t mastered it, the way he swung his saber had become a bit different.
The technique optimized the muscle’s usage, which significantly increased Jay’s swing.
In addition, Jay was aiming for another thing in this swing.
The moment the two blades clashed, the clicking sound echoed as a small shock wave was produced. However, the clash only lasted for an instant as Jay overpowered Gilza in an instant.
"Imposs—" Before Gilza could even finish his reaction, Jay went one step further and shifted the trajectory of his swing, curving it.
"Kh!" Gilza gritted his teeth as his glaive actually got swept around, the handle hitting his legs and ultimately tripping him.
Gilza opened his eyes wide, not believing what had just happened. His swing was powerful enough to contend against a peak Tier 3. Yet he was still overpowered by Jay. It could only mean one thing.
Despite being a Tier 2, Jay’s strength had actually surpassed that of a Tier 4.
All the people who watched Jay’s clash couldn’t help but gasp in disbelief.
"What? Is this the strength of Libation Fiesta? He is actually overwhelming Gilza with Imemine. What is happening?!" Shion shouted. "Is Libation Fiesta the den of monsters?! We have never seen anything like this."
The referee, who was overseeing the clash between the two of them, couldn’t help but drop his jaw. It wasn’t because Jay’s strength was more powerful than Gilza’s. It was because he recognized another thing in that swing.
’Don’t tell me… Is that Muscle Augmentation? A Tier 2 can actually exert the power of Muscle Augmentation? How? Even the most talented person can only utilize that special ability after reaching Tier 3, since their evolution is not enough to feel that power.’
He simply couldn’t believe what he saw. Jay had shown something unprecedented, which might actually be the secret strength of Libation Fiesta.
Gilza fell on his back, seeing Jay was about to finish him off.
However, Tarkan swiftly approached them.
’Then, I’ll cut you down together with him!’ Jay clenched his sword even tighter. With Tarkan standing on top of Gilza, he could just knock Tarkan down and strike Gilza right after.
But Tarkan showed a different type of strength.
He was wearing a glove that had some metal plates scattered around the surface of his gloves. He lowered his stance and hit Jay’s sword with the back of his palm.
Jay thought he could overpower him, but Tarkan’s hand actually followed the movement of his blade while applying his own force to the side, shifting the sword’s trajectory a little bit.
"!!!" Jay’s blade ended up missing both Tarkan and Gilza and striking the ground. He hurriedly pulled out his blade, but Tarkan had changed his stance, planning to hit Jay’s chest.
"Tsk!" Jay clicked his tongue and used his left arm to block it instead, with most of that force getting absorbed by the clothes provided by Another World Mall.
Bam!
Jay was launched several meters away as his momentum was stopped by a tree.
"Thanks." Gilza breathed out of relief.
"Don’t underestimate him," said Tarkan while moving forward, not letting Jay recover. At the same time, he activated his beast soul. ’Arctodus Simus.’
Even Jay felt the danger from Tarkan’s right fist and hurriedly moved to the side as Tarkan missed Jay at the last moment and struck the tree.
Bam!
The tree, or more like the pillar, got crushed with a single punch.
Not wanting to lose or continuously get dragged around, Jay spun his body and struck Tarkan on the head, using his own beast soul to speed up.
Tarkan tried to block it the same way by putting his arm between his head and Jay’s sword.
Unfortunately for him, Jay’s swing actually struck so hard that he ended up spinning like a wheel. But he was more prepared, unlike Gilza, which allowed him to stabilize himself by pushing himself off the ground and landing safely on his feet.
Jay’s expression turned grim. It seemed that it wouldn’t be that easy to defeat these two as well.