Meanwhile, Kayden was just sitting there waiting for the confrontation between the two teams. He shouldn’t let any of them win the flag. Its function was to buy time, so it made its actions seem strange and suspicious.
A few minutes later, reinforcements appeared from team 26. 30 more people arrived, making the number of people completely uneven. Within seconds, the environment became a confusion of spells being cast in different directions, spells of fire, lightning, and water, all elements were seen, even light and darkness.
Team number 45 sent the fastest student to call for support, and in just a few minutes, the battle was even again. All bets were on this flag, as they knew that whoever took out the most opponents at that moment would win.
Team number 90 would need at least 10 minutes to return with enough students to unbalance the battle. The point here was to win quickly so you could get the flag in the center. This was an idiotic attitude, as it threw a lot of points into luck.
If Team 26 hadn’t made that decision, none of them would have done this. With every second, the battle escalated further. Everyone was doing their best. In just 5 minutes, the number of participants on each side dropped drastically, but team number 26 was visibly faring worse.
Their leader didn’t give the best commands. His attitudes were driven by emotion and any provocation caused him to attack and send his subordinates towards a trap. Kayden felt that if they didn’t intervene now, the difference would be too big.
"Linus," with Kayden’s call, the boy began to gather mana in his hand. This would take a while, but it would take most of the opponents out of the match. Unfortunately, they quickly noticed this and recognized Linus’ movement.
The two teams momentarily separated and entered into a tactical agreement to stop Linus. At this time, around 90 students were coming towards Kayden and Linus. Kayden’s job was to buy time.
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Activating his ultimate path, Kayden released some Zeus beams in random directions just to buy time. Each lightning bolt eliminated an unsuspecting person. He then rushed into the crowd and was met with dozens of spells.
Fireballs, lightning, arrows, everything was thrown towards him. His speed was far superior to any of them and he just quickly dodged their attacks. Before the front line could reason, Kayden was above them, unleashing attacks like a madman.
The surprise factor helped him knock two opponents out of battle with a fatal strike to their necks. They didn’t even have time to scream, but their friends reacted quickly and paid Kayden their full attention. Unfortunately, that was everyone’s mistake.
Kayden popped a Pop Flash directly over dozens of people watching. The effect was immediate: when everyone retreated, they began to release random spells. Some of them eliminated another portion of the participants.
Taking advantage of the opening, Kayden ran to Linus and put his friend on his back. It then shot off in a random direction. Nobody expected this and they didn’t know what to do. For about a minute, they just retreated before starting the battle for the center again.
Once again, the pace was rapid and casualties on both sides piled up by the dozens. At the moment, team 26 only had 15 members, while team number 45 had twice as many survivors.
Kayden was wondering how these idiots ended up in charge of their teams. Sol Academy only prioritized the strong. The strong are not always the best strategists. That became clear at that moment.
The fight fell into a stalemate with both sides barely hanging on. Slowly, it began to sink in that they had forgotten about an opponent. If they had managed to finish the fight quickly, they would have won without a shadow of a doubt. But now, team number 90 was too big a threat.
At that moment, Kayden released a simple signaling spell upwards. The man quickly rose in a green hue. His action made the two teams that were already afraid even more apprehensive.
Locke saw the signal and quickly advanced with everyone on the team. They were already nearby, just waiting for the right moment. Its base did not exist and was just a hastily erected structure. The trick was a student capable of using illusion magic, who brought the fort to life with people walking on it and talking as if they were alive.
The sound of nearly a hundred people walking resounded across the plain and interrupted all the small fights that were going on. The commander of Team 26 was cursing even the fifth generation of Team 45 for joining this fight in an idiotic manner.
There was no conversation, there was no signage, and the dozens of students walked slowly and in the same way, their entrance showed order and discipline, just this small presentation caused fear in the opponents.
As soon as they reached 30 meters from the other team Locke raised his hand and looked at the crowd gathered in front of him, dozens of options passed through his mind in just a few seconds.
"Battalion 3 free fire" with his command dozens of stone element spells were thrown at the opponents, most managed to perfectly dodge or defend themselves without taking much damage, but those who were tired or injured were eliminated directly.
"Battalion 4 water" Then a large amount of water needles were thrown, and once again some were eliminated, morale had already dropped to very low levels, and their useless fight at the beginning ruined the entire match.
Locke’s goal was to take the surrounding flags before attacking the center one, similar to the first round, but when he saw Kayden’s signal he reorganized his troops and gave up on the last flag.
The two teams didn’t stay quiet while they were beaten and they responded with some different spells, but there wasn’t any organization in them, the only difference was that each of them had a great level of strength.