With the signal given, the team battle started. Just like what Surk had thought, the team north of them attacked them first. Their two archers immediately targeted Elenor and shot arrows targeted at her. Elenor saw the arrows coming at her but she couldn't dodge them in time. Melik who saw the arrows wasn't able to react because he had concentrated on attacking the archers. In a blink, he saw Surk appear in front of Elenor with the arrows in his hand.
'How! He was near me...' Melik got lost in his thoughts for a moment but immediately recovered his attention on the battle, and ran towards the archers.
"T-thanks Surk" Elenor reddened as she said this.
"No need to thank me. We're teammates, right?" Surk smiled, and ran to help Melik.
'So cool~' Elenor stood up and regained her composure. Her expression became serious suddenly. She turned towards the opposing team and started casting a spell.
Fay was engaged in fighting against the female assassin who unnoticingly got near Ryne who shot arrows at the opposing team's magician. The magician got grazed by the arrow on the arm. But because they had a cleric, the wound got healed momentarily.
The assassin had a sharp jur bound on each of her hand. She slashed and lunged her blades as she continued to attack Fay, who had to block some of the attacks with her dagger.
"You're pretty good for just dodging." The assassin mocked Fay as she continued her attacks.
"Yeah, I am. But you haven't seen anything yet." Fay suddenly backstepped and threw daggers at the assassin. The assassin sidestepped and blocked the other daggers with her jurs.
"Heh. You mi" The assassin got hit with a dagger on her leg and backstepped. As the assassin was distracted by the sudden attack, Fay approached her from behind and attacked.
"Ah!" Fay missed and sliced through air only. The assassin had evaded Fay and lunged her jur as a counter attack. Because she was injured on the leg, the assassin only grazed Fay on her arm.
Fay threw daggers at the assassin as Fay backstepped. The assassin couldn't evade the daggers so she blocked them except for one which struck her shoulder.
Fay approached the assassin. "Guess you're not good at dodging."
The assassin grinned as she knelt. "I may not be as good as you. But it is still a tie." Fay wondered what she meant when she noticed that something was wrong with her body. Her body became heavy and she could barely hold the daggers on her hands. Her vision slightly blurred and she realized that she had been poisoned.
"Ugh..." Fay knelt to keep herself from falling over. The assassin she had fought earlier had fallen unconscious.
"Damn!" Fay also fell unconscious.
When the archers saw their attack fail and their opponent approach them, they prepared to attack the monk approaching them. Melik prepared himself to dodge the attack but before they could attack, he saw hale fall toward them. With the archers distracted, he threw a punch but it was blocked by a silver staff. The cleric had blocked his attack.
"Stone belt!" the opponent magician chanted as he continued to dodge Ryne's arrows. Ryne continued to shoot her arrows but it was clear that she was at a disadvantage. The magician had successfully attacked her earlier despite her attempts at preventing him from casting spells. Her right shoulder was bleeding and it was taking a lot of her strength to keep standing. She was running out of arrows but the magician was also in trouble.
He was clutching his sides which was bleeding and his legs had been scratched by arrows. Ryne grabbed one of her arrows and concentrated on her next attack as sweat ran down her head. She released the arrow and saw the magician point his staff at her.
"Wind fang!" the arrow struck his leg but the spell continued to approach her. Ryne attempted to run but her legs shook forcing her to kneel. The spell struck her as she tried to guard against it. It scratched her arms and forced her off the stage as she got blown away. The magician fell and was unable to continue due to exhaustion and injuries.
"Spark chains" Lightning in a straight line barely missed one of the archers while Surk lightly grazed the other archer on his arms. Melik continued to attack the cleric who had formed a barrier in front of him. Surk made a side slash to break the archer's bow when he sensed an arrow approaching him from the side. He backstepped and glanced toward Elenor. When he was about to wonder on what happened, he sensed the air growing cold. Surk immediately jumped off the ground and landed a few meters away from the archers.
"Blizzard" ice started to form around the archers' body restricting their movements. Their bows broke as a scythe sliced through them. Surk searched for Melik to see if he was fine only to find him and the cleric he was fighting with lying on the floor unconscious. A warrior holding a large double bladed axe on his shoulder was standing near them.
"Why don't you surrender? You're the only one left besides my team." a magician covered in a black hood said. Surk looked around and saw that he was the only one left besides the magician, the warrior, and the mercenary who was leaning against his scythe.
"I refuse..." Surk said softly as he watched them. 'That warrior defeated Melik so he has to be stronger than him. The magician seems to be the leader. He probably specializes in ice magic. I also have to be careful of that scythe...'
"Wow! That girl sure has guts." The spectators talked as they observes the battle. "Yeah, but it's impossible for her to win this battle."
"Since you refuse, you better prepare yourself" The reason they talked to Surk was that they wanted to conserve their energy and rest for a bit before they fought against each other. In case Surk didnt surrender, they planned to defeat him quickly like the other participants.
Note: Next chapter, which is the ending of the battle, will be posted next week.
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