Group Battle (Part 3)
Kai took a deep breath, listening to the movements of everyone present on the battlefield. It would seem that the respective fights had begun.2
He pointed at Isabelle with his sword, signaling that the blade would soon kill her.
"Heh…" Isabelle smirked as she aimed her sniper rifle at him. She also wished to battle against him alone, not caring about the others' fights. She channeled her magic power to her sniper rifle, making it shine.
She pulled the trigger, shooting out a green bullet toward him. This bullet was made of wind, making it faster than the average bullet.
It arrived at Kai's position within two seconds from the previous three seconds. Unfortunately, Kai heard the sound and simply took a step to the right, avoiding the bullet completely.
'I see. A hearing powerful enough to predict my bullet trajectory. Well, If he were closer, it would be harder for him to react as my bullet would arrive in an instant. I wonder how he'll proceed.' Isabelle smiled as she kept shooting him.
On the other hand, his beastly instinct came out as he started running toward her.
Every time she pulled the trigger, his ear would pick up and predict the trajectory, letting him avoid it without any movement wasted.
Kai's advance was unstoppable as even though she had fired more than ten bullets, she had yet to hit him or even graze him once.
And with another two minutes, Kai finally arrived at the one-kilometer mark, needing only a bit more before climbing the artificial hill.
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Meanwhile, the people outside also created a ruckus.
"What is this? She has shot him ten times, but no bullet has managed to hit him. Isabelle Fisher is the number one sniper in our Magical Academy, and to think even she can't hit him. Is she playing a game with us to turn the tide later?" Diego shouted.
"No. She simply can't hit him. I won't go into details, but I can confidently say he easily dodged her bullets. It's just… I don't exactly know his limit, so with the distance constantly getting shorter, the bullet that previously needed two to three seconds to hit him will only need one second or less," Yuki commented.
"He can just hold her back in this distance and wait for the others to finish their respective battles and defeat Isabelle Fisher together. Is this their plan?" Diego asked Yuki.
"No. I don't know why, but I feel that Kai Carter will finish her by himself. To do that, he'll need a plan to climb the artificial hill," she answered.
"A plan… Wait… with his comrades having their own respective opponents, there won't be any help coming from them to help him advance the hill. Even a normal person like me knows it… unless he already has another plan I can't think of."
Yuki nodded. "That's right. I believe he already has another plan to climb the hill. The fact that he clubs the hill himself, he must be assured that he'll win this fight. In other words, for Isabelle who's well-versed in reading her opponent with her eyes, she should know that without revealing her trump card, she'll certainly fall to Kai's secret plan."
Albeit… despite all their commentary, when they took a look at Isabelle, she just smiled.
After reaching the one-kilometer mark, she didn't shoot him anymore. Instead, she gave him time to reach the foot of the hill.
This made Kai doubt whether she had something ready for him on this hill. Seeing that she wouldn't shoot if he didn't come up, he could only proceed carefully.
She made a bigger smile looking at Kai, who started climbing the hill. She stretched her left hand and surprisingly took out a second sniper rifle.
"If you can dodge one, how about two?" She smirked, shooting both snipers at the same time.
"!!!" Kai also noticed the sound and reflexively leaped to the air. Unfortunately, this was her plan. As soon as he was in the air, she shot another round of bullets.
Kai opened his eyes wide, noticing the weird trajectory of the bullets. According to his ears, the two bullets would likely clash into each other a few meters before reaching him.
Although he didn't understand her plan, he turned his body around, avoiding the bullets' original trajectories. It was when the bullet collided that Kai realized her plan.
When the bullets collided with each other, both of them would deflect each other, making another trajectory. And their new trajectories were his head and foot.
Kai gritted his teeth as he forced his hands to move, barely blocking these two bullets. Even so, it didn't hold enough power to receive the impact and the bullets blew him away to the bottom of the cliff.
Diego rose from his seat and roared. "What? What? What? Two… two sniper rifles? Did she just use two sniper rifles?"
The normal students gasped while the top groups sweatdropped.
Yuki shook her head helplessly, saying, "It would seem that we underestimated Isabelle Fisher. If you look at it carefully, you'll notice that Kai knew that there would be two bullets coming at him.
"Despite that, why did he need to use his swords to block the bullets? The answer is simple; within these two bullets hold a great secret that could change their trajectories. And I'm sure Kai has also noticed that with the collision, the bullets will change their trajectories."
The people could only drop their jaws in shock. They had never heard of someone able to utilize a sniper rifle that extremely.
Kai, who was blown away to the bottom, had another problem he needed to solve.
He looked at Isabelle while wiping the blood on his mouth. "This is not in the data…"
Isabelle simply smiled as her eyes turned into eagle eyes and she said, "I wonder if you can reach me, Leo? If you can't even reach me, then you won't be able to win. Why don't you show me the power of the great lion?"
It was obvious that she said that to taunt him. Because of those words, Kai's expression turned serious.
Although he couldn't see her eyes, he could feel the beastly aura coming from the top of the hill. It seemed that she had accepted that power completely.
He furrowed his eyebrows. It was certainly a top-level technique to pinpoint the trajectory, but it still had a weakness. For that, he took another deep breath and advanced again, trying to confirm that weakness.
Isabelle aimed at him again, trying to make him jump again.
Hearing the bullets, he took up the challenge and leaped. The bullet changed its directions again, but Kai had prepared for it and was able to block it. Even so, because of the force, he was blown away again. But with that, he was able to come up with a feasible plan to climb the hill.
There was a slight change in his expression. Of course, Isabelle didn't miss it. That slight change was telling her that he had a way to climb this hill. She simply smiled. "Come."
Kai began climbing it for the third time and Isabelle shot him again, forcing him to jump. Surprisingly, this time, Kai didn't jump. Instead, he stomped the ground, creating a stable footing on the uneven ground. Using that, he turned his body around and used his extraordinary strength to destroy both bullets.
Since he had a good footing, he managed to block the bullets entirely, not letting them push him back to the ground.
"!!!" Isabelle furrowed her eyebrows and pulled the trigger again.
Kai noticed that the bullets would change their trajectories again, so he predicted where the bullet would go. Even if he couldn't block one of them, he could block the other and keep advancing. That was why when the bullet came, he shifted his body to the left and struck the bullet with his sword.
He smiled and climbed the hill with confidence. When he reached the two-hundred-meter mark, Isabelle smirked. "Let's see how you handle this one then."
This time, she only used one of her sniper rifles and created a magic circle right in front of the rifle.
"!!!" This made the beastly instinct inside of him roar, telling him that no matter what it was, it was dangerous. Kai raised his hands, creating a green magic circle.
"Oscillation Shield."
"Plasma Wind!"
The shot this time was like a laser, but if one looked closely, it was a concentrated shot of a few small wind tornadoes. The tornadoes were compressed together, creating a far stronger attack.
The coalition immediately pushed Kai a few meters back. Luckily, he had gotten back ten percent of his magic power, else this shield would have broken. He reinforced the shield and let the oscillation force around his shield do its job. They slowly chipped away the wind energy bit by bit until it reached a reasonable point before deflecting it to the sky.
"!!!" Everyone dropped their jaws as they couldn't believe what just happened. Sadly, unlike the audiences, Kai and Isabelle still needed to fight.
Kai started advancing again, not letting her shoot another one.
When they were around fifty meters apart, Isabelle jumped to the air and floated around, at a height where Kai couldn't reach her. She aimed her sniper toward Michelle with the previous attack.
Kai furrowed his eyebrows as he heard her laugh and say, "As expected of Leo, making me even more curious about you. Although I lost this battle, our group will still win this. I'll kill your teammates one by one first. Fufu… we still have that agreement anyway, so I can't afford to lose."
Kai looked up and sighed.
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