108: Group Battle (Part 6)

Group Battle (Part 6)

"Anyway, Ayaka is heading your way to help you. I know you're planning to strike your arrow to the same spot to slowly chip it to break it, but our goal is to defeat the enemy group, right?"1

"All right, Teacher. Give me Ayaka's general position, I'll try to coordinate with her." Tasha nodded.

"I want to send her to Kai, but he doesn't really want help." Sanae sighed.

"Teacher, have you heard about the contract between him and that Isabelle?" Tasha asked while pulling the bow.

"Contract?" Sanae furrowed her eyebrows, confused. She had yet to become a teacher when the contract was made, so it was normal for her not to know. "Is Kai fighting another big family like in United Asia? It seems that I need to change my job and nationality again. Wait, It's not like I'm going to join you guys if that happens again…"

"Ahaha, you misunderstood him, Teacher. Kai never really looked for trouble, and the contract was made a few days before you joined us." Tasha chuckled, causing her to miss the target. "Oops."

"What's the contract about?"

"If we win today, she's not going to bother us anymore. If we lose, trouble (Isabelle) will visit us every day." Tasha shot another arrow.

"Isn't that bad? For your information, I don't get paid for that, so you take care of that problem."

"We just need to win." Tasha shrugged. "Still, this guy sure is irritating."

"Why don't you crush him to death?" She suggested.

"Crush him to death? How?"

"You're on a hill." Sanae gave a simple hint.

"Ah, I see." She came to enlightenment. "In that case, I need Ayaka to come up here."

"They should have already known about the death of that ice guy, but not Ayaka's position. I'll direct her to go around and climb the hill so when that shield guy is still conscious on his back, Ayaka can reach the top with her flying ability."

"Got it. I'll teleport that guy again first." Tasha nodded. "Wait, why don't Ayaka just tell me this? Oi, girl, where's your voice?"

"I'm here… The previous battle took a toll on me, sorry," Ayaka said with a hoarse voice as she had yet to fully recover from that blast. Evan only managed to heal her burn marks and broken bones. It was enough for her to move, but it was still extremely painful moving her body.

Evan could only shake his head after looking at the determination in her eyes and let her go.

"You should rest, you know." Tasha furrowed her eyebrows.

"I still can move, so it's not a problem. Pain can be endured as long as we can win, and by defeating Nicholas, cough, our win will be assured. I'll arrive in less than a minute," Ayaka said weakly.

"..." She couldn't say anything more to this girl. "All right. Kai and Michelle should have no problem handling those three, so you only need to help."

"Yes."

Tasha sighed, cutting the communication off and muttering to herself, "You stubborn girl."

"Let me step up my game then." She put her bow down before clapping her hands, creating a magic circle. This time, the magic circle was purple instead of pink, symbolizing her using lightning magic.

"Electric Lance."

A bright purple spear emerged out of the magic circle and flew toward Nicholas. Surprisingly, after flying for just one second, a pink sphere appeared, swallowing it.

Nicholas was momentarily confused about what she was doing. When he saw Tasha creating another pink magic circle, he realized that it was for the sphere. That magic circle teleported the sphere five meters above him, releasing the lightning spear it swallowed earlier like shooting a bullet.

"Not good." He made a magic circle below his feet. "Earth-"

Unfortunately for him, he realized what she was doing too late. Her spear already reached his position, forcing him to use his shield as his only defense. The force from the attack was no joke, making him kneel before pinning him to the ground.

Boom!

Tasha's lightning spear exploded, leaving Nicholas speechless. He never expected that Tasha was able to do this, making him wonder if she was previously only playing with him.

It could be said that the most underrated person in Lion Group was Tasha, not Kai. She usually used her teleportation and Lightning Arrows to support the team, and the only difference here was how she used it.

No one had yet to see Tasha use a different technique. The only time she used a different technique was in the first mission, where she struck the wolf. This was precisely what she did as a follow-up attack.

Tasha released another arrow, using it as a catalyst to draw a magic circle in the sky.

Lightning struck forth toward Nicholas. Fortunately, his eyes didn't wander after getting pinned to the ground, allowing him to defend himself from this attack. "Earth Defender."

The mud raised, forming a sphere to protect Nicholas from the lightning. This sphere also functioned as a conductor, channeling the lightning on the ground outside.

Crack!

Nicholas raised his shield as soon as he heard the cracking sound of his sphere. The lightning broke the mud wall, striking the shield before exploding.

Boom!

For those who focused on Nicholas, they were wondering if he was still alive or not. Unbeknownst to them, Ayaka had already arrived at Tasha's position, destroying the tip of the hill to make a giant boulder for Tasha.

Tasha smiled and teleported it right above him.

When Nicholas saw this one, he could only chuckle. He glanced at his shield, which had been snapped into two by the last strike, and muttered, "Insane. I've lost."

He closed his eyes, letting the huge boulder crush him to death.

…

Outside, the people spectating sucked a cold breath. Most of them felt bad for Nicholas, while others felt great admiration toward Tasha.

"This… I'm speechless… I really want to say this first. Poor Nicholas. From the start, he was played by Tasha Carter.

"Firstly, he became a punching bag for her Lightning Arrow. Secondly, she made him restart his progress by teleporting him to the foot of the hill again and again. This is only my personal opinion, but it would make me feel better if Tasha had actually teleported to another hill to make me chase her rather than teleporting me back to my starting point.

"However, I was wondering, why didn't Tasha use those last three attacks from the start? I mean, I'm sure that she would be able to defeat Nicholas much more easily that way." Diego glanced at Yuki.

"Hmm, I actually don't know the reason. Even my student doesn't really see her use other magic that often. However, there's one thing for sure about her. She's an S-rank magician," Yuki explained.

"This… Have we actually underestimated her this entire time?" Diego came to a realization. "From my information, she killed numerous magical beasts by sending them to the sky, teaching the sea creatures how to fly… or at least that's what the soldiers told me. After that, she only used her arrows, killing them one by one.

"That ability alone is scary. I can actually picture her sending people off like that. Unless we have the ability to fly, we would have a nightmare for the rest of our lives... Literally, since we would only have a few seconds left to live.

"Luckily, there's a border limit up to a few hundred meters in the sky this time, which restricted her from using this ability.

"Anyway, those abilities might hinder us from realizing the fact that she's an S-rank magician with lightning and space magic. In fact, rather than Michelle Graham or Kai Carter, the one that we need to be wary of the most would be her," Diego explained his thought, shocking the entire room.

The top groups inside also noticed this before he explained. Michelle aside, they had yet to see the real power of an unorthodox sound magician with their own eyes, so they couldn't judge too early. After all, Kai and Tasha were a family. They might even try to investigate the Carter family after this as this family might rise to become another prominent family with these two alone.

Fortunately, Kai wasn't originally from here. This would hide the fact that Tasha was only his step-sister. If they knew about it, they most likely wouldn't think that highly of this Kai Carter.

"Anyway, Teacher. With this, I can say that the defeat of Eagle Group is guaranteed, right?" Diego paused a bit, trying to say it without shooting the Eagle Group down. "I mean, they've lost four of their members, leaving only Isabelle Fisher.

"I know about her reputation as the number one shooter in this academy, but I still doubt that she'll be able to turn the situation around. It's not that she's weak, her opponent is just too strong. They have two S-rank magicians, one unorthodox magician, and the famous healer, Evan Young. It can be said that this team will shake the group rankings in the near future," Diego said.

"I really want to say yes, but I will refrain myself as a teacher. I can only say that as long as you don't give up, the possibility will never reach 0%. Which team will win? We won't know before the heads of everyone in the opposing team flew off." She shook her head. "Though, I still need to give a thumbs up to Kudo Ayaka."

"!!!" Diego realized that he forgot about this girl because of the hype. All of this wouldn't have happened if Ayaka had failed to kill Tommy. And the way she sacrificed herself… could only be described with one word… scary.

"Hehe… Don't underestimate us women. We can tolerate most things, but if you touch our reverse scale… I don't think I need to say any more." She smirked.

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