81 Coordination Tes (1/2)
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The hour of rest was over, before Raven left his parents' side, Eva gave him a kiss on his forehead, she said that it was a good luck charm. Raven chuckled and went back to the stage.
Shortly after the crew was reunited. Their moods were different from before, now they seemed to have a renewed vigor and passion.
”Since all of the participants are here. We will begin the fourth part of the event, the Coordination Test.” As soon as Carl announced this, six people emerged and stood at different places inside the arena, they followed a hexagon formation and were all wearing white masks with only their eyes visible through and white robes.
”The test will be a game of dodgeball but with slightly different rules. The basics are the same, they will throw the ball and you guys have to dodge it or catch it, if you caught the ball then you can attack the masked people. You could work together to attack. An attack is registered as a hit when the ball makes contact to your body of you failed to block the attack. It's anyone's ball if it hits the ground so if you want to attack again, then pay attention. Teamwork is key so if anyone of you are eliminated then it impacts the whole team. You people are only allowed to get hit three times. Are there any questions?”
Anne raised her hand, Carl nodded towards her so she asked: ”The three hit chances, does that apply for them as well?”
”No.” Carl grinned and shook his head, ”If you landed hit them then you have one less attacker.”
”Understood.”
”Any more questions?” Seeing none of them said anything, Carl raised his hand and made a quick chop before announcing: ”Alright, game start!”
As soon as Carl signalled, one of the masked man summoned the ball out of nowhere and threw it to them. These movements were too sudden and no one actually asked about where the ball was so they had no idea had it before the game started. Fortunately…
”4th incoming.” Raven said casually.
The crew's eyes lit up and they moved together as a unit, Paul immediately stepped forward and blocked the attack. The ball bounced upwards because of the angle and Mark nimbly caught the ball.
Forget the masked man who threw the attack, even Carl and the rest of the staff were extremely surprised with the results. It had to be known that these students didn't know who had the ball all this time yet they were able to defend against it and even caught the ball.
Of course this was all due to Raven's sharp instincts. As soon as the masked people came out, he was already wary of them. Due to habits, Raven always counted his targets in a clockwise manner, the crew also knew this fact that's why when Raven said the '4th' they could tell which one he was referring to.
”Ellie, Paul, Mark, you attack.” Raven said once more, he crossed his arms around his chest and spread his awareness to the other people present.
”One!” Ellen shouted allowed, when Mark heard this, he cursed and hurriedly threw the ball mid-air, Ellen jumped and sent a sword wave towards the ball.
”Two!” Mark yelled next, he then made some quick calculations before performing a Cross Cut and sending towards the flying ball.
”Three!” Instead of attacking the ball, Paul slammed his shield on the ground and sent the earth quaking beneath their target.
The target of these three was the 2nd Masked Man, before he could even think of blocking the attack, he felt the ground shook beneath him causing him to lose his balance briefly. That short amount of time however, was enough for the screeching ball to land on his body causing him to completely topple over before he could even regain his balance.
Not even a minute has passed since the game started but the masked people already lost someone. Someone quickly filled in and got the ball and once again, it's the masked people's turn to attack.
The crowd erupted in cheers, they were astonished by the coordination that this kids showed. It wasn't everyday that they are able to witness such seamless teamwork, what's even more impressive is that it was kids who showed up such coordination. It truly makes them wonder how hard they must've trained to achieve this.
The masked men's formation adjusted a bit, from hexagon they now followed a pentagon formation. If they were underestimating these brats before, that mentality was not completely gone. They now treated this kids like someone at their level.
The 1st masked man had the ball, he threw it in an arc and passed it to the 4th, the 4th then passed it to the 3rd and the round robin began. Their goal on doing this was obvious, they want to fool the the perception of the kids and make them lower their guards. They continued passing the ball to each other for at least 25 times that the crowd was getting frustrated. Sadly, their plan was bound to fail…