Chapter 90: Stop them! (2/2)

Montem needed to be aggressive and full-on with their attack. Otherwise, the Hershel team would be able to just run away and hide behind their tower. If the Hershal team managed to retreat back in enough to get into range of their tower, then it would be all over for Montem.

The battle was fierce, Novis constantly would switch between his duel blades and chain blade. The chain blade would often be used to stop Hershal from retreating. Every time they would slightly fall back, Novis was able to attack with his chain blade, using its range.

Alex would help to deflect attacks that were targeted at Novis. As Hershal could straight away see Novis was a problem target. Ashley was also doing well manging to attack fearlessly and avoid the strikes but she was sweating heavily and didn't know how much longer she could keep it up.

On the other hand, Dan was struggling the most. It was important for him to get up close and personal to the warriors he was fighting. The problem was Dan's reaction time seemed to be slower than usual. Causing him to get a few scratches here and there.

While the Hershal team were busy fighting, Frank the leader was assessing the situation. After watching everyone fight for a while, Frank determined that If they wanted to retreat, they needed to get rid of Novis first.

The order for retreat was cancelled.

”Forget about the fist user, deal with the chain guy!” Frank shouted.

Frank new once they got rid of Novis the whole match would be over. Suddenly, there where three people on Novis instead of two. Novis had managed to fend off two well so far but three was a bit too much.

Frank decided that he alone would be enough to deal with Dan and Alex. Although Frank was only a sliver player, he knew how to play defensively. He was able to use his body and shield and attack at just the right time. This way Novis was unable to receive backup from his teammates.

Novis was doing the best he could to fend off the three attacks with his duel blades but he was constantly getting pushed back. Finally, one of the Hershel team managed to knock Novis off balance with their shield.

At the same time, Dan was watching the whole thing from the side. Frank had been doing a good job from stopping them from giving Novis any support but Dan also knew that currently, he was useless to the team.

Dan charged forward without care for himself. Frank saw this and went for a slash strike against Dan's stomach but Alex too had been watching Frank closely and managed to figure out his attack patterns.

”shield block!”

At the same time as the strike, Alex dashed forward using his shield block skill causing Frank's sword to bounce off.

Dan continued to run over to Novis as fast as he could. Novis could now see one of the team's swords in front of him ready to pierce his head.

”Dammit! Are we really going to lose, after everything we've been through?”

Just before the sword was able to reach Novis. A body had jumped in front of him causing the sword to hit the body instead. A second later and the body had burst into a bunch of blue particles.

Dan had been killed.