Chapter 131 - Trump card vs trump card (1/2)

Grayfia looked up at the two above her as she proceeded to the area she needed to wait with Strada and Lint. Now that they narrowed down the area available to the other team, she was waiting to start fighting them once they appeared. The ones left on the other side was the queen, Diethelm Waldseemüller, one rook and one bishop. They suspected that the ones left were Nero Raimondi, and Griselda Quarta, Xenovia's former guardian.

As they waited the sounds of battle started overhead, meaning the entire battlefield was going to become dangerous soon, especially if Dulio activated his balance breaker. Soon there were entire areas of the battlefield turned to ice, or were set aflame. Right after this however they became alert, as the ones they were waiting for arrived.

”No way, we're against teacher Strada?” Nero said as he looked at the man who taught him how to use the sacred fist. Strada smiled as he now had another chance to ”teach” one of his former students.

”It is a pleasure to meet you miss queen of the red dragon.” The man with a beard, Diethelm said. As Grayfia looked at him she knew she would need to defeat him swiftly due to his ability to heal. She then received a message through her system from Alex saying she could promote. One thing they discovered in these games was that the pieces Alex used on them wasn't overwritten like the others, as his were unique to begin with. Because of this she could still use the promotion ability of her pawn piece, but they had to keep it quiet so they didn't get in trouble for cheating. She then silently promoted to knight, as speed would serve her better against him because of his healing.

”Irina didn't come this time?” Griselda asked as she looked at Lint, who simply laughed lightly in return. The six people squared up against each other, rook vs rook, Queen vs queen, and knight vs bishop. While keeping a wary eye on the battle happening above them, they started their own fight.

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Alex stood atop the library watching as things unfolded. He was itching to get out there and fight Dulio himself, but was holding himself back from it. As the fights went on, any skyscr.a.p.ers left from Crom's earlier attack were soon knocked down, covering any remaining areas with thick clouds of dust, until wind from Dulio's sacred gear blew it away. Soon there was a thump nearby as nova returned with both Elmenhilde and Irina on his back. They all looked up and saw that Dulio and Crom Cruach seemed to be evenly matched at the moment, so Irina asked,

”Should we go help him? It'd be better to have all of us going against Dulio at once if we can.” Alex shook his head and said,

”It's Crom's fight, plus one of his conditions for joining my team was that we don't intrude on his fights. He considers it an insult if someone tries helping him in a fight. Besides, even if he does get defeated, then Dulio will be exhausted so it won't be much effort before victory, just be careful as those on their last legs are the most dangerous opponents.” Irina nodded at his words, as it would be extremely embarrassing if they had Dulio almost defeated, only for him to manage to get an attack on Alex and snatch away victory from them. At that moment the sounds of battle above them died down, as the two paused in their fight, presumably to catch their breath.

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”You're pretty strong joker, it's truly an honor to fight you on the battlefield.” Crom Cruach said as he looked at his opponent. Dulio laughed and replied,