Chapter 180: Alliance of Noobs (2/2)

Samantha led the team into the arena; this too was the only day she showed up. Obviously, she knew that the matches during the earlier days were not worth her time at all, since that wasn’t Capth’s true performances.

”Vice Principal Halmond, what sort of competition system shall we use this time?” Samantha addressed him in a formal manner. The clash between the teacher and the student was about to begin.

”I’ll leave that for you to decide, we’re not bothered at all!” Halmond laughed in confidence.

”Since this event was all about self-discovery and learning from each other, actually, I have an idea. Why don’t we imply KOF system for both Battlecraft Combat and METAL Combat?”

”So, you were saying, three wins out of five rounds for Battlecraft Combat, and four wins out of seven matches for METAL Combat?”

”Indeed, so that everyone would get a chance to learn from each other.”

”Haha, it seems like you’re pretty confident today, Principal Samantha. Very well, I accept your idea!” Acknowledging that this method would only increase the winning rates of Capth, Halmond had no reasons to turn down Samantha’s idea.

Li Ruo-Er finally showed up at the arena, and everyone seemed to have gathered their attention on both Ma Xiaoru and her for today, not to mention the girls were even more attractive as they showed up in their uniforms.

Both girls looked at each other. Li Ruo-Er gave her opponent a relaxed and confident glance, like she knew she would win in the end. On the other hand, Ma Xiaoru kept her cool and stayed alert. In fact, their battle had already started the moment they saw each other. Only Tactics of the Enchantress users were able to demonstrate such psychokinetic ”attacks”. Both Li Ruo-Er and Ma Xiaoru seemed to have shown an outstanding mastery of Tactics of the Enchantress.

Round one would be S-Ranked difficulty Survival Challenge as always. Capth would be sending out Li Ruo-Er, Cisco, Terrance, Wang Ben, and Wally!

Students of Capth were stunned by the ”luxurious” formation. Aside from Li Ruo-Er, there were both former second grader No.1 Cisco and the current second grader No.1 Terrance, first grader No.1 Wally and the incredible Wang Ben. Everyone wondered why would Halmond arrange the super formation that was normally used against another S-Ranked academy to fight against a team of weaklings. It was like he was trying to shoot down mosquitoes with machine guns.

”What a team, Principal Halmond!” Samantha was surprised too. She didn’t expect Halmond would get so serious in the first round.

”Likewise. Frankly, I’m saving the best for Ayrlarng because all of us appreciate your participation very much! May the best team win.” If Halmond hadnt said that in a serious manner, the whole sentence would sound like an irony instead.

The spectating students were confused because Li Ruo-Er was clearly more than enough to handle Ma Xiaoru. Yet Wally, Terrance and Cisco’s participation seemed a bit too much…

Even though Cisco had lost his No.1 title, he was still an elite amongst second graders. However, he seemed to be emotionally traumatized after the fight with Einherjar Wannabe. Yet, Halmond didn’t give up on him. A talented person like him needed to learn how to bounce back from defeats, which was why Halmond arranged his participation in this round.

Nevertheless, Halmond was not able to understand Wang Ben. Clearly, he still cared a lot about Ayrlarng, but he insisted on fighting against them. At first, Halmond wondered if Wang Ben was trying to let them win, but he immediately excluded that idea because the kid was the son of the honorable General Hu Ben, and he wouldn’t disgrace his family for sure.

Meanwhile, students of Ayrlarng were obviously infuriated as they saw Wang Ben’s appearance.

Ayrlarng-Bernabeu Alliance would be sending out Ma Xiaoru, Wang Tong, Apache, Hu Yangxuan and Cao Yi.

Apparently, the students of Capth only knew Ma Xiaoru, and had no idea who the rest of the were. Although Apache had won before, that was a long time ago, and no one seemed to remember his name.

Both teams decided to only send in the best candidates, because the weaker ones definitely had no chance surviving the scenario with an S-Ranked difficulty. Meanwhile, the spectating students were thrilled. Everyone knew how precise was Principal Halmond’s observation. and this formation meant that the opponents were very strong!

The scenario was then randomly drawn, and everyone went silent when they saw the drawn map. Apparently, the scenario was absolutely insane; the difficulty was impossible to be exact. However, the spectators thought that the alliance was lucky in drawing that map, as it would be humiliating to suffer a defeat in an easy scenario instead.

All of the ten candidates were randomly placed at the edge of the map, and everyone was given the same set of equipment. This time, it would be a race towards the designated goal, and those who were unable to finish before time limit would be eliminated, just like how the military treated its soldiers who failed their given missions.

In tough challenges like this, candidates had no choice but to go head on with even more complicated Zergs, well-equipped with higher intelligence and stronger powers. However, some of the Zergs’ data was altered in order to make them slightly stronger. After all, tougher difficulty would be able to increase fighter’s chances of survival during real battles.

This time, all of the ten candidates didn’t rush off blindly, but they began after taking their time in checking the equipment and memorizing their routes.

Everyone was given a navigation system which was able to detect Zergs’ presence at some point. However, the screen of the navigation system was filled with red dots, which indicated Zergs. Hence, it was kind of useless in this scenario. If anyone of them were to encounter a horde of Zergs, he or she would be toasted for sure.

Nevertheless, the coaching teacher had provided the team with some tips on handling S-Ranked scenarios like this. But to Wang Tong, those ”tips” were a bit too technical for him, not to mention all of them had to beat the time limit as well. In the end, the best method was to charge!