"Stomper, defend." As soon as Luci got out of the 1-second paralysis state, looking at how the opponents are on their way, she passed out quick orders without panicking. "Iphi, a little help here."
Giving the protection of Dewy to the Rhino, she dashed toward Misty Queen to protect her until she gets back to normal.
In the meantime, she asked Iphi to go and assist Ardella for the moment as this healer was a little bit far away and Azzy was standing between them.
In her view, only Iphi who was in the sky could bypass Azzy's defense and help out her teammate.
Watching the battle, the experts were impressed by how she was calm and collected even in such a crisis. At the same time, they felt like Aclein Academy was unworthy to hold a gifted child like Azzy and several schemes began to run in their minds. Everyone's eyes are on Azzy, especially the ones from the hidden organizations.
Stealing even an average student from a top academy is more difficult than a genius from a mediocre academy.
Meanwhile, Iphi was relentlessly getting chased by the purple skull and ordered the Flaming eagle to fly toward the opponents.
After hearing her captain's orders, she didn't hesitate to order her flaming eagle to go towards Ardella.
While on her way, she drew her bow and shot an energy arrow toward Claire, who was leading the group.
They weren't as quick as Azzy. So, the arrow eventually meets Claire. However, the captain of Twilight isn't a simple girl either. She was the type to face the attacks head-on rather than dodging.
Raising her heavy sword, she cut down the energy arrow into two before continuing to make her way toward Ardella and her flying pig.
On the middle island, Azzy, who was waiting for his teammates, saw Luci and her beast weren't that affected by Gideon's soul skill. They are currently on their way to protecting their teammates.
He then glanced at Iphi who went past him through the sky.
Glancing at Ardella and then, the rhino, he chose his target.
Pouring soul energy into his legs, he dashed towards the rhino and caught up with it before it even reached its ally.
With him standing a couple of meters before Dewy, the Rhino halted his movements and looked at him.
<strong>"Stomper, Soul skill: Rush."</strong>
Luci, who watched it from far away, once again, didn't hesitate to give orders.
"Graaa…"
Letting out a powerful roar, this gold-grade beast in the realm of peak-rank-5, charged like a bull with its glowing horn.
While its movements appeared blurred for lower realm experts, for Azzy who had the eyes of god soul skill activated for a whole hour, its movements were very clear.
Standing straight, he poured 20% of his soul energy into his hands, leaving a little more than a hundred thousand worth of soul power for one more skill.
Soon, the Rhino reached him and attacked him with the horn.
In response, Azzy jumped a bit and caught the tip of the horn with both of his hands before trying to swing it over his shoulder with all of his strength.
However, due to its enormous weight, the consumption of soul energy was also too fast.
It was so fast that by the time the rhino's position was at his overhead, the 20% soul energy that he originally used to power up his hands was consumed completely.
So, Azzy was left with no choice but to use the remaining hundred thousand soul power, thereby almost emptying his soul orb to power up his hands once again so that there won't be any issue in slamming it on the water.
Everyone just opened their mouths in amazement as they saw a four-meter giant Rhino was lifted by a 1.6m kid and even flung over his shoulder.
Whether it was Luci or Claire, every contestant in the match also halted their movements for a second and raised their heads to see the Rhino which was lifted by Azzy with its horn.
At the moment, the screens that were focusing on Azzy showed the veins in his biceps as he lifted a 7000-pound Rhino into the air before smashing it onto the water with heavy force.
"This wasn't the power of a rank-5. Heck, even a normal 6-star realm expert couldn't do such a feat." Many experts that commented about Azzy's recklessness a minute ago, now stood up in awe.
Azzy doesn't look buffed and neither does he seem like he's from the Mavri race where they were born with inherent physical strength like Jordon. So, these higher realm experts couldn't help but wonder how dense his soul energy is.
Meanwhile, Azzy who smashed the Rhino onto the lake water felt a little bit of strain in his shoulders.
"Oh boy, that was damn heavy. Phew…" Taking a heavy breath, he took out another recovery card to recover his soul power.
At the same time, due to the rhino's huge size, his shirt and pants were also drenched in water from top to bottom as all the water splashed on him.
If it was either the Zebra or the giant pangolin, they would be able to receive less damage because of the water but because of the rhino's huge size where only one-fourth of its body was inside the water, the received damage was high enough for it to lie there without getting up anytime soon.
With her telepathic connection, Luci knew her Rhino needed a healing skill on it to get back to the battle once again.
However, Azzy was standing right there and the opponents already crossed more than half of the distance. And so far, only five seconds have been passed. She didn't know how many more seconds does it take for her teammates to get free.
For the first time, Luci didn't have a quick strategy to get out of this situation. So, all she could do is to hope these next crucial few seconds will not do much harm to their team so that they can bounce back later.
Right then, she saw Azzy put it inside his back pocket and took out a couple of cards.
Her heart skipped a beat for a second. She felt as if something bad is going to happen.
Unlike last time, these cards with a familiar skull image are only of the four-star realm and at a low level. So, not much of soul power has been consumed as he activated them.
<strong>"Laughing skull of darkness, activate."</strong>
<strong>"Laughing skull of darkness, activate."</strong>
"hehe he he he" "he he hehe he" A second, followed by a peal of third eerie laughter was now heard through the stadium, making the lesser realm experts shiver in fear.
With a purple skull in each hand, he glanced at the paralyzed pangolin, then, at the Zebra that Luci protected, then, at the fallen armored Rhino, then, at the flying pig that was hovering around Ardella, and finally at the flaming eagle that was constantly flying in small circles with a laughing behind it.
After thinking for a second, not intending to take a risk, he threw one at the pangolin and the other at the flying pig.
In fact, Azzy could kill the pangolin and the Armored Rhino right away by using force but he felt that it was necessary to instill a little bit of fear in the future opponents so that they could be pressured and use their strongest techniques to try and defeat him.
Azzy thought that this will lessen the burden on his teammates and they could fight to the best of their abilities. Moreover, he doesn't want others to think of Twilight as a one-man team either.
With the giant Pangolin located only a few meters away, the laughing skull of darkness successfully hit it.
However, the second one that was thrown at the flying pig was met with an energy arrow from Iphi who had her eyes on Azzy.
Seeing how it got destroyed, Azzy nodded to himself, "Yes, my conjecture is right. It doesn't work on higher realm opponents. To deal with a peak-rank-4, only five-star cards are recommended."
Just like how one cannot swallow the food more than what their stomach can offer to store, the laughing skull of darkness also couldn't swallow any attacks higher than its level.
Too bad for him, Iphi and Luci also realized that. Now, they knew how to counter this irritating purple skull.
But, would they get such a chance to counter? Only time will tell.
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