As Azzy and others continued to move forward, meanwhile, their opponents summoned their Arcana.
Captain Alan, who was at the front vertex of the Pentagon formation, summoned his giant Minotaur that was standing at least a hundred feet tall. Along with being a platinum grade beast, its sheer size was naturally, a treat to the audience.
The second attacker Arthur summoned a fiery red dragon befitting to his status.
The third attacker Hazel summoned a pair of huge, black, heavily curved scimitars with silver edges.
The main supporter Dove summoned an ordinary-looking wooden staff. She's a mage but only has support-type soul skills. Despite lacking offensive and defensive soul skills, she was considered a huge threat as she can increase the attack power, defense shield, and healing power of her allies.
Lastly, the holder of the Hydra, Webster landed on its back quietly. He was an excellent close combat fighter but right now, he could only focus on controlling the five-headed Hydra.
According to their Arcana and their fighting skills, Sahara decided a strategy where Azzy face off the Captain and his Minotaur, Gideon to face Hazel, Claire to go after Dove and then, support Mia who has to face the Ugrea's prince and his dragon while Snivy will take care of Webster, who uses an ax.
However, none of them expect the enemy to pull out a 6-star realm hydra. Even with 1-day harsh training that forced them to improve their skills a little, they weren't confident enough to face such a beast.
So, none of them objected to Azzy's strategy.
Team Merciless Executioners stayed still in their pentagon formation and waited for their opponents who almost reached halfway. Neither their opponents nor the spectators have any clue why an extremely aggressive team is in maintaining a defensive formation.
Watching how Azzy didn't go on his own and slowed down his speed to work with the team, Captain Alan gave a quick order, "Dove, get ready." "Erir, Separate them."
Dove acted by raising her staff and pointed towards the towering beast that was almost blocking her vision.
Pouring the soul energy into the staff, she didn't waste any time to unleash her soul skill.
<strong>"Soul skill: Might of Nature."</strong>
A beam of light erupted from the staff and hit the Minotaur, upon which the natural energy in the surroundings was being absorbed into his body, creating blue energy armor around its outline.
*Mooo*
The Minotaur raised its fist to throw a punch down at the incoming opponents who are in its range. It aims to make everyone disperse so that its host and allies can take them out one by one.
While the others jumped to the side in reflex, Gideon, and Snivy to the left, Claire and Mia to the right, Azzy shouted, "I'll take care of it."
He then raised his hands and poured soul energy into them, creating huge palms made of dark energy over his palms which then extended towards the incoming attack.
"Hmpf, what a fool." Arthur scoffed as he was observing it from the back of his dragon. "It was a platinum grade beast powered by Dove's soul skill. Its attack power will be comparable to that of a high-rank-6 Arcana master for the next couple of minutes. Do you think you can stop it that easily with such a trick? Dream on. Erir is enough to… What!"
His eyes became bigger in shock as he watched the fist was stopped in mid-air with ease.
In fact, Azzy's energy palm caught it so tightly that the Minotaur wasn't even able to retract its arm.
"You did it…" Azzy's team members were happy with Azzy's new technique that he developed a day ago due to new training.
Just as they thought that Azzy successfully attained the perfect control which he always lacked, suddenly, the Minotaur cried in pain as Azzy's energy palm firmly pressed on its fist further to reduce it into a pulp of blood.
Azzy was taken aback by surprise as he intended to just lock it up. He just used more force as the Minotaur was trying to take back its arm from his hold.
He mumbled to himself, "it looks like I shouldn't use this in sparring for now."
Gideon shook his head with a sigh. "He only improved control over his soul energy. Azzy has a long way to go to control his strength."
Meanwhile, Captain Alan landed on its arm and started to regenerate its hand with a healing card.
*Ahem* Clearing his throat, Azzy looked away in embarrassment, "what are you waiting for. Go…"
Claire felt like this is the perfect moment to take her opponent by surprise.
Sprouting golden energy wings from her back, she charged forward gaining an additional boost in speed.
*Woof*
Vajra followed her from behind in reluctance. Despite training with her for so long, it still hates her sword spirit. The feelings are also mutual as if they were natural enemies to each other.
Meanwhile, the others are following Claire from behind under the lead of Azzy who had a three-meter large palm above his head.
"Throw her away." Even though he was busy regenerating its hand, Captain Alan's eyes were completely fixed on Azzy. He was waiting for Azzy to come near him, not Claire.
As per the order, the Minotaur raised its remaining free arm and sweep at her and the wolf.
Claire flapped her wings and flew up, dodging the attack while the latter leaped over its palm and unleashed a blast of black lightning energy from its mouth, reducing Azzy's soul power by a hundred thousand.
"A beast can do that?" Captain Alan, Hazel, and Arthur who were in the front were taken aback to see an energy attack from Vajra. After all, only those with high mastery levels could do that and according to their research, Azzy was possessed with very dense soul energy and high raw power but both of his control and mastery over the soul energy are pretty much weak as he couldn't even walk on water.
All three of them wondered whether Azzy faked it until now or whether he improved within the past three days.
With one hand isn't in a state of functioning and the other one is still in motion of sweeping, the Minotaur could only take the attack to its abdomen despite feeling a terrific amount of power in it.
Alan who was healing his arm also felt the power in the energy blast. However, before he gave any order, the energy blast already hit the Minotaur.
The latter slid back for a few meters and crashed on the mud field with a tiny external injury on its abdomen. Minotaur looked at the black wolf in surprise.
Even Alan was surprised that there's not much external damage as he expected. He then, wondered whether it is because of the difference between their levels. After all, in his view, both are platinum grade beasts and his Minotaur's physical body is also very sturdy.
In the meantime, as its arm was completely healed, Alan jumped from its arm and landed on the field.
As the Minotaur slowly get up on its feet, Claire already reached Alan and slashed at him with her heavy sword that was bathing in the holy aura.
As a far more experienced fighter, Alan managed to dodge to the side and planted a fast kick on her abdomen. She flew away for a few meters before she managed to gain control with the help of her wings.
Meanwhile, Vajra went past him and rushed towards the Minotaur.
The beast already realized the black wolf is superior in grade. After tasting its power in person, it no longer intended to underestimate its power based on its size.
*Mooo*
It immediately unleashed the soul skill to summon a giant ax in its hand and tried to cut it down with all its force.
However, its speed was too slow for Vajra. It easily dodged to the side and let the ax cut into the mud.
Due to the heavy force, the blade of the ax cut all the way to the bottom. Thankfully, the bottom was only 6ft deep. So, it is able to pull back its ax with ease.
In the meantime, Vajra saw an opportunity and jumped on the Axe's handle, continuing to run towards its arm.
The Minotaur shook its arm, try to slap with the other arm like a mosquito but it wasn't able to stop Vajra from reaching its shoulder where it leaped towards its ear while unleashing a soul skill.
<strong>"Soul skill: Extreme Bite."</strong>
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