It is popularly known that Central Academy, during the past millennium, had completely transformed into a military-style academy. As a result, the students over there were trained in modern weapons.
No matter what kind of Arcana one awakened, the students of Central Academy will focus on mastering modern weapons because their headmaster believed that modern weapons are the future.
Unlike the other top academies that divide students with high potential based on their Arcana grade, Central Academy has a system of survival, atleast in the advanced studies program. Every division has limited spots and one can only earn them by showcasing how good they are with their gun techniques.
Of course, it's not that Arcana training is being ignored. It's just that they take more of a support role.
As the rest of the participants were using skill cards, item cards, and soul skills, the students of the Central Academy stockpiled weapons and explosive devices of different kinds including the ones that don't run on soul energy. Of course, nuclear weapons are strictly controlled by the government. Possessing even one of those weapons will incur severe punishment for any individual or organization.
These senior students of Central Academy never thought that they had to reveal their trump cards this early in the tournament. Cyrus always wanted to showcase the might of their modern weapons in the semi-finals or finals against the main team.
However, the current situation had forced her to release the command.
Captain Cyrus was getting kicked and punched left and right without even getting an opportunity to evade or counterattack.
The healer Rosendo Wool was in a state of unconscious.
The Golem user Willie who escaped from the net of lightning somehow got injured by the explosions. If he hadn't protected himself with a soul energy shield, he would have been gravely injured by now. As for his Golem, it wasn't seen anywhere on the platform. It was probably died by the explosions from Claire's mysterious light orbs.
Of the remaining two, Cliff, the one with twin handguns like Mia was engaged in a close battle against Mia who he could sense her presence.
On the other hand, Jessie, the one with an assault rifle, was too focused on dodging whether it is Claire's reckless attacks or invisible Louis' punches. She was in a bad state indeed.
Understanding the situation of her team, Cyrus purposely let down her guard and got kicked by Azzy.
As she was flying in the air, she clicked on the button of the left earbud, "Everyone, I'm initiating Code S. Get ready."
As soon as they heard it, those who were able to move reached out to their backs and first dropped a smoking grenade right at their feet.
It didn't hinder Azzy's vision because of his soul skill but others couldn't spot the opponents like before. Because of her teammates who might be harmed due to her carelessness, Claire could no longer act recklessly like before. Instead, she too decided to go invisible by using the Erasure skill card.
But, never in the world did she expect the opponents would pull off a huge trump card.
Once the members of Team Centro found themselves free, each of them took out a special item card and activated it.
Soon, the smoke swirled around due to powerful winds generated by something. Eventually, everyone's vision became clear as they saw Cliff, Jessie, and an injured Willie piloting helicopters, which were equipped with powerful cannons and missiles.
As the attack helicopters rose in the air up to 10-15meters, Claire and others raised their heads with a look of surprise on their faces. However, they weren't the only ones that were surprised. Even those three who were piloting the attack helicopters were taken aback to see their captain was down. In fact, their captain's vehicle was equipped with even superior armaments.
Sensing the changes, Azzy powered up his fists and used soul energy to increase the output of his strength.
While this dismissed the effects of the skill card, he managed to send her away out of the barrier. He then stared at the helicopters, which looked very much different from the civilian helicopter he once traveled on, when he was moving to the Death Clan village.
Azzy was still a cadet at WAMO and has yet to formally enter the special forces of Northern Qudour. So, he was clueless about these weapons. At the very least, based on their appearances, they didn't look normal.
Meanwhile, Cliff, the vice-captain took the lead. He passed the instructions to the other two after observing the situation on the ground, "Captain is down. Rosendo is also in an unconscious state. Let's first remove him from the field. Then, we will take care of others. You two block the princess of Triastal."
"Roger." Both of his teammates replied at the same time before grabbing the weapon controls as they focused on Claire, waiting to make her move.
Then, a hook was released from the bottom of the helicopter that Cliff was piloting.
Looking at it, Claire passed the order, "Louis, Mia, get ready to shoot."
Immediately, the pair summoned their Arcana and dismissed the invisible effect. Meanwhile, Azzy stood still and proceeded to absorb the natural energy and store it as fast as he can.
The hook successfully pierced the unconscious healer's shirt, although slightly grazing his back and leaving a scratch in the process.
Once his teammate was caught, Cliff controlled the wire that attached to the hook, and instead of dragging him back to the safety, he threw away the teammate with great force. Rosendo also got out of the barrier and fell to the ground. He ousted his own teammate, surprising Team Twilight once again.
At the same time, Claire flapped her angelic golden wings and flew into the sky. She was faced by Jessie while her other teammate Willie, the golem user was focused on applying a healing skill card onto himself.
*Trrrrrrr*
Jessie was trying to take down Claire by shooting with 30mm cannon, which was installed in the chin turret, and a 20mm autocannon pod which was installed in the inner hardpoint of the attack helicopter.
Claire, who is in the state of instant recovery of injuries and soul energy for the next few minutes, didn't care about it and flew straight toward her opponent.
Seeing that Claire was easily recovering from the damage done by the ammunition from cannons, Jessie launched an air-to-air guided missile without giving an opportunity for her opponent to counterattack. At least, she thought it was that way.
Unfortunately for her, Claire was actually waiting for this chance.
Claire raised her hand and a beam of light shot from her palm, perfectly piercing the missile and triggering an explosion. Because the point of impact was closer to the helicopter, it was caught in it. The helicopter was set into flames and went out of control. Louis shot an arrow and sent it a hundred meters above before it exploded into pieces.
Meanwhile, Jessie acted quickly and jumped out of the vehicle only to be caught by a golden rope.
"Bye, bye…" Claire swung the rope with all of her strength, throwing her out of the barrier. It happened about the same time when their vice-captain threw the unconscious healer. As a result, only two from Team Centro left.
"Go all out…" He roared as he was about to shoot all the missiles at once. Just then, he received a response from his remaining teammate, "Uh… Cliff… Behind…"
A 17 m (56ft) giant Azzy was standing behind the helicopter before catching the tail of the helicopter that was being piloted by Cliff.
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