area51novel Chapter 216 Final Battle - Team Fight (Part 2)
Chapter 216 Final Battle - Team Fight (Part 2)
"In the team competition, each side sends seven players to the field. After the team competition ends, both sides have one opportunity to replace players, but this opportunity is only available once. Once missed, players cannot be replaced in any way."
This referee will intervene in the match if necessary, but considering the unpredictable nature of the game, this referee cannot guarantee the absolute safety of either participant. Both sides are urged to exercise restraint during the match. Now, both sides prepare. Team members will enter the arena in one minute.
The one-minute allotted time was just for the two academies to give each other a final pep talk. Soon, at Huang Jinxu's signal, the team battle teams from both academies took to the field.
Shrek Academy fielded a lineup of Dai Yueheng, Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochen, Bei Bei, Long You, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou. Because the Soul Guidance Synergy Array System developed by Long You becomes more powerful the higher the Soul Power level, this team battle lineup represents the seven members with the highest Soul Power levels that the depleted Shrek Academy could muster.
"They actually fielded this lineup, abandoning that ultimate ice-type Soul Master. Does Shrek Academy not plan to capitalize on their attribute advantage?"
Upon seeing the lineup of Shrek Academy, the team leader of Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was momentarily puzzled.
"Forget it, let's not think about it too much. This time, our advantage is obvious, and Shrek Academy must be aware of this, which is why they sent out this lineup with a higher average soul power level in an attempt to reduce their disadvantage in team battles."
On the other side, compared to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team leader who was calm and collected with supplies in hand, the atmosphere at Shrek Academy was somewhat tense. This team battle was truly a gamble; if it weren't for the Soul Guidance Synergy Array System provided by Long You, Wang Yan might not have even set the "gamble" option.
(Without Ma Xiaotao, Shrek Academy's explosive power is greatly reduced, and the chances of dealing damage to the Sun and Moon Team are not high. It is very likely to result in a loss of 800 for the enemy, or even a loss of 1000 for the enemy.)
Stepping onto the competition stage, the entire team from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was exposed to the Shrek Academy members: Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Mika, Xiao Xiafeng, Chen Fei, and Lin Xi. The appearance of the siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen was entirely expected by Shrek Academy. However, even with this expectation, Shrek Academy still felt quite frustrated.
Ma Rulong is a confirmed seventh-level Soul Master. Among the remaining six, only Mika, Xiao Xiafeng, Chen Fei, and Lin Xi have the strength of a fifth-level Soul Master. As for the siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, they are said to be fifth-level Soul Masters. Anyone who treats them as such will definitely suffer a terrible loss.
As is customary, both academies immediately set up their formations. However, Long You, who had spoilers in his mind, knew very well that this seemingly proper formation was actually a complete illusion.
Seeing that both academies were ready, Huang Jinxu, the Heavenly Fiend Douluo, gave a final reminder according to the competition rules. The next moment, after announcing "The competition begins," he transformed into a streak of starlight and disappeared from the visible range of the competition stage.
The release of martial spirit, soul tool, soul-guided powered armor, and soul-guided powered exoskeleton. Although the vast majority of the Shrek Academy team members are not professional soul tool masters, given the elite level of Shrek Academy students, more than a month of competition has been enough for these students to develop a sufficient level of speed in using soul tools.
Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Shrek Academy completed their pre-battle preparations almost simultaneously, with both sides adjusting their formations into a long, vertical serpentine line. On the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy's side, Lin Xi, at the forefront, released a soul shield with a considerable coverage area, completely obscuring his teammates behind him, clearly guarding against Xu Sanshi using the Xuanming Replacement Soul Skill.
Even with Long You's intrusion into the current timeline, Xu Sanshi still left a deep impression on all the participating academies in this competition thanks to his Xuanming Displacement soul skill. If Xu Sanshi activates Xuanming Displacement, Shrek Academy's rival academy will definitely be in trouble.
However, it seems that the preparations of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy have come to nothing so far. At least at this stage, when the team battle has just begun, Shrek Academy is not planning to use the Xuanming Replacement.
Despite their defensive posture, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was not the same level of academy as Thousand Spirits Academy and Fighting Spirit Royal Academy, which Shrek Academy had encountered in the round-robin and third-round elimination stages. Their defense wasn't a passive defensive posture followed by a counterattack; rather, they were attacking while simultaneously defending.
Countless orbs of light, condensed from soul power and released through soul tools, burst forth like a peacock spreading its tail, instantly erupting from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team behind Lin Xi. These orbs, scattered like petals, clearly had the ability to lock onto targets; smooth, white arcs appeared in the space above the arena, the soul power orbs carrying sharp whistles as they swept towards Shrek Academy's position.
As mentioned before, the weakest members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy are all Level 5 Soul Masters. Even though they didn't use their full strength when releasing these light orbs, some people from Shrek Academy still couldn't help but mutter curses.
To guard against any potential poison attacks from Meng Hongchen, the Shrek Academy team wore at least fully enclosed soul-guided tactical helmets. This allowed each member to monitor the energy levels of any attacks launched by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy using the detection soul-guided devices installed in their helmets.
The sky filled with countless orbs of light caused the detection values on the Shrek Academy students' soul-guided tactical helmets to exceed their limits.
Looking at the numbers on the Soul Guidance display screen, Xu Sanshi, who was being used as a decoy at the top, asked through the team channel with a slightly trembling voice, "The Sun and Moon team is going a bit too far this time! Do we really have to take this on head-on?"
"Of course not! Activate the shield and the positioning interference soul guide, and we'll immediately become invisible and take off. Once those light orbs break through the shield, we'll immediately detonate these stun grenades and smoke grenades on the ground."
After Xu Sanshi finished asking his question, Shrek Academy's cloud consciousness platform was fully activated, and Long You simply used his consciousness to quickly reply directly within the cloud consciousness platform.
At this moment, the energy ball attack released by the Sun and Moon Team was still about one meter away from the Shrek Academy Team.
The panoramic simulation soul tool was activated, and to outsiders, the entire Shrek Academy formation was enveloped in an ice-blue shield. Underneath the shield, all the Shrek Academy students crouched down and gathered their strength, making it look as if Shrek Academy was preparing to withstand a wave of attacks from the Sun and Moon Team before launching a full-scale attack.
However, the truth was that after these visual effects unfolded, the Shrek Academy students had all entered stealth mode. Under the cover of their soul tools, which could interfere with the automatic tracking effect of the soul tools, they quickly left their original positions. All that remained were various smoke grenades, stun grenades, and some health packs, all already activated.
The next moment, the Sun and Moon Team's attack arrived, and the panoramic simulated defensive shield shattered completely after showing a remarkably realistic sinking and fluctuation. A blinding flash, a deafening explosion, and thick smoke—the entire Shrek Academy's position was utterly devastated in that instant.
After a sudden burst of intense light, smoke filled the air. Half of the arena was quickly enveloped in the special smoke released by the smoke grenades.
In this situation, the Sun and Moon Team had to stop their planned attacks. They released a soul-guided shield to protect themselves while gathering their soul power to soothe their tearful eyes and try to alleviate the temporary blindness caused by the flash of the stun grenade.
It must be said that the Sun and Moon team has a high level of tactical awareness. Even when such an unexpected change occurred and they were indeed adversely affected, they remained calm and composed and made the most appropriate response to the current situation.
However, how could the Sun and Moon Team so easily defend against the opening ceremony that Shrek Academy had meticulously planned? Invisible channels of soul power formed above the arena, connecting the Shrek Academy students who had already formed a scattered polygon surrounding the entire Sun and Moon Team's position.
A subtle fluctuation of soul power quietly spread out, and a red laser beam, relatively thin compared to the entire arena, descended from above, directly piercing through the soul-guided defensive shield of Chen Fei, the agility-type member of the Sun and Moon Team, and also piercing through his body, directly injuring Chen Fei's spine.
A wound the size of a little finger might not be particularly noticeable in an empty space, but such a wound on the human body is considered a significant trauma.
Because the injury involved spinal nerves, Chen Fei did not feel pain immediately. However, the loss of body control and obstruction of soul power caused by the spinal nerve injury still caused Chen Fei to fall to the ground uncontrollably.
Chen Fei's fall caused chaos in the formation of the Sun and Moon team, which was standing in a dense vertical line.
Because the visual and auditory effects had not yet been restored, the Sun and Moon Team was unable to determine whether Shrek Academy had taken advantage of the chaos to infiltrate their formation, and they were somewhat flustered.
The Shrek Academy team, who were invisible and hovering above the arena, seized this rare opportunity and quickly organized a second attack. The attack, synchronized and compressed by the Soul Guidance Coordination Array System, was extremely powerful. At the very least, the level-five Soul Guidance defensive shields used by most of the Sun Moon Team members were completely unable to withstand this level of attack.
"It's really lucky that the Sun and Moon team didn't activate the invincibility shield right away, and the invincibility shield can't be triggered passively, otherwise our tactics might not have worked."
Taking advantage of the lull between the two attacks, Long You felt a sense of relief. However, the fact that the Invincible Shield couldn't be passively triggered didn't mean the Sun and Moon Team didn't have other powerful soul-guided shields that could be passively triggered. At least in Long You's memory, Xiao Hongchen possessed such a high-end defensive soul-guided device. Therefore, it could be inferred that Meng Hongchen and Ma Rulong should also have such items. This was why Shrek Academy didn't attack Ma Rulong and his two companions—who were clearly stronger and should have been eliminated earlier—when the chance of a successful sneak attack was highest.
When the second laser beam struck, it still caused some damage, but this time it fell far short of the Shrek Academy students' hopes for—a direct reduction in the number of members of the Sun Moon Team. Several seconds had passed since the shockwaves and smoke grenades were deployed. In Long You's previous world, those affected would likely not have recovered. However, this world possessed the extraordinary power of soul force. The circulation of soul force naturally eliminated many abnormal states.
In other words, the Sun and Moon Team was in a temporary state of chaos because of Chen Fei's accident. Otherwise, the members of the Sun and Moon Team, who had gradually regained some of their vision and hearing, would not have been able to let Shrek Academy succeed so easily again.
Seeing that the second soul-guided ray attack had not been fully successful, and that the Sun and Moon Team had gradually figured out the current situation, Shrek Academy simply stopped launching ranged attacks. Instead, they took advantage of the last opportunity to have Dai Yueheng reveal himself and land directly on the ground to launch a strong attack on Xiao Xiafeng, who had been injured and whose reaction was relatively slow.
Considering that the members of the Sun and Moon Team must possess an unreasonable defensive soul tool like the Invincible Shield, Dai Yueheng didn't intend to harm anyone. Instead, he took out the Soul Master Shackles he had used against the Star Luo National Academy. Using the force of the dive to slow Xiao Xiafeng's movements, a silver ring was immediately fastened to Xiao Xiafeng's wrist by Dai Yueheng, hindering the flow of his soul power and completely eliminating Xiao Xiafeng's chance to activate the Invincible Shield.
Xiao Xiafeng tried to resist using other means, but he was unable to fight back when Dai Yueheng, a Soul Emperor specializing in close combat, got close to him. In the end, Dai Yueheng put him in Soul Master Shackles and threw him off the stage before the rest of the Sun Moon Team could come to his rescue.
As a result, including Chen Fei, who had been lying on the ground groaning in pain and was eventually rescued from the competition stage by Tian Sha Douluo, the Sun and Moon Team lost two members.
However, since Dai Yueheng had revealed himself, it was no longer convenient for him to remain invisible. So he simply stayed on the competition stage to face, or rather, to contain, the successive attacks from the Sun and Moon team.
However, many people, including Duke White Tiger on the city walls, considered Dai Yueheng's choice to be unwise. After all, no matter how strong Dai Yueheng was, he was only a level 64 offensive Soul Emperor. Even if the Sun Moon Team only had five members left, it was still not something Dai Yueheng could handle alone.