𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟔𝟗: 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 (2)
Oswald endured Kaiser’s barrage of bullets, stubbornly keeping his Guarding Aura up.
He endured and endured, waiting for his chance! Surely, he couldn’t keep up such a powerful attack indefinitely. . . But. . .
‘𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵. . . 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥?’
After firing his railgun for a long time, Oswald paused his attack for a moment. Wouldn’t that give his opponent hope?
And just as Oswald had predicted, his opponent gave a sly smile and charged at Oswald again with a confident expression.
In response, Oswald materialized the Shock Gauntlet from the 「Max Universe」 and swung his fist at the charging figure.
Kuwooooong!
The moment Oswald’s gauntlet and Kaiser’s fist collided, a golden shockwave erupted from the Shock Gauntlet Oswald was wearing, sending Kaiser flying backward.
“What the heck is this?”
It seemed that the Shock Gauntlet had the upper hand in terms of instantaneous firepower.
“As expected of a scientific civilization, huh?”
Kaiser, who had been pushed back by Oswald, stood up again. Just then, with a clatter of chains, Dominika’s axe came flying in.
“Humph! Do you think such an attack will work?”
Kaiser easily dodged it, but. . . As Dominika pulled back the axe that had been stuck in Kaiser’s back, Kaiser’s calf got caught on the hook and was dragged along.
As Kaiser’s body was dragged in front of Dominika, Oswald, who had jumped high, swooped down on Kaiser and slammed his right arm, which had transformed into a Pile Bunker, into him.
Peueok! Kuung. Pububuk!
“Kuaaaak!”
Kaiser, who had suffered a fatal blow to his abdomen, screamed and was immediately emergency-evacuated to his base.
Having swiftly crushed the bottom lane, Oswald led his golems towards the second guard tower.
Meanwhile, in the mid lane, Anna was summoning her summoned beasts and fighting fiercely against Balkan Revolver, a third-year mid laner and Platinum ranker.
“Cerberus!”
She summoned Cerberus, a three-headed hellhound, to sweep away the battle golems and immediately proceeded to summon the next monster.
“Manticore!”
A manticore with the body of a lion, the head of a bat, and the tail of a scorpion charged towards Balkan.
Tatang!
Balkan, using the revolvers in both hands, pulled the trigger, and his high-caliber bullets pierced the manticore’s skull, sending it back to the demon world. Balkan then aimed at Anna again and pulled the trigger.
Tatang!
Shu-ak! Shu-aak!
Two high-caliber bullets tore through the air towards Anna, and at that moment, a steel golem appeared in front of Anna.
Kang-kang!
It was Metalian, the spirit of metal.
“Alright, let’s see how long you can hold out!”
Tatang! Tatang! Tatang! Tatang. . . Tatang! Tatang!
Balkan fired dozens of high-caliber bullets, pressuring Anna. Anna, on the other hand, was barely holding off the attacks by using her summoned beasts as meat shields. Fortunately, some of the battle golems, including the knight golem, were able to withstand the attacks to some extent.
In this way, nine summoned beasts formed a constellation around Anna, each facing a different direction. At that moment, Anna thrust her staff into the center of the constellation and began to chant a spell.
“O thou who art darker than twilight, redder than the blood that flows within me. I call upon thy name, lost in the flow of time, and swear to thee here in darkness that we shall join forces to bring ruin upon all the fools who stand in our way!! Summon! Tuma, Leraje!”
Anna sacrificed the summoned beasts at the ends of the constellation to summon Leraje, the most warlike of the demons that existed in the demon world.
Although the sacrifice was not enough, it seemed to be sufficient to face a master-class opponent.
Soon after, Leraje, a demon from the demon world, emerged from the tip of Anna’s staff. She had gray skin, pointed ears like an elf’s, and goat horns growing from her forehead.
She held a large longbow in one hand and two swords at her waist. She wore armor that exposed a lot of skin, but it made her look even more seductive and powerful.
“Long time no see, Anna.”
“Leraje, I’m glad to be with you, even for a short while.”
“Alright, who do you want me to take care of?”
“Take care of the person you see in front of you.”
“Very well, as you wish. . .”
Tuma Leraje immediately drew her bow and aimed it at Balkan. As she did so, a black magic arrow appeared on the bowstring out of nowhere, and as Leraje released the bowstring, the black magic arrow flew off.
Balkan aimed at the incoming arrow and pulled the trigger.
Tatang! Kwaang!
The black magic arrow and the high-caliber bullet collided, causing an explosion that sent up a cloud of dust and obscured the view.
Leraje took advantage of the moment to fire off a series of arrows.
At that moment, in the top lane, Gilgamesh and Dopamine were facing off. Both were swordsmen who wielded swords and were skilled enough to reach the realm of masters.
Of course, Gilgamesh had surpassed the wall and reached Grandmaster. . . but officially, he was a Master. That was why the match was so close.
‘𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. . .’
Gilgamesh was attacked by a shower of flower petals, and amidst the petals, Dopamine’s flashy swordplay attacked from all sides.
From Gilgamesh’s perspective, who used a greatsword and pursued power, it was an extremely annoying and troublesome opponent. Of course, that was if they were on the same level.
Suddenly, a domineering aura erupted from Gilgamesh’s body, and he swung his greatsword down on Dopamine in one swift motion.
Paang!
Dopamine’s pink aura, which had been fluttering and scattering spectacularly, was cut apart and scattered, and soon after, the greatsword descended on Dopamine’s head, sending him into an emergency evacuation to his base.
Gilgamesh had finished off Dopamine with a single blow. However. . . he had given up the second kill to Oswald, making him the third kill achiever.
“Tch.”
As if feeling competitive, he quickly advanced and destroyed the first guard tower in the top lane, then proceeded to the second guard tower.
As the first-year representative team was gaining the upper hand and pushing forward in each lane, Beatrice and Ragna Baersonring faced each other in the jungle.
Kuwoeoeoeo!
Ragna Baersonring, transformed into a giant bear, used his druid abilities to the fullest, attracting the beasts among the jungle’s buff monsters and attacking together with them.
Accompanied by four Elemental Bears, each possessing a different attribute, he relentlessly pursued Beatrice, who gradually found herself cornered. Despite her predicament, she showed no signs of fear, instead chuckling with delight.
“Kukukuku. Good, very good!”
Beatrice wielded her 30cm-long nail claws and fought like a beast, even more so than Ragna, who had transformed into a giant bear.
Despite her small size and agility, Beatrice moved quickly and inflicted wounds on Ragna and the surrounding elemental bears.
Just then! Ragna’s blow, which had been hidden by the elemental bear’s body, suddenly pierced her entire body.
Peueok!
With a tremendous impact, Ragna’s huge claws raked across her right shoulder, side, and thigh, tearing her flesh. Thanks to her use of body strengthening, her endurance had increased, allowing her to withstand the attack.
Despite this, she didn’t seem to feel any pain. . . or rather, she seemed to feel pleasure when she felt pain. She brought her fingernail blade to the wound and licked the blood that oozed out, her expression one of ecstasy.
“Hehehe! It’s been a long time since I’ve tasted blood. Hehe.”
“What a crazy girl. . . Krrr. . .”
Ragna, in his giant bear form, couldn’t help but curse.
“Keut. . . It’s cute to see you talk like a human in that form.”
Beatrice held on to Ragna and stretched out, preventing him from getting both jungle buffs. In that state, Oswald’s first-year representative team, which had gained the upper hand in the lane, quickly advanced and pushed the guard towers in the bottom lane and top lane to the second level.
In the end, the first match went to the first-year representative team. Since it was a best-of-three series, there were still at least one, and at most two, more matches to go.
🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸
Break time. . . The third-year students in the waiting room looked at each other with gloomy faces.
“We can’t lose to those first-year brats, can we?”
Kaiser retorted sharply to Balkan’s words.
“Don’t talk nonsense. We just got careless.”
“How about it, are we going to switch lanes?”
“Let’s do it. Purna, you go to mid lane. I’ll go to bottom. And switch with Dopamine and Ragna. At least we can salvage our pride if we have the advantage in the jungle.”
As they were switching lanes, the first-year representative team was also making adjustments.
“They’ll probably focus their firepower on the bottom and put a Platinum ranker in the jungle to gain an advantage in the jungle.”
“So how do we plan to counter that?”
“Gilgamesh, you stay top as it is. The opponent will definitely come with a Gold rank. . . Quickly subdue that opponent and push to the second guard tower.”
“Got it.”
“And Anna, switch with me.”
They had practiced switching lanes several times during their training period in preparation for such a situation, so there shouldn’t be any major problems.
“I’ll take down the mid lane bridge and then support the bottom lane. And let’s send the knight golem and heavy golem to the bottom lane. And send the archer golem to the mid lane. Beatrice, you hide thoroughly and go to the opponent’s jungle to hunt the buff monsters. The opponent will definitely come to our jungle to get you first.”
🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸
Thus began the second match.
The third-year representative team, remembering their defeat in the first match, quickly advanced with the golems behind them. Oswald did the same, riding on Jason and creating a rocket launcher, then firing missiles at the mid lane bridge, blowing it up.
Purna, who had rushed to the mid lane and entered the guard tower to prepare for defense, was surprised to see Oswald there, and then looked up at him with a stunned expression as he blew up the bridge.
Soon after, the archer golems arrived on the scene. . . Purna realized the opposing team’s strategy when she saw that all the golems were archers.
“Oh no!!”
Just then, an announcement blared out that Ragna Baersonring, the third-year representative team’s top laner, had died with the First Bloodl. Oswald then rode Jason and flew straight to the bottom lane, while Beatrice also went to the opposing team’s jungle to hunt the buff monsters.
The two Platinum rankers were seen chasing after Anna and Dominika, who were Gold rankers. Oswald immediately created a large-scale sniper railgun to take care of Balkan, who seemed like he would be a nuisance.
Oswald then got off on a suitable hill and fired the large-scale sniper railgun while standing. Normally, he would have had to support it on the ground with both legs, but thanks to his increased strength, he was able to control the recoil of the large-scale sniper railgun sufficiently.
Ta-ang! Pazijijik! Shu-aak!
A crimson streak shot out in a straight line and hit Balkan’s right temple. No, the moment it hit! His body was emergency-evacuated to his base, preventing him from being pierced.
He then aimed at Kaiser and pulled the trigger in quick succession, and Kaiser, who had raised his Guarding Aura to the max, began to get hit again.
In the end, Kaiser died after being ganged up on by Anna, who had summoned Leraje.
Even Gilgamesh had taken down the top second guard tower and started attacking the enemy’s base, and in the end, the first-year representative team took the second match as well.
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