Chapter 361: Waiting for the perfect opportunity.
Most of Blake’s team was still shocked by how Pascal was killed. This made them oblivious to the fact that Blake had taken his ring, instead, they were happy that he wasn’t dragged along.
It was only Luciano that had noticed the ring slipping off Pascal’s middle finger, but he thought it was just a result of Blake failing to save him.
‘So why did you want me to grab his ring?’ Blake asked the system.
[Because it would be a waste if it ended up getting destroyed by the gastric juice of the frog.] The system replied.
‘What the flying fuck?!’ Blake screamed in his head.
‘Why the hell will you ask me to do that? I was here thinking that you saw something important. This is just dishonoring a dead man!’
[That man was a bootlicker, he sure wasn’t honorable.] The system said. .
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‘True… but it still doesn’t feel right.’ Blake couldn’t help but admit the system brought up really good points.
[You will get over it. Now focus on the battle or you will end up like him.]
With his attention returning to the battlefield, Blake noticed that the golden poison frog was only at the knight rank level. If it was a one-on-one fight, Pascal would beat it, but nothing was is truly fair in love and war.
The ash corps were all in the Hero realm. So it took only seconds for them to get rid of the golden poison frog, giving them a little breathing space.
“You guys should take over from us, while we go and support them.”
With the death of 3 members, the ash corps protecting them from the beasts climbing up the ramp needed back up.
So it was best for those shooting down the aerial beasts that had made it through the wall’s barrier to support them, while the students took over.
“Roger that!” Blake said as he began organizing his team.
There was no need to use the elemental cannon array because the area was previously defended by 4 ash corps. So to cover up, they needed to split up into 3.
For Tessie and Brian whose elements weren’t too effective against aerial beasts, they were paired with Blake and Castiel respectively.
Luciano was alone at the center, Blake and Tessie were at the left, while Brian and Castiel were at the right so. This was in case something bad was to happen to the ash corps, Brian and Castiel would use the earth and darkness elements respectively to buy them enough time for them to escape.
“What happens to the points someone gains after he or she dies?” Brian couldn’t help but ask as he saw the battlefield littered with corpses.
“The points earned are saved by the badge. So after the war, they would be given to their next of kin in any currency of their choice.”
“In the case where they have no next of kin. They would be given to their best friends or teammates. As for the lone wolves, their points are given to charity.”
Luciano explained as they shot down aerial beasts and those climbing the wall without the ramps.
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At that time outside the city barrier, Major Reeves and Brock Ulrik had finally slain the Hippodon.
It turned out that the aim of the Hippodon was to stall them. It knew it couldn’t do much against them. So it decided to stay on the defense.
Its plan would have worked out alright if it were any other peak demigods, but the problem was that both Major Reeves and Brock possessed the earth element making it easier to counter that of the hippodon.
By the end of the battle, both of them had gotten the final push they needed to enter the angelic realm.
“Darius is not yet done with his fight. Seems it is up to us to end the fight.” Major Reeves said to Brock.
“Then this is the perfect place to start from.” Brock replied as they began killing the beasts from the back.
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Back at the wall…
Their vision was still being blocked by the hundreds of insects attacking the wall’s barrier, leaving them clueless about the Hippodon’s death.
In just a few minutes, Blake’s team had already killed almost 50 beasts that were trying to make their way up the wall, but that was when Brian noticed the newcomers.
‘Why the fuck is Serhan’s team coming over here?’ Brian alerted Blake through the mind link, causing a deep frown to appear on his face as he turned in their direction.
It turned out that 3 ramps had been erected at their area which was 3 ash corps teams away.
They would have been easily overrun if not that the ash corps teams had retreated and regrouped with those close to Blake’s team.
As for Serhan’s team, they had been instructed to go to the safest area, and that was Blake’s location.
[Focus on killing the beasts, I will keep an eye on them] The system didn’t want to see another Pascal happening.
‘Alright…’
Blake would have loved to ask them what the hell they were doing there, but that would definitely lead to an argument that could cost them their lives.
‘This is the perfect opportunity to attack them, but the only problem is Luciano. Attacking him is death for not only me but the entire Karius family at large.’ Serhan thought.
‘I can’t go after the son of a b*tch because they are quite close. The same goes for the girl, especially after what Camilla told me.’
‘That leaves us with these two.’ Serhan thought as he looked at Brian and Castiel.
From what he knew, they were the least close to Luciano. So if he could kill one of them, he would be able to get away with it.
Now that he had his targets, the only thing left was to wait for the perfect opportunity to strike.
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