Next day.
Everyone was excited to see what would happen today as this is the fifth day. By the end of this day, nobody can enter the battle anymore.
From that day onwards the battle is solely for the people that are already inside. But that is not the only thing that is exciting them.
The most exciting thing is the upcoming battle between two elite units and the trio that are the center of attraction for the two teams.
They are looking forward to seeing if the trio would survive this.
Sam and Raunak also came together and sat in their usual seats.
Today, the professor who didn't come to the battle in the past four days also came.
Raunak looked at the image of the two teams on either side of the trio and asked Sam.
"Are you really not worried about them? Those two units are as good as they can get. If they really target them, it will be hard to survive."
"Not really, they can escape if things go really bad, there are many ways they can escape from that place and I am sure they are aware of that too. For them, this is more of a way of testing themselves. They made some special and substantial improvements this time, so they just want to test that."
"But isn't that too risky? They have to stay there for five more days."
"I don't think so. What happens if all the other contestants are done and there are no more contestants that are getting in to join?"
"Isn't that too farfetched? It is almost impossible to do that."
"You said it yourself, almost impossible. Not impossible. Just wait and see for yourself."
As he finished his words, the battle started.
The one-star unit didn't attack immediately, for some reason they backed off and waited there.
But the green cloaks didn't bother, their primary target is the trio. They are a bit vary of the one-star unit but that didn't stop them from going after their target.
Rajan and Ramana are looking at Sam with cold eyes as they wanted to see his expression when his friends are dying.
Even though the competition doesn't support intentional killing, 'accidents' can always happen. Particularly when the weaker party didn't use their escape token in time.
So, they are looking forward to that incident.
The Green cloaks surrounded the trio. They are standing in ten positions and in each position there are three people.
They created a complete circle in a formation and with the aid of the trees, they are far more than just thirty people in the formation.
Philip, Jack, and Watt stood together with their backs against each other and looked at them. Their auras are raging as they looked at their opponents with excitement.
The green cloaks activated their battle formation and the wood element started raging and the energy from the surrounding trees and the trees within the encirclement is also being added as the first person of every three-man group took a step forward with their weapons.
A green-colored transparent shield dome was created around them with the twenty green cloaks as the nodes while the ten people were about to attack.
At this moment, Watt took out a stack of cards and started flourishing with them. He performed cardistry as if he was a magician trying to trick others to perform a card trick.
The cards flew from one hand to another and as he made several moves the wind elemental energy is also moving along with the cards and the cards started glowing with the sharp wind around them.
There are more than fifty cards in Watt's hands as he waited for the ten green cloaks to come near enough.
Meanwhile, Philip and Jack are not staying idle. Jack is currently holding the sword within the scabbard as his energy riled up and even his breath turned sharp like blades. Philip on the other hand is doing something else. A lump of powdered metal is moving in his hands like a snake as it slowly turned its color and he divided into two snakes and then three as it thinned constantly.
The ten green cloaks didn't stop their advance from what these people are doing.
All the ten green cloaks are currently holding weapons of close combat and right before they swung the weapons, Watt threw the pack of cards straight into the air. The cards opened like a large snake as they created a circle in the air and Philip who is holding a lot of red hot metal snakes in his hand also threw it up and these snakes zoomed towards this large metal card snake.
And when they collided with the card snake it is like fireworks happened and the cards caught fire for some reason and the sharp winds that were created because of the cards were being added with the fire creating a small firestorm in the air.
At this exact moment, Jack pumped the spiritual energy into his legs as he jumped upwards and twisted in the air as he executed a large sword strike creating a large sword ray in the shape of an arc.
The arc slashed the fiery cards into two the pieces moved in different directions.
Jack landed on the ground and by this time, the card pieces already reached their targets.
The major target of the card pieces are actually the ten people that are near them and when the fiery metallic card pieces rained on them like swords along with the fiery storm, they could only abandon the thought of attacking and start defending.
Everything happened within three seconds and the green cloaks who have an upper hand went into a passive mode, when the twenty that are standing in the rear wanted to help their comrades, a wall of fire was created out of nowhere and they had to halt in their tracks.
When they looked around to see what is happening, they noticed that a formation was created on the ground and it was created by some cards. They are not pieces, they are just the fiery cards that have some inscriptions on them.
Even though the energy that could be held by those cards is minimal, it is still good enough to create a firewall for a few minutes.
The trio went to engage with these ten soldiers and their aim not to kill them and it is not even trying to incapacitate them. Their goal is only to create enough damage to make them not fight at their fullest. That is the only time frame that could be provided by the firewall.
And by the time the green cloaks outside managed to break past the formation, the trio is already done with their task and started moving out.
The three of them moved in three different directions. Watt moved straight while the remaining two went diagonally.
The green cloaks looked at their injured partners who can still at least move and heaved a sigh before chasing the trio in separate groups.
The people that are in forefront of the chase are actually the ten people that got injured badly.
All the wounds that they got are not exactly critical, but they hurt a lot and every wound is nasty. It is more of an irritating distraction than clear damage.
As Philip started running his body slowly started glowing red and the metal coat he is wearing started reacting well enough. He activated partial fire elemental fusion and started leaving a path of fire on his way.
He is compressing his energy too much that every step he took and tried to move, his body is trying to expel some of the energy instinctually creating a pool of fire.
The green cloaks started worrying as they saw this path of the fire, the trees are catching fire and these trees are the ones that are helpful to them and even the basis of their confidence.
But they are sure that Philip wouldn't be able to keep this up for long as they shot attacks from behind. The spears, arrows, and even the trees that Philip is passing by. He is avoiding all the attacks with speed and dexterity.
The remaining two pursuits are not exactly different.
Watt is similarly compressing his wind elemental energy with partial fusion as he destroyed and ravaged everything in his way.
The trees are being uprooted as a whole and debris resulted from that didn't even have a chance to land on the ground as it got stuck in the wind storm and got carried away by the tailwind of the storm.
On Jack's side, the situation is similar to that of Watt's but he is not uprooting neither was he creating a storm. He is cutting through everything.
Even the path he took forward is like a large single sword cut.
The chase is going on intensely.
They couldn't even understand where this much energy is coming from for three Pre-transcendent stage cultivators. They can guess that they are squeezing every bit of it.
But they couldn't understand the point of this chase even though it is indeed exciting.
After a few minutes of this fruitless chase, Philip and Jack took sharp turns and the troops followed.
The green cloaks are so into the chase that they didn't even notice why they turned.
Only the trio and the audience that is watching the whole scene from outside knew what is going to happen.
The atmosphere is very tense in the whole arena as everyone watched curiously thinking about what is about to unfold.
But only Sam had a smirk on his face as if he had seen this coming long ago and one person who is observing Sam, the professor had a bad feeling when he looked at that smirk.
