The good news was that there were six groups, excluding Hal's group, that were to be involved in the battle royal of sorts, and Hal's group was not exactly a pri target.
But that did not let any of the five relax as they knew quite well how quickly all attention could be focussed on them.
No one in the opposing groups was hiding their cultivation and were will showcasing it for all to sense.
For all to be intimidated.
Especially those at the Cosmic Aurora realm.
And there were quite a number of them.
Every one of the groups in this part of the rundown district had at least one Cosmic aurora expert in their ranks.
Adeline gripped her ax cosmic Armant tighter while Pierre gripped his phenonon rank sword artifact as he eyed the opposition with a frown.
linda and Nicole walked closer to Hal with the latter asking Hal,
"What now?"
Hal sighed,
"We decide. Do we want to wait out the battle or do we want to take an active part?"
Adeline frowned as she said,
"First, you don't lead this group. I'm only here to help my brother so you will not be ordering around.
Second, standing around will be detrintal.
Even if we do survive this round, we could still get eliminated because everyone taking part in this exam is getting graded by how involved they are. How good they are."
Hal furrowed his brows as he wondered if Elsa had neglected to talk about the grading as a form of oversight or if it had been to pick out those who would not assist their groups and rely hang back to watch from the sidelines.
The second seed much more likely.
So he shrugged,
"So we fight" he said and suddenly crouched to slam his palms on the ground.
The mont he did this, everyone in their part of the rundown district began to attack each other as though his actions had broken the deadlock.
More than one expert shot cosmic attacks imbued with phenonon at Hal whose palms were still pressed against the ground but he was not worried.
Why would he be when linda and Nicole were watching his back?
linda was suddenly in front of him and swiping her white sword cosmic armant with the crisscrossing golden flas against the attacks and quite easily dispersed them while Nicole retaliated with cosmic attacks imbued with a phenonon of her own.
*Bang!*
*Boom!*
As soon as the deflection and retaliation were complete... All of which had happened in the space of two seconds, the reason Hal had slamd his palms against the ground beca evident when multiple rune circles appeared on the ground.
"Look out!" yelled a group leader but he was too late as the rune circles shot beams at one mber each from all six groups, not to attack them which Hal had thought would be a waste considering he could not one-shot them with his Astral sense at the fifth rank.
Instead, the beam pulled the mbers towards himself and his group.
Then the rune circles got larger to form two Royal blue Astral Dos that camped Hal, linda, Nicole and four of the opposing group mbers pulled towards them in one of the Dos.
While Pierre and Adeline were camped in with two others.
Almost imdiately those on the outside understood what was going on.
They had been separated.
If the ones taken into the Dos were defeated and their devices went red, every single one of the teams would lose.
Hal straightened up with a satisfied smile on his face.
To create the two dos, he had spent a lot of the Astral energy he had stored in his body but it was well worth it.
Then he joined linda and Nicole in staring at the four inside his Do while he spoke to Pierre and Adeline who also understood what this situation ant,
"You can handle those two, can't you?" His words were mainly directed at Adeline who could tell and was even more disgruntled as she struggled with admitting that not only was this more than a decent plan but Hal was an intimidating fellow who was a capable runemaster as well as a capable Alchemist.
She was not the only one who thought so as among those in the VIP box was her Alchemy Master, Alexis who had co to watch his protegee crush the exams.
He and the other Alchemy masters present at the ti Hal had gone to the Alchemist Organization building in the Silva Duchy were more than a little surprised to find out he was a Runemaster as well as an Alchemist.
"Tch, what do you take for?" Adeline answered him with a sneer while the two she had been camped with furrowed their brows at what they believed was an underestimation of their capabilities.
"Break down the Do!" Yelled one of the group leaders on the outside as all groups banded together to free their group mbers.
Showing inter-group solidarity in the face of a common enemy.
Alas, when they struck at the Dos with multiple attacks,
*Boom!*
*Bang!*
... The attacks ricocheted right back at them.
Smacking a lot of them in the faces and sending them crashing away.
Hal had tweaked the chanics of the ricocheting Do he had used when he had fought with Gregory.
Making it so that while the effects of all attacks sent at it were reduced upon rebound, the reduction in force was not enough that they were unbothered by it.
In fact, so of them were already noticing their devices green glow getting lighter.
The only one who had remained mostly unbothered by the rebound had been a large young man who had planted his feet solidly on the ground to avoid getting blown back.
And now he straightened up to barrel right at the Do.
Since long-distance seed useless, it only stood to reason that close combat was the answer, right?
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Hal said as he watched the large man get closer through the transparent do.
Even though the large man heard, he rely sneered and ran faster to hit the Do with such force, the sound of impact was almost deafening,
*BOOM!!!*
*BANG!!!*
However, the sound of impact was nothing compared to the *Bang* sound the Do gave off when it rebounded the force of the large man's hit, and since said young man was close and still releasing a fair amount of force in his bid to shatter the Do, the repulse not only sent him barreling away and into a building...
"ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH"
... It also wracked his whole body, weakening his muscles and causing him agonizing pain even before he smacked into the building.
In fact, hitting the building was a pillowy landing compared to the pain he felt from his contact with the Do.
As shown by his continuous howls before he eventually fainted.
"Told ya" Hal said but since the young man's group mates were not yet teleported away, then the young man must still be capable of fighting.
A mber of his group ran towards him to most likely feed him nding pills.
Then linda smiled at the four in the Do who had summoned their Armants and were charging Cosmic attacks
"Now, with that foolishness dealt with, we can focus on the matter at hand..." She began but was interrupted by Nicole,
"I can't not ask. Hal, why is there a Dane here?"
Not asking why linda was taking the exam itself as the golden-eyed beauty had more than shown herself to be capable but asking why she was in Hal's group.
linda had even been the only one with him when Nicole arrived.
Hal raised his brow, not because of the question but because she had not asked the question telepathically.
Nicole wanted linda to hear and it was probably ant as a kind of snide.
Antonovs or more accurately, the Sensual palace which was the sect Nicole was here to represent as the most gifted of their young generation, and Danes don't mix well.
At least that was what Nicole thought.
linda could actually not care less about the prejudice between both families.
"She's my first" was all Hal said not feeling the need or urge to explain himself.
However, that was more than enough for Nicole to understand the nature of their relationship.
It was more than enough for many watching the broadcast of their part of the rundown district to understand as well.
With mbers of the Silva family party, Adrien Silva especially, looking over at the Danes and Doxons with narrowed eyes at this unprecedented connection between both families.
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*Boom!*
A partnership was quickly ford among the four in the Do and they began working together to overwhelm their opponents without any worry or fear even after linda had showcased her Early-stage Cosmic Aurora realm cultivation.
Clearly, they had trump cards which were to be expected of the best in the young generation.
"You're not the only one with arrays," said one of them with a sneer as the other three bought him the precious seconds he needed to activate the Array in his hands which ford into a miniature cage.
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