Surrounded by Five Beast Lords novel Chapter 60

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Chapter 60 Lucky Mole

Chapter 60 Lucky Male

Gasstan’s team was among the last to stagger out from the depths of the rift.

They looked nothing short of wrecked.

Two severely injured members were carried out on stretchers by the organizers’ medical robots. Both were unconscious.

The rest of them, Cassian included, were wounded as well.

The shallow scar on Cassian’s face seemed harsher under the strain of his ernotions. His expensive combat suit was covered in scorch marks, claw marks, and grime.

His face was pale, and his eyes were dark with resentment, but he still forced himself to preserve the last shred of dignity. Iris looked even worse. Her face had gone white, her hair was a mess, and her once-pristine white combat dress was filthy. Her eyes kept darting away, and anyone could tell she was badly shaken.

Cassian looked at the miserable state of his team, and the joy of ranking first vanished in an instant. What remained was humiliation, along with the sharp feeling that he had been deeply insulted.

That contrast reached its peak when he saw Dora’s team emerge from another passage.

Dora, Mindy, and their beast mates carried traces of battle as well, but their condition was entirely different.

Their Level 4 custom combat suits had some dust on them, yet they remained mostly clean, with no obvious damage.

Their faces showed fatigue, but their eyes were bright. They chatted and laughed together, and the atmosphere around them was relaxed and easy.

They did not look as if they had just survived a brutal match.

They looked more like a group of partners returning from an intense field exercise with a rewarding haut.

What irritated Cassian most was that the two females on the team were actually competing with each other to carry Elmer s small bag, one on each side, while he stood there looking tired.

Elmer had indeed spent a tremendous amount of energy.

As the only healing-type in the team, he had been using crystal energy almost nonstop since the battle began, treating every teammate who rotated back from the front line.

Dora had kept giving him crystal energy snacks to replenish his strength, but the demand had simply been too constant. By the end of the day, his psychic power was nearly drained. His face had gone pale, and even his steps looked unsteady. Dora saw it all. Her heart ached for him, and she felt deeply grateful. Without giving him a chance to refuse, she took his bag from him and said, “You worked hard today, Elmer. I’ll carry this.”

Mindy quickly chimed in, “That’s right. Elmer was the real MVP today. Sit back and rest, kid.” Several male beastfolk from the other teams stared so hard their eyes almost popped out.

Two females were actually fighting to carry a male’s bag. What a blessed life.

They had fought like hell all day, and when they got back, they would be lucky if no female scolded them, let alone helped them carry anything.

The way two females took such thoughtful care of one male drew even more attention because Elmer was already delicate and beautiful.

Now that he looked pale and fragile, that soft, almost sickly beauty stirred envy and even jealousy among many of the male contestants nearby.

It was the first time Elmer had been envied by so many people, and he could hardly keep the happiness from showing

In the past, Cassian had always been the one people praised and envied.

He thought, ‘Leaving that fake Shawn family behind and following Dora was the right choice after all.

At that thought, he looked at Dora with open affection in his eyes.

Many people around them glanced over and began whispering.

“Look how thoughtful the females on their team are.*

“That male’s seriously lucky.”

“Well. He’s pretty too. No wonder

Clive stood beside Dora, while Lioren crouched on her shoulder. When they saw Elmer looking at her like that, both of their

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Chapter 60 Lucky Male

gazes darkened slightly, and a trace of displeasure and jealousy flickered through their eyes.

The air around Chive seemed to grow colder. Lioren’s tail gave an impatient flick.

Neither of them said anything.

They both knew Elmer had contributed the most today.

His effort had kept the whole team fighting without collapse, so Dora and Mindy taking care of him was only natural.

Cassian watched Dora fuss over Elmer with such concern. Then he looked at Iris beside firm, dusty, disheveled, and unable to meet anyone’s eyes.

He looked at the so-called teammates around him as well. They had grown distant from him, and some even carried resentment in their eyes.

The vicious fire in his chest burned even hotter, almost scorching through the last of his reason.

He thought, ‘Why? We fought with our lives on the line and paid a brutal price just to keep first place. But Dora, Elmer, and that useless crowd I never even took seriously somehow climbed to fifth without making a sound?’

He couldn’t understand when they had hunted so many alien beasts.

He couldn’t understand why they still looked so full of crystal energy, either.

Elmer was talking animatedly with the person beside him, his confidence radiating. Even the lazy cat perched on Dora’s shoulder seemed to be mocking their humiliation.

The brutal contrast and the shame of being publicly proven wrong nearly made him lose his footing.

Iris saw it too. Dora’s genuine concern for her teammates stood in sharp contrast to the coldness and calculation Iris felt inside Cassian’s team.

The organizers soon arranged hovercars to take each team to a hotel near the edge of the venue.

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