Surrounded by Five Beast Lords novel Chapter 68

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Chapter 68 Cornered

Chapter 68 Cornered

Dora’s team emerged from their match with an easy victory-no injuries to speak of, barely a dent in their crystal energy reserves, and enough left over that they could afford to sit back and observe several of the other fights taking place around them.

A smattering of applause drifted down from the stands, punctuated by quiet speculation about Valeria’s bad luck and the untimely injuries that had apparently hobbled her key fighters.

As Dora crossed paths with Valeria’s team heading off the platform, the two captains exchanged a brief glance and the faintest of nods, an acknowledgment that passed between them without a single word.

Meanwhile, on another platform, the clash between Cassian’s team and Gale Squad was turning out to be anything but the one-sided rout everyone had expected.

At first glance, Gale Squad didn’t look like much of a threat.

Cassian and his teammates wore relaxed smirks, already savoring the easy beatdown to come.

But no sooner had the match started than Gale Squad landed a brutal wake-up call.

During yesterday’s chaotic battle in the central zone, this team had kept an extremely low profile.

They had barely participated in any intense fights at all, instead staying around the outer edges, hunting isolated alien beasts, gathering resources, and preserving most of their strength.

It was clearly a team with a well-planned strategy and strong tactical discipline.

They understood that their overall strength was lacking, so their objective had always been to rely on their relatively intact condition and coordinated teamwork during the elimination stage to take down the powerhouse teams that had overexerted themselves on the first day.

In this round, the Gale Squad’s strategy was brutally straightforward. They would throw everything they had at Cassian, no matter the cost.

They knew he was the heart of the opposing team and its strongest fighter, but they also knew that after the previous day’s battles, he was far from his best.

While two of their own, both Pinnacle Level-3 fighters, threw themselves fearlessly at Cassian’s teammates to keep them pinned down, their squad leader, a Moderate Level-4 fighter, lunged at Cassian himself like a mad dog.

Their attacks were not aimed at delivering a fatal blow, but rather at exhausting Cassian’s crystal energy and physical strength as much as possible, disrupting his rhythm.

Cassian was caught completely off guard. He had gone into the fight expecting an easy stomp, only to find himself dragged into a grueling battle that clung to him like a swamp.

The other side’s coordination was unexpectedly tight, their attacks tricky and ruthless.

Even the full-power ultimate move he took such pride in only managed to injure one opponent, while the other two overwhelmed him with coordinated attacks and constant interference, leaving him in an increasingly miserable state as his crystal energy drained at a terrifying pace.

“Cassian, recover your crystal energy!”

Watching from the sidelines with her heart in her throat, Iris hurriedly pulled the food Regina had prepared from her Spatial Realm and threw it toward him.

Cassian caught it awkwardly. It was a sandwich.

He wolfed it down in a few bites, and the crystal energy that had nearly run dry finally eased slightly. But the mental pressure bearing down on him along with the exhaustion building in his body, could not be recovered so quickly.

The fight dragged

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team with relentless persistence.

eir poor coordination kept them from fighting effectively. They were than once, Gale Squad came dangerously close to seizing the advantage. burned crimson with rage, and the scar across his face looked even more

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ady arranged for them to have a bye in the next round. That meant no matter how here, this match absolutely could not end in defeat

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“Stop holding back. Even if we get hurt, we’ve got a healing-type supernatural ability user, Cassian called out, reminding his teaminates while trying to keep their morale from collapsing.

From the stands, Regina’s expression was turning uglier by the minute

She had spent a fortune pulling strings to lins up the easiest possible opponent for her son, yet somehow this match had turned into a nightmare

Cassian could feel the heat rising across his face. The weight of the crowd’s attention pressed down on him from every direction, but the one gaze he felt most sharply was his mother’s. Even frorn the stands, her fury was unmistakable He couldn’t afford to lose, not for the pride of the Shawn family, and certainly not for himself.

Jaw clenched tight, he forced a few deceptive attacks to create an opening before retreating toward iris. “Iris, now. I need crystal energy food.”

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At the same time, the Gale Squad’s main fighter also pulled back to recover his crystal energy.

Cassian recovered, he unleashed another wave of violent Level-5 fire attacks, ignoring the massive crystal energy The explosive barrage finally managed to suppress Gale Squad’s momentum for the moment.

with his teammates pushing themselves just as desperately to support him, they managed, after a grueling struggle, iminate two members of the opp

Gale Squad’s remaining captain assian’s exhausted team and th one of them down in return.

In the end, it took nearly half hard-won victory.

Everyone’s crystal energy injuries again. They stood

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tougher than anyone expected. Exploiting the cracks beginning to show in k of coordination between them, he nearly turned the fight around and took

ng, deadlocked fighting before Cassian’s team finally claimed a narrow and

sted by the time the battle ended, and two teammates had even triggered old breath, utterly battered despite winning.

rough the stands.

? They struggled this much against the twenty-fifth ranked squad?”

nce the fight starts, they’re a complete mess.”

Why are they suddenly so pathetic today?”

uck. The second they ran into a tough opponent, their real level showed.”

of them knows how to fight properly.”

ds raised with their families’ starcoins. Must be nice being born into the right family.”

His face shifted between pale and flushed, and the humiliation was so intense he wished e ground and disappear.

in the stands. Regina’s face was dark with fury, her eyes cold as ice, while the females seated were all staring at him with strange, judginental expressions.

e VIP section, her posture as poised as ever.

reen announced Dora’s team’s effortless victory, a faint smile curved at the corners of her lips. She he satisfaction and quiet pride in her eyes were impossible to miss.

, was nowhere near as restrained. He looked so thrilled he was practically ready to leap to his feet

al female elders he knew nearby, he said with obvious pride, “Did you see that? That’s my sister’s team.

e yesterday without any trouble at all, and now they’ve beaten Valeria’s team, the former number two, y amazing, huh?”

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