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  As Sora observed, a tdoeared in the sky, tig away the seds. Most pyers used the time to mentally prepare themselves, fog on the uping battle.

  The ter hit zero.

  Suddenly, fshes of light ignited across a hundred fighting arenas. It was impossible to track all the battles, so Sora focused on the fights involving his pany soldiers. tally, two squads from his pany had been chosen.

  Sora quickly assessed Richard's team : a healer, a buffer, an archer, and a wizard. Without hesitation, Richard activated his transformation and charged at the enemy, pulling them toward him with a crowd trol skill to keep them within his reach. He locked his focus on the opposing healer, grabbing him by the neck while pushing the eank aside with his other hand. Richard’s teammates poured all their firepower into the helpless Dark Elf healer.

  As the healer's health dipped dangerously low, Richard delivered o punch, finishing him off. From there, the fight became a sweep. Richard trolled the battlefield, and overpowered the tank opposing him, ensuring his team stayed safe as they dismahe opposition. Within 30 seds, all five enemies had fallen to Richard’s strikes.

  Sora received a series of notifications:

  [Your Team Vice Captain Richard Dosse Squad won a Squad Fight. +5 points.][Your Team Vice Captain Richard Dosse Squad won a Squad Fight Fwlessly. +5 points.][Your Team Vice Captain Richard Dosse Aced in a Squad Fight. +10 points.]Sora’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. He hadn’t realized that a fwless victory and an “Ace” bonus could add so mara points. This was valuable information.

  In another arena, a different squad from his pany was battling level 78 enemies, with an opposing squad leader at level 88. Their melee fighters charged forward, attempting to lock down the enemy’s ratackers and trol the fight. But while they mao take down the enemy wizard, the rest of the skirmish didn’t go their way.

  A notification appeared:

  [Your Team Soldiers Ryan’s Squad lost a Squad Fight. +0 points.][Casualties: 5 Pyers.]Death was only possible in the sed phase. Sure enough, Sora spotted Ryan’s squad members reappearing nearby, looking disappointed but alive. Richard approached them, thanking them for their efforts and gratuting them for not allowing the eeam to secure a fwless victory.

  “They had a Vice-Captain, and they couldn’t eve a perfect win,” Richard ented with a smile. He seemed to have a keen uanding of the enemy's ranks and team positions.

  Sora joined him, and together they watched the ensuing battles, studying the other squads until, finally, it was their turn.

  As the st wave of the first round approached, [Squads who have been notified, advao the field number prepared for you, and fight] appeared overhead. A hundred squads from each side moved into position.

  Both Sora and Kara’s squads were chosen.

  Kara g him, her eyes fierce with fidence. “Let's grab those 20 points,” she said.

  Sora nodded.

  They appeared on their respective rings alongside their teammates.

  Kara took her position behind her squad, rallying them with a anding shout, “Go all out, I’ll keep everyone alive!”

  Sora stepped to the front of his squad, turning back to his team. “Make sure you don’t die. I’ll hahe rest.”

  As the fight began, Sora activated [Mana Shield] on each of his teammates, and then gripped [Ruyi Jingu Bang] tightly. He infused mana into the legendary staff, causing it to expand as he swung it. His first target, the enemy squad leader, rushed to block the attack. However, as the staff made tact, the leader’s defenses crumbled. His shields shattered, and even his armor seemed useless as he was hit with overwhelming force.

  The enemy leader was nearly folded in half by the strike, colliding into one of his own teammates, dazing both of them. The other three oppos, caught off guard by the speed and power of the attack, couldn’t rea time. The staff plowed through them, redug them to light particles instantly.

  In a matter of seds, only the injured squad leader and the stunned soldier remained. Without hesitation, Sora released two [Wind Bdes], cutting dow two enemies.

  Notifications flooded his vision:

  [Your Team Squad won a Squad Fight. +5 points.][Your Team Squad won a Squad Fight Fwlessly. +5 points.][You Aced in a Squad Fight. +10 points.][XP Gained : War Experience boost x5][Level Up!]Sora ched his fists from excitement ! He didn't have enough time to reach a higher level when training. And now he could slowly catch up to others who were level 80 on this battlefield.

  He smiled slightly, feeling a rush of satisfa as he read the rewards. This battle was only beginning, but already he could feel the thrill of growing strohrough fights.

  As Sora reappeared iands, his eyes instantly found Kara's fight below. She had taken a strategic approach, choosing to hide her offensive abilities and focus on supp her squad.

  He watched as Kara activated [Soul Link] with each of her four teammates, letting her absorb any damage they took. The opposing team struck with brutal force, but thanks to Kara’s seemingly endless life force, every hit was little more than a drop in the o—absorbed and instantly healed.

  Choosing not to buff her team, she wao see what they could handle on their own. They had to learn to stand strong even if she wasn’t there to buff them in future fights. "Don't hold back; focus on taking one of them down!" Kara anded.

  Her teammates, though weaker, became emboldened as they realized what she meant by "keeping them alive." They began to take risks, lunging at the enemy with newfound bravery. With the quicker enemies slipping out of reach, they had no choice but to focus on the oarget they could tain. After a few exges, they’d settled on such a dumb strategy: ign the usual approach of targeting lightly-armored enemies and instead fog all their attacks on the Dark Elf tank.

  'Going after the tank? They sure trust me to keep them alive ,' Kara mused.

  Her squad sisted of four melee fighters, and they worked together to er the Dark Elf tank, hammering him relentlessly.

  Sora said to Richard "What an embarrassing team.."

  Richard added, "The enemies aren't idiots. They'll target Vice-Captain Kara soon enough."

  Sora smiled at those words but did not answer.

  As if listening to Richard's thoughts, the Dark Elf Warrior shouted to his teammates.

  As if ohe Dark Elf warrior called to his teammates, “Carl, Trek—go for their leader! We need her down if we’re going to turn this around!”

  The assassin moved like a shadow, slipping past the melee brawl, while the archer readied his bow, sighting Kara.

  She didn’t flinch, sidestepping arrows with an agility that made her appear like an agility css herself. Her focus was locked on the assassin as she maintained [Soul Link] with her squad.

  "[Life Prison]", Kara muttered.

  A cage of light dropped from the sky, trapping the area just as the Dark Elf assassin appeared.

  She had used [Life Dete] to track his path, knowily where he’d emerge. He was trapped, the duration of his imprisoied directly to the pap between them—and from the look of things, the odds weren’t in his favor.

  “It says I’m stuck here for 24 hours! This is some high-level cage skill—she probably ’t use more tha a time!” the assassin reyed frantically through their voice chat, clearly panicked.

  "We 't let her stay alive—she's carrying their whole team!” the warrirowled. “But with a skill like that, there’s no way she has more than one in her arsenal!"

  "What about Dre? He's being bombarbed" asked the archer, gng back at their tank struggling uhe onsught.

  "Fet about Dre, take care of the girl !" The warrior quickly answered

  With their tank pinned down, the Dark Elf archer and warrior shifted their focus eo Kara, charging at her with everything they had. As the archer let loose a charged arrow, and the assassin reinforced it with a damage boost, the warrior barreled toward her, determio shatter her defenses.

  But as the warrior closed in, anht cage materialized, blog his path. He looked down in shock, his attack boung harmlessly off the barrier. He swung his on, hag at it in frustration, while the archer’s arrow whizzed past Kara, barely missing her.

  Watg from the sidelines, Richard let out an impressed whistle. “Now that's the kind of healer I want on my team. Not ohat cries about having no survival skills.”

  Sora chuckled, his eyes never leaving the fight. “Their strategy might have worked against any other healer, but Kara is in another league.”

  The battle raged on as Kara’s squad pressed their advahey pummeled the Dark Elf tank until he finally fell to their assassin’s high-damage strikes. Without a moment’s hesitation, they turo the trapped assassin, who disied into light particles within seds, followed soon after by the warrior.

  Now only the Dark Elf archer and healer remaihe pair tried desperately to escape Kara’s releeam, turning the fight into a frantic game of cat and mouse. Kara sighed, half-amused and half-bemused by the spectacle before her. 'How have these four survived this long?' she wohen remembered that this was only the war’s “greetings” phase, where death wasn’t perma.

  She cast a speed buff, amplifying her squad’s speed, and within moments, the assassin caught up with the Dark Elf healer, stunning him through his shield. Her teammates closed in, breaking his defenses and finishing him off with a final, coordirike.

  The archer, now alone, raised his defiantly as he gred at Kara. “This isn’t over, healer,” he spat. “This was an unfair fight, and you’re only winning because of your special skill. We’ll have our revenge on the main battlefield. Don’t get too fortable.”

  Kara returned his stare with a calm, steady gaze, unfazed. ‘If only you knew how little I’ve actually done,’ she thought to herself, holding back a smile.

  Sora received a notification as her final strike nded, showing the rewards for an ad a fwless victory, and smiled. This was expected, and she even mao hide most of her strength.