Section 246: Maya (1)
"Is your brother really coming?" The companion next to Maya looked at the instructor's seat that belonged to them, and there was an empty seat there.
"It will come." Maya replied while controlling her activated branches to wrap around her arms - although they were not twigs of the World Tree, these activated branches could still protect their owners.
The first day is a battle between the juniors. The junior apprentices of the church will fight from the opening game in the morning to the evening - if there is a team that is really difficult to decide the winner before, there may be extra games.
Compared to the clumsy performances between the middle grades, the lower grades are less entertaining to watch, but the average age of the lower grades is no more than ten years old.
Twelve-year-olds like Maya are already overage here.
"What are those guys playing in the opening game? Why did the commander of the junior team of the Church of the Night Goddess scatter the two giants on both sides, put them both on the left side, and rush through the small man on the opposite side, rushing in to ravage the opponent's back row?
Isn't it good?" His captain whispered to the team about the situation on the field: "Remember, when you meet this team, Maya, you kill those two big guys and electrocute them.
Guys are not a problem."
Maya nodded. The captain is the commander. Her brother always said that a team only needs one voice, so what she said... is always right.
"What an ugly game." Looking at the field, Maya's teammates also expressed their dissatisfaction.
In Maya's view, this is indeed the case. The team of the Church of Art and Beauty on the opposite side are also idiots. The only caster broke away from the protection of the shield hand in order to attack the giant. Ah, he was hit by an arrow!
Although the arrowhead was removed, it was still very painful to be hit in the face by the arrow covered in white ash.
After the only caster fell, the lower grade team of the Church of Art and Beauty quickly collapsed.
"What a bunch of rubbish. They can't compete in a fight. The first place is distorted." The captain cursed, which was a slang term used by many churches to mock the Church of Art and Beauty. Then he asked: "Who will fight in the second game.
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"It's still the two churches, but the first one is between the eastern provinces, and this one is between the northern provinces." Her assistant replied.
"After all, it's a northern province, so it should be better than the guys from the east." The captain and his assistant murmured.
Maya looked at the field. Different from the previous game, even among the lower grades, the two teams from the Northern Province showed completely different rhythms. The front row and the back row were able to connect or cover. Both sides
None of the projectile weapons caused any damage - in this low-level competition, cold weapons are the main theme, and shields are each other's best guardians.
It's a difficult opponent to deal with, Maya said. At the same time, according to what her brother told her, when facing such a team, how to find their weaknesses.
Both sides have armor. Although it is only wooden armor, it has good protective coverage and basically has no conductivity. Lightning arrows with low spell levels cannot effectively penetrate them.
But they seem to make the user cumbersome and make both front rows slow.
The fossil is mud. If you throw it to both sides, it can effectively split the opponent's front row. After expanding, throw it in the middle and completely destroy the opponent's front row.
Or use chain lightning, turn on overload super and penetrating super. Maya's current chain lightning can jump seventeen times. Each of the nine people in the opponent's front row can jump twice on their heads. Although turning on super is somewhat dangerous to the opponent.
, but considering that they should have some kind of blessing spell on them to reduce damage... From my brother's point of view, it's just electricity.
The competition between the northern provinces was extremely dull, and Maya's captain and assistant quickly focused on which boy was more handsome.
Regarding this, Maya felt that there must be something wrong with them. Their faces were swollen after being beaten, so how could they be so handsome?
In the end, the battle between the northern provinces ended with the team of the Church of the Night Goddess exhausted and defeated.
"No way, the guys from the Night Goddess haven't had enough to eat."
"It's just, it's so embarrassing."
The captain and assistant seemed a little unbelievable, but Maya remembered that her brother said, sometimes don’t rush to give the opponent a final conclusion. The lower grade group has a winner group and a loser group. According to the competition system, the winner of the two northern provinces of the church
The winner will face... Maya looked at the schedule in her hand.
They will face the winner between the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and the Southern Province Team of the Church of the God of War.
The Church of the Lord of Justice and the Church of the God of War are both first-class powerful teams. In Maya's view, human beings can sometimes become very cunning.
Next came the battle between the Western Province teams. Compared with their northern brethren, the battle between the two teams using light armor went very quickly. The first shot from both sides resulted in seven deaths and five injuries.
——One-third of the members of the Church of the Goddess of Dark Night were downed. Two people were shot in the chest by a spear, and three others were shot in the waist and abdomen. In actual combat, this is a fatal injury, but the shot in the chest was judged to be a kill, while the waist and abdomen were shot.
It was determined that they were seriously injured, so the three could only fall to the ground and pray that no one would step on them.
However, the Church of Art and Beauty suffered even greater losses—five dead and one injured, mostly in the front row. One of them was hit in the face and had already been pulled out of the arena by the emergency team.
Then the two sides completely lost their structure, because the captains and assistants of both sides got their exit tickets in the first round of shooting. In the end, the Church of the Night Goddess had the last laugh in the chaotic battle.
"What kind of mess is this? Why are they so concentrated together? What's the use of wearing leather armor that is as thin as underwear? There are even cases where the shields are penetrated by the covered spears. Their shields are even connected with wooden boards.
Don’t you need any?” The captain and his assistant complained as usual, and at the same time issued a preparation order—as soon as the final southern provincial groups of the two churches are finished, it will be a match between them and the Church of the God of War.
"Why hasn't your brother come yet?" Maya's friend wailed, "I originally wanted to behave well in front of Mr. Marin."
Looking at this man's freckled face, Maya smiled in a formulaic manner.
The hymn of mankind is really, as my brother said, a hymn of courage.
With this thought, Maya saw a rout. The two spellcasters from the Southern Province Team of the Church of the Night Goddess penetrated their opponents. Although it was just a few fireballs, it was enough to burn the opponents of the same age to ashes.
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"We're on board!" The captain clapped his hands.
Everyone was standing up, and Maya also stood up, holding her friend's hand at the same time.
"Why hasn't your brother come yet?" she muttered.
"Here he comes." Maya said, looking at the field with a smile.
"You're talking nonsense!" Her friend glanced at the instructor's seat, which was still empty.
"I'm not going to lie to you, I smelled it." After saying that, Maya stretched out her hand, and her activated branches formed a shamanic staff.
Pulling up her hood and putting down her mask, Maya began to cast protective spells on her teammates.
"Left side tactics." The captain arranged the tactics in the back row of the team.
So the three giant hybrids stood on the left side of the team together, holding giant shields. They came together, which was very oppressive.
Maya swapped places with her teammate on the left in the back row. The seeds she sowed grew up behind her, and eventually the two-meter-tall tree man pulled out its body from the ground.
This made the Ares Church team hesitate for a moment as they drove the two wolves onto the field.
"I still haven't seen your brother yet." The friend's voice came from beside her. She looked like a wounded cub holding the shield.
Maya smiled, turned around, and looked towards the high entrance to the competition venue. With her eyesight, she could just see her brother appearing there.
The game started. Someone on the opposite side activated the invisibility spell. Maya turned her head, paused her long staff, and the element in her hand turned into a long whip and swung it into the air, sweeping the halfling out of the invisible state. The protection spell fell in time.
The style blocked the elemental damage from the whip, but failed to prevent the halfling from being carried out of the arena.
Maya did not identify what the caster on the opposite side was preparing, because this was what a spell hunter as a teammate should do. Maya just raised her forearm, and then raised it high, and the electric whip turned into a long sword in the process.
The spear was then thrown, and finally penetrated the suddenly erected stone wall, knocking the caster behind to the ground - the electric spear was dispersed by Maya at the last moment, so it turned into elements and killed the opponent, and was naturally killed.
The electricity went down.
The front row of the Church of the God of War had already pressed forward at this time. The highlanders were mainly fighting against the giant hybrids on the left, while they were pressing the right side of the front row of the Church of the Goddess of Harvest.
Maya sends her treants to the right side to relieve the pressure.
The two wolves walked around the left side, rushed towards Maya, and were then tied up by the vines that suddenly sprang out from the ground.
Maya ignored the two wolves. The vampire vine would solve all this for her. She began to prepare lightning arrows - the long staff had turned into a long bow, and the elements were strings. Maya raised the bow, moved two steps sideways, and pointed into the distance.
The elf hybrid pulled the bow. The giant hybrid had previously blocked his shooting range, and the pressure from the front forced the hybrid to choose another target. Therefore, when Maya appeared, he immediately made a choice between evasion and shooting.
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The elemental arrows had their own guidance, so escaping was useless. Based on this reality, he could only shoot at him, but the arrow condensed from the elements hit him at a speed far exceeding that of the physical arrow.
At this time, her friend blocked an arrow for her: "I did it!" After she said happily, a spear hit her helmet, and the girl screamed and fell down.
Maya once again moved sideways to pass the second pursuing arrow. At the same time, she raised the bow, and the string of the elements was fully drawn. An arrow formed on the bow, and its end point was the desperate face of the opponent's short archer.
When he fell to the ground due to the electric shock, Maya shook her long bow, and the strings of the elements began to resonate. The next arrow killed the spreading elements, and the chill of frost replaced the rushing lightning, ready to sweep everything away.
At the same time, she heard the whistle, saw the referee in the audience raising the opponent's surrender flag, and even noticed the helplessness on the opponent's mentor's face.
So Maya put down her long bow, and the bow made of activated branches began to disintegrate.
"I just said, hit the left side, haha, those idiots from the Church of the Night Goddess wouldn't have thought that we would send the opponents they want to avoid in front of them." The captain smiled happily in the team.
Maya turned around, looked at the figure sitting on the instructor's seat, lifted up her skirt and smiled.
Brother, have you seen this, this is how I fight.
"Mr. Marin is looking at me! I'm so happy!" my friend's voice sounded inappropriately.
Maya let go of her hand, tilted her head, and rolled up her thick tail. The unhappy cat girl thought of what her brother often said - human beings are really a race that does whatever they want, and they are obviously a civilized race. Sometimes,
Chapter completed!