Chapter 325: First round (3)
Chapter 325: First round (3)
The first one that I saw was Alex's group.
Alex himself didn't do much other than shoot a few bolts of lightning from time to time.
Instead, he left most of the work to his team members.
These were the other contestants that had come from Eden, ones that I hadn't spoken to before.
But the moment that I saw their abilities, I knew why they were chosen for this.
There wasn't a single person that was chosen to come to this tournament who was weak. All of them had powerful abilities and skills that allowed them to make full use of said abilities, or they wouldn't have been chosen.
There were a total of five people in the Eden team other than Alex.
Two of them had water based abilities, one of them had a sand based ability, and the other two seemed to have some kind of neutral ability, so I wasn't really able to see what effects they had.
The two with the water abilities were the main attackers for this group.
They controlled water at such a fine level that they were able to make sharp needles out of water and use those to kill the goblins that they were facing.
The one with the sand ability seemed like they were mainly using it to provide cover for the ones that were using the water abilities.
As for the ones that had neutral abilities, they both used bows to snipe from afar.
After running around for a bit, they all suddenly moved away from the group of goblins that were remaining.
The goblins didn't chase since they had been pushed back by them in the first place. They wouldn't have been able to chase even if they wanted to since their numbers had already been cut in half.
But they didn't seem to notice the real problem.
They were all covered in water and there was a puddle of water that was at their feet.
Alex waited until his people had moved away before raising his hand to gather some electricity.
When the goblins realized what was happening, it was already too late since they were being shocked by the lightning bolt that Alex had shot out.
The water conducted that electricity and fried all of the goblins that were covered in the water.
It seemed that Alex's group really had a good composition.
The two water users worked well with him, providing him with the medium to maximize the power of his lightning ability.
Though when I thought about it, their synchronization with our team was actually quite bad since we had two fire ability users.
You could say that it was literally trying to mix fire and water, it would never work.
Still, at least knowing this was better than not knowing it.
After they finished taking care of the goblins, I turned my attention over to Julius' group.
Julius' group had run out first, but they hadn't started fighting their goblin group yet.
The goblins had taken a defensive position seeing Julius' group coming over and had waited to attack. But Julius had stopped his group from attacking in the end and had just waited to see how the goblins would react.
After the goblins saw that both my group and Alex's group had taken care of the other two goblin groups, they could no longer stay still.
They had been waiting since they had thought that they would be able to count on these two goblin groups for support. But now that they had all been wiped out, it was just them left and they had no choice but to fight.
So the start of the battle came when the goblin shaman raised its staff to release a fireball.
This fireball flew right at Julius' group.
During this time, the two goblin riders went in separate directions to flank Julius' group while the rest of them charged forward, following behind the fireball.
The fireball didn't make it to Julius' group as one of them suddenly raised their hand and a barrier appeared.
After that, the barrier became wider and wider until it completely covered them.
All of the goblins that charged at them slammed into this barrier and weren't able to break through it.
But the worst part for the goblins was that the barrier had rebounded the force of their attacks, knocking them back. This had pushed them all off guard and they weren't able to do anything as Julius' group suddenly came forward.
It seemed that all of them were trained in weapons as they all pulled out a weapon to cut down a goblin each.
There were a total of ten people in Julius' group including him, so each of them cutting down the goblin in front of them had cut the goblins down by quite a bit.
There had been fifty goblins in the first place, with ten going left and ten going right.
This had cut the goblin group's numbers down by half.
And that wasn't all.
Since the goblins had charged forward, they had left the goblin shaman open.
All Julius had to do was raise his finger and then shoot out a bullet of mana at the goblin shaman.
That goblin shaman wasn't able to resist that mana bullet at all as it pierced through its head and the goblin shaman dropped to the ground.
Just like this, the rest of the goblins lost all that they could rely on and were cut down by the Julius' group.
They didn't even have to show their powers other than the barrier power.
Seeing the way that we looked at him, Julius just gave a shrug and said, "It seems like they were just too weak for us to demonstrate our powers."
Both Alex and I shook our heads when we heard this.
It seemed like there was a reason why Julius was known as one of the top contenders.
But at the same time, we realized that we shouldn't look down on the members of his group.
It seemed that all of them were skilled individuals in their own rights.