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Five minutes wasn’t an adequate ayun had arrived late In fact, it had already passed the five-minute mark by the ti the clock

Nooblet and Little Flea had used the time and their students’ distraction to circle around and flank theuard, the students’ team paid with the ‘lives’ of four of their own When it cayuan couldn’t hold a candle to Lan Jue However, that didn’t n-ranked pilot, after all The students were about as distant to hiyun was livid, wrath filling her heart, and yet could find no means to contradict the drillnant snort through gritted teeth “Everyone, spread out!” Even before her instructions were coreen ht as it raced towards Nooblet and Little Flea

Her strategy was simple; keep the battle to one front, with re their enee of their superior nu their over-all destructive capability With the distant long-rangeher foes, she doubted their simple sabermechs could withstand it

It was a fine plan, and in fact the right deterotten to keep track of the tiy in to disarray

A flash of color filled her screen, and suddenly there was soh the sky toward her

It was an act so perfectly tiure cut her off at the highest point of her trajectory, just before she’d planned to plummet towards her two foes She’d already input the co herself open to the strike

She did the only think she could, and twisted so that the spikes dotting her yun watched it co, and saw that it was the alloy blade of a saber! Blocked!

The spines and blade collided What folloas bizarre and infuriating for, as she watched, the blade seeainst her yun called up her photomask shields She’d broken in to a cold sweat, after just barely avoiding destruction

She had no choice but to pause in midair and react

Below the his weapon, he had not stopped to watch the result His defterously close to a group of students

Closest suit was a close-co assailant without hesitation or retreat – a fine display of talent and experience With a flick of its metallic wrist the pikeman’s weapon split in to three opaque silhouettes, aimed at Nooblet’s head and shoulders

Nooblet’s forward rush would not be dissuaded The sie and the spear strikes bounced harrabbed the weapon ! Thein to the distance The spear now rested in Nooblet’s hands

Without even pausing to look, Nooblet swung its neeapon in an arc to deflect the three strikes co his way from the students’ allies

By all accounts this basic h-classed mechas, and yet each their strikes met one of his they were inexplicably deflected without much effort Nooblet extricated himself froun to recover, filing in to their tactical forhts spread out around the arena’s edges, while the close-cohters repositioned for the rush

BOOM! One of the long-ranged fighters becalinted in the hands of another saber in the raging fires of the defeated eney reserve apparatus It was the sudden release of soexplosion

Little Flea’s figure appeared between the dancing fires The gun in its hands shook as ten beams of condensed destruction fired outward

Laser rifles, obviously, required sustained energy infusion to work properly Rifley in to the gun This is what allowed them to fire off so many rounds at once As a result, Little Flea would be able to fire off a few rounds, but it was not sustainable

It was all he needed The ten blasts raced off towards ten ht before everything went dark

Self-preservation was a natural response when under assault Though intending to focus on the distant Nooblet, the students providing cover fire stopped to pull up their close-range shields

The pause in their attacks was enough time for Nooblet Little Flea was also on the et was the nearest close-ranged mecha