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Chapter 307: Frightening Rapport

Tan Lingyun took to the front, rushing headlong in to the fray She didn’t have the dual knives she usually preferred, but had chosen a saberers were replaced with two enorht surrounded her suit like a cloud of vibrant energy As beams of laser fire surrounded her, some found theirmore advanced than the students, and certainly faster, she pierced the line and tore in to the eneate so the opening salvo With Tan Lingyun, things would be more difficult to deal with

The center of the soldier’s single-line battle array retreated, stretching theent focused their fire on the Savage Goddess

Fortunately, the three student squads arrived in tiive her backup They approached froyun’s unit swept passed her and in to the fight with guns blazing Like her, manifestations of their Discipline surrounded their suits

It had been almost unbearable this last h there certainly was that For the entire course of the training they had been expressly forbidden fro their Disciplines The power inside them felt bottled up and ready to burst Now, at last, their Drilliven them permission to pull all the stops, and they couldn’t be happier This only deepened when they finally got to sense how much their Talent had improved

The area around them was a deadly forest of laser fire However, even with their advantage in numbers the soldiers couldn’t mount a counter-attack They tried to mount a rush, to shatter the student surprise attack, but couldn’t

Their co officer was Gao Lei Histhe dark paint He faced his suit toward Tan Lingyun and charged forward, while a group of soldiers nearby formed up and followed Teae Goddess

Were this a real fight, the mechas certainly wouldn’t have been so uniform There would be specialists, scouts, defenders and strikers Scores of different roles to round out a fighting unit Unifor the exercise, and the suits were identical to preserve fairness The soldiers would have to depend on superior tactics and forroups of five, with twenty suits beco cover fire

They didn’t separate, instead working well as cohesive, five-ive them both an element of defense as the soldiers were able to tackle threats froets and focus-fire a single enemy

The tactic was proved successful when one of the student fighters’ suits began to smoke, as their Discipline was exhausted the concentrated fire took its toll

The soldiers were all blazing fast in their reactions and deployroups of five, but worked like a single organis without flaw or hesitation to engage enemies as needed Even when they focused an enemy, their rifle fire was all in one spot

The NEU students also worked together, but not at the same level as the soldiers Theyability A terrain of the battle, they would dodge and re-engage But these soldiers acting as though they were of one et and assail the them no chance

Alpha squad had yet to join in, but already two of their number were eliminated It viscerally underlined their deficiency in the face of experience