Tower Defense (1)

The next morning arrived, and it was time for Machine Revolutio's second challenge.

The challengers, a club called [Call of the Wild], arrived in front of the tower half an hour before the challenge started.

At the same time, many other students arrived at the surroundings of the tower. Most of them were here to watch the battle between two clubs in the top one hundred, but some of them came with other intentions.

Familiar faces were observing the situation, including the strongest student in the city, Mu Quan, and the second strongest student, Isabella Castor. There were also some other famous students such as George, the leader of the Martial Arts Club, and Nathan Sigel, the leader of Wings of Liberty.

Oscar, the leader of Call of the Wild, looked at the Machine Revolutio Tower and sighed in admiration.

"It's truly majestic."

His club members did not reply, but it seemed that they agreed with him.

Strangely, his club members seemed to be divided into two groups, and both groups were keeping a distance from each other. It was obvious that both groups did not have a good relationship.

Unfortunately, there was nothing that Oscar could do about it.

One of the groups were the original members of [Call of the Wild], and the others were the reinforcements that he received from someone unexpected.

These reinforcements, however, barely listened to his orders. They did not have any sense of belonging towards the club, so their relationship with the original members was not very good.

The truth was that some of them were as strong or stronger than him. Due to it, they did not care about his status as the leader of [Call of the Wild] very much.

The only reason they bothered to listen to him was to follow the orders of that person.

'Well, it's not like I can be picky in the current situation.'

The situation of his club was very bad. Three months ago, the club split into two and a part of it left for another club. Due to it, [Call of the Wild] lost around a third of its strength.

With the club's strength reduced, it was uncertain if it could keep its spot as one of the top one hundred clubs.

Oscar had seen a bit of hope when Sara appeared. Her abilities were so amazing that just for herself she was a game-changing card. But when she left, his hopes turned into smoke.

He thought that it was just a matter of time before his club lost its spot in the top one hundred.

However, a few days ago, someone came and offered him a deal.

That person promised to help his club to keep its place in the top one hundred for half a year; and in exchange, he only needed to defeat [Machine Revolutio] in a challenge.

'I don't know why he is doing this, but in my situation, I can't afford to be picky.'

Taking a deep breath, Oscar looked at the men that person sent and put on a serious expression.

"Guys, I hope you follow my orders obediently when the battle starts. I'm sorry but I can't afford failure."

"Don't worry, Mr. Oscar, we know what to do."

"Yes, yes, it's just a tiny club with a handful of members. It will be very easy."

"Yeah. I want to finish it quickly and return to my bed. My girlfriend made me sleep late last night so I'm a bit sleepy."

"Idiot! Were you sucked dry?"

"Hahahaha!"

Hearing the relaxed answers of the new members of the club, Oscar frowned. He did not like that they were taking it so lightly.

To be honest, though, he also thought that this mission was going to be easy.

At most, he would have a bit of trouble taking down Sara and the leader of the club, but with sixteen A-Ranks and almost one hundred B-Ranks and C-Ranks, there was no chance of them losing.

'Sigh… I hope everything goes alright.'

Just at that moment, the demigod in charge of today's challenge appeared.

A middle-aged man flew in front of the tower and looked at the students of [Call of the Wild] calmly. He then looked in the direction of Machine Revolutio indifferently, took a deep breath, and spoke up.

"Let's start the challenge between [Call of the Wild] and [Machine Revolutio]! The conditions of victory are if either [Call of the Wild] manages to destroy the core before two hours, or if [Machine Revolutio] keeps the core.

"Remember, it's forbidden to cripple the enemies purposefully. If such a behavior is noticed, you will be severely punished.

"Now, start!"

As soon as the words left the demigod's mouth, Oscar's eyes turned sharp.

"Go!"

He then rushed towards the entrance of the tower without hesitating.

His club members followed after him. One after another, they charged towards the tower with ice-cold expressions, bypassing the two enormous lion statues in front of the tower and rushing towards the entrance.

Strangely, the tower remained quiet even after the demigod gave the signal to start the game. Normally, the defending club would have deployed some means to stop them at this point in time.

Oscar found it a bit strange, but when he reached the entrance of the tower and nothing happened, he lowered his guard.

"… It looks like there is nothing. Could it be that they are too scared to move?" Susan, one of his club members, spoke up with a sneering and doubtful look.

Oscar did not reply. But right at that moment, he felt a chill on his spine.

Instinctively, he looked behind him.

However, he saw nothing strange; only the two lion statues that stood guarding the tower.

'Wait a moment, statues…!?"

Oscar's eyes shrunk. Immediately, a bad feeling filled his mind.

But before he could say something, the eyes of the statues lit up.

Then, under Oscar's shocked eyes, the lion statues looked at the students coldly and raised their claws.

In the next instant, the entrance of the Machine Revolutio Tower was filled with screams of pain.

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