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Chapter 156: Promotion tournament [2]

Chapter 156: Promotion tournament [2]

Day 4...

Once again, another day of bloodshed in the arena.

It started, multiple teams going at each other, eager to tear themselves apart.

And as the day progressed, the true contenders started showing themselves, making their moves to overwhelm lesser challengers.

This time, 2 high-rated teams found themselves on a collision course in the battle royale, in the Frozen Wastes..., Ashen Barrow and Ivory Warriors.

What followed was a masterclass in high-level team warfare.

Lightning-fast counterattacks, coordinated spell barrages, clutch escapes and impossible recoveries, these bastards used everything available to them.

The amusing fact was that they could have temporarily allied, deciding to hunt the lesser teams instead of fighting each other in a self-destructive war but no, fueled by pride, they fought to the death.

To them, pride and bragging rights meant everything.

The battle raged for thirty minutes, neither side willing to retreat, neither side backing down. It was the first true test of elite gameplay.

And in the end... Ashen Barrow emerged victorious.

Barely.

Their victory was short-lived though. Because exhausted and worn-out, after winning against their opponents, they went even further and let their guard down due to the euphoria of victory.

That was when a hidden third-party team struck.

It was bittersweet and ironic.

Within seconds, the once mighty Ashen Barrow team, what was left of it was ambushed and slaughtered.

Their elimination sent a shockwave through the battlefield.

No one was safe.

But to the neutral fans, they were having the time of their lives. The Promotion Tournament was extremely exciting.

And for some time, its viewership even got to the level of that of the Pro Alliance. Even if this was only temporary, it was still a great thing.

Day 4 broke the online viewership record.

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Day 5...

And then, on Day 5, Echelon finally competed.

For 4 days, the battlefield had been a warzone of carnage, betrayals, and desperate survival.

The weak had been culled.

The strong had been tempered in fire, and then...

Echelon finally entered the fray.

Against 14 other opponents that were put into the arena, the moment Noah, Aria, Caleb, Genevieve, and Benjamin stepped onto the battlefield, even with accounts that were still under level 70, a presence followed them.

And an eerie silence fell across the warzone.

Every surviving team, every guild team felt it. A shift in the air.

Like predators sensing a greater beast stepping onto their hunting ground. And when the storm hit, it was absolute domination.

Unlike other teams who cautiously navigated the battlefield, conserving resources, Echelon did the opposite.

They hunted.

With Noah leading the charge, they sliced through teams like a scythe through wheat, utterly unstoppable.

Aria was the Blademaster Wraith. She moved like a ghost, cutting down enemies before they even realized she was there.

A single dash, a flash of steel, and entire squad formations collapsed before they could react.

Echelon didn’t even need to be in a formation. Individually, they were enough.

As for Caleb, with Hell’s Key, he unleashed a horde of demons, overwhelming teams with sheer chaos.

After using it the first time in the public eye during the ambush led by those striving to suppress guild Echelon, Caleb no longer saw a reason to hide the existence of the S-Ranked item, and so he used it freely.

On this battlefield, his summons crushed formations, forcing enemies into kill zones set up by the others.

Genevieve was untouchable.

She was never in one place, moving from one place to the other, deciding which of her teammates to support.

Every attack against one of her teammates when she was close by was negated, her healing keeping them in an unkillable loop. The enemy teams couldn’t break through, not even when they allied together.

And this was because she wouldn’t let them.

As for Benjamin, the clown? If Aria was a silent assassin, he was a force of nature, at least, if there is one whose mouth never seemed to seize talking.

With his SS-Rank unique skill, he was a menace, an Elemental Cataclysm.

Firestorms, ice spikes, chain lightning, and endless trashtalking, he turned the battlefield into hell itself.

And Noah?

He was death incarnate.

Aetherforge warped through space, changing forms to his will, cutting down enemies from impossible and unpredictable angles.

He ripped through entire teams alone, turning what should’ve been dangerous battles into one-sided slaughters.

The leaderboard updated.

[Echelon – 13 Kills]

Out of the 14 enemy teams, they wiped out 13, the highest in the tournament by a landslide.

The last surviving qualified alongside them.

At the end of the first week challenges, the tournament had already claimed over 70 teams, eliminating all of them.

Those who had underestimated the challenge were already being weeded out. Only those who were worthy would be left.

In subsequent weeks, more teams competed in epic battles.

By the 5th week, all 358 teams finally engaged in the battle royales. And at the end of it, 50 teams were left standing.

And once again, all 50 teams were put in the meatgrinder of a battle royale, this one with different elimination rules.

For 5 days, the 50 teams would be put in the same large-scale arena where they would fight in another deadly battle royale, this would victory would be decided by the team with most kills at the end.

And not just that, the kills that they’ve had in the previous battle royales would be added also. It was not team wipes anymore, but individual kill count.

The leaderboard was updated.

[Echelon – 72 Kills]

[Chaos Inc. – 13 Kills]

[Silverfang – 10 Kills]

[Apex Reign – 9 Kills]

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Immediately after the new leaderboard was made, one thing was clear immediately, Echelon was miles ahead of other challenges.

The moment Echelon skyrocketed to the top of the kill rankings, the top teams in the tournament reacted exactly as expected.

They allied.

Because if they didn’t stop Echelon now, they wouldn’t be able to stop them ever. Not now, and definitely not in the playoffs.

On Day 1 of the 6th week, a coalition of 12 teams gathered, planning to eliminate Echelon in one decisive