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Chapter 221: Rivalry [13]

Chapter 221: Rivalry [13]

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[Cyber Squad: 5 points]

[Scarlet Rose: 5 points]

For the second time this season, after playing a 5-5 draw at the Crimson Arena earlier in the season, Cyber Squad and Scarlet Rose did it again.

Both clubs shared a point each.

And of course, it was an epic. It did not hit the English Pro Alliance as much as Echelon’s 10-0 against Phoenix Rising did, but pundits doubted if anything like that could happen again this season.

That 10-0 thrashing at the Stanford Bridge was peak Warstar. It could not be eclipsed.

Before the final epic clash of matchday 26 though, fans of the English Pro Alliance finally paid attention to the league table again.

This was because all 4 of the top 4 clubs already played their games.

[English Pro Alliance League Table – Matchday 25]

1) Echelon – MP: 26; Points: 74

2) Scarlet Rose – MP: 26; Points: 71

3) Cyber Squad – MP: 26; Points: 71

4) Phoenix Rising – MP: 26; Points: 67

5) Juggernaut – MP: 25; Points: 58

Once again, Echelon drew ahead of the others by 3 whooping points.

And this was after 26 matchdays of the season were played.

There were 12 games remaining for the season to be concluded. Of course, a lot could happen in 12 matchdays, but with the way Echelon was playing, nobody saw them falling anytime soon.

The third and final blockbuster encounter of matchday 26 was between Juggernaut and Steel Dominion, fierce candidates for the top 6 playoffs qualification battle.

Like expected, both teams didn’t hold anything back, going into the game with their all as Steel Dominion visited Juggernaut’s home stadium.

Earlier in the season, the 7th-ranked club in the league table, Steel Dominion already lost to Juggernaut in their home stadium.

Now, they visited their opponent’s home stadium with an ambitious goal of getting revenge.

No neutral fan saw them getting their revenge. If they could not do it in their home stadium, they can’t do it in away ground.

That’s what the average Warstar fan thought, but Steel Dominion thought different. They went to Juggernaut’s home to get only one result... a victory.

After an epic battle that left Warstar fans stunned, the result came.

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[Juggernaut: 4 points]

[Steel Dominion: 6 points]

It was another shocker in the English Pro Alliance.

With the kind of imperious form that Juggernaut was on, nobody expected them to lose against Steel Dominion at home.

And yet, this was reality.

Steel Dominion won.

As expected, Juggernaut dominated the individual battle round and the 3 vs 3 battle rush, but Steel Dominion managed to steal a point in the individual battle round. That became the catalyst for the turn-around.

When the team battle started, it was all Juggernaut. Nobody expected Steel Dominion to stand a chance, the prediction was for them to be blown away by Juggernaut’s aggression but the visitors shocked the Warstar community.

The visitors came with a plan, and they executed it successfully.

Steel Dominion targeted Juggernaut’s captain, executing a devious plan to assassinate the strongest Juggernaut player. As soon as the captain died within mere 30 seconds after the team battle started, the tides turned.

Steel Dominion rode that sudden momentum to the end, shocking their opponents and shocking the Warstar community.

With that, matchday 26 of the English Pro Alliance came to an end.

What a matchday it was.

The English Pro Alliance table updated one last time.

[English Pro Alliance League Table – Matchday 25]

1) Echelon – MP: 26; Points: 74

2) Scarlet Rose – MP: 26; Points: 71

3) Cyber Squad – MP: 26; Points: 71

4) Phoenix Rising – MP: 26; Points: 67

5) Juggernaut – MP: 26; Points: 58

Juggernaut and Phoenix Rising were the big losers of matchday 26.

But that did not mean the top 4 rivalry stopped, rather, the results of matchday 26 only intensified the rivalry.

Now, the top clubs had no margin for error.

If they wanted to achieve their goals for the season, they had to have a perfect run from matchday 27 till the end of the season.

It was a crazy goal, but it became the main objective of the top 5 clubs.

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Time flowed, the English Pro Alliance continued.

Matchday 27 came, and passed.

After stumbling to their rivals in matchday 26, Phoenix Rising picked up the slack on matchday 27, both charging to statement 9-1 victories against their opponents as their opponents became the foil to wipe off their humiliation.

The other top clubs didn’t falter either as they all won their games, adding more 3 points to their tally for the season.

After matchday 27, Echelon rose all the way to 77 points, Scarlet Rose and Cyber Squad to 74 points, Phoenix Rising to 70 points, while Juggernaut jumped to 61 points. Steel Dominion kept the chase as they secured all 3 points.

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Matchday 28.

On matchday 28, their was a blockbuster encounter as Echelon faced their second big challenge of the second half of the season.

Having won against Cyber Squad in their first encounter of the season, in a game where Noah and his friends received the proper farewell that they deserved from Cyber Squad fans, now, they had to take on their old club again.

This time, Cyber Squad was the one who traveled to Stanford Bridge.

After what happened to Phoenix Rising just 2 matchdays ago, Echelon developed an imperious reputation in the league. They were viewed as the villains now, the one club that every fan of the game paid attention to.

They wanted to see them create more history, but at the same time they were excited to see the club that would finally break Echelon’s unbeaten run.

Could Cyber Squad do it?

Well, after analyzing all week, Caster decided not to take the same risk that Jonathan took against them, betting it all in the team battle.

After what Echelon did to Phoenix Rising who employed a similar strategy, Caster was not confident in his team overwhelming Echelon in the team battle.

And so, to prevent an embarrassing situation like the one Phoenix Rising found themselves in, Caster went all in during the individual battle round, pushing his team to 2 wins in the individual battle.

At the end of the 3 vs 3 battle rush, Echelon had 3 points while they had 2 points.

And then, they fought an epic team battle.

Caster and team Cyber Squad pushed their opponents all the way, and yet, they could not do it.

Lord Doom was the last man standing in the arena.

"LORD DOOM!" "LORD DOOM!" "LORD DOOM!"

Chants exploded around Stanford Bridge.

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[Echelon: 8 points]

[Cyber Squad: 2 points]

It was not a flawless victory, but Echelon got 3 more points.

They were unstoppable.

The other top clubs played their games, all winning in matchday 28 and at the end of it all, the league table was updated again.

[English Pro Alliance League Table – Matchday 28]

1) Echelon – MP: 28; Points: 80

2) Scarlet Rose – MP: 28; Points: 77

3) Cyber Squad – MP: 28; Points: 74

4) Phoenix Rising – MP: 28; Points: 73

5) Juggernaut – MP: 28; Points: 64

Cyber Squad lost 3 points on the matchday, but they were still 3rd placed in the title race.

This season was building the founding blocks for the most exciting title race ever in the history of the English Pro Alliance.

Echelon could not rest after defeating Cyber Squad though.

They were in their period of fixture of death. A week after taking on Cyber Squad, on matchday 29, Echelon took on Scarlet Rose, traveling to the dreaded Crimson Arena where Scarlet Rose fans gave the table toppers a hostile welcome.

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Matchday 29.

Scarlet Rose vs Echelon.

Like most clubs this season, having lost against Echelon in their first leg encounter already, now the pressure was on Scarlet Rose to get their revenge.

No other club have managed it this season, could Jonathan and his Scarlet Rose do it? The odds were not in their favor, but Jonathan did it.

Well, he didn’t exactly win, but he drew the game.

[Scarlet Rose: 5 points]

[Echelon: 5 points]

What an epic.

It was another English Pro Alliance classic.

From the onset, Scarlet Rose fans turned the Crimson Arena into a cage of hate and noise with which they aimed to suffocate the Echelon players.

The stadium was as loud as a chicken pen.

Despite that though, when the epic individual battle between God Noah and Jonathan started, like expected, God Noah won.

And with it, Scarlet Rose switched to plan B.

Echelon claimed a clean sweep of the individual battle and the 3 vs 3 battle rush, but in the team battle was where crazy things happened.

The team battle was vintage Jonathan, the saga of the shameless Paladin.

Jonathan used a crazy and extremely toxic strategy for the team battle, abusing the advantage of the terrain to rapidly bombard Echelon’s Avatars, dealing damage before hiding and scurrying away for the rest of the game.

For 30 minutes, this was all Scarlet Rose did.

It was embarrassing, it was boring, it was not sportsmanlike, but who cared? All that mattered was that they didn’t lose, and the Scarlet Rose fans applauded it.

This was their captain, and they loved him like that.

At the end of the game, Jonathan chants filled the Crimson Arena.

"Jonathan!" "Jonathan!" "Jonathan!"

The other top clubs won their matchday 29 games, and once again, the English Pro Alliance table updated.

[English Pro Alliance League Table – Matchday 28]

1) Echelon – MP: 29; Points: 81

2) Scarlet Rose – MP: 29; Points: 78

3) Cyber Squad – MP: 29; Points: 77

4) Phoenix Rising – MP: 29; Points: 76

5) Juggernaut – MP: 29; Points: 65

Juggernaut drew their matchday 29 game.

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