Chapter 207: Multiple Interceptions
Cheryl nodded, indicating that she was ready to fight at any time. But Chen Ran didn’t mean to act immediately. First, he cast a set of Light and Shadow Arts on the girls to put them into a stealth state, letting everyone approach carefully and observe for a while.
From the observation, it seemed that the members of Team 6 had not obtained the treasure map and were still carrying out the monotonous battles. This couldn’t help but make Chen Ran relax, wondering if they could slip past under Team 6’s nose. After all, the location of the finish line was not in Team 6’s field of vision. They had the Light and Shadow Art and could slip past quietly…
They were not afraid of fighting, but the problem was that once the battle started, it might attract other teams, making the scene even more chaotic.
But then, another small team that suddenly appeared on Chen Ran’s positioning map caught his high attention.
Chen Ran hid the team members in a corner and didn’t rush to the final treasure hunting station.
According to the expectation, after arriving at the finish line, they would inevitably have to find a place to dig a hole and dig out the treasure chest. This effort would inevitably take time, enough for the teams behind to catch up.
“Cheryl, another team is approaching us, heading straight for the finish line. It seems to be a team that has already obtained the treasure map. We can indeed reach the finish line first, but we will inevitably have to fight a battle, and it will definitely attract the manpower of Team 6. How about we do this…”
Chen Ran explained the next process to the team members, and the girls nodded in realization.
“Big brother, you’re too bad,” the cheerful little girl Dongfang waved the Word Spirit Staff in her hand and covered her mouth, snickering. “But I like seeing this kind of thing the most.”
“Cheryl, you’ll be responsible for Team 6…” Chen Ran turned to Cheryl and asked.
Cheryl smiled charmingly. “Piece of cake.”
The members of Team 6 were still persisting in fighting monsters because they were only 2% away from the final progress. If they fought hard, they might still have a chance to win.
Just as they had safely dealt with a batch of Netherworld creatures, an unexpected fireball flew into the field and almost hit a member of the team… The teachers and students of Team 6 reacted and found a black-clothed person wearing a hooded cloak. Needless to say, it must be one of the competition teams.
Now, Team 6 immediately became nervous, thinking that a team was already ambushing them. They stopped their work, but seeing that only one person appeared, the teachers and students of Team 6 were naturally not afraid, so they just chased after him… A group of people from Team 6 maintained a good vigilance so as not to be ambushed by potential hidden opponents, while chasing the black-clothed person.
Before long, the members of Team 6 heard a commotion in the distance. And just at this moment, the black-clothed person suddenly accelerated, turned a few corners, dived into the woods, and disappeared without a trace. And coming toward them was actually the entire team of Team 1 led by the Heavenly King Seiya, who had been lured here by Chen Ran’s men…
When two teams met, a firefight was naturally inevitable.
And just at this moment, Chen Ran and the others, who had caused this, quietly left…
“I’m dying of laughter,” the swordswoman Lucy patted her full chest, laughing so hard she could hardly breathe. The other team members were also overjoyed.
Others were fighting to the death, while they secretly obtained the reward. He estimated that when everything was over, those guys who were still fighting hard wouldn’t know what expression to have. After all, the strength of the members of Team 1 and Team 6 was not bad, and they should be able to fight for a while.
Finally arriving at the destination, where the map marked a stone, Chen Ran drew a cross on the ground.
“Sure enough, this soil has been turned over. It seems someone buried something here in advance. Everyone work harder and dig the thing out first.”
Chen Ran took out a few adamantine shovels from his spatial ring and instructed the girls to be more efficient. He himself also entered the process of digging for treasure.
However, this pit seemed quite deep, but a group of girls still successfully dug up the treasure chest, and they could already see the lid of the treasure chest.
But just at this moment, an accident happened…
In the distance, Team 1 and Team 6 were fighting fiercely. And in Chen Ran’s system positioning map, a new team was approaching the terminal station from another direction, and faster and faster. Before long, they would meet Chen Ran’s team…
“Dig faster! Another team is coming! This battle is unavoidable.”
Looking at the momentum of the opposite side, it seemed they were coming straight here. Chen Ran couldn’t avoid it anymore, and he didn’t want to avoid it anymore. If they had to fight, they would fight. With their current lineup, were they afraid of fighting?
The box was successfully moved out, but they still came into the sight of the people from Team 2 who had rushed over. Seeing the dug-up big treasure chest, the people from Team 2 over there immediately became restless. If they had come half an hour later, everything would have been too late…
Cheryl neatly opened the big treasure chest. A beam of light shot up from the treasure chest into the sky of the Netherworld. And after that beam of light flashed in the sky for a while, it fell from another location, awakening the true location of another place to hand over the treasure. There, a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth continued to shine. As long as they successfully delivered the obtained treasure there, they could win the final victory of the competition. And that distance was not too far from the current treasure hiding point. It would only take an hour to get there.
In the meantime, “robbery” was still possible. Within this short hour, whoever grabbed the treasure would belong to that team. Usually, the team that dug up the treasure would basically hand it over directly. But at this time, there were a total of four teams in this area…
Cheryl decisively took out the Victory Scepter from the treasure chest and put it in the bag on her back. Chen Ran didn’t plan to fight with the members of Team 2 not far away to give other teams an opportunity. He said to everyone, “Quick, let’s go! If we run to the finish line first, we win!”
He quickly cast full status on the team members, and Chen Ran took the lead in running away.
And all the teams that had the finish line prompt finally found that the final treasure had been obtained by someone. Knowing that someone had beaten them to it, it was naturally not the time to fight anymore.
In the battle between Team 1 and Team 6, the members of Team 1 began to gain the upper hand relying on their strong performance. But faced with the prompt of the finish line, the two teams were finally not stupid enough to fight anymore. They hurried to intercept the team that had successfully obtained the item needed for victory at the fastest speed toward the real finish line. Only if they succeeded could they turn defeat into victory…
A full four teams were chasing toward the destination at the same time, and the scene became chaotic.
Colin of Team 2 looked at Team 4 led by Chen Ran, who had obtained the important item of the competition, with an “as expected” expression. But this was not the time to be polite with his brother. If necessary, he would have to trick him.
After all, there are no brothers in competition…
The captain of Team 1, Seiya, had a gloomy forehead and ran toward the final place with all his might, gradually leaving a group of teammates behind.
He also couldn’t understand how the competition situation could become so complicated. This time, he had used all his strength to get the captain position, made everyone admit that he was the captain, then dealt with Team 3, and fought a big battle with Team 6. If there was a most tired captain, it was none other than him.
While running, the few teams gradually got closer and closer. Seiya saw the guy holding the Victory Scepter. When he saw the person’s face, his eyes became even gloomier.
“Why is it that woman…”
Seiya’s competitiveness couldn’t help but rise again.
He could accept losing to others, but he couldn’t lose to that woman again. For the dignity of a virgin, he had to intercept her.
Thinking of this, Seiya gritted his teeth even more and forcibly increased his speed a little.
The competition entered a heated stage. Such a situation was not something anyone could have predicted.
Faced with the tail chasing relentlessly behind, Chen Ran and the others gradually widened the distance relying on the power of Wings of Light. But the terrible thing was that Team 6 and Team 1 also discovered them, and they were closer to the final place than them, so they could complete the interception in advance. And once their pace was slightly slower, the big tail following behind would also follow.
This scene was no longer something Chen Ran could easily control. Team 4, possessing the Victory Scepter, had become the target of public criticism. The spearheads of three teams were pointed straight at them. And the Sky Eye above their heads also unfolded at this time. The students in the school had already begun to look forward to this exciting scene that was rare in a century.
Suddenly, piles of earth slopes constantly lay across in front of Chen Ran’s team, hindering the straight forward speed of Chen Ran’s team.
Needless to say, this must be the handiwork of the ninth-tier magic tutor of Team 6. Although his attack magic was average, he played this kind of phenomenon-level magic extremely smoothly. Various earth spikes, earth walls, and muddy ground made people extremely tangled.
Fortunately, Cheryl in the team was a master of fire magic. Faced with the interception along the way, the violent fire element directly blasted the whole field. The softened ground was forcibly baked dry by her, and the earth spikes and earth walls on the ground were also forcibly shattered by her explosive flames, incredibly domineering.
Cheryl’s technique was extremely neat, but it still slowed down their team’s speed a little, allowing Team 2 behind to get a little closer. And Team 1 and Team 6 had already neatly blocked their way…
Are they going to fight?
Undoubtedly, this was a stupid approach. But faced with the situation where victory was only one step away, many people would not give up easily, thinking that as long as they put the Victory Scepter into the hand of a statue of the Goddess of Victory in that light, they could win…
At the critical moment, Chen Ran once again showed his overall view.
“Cheryl, throw the scepter in your hand to Team 2 chasing behind, quick!”
Cheryl turned her head, with a puzzled look in her eyes. She thought that she only needed to pass through the encirclement of that group of people to win the final victory of the competition…
Chen Ran stepped forward without hesitation and explained urgently, “Now this thing is a hot potato. Everyone wants it, but the risk of facing the encirclement of three teams is too great. I don’t doubt the strength of our team, but since we can throw it, we can definitely grab it back!”
Cheryl stared into Chen Ran’s eyes, came back to her senses, and finally understood Chen Ran’s idea. Looking at his still calm face, her eyes flickered, and she finally smiled trustingly. She took the scepter from her back, turned around, took a big step, and threw the Victory Scepter heavily toward Team 2, which had already caught up…
