Chapter 702: Assassination on the Track
"What angel?!"
"Do these people have eyes?!"
"This woman has such thick makeup on her face, her hair is so pink, and her temperament is so fiery, how could she be an angel?!!"
“I don’t understand!!”
"No matter how you look at it, I look more like an angel, okay?!"
Kongno was so anxious that he stamped his feet and was so angry that his chest hurt. He was just about to fly up to the sky to let those blind guys see who was more like an angel.
The others looked at their angry companions and finally swallowed back the complaint "You are actually more like a goose". Having known each other for so long and worked together so many times, they could already imagine what would happen after this sentence was said.
It is better not to say too many words that may destroy unity.
On the track, Laxus turned into thunder, Sawyer reduced his perception, Erye took Shirley into the sky, Korai hid underground, and the remaining two, Jacob and Nobali, could only run slowly behind.
August sent out Jacob, which Kira had not expected before.
But after a careful count, the only people the other side could send out were Jacob and Lacade, and Lacade... although he was very strong, it was obvious that he was not suitable for participating in a physical competition like "racing" in terms of both his mentality and body.
"How could this gentleman, who seems to be very well behaved, be so fast?!"
The audience was very surprised to see the figure on the track without blushing or beating his heart.
As a professional assassin, Jacob's physical skills are second to none among the Twelve Shields. As for the others... Auguste's magic automatically copies physical skills, Laquette is born with a special physique, and Irene has an acquired special physique. These three people are all cheating and cannot be compared. As for the others, each one of them can compare to Jacob.
In the comics, he is the only one who has demonstrated the experience of using physical skills to suppress a group of "Fairy Tail" wizards, while the other Twelve Shields, such as Inbel, Dimaria, Neinhart, etc., have all experienced being knocked away by a single punch. This is enough to show that the gap in physical skills between them is quite large.
Jacob did not disappoint Auguste. Not long after the game started, he took action!
"Disappear..."
With a slight wave of his right hand, the 'assassination' magic was activated silently, banishing Nobali, who had been ignored since the beginning of the competition, to a different space behind him.
Pick the softest ones first. Current opponent -1, number of remaining opponents: 5.
After doing all this, Jacob nodded with satisfaction, then turned himself invisible and disappeared on the track.
It was not until this time that everyone realized something was wrong.
“Oh do——!”
"Gone! Contestant Nobali and contestant Jacob disappeared from the track!!"
"Where did they go? Ahhh~ I have no idea! But they should still be on this track, right? They should still be participating in the competition, right?!"
"Ah! Look! Contestant Korai is gone too!"
"What the hell is going on?? What kind of magic is this?!"
"It's space magic..."
Some people with a little more knowledge, such as Mavis, Makarov, Jura, Brian, etc., have recognized the magic used by Jacob and couldn't help but be secretly shocked.
"I didn't expect that this place called 'Emperor's Shield' would have such a great wizard!"
"They have so many high-end fighters, more than Fairy Tail! Everyone who has appeared so far has strength comparable to the Holy Ten. This guild may be even stronger than Fairy Tail!"
"We might just win the Grand Magic Contest like this... I really can't accept this! This is clearly a competition for the Fiore Kingdom Magic Guild, but a bunch of new guys who came out of nowhere stole the limelight..."
"Our only hope now is Fairy Tail..."
Unconsciously, some viewers elevated this game to a level that it should not have in their subconscious conversations.
Soon, three minutes passed.
There are more and more obstacles on the road, and it has reached the point where you can no longer cross them by just rushing forward. Instead, you have to use a parkour-like posture to step over iron stones, iron nets, iron pillars, etc. to continue moving forward.
This forced Laxus to stop transforming into lightning and start using a more agile method to pass the level.
"Stop! Laxus stopped because of an obstacle!!"
"It seems that Sawyer, who was following behind him, is about to catch up. Will he be trapped by obstacles like Laxus? And Jacob , Nobali, and Korai are hiding somewhere and preparing for a sneak attack..."
Chapati didn't know that the people she just read were actually exiled by the space magic used by Jacob. She just thought that they were hiding and preparing to snatch the winning spot at the last minute.
The transparent Jacob raised his hand and looked at Erye and Shirley in the air: "Come on! Let me see where your weakness is..."
A professional assassin only needs to see at a glance where the opponent's defense is high and where it is low, and which part to attack to prevent the opponent from using magic, and which part to attack to kill the opponent directly...
This fighting style is similar to that of Val, except that Val uses a computer-like mechanical core for analysis, while Jacob relies on the human brain... No, it is the experience and vision honed from years of being a killer.
Doing these things has become a daily routine for Jacob!
However……
"No way?! This guy has weak points all over his body?!"
Jacob was completely stunned, and stood there for a moment, with his raised finger frozen in mid-air. He wiped his eyes in disbelief and looked up again!
"More! More weaknesses! There are flaws all over my body!!"
"Who on earth is this person?!"
"I've been a killer for so many years, and I've never seen such a person!!"
With his three perspectives shocked, Jacob no longer hesitated. An invisible beam of magic shot out from his fingers and attacked Yiye and Shirley in the sky.
Whoosh—bang! Kill two birds with one stone!!!
“Aaaaaaa——!!!”
"What?!"
"what happened??"
"Where did the attack come from?!"
Everyone was shocked and finally realized that something was wrong.
Fortunately, Jacob remembered Jellal's order not to use heavy hands in the competition, so the attack just now was just the lightest air cannon, equivalent to an ordinary heavy punch, which just knocked the man down but did not injure him.
After being attacked by unknown entities, Erye was unable to maintain the flight mode and fell from the sky with Shirley. Before they even landed, they both disappeared in full view of everyone.
“Hey, hey, hey… What’s going on? Why are the contestants disappearing one after another during the competition? Is there a haunted place in broad daylight?”
Until now, some people are still confused, but fortunately someone gave them the answer immediately.
Jacob appeared slowly and continued to walk forward like a gentleman: "Opponents minus two, currently remaining opponents: two!"
Up to now, the whole game has been going on for less than ten minutes, and only Laxus, Sawyer and Jacob are left on the field. In other words, the three of them are the only ones who can score points today.
But it is still uncertain who will get fifteen points, who will get ten points, and who will get five points.
Because even Laxus, who was the fastest, had only advanced half the distance.
"Tsk! Have all the people behind been killed?"
Laxus stopped and looked back, only to see a man in sunglasses running away and a middle-aged man in a suit, "Did that middle-aged man do it? It's not easy..."
During this period, his strength improved greatly, and he was even able to fight with Serena for a long time. During this period, he also asked the other party for information about the Twelve Shields. He knew that the uncle behind him was at a middle level among the Twelve Shields, only slightly lower than Serena.
"But this isn't a head-on battle. I won't lose to anyone in terms of speed!"
Glancing at Sawyer who was chasing after him, Laxus hesitated for a moment: This kid is about to catch up with me... should I stop and kill him?
However, after just three seconds of hesitation, Laxus threw this thought out of his mind.
The reason is very simple. Right now, the strength of 'Fairy Tail' and 'Emperor's Shield' is almost the same. If I kill Sawyer, the second place in this field will undoubtedly be taken by Jacob, and the gap between the two sides will only be 5 points. On the contrary, if I keep him, according to the current positions of the three people, the other side will definitely take the third place, and then the gap will be 10 points!
As for the situation of defeating both of them... Sawyer is easy to deal with, but Jacob is difficult. If he loses the first place instead, it will be a waste of time and effort.
Thinking of this, Laxus no longer hesitated and sprinted to the finish line with all his strength.
Obstacles might be something that slows others down, but for Sawyer, they actually close the distance to the best sections, for no other reason than he is a master at it.
Simply put, a parkour master needs to be much more nimble and agile when moving on this kind of terrain with many obstacles than when competing on flat ground with nothing in sight!
Five minutes later, Laxus was the first to reach the finish line and scored 15 points; seven minutes later, Sawyer was the second to reach the finish line and scored 10 points; ten minutes later, Jacob walked slowly to the finish line and scored the last 5 points.
At this point, the fourth day of competition ended in an extremely boring way.
There was almost no formal fighting among everyone, which made the audience very bored, especially the last period of time, when everyone was watching Jacob walking slowly and almost fell asleep. Many people even shouted for their money back, and the whole venue was noisy and bustling, which directly embarrassed the judges.
However, you can apologize, but don't even think about getting your money back. The organizers of the tournament have the same personality as Kira in this regard.
Kira noticed that when the staff dejectedly removed the track, their expressions were strange. Using sound magic, he heard words from afar: "It's really unusual that the arena was not destroyed this time."
"Sure enough, this kind of game still depends on the duel!"
