Chapter 153: Working together


    With the second tower taken down, the team could feel victory within their grasps. There were no notifications of their own towers being destroyed, so they felt like they were now ahead.


    All that was left to do was defeat the person standing in front of them and raise the g. It would be Montem''s victory. Although Alex knew that Westgate wouldn''t allow them to win this easy, it was vital for them to carry on with this momentum forward.


    "Scarlett attack!" Alexmanded.


    She shot out her arrow up in the sky, and it was heading straight for the opponent. The man then looked carefully at the arrow, ready to block.


    "Now Ashley, go!" Alex said, But this was all a part of his n. Ashley was the fastest at striking out of all of them. With no more room for the Westgate yer to move back, he had to concentrate on getting rid of the arrows or moving to the side. Either way, he would be busy doing something.


    Ashley dashed forward, and just as her weapon was about to hit the man, a came flying out wrapping around her. It wrapped around her entire body and flung her to the ground. She rolled and rolled until she eventually stopped still wriggling about on the floor.


    "It looks like Ashley is trapped!" Josh saidmentating on the game. As you may now the Net throw is a one-time use skill from one of the warriors. It''s Tough to aim it correctly and throw it unexpectedly at your opponent. It''s a very slow-moving item andrge in size, so most of the time yers are able to dodge such a thing."


    "It looks like this time, Ashley''s speed was used against her, the fact that she ran straight forward allowed her to run right into that trap." Cindy said, "But the props goes to the Westgate yer who was able to time everything perfectly."


    Out from, the left side of the castle came out June. He had headed back down hisne as soon as he could. Deciding to go around to the front of the tower. The warrior June was ying as a warrior known as the trap master. It carried a single de and had only one basic attack skill. While all four of its other skills were rted to traps.


    It was a support-type warrior that was rarely seen in low-level games. Most of the time, people wanted to get all the credit by getting high kills or cool fighting videos to show off to their friends. But at the higher-level games, support characters became more frequent.


    They were able to greatly shift the game in one team''s favour.


    Ashley continued to wiggle about on the floor. Unfortunately, the type of weapon she used was a blunt one, and she was unable to cut her way out. The more she struggled, the more she seemed to be tangling herself up.


    Then an arrow came shooting out from the other side of the castle andnded right on her head.


    <Blue team yer defeated>


    She had burst and gone into blue particles in an instant, it was a perfect shot. Everything had happened so fast, and Ashley was too far ahead of the others. They had no time to help her out.


    "Everyone regroup!" Frank shouted as he held his shield and stood in front of the others. Making sure no one else would be hit by arrows.


    In front of them was June, the trap master, the spear user who was now using a sword and a crossbow user who had killed Ashley.


    Then two more people had appeared from behind, one wielding two axes and the other a rapier.


    "Damn, were surrounded and now were outnumbered as well."


    When they thought things couldn''t get any worse.


    < Blue team bottom tower destroyed >


    < Blue team top tower destroyed >


    *****


    Inside the dream world Novis and Lucas were still busy facing off against Mortem. Novis using his chain de had just wrapped around Mortem''s scythe and pulled it to one side, causing it to hit into the ground.


    For a second Lucas had given up hope as his attack had shattered his scythe. He stood there, still shocked by the whole thing.


    "What are you doing Lucas, move!" Novis shouted.


    Novis focused his mind and now in his hand was Arthur''s long sword, as Mortem raised the scythe one more time she swung it down hard on top of Lucas''s head. Then before it could reach, Novis managed to dash forward, blocking the strike from above.


    The two were now in a power struggle.


    With Novis in front of him, Lucas suddenly snapped out of it. "Novis what, I''m alive." He could see that Novis was in front of him pushing back against the scythe, but for some reason, unlike his de that had shatters Novis''s didn''t. He could see it was covered in a faint aura.


    "Are you just going to watch my back all day, or are you going to help me." Said Novis struggling with all his power.


    In Lucas''s hands, the scythe appeared once more, and he struck against Mortem''s right shoulder. However, the scythe simply bounced off.


    But the loss in focus gave Novis the chance to swing his sword out. Deflecting the scythe to the side. Just then, Lucas saw his opportunity to go in for a strike again and again. Still not doing much damage but distracting.


    Mortem tried her best to ignore Lucas and decided to head for Novis, as he seemed to be the more annoying of the two right now. She charged up the energy in her scythe and swung out a line of sword energy.


    Novis managed to faintly cover his sword with energy, but it wasn''t enough, knocking it out of his hands. He continued to run forward only this time he held duel des in his hands.


    Mortem grabbed Luca''s scythe and kicked him back to the side, sending him tumbling to the floor. She threw the scythe away before getting ready to confront Novis.


    The two of them continued to attack, while Novis did his best to avoid the strikes. Although Mortem strikes were stronger, she was slower with the massive scythe. Most of the weight of the weapon was at the top end, and Novis knew this would cause problems.


    Watching from the ground, Lucas stared in amazement at Novis''s skill. He couldn''t believe it. When he first saw Novis and had learnt that it was actually Arthur he had fought against, Lucas didn''t think much of him.


    He started thinking that it was his duty to protect Novis as someone weaker and less skilled than him. But watching it now he felt like an idiot. Novis didn''t need any help, and right now, he was the one helping him.


    Right now, this was their best chance of defeating Mortem and possibly getting control back of his body.


    He lifted himself off the ground and allowed for the scythe to reappear in his hand. He let all of his distractions go away, and this time he was ready. Lucas had learnt how to use sword energy by imitating Mortem.


    The whole time they thought he felt this energy and bit by bit, he was slowly learning how to use it. Now, as he focused his mind on his de, the sword energy grew. More significant than previously before. He no longer had the distraction he once had.


    While Mortem''s back was turned, she still had the aura faintly covering her back, but at the right time, Lucas lifted up his de and swung it down. It managed to break through her armour and pierce into her back.


    Mortem flinched at the moment, and Novis wasn''t going to let this go. He switched to the chain des once again and wrapped it around her body and sticking it into the ground, making sure if she tried moving, she would struggle.


    Then from behind Mortem, Lucas pulled out the scythe and prepared for another attack. While Novis switched to his long sword and did the same.


    "You fools, you think this will stop anything!" She said, "My friends wille for me, even if you suppress me for now you can''t make me leave this body. They wille and kill you to get to me!" She said.


    "So what!" Lucas said, "Bring all your friends, and I''ll take them all down one by one, this body is mine Bitch!"


    He swung his scythe towards the head, and at the same time, Novis did the same with his de. Both of the des covered in sword energy stronger than ever before, and when it reached her neck, the des sliced through the neck like butter.


    Her head fell to the floor, but no blood could be seen. Instead, slowly the head started to disappear into a purple like mist, the body began to do the same disintegrating into the wind.


    "We did it!" Novis said.


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