<h4>Chapter 200: Capture the g (2)</h4>


    Looking at the mechanical puppets, ke could bet his left kidney that there was something wrong with these puppets.


    ''Seems there is only one way to find out.'' ke thought as he waited for the signal for the start of the exercise.


    "Begin!"


    Once Instructor Zirrack made the announcement, the mechanical puppets encased their entire body with mana before dashing towards ke''s team.


    ''What the hell. Even I don''t have that much mana control'' the entire team had the same thoughts as Brian.


    ''Just like I suspected." ke couldn''t help but furrow his brow when he saw their mana encased body parts.


    Synching his breathing rhythm with that of nature, ke activated an enhanced lightning reinforcement and engaged one of the approaching puppets.


    With his enhanced speed, ke threw 2 quick punches aiming at the puppet''s head. The mechanical puppet managed to block one of the blows, but the other wentnded on its face creating a deep crack.


    The force of the punch jerked the puppet''s head back and ke followed up with punches at the shoulders, before giving it a knee to the abdomen.


    "Huh??"


    To ke''s surprise, the mechanical puppet wasn''t reacting to the pain. Once it recovered from the punches to the shoulders, instead of blocking the knee attack it tried to hold on to ke.


    ''What the fuck??'' ke was shocked by such behavior, but thanks to his incredible speed ke dodged grip but that was when the system''s warning came.


    [Behind you!]


    Right behind ke was a mechanical puppeting at him with a roundhouse kick.


    BOOM!


    Before the mechanical puppet could get close to ke arge ball of golden mes shot it out of the way.


    "They don''t feel pain and they regenerate any injury that they sustain." ke informed the team as he retreated.


    ''Mana cannons?!''


    Just when they thought they would have little time to organize themselves, mana cannons were raining hauling towards.


    ''Just like I suspected this wasn''t meant to be easy in any way.'' ke thought as he conjured a mana barrier.


    Not only were they able to use strong arcane spells, but theirbat skills and team coordination were outstanding.


    As they were being bombarded with arcane spells 2 of the mechanical puppets got past ke and Luciano and went for the weakest link Tessie.


    ''This is bad…'' Seeing the puppets heading for Tessie, 5 tendrils appeared behind Castiel as he intercepted them.


    Although his closebat skills weren''t on par with that of ke, thanks to the tendrils he was able to defend against the 2 puppets, but no matter how he tried he couldn''tnd an attack.


    Seeing that hand-to-handbat wasn''t effective against Castiel''s tendrils, the mechanical puppets turned the mana on their hands to sharp des.


    "2 can y that game." Castiel did the same thing by reinforcing his hands and tendrils with mana, but when he reengaged with the puppets they easily cut one of his tendrils.


    ''How?!'' For a moment Castiel was shocked by the turn of events, but this was more than enough for the mechanical puppets to end him.


    Cutting the remaining tendrils protecting Castiel, the mechanical puppet gave him a heavy blow to the abdomen causing him to wince in pain before receiving an uppercut that made his feet leave the floor.


    With the mechanical puppets being in perfect synch, the second puppet had already positioned itself behind Castiel ready to finish him off with a mana de, but that was when thorny nt vines erupted from below and held it in ce.


    Seeing that its other counterpart wasn''t in serious danger, the mechanical puppet was about to finish Castiel who justnded on the floor, but it suddenly moved out of the way.


    BANG!


    A lightning bolt swept past the area the puppet was and went straight at the constricted puppet.


    "Retreat to the g!" ke shouted to his teammates as he grabbed Castiel and ran to the g.


    ''I have a n. Brian create a dome around us and the g, make it as thick as possible. Castiel get ready to cast Night mist.'' ke said as he regrouped to the g.


    Earth vault!


    Night mist!


    3yers of earth erupted from below and formed a dome around the group and at the same time, dark gaseous mists beganing out of Castiel and escaping through holes on the walls of the dome and into the battle ground.


    At this point of the battle, every team except that of ke and Damon which consisted of Haldor, Cami, Esmeralda, and La, every other team had been eliminated.


    Although 2 matches were still on, almost all of them had their eyes on ke''s team.


    From the regrouping and holing themselves up in a dome to the Night mist that covered the entire battlefield. Everything was totally confusing.


    They thought that if they were unable to beat the mechanical puppets then staying in a dome was pointless, but they had no idea that ke had figured out the main goal of the exercise.


    …


    BANG!


    BANG!


    Inside the dome that was being bombarded by arcane spells, the team had no idea why they had regrouped but there were noints since ke said he had a n.


    "Alright, you guys should trust me on this one." ke began quickly exining his n to the team.


    "Any objections? Alright let''s begin." ke said.


    On the outside, the students had watched as the 1styer of the dome was destroyed by the arcane spells being rained down on it.


    Soon the secondyer began cracking, but that was when an ethereal dome appeared over the 2ndyer.


    The students turned to instructor Zirrack thinking he would disqualify them, but to their surprise he didn''t say anything.


    Since he wasn''t doing anything they didn''t think much about it, besides it was only a matter of time before they lost. Or so they thought.


    When they turned back to the battle ground, they saw multiple earth spikes erupting from beneath the dome and moving towards all sides of the battle ground.