"NOOO!! They shouted in horror, anguish and disbelief.
I ignored them and continued to hunt.
The good thing about the initial phase of the Grand Melee was that the students who got into their mechas first weren't able to start them until the 30 minutes were up.
This was done to make sure that the students don't end up stomping on the other students, of course. It was the only way that the academy could implement the Grand Melee for first year students on their FIRST day.
However, a side effect of that arrangement was that many of the elites who had been sending their clan members to join the academy every single year knew exactly what would happen, and they had developed strategies to deal with it.
Strategies which I, coincidentally, had stumbled upon myself.
BAM! I casually punched one little boy's shoulder and stomped on his token which fell out of his hand when he fell.
BAM! CRUSH!
BAM! CRUSH!
BAM CRUSH!
