BRRRR!
Zane felt the ground shake before his vision was covered in white. In front of him was a wall made of earth mana.
Before he could even react, he felt his whole body rising at ridiculous speeds. The last time he felt like this was back on earth when he invented the supersonic elevator.
Next thing he knew the 'alevator' stopped and the wall in front of him disappeared. Looking forward he could see the mana cores of the mages about to engage in battle.
However just as he suspected, the mages where about 100 meters below him, he and Chris where currently standing atop a 100 meter tall tower of earth.
"Marksman!, protect Zane and shoot from up there!" The Juggernaut shouted.
Zane glanced at 'Marksman' weirdly and Chris just shrugged his shoulders and kneeled to watch the fight.
The wall Zane had seen at first hadn't disappeared, instead it had shrunk and was now only a meter tall. When kneeling behind it, only one's head would be visible.
Zane shook his head at Chris's shamelessness and threw an 8 thousand point mana bomb into the area in front of him.
'Huh that's new' Zane thought,
Finally Zane could see the battlefield below him, the first thing he saw was how intensely John was looking at him. However a few seconds later he shook his head and faced his opponents.
'Aurora!?' Zane thought in surprise. He couldn't mistake Aurora's voice. Mostly because Aurora was the only being capable of talking inside someone's mind, as far as he knew.
'Hello ?. Aurora!' Zane called in his mind.
'It must have something to do with John' Zane thought as he put the matter at the back of his mind and focused on the battlefield. It had only been a single second since Zane and Chris were brought up the tower.
Down below, David was facing Peter. Clara was facing a tall bald man with a plentitude of scars. Adam was facing a surprisingly beautiful woman with pink hair.
John was the unlucky one to face two men. They looked identical and Zane deduced they must be twin brothers.
Zane couldn't sense the power of mages so he didn't know how powerful the enemy was he only knew the strength of David's team. John excluded.
The battle immediately started after Peter sent a surprise water sphere attack at David, who promptly erected an earth wall to block it.
David then followed up with a dozen earth spears. Peter reciprocated by jumping to the side while sending tens of small water droplets at David. The water droplets looked harmless but David felt that wasn't the case.
He quickly put up another earth wall but was horrified to see some of the water droplets swerve to the side.
SPLAT! BOOM!
His surprise had cost him as a couple droplets hit him in the face and exploded a split second after.
The first confrontation between David and Peter had ended with David losing 50% of the skin on his face.
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Clara's fight:
Clara immediately took the initiative and threw her shield, which was red hot after heating it up with her mana.
Her opponent, the bald scarred man scoffed in contempt as he caught the shield with one hand...then he felt his hand burning and quickly threw it away, looking at his scorched palm in surprise.
"Seriously? how stupid are you!?" Clara was genuinely shocked by the stupidity of her opponent. However this was still a fight so while the man was momentarily distracted, she threw a flame ball towards his head.
The bald man snapped out of his daze when he felt the flame ball headed for him. Lifting his other hand, a gust if wind blew the incoming flame ball to the side.
Using the wind element as a boost, the man shot towards Clara. However, Clara wasn't just standing there waiting for the man to attack. While the man blew her fireball away she was chanting her spell.
"Flame thrower!" she released her spell when the man was in the air in order to reduce the chances of him dodging.
Clara's spell was sudden, however the man, using his wind pushed himself to the side and only his arm was burnt. With his other arm he prepared a couple wind blades but before he could throw them at Clara, a 10 meter tall firewall erupted in front of her.
"You should know fire can't block wind. Who's the stupid one now? bitch!" The man laughed as he threw his wind blades straight into the fire wall. As expected, the wind blades went through the firewall like it didn't exist.
"I'm pretty sure it's still you!" Clara shouted. The man looked above him in shock. Clara was currently looking down at him from 5 meters in the air.
That's when the bald man realized, the wall wasn't to block his wind blades, it was to hide Clara's jump!.
When Clara spoke, she had already threw a powered up flame ball at the bald man, who only had the time to raise his arms before the flame ball exploded.
The first confrontation between Clara and bald scarred man had ended with bald man losing 90% of the skin on his arms.
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Adam's fight :
'Fuck they know my weakness!' Adam thought as he looked at his beautiful pink haired opponent. Yes, just like Chris, Adam's weakness was women. However for Adam, it wasn't a joke.
"You wouldn't hurt a woman would you?" the girl said in a sweet voice. She also fluttered her eyelashes and played with her hair while tilting her head to the side.
Adam knew one hundred percent that this was all just an act, however it still took every bit of will power in him to send a wind blade at her.
The girl lifted her palm and an earth shield appeared in her hand. The wind blades crashed on the shield and dispersed. No matter how much he tried, Adam failed to attack with his full power.
What happened next could only be described as man abuse. It was a good thing Adam was two ranks above his opponent, otherwise he would be dead.
The first confrontation between Adam and beautiful pink haired woman continued with Adam cursing his weakness.
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John the Juggernaut's fight:
"Earthen Armor" John didn't hold back and encased himself in a two inch thick suit of armor made of compressed earth.
Once again, Zane was surprised at the amount of mana John used to make that armor. If he were to estimate, according to his system John used about 50 thousand mana points.
His twin enemies quickly shot forward with blades made of water element in their hands. One twin slashed at John's head while the other went for his abdomen.
John ignored the twin going for his stomach and threw a punch at the one attacking his head. John's arm seemed to extend and became longer than the opponents water sword.
John's fist met the twin's face and he was blasted away. However the twin had covered his face in a thin layer of water, so even though he was blasted away, he didn't get hurt that much.
BOOM!
John had made a mistake in ignoring the other twin as just like Peter's water droplets, his water sword exploded as it cut John's armor. The explosion didn't manage to reach John's body through the armor, but it did reduce it's thickness to one inch.
John was blasted away 10 meters but he quickly landed on his feet and erected an earth wall. He hadn't seen an attack coming but his years of experience told him to expect an attack as soon as he lands.
His experience was correct as he felt water crashing against his wall. However just like David and Peter's fight, some droplets went around the wall and exploded on John's head. Due to the armor on his face, he wasn't hurt but he also didn't have armor to protect his head anymore.
The explosion also threw him back a couple of meters, where one twin was waiting with his outstretched hands.
"Water bomb" The twin said.
BOOOM!
Before John could react, a two meter in diameter large water ball exploded above him, slamming him into the ground.
The dust cleared to reveal a very hurt Juggernaut. He knelt on one knee breathing heavily, blood coming from his gritted teeth.
The first confrontation between John and the water twins ended with John in serious danger of losing his life.