Chapter 206 The Rescue Totems

"This… Tsk! Let's take that place then," Lucas didn't intend on doing anything to Garlend, instantly shifted his attention towards the opposite direction, and selected an empty space there.

William couldn't help but sigh. Such childish moves were suitable for kids, not for people of fifteen years old or something.

"We are going to compete in ten minutes," once William arrived there, he saw an empty black board and a piece of ore that could be used to write on the board.

Lucas seemed used to using this board and ore, as he started to draw an oval shaped space. The ore left a faint shining red colour, demarcating the shape Lucas drew perfectly in such a slightly dim place. Then he placed ten dots at each side, before adding:

"We are going to use the same tactic…" As he turned to his team, Lucas started to speak about the general tactic the team preferred to use.

William got that out of the nine silver spirit masters here, three got the fire elements, two wind elements, one earth element, and the last three had water elements.

This wasn't a bad line up, and their use for these spirit masters wasn't bad. In general, the red falcon team depended on the fire based spirit masters for offence, on the two wind based spirit masters for augmenting the fire attacks, for water attacks to trap the enemy, and the single earth spirit master for defence.

It wasn't a bad tactic, but William knew it was that perfect. The biggest mistake wasn't in the tactic itself, but in the choice of spirit masters in the team in the first place.

For example, water attacks would negate the fire spirit masters, and that would be very limiting for the entire team.

Any fight was quite unpredictable, and spirit masters wouldn't just stand in their initial spots and keep releasing their attacks at their foes.

The fight would be chaotic, and in the middle of this, it was the role of the enemy to limit the attacks of the team, not the team members.

But William got no say in any of that. If he was the leader of this team, he'd change the entire tactic in an attempt to solve such obvious weakness.

For example, he should leave the water spirit master behind, not attack until it was needed. Trapping the enemy before the fire and wind spirit masters would attack was like giving the enemy a way out and a hand to defend against such a combo.

Water element could be used to trap enemies, but it could also be used to defend. William would switch the roles of the three water spirit masters with the single Earth one.

Even if he did all that, the overall strength of the team wouldn't increase by much. He listened to the last words of Lucas before someone came and asked them to follow him to the stage.

"Let's go," Lucas paused for a moment before adding, "Dorf, you'll keep an eye over William."

"You know it's forbidden for any team to target the tenth member," Dorf was a tough looking youth, with a body that was almost double the size of William's.

He was the spirit master with the earth element. "Just keep him safe, you know that already," Lucas looked a bit tense, just like everyone else. As for William, he just walked in a calm way, following the team outside.

The scene that welcomed his eyes was a grand open place, lined with a huge, rounded gathering of seats.

The entire place was filled to the brim with people, and in the vast arena, there were the twenty-three fighting grounds that Lucas spoke about before.

Each fighting ground was around two hundred metres in length and fifty in width. It was enough to allow two teams to battle to their heart's content, without having enough space to drag the battle for a long time by hiding and running around.

Any teams getting in there would have to fight from the first moment, and William could imagine how brutal these fights would be.

"Here, this is your arena," the gold grade disciple who led them here pointed towards one of the small arenas before adding, "the other team will arrive momentarily. You'll have one minute to get ready, then the battle will start."

As this was the first time for William to be here, he was quite alien to all this. The others instantly got into the small arena, took their position as Lucas drew before on that board, took out their weapons and got ready to fight at any moment.

William took this to inspect the entire space around. 'So, the medium sized arenas are three times the size of the small ones, and the central one is almost five times in size compared with the small ones,' he thought to himself, while noticing many teams fighting already on other grounds.

Before he'd have the time to watch any battle, the other team arrived. And just like the red falcon team, William didn't recognise a single spirit master of them.

'Three outsiders…' His eyes shone when he saw three of them wearing uncommonly seen uniforms in the academy.

The three wore uniforms made of three different colours, white, silver, and red. That told William that they weren't part of the academy, and his curiosity was piqued to see how good they truly were.

"You know the rules," as the other team arrived, the gold grade spirit master who guided the red falcon team here appeared in the middle between the two, "you'll have one minute to prepare. Take these symbols and place them over your bodies directly, not on any uniform, gear, or weapon… Got it?"

Just as he said that twenty things got thrown out from him. William picked the item that was thrown towards him and was surprised to see a small paper with a symbol drawn over it.

"It's the rescue totem," Lucas realised that William was quite oblivious about what to do. As he said it, he exposed part of his chest, placed the paper on it, and it instantly merged with his flesh and vanished.

The symbol it left behind was like a tattoo, just the same as the one drawn on the paper in William's hands.