"Jake, that man has eyes on you," SWalker whispered to Jake's ear.
Jake nodded, "Yeah. I know him. He is a muscle head, so leave him alone."
"It looks like his teammates can't deal with him," Shaw added.
It didn't surprise Jake at all. "We're lucky that none of us is as stupid as him. Let's make a deal with Kangaroos, then. Hey, Kangaroos! You want to fight Blue Union, right? Leave Eastern True Dragons to us!
Just make sure you don't let anyone slip through your fingers!"
It wasn't like there was a rule preventing teams from teaming up. No one believed those schemes would happen in The International Tournament, where each team represented millions of people.
When everyone appeared on the first battlefield, each team focused on the opponents they wanted to face and defeat.
The teams would adapt to the battlefield's circumstances. Therefore, it was important to select the first opponents.
The location of Casual Clowns, Blue Union, Kangaroos, and Eastern True Dragons allowed Jake to select Shiro as his opponent. He also could easily make a deal with Kangaroos and let them pass his team to stand before Blue Union.
The Oceania Team nodded.
Their reasoning was the same. It was better for everyone to have two core players of their team weaken and fight against each other.
Two mages and a healer teleported past Jake and his team.
Jake, Shaw, and Arthur narrowed their eyes.
'Their mana step's range and speed are much better than what we've seen so far,' the three of them thought. It was also strange how these two could take their healer for a trip!
It meant that their coming here wasn't just a challenge for them.
Their appearance here was justified.
Shaw shouted, "Eastern Dragons are coming at us! I'm taking head on their spearman!"
"Which means I'm left with a ninja? I don't like this setup, but let's wing it!"
Shaw chuckled. "Since when you're so chilled? Haha!"
Jake sneered. "Well, he must have let it out all!"
Arthur blushed. He left his team and ran toward the ninja man. He took the left.
After pouncing to his right, Shaw zoomed at the spearman of Eastern True Dragons. He clenched his spear and recalled the training he'd done with his new skill and class!
Jake stood where he had appeared.
He whipped out a whiskey and emptied it in one go.
He exhaled. "Haaaa..."
The worst point was that Jake didn't give her time to adapt to his speed. He was hurling arrows at her like a magician and catching them mid-air to deliver attacks.
Each attack was fast despite having different velocities.
He weaved around her like that single annoying mosquito on a summer holiday!
The crowd behind the screens felt like they were getting a headache following Jake's patterns. The best thing was that there was no pattern to Joker's style.
Jake freely selected arrows to fulfill his desires.
That was when Shiro stopped caring about his attacks. She bent her legs and put her hand on her hilt. A few arrows bounced off her armor, leaving behind cracks. Those were considerable wounds.
She still didn't care about them.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS STYLE!" Shiro shouted, drawing a full circle slash around herself. She loaded so much strength into that single move that twenty percent of her stamina dropped.
In exchange, she destroyed all the arrows around her.
It was such a powerful blow that Jake had been blown away.
She couldn't sense him in his perception.
Her heart squeezed with a pang of pain. It was an alert that something terrible was coming!
Shiro looked up.
Here he was.
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He floated above her, wrapping himself in a cloak of sun. He sneered and dropped like a meteor in Shiro's direction! He was so fast that Shiro put on a guard instead of jumping away.
Jake, however, landed next to her.
He touched the ground with a light touch.
In the next second, he disappeared.
A slice of a shadow went through Shiro.
There was an arrow hanging in the skies.
Jake teleported to its shadow...
...and kicked Shiro in the back of the head, jerking her head into the ground first face.
'BELIEVE IN JOKER!'
He landed on his hand and pulled himself away from Shiro.
What Jake had imagined on the tutorial island had become a reality.