"I am sorry, but I really need to do this," said Evan while pointing his gun at the Grace Group leader's head.

"Haha, this is your win. There is no need to apologize. Although the support was a surprise, you didn't break any rules. We are the one who needs to be ashamed because we can't do anything to a healer who has no offensive magic." She let out a long sigh and closed her eyes.

After hearing the last word, he pulled the trigger, killing her.

Meanwhile, the cheers outside had turned into an uproar as they never expected that the situation turned this way.

Diego stood up and shouted. "This… Is this the real power of the Lion Group? Even I can understand what they have done to win against the two groups. First of all, Kudo Ayaka launched that attack to warn the Grace Group that she could hit them, allowing Evan Young to kill two people.

"However, there was another meaning to that move. The Slayer Group, who had been chasing her obviously knew that the situation would become worse when Ayaka hit the Grace Group once again. Hence, they chose to protect them.

"It turned out to be another feint coming from Kudo Ayaka where she used that opportunity to kill four of them. Without having any support, Kudo Ayaka overwhelmed the captain of the Slayer Group in one on one.

"It's truly a marvelous fight since we can see that even if their position was not near each other, they still looked out for each other and helped them. This is how a top group fights in a battle. I want everyone to remember it because you have seen yourself how effective this technique is." Diego then turned to Sanae and asked. "What is your thought about this, Teacher?"

Sanae thought for a moment and answered. "It's like you said. From what I have heard from Kai Carter… He wanted the group to understand what the others could do. In other words, they could help each other without even talking. I'm sure that the other top groups can do this as well, but this is just a plain difference in power.

"What the Lion Group had faced this whole time were far greater threats than anyone of you could imagine. I would just leak one of their missions which I considered to be a less dangerous one. They once had gone to the Amazon Forest and annihilated fifty thousand magical beasts within two weeks.

"Although this was done together with the Eagle Group, you should understand the difficulty of this mission, right? And there were some more dangerous missions, which I couldn't disclose. Kai Carter always said to aim high to progress faster, but you shouldn't forget to make your safety the priority as he himself doesn't like to see any of you die." Sanae finished her explanation and closed her eyes.

"Thank you once again, Teacher Shirotsuka." Diego thanked her politely before his vision returned to the screen. "With this, there is only one match left. It's the battle of Kai Carter and the Golden Group."

However, the moment he changed the screen to Kai, he was stunned to see the messy battlefield. The ground was ripped as if it was hit by something big. The trees were shredded apart, with splinters spread all over the area. They couldn't see anyone there other than Kai, who happened to kill Samuel.

"This… This… What exactly happened earlier?" Diego dropped his jaw. "This can be counted as Kai Carter's victory, but we need to see the actual footage first."

He changed it again to a recording of when Kai was trapped inside ice blocks.

Kai stood there while focusing his hearing on the sound in his surroundings. Suddenly, he took two small steps to the right before a spike came out of the ground, trying to pierce his head.

Then, he raised his vision, finding something above the ice ceiling.

He activated his Oscillation Shield to block whatever it was while looking at the surroundings, specifically the people he located with his ears.

Boom Boom Boom.

A series of explosions occurred as Fire Magic bombarded the ice ceiling. This was supposed to hit Kai because of the position, but Samuel realized that there was a magic circle beneath it, blocking those explosions.

"What?" He widened his eyes before looking at his teammate, shouting. "Seal the lid again."

"I understand." The Female Magician created another magic circle to trap him again, but Kai's voice echoed in the area. "This is it. I will start right now."

"Kh! Hurry!" Samuel shouted, panicking.

Kai didn't give him time to do it and leaped to the ice block that emerged from the magic circle. Activating his Super Sonic Sword that caused a Sonic Boom continuously, he slashed that big ice into two.

The two parts were then launched to the side, hitting Samuel and the other guy.

Bang.

Bang.

Because of the size and sudden show of power, the two barely reacted. Although they managed to block that ice block, they were still blown to the ground.

Kai then looked at the ice magician and created a Sound Blast, launching himself toward her. "I'm sorry, but you're going to die first."

"Hi!" She leaped back to avoid Kai but to no avail.

The other two charged at him to protect their teammates, but Kai already predicted it and summoned two Sound Oscillation Shield above him, blocking their attacks simultaneously.

Then, he used Sound Blast to send the two flying while making his way toward the Ice Magician.

Knowing that she couldn't escape death, she gritted her teeth and placed her hand on the ground, summoning a giant magic circle.

Walls of ice emerged from the ground, creating a small labyrinth to stop Kai for a few seconds, but she underestimated Kai's prowess.

That small wall was nothing in his presence as they were cut like butter with the vibration before the ice destroyed the wall near them because the Sound Blast launched them.

It took him one leap to close his distance with the female magician as she tried to attack him for one last time.

He couldn't help but feel impressed by her determination and smiled. "You're strong. Keep doing it, okay?"

Although she knew that the magic didn't have enough time to be fired and felt immense regret to be eliminated this soon, she couldn't help but smile when hearing his praise. "Thank you."

Theo smiled and deactivated his Super Sonic Sword as it only became a normal Vibration Sword and cut her neck.

He then looked around and found that Samuel was the first to recover, so he went straight at him with a normal pace.

"I'm not going to let you." He summoned a magic circle, ready to fire an attack.

At the same time, the big guy managed to recover not long after him and charged at Kai to stop his movement.

"Fire Missile."

A cylindrical fire flew out of the magic circle.

Suddenly, Kai smiled and halted his movement before creating a Sound Oscillation in front of him.

"!!!" Samuel dropped his jaw before shouting. "Watch out."

Kai's real aim turned out to be his teammate. He must believe that someone would come after him when he did this. Taking advantage of it, he used this chance to direct Samuel's attack to his own teammate.

"You!" Samuel gritted his teeth, regretting his choice.

Unfortunately, everything was too late. The fire already hit Kai's Oscillation Shield and exploded, engulfing his teammate that couldn't dodge in mid-air.

Still hearing the heartbeat from the muscular guy, he smiled and retracted his shield. After locating that figure of his, Kai raised his foot and stomped the guy, pinning him to the ground before slashing his neck.

This was a simple trick but quite good in a battle like this.

Because Samuel already knew his intention, Kai turned around and charged toward the guy he blew away before killing the Ice Magician. She was alone this time, so it shouldn't be that hard to kill her.

Remembering what happened to his big teammate, he hesitated to launch his magic since their position was aligned. If Kai dodged it, he would just murder his teammate again.

However, Kai once again took advantage of this situation and slashed his sword downwards.

"!!!" Kai widened his eyes when he saw her raising her sword before jumping two meters high without even a posture to do so. "Wind Magic?"

"Either way, it's not good enough." Kai smiled and sent another strike with his other sword. The girl tried to block that sword but didn't know what kind of power it held.

This sword was the Super Sonic Sword. The moment it struck her weapon, it snapped into two before cutting her and the tree behind her into two. The Sound Blast also shredded the tree, blowing away the splinters.

He then turned around and headed straight to the last teammate.

Seeing this, Samuel couldn't contain his anger and charged at him instead. His teammate seemed to be ready to intercept Kai, so Samuel could hit him at least once.

But they simply underestimated Kai's speed too much. He activated another Sound Blast to increase his speed.

It was fast enough to shock his opponents as he cut another one into two along with the trees nearby.

That one big swing caused the trees to fall, and obviously, Samuel had his own share too.

The moment Samuel's eyes raised a bit, Kai smirked and leaped toward him, kicking him on the stomach.

"Gah!" Samuel spat a mouthful of blood before he realized the disparity between them. Instead of regretting the battle, he smiled when he saw Kai arrive before him. "As expected from Lieutenant General Kai Carter. It's an honor to fight you."

Kai smiled. "You will be getting stronger from now on. I guarantee it."

"Thanks." Samuel closed his eyes as Kai cut him, ending the group battle with a shock.