The trio is running at their top speed leaving their mark on the path they traveled making the green cloaks that are not only following them and attacking them too immersed to see what is going on.
The trio is so fast that the green cloaks had a subconscious thought that they would lose them if they just blinked.
And there is another factor that made them put all their focus on the trio and that is the behavior of blatant provocation.
The trio didn"t even flinch when the green cloaks surrounded them and even when they have the ability and chance to just escape they stayed there without flinching and performed a flashy trick before leaving that too separately and in a forest and right after beating the c.r.a.p out of these ten guys who wanted to attack them.
Even though they had a chance to kill with proper attacks, they just left them there beaten and bruised as if it didn"t matter if they are finished or not.
This is just pure looking down on. Creating simple insecurity even if it is temporary. This trick works most of the time if the opponents have a certain level of reputation and the pride to hold on to and it works best on people with fragile egos.
They just followed the trio as their life depended on it.
But soon, they noticed something else.
All three batches of the green cloaks can see the flashy and chaotic energies of the other two people that are coming.
They finally understood that the trio is gathering together.
But they couldn"t understand the plan before they could stop and think of what is happening, the trio didn"t want to let them have that chance and started throwing some attacks at them and the provocation worked once again.
Soon, they could see the place they are going to meet. It is a clearing with no trees. A large circular clear area with no trees, gra.s.s, or any other plants.
It is pure soil.
The trio was running to a single point and the trial of the compressed energies followed. The audience is watching the scene carefully and thought they would collide.
The green cloaks who saw what is happening halted in their tracks as soon as they entered this clearing and stood at the edge as they tried to recover with the help of the trees nearby from that edge.
The trio suddenly slammed their legs to the ground and skid as they tried to alter their direction a bit. But their speed is too much and the energy they compressed is large and chaotic. But before they could lose control, the three of them locked each other"s hands and used the force of energies coming from each other to skid in a full circle, and in that skidding process, they just released all the energy out.
At this exact movement when most of their speed died down, a formation was activated around.
This is the formation placed by the trio when the green cloaks are still dealing with extra contestants and this formation is made by the special formation flags that Sam gave them and they used in the banished realm when they are fighting the undead creatures.
But this time it is not a single formation, it is a combination formation with three elements.
The wind energy that is carrying the debris and following Watt, the sword ray that was being compressed by Jack, and the compressed firestorm that was being suppressed by Philip while they ran are released.
Now they all merged together as they rotated within the formation which not only provided a closed s.p.a.ce and also channeled this fiery-wind sword storm even more and added to its force and in the eye of the storm, the trio stood closely as they took out the wine and started gulping it down.
The green cloaks that are within the zone are all carried away and the storm started tearing their clothes, creating cuts, and then burning the skin all at the same time.
More than half of them completely lost control and even the other half who managed to stay down are only resisting the storm from carrying them away, the debris is still hitting them like crazy, tore their clothes apart, cut their skin, and burning the flesh.
The trio just stood in the middle of this tornado storm like they are on a picnic as they drank wine non-stop.
The audience burst into cheers in the arena and everyone was burning with excitement. Of course, except for the people who placed a bet against the trio surviving this day.
There are some people that are particularly upset about this and almost wanted to beat the c.r.a.p out of the green cloaks themselves for being so stupid.
And one of them is Ramana and Rajan is not even looking at the image anymore. He is looking at Sam who sat back and relaxed in his seat with a smirk on his face.
There is another person who is looking at Sam, the professor. He is much more level-headed than the rest and is not exactly offended or feeling frustrated by the performance of the trio.
He is just waiting for the time upon which he would get the idea of proposing a deal with Sam.
He didn"t even consider the possibility of Sam bluffing, but he knew that the current situation is not enough for him to go and ask Sam for that deal.
Because this trick doesn"t work consecutively.
He once again focused on the match.
The wine the trio used is the heavenly wine. Sam gave a bottle each so that they could use it in emergency situations. Now they are using it because they already learned that there is a bounty on their head, if they didn"t deal with this situation properly they would be inviting a ton of trouble onto themselves.
They couldn"t kill them and they couldn"t go easy on them at the same time. This is a pain in the a.s.s.
The trio got into action after the storm stopped.
The green cloaks are already mauled and are panting for breath. The blood and the burnt flesh is giving off a weird smell all over the place.
And soon, the situations reversed. Most of the green cloaks are injured beyond recovery for now and they used the escape tokens to escape.
The members that can at least stand up and take some blows are helping their friends escape first but in this process, they are being beaten to the pulp by the trio.
They are not even using any weapons or elemental techniques anymore, they are just beating the c.r.a.p out of them with the fists and soon the green cloaks are gone.
The battle didn"t even last a half-an-hour.
The green cloaks are gone just like that. The longest thing that has gone in this fight is the chase and that is only for fifteen minutes.
The trio is already back in shape and is ready to go after the One Star force. But when they are moving towards this unit, they halted in their tracks all of a sudden and looked towards the sky in a daze. The daze only lasted for a few seconds before they exchanged a glance and a smirk before they went back to their activity.
They didn"t go to the one-star unit but rather went into the forests separately to hunt the rest of the strays down.
No one noticed this small change in them, but the professor did, and that too because of the bet he had with Sam not for any other reason.
He noticed, in that brief moment before the trio went into a daze, Sam has closed his eyes and had a deep frown on his face and his face turned red with all the blood pressure due to the stress on the brain.
This is not a normal thing that happens randomly. Sam did something and the trio reacted to that.
He wouldn"t believe that to be just a coincidence. He a.s.sumed that just like how he can communicate with the One star military unit in the forest, Sam might have also had a way to do that and he might have done that.
As for how he himself communicated with the unit, it is with the shadows of course.
His shadow necromancy is really too good and of a higher level. He can use them to talk with someone else and he can send them anywhere as long as they are his peers in strength.
This is really a great level of skill.
And just like how the communication between Sam and the trio didn"t escape the professor, the communication between the professor and the military unit didn"t escape Sam.
He watched the shadow move into the forest when he looked into the crystal table to communicate with the trio.
As for all the mental stress, it is because of the large range he covered due to the distance between the arena and their position in the forest itself.