Chapter 310 — Team Rankings Revealed

Next, Baby Ginseng could finally complete its defense. But since Eleven held air superiority and refused to close in, always keeping a safe distance, Baby Ginseng was forced into pure defense. The only move it had that could reach Eleven, the Charged Beam, could not break through Eleven's legion defense skill, Impregnable.

Eleven's Bean Bear skill, driven along by its clones, had already reached Mastery proficiency. The many Bean Bears it summoned all used Impregnable together — so even though Baby Ginseng's attack power now exceeded Eleven's, it still could not break the defense. Such was the might of a legion skill.

Soon the fight between them devolved into a war of attrition. Baby Ginseng had Earth Chain and Charged Beam to recover, while Eleven had Charged Lightning, which it could pair with Lightning Call to restore stamina. But because of the terrain, the ice field could not properly let Baby Ginseng recover via Earth Chain, and the Charged Beam's attempt to absorb sunlight was foiled by the dark clouds summoned by Eleven's Lightning Call, which blotted out the sun.

As a result, Baby Ginseng was quickly worn down by Eleven.

It was driven to the brink by Eleven, who refused to play by the rules and had switched up its tactical style.

"Eee-yah-yah-yah." Baby Ginseng was furious. In the end, it staked everything on one throw, deciding to activate the Chrono Fruit's power to a greater degree, raising its strength to Overlord level and unleashing an Overlord's strike.

Splash, splash.

Vast energy values began to surge within Baby Ginseng — twenty million, thirty million...

At Commander level, raising oneself to Overlord level cost one's life. But now that Baby Ginseng had broken through to Monarch level, the side effects of rising to Overlord were far smaller — enough for it to unleash one Overlord's strike at the mere price of total exhaustion, with no real danger to its life.

Baby Ginseng was confident that an Overlord's strike could shatter Impregnable and one-shot Eleven.

"Eee!! (I am invincible!!)"

Yet Baby Ginseng did not know that Eleven had been locking onto it all along with its super-vision. The moment the energy value within Baby Ginseng began to surge violently, Eleven spotted the problem at a glance.

"Ying ying ying! (Who dares call themselves invincible? Who dares claim they never lose?)"

Then it turned tail and ran, leaving Baby Ginseng — which had just finished powering up — standing alone on the spot, unable to find a target, sinking into contemplation.

Baby Ginseng: ???

The outcome of this battle was, as expected, that Eleven successfully dragged Baby Ginseng down with kite tactics, letting the side effects of the Chrono Fruit exhaust it into collapse.

You're strong, but I won't fight you. There's no arena restriction anyway — and with only its Leaf Wings, Baby Ginseng, even at Overlord level, could never catch Eleven once it launched itself away with electromagnetism.

"Fifth match, Eleven wins." After a silence fell over the whole arena, Shi Jin announced.

Baby Ginseng: @.@

Eleven: (??ˇ?ˇ?) I know tactics too, you know.

Chitong, Buggy: !!!

This is not like the leader!!!

Susu's mouth fell open too; everything was said without words.

Shi Jin sighed with feeling — Eleven might love to charge in recklessly, but it wasn't stupid. Head-on clashes were for the weak; who would willingly trade blows head-on with a self-detonating Ginseng?

"Let's keep going, keep going. Ahem — or maybe next time we should limit the arena's range?"

The unconscious Baby Ginseng raised both hands in wholehearted agreement.

Buggy, for its part, suggested it would be best to update the equipment system! Chitong agreed — equipment could possess it too, and that Ice Dragon Blade was quite nice.

Susu suggested it would be best to change the venue... to an ocean battlefield...

For a moment, the pets all chattered at once.

...

About a day later, five more matches were held.

With all ten matches finished, the first intra-team tournament came to a perfect close.

The final ranking, from weakest to strongest, was as follows.

Fifth place: the reincarnated Ocean Spirit, Susu.

First she was crushed in the sister match against Chitong, then hard-countered by Ginseng Baby's Anti-Susu Energy Fruit.

After that she ran into Chongchong, who was even more unreasonable. Chongchong directly materialized Ginseng Baby and teleported it to Susu's side. Susu was neither fast nor tough, and had no way to resist before she was blown apart.

Once again, she was hard-countered by "Ginseng Baby."

As for the match against Shiyi... although Susu had max-level lightning resistance, Shiyi's main attribute was metal. The outcome was obvious: a giant Sky-Shaking Palm suppressed and smashed her.

There was no help for it. Even if Shiyi did not attack and simply stood there letting Susu hit him, as long as he activated his legion skill, Susu might not win.

Within Shi Jin's team, under one-on-one rules, only Ginseng Baby could currently break Shiyi's legion defense skill through the Time Accumulation Fruit. In such circumstances, Susu was utterly helpless.

When the tournament ended, Susu completely shut down.

Last place even in the intra-team tournament—how was it supposed to guard the sea?

Shi Jin's assessment was: "Keep at it. Even after you can guard the sea, you still might not win the intra-team championship."

Susu: ?

Was that human speech?

Fourth place: Mu Huiyin's heroic spirit, Chitong.

It only defeated Susu.

Afterward, it was first tormented and defeated by Chongchong's space-type abilities, and then it ran into Ginseng Baby.

At first, Chitong wanted to copy Shiyi's kite tactics to beat Ginseng Baby, especially since it also countered Ginseng Baby.

But Chitong's sustain, attack power, and defense were clearly inferior to Shiyi's. Shiyi was strong with almost no weaknesses. As a result, even while using Shiyi's tactics, Chitong was shot down by Ginseng Baby's charged beam and then smashed.

In the final match against Shiyi, Chitong went full zen.

After several attacks failed to break defense, it was directly suppressed in return.

Next, Ginseng Baby.

Although Ginseng Baby called itself invincible, aside from beating Chitong and Susu, it still failed to beat Shiyi and Chongchong.

Of course, it did not lose to Chongchong either.

The two fought to a draw, utterly unable to decide a winner. After three hours with no result, Shi Jin called it a draw.

The tactics Chongchong chose were similar to Shiyi's.

There was no help for it—that was the best tactic against Ginseng Baby, who could not fly properly and was poor at aerial combat.

Although Ginseng Baby had pre-stored space-type mutation power through its Mutation Fruit skill and could create "Anti-Chongchong Energy Fruit" at any time, against Chongchong, who refused to clash head-on and hid high in the sky, it had no effective means of launching fruit. Throwing with branches could not reach high or fast enough; Chongchong could easily teleport away.

The only thing that could attack the high sky, the charged beam, was also countered by Aerial Concealment, much like the impregnable situation against Shiyi.

But Chongchong also had no way to deal with Ginseng Baby. Facing a Ginseng Baby that turtled up and refused to cripple its own abilities by ascending to Overlord level, it lacked good attack methods. Materializing Shiyi, materializing the Ice Dragon, materializing a Ginseng Baby bomb and teleporting it beside Ginseng Baby's true body—all were broken one by one by Ginseng Baby. After all, a materialization was definitely not as strong as the original. Even the self-detonation of a Ginseng Baby phantom failed to bring down Ginseng Baby, who had used part of the Time Accumulation Fruit's power to raise its energy value to the ten-million level and had sustain.

The two stubbornly fought for three hours, both hoping for second place and unwilling to be third.