Puppet Academy, South Hall.
Zhong Hua controlled the 'Sword Dancer' bearing the emblem of Silver Maple City, guarding the entrance alone like a man holding a pass against ten thousand. Countless puppet beasts surged in like a tidal wave, but the Sword Dancer stood firm like a reef. Before a powerful gold-tier Battle Puppet, no number of bronze-tier puppet beasts amounted to anything. Under the conscious command of an expert like Zhong Hua, they could only be mercilessly crushed. Layers upon layers of sword light flashed like lightning. The Sword Dancer piloted by Zhong Hua stood like a mountain, defending the gates of South Hall. Any puppet beast that approached was dismembered by that blade light, sharp enough to shear through iron like mud.
For a time, sparks flew everywhere. The puppet beasts that lunged forward were torn limb from limb, their wreckage flung through the air.
With Zhong Hua's formidable defense, the students of South Hall erupted in cheers.
They drove their own Battle Puppets forward to join the battle.
Each unleashed their own strange tricks.
Though the puppet beasts attacking South Hall were as numerous as the tide, when their assault crashed against Zhong Hua's copper-wall, iron-rampart defense, it had no choice but to stall, unable to advance another inch.
In West Hall, Jin Qi was smugly piloting his 'Blood-Dropping Heavenly King.' Possessing a gold-tier Strong-Magnetic Battle Puppet, he felt there was no need to use its magnetic abilities against these cannon-fodder puppet beasts. With only its pair of massive arms, he could sweep through them like withered branches and rotten wood.
"Poor mercenaries, why aren't you acting so high and mighty now?" Even while attacking, Jin Qi did not forget to sneer at Azure Demon, Hauge, and the others.
"What a stench. So you fart through your