"!!!" Reyes was startled. Their original aim was to kill this turtle before the last Tier 3 appeared. If this continued, they would still need a few minutes before they were able to kill the turtle.
Even though Jay said he would be assisting him, it seemed that Reyes had to make a decision.
After seeing how much Jay supported him, Reyes didn't have any hesitation to say, "Cut it down, Jay!"
Jay raised his eyebrows, surprised. Reyes suddenly spun his sword so that the back of the sword faced the tip of the turtle's head.
This way, it wouldn't cut the head anymore. Even if the turtle tried to return inside, it would be stopped by his sword. He had even used the upper part of the turtle shell to act as a fulcrum.
"You're not going anywhere." Reyes smirked. The other beasts were approaching him. If Jay hesitated, Reyes had to take some damage from these beasts.
However, this was Jay he was talking about. Without missing a beat, Jay stepped forward and slashed the turtle's head multiple times.
The head tried to open its mouth to widen the target, but it didn't matter to Jay. He used his full strength to cut this head into multiple pieces.
It only took one second before Reyes didn't feel any more resistance from the turtle's head.
Before the beasts reached his position, Reyes jumped off the shell while saying, "Nice!"
"We are still not done here though." Jay looked around. Enraged, the beasts were trying to surround them.
Still, both of them smiled. They didn't bother to exchange another word as they simply charged ahead and cut down all the beasts in front of them before ultimately regrouping with the rest.
"Ha…" Jay panted a few times. Destroying the shell took a lot of stamina, so he might not be able to assist another person.
"What are you going to do now? Since there are no more Tier 3 beasts here, you can assist the young lady. I will need to manage the area."
Jay stopped for a moment. It seemed that Melody had told Clovis that the turtle had died. So Clovis told him his new order.
"I will be staying here with you and killing all the beasts as quickly as possible. It should be possible since you still have a lot of stamina left. And from there, we will spread to the left and right, gradually rolling our position to the other side. This way, we can surround the last Tier 3 beast… That was what my captain said."
"!!!" Reyes was quite amused by this plan. It would work since the plan had taken into account their remaining stamina. The Tier 3 beast Hana was facing would die in a few minutes.
If the plan worked, they should be able to wrap up the entire event and make their retreat safely while accomplishing their original objective.
"Let's do it that way." Hana's voice suddenly echoed from his device.
"Miss?" Reyes was surprised that Hana heard all that.
If Melody were here, she would be raising her hand with a peace sign while giving a cheeky grin. Obviously, she used their personal method of communicating with her, directly giving that plan to Hana.
Since Hana didn't find anything wrong, she approved it. Besides, it didn't change the fact that Clovis's group contributed the most to this raid. They had killed three Tier 3 beasts on the first day and two more on the second day. If they added the fact that he raised people's morale, no one could fight for the first place.
Hence, Hana would just give them the glory. They had become her business partners anyway.
"Alright." Reyes nodded with a serious expression, agreeing to the decision.
The battle had shifted in their favor. Reyes used all his strength to cut down all the beasts on their side. After that, he and Jay split up and led the people in the opposite direction.
Jay was planning to help Clovis while Reyes obviously went to his superior.
There was one thing they didn't know about this plan. After seeing Ivan's reaction, Clovis realized that he shouldn't corner them too much.
With the fact that Vina was leaving the group and Elina excessively stopped Ivan, Ivan had a high chance of getting kicked out. He might get replaced by someone hard to control.
Hence, he suggested this plan so that it would take a while for them to reach the other side.
There was plenty of time for Ivan to kill the Tier 3 beast.
However, as an individual or even as a group, Ivan still couldn't defeat a Tier 3 beast because the one he faced was twice as strong as the one he had fought in the past.
Richard ended up helping him with an annoyed face. As greedy as Ivan, he definitely took the chance to deliver the killing blow so that he could boast about the kill.
He didn't realize that it was all within Clovis's plan. This way, Ivan would be known as one of the people who killed a Tier 3 beast in this expedition. The Drake Group couldn't kick out a guy like that.
After a battle that lasted for almost two hours, the beasts were completely wiped out.
Out of a total of 158 people from the participants and the support teams from the OpenSky company, 87 of them had light injuries and 7 had heavy injuries, but there was no death.
When the people saw no more living beasts in front of their eyes, they couldn't help but look around as if they couldn't believe it. They actually survived.
They killed more than six hundred beasts, including four Tier 3 beasts.
"To think this is possible."
Their expressions brightened. For a moment, they forgot their injuries and just hugged the person closest to them.
They were crying out loud, sharing their excitement.
Hana took the liberty to stand on top of the Tier 3 corpse and announced out loud, "Everyone! While there are some who sustain heavy injuries, they are still able to recover and return as an explorer. More importantly, no one is dead during this battle."
She paused for a moment to create a suspense before raising her fist. "So I declare… this battle is our… Victory!"