Damn it! Which path did Shannon and her team actually take?
…
Meanwhile, Shannon and her team had arrived on the third floor. They had successfully broken yet another array.
While waiting for the next reading on the directions, Skylar asked Lexie, "What did you and Mike write on the paper figures earlier? Their spiritual energy is probably too weak to hold the other teams off."
Lexie giggled and pinched her fingers, saying, "Just some tiny, little provocative remarks. They're not enough to hold them back, but they sure can piss someone off."
It was worth it as long as it could infuriate the person who bullied Skylar.
Skylar initially wanted to lecture her that everyone should be fair and square in this tournament, as leaving a note to irritate others wasn't quite honorable.
Yet, when he considered how Maya's team was most likely to be the one behind them, he thought it was… reasonable.
After all, it was a tournament where everyone was supposed to showcase their skills. Disrupting the opponent's momentum was just another common tactic. So, yes, it was reasonable.
While they spoke, they saw Shannon alone at the entrance fiddling with something. Before long, they were shocked to see she had restored the array on the gate, which they had previously disrupted!
While it wasn't a replica, it was sufficient to give any students who came later a challenge.
Meanwhile, the Jamboroughians watching the live streams were angered.
"These Seastonians are low! All they know is to use cheap tricks to provoke others! This is a college tournament; how could they create obstacles for their opponents?"
"Reworked its mechanics? What does that mean?" a newcomer asked curiously.
That person explained, "She modified the original array, so if the later arrivals try to solve it using the original method, they'll most likely fail…"
The crowd descended into silence.
Was Shannon the devil's incarnate? How did she expect the other teams to decode it?
As if to validate the audience's worry, Maya and her team coincidentally arrived at the main gate on the third floor. The member responsible for breaking the array quickly went up.
Then, their initial look of confidence slowly crumbled into a frenzy. "Why… Why do the array patterns seem so different from what our lecturers taught us?"
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