05.03.297 — a melee in honor of Deus Mariarnelia's birthday
Round 3
Axel, together with his wyvern, lunged at Lorican, dealing him insignificant damage. Lester, missing Rezara twice, knocked her out of the arena on the third strike and sent her for healing. Apparently, the poison was affecting the Dawnsteel Knight's condition too strongly. While Lorican and Gingkink were realizing what had happened, the Dawnsteel Knight once again blended into the surroundings and disappeared from everyone's field of view.
Coming to his senses, the Knight of Perfection shot at Bastion. Meanwhile, his rider, instead of fighting and putting up a proper resistance, cowardly ran past the opponents, leaving everyone behind. This nearly caused the morale of our coalition to drop. It was evident from Ambrose that he was ready to forget the original goal of defeating Albu's knights and lunge with his spear at Orvald to avenge such a strong deviation from the common plan.
Almost everyone looked displeased. Some chose to refrain from comments and excessive emotions. Only Lester's voice, sounding from everywhere and nowhere at once, suggested that the Golden Tower Knight's actions could be attributed to the fact that he sees no other way to achieve his victory, and he urged everyone to cool their ardor and remember the main goal of our union. The speech was addressed specifically to the Hegemony Knight, but it seemed to cool everyone's ardor. In any case, if anyone still saw Orvald as a team member after that, it was only a few. But no one attacked yet either.
While all this commotion was happening, Ferlyuts began to gradually close the distance with most of our coalition, simultaneously throwing a nail at Gingkink. With this action, he barely scratched the Crushing Strike Knight. Avesom, instead of taking action, preferred to take a break to heal with a flask. The ignited Bigchad did the same.
Nelia, exuding a terrifying aura, lunged at Tarantos but missed. Ambrose, meanwhile, cooled down, fully came to his senses, and abandoned the idea of attacking Knight Orvald. At least for now. Instead, he lunged with his spear at Lorican but slipped past. The Knight of Perfection also dodged Alaria's throwing knife.
Meanwhile, I accurately shot at Whitecalm, slightly piercing through his protective shell. But he reacted in accordance with his title. The Knight of Imperturbability only slightly frowned, as if an annoying mosquito had appeared nearby, then moved on, simultaneously depleting his flask's reserves.
While Gingkink and Tarantos, unable to hit anyone, moved forward, another gong strike sounded.

