The battle was over much quicker than expected.

The five gathered squads were all from different schools and therefore not particularly united. At the first sign of stormy weather, they scattered quickly.

Several minutes later, they were all fleeing in different directions.

Some of them had even been eliminated.

There were two ways of being eliminated in the hall-level competition. Incapacitation-level injuries would trigger a burst of energy from one's anima gourd that would carry the person out of the arena.

The other was if one's anima gourd was smashed. That meant that the person no longer had the qualifications to continue.

The anima...