Almost at the very instant the signal arrived, the contestants waiting under the Sky-reaching Pillar shot forth like arrows loosed from a bow, each employing their own techniques to launch an assault toward the top of the pillar.
"Yoooo—"
With a sharp, piercing cry, the Broken Jade Kite, which had seemed to be resting with its eyes closed, suddenly snapped open its aquamarine eyes and flapped its wings, soaring into the sky.
With an overwhelming and powerful beat of its wings, a hurricane instantly rose all around, whipping up the dust from the ground.
Though it was of the Fighting Attribute, its momentum at takeoff was even fiercer than the Wind Attribute beasts.
An invisible force wrapped around its wings, as if it was unleashing an endless surge of power, violently displacing the air and turning it into a mighty force to propel itself upward.
