"As the leader, it's only natural that I beat down everyone chasing me!"
Lock took off the flight gear on his back, and Mei Hatsume skillfully took it and strapped it on herself, keeping the three of them suspended in the air.
Lock suddenly jumped down, and the dragon wings spread out behind him!
"Wings!"
As long as the rider didn't touch the ground, the Cavalry Battle rules were practically tailor-made in Lock's favor.
If he were the one wearing the 10-million-point headband, he could fly into the sky alone and run out the whole 15 minutes of the Cavalry Battle.
His hands ignited with blazing flames, and the air was scorched, twisting with an unbearable sound.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"
Lock punched out as he fell from the sky, unstoppable!
"Steel!"
Tetsutetsu's expression changed, and he crossed his arms in front of him to block. The next moment, his arms hardened like steel.
Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu's Quirk, Steel, was similar to Eijiro Kirishima's Hardening, adding a layer of steel to the arms.
BOOM!
A huge sound rang out as the metal was struck. The fire smelted the steel, and the flames fiercely eroded Tetsutetsu's hardened arms.
"Tetsutetsu!"
Several members of Tetsutetsu's team cried out, because Tetsutetsu's body fell heavily backward, and his steel-like arms had been scorched black.
"It's not that easy to block my iron fist."
The corners of Lock's mouth turned up. Tetsutetsu's Quirk reminded him of Gajeel's Iron Dragon Slayer Magic.
However, in the Phantom Lord arc, when Gajeel dueled Natsu, the final winner was Natsu of Fire Dragon Slayer Magic!
"Dark Shadow!"
Whoosh, cutting through the sound of the wind. Lock couldn't snatch the headband himself, but Tokoyami, suspended in mid-air by the support gear, seized the opportunity and used Dark Shadow to bite the headband off Tetsutetsu's head.
They got the headband!
"Oh my god, unbelievable! Lock suddenly rushed back, completed a beautiful combination with his teammates, and snatched the headband from Tetsutetsu's team!"
Present Mic gave a passionate, loud commentary, and the audience was also impressed by the wonderful teamwork of Lock's aerial assault and Tokoyami's Dark Shadow sneak attack. The whole venue resounded with shouts for Lock's team.
"Don't worry, I controlled my strength and the heat. He'll wake up soon."
Lock said this to Honenuki and the others on Tetsutetsu's team. Maliciously hurting others was not allowed in the Cavalry Battle, otherwise Tetsutetsu's arms would have been burned black.
The hunter and the hunted had switched places, and Lock flew back to his team proudly.
"As expected of a pro hero. Compared to ordinary Hero Course students, the gap is huge."
"That bird-headed kid's Quirk is amazing too, don't you think?"
"By the way, that flying support gear seems to have been invented by the pink-haired girl, and it seems pretty functional."
The audience in the stands was still discussing the battle between Lock's team and Tetsutetsu's team, all of them exclaiming in admiration.
"How about it? Aren't my babies cute?"
Mei Hatsume saw some eyes turning toward her and waved her arms excitedly.
Her Quirk, Zoom, let her see everything in the stands clearly, and the babies she had invented had definitely entered the sights of the big companies.
"Not bad, but the endurance is too short and needs to be improved."
Lock turned his head to praise her, then looked at the flight support gear and saw that it seemed to be low on fuel and about to stop thrusting.
Mei Hatsume pressed the button again and kept lowering the thrust, letting the four of them land smoothly.
"Yes, yes!"
As soon as they landed, Mei Hatsume showed off triumphantly, while Kyoka Jiro next to her pouted.
Very upset!
While Lock's team was chatting, the battles elsewhere in the arena were quite heated. Because of the strength Lock's team had just shown, the surrounding teams didn't dare to come forward and compete for the time being.
So they set their sights on Izuku Midoriya's team.
With Midoriya as the rider, Rikido Sato was the front horse, with Ochaco Uraraka and Toru Hagakure on the flanks.
Midoriya's team and Lock's team were both leading teams, but in the face of their pursuers, Midoriya's team chose to wander and flee around the field.
Fortunately, with Ochaco Uraraka's Zero Gravity lightening the burden, Izuku Midoriya also cleverly dodged several attacks and barely protected his 10-million-point headband.
Of the 15 minutes, 7 had passed like this, and the match was about halfway through.
In the commentary room, Present Mic said loudly, "After seven minutes of fierce fighting and challenges, let's take a look at how the scores in each team's hands have changed!"
On the big screen, the moment the score rankings appeared, the audience and Present Mic all took a deep breath.
"Wait a minute, this ranking is quite unexpected!"
Only the top four in the Cavalry Battle could advance. However, in the current ranking, apart from Lock in first place, only the fifth-place Shoto Todoroki team had points among Class A. The remaining three Class A teams, including Katsuki Bakugo's, had 0 points!
And aside from the second-place Monoma team and the third-place Kendo Itsuka team, both from Class B,
the fourth place was actually the team led by Hitoshi Shinso from Class C of the General Studies Department!
Among the 42 students who passed the qualifier, the total number of students from Class A and Class B was 41 (the extra student being Lock, who isn't counted in the rankings), with the remainder being Hitoshi Shinso from Class C and Mei Hatsume from Class H.
It could be said that this Cavalry Battle was a confrontation between the two Hero Course classes.
However, unlike Class A, where everyone wanted to snatch the 10-million-point headband on Midoriya's head,
Class B, except for Tetsutetsu's team, was working together to attack Class A!
Their plan was to eliminate every team in Class A!
"Is this how Endeavor's son performs? Isn't he supposed to have the potential and pedigree to surpass All Might?"
"Looking at it this way, Class A's reputation was totally overblown. And Bakugo, the one from the sludge villain incident, is now at 0 points."
"Yeah, it seems Class A is only worth watching for now."
All of a sudden, the audience's attitude toward Class A had reversed completely. This ranking was truly disappointing.
Over on Katsuki Bakugo's side.
A team from Class B took the initiative to challenge him. Bakugo, who wanted to snatch Midoriya's headband right away, first had to deal with the opponents in front of him.
However, just as Bakugo grabbed the opponent's headband and started wrapping it around his head, Monoma's team suddenly rushed out from beside him.
As the rider, Monoma made a hooking motion and snatched the two headbands from Bakugo's head. Besides his own team's headband, he also had the headband of Class A's Minoru Mineta's team around his neck, which meant he now had four headbands in hand!
"Reaping the spoils while others fight. Class A really are simple-minded," Neito Monoma said to Bakugo with a sarcastic smile.
"What the hell are you talking about, bastard? I'm gonna kill you!"
"Heh." Monoma snorted coldly with disdain and continued, "Didn't you realize the qualifier couldn't possibly have been just to cut down the number of participants? It was to see everyone's Quirks!"
The enraged Bakugo didn't wait for the opponent to finish speaking and threw an explosive punch.
BOOM!
However, after the lingering smoke of the explosion dissipated, Monoma's two arms had turned into the same steel as Tetsutetsu's Quirk, blocking Bakugo's attack.
"Your Quirk is really good!" Monoma swung his arm and attacked with a backhand, and an explosion like Bakugo's Quirk actually came out of his palm.
Monoma's Quirk, Copy, let him use another person's Quirk for 5 minutes after touching them, and he couldn't use two or more Quirks at the same time.
At this point, the Class B team whose headband Bakugo had snatched, leaving them at 0 points, took the initiative to hold Bakugo in place.
"What we need to do next is run around and stall to make sure our points stay in the top four, while the Bakugo team is held off by us."
It turned out that all of this was a tactic discussed by the whole of Class B!
They had selected the first-tier fighters of their class to form a team responsible for taking Class A's points, while the weaker members formed teams specially responsible for interference and delay.
Like Tetsutetsu's team, whose headband had been taken by Lock and the others, Tetsutetsu had volunteered to let Monoma copy his Quirk before the Cavalry Battle started.
"You bastard... you've really pissed me off." Bakugo gritted his teeth, his whole body stiff with rage.
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