Training

Neo's face lost all color as he felt a very sharp pain in his knees, forcing him to kneel.

Destiny walked away, leaving Neo on his knees.

Neo sat motionless for a while, after a few minutes, Neo let out an angry roar to the skies.

Krystal Fc's next match was won easily, the anger that the rest of the team felt was exerted on their opponents. They doubled landmark's score and even added one extra by beating them seven to three.

The next match proved a little difficult, and Krystal Fc were disappointed that they didn't decimate their opponents just the way they wanted. Krystal Fc beat their opponents three goals to one.

The group stage was over and only strong teams remained in the round off sixteen. from here on, it was all out war, try underestimating your opponents and you would be out of the tournament in a heart beat.

Krystal Fc trained very hard, and soon, it was time to face Galaxy stars.

The encounter with Destiny Xavi flashed through Neo's mind. Neo felt goosebumps as he remembered that overbearing power that forced him to his knees no matter how he struggled.

Destiny was a second year, infact, all the teams in the tournament had reshuffled and many of them's lineup was even more impressive than that of Marbles.

Neo wasn't sure if they would have won the match against Marbles even if he hadn't passed out, after all he wouldn't hae lasted the entire second half in his God mode.

Neo wasn't even sure that Marbles would be able to defeat Galaxy stars. Even at that, he wasn't going to give up, if anything, he had his God mode and he wasn't going down without a fight.

Historically, marbles was the strongest team in the city, but that was only because of the soccer prodigies known as the soccer's bloodline. But Galaxy stars had also been a great team themselves, after all, they were the oneswho defeated the soccer bloodline, and shortly Neo was going to face Destiny who had proven to be a better striker than his senior brother who had scored the historic winnig goal against Marbles.

it was only two days to the match and all Krystal Fc players had the same thought in mind. they were all going to train their butts off today and rest the whole of tomorrow.

Neo wasn't the only one feeling the heat of the upcoming match, Eric was feeling it too. Just like Neo, Eric's life was placed on this tournament. If they lost the tournament, he would be forced to become a lawyer, something he despised. If Neo failed to bring the medal back home, he would be forced to become a banker. So this was a must win tournament for them, it was either they won this or they died.

Neo's rising popularity had given to the name ''The Floater'' Eric had always been an admirer of Neo, right from when they were younger. Neo was older than him with two years and that made him see Neo as some sort of football God, and he wanted to be like Neo, so he started training his passess more.

The passes that caught his attention the most was the backspin pass. Eric was wowed by the sharo trajectory of the passes and it's sudden fall in height. He loved it so much and wished to take it to the greatest heights ever, maybe someda when he became a proffessional footballer and achieved this, he would be known as the backspinner.

It was weird, lame and a little childish, but Eric didn't really care, once he achieved this, no one would consider it lame.

Cai was not left out, right now, he was at the beach, pulling a bunch of tyres as he ran on the sandy floor of the beach. it was exhausting and he wished he could collapse right now, but he still kept on going. What he was doing was known as killing three birds with one stone. firstly, his speed was increasing, his stamina was increasing, and his muscles were getting much stronger. The last part was not really football effective, but it helped a lot with the ladies!

Adrienne on hs own part was feeling useless, and to be very frank, he was. but at least he wanted to change it. being a midfielder, he was supposed to be assisting attacks and creating goal opportunities but he did know of that, right now, he focused on his dribbling more than anything. Dribbles were the fastest way to break a team and get to the box, he also trained his spatial awareness. It was weird jow he did that, but he refused to disclose it to anyone.

Adrienne's goal was to be able to tell what was happening on every part of the field at all times. and how was he going to do this?

Even though Krystal Fc trained seperately, their hearts were together.

And after 21 days of exhausting training, they slept through the last day and soon, it was time to decide their fate.