Chapter 66: 4 vs 14

Sam and the group turned to look at the direction from which the claps are coming and they froze in their movements at the scene. There is a group of people walking towards them with two people in the lead.

Two of them had weapons in their hands. The group looked haggard and spent. But there is a glow in their eyes as if they are energised just now.

When they are a few feet away, the group stopped. There are 14 people in the group. It seems that two teams are combined.

"See that Drew. Here we are having hard time from two days without any warmth and suffering in the cold, eating wild vegetables and fruits, while these guys are even using the fire to take down prey."

"Yes, Ray. They even have two weapons. We had to sacrifice six members and work together with both our teams to get our hands on these two weapons. Here they are only four members and they are able to do this. I wonder if they are cheating."

"I don’t know about that. But these guys seemed to be the remaining members of the team six, we just took care earlier. The four members left must be these four guys."

The two guys in the lead named, Ray and Drew are speaking as if Sam and others are not present all.

Sam looked around and found three middle-aged men in black. Two of them standing side by side while the remaining one who is also the person, Sam is familiar with is standing opposite them.

Sam still felt his arm hurting a bit and is still exhausted from the struggle with the alligator. Jack is the only one who has fighting experience in close combat while both Eve and Shor aren’t of much help in this kind of situation. This situation is clearly at their disadvantage.The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.

Sam passed the dagger to Eve, then asked Shor. "Do you want the axe or are you fine with the pike?"

Shor was in a daze for a moment and looked at the axe in Sam’s hand. He thought for a moment before rejecting the axe. He knew clearly that the axe or pike wouldn’t really make any difference.

Sam nodded and stood beside Jack and looked at the group and mostly at the two people in the lead. He recognised the two men. They are the team members of the Falcon Cliff team and right now they are part of team1 and team 2 respectively.

Even though he is at the disadvantage, he didn’t show any weakness, for he knew that it will make the opponents confidence higher.

"Who is responsible for creating the fire?" Ray with the sabre in his hands asked them.

The four of them didn’t reply and just stayed silent.

"We will leave the person who can make the fire and only deal with the rest. You can also have points priority." Drew said as he played with the sword in his hands. He is very confident that the other party will agree immediately. But what awaited him was only silence.

"Surround them" Drew ordered as all of the immediately surrounded the group of four. Now, Sam’s group has stream behind them while they were surrounded on all the other sides.

Meanwhile, the elders are talking. The two elders who are together are smiling at the situation while the elder responsible for Sam’s team was just looking at the team peacefully. [A/N: for convenience sake, I will be referring to the Elder responsible for points noting as Elder-1 Elder-2 Elder-3.. and so on. So, Elder responsible for Sam’s team is Elder6 and the Elders from the opposite group are Elder 1 and Elder 2]

"How is it going Elder 6? You must have been frustrated to keep tabs on these people. How did they even get their hands on the two weapons?" Elder-2 asked.

"Yes, they are dumb enough to separate from the group. Compared to them, the groups 1 and 2 are better. They know that the more people will have more chance to survive." Elder 1 said from the side.

Elder-6 didn’t say anything. He knew that the two Elders are just trying to get under his skin. Even when they saw how Sam dealt with an alligator alone, they are still making these comments just because they are sure that team-6 will be eliminated.

Meanwhile, Ray and Drew are still threatening Sam and others to know how they got the fire. They are pretty sick of eating the fruits and they aren’t daring enough to eat raw meat.

After a few moments, Sam got sick of this and whispered to Jack.

"How many people can you handle?"

"I don’t know. I can take down four people by catching the off-guard. The rest will depend on the situation." Jack also answered in a whisper.

"Can you hold them back for five minutes?" Sam asked again.

"I will try." Jack answered after a slight pause. Sam hesitated for a minute and said to the three in a whisper.

After a few moments, Jack almost fell down, He supported himself with the bamboo sword in his hands as he looked at the two people.

Ray and Drew had smug expressions on their faces, as they looked at Jack. Just when they thought that Jack would beg them to leave, the latter started laughing mockingly which surprised them a lot.

They exchanged a glance as they came to a decision to take down Jack. But just as they took a step forward.

*BOOM* an explosion hit them from behind. They fell forward with their cloths burnt and their backs charred. They painfully looked behind and Sam stood there in his wet clothes, with two scrolls in his one hand and the other hand has a scroll which was open and lost all runes and split into two.

They gritted their teeth in anger and frustration. They were so content in taking care of Jack, they forgot Sam, who is in water. No. More like that they felt that the latter has no threat to them as he was in water. They didn’t think that the other party will take another route and sneak an attack on them. They gritted their teeth and broke their tokens as they felt the pain increase.

The three people who are in dead lock with Eve and Shor were distracted by a sudden explosion and gave a chance to Eve and Shor who didn’t miss. Just like that, the fourteen people who came to them were taken down and the four of them were still in the game.

Sam also collapsed on the ground as he laid on his back to rest. Eve and Shor also took a seat on the ground to take a break.

On the side. Elder-1 and Elder-2 are dumbstruck with what happened. They didn’t expect that the four members who are already exhausted and were also overly outnumbered will come out as winners.

"This is how they got the two weapons and survived until now." Elder-6 said from the side as he walked towards Sam. Elder1 and Elder2 felt their faces burning. They immediately left the spot.

"105 points in total for your team. How do you want me to distribute?" Elder-6 asked Sam who was still laying on the ground.

"Eve 25, Shor 25, Jack 28, Me 27." Sam said in a weak voice.

"Wait." Eve and Shor both shouted in unison. Elder-6 looked at them in askance.

"We didn’t really help much. We don’t need such high share." Eve said as she timidly looked at her feet.

Sam didn’t bother with her and just confirmed his earlier suggestion. Elder-6 nodded and left.

After a half an hour. The four of them are sitting around a camp fire as the alligator meat roasted on the fire.

Sam placed the two scrolls, which are yet to be opened.

"These are the point scrolls I got under water. There are three scrolls in total. One attack scroll and these two point scrolls. Each scroll has 20 points each. How do you guys want to divide them?" Sam asked as he looked at the other three.

"Take a scroll for yourself. We will share the other scroll. Jack will get ten, me and Eve will get five each." Shor was the first one to suggest.

Sam looked at Eve and Jack. Both of them nodded in approval. After all, they knew the efforts they put in capturing the alligators. Sam himself fought with one of them.

They collected the points with their badges. And started eating. The sun is setting as dusk approached while they appreciated the warmth from the flame as they ate the meat after the long struggle.

Right now, there are only two teams left in the forest and the other team is already in dire state. There are only two three people left.

Hawk and Kelly are taking care of the wounds on their body along with another teammate. Yesterday, they fought with other team and eliminated without losing any of their teammates. But today, they lost seven members as they encountered a wolf pack and only three of them were able to escape. But they came out with something.

"Are you sure, you want me to take this?" Hawk asked Kelly and the other guy. He is holding a scroll, which could partially unseal his cultivation. They had paid a price with seven teammates to get their hands on this. The other two nodded as a sign of approval.

Sam and others meanwhile are getting ready to rest. They don’t know that there are only two teams left in the forest and they are one of them. They are waiting for tomorrow.

[A/N: Sam and his team took down a team first, the one with Derek. Then they took down two teams today. Making a total of three. Hawk’s team took down another team. Now only two teams left.]

{Points Sam: 64

Jack: 53

Eve and Shor: 42}