Because of the distrust Nathan sowed into the enemy's ranks, everyone was a bit skeptical about working with Rudeus.
The students ended up dividing into three groups. The first group would be those who wanted to suck up to Rudeus by trusting him. The second group simply wanted to fight by themselves, not trusting anyone except for their pair.
The last problem was the one problematic for August. They actually made a coalition to take down both the Nathan-Selena pair and the August-Rudeus pair. It was as if they had been betrayed by them and just wanted to take the top spot for themselves.
Their ambition had halted Rudeus' progress from taking over the event.
Rudeus did his best to convince them, but Nathan manipulated them so well with his status. By turning into a victim himself, he managed to provoke everyone's empathy.
Although no one wanted to side with him and Selena, it was enough to buy them time.
With half of the island remaining, Rudeus and these three groups had to share their resources.
Obviously, they claimed one part of the island as their territory, preventing anyone from coming near it.
However, the biggest problem was the only water source on this island.
If someone actually took over that pond, they could eliminate the rest of the opposition right away.
That was why Rudeus had to take over the pond. As long as he got it, he could force them to submit to him.
Little did they know, that process would take a long time.
In the meantime, Nathan and Selena took this opportunity to set up their camp, waiting for the fire to run out of fuel.
"How is it?" Nathan asked while glancing at a huge boulder.
Yin Zhen had split this boulder into two and started destroying the inner part.
"It should be done soon. We can use this boulder as a basin for all that water." Yin Zhen nodded.
"Don't worry about getting sick. Anubis can heal you." Nathan nodded. "Selena."
"I've done my best, but it's impossible to close the entrance. People will know about this cave sooner or later," said Selena as she returned.
They had found a cave as a shelter. The cave wasn't that deep, so the light could still enter.
The hobgoblin and goat-person tried to help him. Unfortunately for them, a wolf suddenly pounced on the goat-person. The goat-person blocked his paws, but the enemy's momentum was too much and pushed him to the ground.
The hobgoblin sustained a much more serious injury as a dragon dove from above the trees and crushed him with his weight.
The cat-person was also blown away by a single punch, allowing the human to approach their summoner.
With a gun motion, he pointed it at the summoner's head. "Stop. You have died."
The summoner widened his eyes, glaring at his enemy, who turned out to be Nathan.
"Uuuu!" The guy wanted to say something, but the teacher had arrived.
"You have died. Further participation will result in your team getting disqualified." Jason suddenly appeared next to them. "Nathan. Cease your action right now. Ran, you also have to recall your familiars."
With Jason's order, Ran didn't have any other choice.
When he recalled his familiars, Anubis released him as Jason brought him back to the ship.
Anubis said, "We should hurry if we want to defeat another student. It's going to rain pretty soon."
"Is that so?" Nathan lifted his head, staring at the black cloud in the sky. "In that case..."
Nathan changed his plan a little bit.
...
A few minutes later.
Everyone could hear another dragon's cry coming from the other side of the island as rain started pouring down.
It was as if the dragon was unwilling to accept that his fire would be extinguished soon.
Unfortunately, they couldn't do anything. Fighting in the rain would just tire them out or even make them sick.
Hence, most of them retreated to their camp, waiting for the rain to stop, which only happened several hours later after the night came.
Unbeknownst to them, there was one more person stepping onto the island during the night where most activities had ceased.
The person pointed his palm at the ground as a magic circle formed, letting out a dim green light.