Chapter 108 Rain Begins

Mako and the girls made it out of the cave just in the nick of time and the Terra Beetle King was left confused as to how could its prey escape when it had damaged them so much.

The cave entrance was a couple of feet above the ground so as soon they left the entrance they would fall down a bit. Normally it wouldn't have been an issue as they were strong enough to fall that height without a care in the world; however, this time the case was different.

If they were to land on the ground normally, the shockwave from the landing would definitely be enough to rip apart the stitches that were holding together their fragile skin.

Mako was the first to jump as he fell down with speed. Using his fire ability, he released his aura as pure flames from under his feet which created thrust. The thrust countered the falling force just enough so that Mako landed gently on the ground.

Next were the two girls who carefully carried Leon's body. Iris was holding him by his shoulders and Erin was holding him by his legs. They also jumped but they made sure to jump at the exact same time so that they would remain completely horizontal and that Leon's body won't experience any stretching.

They quickly fell down and were about to hit the ground when suddenly they decelerated while in mid-air and smoothly landed on the ground. This was Erin's doing as she had used the Wind ability to stop their fall by slowing them down and cushioning their landing.

'Impressive,' Mako commented in his mind as he observed the great skill being performed by Erin.

The Beetle king's screech could be heard from within the cave and it sounded pretty angry. All of them had made it safely onto the ground and Erin decided to carry Leon alone as she was stronger than Iris in terms of strength and Iris would carry his backpack.

The two girls didn't have their own backpacks so it wasn't like they had to carry their own things as well, and with that, all five of them made their escape from the advanced tier beast. They quickly created distance between them and the cave so that even if the Beetle King decided to look outside the cave, it won't be able to find them.

They reached the small stream where Mako fished before and decided to stop here and rest since the girls were already quite exhausted and the additional exercise took out the little bit of energy they had left.

They laid Bill and Leon against a smooth tree and the girls collapsed right next to them, completely tired, out of energy, and exhausted. Mako wanted to speak with them again but they were in no condition to talk as they also quickly fell asleep as soon as they lay against the cool smooth tree.

Mako found himself in the exact same situation as before, but only this time he had to look after twice the amount of people.

"Well, at least we don't have a threat of being attacked by an advanced-tier beast out here," Mako said trying to make the situation look a bit positive for himself.

Mako was also low on energy but it wasn't so low that he couldn't do regular tasks that didn't require the use of abilities. The energy manipulation ability had given Mako a boost in perception and stamina.

Both of these boosts were quite helpful as this meant that Mako now had a greater base perception compared to the perception he had even after he activated Motion Sense during the time when he first arrived on the island.

This level of perception was enough for Mako to feel safe because he could detect motion within a small range so that they would never get surprise attacks by beasts or other cadets.

Secondly, Mako's gain in stamina meant that he could basically function for longer periods of time before tiring himself out.

It was now noon, and yet there wasn't much sunshine and the weather was actually quite nice. Mako quickly got to work by first gathering materials to make a campfire and fishing for food from the stream that was right next to them.

While looking around Mako also found a loot crate hidden inside the exposed roots of one of the trees. He struggled a bit before finally getting the loot crate out of there. Mako got really lucky with this one even though there were only two items inside.

The screen on the lid of the loot crate displayed:

[Medium Tier Healing Pills x 2]

[Medium Tier Dark Wing's Shiv]

Not only did Mako receive more healing pills which he was in desperate need of, but Mako also got a medium-tier power weapon that he quickly used Analyze on.

[Medium Tier Dark Wing's Shiv] ⓘ

[A 2-inch small blade forged from the crystals and flesh of Dark Wings found in (Unknown). A decent quality blade forged by (Unknown)]

[Strength +15]

[Attack: 30]

[Active skill: Infect] ⓘ

[Infect: When an opponent is stabbed with this knife, the user can choose to activate the skill. Once activated, the blade will secrete a small amount of venom from the tip of the blade causing the opponent to have auditory and visual hallucinations.]

[The venom secreted by the blade is quite weak and loses its effect after 5 minutes. The cooldown for the blade to use the active skill again is 3 hours]

It was a decent weapon with a great active skill and unique design. It was a short blade that looked like a tooth and the grip looked like the fur of the beast. The hilt of the blade had the shape of the head of a bat with two small red eyes.

Mako put the shiv in his backpack, picked up the empty loot crate, and hurried back to the camp to give Bill and Leon the healing pills which will hasten their recovery time. When he got back, all four of them were exactly in the same position as he had left them.

Mako fed Bill and Leon the pills and started working on cooking some fish. Unlike Bill and Leon who were unconscious because of their condition, Iris and Erin were simply knocked out from exhaustion, and by the time they woke up, they would be super hungry.

Mako wanted to get some information out about these girls and the best approach he could think of was to cook them a meal to eat. Since Mako was unable to find a tablet close to the vicinity of the cave even though Brigadier Jones had said that they were relatively easy to find, Mako didn't have much information regarding what was happening elsewhere on the island.

Information was most important and Mako could learn a lot from these two so he sat patiently by another tree as he patiently waited for them to wake up. In the meantime, Mako had also set a fire which was currently boiling water that Mako had collected using the empty loot crate.

Once the water was done boiling and cooled off a bit, Mako took several big sips and quenched his own thirst. Mako didn't have anything to eat or drink ever since he was knocked out during his duel against Leon and he was quite thirsty at this point.

Mako was going to put the fish on next to cook and eat but nature had other plans for Mako as soon as the clouds started rumbling. Before Mako could even react, small droplets of water started to fall on his face.

It was starting to rain.

The rain would ruin the campfire completely and they won't be able to cook any food. Mako needed to think of a solution quickly or else all his hard work for catching the fish and making a fire would be useless if he couldn't cook and eat it.

He was already low on energy and needed to replenish himself soon or else he would enter into that crazed hungry mode like he did when he used up all his energy while punching the tree.

Mako remembered that there was a piece of tarp in each backpack. He quickly took out the tarp from all three backpacks. He could have just attached the tarp over their heads by using the trees as support around him but that would be a huge mistake as the smoke from the campfire could cause the tarp to burn.

He had to attach the tarp a bit further high up so that it wasn't affected by the smoke. Using the string that was also included in the backpack, Mako used High Jump to reach as high as he could and then attach the tarp around the trees.

As for the two remaining tarps, Mako held onto them for now and would put them according to the direction of the rain. Right now, the water droplets were falling straight down so he only needed to cover their top, but if the wind made the water droplets change direction, he could put up another tarp that could block out the water from that direction as well.

After making sure the tarp was secure, Mako jumped back down and was going to resume his cooking when he heard a noise come from behind. He turned around and could see Iris' eyes twitching as she was starting to wake up.

Although it was earlier than Mako had expected, he was happy that she was waking up as it would be nice if he could have someone to talk to and he could also get some information about what else has been going on on this freaky island.