As soon as the skeleton is destroyed, Sam made a move.
*SWOOSH* *SWOOSH*
*BOOM*
Rashma who just finished off such a critical opponent also made a move. He punched straight ahead in the empty air. To her surprise, Sam actually blocked her move. He was almost sent flying, if not for her tily stop, maybe he would have.
As for why he blocked his attack? In the original trajectory of her punch stood a stunned and stupefied young woman who is from Apollo's academy. She is soaked in sweat, shivering as if she was thrown into the harshest and whitest of the winters.
Sam looked at her and said.
"You should really think twice before you make a move. Just because the other two mbers of your team are dead because of idiocy, doesn't an you should walk the sa path as them."
The woman ca out of her stupor and gritted her teeth.
Her aura raged as if she wanted to attack Sam, but the latter just clicked his tongue and said. "Don't bother. You know it will not end well. For you to land an attack on , you will have to use all the things up your sleeve, for to kill you, all I have to do is step aside."
The woman, who is nad Grethen, controlled her anger as her gaze t with Rashma's. Judging by the latter's expression, it is obvious that she will kill her if Sam asks her to.
"Now that you cald down, do you mind explaining your sudden move? I thought you were just spying for your new boss, that is why I didn't say anything. But making a move on her? Particularly, after seeing what she did to that skeleton a couple of minutes ago? That is plain idiotic."
Grethen ignored Sam and looked at Rashma.
"I need to talk to you.
I don't know if you understand the situation of the pocket dinsion at the mont. But if you want to get out of here safely, we need to work together."
Rashma looked at her without answering.
Sam shrugged and waved his hand. The bones of the skeleton started flying towards him and into his storage.
Grethen extended her hand and caught one of them. However, she wasn't able to store it away. Sam's force is still pulling it.
"You better let that go." Sam spoke calmly.
The woman ignored him once again and said.
"It is you who destroyed this skeleton and look at this parasite already claiming the spoils. You know what kind of person he is. He is nothing but an opportunist who colluded with the Hub to work against the academy realm as a whole.
In a situation like this... you have to keep your back safe from him.
So, please let's talk privately."
Sam sighed and turned to Rashma.
"You want to talk to her? Or work with them? She is currently working with a bunch of other students from Olympian region, Norse region and so other smaller academies. You want to go there?"
Sam's question was direct and now, Rashma gave an answer.
"What do you want to do?"
Sam smiled and turned to Grethen.
"You heard her. She is part of the Gambler academy team and I will be talking on behalf of the Gambler academy students. There is no need for our star fighter to take the burden of talking with external people like you.
And before we talk, you better let that bone go. Or, I will take more than a bone."
Grethen was unwilling to let go and looked at Sam a tad bit stubbornly.
The next mont, she suddenly felt a hit of pain on the shoulder. She noticed that a very thin tear has appeared there with a faint streak of blood dripping out. She gulped nervously and let go of the bone.
But by then, the small tear turned into a huge tear, revealing her bone inside.
"Fuck."
She cursed out loud and started treating her arm. She didn't speak while she did that and fell into a deep thought. After so hesitation she finally spoke.
"I am sure, you understood the situation. The Black skeletons are way too powerful. Including Rashma, only three people managed to leave a nick on those skeletons. However, the count of the black skeletons is increasing.
And the idiotic thing you did to help them grow even more... the situation is out of hand. We cannot use the escape tokens.
We need to work together.
Currently, Drik from Loki academy is leading the team. He is the strongest among us. There is also another team being led by Hari from the Karthikeya academy. Our team mbers also sent an envoy to them and we are sure that we will be working together as well.
The team also spread out to find people that strayed. The only one left is Rashma and I am here to bring her with ."
"Only Rashma?"
Sam asked with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
Grethen pursed her lips without saying anything. She knew Sam is smart enough to know the hidden aning behind what she said. She need not explain herself more.
Sam turned to Crow and Rashma and said, "I am guessing, you have no qualms about making decisions?"
Both of them shook their heads. Sam nodded and said to Grethen.
"Alright, we will co along with you."
"Let guide you. I have created spots with concealnt formations. I also put up so surveillance formations around. We need to avoid the skeletons and move while halting in these concealnt formations."
Sam rolled his eyes and said.
"No need. Just take these."
Sam gave a few space tokens for all three of them and told them to break in a certain order.
After three tokens, all three of them appeared near a structure that looked like a huge tent. The only difference is its conjured by the black mud.
Soone used their earth elent to construct it.
Inside, there are around thirty plus people from different academies. They are not the whole team though. So people are out there scouting and fetching other people. According to Sam's calculations, there are a little more than a hundred people left. Two hundred people are out of the competition, but most of them are dead. From what the specters checked, the team led by Hari only has around twenty five to thirty people. The team
lead by Drik has fifty people. The remaining are strays.
They are being recruited by both the teams at the mont.
When the trio from Gambler academy walked in, they could feel the gazes of surprise. No one expected all three of them to be here.
And one of the Olympian academy candidates spoke their thoughts out loud.
"Grethen, why did you bring all three? You mission is to only bring on person, Rashma. Why
did you bring that extra baggage here?"
Grethen gritted her teeth, but didn't answer. She couldn't care less about what these thought
and turned to Sam.
"You three wait here. I will bring Drik here. This is the outer area. You are only allowed until
this point until you join the team."
She didn't wait for an answer.
Crow sneered and said.
"These guys seed to have planned to stay here for a long ti. They even established hierarchy. Do you really think that we should work together with them?"
He didn't hide his tone and spoke out loud. This of course attracted a few sharp and scornful
gazes.
Sam just chuckled and said.
"We will see." Soon, Drik ca out of the room with a deep frown. He looked at Sam and said.
"We are not interested to work with you. We are only interested in talking to Rashma." He
ca straight to the point.
"You can try. I don't really have any objections." Sam said directly even stepped to the side
and gesturing him to talk to Rashma.
But Rashma frowned and said.
"Talk to him, or we leave."
That is all she said. She didn't even look at Drik.
"Now, do you want to talk to ?"
Drik hesitated and said. "How can we even trust you? Would you trust yourself if you are in my place?"
"First of all, that 'what if' scenario you just ntioned... cross it off your mind and never think
of it again. I will not be in your position. Never.
Second of all, what choice do you have?
I will be honest. At the mont, I ca here with these two, just because I am curious. I didn't co here out of necessity. Right now, I have the most information, I have the most things set up in the pocket dinsion, I have most number of bag of tricks and finally, I have the strongest fighter in the pocket dinsion with .
The only fighter who has yet to actually defeat a skeleton and no less a black skeleton. If anything, I should be asking you questions about why we should even join you."
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