Chapter 166: Making Useless Friends
At the 17th round of the competition, on Soya's side, who had let Ivan collect the bracelets, the others followed Soya because they wanted an explanation. The seven people who had walked quite a distance away from Ivan stood in a circle. Miran asked, "What happened? Didn't you just cut off that amputated arm?" Miran looked at Soya as if she was looking at someone suspicious. Soya nodded, "It seems that Eden won't show up. He'll probably wait until we fight to the death before coming to see us. The reason why he let that amputated boy collect the bracelets without objecting was to use that guy with a broken leg and only one missing arm as bait and to ensure that no one else would be holding the bracelets. To provide another layer of protection, do any of you think you can lose to a boy with an injured arm and leg that has to walk while dragging his feet?" Soya asked the others.
Tia smiled, "There's no way. If you lost to that guy who is covered in wounds and you even went as far as to go behind his back to prove it, that guy is definitely pathetic. Those wounds all over his body aren't from a fight. If you lose, you'll have to reconsider yourself." Tia nodded. Even though the other kids were dissatisfied, they agreed. Moros thought for a while. "What's the next plan? If it continues like this, we'll definitely attack each other." Moros asked for their opinion on what to do next. Soya, who had a calm face, thought. "How would she know? If that guy didn't come, we would definitely start a fight. We allowed that broken-armed guy to collect the bracelets to stop the connection before it started to break on its own, but it seems like it's starting to break a little. We started collecting the bracelets to speed up Eden's arrival. Ever since we scattered the bracelets, that guy hasn't gone to collect the bracelets from anywhere else, not even a single one. It's like he's letting us start collecting the bracelets, grouping them together, and fighting each other. He's so wicked. I can't guess that guy's plan at all. It's like we're fighting each other to get the bracelet. This is bad luck. Eden's position is uncertain. We have to split up and search for him. If we find him, we have to send a signal. As for the bracelet that the arm is missing, we have to gather it all together in one pile. That can't be done. We have to divide it up equally. At least we can use the arm that's missing to help find it. Soya, who was trying to find a good way to win, thought of something with stress. Soya spoke up. "We'll divide all the bracelets up equally. When we're done dividing them up, we'll split up and search for Eden to find where he is. As for the arm that's missing, let him help out. Does anyone object?" Soya said without any urgency. The others started to think. "Sure, if it continues like this, Eden won't come. Split up and search for him. When we find him, quickly send a signal to the bracelet to indicate his location and secretly follow him. We'll need to use a large number of people to deal with that guy because if we let it go like this, Eden will win even though we lost before we even got to fight. "Moros agreed with Soya's plan. The others started to agree when they made up their minds and rushed forward.
Ivan who was walking dragged his legs while looking at the radar and his leg hit a rock causing him to fall to the ground with his face on the ground. He thudded. Soya's group ran around Ivan whose face was on the ground. Ivan started to look up and saw a dragon child standing in front of him with a calm expression. "Alright, you have two choices. One is to join us and I will let you have a second life. If you want to win, come and help us and you will have a chance to win." Soya spoke up and made an offer. Ivan who was very confused tried to get up when a child's foot stepped on Ivan's back with a lot of force. Ivan started to feel pain and couldn't stand up. The man's voice said. "You have to give me an answer first or else I'm not allowed to get up." Miran said with a smile on her face with bloodlust and threatened Ivan.
Ivan nodded quickly and fearfully, "Okay, okay. I choose the second option. Please give me the second option." After Ivan finished speaking, Miran removed his foot from Ivan's back with satisfaction. Ivan did not dare to stand up because he was afraid of Miran who was standing behind him. And there were seven children in total surrounding Ivan. Zoya who was watching, "Get up. Looking down is tiring." "Get up. From now on, you are our team. Welcome to our team. My name is Zoya, nice to meet you." Zoya reached out to Ivan to pull the lying Ivan up. Ivan did not dare to hold Zoya's hand much, so he reached out with a trembling face. Zoya, seeing Ivan slowing down, reached out her own hand to pull Ivan's hand up, looking at Ivan whose face was covered in wounds and mud.
Ivan smiled at Zoya, holding her hand. "My name is Ivan. Thank you for letting me join your team." Ivan shook Zoya's hand slightly as a greeting. Zoya nodded and started to let go of Ivan's hand, and the others started to introduce themselves. After they introduced themselves, Zoya started to use Ivan. "Now Ivan, to show that you will cooperate, you must help us find the other blonde boy, and when you find him, you can either buy time or follow the blonde. And leave your bracelet to signal that you found him. This is our first mission. Can you do it?" Ivan gave Zoya a thumbs-up with his left hand, smiling like a child who didn't know how to smile. "We can do it. You can trust me. Then I will start our journey at the designated location." Zoya nodded. "Great. Then, let's split up." The others ran in different directions, spreading out to search for Aiden. Ivan, who saw the others disappearing from sight at high speed, shouted to gain more strength. "Yaaaaaa!!" Ivan tried to run, but he couldn't because his leg was injured, so he had to drag his own leg along while screaming. Yaaaaaa!!! Soya, who was still looking because she wasn't in a hurry, was stunned with embarrassment and a little shy because she saw Ivan, who was dragging his legs, shouting to encourage her. Soya even slapped her forehead in confusion. "I chose this job for you, is it really good?" Soya looked for a while with Ivan's voice shouting all the time and then disappeared.
On the other side, Eden, who was lying looking at the radar, saw the bracelet signal gradually disappear from the radar, which was in many small spots and disappeared. "Hmm, starting to collect all the bracelets, huh? It seems that his patience is low. They must be chasing me by dispersing for sure. But this is my way. I'm the perfect one at predicting the future. But because I'm better than those guys, it's more like that. The next biggest problem is whether there will be a black ring boy or not. If I meet him, it's definitely bad luck, but if I don't, it's good. Collecting more bracelets than anyone else is only two times better than the black ring boy. If there were no black ring boy, I wouldn't have to use this kind of trick to wait here. At first, I thought of going to find those guys one against six. Just level two, six people definitely wouldn't be enough. Eh, is the person who took the bracelet a black ring boy? If that's the case, then it's going to be difficult. Actually, I was planning to go find them to fight, and if they saw how strong the black ring boy was, then they would join forces with me as the center of the fight. The situation would turn into one black ring boy versus me and six other boys. It can't be helped, this is dangerous. It's better to reveal the location quickly. One against seven is better than going one against one with a monster. "Eden jumped down from the tree with a thud, took off the bracelet and placed it on the ground with great speed to reveal his location, and smiled. "If you can't find one against seven, then that's fine." On one side, the other boys who were about to spread out to find him stopped at a great speed. Soya, who was walking, looked at the radar with a confused expression. "What? The blonde guy left the signal? If that's the case, then lure us to find him. That's just the way it is. Isn't that why you don't want to go to the area we prepared, but you want to go to an area where you have an advantage? Now you understand that no one wants to go to the enemy's territory. You look down on them but you're not careless, right? If that was the case, the others would definitely be heading towards Eden. But why did they have to reveal their location?» Zoya took off her bracelet and placed it on the ground, looking at the radar. The other children who were looking at the radar understood the meaning and started running towards the new bracelet that appeared. They set off towards Zoya, who was standing there, not putting away her bracelet, waiting for the others to gather.