My Space-Time System

Staying high in the air, Serhan watched 10 fireballs fly into the air, signifying that all the teams left had agreed to his plan to team up against that of Blake.

Also, he was able to spot 3 areas that didn't fire the signal. 2 areas were definitely from the eliminated team while another was Blake's camp, so all they had to do was check it out.

The plan involved every team sending out 5 of their strongest to attack Blake while the remaining 5 protected their flags in case someone was trying to fool them.

With 50 students Serhan was more than confident that they could take down Blake using sheer number.

"Let's get going." Serhan said after selecting 4 of the strongest from his team which included Vlad, Castiel, Kade, and another demoted 2nd-year student.

"It is clear that they plan on eliminating every team, so how are you sure that they would still be in the same location?" Castiel asked.

"He should have seen the signal, so he would try to protect his flag. If he decides not to protect his flag we would simply destroy it and then track him down. Either way, it is a win-win situation." Serhan said.

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The moment Blake stepped out of the spatial corridor and unto the grass of his camp, he saw fireballs going into the sky.

Immediately, Blake flew into the sky and not only counted 10 fireballs, but he also saw the locations from which all of them emanated.

"Nice fireworks, at least things are about to get interesting." Blake couldn't help but smile as he flew back to the ground.

"From the beginning of time, humans had always remained divided. The only thing that usually unites them is the appearance of a greater evil." Blake thought.

Right after team selection was over, Blake had been keeping an eye on every team because he suspected something like this would happen.

Sure enough, when all the members of each team met up, Blake saw members of Serhan's team move to other teams.

He found it quite suspicious, that was why he didn't bother explaining his intentions in case there were moles on his team.

"What do all those fireballs mean?" A member couldn't help but ask Blake.

"Every team is planning on attacking us." Blake said.

"Are you serious?" This time his 7 teammates asked.

"Yes, why would I lie?" Blake couldn't help but chuckle after seeing the dread in their eyes.

He understood their reaction, because they couldn't phantom going against every student, and even if he could defeat them all, their safety wasn't assured.

"I will be back." Blake said as he returned to Damon through the dagger he had given him.

"You guys saw the signal right?" Blake said to Luciano.

Luciano was the smartest person Blake knew, even smarter than him. So if he was able to detect and decipher their plan, he was sure Luciano had also done that.

"What do you guys suggest we do?" Damon asked.

"We fight them." Blake and Luciano said in unison.

"Are you sure we can take on every student?" Damon couldn't help but ask.

"First of all, we won't be fighting everyone because no one would want to leave their flags unprotected. So my guess is that each team would send half of their members." Blake explained.

"Secondly, it would be only 2 of us that would do the fighting, while you go and take out all their flags. We don't want a situation where they keep coming back."

With 5 of the weakest members of the team protecting their flag, it would only take seconds for any of them to wipe out any team.

So the reason he wanted Damon and not Luciano to do it was because he would be quicker in covering the distance between each team's camp.

As for defending their flag, it was a must that Blake was there to protect it, if not even Luciano would be overwhelmed.

"Finally, I want you to use 10k points to move the location of the flag after wiping out the next team." Blake explained all of his plans.

"Alright then." Since he saw no problem with all of the plans, Damon agreed.

With that settled, Blake proceeded to give Damon the location of every area the fireballs came from.

"Also, I need you to alert us by firing mana bombs into the air after destroying each flag. The number of mana bombs should be the same as the team flag that was destroyed." Blake said before he and Luciano returned to the flag.

"Alright now, I want you all to split up and move as far away from here as possible." Blake said to his 7 team members.

Although he was confident that he and Luciano were enough to defend their flag, he still wanted to make sure that if everything was to go wrong, his team wouldn't be totally eliminated

"What about the flag? Isn't it better we all defend it?" The demoted 2nd-year student asked.

"We can handle it, and you guys would just be dead weight. No offense." Blake said.

"None taken." His team members said.

None of them were above the 30th rank, while most of those coming were above them. So it would be useless for them to die when they wouldn't have any impact in the battle.

With that being settled, the 7 members of the team split up and left their camp.

Once everyone was gone, Blake and Luciano start down cross-legged on the grass and began chatting as they waited for the enemies to arrive.

In less than 5 minutes, the system detected students coming from all parts of the forest surrounding them. Blake and Luciano could even see them coming in the direction of the hill in front of them.

"What took you guys so long? I almost slept because of boredom." Blake said to Serhan who just as he yawned.

"Only 50? Are you sure you guys are serious about eliminating us?" Blake asked with a raised brow causing most of the students to swallow their saliva.

"It is disappointing because I thought this would be challenging." Luciano joined Blake in playing mind games on them.

"Don't let your guard down, we have no clue where Damon is." Serhan said to the others.

That was when a single mana bomb was shot high in the sky, causing everyone to look in that direction.

"That's the location of my team!" The Team leader of team 1 shouted with his eyes filled with dread.

"Seems like you found where Damon is at." Blake chuckled, but that was when everyone watched as their flag disappeared.

"I just checked the leaderboard 10k was deducted from their points." A student verified that their flag had really been moved to a different location.

"What should we do?" A student couldn't help but ask because there was a lot of tension in the air.

'Why can't anything go as planned?!' Serhan cursed.

Attacking Blake and Luciano was useless because even if they could defeat them, they would just respawn at the location of their flag.

If he chose to split up the forces to chase down Damon, then their defeat would be set in stone because he was already having doubts that 50 would be enough.

In the case that they tried running away, Blake alone could effortlessly chase them to their flags and end them all at once.

'There is still the option of killing ourselves and respawning at our flags, but to what end?'

'No team here can defend against them, so we would just be sitting ducks waiting for our turn to get butchered. Destroying our flags and eliminating ourselves would even be a better option.' Serhan thought.

"There is no point in going back, we would only be delaying the inevitable. So I say we fight because even though we would all lose at the end of the day, this battle would prove that they are not invincible!" Serhan said after making a decision.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

"That was an inspiring speech, can we fight or should I go to sleep?" Blake said causing Luciano to burst out in laughter for the first time.

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