God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Keith and his team silently stood a few meters away while Nathan beat up the whole team. They barely had any awakened in their team and on top of that, they were tired and wounded. It was very easy to beat them all up.

As he watched the show, Keith realised something important from the information that Laura had told him as he walked over to check out the results of the fight.

'They basically fought because they didn't have any resources.' he mused, 'Most teams did not have the food problem before but now that trading isn't allowed, they'll have no choice but to fight for it. Though, more than 80% of the teams should have brought their own food the other 20% who didn't have much to trade for, will not let them go.'

Once he understood this, he shared his thoughts with the others while Nathan brought back a large bag filled with berries and fruits.

"-due to this, there should be a lot of fights in the first and second day. Then, for at least two or three more days, there should be peace as most people do have food. It's the last two to three days when we'll see a lot of fights take place on this island. Those that know about wild edible berries won't really go on the offensive, but the others will surely try to attack them for the food that they've hoarded." he said and stomped his foot on the ground in front of him.

"We'll start a fire here. it's better to prepare before things become hellish." he said and suddenly jerked to his right, his fist flying towards the empty space beside Brandon. He felt his fist making contact with something and he also heard a painful yelp.

With his eyes fixated on three system screens in front of him, he spoke, "Just show yourself kid, or I'll have Nathan swing his sword randomly. Sure we might face punishments, but we can always say that we were just swinging at the air and suddenly the sword hit you."

The moment the words escaped his lips, a familiar looking guy appeared. One of his hand covered his private parts while he had a knife in the grip of his other hand.

"Clark.... this is just getting annoying at this point. Why did you pick us?" Keith asked as he looked around randomly, trying his best to act like he didn't know where he was.

The information on his system screen had already exposed Clark's team and Keith knew from the start that the three of them were hiding silently, watching the fight happen way before Laura even went to see.

A few seconds after he said that, he hard footsteps from his right, from the direction where his team originally came from. Clark kept his distance from them, but he took out a small clay pot from the girl's bag.

"Let him go and I'll give you this antidote. I won't tell you when it should be used but I can tell you how to use it. Mix one pinch of this power with water and drink it." he said as he placed the pot on the ground.

Keith's expression was stoic. He already knew of Clark's plans, but he still glanced at the so-called antidote. His gaze went back to the system screen, just to confirm if it actually was an antidote or not.

[Clark placed the pot filled with antidote power on the ground as he requests for the release of his teammate.]

Satisfied, Keith looked at Brandon who now hand his arm on the guy's shoulder.

"Let him go and hmm... grab the pot that Clark throws at you to distract you while he runs away with his team." he said and looked at Clark who nodded in understanding before taking the pot back into his hands.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The moment the invisible guy joined back with his team, Clark threw the pot at Brandon's face before running away, which Brandon easily caught. The lid was also made of clay, but it was sealed with wheat flour and had dried up by now.

"Why did you listen to him? If we eliminated that invisible pervert, we would have weakened his team a lot..." Amelia said as she looked at him with a frown on her face.

Keith gave her a wry smile as he gave her the answer he had prepared a few minutes ago.

"A few minutes after we gathered the tamarinds, I suddenly got some slight goosebumps. I looked around and paused as I looked towards the south as my pinky was twitching. Do you know what's in that direction?"

"There's a pond in that direction." Caleb said as he frowned, "But there shouldn't be any problem with the pond right?"

Keith nodded, "Normally, there wouldn't be any problem but what did Clark give us? An antidote. And what did he tell us about it? To mix it with water."

"Can you just get to the point?" Laura asked, clearly out of patience as Keith was just going around in circles asking them questions instead of giving them the answers directly.

Smiling, Keith revealed, "I suspect that Clark has already poisoned the pond and came here after doing that. You do remember what happened back at the other island right? The church officials took out quite a bit of berries and fruits from that girls bag along with a large bag of powder and a few pots that looked like the one we have right now."

"Oh yeah, they said that the powder itself can be considered as a food since it doesn't fit the category of spices or oils. I was pretty surprised that he chose that bag of powder instead of fruits... are you trying to say that this big bag had the poison?" Amelia said and Keith nodded in response.

"Yup. A person can survive up to a month without food, but without water, the limit is only three or four days. Clark can simply poison the only water source in this island and starve for a week in hiding while everyone else gets disqualified by getting weak due to the poisoned water." Discover stories at empire

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