
The next day after the first mission was completed, the first group of people who surrendered as well as those who died because, they were unable to survive due to injuries caused by the chameleon.
Now, there were only 102 people left inside the zone and of the 18 members six of them died and twelve others surrendered.
Sam was in his room as he closed his eyes and lay down. He was contemplating how to get through this stage with little effort. The first step to that was a pot filled with chameleon meat that he buried the day before yesterday. Tomorrow at the latest it is ready.
But he wasn't sure if it was really useful. Even the bone blades he made could only be used a few times and were not very strong.
The usefulness of such things will mainly depend on the task to be given next.
The next day, Sam and Kelly and Hawk went to where the pot was buried.
He slowly dug up the pot and opened the lid. The pungent and acidic smell comes immediately after exposure. After seeing the liquid that almost filled the pot, he closed it and stored it carefully.
Then the three of them started making a few small finger-sized cups with cylindrical mud.
One side of the cup is closed while the other side is fully open.
The cup is so thin and delicate that it will break as soon as it is put under a little pressure. Sam filled three-quarters of the cup with a stinging greenish liquid and they covered the other side with mud and roasted it again.
So, a sealed capsule made of mud and filled with this strange liquid was made after so much effort.
Even the making took time, they did not stop. After all, they have plenty of time. Although this was the twelfth day of the special branch, there wasn't much they did and that in itself would create some mental problems for these people who were always busy with cultivation, training, training, and training, or even a waste.
So, making something that might help is not a bad idea. They continued to make these small mud capsules and finished them at night. Now the big pot was empty and there were about a hundred capsules.
Sam returns to the camp and calls his teammates as he hands out the capsules to them. After everyone brought their capsule parts to their camp, he said.
"These capsules may be small, but they will be useful in combat in our current state. Since we cannot use our spiritual energy carelessly, this may be useful. All you have to do is throw it at the target and it will work as long as the target is a living thing.
The next day all the candidates knew about Sam's strange act of making some small objects with clay and mud. They just think that they are doing this out of boredom and some of them even throw some nasty comments like they are losing their mind or going crazy.
But they don't care.
There was one thing that upset Sam and the others. The noble children who had come to get close to Jasmine were still trying to disturb her and it was somewhat bothering them.
If not for the fact that they had to be careful in using spiritual energy, Sam would probably have fought it all out with them.
Days passed and the fifteenth day came and today food was sent by bird-type beasts, but there was still a shortage of twenty packages. This time there was also a fight and Sam, Hawk and Jack were also involved in a fight.
Sam and Jack won immediately but Hawk had a tough opponent. Hawk was only at Novice level 2 while the other at Novice level 3 made the fight even more difficult, but he ended up winning the fight because the other party didn't seem to have much spiritual energy.
After they ate, the days passed again until the eighteenth day.
Sam and his group chat to spend time at their small campground.
But suddenly there was a rumbling and explosive sound from outside and when they came out, they saw a camp being blown away by a huge explosion of fire.
At the same time, an announcement could be heard.
"Hello, the candidates. Some of the marquis city prisoners who were sentenced to death and stayed in prison for execution are now with you in the Special branch zone. There were exactly 82 death row inmates that we had painstakingly arrested throughout the Marquis area.
But they were given a second chance.
Now they are your opponents. If one of you is killed by them, they will be given a chance to redeem themselves by joining the army.
For candidates who kill inmates, they will be given a portion of food for each person you kill.
And by the way, they were all at Novice level 3 to Level 5. So, good luck."
The voice sounded mischievous and funny as if the person was watching a game.
Every candidate is frustrated. When they first arrived here, they thought they would learn something, but even though they were learning now, they were forced to learn by this situation.
Some of them even regretted coming here and especially the candidates that were once expelled because of Zeke and were forced to come back again by the Marquis, their initial excitement was lost.
The worst thing was that they did not even have enough time to lament over these things. The death row inmates who were given a second chance of life were already near the camp when the announcement was made.
They had already started attacking people the moment they came. After all, a new lease on their miserable, near-ending life is not something they can afford to miss.
The first attack on the camp had already injured someone. If it were not for the fact that all the candidates were ready and sensed danger when going to attack, the injured would not be just one person.
"Save the capsule in your hand and stay near the campground. Stay close. And don't let the capsule break in your hand. It would be a disaster if the liquid touched your skin. Do not attack enemies with your spells and battle techniques..
Finish them off with a capsule if possible and only use your attacks for defense or a kill blow. Stay together and don't spread."
Sam immediately gave the order.
It becomes worthwhile that their camp is the last and the inmates have to go through all the other camps to reach them.
And the inmates seemed unconcerned because they had been told about the situation of the candidates.
The lack of spiritual energy to recover or cultivate and their last intake was three days ago, and their cultivation ranged from Level 1 Beginner to Level 4. For them this is easy, so they enjoy themselves. And the most important thing is that they don't limit what they do.
But soon they realized one thing, they were clearly underestimating the elites. Although the candidates did not have years of battle experience, they were still elites chosen from hundreds if not thousands of candidates.
So the inmates immediately met with the participants.
The candidates' attacks were even fiercer than the convict's attacks. This gives them a surprise.
And why the children were so fierce, it was because they were already very frustrated and because it had come to a situation where there was a possibility of their death, they did not hold back.
After all they could get food to eat after they killed someone.
So they were not at all conservative about the attack.
And the first body to fall is the body of the inmate and not the candidate. The person who fought Hawk yesterday used all his remaining strength to sneak into a prisoner at Level 3 Beginner and kill him.
Just as he sighed in relief that he could get a full serving of food, a palm surrounded by sharp spiritual energy pierced through the stomach as a man with a ferocious expression appeared behind him.
An inmate tries to find an easy way to get free kills without any effort.
"Male sister." A young man not far away screamed in pain and attacked the prisoner and soon the prisoner was killed.
But the young man was not happy, he hugged his sister tightly and tried to stop her bleeding while tearing her clothes and tying her wound.
Sam watched as the young man carried his wounded sister to the front door. He saw tears and snot as the young man cried but still gritted his teeth as he carried his brother and ran. Suddenly Sam felt a little uncomfortable.
There were already several inmates attacking him and his teammates.
As he had said before, the teammates stood tight with their backs facing each other and threw mud capsules.
The inmates did not care much because they knew that there were no weapons in the candidate's hands. They thought that the capsule was some stone and when they did not feel any spiritual energy, they even felt like laughing and did not even bother to dodge.
The capsule hit them and soon blood-curdling screams from the inmates rang out throughout the zone. All the fights stopped for a moment.
Six inmates were made near Sam's group holding faces or stomachs and various other parts where the strange liquid splashed.
The liquid is the result of secretions from the chameleon flesh of a myriad of mirages.
This liquid has highly corrosive properties and increases if there is no atmospheric air. When countless mirage chameleons died, the corpse would be completely corroded by this expelled liquid and would immediately disappear into the atmosphere due to the dilution by spiritual energy.
Because Sam left it in a sealed pot for quite some time and mainly due to the lack of spiritual energy, its corrosive nature was quite high.
So, when it was watered, all the skin and flesh in that place began to dissolve.
The team immediately kills six members and directs their target to nearby inmates. Before they could be shocked by the cries of the first batch of prisoners, two more people were targeted and became corpses.
This way while Sam still saw the young man who was carrying his brother towards the distant front door, his team got enough kills to get enough food.