Last Era

Chapter-04(Part three) Selection Tests III...

Keller, Tom and Jeff vigilantly looked at me without voicing any objections.

I continued..."Firstly...you'd have noticed it yourself but the environment has a sort of hypnotic effect which makes us feel more anxious similar to the defense mechanism of some species of plants and animals that can confuse or scare away other animals........I'm not sure how it works entirely but that explains the strange tension I've been feeling,...also it seems that our sense of distance has been altered so this field is a lot larger than the field we actually were in...."

I gave short pauses in the middle here and there in my explanations so that I can tell them my inferred details without confusing them too much and continued...

"Secondly..."

I raise two fingers and continued...

"The guns have two gimmicks to them, one.... It can only fire one bullet at a time with a three second gap between shots.....Third..."

I pointed at the side-end of the gun where the blue strips were present...

"...The guns have a limited capacity of only 6 shots...Hopefully they'll reset for every match"

Among the total 6 strips at first, 4 had lost light and only two glowing strips remained...

"And last...we can't use the weapons of other team members as for how it applies to our own team ...I'm not too sure...that's all"

Tom turned to the side seemingly anxious about this...and in a low voice he muttered to himself..." I see..." ...but it seemed he accepted my information without any disapproval.

He was more docile than usual. Since he is also someone who was a talent evaluated by the system, pride is an inherent trait for him... I thought it was because of the tension exerted on him by our current setting and dismissed the matter in my head.

I looked to the side to get Chester's opinion and he simply nodded. Then looked at Chester and continued,

"So...how about we go with the same line-up? I and Eric will take up the vanguard and you three go with defending the post...?"

I added..."It's good if you take a tactical defense formation as well...so...."
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As we were discussing with the rest about the strategies and formations to use in the next match, the curtains of white started opening with the same pixelated effects as earlier.

We found ourselves in the same bright forest as before and a screen appeared displaying,[Match 2!] in red.

We stood at the place where our defense point was located. I thought for a moment...but guessed it might be a reverse principle of the distance alteration from before.

I checked my guns ...all the blue strips were lit again showing that my bullets were recovered.

I look at Chester...there was that one more thing I had to confirm...

I shared the idea with him and he returned an approving nod. So with two guns...one was my own and the other was Chester's...with this we proceeded to the next stage.

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After that...along with Chester as the vanguard we won the next two matches easily. Most of the members of the opponent teams were simply oblivious and there were none who slipped past us to reach the defense point.

Now during the fourth match.....

Like before I circled the forest of trees to reach the other side and Chester followed further behind me on a path which was less curved compared to mine, the idea behind this was for him to attract attention as a bait and I'd take out some members from their blind spot.