God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

The next morning, Keith stood along with his team while he carried a large bag of beef jerky in one hand and had his other hand placed on his water filter. Everyone in his team carried something or the other and they still managed to make physical contact with each other while they stood in a line.

Instructor Sera looked at them and nodded before teleporting them to the beach. Unlike the previous days, almost all the teams were early this time. But there was another difference too.

Keith saw four people walk towards him, and he recognized one of them. It was the Protection Church's Archbishop and Seraphina's apostle, Maria.

They walked over to his team and Maria let out a soft sigh before speaking, "I'm sorry but there will be some changes to the rules. We'll announce them in two hours but since it's heavily connected to you guys, it'll be better if you learn about it first."

Keith frowned and so did the others from his team.

"Firstly, there is a weight limit over food items and it's one kilogram per person. Weapons are allowed, but you're not allowed to use it during fights. Luckily for you guys, weapons, armors and anything summoned through awakened abilities will be allowed." she said as she looked at Nathan.

Then she shook her head once again before continuing, "You will not be allowed to team up with other teams or take them under your wing anymore. The teams that you defeat, will be sent back to this island directly and as a punishment for losing, their salaries will be cut by half for six months. They'll also have all of their achievement or in other words, their credits annulled, which means everything that they did until now will be useless. I hope you're understanding how severe this rule will affect you."

Keith made eye contact with her and nodded grimly. All of the oaths and credit shares that he managed to receive through trading until now would go down the drain if his team loses. All of the new rules targeted his team. First was by limiting resources that he could carry and due to this, he wouldn't be allowed to bribe other teams.

Though, this rule didn't really do much thanks to the other rules. If he couldn't take other teams under his wing, then having too many resources wouldn't really help him in any way and instead, make him a target for other teams.

'This rule is most probably for keeping the other teams with too many resources in check too. Like Timmy's team....' he thought and sighed. The main advantage he had, was now gone.

The gears in his head turned as he tried to come up with a new plan while Maria and the other three people watched him. Almost a minute later, he looked at Maria, ignoring the other three.

"When it comes to food items, are spices, sugar, oil and other similar things included?"

Maria heard his question and frowned as she looked at the other three who were beside her. Then she closed her eyes for a few seconds before opening them, "Sugar will be included but the others won't. Can you specify what items you're talking about? Just in case we don't miss anything important."

"It doesn't matter really, I only wanted information on sugar, salt, spices and oils." he said as he shook his head. Then he turned to look at his team and Instructor Sera, "We need to change the things we're gonna take with us. Can we go back to the camp so we can put them back there? Also, I need a scale to measure things."

Instructor Sera nodded and his teammates formed a line once again. Instructor Sera ran over to the trade market and grabbed a scale along with some weights before running back to the team. They were brought back to their camp right after that and Keith looked at his teammates, all of whom looked absolutely disgruntled just like him.

"I know it sucks guys... but we have to change our strategy." he said before smirking, "There's another loophole hehe, just keep in mind that unless our entire team is captured or defeated, the defeat won't count. So as long as at least one person is somewhere out there, hiding and alive, then we wouldn't be punished."

"Next, we need to pick important supplies." he said and looked at Brandon, Nathan, and Laura who were carrying the most important things, the things that he currently needed.

"We'll need four kilos of yakka flour, one kilogram of sugar and two kilos of beef jerky. We won't be taking dry fish with us since they contain slightly more moisture and aren't as dense as beef jerky. Due to this, beef jerky is more... let's just say efficient when it comes to weight." he said and looked at Caleb, "Will you take care of weighing them for us please?"

"Of course." Caleb said as he went ahead and began to do his thing.

Keith on the other hand, continued, "It's a pity, but we'll have to dismantle this water filter since it's not really convenient to carry directly. We just need the leather and we'll be able to craft this again. Next, we need a lot of oil since I plan to make some chips with yakka flour. This way, it won't be as heavy as fufu and it'll also have great shelf life, so we just need to make them once and carry them around like we do with jerky."

"With jerky and yakka chips with us, we should be able to manage without having to actively hunt or attack other teams. Our plan will be to simply hide and when someone wishes to fight us, we just run. The next week will be extremely tough on us as we won't be setting up a camp. We won't have a comfortable place to sleep, but as long as we huddle together and cover ourselves with a blanket, we should be able to stay warm during the night."

Clara spoke up next with a worried frown on her face, "Won't we also need someone to stay on watch while the others sleep at night?"

[A/N: We'll be stopping the GT event cuz I can't keep up. But worry not, the promised extra chapters will still come.]

Current GT count: 71

Extra Chapters Needed: 11

Extra Chapters Posted: 2

Pending: 9

The current extra chapter count will stay the same since I don't wish to betray any of your trust. But instead of GT, I'll change it to gifts instead.

Luxury Car: 1 Extra Chapter

Dragon: 2 Extra Chapters

Castle: 4 Extra Chapters

Additional Note: Thank you for all the support guys, it means a lot. To not overwhelm myself and decrease the quality of the chapters, I'll post 1 or 2 extra chapters every day until we bring the pending chapters down to 0. Cuz damn, including my daily schedule, it'll be a total of 12 chapters if I try to get all extra chapters done.