Every competitor ran inside to find the key before the time ran out. Akirion stopped his friends to think more about the clue.
"Hey hey guys wait. Did you hear that clue? (The others nodded) It sounded out there but it can be helpful if we think about it."
Liberty interrupted Akirion while in a hurry to find the key fast,"Hey Akirion, we don’t have time, time’s running out, we can’t afford to be standing here doing nothing ".
"Yes Akirion, I guess Liberty is right". Renn supported Liberty.
"Wait wait Renn, are you for real? Where are you going to go? Didn’t you here about the traps? If you want to go then go, we are not going to fall for that easy little trap of theirs, running around searching for the unknown." Erlin fired up the questions and that Renn and Liberty speechless.
"Thanks Erlin, you guys, if you want to go, then feel free, we will wait for you here if you get the keys." Akirion said, trying to come up with a clue on the meaning of the phrase they were given as a clue.
Elina supported Akirion’s idea, "Akirion is right, we are a team, aren’t we? Then we will catch you later."
"{What can you say Elina? Blinded by love for Akirion.}" Liberty said under his breath, mocking Elina.
Liberty and Renn took two steps and saw that the others were concentrated on Akirion’s plan. They then reversed and Liberty was surprisingly the first one to ask Akirion’s plan.
"So, What’s the plan?"
" It’s good that you asked, we will need all those brains together to come up with a clue on the meaning of that phrase,’ Safety lies where shadows fall, but danger is in the light of all.’ it’s a bit complicated but it can be easy to explore."
"Wait, sup with that group, why are they standing there doing nothing while the others are searching?" a visitor asked after seeing Akirion and his group standing doing nothing.
As for the others, they ran around the place, some were absolutely bewildered by the maze. Some ran into traps, and running into them means,’DISQUALIFICATION’.
The princess kept her gaze on Akirion. She got curious when she saw him standing, doing nothing. That’s when she asked.
" Hey Kaid...." Kaid cut her off when she was asking.
"Who? Me?" Fiana nodded. "I always tell you to call me brother not by disrespecting me by mentioning my name!"
"Ohh sorry b-b-brother". She slowly said brother but Kaid didn’t mind.
"Good, so what is it".
" So how many groups are participating in there?"
"I was told that each class got an approximate number of 30. So each group got six students. And they are 4 classes."
"I see, so I need to do mathematics to get the answer.( Kaid nodded starring at Fiana because he didn’t want to calculate it.) Mhhh, according to my calculations....."
"Ahaa...!". The Prince was curiously waiting for Fiana’s answer.
"I’m not sure, but I guess it’s 20 groups because they are six in each group. They are too many!"
"Wow, you are good as always in math."
"So, how many keys are there?" Fiana got more curious, she wasn’t relaxed anymore, she was busy rubbing her legs.
Kaid cleared his throat, "I don’t know if you can grasp this but.... there are few of them, in 20 groups, there are 8 of them who will be able to get outside."
Fiana gasped in surprise, feeling the cruelness of her brother.
Akirion and his team brainstormed the phrase and got some ideas on how it meant.
Class A’s second strongest group was on a run, searching for the keys.
The group consisted of Kaito, Akira, Naomi, Daisy, Reyna and Sophia.
Kaito who was the strongest of all in the group, stopped and said, "guys, we need to find those keys fast. Did you see Liberty’s group? It got all the strong guys except for Akirion, so we will have to surpass them and we don’t have to fight with them in the upcoming events".
Sophia chuckled after hearing Kaito’s suggestions. "that’s a good one Kaito, we are supposed to do something not following each other like ants."
Kaito was going with Sophia’s idea. "Exactly, we are supposed to split up in two and try to get more keys."
They were all good with the idea, so they splitted up in twos to search for keys.
Sophia ran into a trap with Naomi as they were rushing to the unknown place searching for keys. As for the others, they continued searching.
Surprisingly!! One of the group in class C made it out. The crowd boomed in cheers after seeing a group that got out first. The announcer’s voice boomed too, as he announced the ones who got out.
"What a surprise, class C has made it out by using the silver keys!!" the noise erupted.
"Calm down guys, we want your ideas . You can’t come up with ideas if you keep on thinking of getting out." Akirion said,comforting his friends.
"I got something, ’Safety lies where shadows fall, but danger is in the light of all.’ it can also be a trap. Shadows fall can be hard to brainstorm, but it can be a clue about our shadows." Elina came up with her idea. Updates are released by novel⦿fire.net
"Nice one Elina, if we go where shadows fall, we will succeed." Akirion supported the idea. "And I got my own idea too!" everyone glared at Akirion, waiting for an idea. "Safety can be in a dangerous place too. You know, find a key in a dangerous place, or the right door in a cliff."
"Yeah, you can be right Akirion."
"What are they doing, the time is ticking."
"Who knows, ask them, haha." the prince laughed at Fiana.
"Ohh dear, one golden key was wrongly used!" the announcer said, and the crowd erupted with the ’ahhhhh’ sound.
"Two out of 8 keys are gone, and those ones are still standing there, are they for real?" the princess said in pain for those were still brainstorming about the clue.
"Okay guys, it’s time to move out, going as a group is better than one, in order to be helping each other in traps." Akirion said , as they started moving out.