God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

The team did their preparations and teleported back to the beach with drawn out expressions on their faces. None of them liked the new changes, but they couldn't do anything about it.

Maria was surprised to see how much their luggage had changed. Before, everyone had atleast one large bag beside them, but now only Brandon had a medium sized sack. She then saw that everyone had two small leather pouches tied to their waists.

"You don't have to worry, we don't have any money inside these." Keith said and showed her the contents of the leather pouch.

A dark green paste was in one pouch and the second one was filled with light yellow, round pills. Everyone had the same pair of pouches with the same contents inside.

One of the people beside Maria spoke up, "Hmm, a multipurpose paste that can do a lot of things like help with muscle recovery and every open wounds, while the yellow pills will make you guys feel less pain. Nice thinking."

Keith looked at the middle aged man and nodded, "Thank you for the compliment, sir."

The four of them checked all of Team Sera's luggage and once they made sure that the rules were followed, they left them alone and walked away. Keith then let out a sigh and sat down on the cold sand.

Time quickly passed and once all the teams had arrived, the old man made an announcement about the new changes, after which every single team had to go back to change what they'd bring with them.

Most of them were extremely disgruntled as they had plucked a lot of fruits, berries and some had even hunted a few animals, most of which would go to waste now.

Unfortunately for them, the church officials didn't give a damn about them and went on with their duties until everyone was ready again. It was almost 10 AM now and Keith was also getting tired of waiting.

"Looks like everyone is ready for a new adventure!" the old man said, his face full of smiles while everyone looked at him with hate-filled eyes, directing their frustrations towards the poor announcer.

He coughed slightly and continued, "Well, you'll be transported to Baroma Island in three, two and... one!"

.....

There was no change.

Everyone stood silently, waiting for their surroundings to change but nothing happened. Experience tales at empire

Just as they were about to look at the announcer to ask is he was messing around with them, it happened.

Kieth found himself with his team in middle of a sparse forest. Unlike the previous island, the trees here had an average distance of 8 meters between them and their trunks were extremely thick, almost as thick as five average sized humans huddled together.

There were thinner and thicker trees too, but the trees with trunks of approximate diameter of 1 meter were more common.

Keith looked up and saw a familiar looking fruit.

It was light brown in color and was long. With just one look, he could tell what it was and he couldn't help but smile.

"Tamarind trees." he said and looked at the other trees nearby, most of whom were also tamarind trees.

He looked at his teammates and his gaze stopped at Laura, "Um, can you go up there and send some tamarinds down for me please? I wanna eat them..."

Tamarinds did give calories, but they were acidic and sour so eating too much of them was never a good idea. But to Keith, this screamed of his childhood and he couldn't say no to the nostalgia.

For the first time, Clara felt like she was seeing stars in his eyes but she also felt like it was like an illusion. As Laura transformed into a snake and slithered up the tree, Keith's eye never left her, which also burned a flame in Clara stomach even though she didn't like this feeling.

She stood behind him with a slightly annoyed pout but she didn't say anything. She watched Laura shake the branch violently, making multiple tamarinds fall while Keith hurriedly crawled over to grab them.

Unable to take it anymore, she turned to look at another tamarind tree and like an agile cat, she climbed up effortlessly before she walked on top of a branch until she got close to the end where a bunch of tamarinds were hanging at.

With one slight push downwards, she made the branch bend and then used this to propel herself upwards. She went up by two meters before gracefully stepping back down on the branch, bending it so much that it cracked and fell to the ground along with her.

Unfortunately, this time she got unlucky and her foot landed on the branch, which rolled forward and made her lose balance. Keith stuffed his pockets with all the tamarinds that he had collected and rushed over towards her.

"Just what are you doing? We don't need so many tamarinds... are you alright?" he asked as he offered his hand, which she took.

Once he pulled her up, she looked away from him and said, "I thought we might need more."

"Oh, well if you guys wanna eat them then yeah I guess we can take more." Ketih said as he nodded and grabbed the branch, "Once we wash the leaves, even they'll be tasty but I doubt you guys would like it."

Keith knew that his taste for tamarind leaves was something that most people would call an "acquired taste". He looked at the others who were clearly disinterested, at least everyone except Clara for some reason.

So he went on with the explanation, "They're also sour but they also have a leafy taste to them and I personally like them a lot." he said but kept the next sentence in his own head, 'I used to eat them in classes to pass time too...'

He grabbed a ripe tamarind and peeled off the hard, brittle shell before giving a small piece to her, "Here, have a taste if you like. There's a seed inside by the way."

She put the small piece into her mouth and instantly, her face scrunched up, "Eyaak! Sourr!"