Ian's strategy revolved around one core objective: ensuring that his three teammates stationed behind to guard the goalpost, that they never face their adversaries alone.
No, isolation was unacceptable. He wasn't about to let them engage in one-on-one clashes where the outcome boiled down to sheer desperation or stubbornness. That wasn't a battle; that was chaos wrapped in risk just conveniently waiting to explodes in the faces of everyone involved.
A scenario like that spelled catastrophe, an avoidable disaster if one played their cards right.
To prevent such a breakdown, Ian's condition was firm: if all four opponents emerged from the forest, he had to delay at least three of them, allowing only one to break through. If it was just three? He'd obstruct two and permit the third passage. And if only one came forward?
There was no ambiguity about what would happen then. That lone attacker would never make it past him.
