I tried to direct Cosmos and Yaan to meet each other first, but had to make Yaan backtrack due to a fight between four fishermen. Cosmos was steadily moving towards me, but I had to make him go through a couple of spearbearer and even a fisherman. I couldn't tell him anything about the opponent apart from their position, but I didn't need to. Cosmos definitely had the way of the prey down pat. When in doubt run the hell away. He dodged past the two spearbearers without swinging, and only engaged the fisherman for a few strokes before running past him. Their stream of info wasn't constant of course. I'd have moments where regulars ran right under me, and even one point where a scout and a spearbearer had a fight right beneath me. I tweaked the odds in the favour of the scout, so the spearbearer wouldn't misfire and accidentally break my lighthouse. It was simple to slow him down slightly so the scout could slip past his defences.
By the time Cosmos got to my position 20 regulars were left. The good thing was Yaan was alive. What wasn't so great was how he was still on the other side of the testing arena. But now I had Cosmos and I could move without the risk of getting killed by the random regular. We both perched on my lighthouse, and it was a close thing that neither of us fell. We only had to fight once. Even with the movement we only caught one fisherman's gaze. But, with Cosmos' speed and my lighthouse support, we made decent work and killed him in 3 minutes.
I'd taken my eye off the ball, and when I looked at my lighthouse, I was shocked to see Yaan in the middle of a fight between 10 regulars. A 5 on 5 position battle.
Great. Second tip about plans, don't bother making them. How the hell did he even get caught up in that? I'd told him specifically not to get caught up in a bloodbath. This did have an upside. Excluding the 10 that were concentrated in that area, there were only 5 regulars left, and 3 of them were just staying in one place. I set me and Cosmos down, and we started running towards the bloodbath. I'd made promises with Yaan, and if that promise got broken and he lived, that might be an extra enemy to look out for. Coming to the rescue might even make him adore me more. Looking at my lighthouse, I saw that Yaan was on the back lines, but still throwing was a good mix of positions on both sides. Each actually had a lightbearer directing the whole battle. It was even, and it was a wonder that only a fisherman from both sides had died.
The good news was that we got there before Yaan died. The bad news was that they were on the wrong side, and while backstabbing people might be effective in getting rid of people, angry teammates would definitely be effective in getting rid of me. They had actually reached a stalemate. The spearbearers were down to their last spears, and weren't going to throw their weapon away anytime soon. The frontliners had stopped fighting and having an official staredown. Up above, both lightbearers were exerting a weak field on the opposing side, but they were wearing out as well.
Backstabbing people really isn't my style. For one thing, I can't run away fast enough after I've done it. But we could definitely get rid of 2, maybe three of the regulars, and then the other 4 over there would help us out. I was a lightbearer, but that didn't mean I was weaponless. I'd definitely lose out against anyone in a straight fight, but since when did straight fights decide anything? Fairnes wasn't exactly the common on this guardian forsaken floor. I got out my khukri that I had stolen from a fisherman on the 10th floor, then sent a message to Yaan, telling him to throw his spear and distract the fishermen while I slashed at the lightbearer's neck. Cosmos had dashed to the frontline and killed off a fisherman. After that, it was 6 on 2 and no one on our side died.