The following cooperation was less needed as things were much easier.
They were there to do their job, but it became more about competing for who could get the most to contribute from their every effort.
Naturally, they all began to focus on getting more contributions for themselves from what had been left.
It became about competition once more as they prioritised their own benefits over the greater threat.
Perhaps that was where things started to go wrong.
Ash and the others had warned not to do anything without informing the others.
They had made a point to just focus on the forest terrain over anything else.
They should all focus on clearing everything to ensure that nothing is left behind.
Only when that had been achieved would there be nothing left behind to appear suddenly and get in their way.
When moving any further, they needed to secure what was already in front of and around them.
Only then could they be more secure once they began to go any further.
