Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

"What? A follow-up quest? Are you kidding me? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Zachary pursed his lips as soon as he heard what Mimi said.

"Relax, the following tasks are easier. Surely, it'll be a piece of cake for you," Mimi reassured.

"Okay. Tell me all about it," Zachary requested.

With a deep breath, Mimi stated the follow-up quest. "You are required to cure and subdue Fabian."

When he heard this, Zachary was absolutely stunned. "What?! Why are the top quests all so strange? I was told to injure Fabian badly earlier, and now I am required to cure him and even subdue him! Am I plagued with too much leisure?" he cursed intensely, annoyed with the sequence of tasks laid out for him—none of it made sense.

"That's because as long as you want to become a real powerful man and an overlord, you have to know how to conquer people with your virtue, how to use people properly, how to subdue enemies, and how to turn resentment into justice. The balance between these things will be your way to achieve staggering success," Mimi answered matter-of-factly.

"Does this mean the system is requiring me to make Fabian my follower?" Zachary asked. The mere thought of it made him scoff. "Tch! I'm afraid he would rather die than submit to me. His pride wouldn't take it! He hates me too much to allow it to happen!" he continu

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Several elders expressed their opinions one after another. All of them sided with Zachary's rational decisions.

"You're going too far! The fact was that he hurt my disciple, but you all speak for him." Timothy became even more furious upon hearing their opinions, as if he was going to fight with them. It annoyed him that none of them sided with him.

"Timothy, calm down!" Kendrick soothed, waving his hand.

"Leader, you can't be partial to Hodge just because he is the Holy Maiden's disciple. You must give my disciple justice, or it will not be easy to convince all the members of the Dignified Supernal Sect," Timothy stubbornly demanded, intentionally exaggerating the matter. He hoped that Kendrick would punish Zachary for the sake of the image of the Dignified Supernal Sect.

"It's not that I'm taking sides here, Timothy. We have to admit that Fabian did something out of the line that propelled Hodge to do such things. After all, he stole the forbidden pill. If he is called for account for this one thing, then I'm afraid that you can't justify him," Kendrick answered after a moment's hesitation. The reason why he didn't call Fabian to account for stealing the forbidden pill this time was because he felt bad for the young man's paralyzed state. He also made this decision since he wanted to save Timothy's face.