Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

As soon as Truman and Anthony left, the other disciples looked at one another and tacitly agreed to leave too. Now that they hadn't obtained the treasure beast, they didn't want to be targeted. After all, the first stage of the strength contest was still in progress. Beast hunting involved nothing more than a little bit of random luck. For them, the most important thing was to survive the first stage of the strength contest. Nonetheless, they were facing a very difficult goal, because only four disciples could enter the second stage. The cruelty of the strength contest's first stage could only be imagined.

More importantly, one couldn't neglect the fact that when the number of eliminated disciples reduced to a certain number, the remaining disciples would gather together in one area where they would fight against one another violently. The true battle took place at that time, and before that, the disciples at the premium stage of King Level would choose to conserve their strength as much as possible. While the King Level disciples at the primary and medium stage killed each other with all their strength, those at the premium stage would benefit from the situation instead.

Nevertheless, the disciples still felt regretful that they didn't have the chance to subdue the treasure beast, which they had never seen before and only heard of in legends. However, they also knew that if it was so easy to subdue such a treasure beast, someone else must have already succeeded in doing that. The treasure beast was subdued by the number one disciple from the Celestial College. In other words, they couldn't help but envy her terribly. But this wasn't the first time this kind of thing had happened. Last time, in fact, Zachary had subdued the Hundred-Treasure Beast in a similarly chaotic situation. The difference this time was that he seemed to act even more directly than last, as he had helped Queenie subdue the treasure beast, regardless of his own safety. Zachary came off incredibly generous and dedicated to Queenie, so that the disciples wished they were Queenie themselves.

Envious as they were, the disciples dared not stay here any longer, seeing the number one King Level disciples of both the Shura College and the Celestial College were present. They dashed away in different directions in order to continue the competition.

In the matter of a few seconds, nobody was left standing on the rocky mountain's chilly, icy land except Zachary, Queenie and Joan.

"Why are the two of you together?" Queenie asked before she could even stop herself, figuring that Zachary and Joan seemed to be from the same group. She glared at the two of them in confusion. She couldn't help but wonder why he was so close to the number one King Level disciple of the Shura College, which made her feel nothing but rather annoyed.

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ifferent from the Queenie she had always heard about.

"You're right on that one. She's definitely a lot like a queen, but she treats me in a different way...a special way, you know?" Zachary answered honestly. The only way he could explain it was that he was Queenie's master, kind of. No matter how cold and arrogant she was, she would never behave negatively or badly toward him. Besides, he also felt that Queenie treated him differently than other men. Of course, that was because she had no reason to tread on him like she did to the others, either.

"Yeah, I've noticed that. To be honest, you don't look very handsome in appearance, but you are very good at dealing with women. Not only Queenie, but also Polly, whom I know much better. She treats you differently too," Joan said, well aware of the situation between the two.

"I can't tell. Are you complimenting me or mocking me?" Zachary burst into laughter, a wide smiling wrinkling his features.

"Ha-ha! You tell me. I'm just speaking my mind." Much like Pollard, Joan was very straightforward and couldn't keep anything to herself. This explained why the two were so congenial toward each other.

"Okay, in that case then, I'll just take it as a compliment," Zachary said, shrugging his shoulders slightly. "If you don't have any other thing for me to do, then I'll be on my way now. See you in the final match!" He stalked off slowly, never taking a second look over his shoulder.

'He must have some hidden secret. I'm sure of it! I've never seen the skill he used to subdue the treasure beast. And the strength of that beast with was obviously above his own. I wonder how he managed to subdue it so easily?' Joan though to herself. There was still a bit of astonishment on her face when she looked at Zachary's receding back in the distance. She didn't watch him a second longer though, and she went on her way as well.