Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

When Zachary returned to his house, he saw that Vivian was in the yard. She seemed to be in a hurry to come in, but Jimmy stopped her outside.

"Master Vivian, Harley really isn't inside. He just left," Jimmy explained, unable to bear the pressure.

"Then I'll wait for him inside," Vivian said. She suspected that Zachary had deliberately shut the door, refusing to see her. He knew that she would definitely come to him for an explanation about Sophie.

"He doesn't like other people entering his room," Jimmy said with a grimace.

"I'm not other people. I'm his fiancee and will soon be his wife." Vivian's tone became imperious.

"Well..." Jimmy was facing a dilemma. After all, Vivian was the daughter of the head of the Xiao Clan. She would also be Zachary's wife in the future, so he couldn't afford to offend her.

"Dear fiancee, don't make things difficult for him," Zachary said with a helpless smile while shaking his head at Jimmy's inability to deal with Vivian.

"So you really weren't inside." Vivian turned around and found Zachary.

Seeing that Zachary was back, Jimmy breathed a sigh of relief and went back to his room.

"I merely went to check on the expansion of the beast barn," Zachary explained.

"I see." Vivian looked at Zachary, not knowing what to say. Although she was eager to know about his relationship with Sophie, she didn't think he would tell her the truth.

"If you came to ask about Sophie, I can only tell you that we do have some relationship, but it's just for mutual interests." Zachary admitted straight off the bat since he knew that was why Vivian had come here.

"So, did something happen between you two?" Vivian's beautiful eyes narrowed. She thought he must be quite capable to win even the heart of the famous Lady Evil. No wonder he was always indifferent to her. It turned out that it was because he already had Lady Evil as his lover. After all, Sophie was one of the most beautiful women on the Supernal Continent. Although Vivian was very confident in her appearance, she still felt a little ashamed of her inferiority to Sophie.

"If you want to know about it, I don't mind telling you. But considering our current relationship, I think it's better for me not to tell you. Anyway, it is a matter of mutual interest and nothing else. We need only to do our respective jobs well. You need not worry too much," Zachary said seriously.

"I'm not worried! I'm only upset that you hid such an important thing

were extremely inefficient when it came to treasure beasts. As they didn't have any talent in that respect, almost all the Imperial and Sage Level warriors of the Xiao Clan raised their treasure beasts by themselves, making the Xiao Clan's beast barn dispensable. However, since Zachary became the manager of the beast barn, he had thoroughly reformed it. Moreover, he had kept his promise to the head of the Xiao Clan, making more than half of the treasure beasts in the beast barn produce treasures. Therefore, everyone could see that Zachary was indeed very capable.

Of course, Zachary being Vivian's fiance played a vital role. After the Imperial Level Warrior Contest, he and Vivian would hold a wedding ceremony. With it, his status in the Xiao Clan would entirely change.

Soon after, the Imperial Level warriors who had come with Shaw scrambled to sign up. Zachary told Ryder to go through the registration procedures with them and record the information of the treasure beasts they would entrust the beast barn to raise.

In the next few days, the news quickly spread. More of the Xiao Clan's King Level disciples and Imperial Level warriors also fostered their treasure beasts in the new beast barn. They did so for two reasons. The first was that Zachary was Jaxon's future son-in-law. The second was because Zachary had promised to double the treasure production rate. Several of the Xiao Clan's Sage Level guardians and elders even did the same, considering Zachary's current position.

There were already more than seventy treasure beasts in the new beast barn in less than ten days. That included both the old ones and the new ones.