Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

"No! My treasure beast!" An anguished cry resounded from the grandstand, eliciting pitying looks from the spectators.

Linda glanced at Zachary with a frown. She did feel like the Demonic Emperor Beast was a little too cruel, but its opponent deserved it anyway. It was fair that the one with bad intentions suffered losses.

"All right, let's call it a day!" Zachary announced as he stood up expressionlessly and took the Demonic Emperor Beast back to the system.

Meanwhile, Alisa and Linda were looking at each other in confusion, but they decided to say nothing. Instead, they followed Zachary out of the coliseum.

"You can leave first. There is something else I need to do," Alisa told the other two. Then she turned to Zachary and said, "Come and meet me at the Imperial Training Ground later in the afternoon." She didn't wait for his response, as she turned around and left.

As soon as she disappeared from their sight, Evan and another three Imperial Level warriors rushed out of the coliseum, where they instantly surrounded Zachary and Linda. One of the Imperial Level warriors, who was wearing a yellow robe and seemed to be at the medium stage, pointed at Zachary with his finger and cursed, "You bastard! You must be tired of living. How dared you disable my treasure beast!"

Zachary simply glanced at Evan and the other three Imperial Level warriors as if he didn't see anything worthy of his attention. He continued to walk forward, completely ignoring them.

The yellow-clad Imperial Level warrior turned livid because of the way Zachary snubbed him. His face darkened, and his hands trembled in barely repressed rage. A violent stream of Imperial Level martial energy rushed out of his upturned hand and slowly turned into a dark palm shadow, which soundlessly zoomed toward Zachary's back. Zachary walked on, seemingly unaware of the sneak attack that was coming for him.

"Harley, watch out!" Linda didn't expect these guys to be so despicable, so she was taken aback by their actions. She intended to stop them, but in the blink of an eye, a figure suddenly sprang out and stopped her. It was Evan.

"Linda, this is about a personal grudge between him and us. Please don't interfere, or our camaraderie would be at risk," Evan said viciously.

"You..." Linda glared at Evan, but because he was standing in front of her, she couldn't get to Zachary on time.

Just as the yellow-clad warrior's attack was about to reach him, Zachary suddenly disappeared from where he was standing. It happened so fast that it looked like he disappeared into thin air.

The Imperial Level warrior was taken aback. But before he came back to his senses, a violent ice force came toward him like a hurricane. Thankfully, he realized it in time to raise his hands, intending to resist the attack.

However, as the fierce ice force approached, it instantly turned into seven shadows

ive nor a friend to me, so why am I treating him so well? Do I...? No way, that's impossible..." Linda could not help but dwell on why she was doing all of these for Zachary. It was so out of character for her. Suddenly, a stray thought passed through her mind, making her blush and squeal like a teenager, but she immediately shook the thought away. She refused to think about it ever again!

On the other side of the college, Evan and the other three Imperial Level warriors had arrived at Barnes' office.

"Barnes, please uphold justice for us!" Evan cried out as soon as he had stepped foot inside the office.

They came upon Barnes, who was silently leafing through the accounts. When he heard Evan's voice, he raised his head and looked at him sternly, asking coldly, "What trouble did you cause this time?"

Since Evan had a Sage Level elder as his grandfather and another Sage Level warrior as his elder brother, he had caused a lot of trouble in the Crane College. Barnes was now used to dealing with the aftermath of his action.

"I didn't cause trouble! The fact is Harley Bai from the Devil Kingdom injured our fellow..." As he explained, Evan pointed at the Imperial Level warrior, whose yellow robe was now stained with drying blood.

"Really? What happened? How dare he hurt the warrior of our Crane College! He is so bold!" Barnes shouted angrily, closing the accounts in his hands forcefully.

"That's right. He is so arrogant and impudent. Since he came to our Crane College, he has been looking down on the disciples here as if he was so much better than us. Just now, his treasure beast injured this fellow's treasure beast badly and disabled it completely in the coliseum. Therefore, our fellow went to argue with him. As a result, Harley used violence and beat him badly. More importantly, he not only hurt our fellow, but he also looks down upon you," Evan said immediately, adding fuel to the fire.