Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

"If we're being honest, the senior leaders of Crane College have been keeping an eye on you since we all know that you are a peerless genius weapon refiner from the Devil Kingdom. Later, we got to know that you are not only talented as a warrior but also talented as a beast tamer. You can simultaneously control three beasts with ease, even though you didn't receive any systematic training in beast taming. What's more, your performance in the coliseum is enough to prove that you are a gifted beast tamer," Silas continued, deciding to be frank with him.

"I'm flattered, sir," Zachary responded with a calm smile.

"I'm just telling you the truth. No need to be modest. But this is not what I wanted to talk to you about." Silas suddenly changed the subject.

"Okay. I'm all ears. What do you want to talk about, sir?" Zachary asked, raising his eyebrows.

"I heard that my granddaughter has gotten close to you recently. She has even mentioned you several times in my presence," Silas said.

"Your granddaughter? Are you talking about Linda?" Zachary asked, immediately thinking of something upon hearing Silas' words.

"Yes. My granddaughter has never paid much attention to men. But I can see she cares about you very much. That made me curious. I came here today in person, in order to see you," Silas said affectionately, as if talking to someone of his own household.

"I don't understand what you mean, sir," Zachary said. It was not that he didn't understand the dean's meaning, but that he played dumb on purpose. That wasn't something he wanted, after all.

"I'm an open-minded man. If you can get along well with my precious granddaughter, I wouldn't mind her marrying a warrior from another kingdom," Silas said, getting straight to the point.

"You must have misunderstood, sir. Linda and I are just friends," Zachary explained quickly.

"Being good friends is an excellent chance for you two to become a real couple. Even though I'm an old man, I know this much," Silas responded with a pleasant and meaningful smile.

"No, no, sir. You must have taken things the wrong way. I'm already engaged to another woman," Zachary said bluntly. Silas was acting as if he was desperate for his granddaughter to get married.

"You are only engaged, not married yet. Am I right? I was merely thinking my granddaughter deserves a chance too. She

spiritual energy flourished. In addition to that, many beast tamers had tried to approach it and to make it recognize them as its master. As a result, the purple-winged spiritual beast was able to absorb both the rich spiritual energy and the energy from beast tamers for its own use. So, it had been cultivating for the past twenty years. That was why it presented itself as a mature spiritual beast right after the egg broke.

"You have a humanoid shape. It feels so weird to treat you as my pet. I think it would be better to make you my close friend. Purple, that's your name from now on," Zachary said. From the way he saw it, the purple-winged spiritual beast resembled a human to him. From what he gathered as they conversed, it was quite clever and good at absorbing new information. So, he did not think he could treat it as an ordinary beast.

"What? Purple? Name?" The spiritual beast hesitated for a moment, but soon it wore a different expression. Although this one was very unnatural, it showed that it was very pleased.

Afterwards, Zachary took it into the system. He conducted a series of examinations on its strength and other aspects. It was not until he got the results did he find out this spiritual beast's strength had reached the fifth grade of Imperial Level. No wonder it could defeat and threaten those Imperial Level warriors who surrounded it so easily. Not just that, all the other data showed that it was a very powerful beast. Even the young Sun-Swallowing Beast was inferior to it. Spiritual beasts were indeed more powerful than treasure beasts.