Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

When the three of them arrived at the place the carrier beast had directed them to, they saw a team ensconced in a narrow area surrounded by stones. It looked like the team had suffered heavy casualties.

"I'm going to have a look," Zachary said to Sophie and Alisa before he went to explore what was going on over there.

He entered the camp and as he looked around, he saw that Sara, Elva, and Queenie were also there, binding up the wounds for their companions.

"Elva, what happened? Why were you ambushed?" Zachary asked Elva as he walked up to her, frowning.

Elva breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of Zachary. She'd been worried that Zachary would also be attacked.

Elva then proceeded to tell him what had happened. On the second day after Zachary had left, Katrina, who had been leading the team to search for the Martial Fire Tomb, received a request for help from Nate. His team had been attacked by a mysterious team, and all of them were seriously injured and trapped in a fog valley.

Katrina immediately went to their rescue, leading a Sage Level warrior and several warriors at the premium stage of Imperial Level to support them. Before she left, she had asked Kolton Cheng, who was at the premium stage of Sage Level, to lead the team to await orders and prepare for reinforcements. However, not long after Katrina had left, the team on standby was also attacked.

"Yesterday's attack seriously hurt us. Almost all of us were annihilated. Fortunately, we retreated here in time and escaped death. But more than two-thirds of us are dead or wounded. Except for a few members of the logistics team, almost every other member is injured," Sara said as she came over to them.

"Where is Kolton?" Zachary asked.

"He was badly injured. He is healing himself in the tent over there," Sara replied.

"It sounds like the enemy deliberately lured Master Katrina away. The team was left weakened once she left. And then, they took the opportunity to launch the attack," Zachary said. The enemy obviously knew their situation like the back of their hands. The

other, most of them shaking their heads. The one thought that was racing through their minds was that since they had suffered great losses, how could they muster the strength to help Katrina and the others? Even if they were able to help them, they would probably die.

"Looks like no one wants to do that." Kolton Cheng's sneering voice sounded from behind Zachary. He was much more senior than Zachary and felt vindicated when his feeling that no one would follow the latter was about to come true.

"I'll go!" Elva said.

"Me too!"

"Count me in!"

Queenie and Rebecca also stepped forward.

And then, Polly and her brother also volunteered to go with Zachary. Since their father was in Nate's team, they were more than willing to go with him.

"My grandfather is in Master Nate's team. I'll go with you," Rita said as she took a step forward.

"It's such an exciting thing. I'm in!" Nelson said excitedly.

"Let me help you, too," Scott, who had been silent all this time, said.

Kolton Cheng's face darkened, because he hadn't expected so many people to volunteer. It was almost one third of the team!

The other members were also shocked. No wonder they were shocked. After all, they didn't know that except for Elva, almost all the others had gone through fire and water alongside Zachary. So as long as Zachary needed them, they would unconditionally help him.