She frowned. "It doesn't matter. Drop the seed and leave with your life," she said coldly."And what if I don't?" Samuel asked with a wicked smile."Then I will be forced to kill you." A trident suddenly appeared in her hand. "We traveled a long way for this, so please don't make things more difficult for us. I will compensate you as well.""If you need it that badly, why don't you stay here and wait another hundred years? Then you can pluck the seed yourself," he replied dismissively as he swam upward."Stop there, you bastard!"Green energy burst from the trident and shot toward him. Samuel twisted his body and dodged instantly.Without hesitation, he surged out of the stream. Fighting in the water would only give her the advantage.The moment he reached dry land, he realized the entire stream had already been surrounded.Two men were gripping Kael tightly, yet the two-headed minotaur showed no sign of struggling. All of them had fish scales like the girl, though theirs were far les

"Then why don't you just move out of here entirely?" Samuel asked."We thought of it before and even tried, but it wasn't as easy as it looked. She attacked us and killed many people at once. We had to beg and promise to return and never attempt to escape again before she let us go," the old village head explained."How many people did she kill that day?" he asked."Thirty people in total," he replied.Samuel felt the number was indeed a lot. No wonder they had given up. If the monster had wanted to, she could have killed even more, so returning had been the better option. At least now she only took one out of every three people daily while they quietly searched for solutions, rather than slaughtering everyone at once.He relaxed his body and looked at the village head. The village head seemed confused by the look he was receiving. Frowning, he asked,"Is anything wrong? Is there something else you want me to tell you?""Yes. Aren't you leaving something out of the story?" Samuel repl

“My Jubril was innocent. He could barely hurt a fly, yet he was killed by those innocent creatures. Those creatures are no good. They are evil. Don’t think you can trust them. They will betray you soon, trust me,” the three-headed Naga demon said as it rose slowly from the ground.“As far as I'm concerned, you're the one looking for trouble. Did the entire village kill your son?”“They didn’t, but they are just as evil. Look, we shouldn’t be fighting like this. I know you don’t have any deep ties with them. I have treasures back in my lair. Allow me to do what I came here for, then follow me back to my lair. I will give you more riches than you can ever imagine.”She licked her lips as she slithered closer, her massive serpentine body gliding across the ground.“There’s even some heavenly grass in my lair. You just have to follow me, and all of it will be yours…!”The instant she came within range, she attacked without warning.Samuel smirked. He had already expected it.Ninefold Stor

"What do you mean? Am I not supposed to be here?" he replied angrily."You? What are you going to do here? Your country can't even place someone in the top twenty. None of the ten who qualified for the Treasure Land is from your country. I believe this has nothing to do with you. Leave it to those it directly concerns.""It's alright, Grand elder Sergei. Let's start moving already," Grand elder Chu said impatiently. He did not rate the Bena Grand elder highly enough to reply to him.********"Hey, where's Samuel, guys? Why isn't he here yet? Does he want to miss the Treasure Grounds?" Dmitry asked Amber and Amelia."We don't know. We have barely been in contact since the Open Meet Tournament," Amber replied."We actually met at the auction in Burusia," Amelia said."Burusia? You guys came to Burusia?" Bruce asked excitedly."Yes, we did, Bruce. Don't ask why we didn't contact you, because obviously we don't have your contact.""Yeah, that's true." Bruce nodded and went back to stand w

Amelia looked around at the unfamiliar landscape.“So this is the inheritance ground? I wonder what type of opportunity I can find here.” She spoke softly and took out a map. It recorded the known areas of the inheritance ground, with emphasis on the known areas. Many other places remained unrecorded.Amelia was genuinely impressed by Grand elder Brown’s capability. Even her family couldn’t get their hands on such a map, even though they were partly based in the Divine beast continent.They might be considered powerful and influential in Merika, but they were not regarded as much in the Divine beast continent, where any family without at least a half ancestor was greatly overlooked.“Based on what he told us, we should first figure out where we were sent, then go to a landmark close to the area and stay there while waiting for the others. Well… where is this place?”She studied the map carefully. Since it was a mountainous region, orientation should be easier.Suddenly her ears perked