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TREASURE HUNT
AFTER 19 HOURS
"Yawn~ haven't we loot enough already. Let's tear the scrolls." Jiang ShaoXu adviced. They both have gathered resources with combined worth of 4B, it's more than enough.
"You may go, I will continue." Chen Xiao said.
"So stubborn." Jiang ShaoXu complaint.
"How far are we?" Chen Xiao asked.
"20 minutes away." Jiang ShaoXu replied, Chen Xiao asked her to find dangerous places and she find 4 of them in which one of them is volcano where they found a 'Fiery Crystal' worth 250M, another one was a ice mountain where they found a 'Ice Dew' worth 300M and third place was a Poison tree forest where they found an egg possibly of a Queen. And fourth place is a cave where they heard heard a roar and eagle got so frightened it didn't dare to get near the cave no matter how hard Jiang ShaoXu tried.
RAAWWWRRRR!
"Chen Xiao... we should not go there. There is something very dangerous inside it." Jiang ShaoXu said while clutching Chen Xiao's hand not want to let him go.
"Don't worry, I have face stronger monsters than that." Chen Xiao said and gently free himself from Jiang ShaoXu and went inside the cave.
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THEATRE
"Good grief, someone actually find the 'Grand Treasure'." an official said.
"What?! the grand treasure is inside that cave." an advisor said in astonishment.
"Haha... Chen Xiao must be after that grand treasure from the beginning." Pang Lai said.
"What did you expected? he is a 5-Star Hunter Master." Feng Li said proudly. Not many students participating in tournament hold identities other than being a Student.
"5-Star Hunter Master, this junior have got a bright future." a Senior Hunter complemented.
"He may have found the grand treasure but I doubt he will be able to get it. An Advanced Commander is guarding the treasure." another Senior Hunter said.
"What?! an Advanced Commander? what in the world is the treasure?" an advisor asked.
"Inferior Heavenly Vein, only a team of mages at the peak of Advance Tier will have chances to claim the treasure. The beast will not kill Chen Xiao as it's under mind control but it will seriously injure Chen Xiao." Senior Hunter said.
"Good" Feng Li give himself a facepalm.
"What happened?!" Pang Lai asked in confusion.
"Knowing Chen Xiao he will not be returning until he is halfdead or get Inferior Heavenly Vein. He just recently fully recovered. What a pain?" Feng Li start massaging his forehead.
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"Let's just hope he will retreat before getting too much injured." Song He said.
"He is leaving his contract beast outside." Shao Zheng said giving more headache to Feng Li.
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TREASURE HUNT
I enter the cave and find an boar looking advanced commander. It didn't attacked me immediately but kept sitting in its place. Seems like a tamed beast.
"You don't know how lucky you actually are." Chen Xiao said to advanced commander.
"Level 5 Space Rythm: Rush"
"Hydra Domain"
"Chaos Surface"
The commander stood up. Finally taking me seriously huh?
"Chaos Accelerator"
"Lightning Spear"
The beast dodge the spear and pounced at me.
"Level 5 Space Rythm: Compression"
The beast hit the ground but remain on it's legs.
"Level 5 Lonely Death Lightning: Lightning Cage" the boar got trapped in lightning cage and Chen Xiao took the Inferior Heavenly Vein.
"So, what was inside there?" Jiang ShaoXu asked curiously, she was expecting him to come covered in wounds.
"Nothing big, let's go there. Did anyone enter that place?" Chen Xiao asked.
"Three participants tried to but shooed away by the guards. You not planning to go there right?" Jiang ShaoXu asked suspiciously.
"Of course I'm. Let's go." Chen Xiao said.
"Anyways what did you got in there?" Jiang ShaoXu asked.
"A Heavenly Vein" Chen Xiao replied, he actually didn't knew what it was but it was similar to galaxy vein so he assumed it to be a Heavenly Vein.
"What?! show me." Jiang ShaoXu said.
"Here" Chen Xiao showed her the treasure.
"It's just an Inferior Heavenly Vein, your chances of breaking through into Super Tier will be less than 30%." Jiang ShaoXu said with disinterest and throw it back and Chen Xiao looked at her in disbelief. Chen Xiao was ready to give everything he found in exchange for the Heavenly Vein.
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THEATRE
"How?" everyone have the same question about Chen Xiao coming out of the cave unscathed.
"Did the commander fell asleep?" someone joked.
"How did we forgot? Feng Li don't you remember Chen Xiao have defenses which even protected him from an Inferior Manarch. So, what's an advanced commander?" Song He represent his theory.
"What Inferior Manarch?" Shao Zheng asked in cold tone, he doesn't like the idea of national team facing such dangers.
"During their mission in eliminating a mirage of Pyramid, they unexpectedly faced Dark Swordmaster. And Chen Xiao got direct hit from it but his defenses kept him alive. If he learnt anything from that then he must have bought few more pieces of defense equipment." Feng Li explained
"No wonder, he was in such battered condition during the first match." Hanji said.
"No no no not there, where is the staff assigned there?" Senior Hunter asked in frustration.
"What happened?!" an advisor asked.
"That boy Chen Xiao, he went into Miasma that's a forbidden place and most dangerous place in whole treasure hunt. Even a Super Tier mage might die in there." Senior Hunter explained and rushed towards the authorities and followed by Pang Lai.
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TREASURE HUNT
"Totem Snake Armour is really the best." Chen Xiao complemented his Armour, it safely take Chen Xiao through the miasma.
"What a creepy place?" Chen Xiao complaint brought out torch.
"Hydra Armour! lightning wings" Chen Xiao fly straight with high speed.
A dried up stream, it should be this. I start following the stream and stopped before entrance of a cave.
"Level 5 Space Rythm: Rush" Chen enter the cave.
SHINNGGG!
"Want to play, just you wait until I get out of this place." Chen Xiao said in mind.
I soon reach a huge dried up well inside in which a box was placed.
"Level 1 Blink: Single"
"Level 1 Blink: Single"
Taking no chances I used teleportation to retrieve the box.
SCREEECH!
'Haha... seems like I made a fool of them.' Chen Xiao laughed inwardly.
"Level 1 Blink: Single"
Using teleportation, I exit the cave. Now come to me bastards.
Both of advanced commanders shoot out of cave.
"Void Shield" Both commanders hit the shield and break it. But their speed fell down.
SHATTERED!
"Level 5 Change of Variable: Gravity Manipulation"
"Level 5 Space Rythm: Delay"
"Level 5 Lonely Death Lightning: Hydra: Lightning Cage"
"Lightning Spear"
Perfect, I wonder if corpses of these monsters will fetch any price.
I came out of the Miasma and found Pang Lai and some other Super Mages with him.
"What happened?!" Chen Xiao asked.
"Nothing, it's just this place was forbidden and extremely dangerous. So, we came to rescue you but it doesn't seem you need any help." Pang Lai explained.
"Did you find the treasure?" an official asked.
"Yes" Chen Xiao replied showing the box.
"How did you learn about this place?" another official asked.
"Nothing hard about it, I just asked my Psychic mage partner to find places which look erie or look like dwelling place of strong monsters. We find quite a few of them including this place and it was worth it." Chen Xiao explained.
"Hahaha... Chen Xiao, you really are something. Let me tell you something, there was only one Grand Treasure in this Treasure Hunt but you actually find two Grand Treasures and I'm pretty sure you two will be in top 3 rankings." Pang Lai gave a heartful laugh, this time China will shine the brightest in the whole tournament.
"Chen Xiao, you are amazing!" Jiang ShaoXu gave hug-cum-tackle attack.
"Hmph, You only learn now." Chen Xiao said with smugness
"Are you two still planning to continue? if not you can come with us. If you do so you can have those Space Scrolls." Pang Lai advised.
A Space Scrolls is not just expensive but also very rare. I don't think we will earn anything worth equal to Space Scroll in the time left.
"We will go with you then." Chen Xiao agreed.
