"You want to join me?"
Arran asked Brianna in astonishment.
"Yes, I do," she confirmed.
Arran looked at Brianna up and down and he was wondering what had gotten into the girl this time. Before she was thanking him for saving her life and that could be excused since it had been a misunderstanding in the first place, but now that she had brought this up, Arran did not know what she wanted to do.
Still, Arran did not have the time to consider this matter so he only asked her.
"Why? Why do you want to join me and even if I could let you come with me, what purpose would that serve me?"
"In short, what benefits would having you by my side bring to me?"
"Frankly speaking, you are not strong enough to be of any use to be, and having you by my side would only be a burden to me. I have time to babysit you so unless you can prove your value to me right now then there is no point in bringing this up again."
Arran spoke frankly to Brianna s
At the end of the day, Arran decided to take Richard as well as Conrad and the last lackey whose name was Val along with him and Brianna. Arran did this not because he took pity on them but instead Arran considered the fact that leaving them there for anybody to come across was a security risk. If Arran had just left Richard and the rest of them to their own devices and somebody came along, Richard who knew of the existence of the traps Arran had left scattered in the tunnels was very likely to expose this intelligence to them just to save himself. It would have been especially bad if Richard had exposed this information to the members of the alliance of defeated participants. Arran had already recognized this alliance as a very formidable force that would prove to be especially difficult to deal with. Arran was not confident of being able to come out on top in a confrontation between himself and this alliance without the help of the various traps tha
"My plan is very simple.""I was initially going to use these formations and traps which I set up in the tunnels to deal with the more troublesome enemies I come across but I didn't expect that I would have to use them so early on. Anyway, there is no point thinking about this now. Since I am not able to hide these cards then I may as well use them up all at once."Arran looked at Brianna as he was speaking.He wanted to see if she was listening to him and maybe try to decern what she had in her mind.Brianna's face was calm as she silently listened to Arran explain his plans to her."Take a look at this map."Arran raised one of the formation balls in his hands for Brianna to see.As soon as Brianna's attention was fixed on the formation ball, Arran quickly activated it, and immediately, the formation ball shone with a bright light, and from it a projection formed in the air above the ball.This was a projection showing the di
Somewhere in the tunnels...Currently, a team of participants was making their way through the dark tunnels.Just like other underground tunnels in this mountain was, this tunnel was no different from the others.During the more than five-hour-long duration of the second elimination round, some of the participants had speculated on how these tunnels were formed.Normally there would be various reasons why underground structures like these tunnels would form. Some of these underground structures could be formed naturally while at other times they were artificially created.Some participants had speculated that these underground tunnels had been naturally formed due to various reasons like the overflowing of ocean water when the mountain was still submerged in the sea before it ascended due to the effect of the heavy magnetic field of the planet or the dissolution of certain minerals... like limestone for example or its equivalent.Apart from
"Miss Flora, what do you think about the speculation of how these tunnels were formed? I for one believe that these tunnels came to be because of the movement and exploration of the underground inhabitants of the mountains."The average-looking Aeth genius was talking to the girl from the honorary noble family whom he had set his sights on.She was a girl who, like any genius of her standing carried herself with pride and dignity believing that she was special and better than anybody else.Although her family was not exactly very powerful or influential, with the status of her family, this girl was still able to treat people like the average-looking genius who did not come from any notable background at all with contempt.For a while now, this girl who went by the name flora had noticed that the average-looking genius was interested in her and wanted to develop feelings between them.This was not the first time that hs had faced this situation and
As soon as Jerome shouted at the cloaked figure to stop, everybody else in his team immediately paused their movements and looked towards the two of them.They were very surprised by Jerome's abrupt command and they had puzzled looks on their faces that reflected their confusion.Some of them were very irritated while others were quite indifferent to what was happening. the only thing that the other members of the team wanted to know was why Jerome had suddenly started causing a ruckus all of a sudden.Looking at Jerome who was pointing his sword towards a member of their team, some of the more irritated members started demanding an explanation from him immediately."Who is the one shouting so loudly? Don't you know that your voice will be amplified in these tunnels? You almost gave me a heart attack...""Hey you there, how dare you to point your weapon at one of us? Are you trying to rebel?""The person that just shouted, you'd better give
As soon as Arran took action, his whole presence changed.Previously, Arran who was covered by that large cloak was like a man of mystery who had a hint of danger underneath his disguise.To the twenty-man team, it was like an assassin was hidden in their midst, waiting to reap their lives at the slightest opportunity. This caused them to be wary of Arran but at the same time, their confidence in their numbers prevented them from panicking.The twenty-man team felt that no matter if there was a problem with Arran or not that it didn't matter since they were confident of resolving any issues with tier numbers.An assassin who had been pulled away from the darkness into the light was no longer a threat and could be dealt with easily.That was how the people in the team felt.At most this suspicious character would try to escape since he was already found out.But in the next moment... just as they were about to corner this suspicious ch
Arran did not have a lot of time on hand so he could not waste it.Arran squatted down and quickly started to search through the belongings of the twenty Aeth who he had knocked unconscious.Arran was searching to see if there were any tokens on any of them so that he could take them away with him. Even if Arran was planning on playing the long game with these alliance members he still wanted to try his luck and see if any of them had hidden any tokens on their person.Arran was not really expecting much as he had already guessed that because of fairness all the tokens that the alliance members get their hands on will be concentrated and gathered in the hands of a few select people.It had to be said that Arran had his tokens on him at the moment so if any of these twenty Aeth was hiding a token on them then they would have sensed him from the very beginning. since they did not it meant that none of these people had any tokens with them.Still, as
The unremarkable-looking captain of the second team looked at the captain of the first team for a moment before turning away as he continued to observe the scene.While doing this, the captain of the second team said, "I should be asking you instead. Why are you here instead of joining your team to capture the culprit who attacked our people? Are you really that timid that you would rather stay behind and let your team face all the risks on their own?"There was pure disdain dripping from the mouth of the captain of the second team and it was clear that he did not want to have anything to do with the captain of the first team."Haha, don't be like that, after all, we are comrades who are in the same boat so we should get along well with each other."The captain of the first team laughed off the words of the second team's captain.His skin was sufficiently thick and it was like nothing could penetrate it at all.The first team's captain conti