“My god! You truly are something else, Gerald!” exclaimed Yann in awe. To think that Gerald had been able to remember to steal Tye’s map earlier despite being in such a stressful situation! Regardless, how splendid! Now that Tye and the others didn’t have the map, they’d surely be unable to continue their search! “Whatever the case is, Tye and his men may have come here for the treasure, but we’re different. What we find valuable is different from them. With that in mind, I want both of you to listen carefully to me. Once we get to our destination, you can’t touch or take anything without first asking for my permission! Do I have myself clear?” said Gerald. “Got it, Mr. Crawford!” replied Rey. “But… if we don’t take anything back, then this trip will be a bit of a waste, don’t you think, Mr. Crawford…?” muttered Yann in a slightly reluctant tone. “While I won’t repeat myself, I hope you understand that greed only leads to ruin, Yann,” replied Gerald, prompting Yann to fall si

Hearing Gerald’s order, Rey and Yann immediately began bolting away from the scene. Unfortunately for them, their sudden movement only served to make the monster even more excited! Realizing that the monster had its eyes on him, Rey began running even faster as he yelled, “P-please stop chasing after me…!” As expected, all that shouting simply caused the beast to increase its speed as it continued bolting toward Rey! Realizing that the monster was now inches away from Rey, Gerald quickly summoned the Astrabyss Sword before tossing it toward the beast! The second the sword successfully cut through the monster’s flesh, it let out a mighty roar of pain! Following that, it turned to glare at Gerald before charging for him next! Despite how intimidating it was, Gerald kept his cool and resummoned the blade into his hand. Once the monster was only a few steps away from him, Gerald—who had positioned himself to strike by now—bolted toward it as well! Ducking exactly in front

Upon hearing Rey’s question, Stanton immediately chuckled before replying, “You’ll find out once night comes!” Hearing that, Rey could only shrug in response. Regardless, it wasn’t long before the villagers brought all kinds of food and drinks over to Stanton’s home. After they placed all the goodies in front of Gerald and his party, Stanton smiled before declaring, “Come, have some food! All of you must be famished and exhausted after traveling such a long way!” Before Gerald could even say a word, Rey immediately replied, “Well yeah, I’m starving! Thank you for having us, chief!” By the time Gerald turned to stare helplessly at Rey, Rey was already busy stuffing his mouth with food. After all, the trio hadn’t eaten anything for most of the day, and being a young man, Rey‘s appetite was nothing short of voracious. Still, with how quickly he was eating, Gerald felt that it honestly wasn’t a stretch that his hunger could rival that of a hungry ghost who hadn’t eaten for a cent

“Hah! Just so you know, there didn’t even use to be a road on this mountain! This footpath here is the product of us mapping out the mountain for years! This path is considerably easy, you know? Some of the more difficult terrains require us to climb!” scowled Stanton—who was taking the lead—in a joking tone. While the trio appreciated the old man’s light-heartedness, it didn’t change the fact that all this hiking was a challenge for them. Even so, they were well aware that this was the only way they were going to be able to locate that cave… As they said, ‘No pain, no gain…’ Regardless, after about an hour of trekking, the group finally arrived at an area with relatively flat land. Judging from how high up the mountain they were, they were possibly halfway up the mountain as well. With that in mind, looking down at the deep valley—that was now hundreds of feet below them—would make anyone feel giddy… Just as all three of them were trying hard not to think about how high they wer

Atop one of the many piles of treasure, lay a treasure chest… and upon seeing it, Gerald immediately knew that what he was looking for was in there. As he had predicted, it truly was here! Now that it was so close to him, there was no way he was going to be able to hold himself back from obtaining it! With that, Gerald paid little attention to what Rey and Yann were doing and simply walked toward the treasure chest… Watching as seemingly endless amounts of gold coins slid down from the mountain of treasures that Gerald was slowly climbing, Yann couldn’t help but get even more excited. Taking his backpack off, he immediately began filling it with piles upon piles of treasures! After all, he had never seen this many gold coins in a single place before, so he simply couldn’t help himself… While Rey—who had been standing at the side—was equally as excited to see all that gold, he knew better than to do what Yann was doing. After all, Gerald had told him not to touch things at r