After travelling for 3 whole days the expedition team had finally reached the Ruins of Radiant City. Linjian took out a map of the Ruins drawn by various scouting teams that had already wiped most of this area clean. He was having a discussion together with Shen Fei and a few other of his cla.s.s mates who had come to decide on the places they were going to search.Reo knew their was treasure underneath the city Lord"s academy training grounds. But to not arouse suspicions he kept to himself. Nie Li wanted the treasure lamp that was hidden in these ruins, so he went up to map and scanned and told "Brother Linjian, I have a idea about where the treasures might be."
Linjian was curious and seeing how Nie Li was knowledgeable most of the time he decided to hear him out.
Nie Li pointed out " Most of the areas have been looted by the previous teams in the commoners district and most of the n.o.bles also had their treasures taken. The only possibilities are the hidden ones probably like the city Lord"s treasury. Out of all the areas I have doubt on three places and they are the Academy Training Grounds , Refugee Camp , and a wide stretch of land near the city Lord mansion. "
Nie Li continued " We can mostly rule out the refugee camp since keeping the treasure their is like giving away the treasure to enemies. And since the academy training grounds and the stretch of land have bigger possibilities. So we should probably search these two areas. "
Linjian nodded to Nie Li"s statement and it sounded true and was properly deduced all the others also agreed with that and they set out to search the academy training grounds first. The whole team was preparing up their weapons and getting ready to face the renowned Blue armed giant apes that roam the ruins.
Reo was readying out was going to face demon beasts for the first time since coming to this world. And this can even be told that this might be his first proper battle. Reo hid the tessaiga in the sky Poison Pearl because the tessaiga unleashed form will attract many unwanted eyes. For this occasion he especially bought a new bronze ranked sword from the market [ Tiger"s Fang]. The sword was normal looking and was said to be made using a tiger"s fang and was hence named so.
Nie Li on the other hand picked out a crossbow and he had specially prepare some crossbow arrows tipped with poison fatal against the blue Armed giant apes.
While everyone was preparing for the fight and search in the ruins little did they know that a squad of 25 people from the actually dark guild was trailing them from the shadows. All the members were at least silver ranked with 4 peak silver ranks and was led by 1 gold ranked deacon yun hua. Yun Hua snorted after hearing the death of one of the silver ranked member in the hands of the expedition team from the two injured ones. He said " Spread out and search in teams of 5 with a Peak silver rank as the leader , capture all the n.o.bles and kill the rest of them. We can use them to ask for ransom and find and torture the one who killed one of us, he shouldn"t have an easy death.
No one knew they were being stalked like a prey and were going to be used as tools for ransom. But reo was worrying that since he changed the original plot and has increased the strength of Glory city wouldn"t the dark guild also have an increased strength.
As the team went through the route towards the academy training grounds, they out that the few blue Armed were starting to show behind them and kept following them. When around 10 were gathered the apes started approaching them slowly. Nie Li used his poisoned arrows to get one hit and one kill on the apes. Others also tried using their own crossbows and many missed their targets and even if a few hit they did nothing to the apes. Nie li"s arrows only worked because of the poison specially manufactured to counter the apes. Reo was protecting the three girls and when he was looking at Nie Li a big ape suddenly rushed at him. Linjian was that their was a ape rushing towards his brother and tried to get to his brother but was blocked by the apes he was fighting. Nie Li was currently shooting arrows at the apes and was far away from reo and couldn"t help. Shen Fei who was nearest to reo was rather delighted looking at reo"s misfortune, he sneered and thought that reo should die. But he still managed to run slowly so that he can protect the girls after reo was beaten by the ape.
Everyone thought reo would be done be gravely injured or die because the ape was a peak silver ranked and quite strong among the other apes and that reo was a red soul realm and only came because of his brother.
While everyone was trying to either run away or trying to run to save reo, only the two girls slowly walked back a little and smiled at reo. Ye Ziyun thought they were stunned seeing the ape run towards them and tried to pull them away, but Feng Xue"er and Xiao Ning"er were the only ones who knew reo"s true cultivation base. Even so they didn"t know his actually strength and only stood their behind him cause he promised them so.