Chapter 98 - Hunting Time (2/2)

Ao and Arlan immediately used that chance to finish off the last two guys and stopped right in front of the water prisons. The two leaders knew that there was no way out, so they tried to negotiate first.

”We will give you our token as long as you let us leave this place. We won't try to bother you three anymore after this. Please understand that we can't simply give up like this; otherwise, our positions in our sect will be deeply affected if we are eliminated straight away.”

Krune, Arlan and Ao looked at each other. Although Krune is the one holding the tokens at the moment, that is because he has the highest speed and defense between the three of them. It's not like there was a leader in their group to start with. In Krune's eyes, everyone had the right to do decisions. Krune then asked while keeping his attention on both leaders.

”What do you think? Personally, I don't mind either. The two of you probably noticed as well, although they did try to ambush us with higher numbers, there has never been killing intent coming from them. I believe that they were really prepared to just force us to use our blue token or give up our black token.”

Ao simply put his sword away, that gesture was obviously showing his answer.

Arlan just sighed and put his sword away as well. Ao had already told him about Krune's personality and his aversion for killing. Arlan really couldn't understand how Krune became this strong with such a kind heart.

”Very well. Send over your black tokens and I will release you.”

The two prisoners looked at each other and nodded; they took out their black tokens and immediately threw them over to Krune. They were not in position demand Krune to do anything. If they tried, Krune could simply attack them until they were forced to use their blue tokens and then their black token would be lost anyway. They could only trust that Krune would keep his words.

Krune exanimated the two black tokens and nodded. Right after that, the two water prisons skill were canceled, much for the two leaders' relief. Krune then pointed at their team members and said.

”We did inflict severe injuries to your team members, but they are not crippled or dead either. As long as you have enough healing pills, they should be able to recover in a few days. You still have a chance of passing this first phase too. Just remember that if you get close to us and we find out that you have black tokens again, we won't show any courtesy.”

That was one more reason as to why Krune wasn't forcing them to quit. The more teams that are out there, the bigger is their chances of finding more groups with black tokens.

After that, Krune, Arlan, and Ao left straight away. While they were moving forward, Arlan and Ao seemed to be waiting for Krune to say something.

”We did our best to lure the other teams, but they just kept close enough to check the situation. I believe that they were waiting for an opportunity to strike as soon as a victor emerged, so we had prepared a few traps according to our plan. Unfortunately, not a single one of them tried to join the fray from start to finish.”

With Krune's Divine Sense, there is no way that he wouldn't notice the other three teams lurking in the shadows. But Krune really didn't expect that they wouldn't act until the very end.

Ao pondered a bit and said.

”Could it be that we showed too much strength and scared them away?”

Arlan nodded.

”I also think so. After all, we did get rid of those ten cultivators with certain easy.”

But Krune then started to laugh.

”Actually, the reason was much simpler! You should be able to guess it already.”

Ao and Arlan's eyes suddenly lit up and they started to laugh too.

”They had noticed each other and none of them wanted to be the first one to attack. In the end, none of them moved until the very end afraid that they would be ambushed by the other two lurking around.”

Krune nodded.

”Correct! Their fear destroyed our plans and in the end, we only got two black tokens. Of course, the two hours of peace had just finished, to get two black tokens just a few minutes after it is already very good.”

Ao and Arlan also nodded. Then, the three of them looked at each other and showed an evil smile. They totally looked like villains from some evil sect at the moment.

”But that doesn't mean that we are leaving them out of the hook. Let's keep moving this way, but be ready to move at full speed once I tell you.”

Krune was playing his support role to the fullest! His recognition and tracking powers were obviously no match for anyone around them.