192 Never-returning cave

The first elder felt even angrier when he thought back to how he always took the side of the third elder and even opposed the second elder.

However, recently he found out that the same third elder was completing some missions from the headquarters and enjoying the rewards for himself without informing him.

He felt jealousy, hatred, and all other negative emotions towards the third elder.

"Master, there is something I wanted to inform," a disciple in the discipline hall uniform came forward and said with sweat behind his back.

"What is it?" the first elder asked impatiently.

"Just now, some of our patrolling disciples saw the third elder's eldest personal disciple along with some strong mission hall disciples running out of the sect," the disciple said quickly fearing that his master would kill him if he wasted any time.

"Huh? Looks like it about that mission," the first elder's anger calmed down a little and asked, "Where is that boy I asked you to keep an eye."

"One of our disciples who was following them sent the information that the boy entered the Cursed wilderness on a mission along with another member from the squad," The disciple informed quickly.

'What is that Edmond guy thinking, sending his squad's young ones on a mission at a time like this?' he thought to himself.

Just like the Captains of the top mercenary squads, the first elder was also puzzled at Edmond's way of doing things.

'Whatever, let me get this boy's head first then I will show that bloody third elder what it means to hide important things from me,' The first elder smiled cruelly as he looked at his disciples and ordered, "Kill that boy and bring me his head. If the disciples from the other halls comes in your ways then clear them out without any hesitation."

Although the missions that the third elder did in the past could be shared with the other elders from the assassin sect, however, he didn't share any details and maintained secrecy as he wanted to get the full rewards for himself.

Due to him, maintaining the secrecy of the missions, the headquarters gave him more missions to do.

After hearing his orders, all the disciples who were in the hall disappeared.

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Not only in Mission and Discipline halls but all other halls had the same discussions and sent some of their strongest disciples to kill Ajax.

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Ajax and Paulin, who were flying towards the middle section of the Cured Wilderness, didn't know that there was a hunt started for them by all the 12 halls of the assassin sect.

"Senior brother look, is that the Never-returning cave that was mentioned in the mission?"

After flying for more than 6 hours on the spirit crane, Ajax asked Paulin, pointing his finger towards and ancient-looking cave.

However, with their current strengths, it was not a problem for them to take care of the spirit beasts from the outer section of the Cursed Wilderness.

"Huh? Looks like it. According to the location and the details mentioned in the mission matches with that cave surroundings exactly," Paulin looked at the surroundings of the ancient-looking cave and nodded his head.

The area around the ancient-looking cave did not have a shed of grass growing in its surroundings.

No spirit beasts or spirit birds were present, making it look like a deserted area.

Whenever a mission was posted on the mission board of the mercenary guild, there would be all kinds of details to find the mission location.

So with the details provided by the mercenary guild, they quickly related the ancient-looking cave to the Never-returning cave.

The Never-returning cave, as the name suggests, was a cave where people could enter but unable to return.

However, the entered people were not dead as their life jades were still intact with their family members.

To bring back their young ones, some of their family members with high cultivation tried to enter it, but they were unable to enter the cave as some powerful barrier blocked its entrance.

That barrier only allowed the cultivators of the below general realm.

So the powerful families used some of the elite commander realm cultivators to enter the cave to find out the mystery behind it.

Despite their effort, they were unable to find any mystery behind the cave and even lost some of the elite commander realm cultivators.

After multiple attempts, they were still unable to find out anything about the cave and named it as Never-returning cave. 

Eventually, as time passed, people forget the existence of this never-returning cave.

At the same time, many people said that all the things about the never-returning cave were some baseless rumours.

However, a mission that was related to Never-returning cave had mysteriously appeared on the mission board of the mercenary guild.

"Let's find what is really inside this so-called Never-returning cave," Paulin looked at the ancient-looking cave and said.

Ajax and Paulin also belonged to the second category of the people who didn't believe the baseless rumours about the cave.

There was a reason for it, though because their Squad Captain Edmond had successfully returned from the never-returning cave which was only known to the Hazegroove squad members.

In one of their mealtime conversations, Udo revealed the shocking secret of Edmond who returned alive from the Never-returning cave.

However, when Ajax and others asked him to explain about the cave, Edmond stopped Udo from saying anything about it.

"All, you have to know is that you are still not powerful enough to know," It was the reply from Edmond for them.

At that time, Ajax had not even reached the elite soldier realm, so he didn't show much interest.

However, he had confidence in himself to accomplish the mission now, since he had elemental spirits and some spirit beast in his arsenal.

Even though he had confidence in himself in surviving in the Never-returning cave, he didn't want to take some possible 'A' danger rating mission which was mention in the mission's beast skin.

So he rejected it without thinking much.

But when he saw the newly generated system mission and knew that the mission only had 'B+' danger rating, he took it without hesitation.

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