Chapter 427 - Monster Hunting (2)

Auron walked around for a minute before he went back to the gold mine. As long as the monster had yet submitted, the other participant could steal your monster's corpse. Although they could fight and take the other participant's monster, they could not kill anyone. It was because there were many referee's committees that dispatched around the area.

There was still a chance for the other participant to die, but it was very low. When there was a battle around them, the referee would come and mediate the battle. When they thought that one of the sides could not continue, they would stop the battle and give the monster to the winner.

Auron didn't want that to happen to him, so he walked back to the gold mine. Not long after, he arrived at the submission place. He immediately gave the monster's corpse he had.

On the left side of the area, there was a score panel. After Auron submitted the monster, on the place of Convid Village, there was a number 3 shown on the board.

Auron looked at the other village score. The other villages still had 0 scores on their name. It seemed Auron was really fortunate to get this score. Then, Auron went back to search for the other monster.

Two hours passed by. Auron had come back for the fourth time. After that, he submitted his loot. It was just a monster with a white mark.

Then, Auron looked at the score panel. Besides the Convid Village's name, there was a number 10.

After the first time that he got 3 scores, he had not been that lucky anymore. He had just found monsters with white marks several times. Fortunately, that Auron could submit more than one monster. But, still, the Convid Village led this tournament with 10 points.

Behind him, the player village and the Hunter Village followed them with 9 points each. Meanwhile, the rest of the village had 8 points.

In total, all of the acc.u.mulated points was 52 points. More than half of the point had been collected.

Auron was about to leave the place when he saw a member from the Hunter Village came. There were two monsters on his hand—one with a white mark and the other with a red mark.

And, just like everyone had expected. The Hunter Village gained three points and went to the first place with 12 points.

With that, the crowd who cheered on the Hunter Village cheered excitedly. The member of Hunter Village, who just submitted the monster, fisted the air as he was replying to his supporter's cheer.

Then, he turned back and saw Auron. That member recognized Auron as the leader of Convid Village. He scoffed at Auron and walked passed Auron by.

Auron frowned. He looked back at the score panel and glanced at his village's score once again. Then, Auron realized something. Almost all of the score that his village gained was the result of his works.

From all of the scores that his village had gained, Auron's teammate, the tanky swordsman, only contributed 1 score. It was so weird considering the swordsman's level and the strength of the monster.

Moreover, this was still the start of the competition. The monsters were still a lot, so it was so weird that his teammate only gave one point.

Auron looked at his other team member and asking them with a gesture. The mage replied with an 'I don't know' posture. However, Auron looked at the thief's expression. 

The thief's expression was so dark. It was a held, furious expression. He tried to hide it, but he could not.

Auron became more suspicious of the thief's expression. The thief and the tanky swordsman had acted suspiciously since the start of this tournament.

Auron decided to chase after the tanky swordsman. He used the same path as before and went to tanky swordsman's direction.

Auron kept walking forward while kept his awareness at his surroundings. He didn't want to miss the tanky swordsman's whereabouts. As soon as he saw the tanky swordsman, Auron would interrogate him.

After walking for 10 minutes, Auron still didn't find any clue. However, he didn't give up. Auron kept on walking forward.

Thirty minutes later, at far away, Auron saw a shadow. When Auron looked carefully at that shadow, he could see that it was the tanky swordsman.

The stirred up emotion inside Auron immediately surfaced. He quickly activated his movement skill and to the tanky swordsman's direction to chase him.

Meanwhile, the tanky swordsman was not facing at Auron, so he didn't know that Auron was behind him.

The tanky swordsman was looked nervous and afraid. He was pondering something when Auron tapped at his shoulder. The tanky swordsman was shocked, and he nervously glanced behind him.

When the tanky swordsman found out that it was Auron. He felt relieved. However, a second later, he became panic.

The tanky swordsman tried to run away from Auron. However, Auron had firmly held him so he could not run away.

"What are you doing here? Why are you act sneaky?" Auron directly interrogated the swordsman.

"No...No... Nothing. I just chase a monster with red mark up to here. Unfortunately, I lost it." The tanky swordsman nervously answered.

"Really?" Auron doubted the answer. He began to scan the swordsman's condition. However, he found nothing.

Then, Auron glanced behind the swordsman's back. Auron was surprised. Behind the swordsman, Auron could find numerous herbs on the ground. Moreover, the herbs were not a low-level one. If one sold all of these herbs at the market value, he could buy a level 300 king's grade equipment set.

"Where do you get this?" Auron furiously asked the swordsman while holding the swordsman tightly.

The swordsman became more panicked and said, "No, I just found it here. I don't know who the owner is, but it was such a fortunate thing."

"How about we split it between the two of us equally?" The swordsman began to persuade Auron.