Treasure Hunt ...... That's right, for these people of the old thief group, they would never have thought that a treasure hunting commission that they took over more than a month ago would make the continent's No. 1 thief group fall into such a situation where they were almost wiped out in this dark underground that not many people knew.

It all started before the old thieves made a big fuss about the Alant Festival. After the old thief told the second prince's anonymous commission to Camos, the president of the Lorris National Academy, that is, in order to ensure that the Lorris National Academy would not lose too much and be able to completely crack the conspiracy of the second prince, and in order to ensure that the credibility of the old thief group would not leave outsiders with any reliable evidence to prove that they took the employer's money but turned their heads and framed the employer with the target, the two old men who were also friends and enemies quickly reached it." Let the members of the thieves come to the academy to play with the most elite group of students".

And just a few days before the old thief led the only seven members of the group to leave Freeport for Arrant, the old thief group received a commission that was different from the "big trouble" Alant sacrifice, which really made the whole group of small but fierce thieves extremely interested.

Assist in the investigation of an unknown ancient ruin.

This commission was made by a mercenary group with a small reputation of only a medium-sized scale, in the mercenary city of Freeport, so that a team of several hundred people in the whole group can be found everywhere but can find dozens of them casually, in other words, it is a mercenary group that is really inconspicuous.

However, it is such a very ordinary mercenary group, but like shit luck, after completing a mission to escort a caravan through the southwest desert not long after, he accidentally encountered a sandstorm on his return, and when he got lost in the desert, he accidentally found an ancient ruin that had never been marked on the map.

Among the three epochs in the continent of Areth so far, although the Douqi Era is long, there are few relics of civilization that are still unknown due to the detailed historical records. Only the most mysterious mythological eras, with large gaps in the historical records, will leave some relics in the unexpected and desolate corners of the continent that are difficult to detect by future generations, but indeed prove the existence of that legendary era.

In the legendary era when gods and demons coexisted, the demon god-level magician who surpassed the seven-star sage crossed the yellow-green, blue, purple, red-gold and returned to the colorless legendary-level fighting spirit, dragon, titan, and ancestral elf...... The remnants that have been handed down from a time when it was said that any small war could bring down a powerful man equivalent to the number of cutting-edge combat power on the continent at the moment, there are no more archaeological artifacts that can make historians cry with their toes. Wealth, divine weapons, ancient law-level powerhouses' cultivation codex, and even something that the gods once used...... An ancient ruin that has never been discovered also means, and no one knows better than these mercenaries who roam the continent every day for commission.

However, the flip side of the great wealth and opportunity that ancient ruins bring to explorers is, of course, the unpredictable dangers that lurk in the ruins. Unknown traps and mutated ancient monsters, and even terrifying curses and forbidden spells that people of this era have never heard of...... There has never been a shortage of cases on the continent where some absolute elite-level teams sent by big forces have been wiped out in unknown ruins, and there are even rumors that law-level powerhouses have been severely injured while exploring unfamiliar ruins and have fallen as a result.

The leader of this mercenary group was obviously an experienced and intelligent man, and after discovering this ruin, he did not rashly lead the team down to the ground to loot like a countryman who had never seen treasure, but carefully led a small group of elites in the group to carefully explore only the first layer of the ruins. Although they did not encounter anything dangerous on the first floor, the stone statues of the warriors of the various clans standing in the wide hall of the first floor made the leader of the mercenary group decide to give up and continue to explore downward.

The preservation of stone statues of warriors in such ruins suggests that the ruins were probably left by some figure who had some power of his own in ancient times. Just as there are always amazing burial goods and strong guards in the imperial tombs of various large and small countries today, for those who have their own power in the era of mythological era, when monsters are everywhere, there is no reason why the relics they leave behind will allow an ordinary mercenary group with the strongest leader in the regiment and only the elite level peak fighting spirit to casually get the treasure in it and then retreat.

After marking the place on the map, the head of the mercenary group told the members not to reveal any information and hurried back to Freeport. The head of the regiment knew that it was impossible for his small mercenary group to harvest a large amount of treasure without ensuring safety in a completely unknown ancient ruins, but he did not want to give up such a good opportunity for the mercenary group to rise overnight, and soon, the regiment leader thought of a way.

Ask for outside help, to be precise, to find a partner who can develop and explore this ruin together. To explore an unknown ruins, their mercenary group has no shortage of manpower but lacks masters who can deal with all kinds of strange things in the ruins, but unfortunately, in the network of ordinary mercenary groups like them, almost all the masters they know are the core members of some big mercenary groups or work under some big powers.

The opportunities and wealth represented by the ancient ruins are unimaginable to ordinary people, even some large forces such as several major mercenary groups and national expedition teams often turn against each other because of the distribution of interests in the exploration of ancient ruins, not to mention that they are just an ordinary mercenary group with middle and low strength and no decent backers in Freeport. If those big forces know that they have found an unknown ancient ruin, let alone cooperate to share the spoils, even if they get a small piece of the pie, I am afraid that those big forces will not be willing, and even some ruthless forces will block the news in order to monopolize the treasure and wipe out their small mercenary group.

After worrying for a long time, the head of the regiment finally thought of the most suitable partner for them, that is, the old thief group, known as the number one thief group in the mainland.

There are only eight people, but they have done one shocking big case after another, there is not a single mediocre hand in the group, and even the head of the group is a law-level powerhouse who is famous for his illusions, and the most important thing is that the old thief group has always had a good reputation, unless they take the initiative to provoke them, they will rarely solve problems in an arrogant and unreasonable way.

A trustworthy elite team led by a law-level powerhouse is the ideal collaborator for them who lack top strength. So the leader of the mercenary group contacted the old thief again and again, and after learning their intentions, the old thief also happily agreed to cooperate with them in the name of the old thief and thief group to explore this unknown ancient ruin.

After the cooperation was finalized, the old thieves immediately set off for Arlante because of the prior appointment, and the mercenary group took advantage of all the savings since its establishment to start a low-key all-round preparation for this expedition, sand boats and magic crystal reserves as power, updated equipment, food and water that can be stored for a long time, and soon a month later, the two sides met in a trading town on the edge of the southwest desert, and entered the desert together and came to this ruin again.

The exploration of the ruins was much smoother than expected, although there were indeed many traps and wandering monsters on the first floor of the ruins, but it was far from being as difficult and dangerous as when exploring other ruins, not only the old thieves who had rich experience were a little strange about this, but even the head of the mercenary group who invited the old thieves group secretly regretted it, although they also lost some manpower along the way, but as long as they were well prepared, they could come in and explore alone without asking anyone for help.

It didn't take much effort to harvest a lot of treasures that seemed to be valuable, although there were doubts in their hearts, but both the old thieves and the mercenary group were satisfied with the rich harvest and did not hesitate to explore further, but when they went all the way to the fourth and lowest level of the ruins without hindrance, they saw a scene that was completely unexpected.

Unlike the second and third floors, where the passage is tortuous and there are small and large rooms like a labyrinth, the fourth floor is a whole large space like the original first floor, but there are no stone statues here, only a square stepped stone platform like an altar, on which a sarcophagus is placed. By the time they reached the bottom floor, the sarcophagus had been opened, and in front of the open sarcophagus stood a figure that surprised everyone.

The old thief group heard the people of the mercenary group call him Jeter, who was originally a rookie in the mercenary group who could no longer be ordinary and only had the peak strength of the junior fighting spirit. As the party entered the third floor, Jett was accidentally engulfed in a trap on the ground, and everyone thought he was dead like his companions who accidentally triggered the trap along the way, but they didn't expect to see him here.

The people of the mercenary group wanted to go up to say hello, but they were stopped by the old thief, and the others didn't feel it, but the old thief, as a long-known law powerhouse, could clearly feel that in the body of this young mercenary who escaped death for some reason and appeared here, an inexplicable aura of discomfort and danger was spreading.

Sure enough, what happened next confirmed the old thief's ominous premonition, the young mercenary named Jett suddenly emitted a cloud of gray smoke-like substance, and the old thief, who had long been vigilant, released the magic enchantment as soon as possible, but to his great surprise, the moment these gray smoke touched his enchantment, he immediately felt a strange power corroding and infiltrating his magic enchantment, and the magic elements in the enchantment that had been infected by that power were completely out of his control, and entered an indescribable state of abnormal chaos。

From that moment on, the situation was completely out of their control.