Little rat me, I'm back again, hey, surprised?

While Old Chen and his students were discovering the hidden problems with the position, about fifty kilometers from Blackflame Pass, in a secret, desolate valley, the five hundred "treasure hunters" led by Vilance had already found the "Mejewa Treasure" hidden there.

It was one of five treasure caches Vilance had used to store valuables during her followers' migration from the Eternal Rift.

On the day Mejewa fell, the crafty "Spider Lady" had jumped ship and stripped her former employer of a hefty share of its wealth. The treasures she and her followers had brought away weren't astronomical, but they were certainly substantial.

There wasn't much money in this cave, which had been designated "Treasure Cache No. 5." It mainly held various psionic items taken from the shadow elf family vaults, along with some rare materials.

The Eternal Rift lay close to the Underdark, a subterranean world said to be hidden beneath the earth. The shadow elves had occupied it for centuries, yet the regions they had explored amounted to less than a quarter of its total area. It was no exaggeration to call it an underground continent.

And it was cut off from the rest of the world, producing many strange things that couldn't be found anywhere on the surface.

These were the shadow elves' unique "geographical advantages," and they were also why the shadow elves were the hidden heavyweights among the continent's black-market forces. It was the real reason shadow elf families never lacked for money.

"Take whatever you like!"

V ilance used her secret art to open the stone door, sealed with an imprint of the Spider Lady's runes. Pointing at the treasure haphazardly piled within, she waved at the players behind her, whose eyes were already bloodshot.

In the next instant, they charged forward like unleashed wild