Even the lower-year contestants would become indispensable pillars of their respective houses.
After the rules were announced, a total of sixty contestants from twenty teams—four houses across five year groups, from second year to sixth year—took the stage one after another and received a "Standard Treasure Chest Exploration Radar" from the staff. This radar could only display the locations of standard treasure chests within a ten-meter radius, but it was still extremely important to the contestants' treasure-hunting journey.
If they could not find rare treasure chests, then honestly exploring standard treasure chests and slowly accumulating points was also a good strategy.
"Bzzzt, bzzzt..."
The microphone crackled with electrical interference.
Dark could not help but smile, then saw Apollo walking toward them.
Dark had exchanged glances with Apollo the moment he noticed his presence. However, Apollo had merely smiled in greeting at the time before turning back to look at Zeus, who was delivering a speech on the stage.
Dark had therefore thought that Apollo probably, perhaps, presumably, most likely did not have that kind of interest in him.
That put him slightly at ease.
But unexpectedly, after Zeus finished speaking, Apollo came over after all.
By then, the other people in the venue had also noticed Apollo's presence. Though the "artists" from all walks of life did not make any overly obvious moves out of consideration for the "God of Art," they gradually drifted in this direction.
Dark and Oli, who had been trying their best to stay inconspicuous in the back, immediately entered those artists' field of vision.
The artists might not know Oli, but they certainly knew Dark. They exchanged looks and communicated in secret, putting all their countless schemes into motion. The way they looked at Dark became slightly hostile.
—Not out of malice, though. They had