At this moment, watching the arena.

The central screen wasn't showing the fight but instead displayed Raphael and those Explorers conspiring to surround Kane and his squad.

"Wasn't he the one who brought four Explorer Squads last time to ambush the Fog Squad?"

An observer watching the scene on the screen below asked the person next to them.

Hearing the question, the observer from another Guild beside him replied without turning his head, "Yes, it's him. But later they retreated in the chaos."

Their conversation instantly sparked the urge among the surrounding people to discuss, and everyone began talking about the situation appearing on the screen.

"Looks like he's unwilling to give up and wants to take back control."

"This squad seems to be quite famous; I had heard of them before."

"This time, the Fog Squad may face misfortune."

"You shouldn't say things carelessly. Even in this situation, I still have a sneaky hope that the Fog Squad might pull off a counter-kill." This person seems to have been slapped in the face before.

"Why don't we place a bet on whether the Fog Squad can survive this time?"

This suggestion interested everyone present. After all, those sent here by their Guilds, Battle Groups, and organizations to recruit newcomers—either because they're on vacation or have reached a bottleneck—are here because they're bored.

"Alright."

"Okay."

"This is interesting."

Hearing everyone agree, the proposer directly took out a bunch of records and gambling tools from his Space Equipment and piled them in front of them.

This scene left those around him stunned.

Who carries these things around?

However, they nodded knowingly upon seeing the insignia on the person's body, with a dice symbol drawn on his back.

The person who made the proposal is from the Lucky Dice Guild.

The Lucky Dice Guild happens to be the betting organization on the outskirts, gambling on the final ten winners of the exploration.

The President of Lucky Dice became famous due to the high gambling nature of his Origin Skills, and he was already exceptionally skilled at gambling even before becoming an Explorer, so it was a powerful combination.

Most members of the Guild either enjoy gambling for excitement or have a gambling aspect to their Origin Skills.

It's no wonder that members of such a Guild can think of gambling methods anytime, anywhere.

Meanwhile, the area where the Crystal Woman and the man with slicked-back hair were located.

In front of them was a huge round table, filled with a variety of meat dishes, just looking at their appearance was mouth-watering.

But only the slicked-back man was devouring the food, while the woman composed of crystal sat beside him, silently watching the screen.

"Why aren't you eating?" the slicked-back man asked the Crystal Woman after taking a bite of the leg of beef in his hand.

The Crystal Woman, hearing his question, turned her head without speaking, simply staring at him silently.

"Oh right," the slicked-back man suddenly realized, slapped his forehead, and said, "Forgot, you don't eat food."

"Idiot!"

The man, knowing he was wrong, heard her insult but did not rebut.

The slicked-back man asked, "How do you think they can get through this crisis?"

"How should I know? I don't have foresight abilities. Stop talking, just watch quietly," her tone was full of impatience, clearly still not recovered from the earlier emotions.

"Alright, alright."

The slicked-back man said helplessly and then fell silent.

It seems whether made of flesh and blood or crystal, the nature of gender doesn't change, the innate nature remains.

On another side, Burton's location.

Master Rob was watching the screen above, cursing Raphael on the screen: "This kid can't win and just calls in others, really a waste. How can he become gold like this and promote his Explorer level, oh, really shameful."

"Calm down, calm down." the young man beside him kept patting Master Rob's back, telling him not to get too excited.

"I think I've seen this squad's information before, they seem quite famous."

Upon hearing him speak, both Master Rob and Burton turned their heads to stare at him, the meaning was very apparent.

"It seems they have repeatedly harmed their competitors in various multi-person dungeon explorations by using relatively low strength."

"Although it's not a good reputation, they are indeed quite strong."

"Their squad's configuration is also very noteworthy, comprising many rare races. Besides their own Origin Skills, they have many traits related to their race. Even their leader resembles a human, but is not human."

After listening to the young man, Master Rob suddenly understood and said, "Ah, they've always been such sneaky people, no wonder they're so despicable. The first encirclement was counter-killed, and they came to do it a second time."

Compared to Master Rob's ongoing complaints, venting his negative emotions, Burton simply leaned on his hand and stared tightly at the screen.

In this situation, there's no choice but to trust Kane and his team.

After all, Kane and his team are the most spectacular group of people he's encountered in his life spanning hundreds of years.

As for why Master Rob defends Kane and his team so much despite never meeting them face to face,

there's a reason for it. Because having seen Kane's mechanical structure skills and knowing his age from Burton, this young man possesses such excellent mechanical structure knowledge and skills, coupled with impressive innovative abilities.

To think he's a genius, if someone like him isn't a genius, then who is?

A love for talent has arisen.

Moreover,

people involved in mechanics, what kind of bad people could they be?

At this time in the dungeon.

Amis and his team returned to their previous hiding place using their disposable teleportation device.

"Indeed, they have ill intent. I've said it, they can't possibly not know about our connection with Kane and his team."

"Alright, let's not discuss this now. We need to move quickly and find a new hiding location. It's not safe here anymore."

With that, Amis led his teammates away from the place to find a new concealed location.

They took out an item and spread it over everyone. This item could block most tracking because, after all, they didn't know how Raphael managed to find them one day.

Not long after, they found a new hiding place.

This was in a dense forest atop a certain mountain. Under Philis's skill control, the trees gradually transformed and intertwined into a group, providing an open space for camping.

And surrounded by large patches of forest vegetation, all of these would become Philis's friends and assistants, reporting any surrounding dangers to her.

Settling down here, Amis and his team gathered around the camp's center.

"Our primary concern now is to convey the information we previously obtained to Kane and his team, so they can hide or prepare themselves."

Amis spoke to his teammates this way.

Mage Rock from their team said, "But our means of transmission are limited; the delivery to Kane and his team depends on the distance. If they're too far away from us, it may take one or two days for the information to reach them. What if, by then, those people have already gone to eliminate them? Our information would be too late."

Hearing Rock's words, Amis frowned tightly and said helplessly, "There's no other way, let's just send the information and leave it to fate."

Upon hearing his leader's words, Rock nodded. He then took out a piece of white paper from his space equipment, folded it into the shape of a small bird, and used magic power to inscribe information onto the paper. These inscriptions instantly disappeared, seemingly awaiting a specific person to reveal the information for preservation purposes.

After completing this series of tasks, Rock incorporated a strand of hair with information previously given to him by Kane into the paper bird.

This way, the paper bird would fly automatically towards Kane and his team, without deviating or delivering to the wrong person, assuming the hair truly belonged to Kane.

Then Rock used magic power to tap the paper bird, which suddenly moved like a real bird, twitched its body, and flapped its wings to fly away.

"This is all we can do now; we can only hide here and await news. Hopefully, we won't see a sign of Kane and his team being killed in the sky."

Amis said quietly.

Meanwhile, Raphael was already discussing with numerous Explorer Squad teams how to eliminate Kane and his team.

Those remaining are joining him in the siege against Kane and his team.

There are now over 60 explorers present with them, with such a number of explorers, he doesn't believe they can't take down Kane and his team.

"The Fog Squad's reconnaissance capabilities are extremely strong, so if we move against them now, they might discover us and flee. Hence, we need to wait for the next safe zone to appear."

"Based on my observations, I've found that after each safe zone shrinks, the Fog Squad rushes to the location the next day. By then, their movement direction will be marked on the map, and we can wait and catch them off guard."

"Now let me tell you about the skills characteristics they used during the previous encounter with the Fog Squad."

...

They were discussing how to deal with Kane and his team.

Meanwhile, Kane Squad was leisurely busy with their own activities inside the wooden cabin.

Unaware of the impending crisis.

Kane, who was reading at the time, suddenly shivered.

[Divine Martial Gaze] skill was still placed in his skill grid.

His alert just pricked him slightly, signaling an approaching danger, but this prick was very subtle.

Feeling the prick, Kane immediately opened his Eagle Eye to scan the surroundings, yet found nothing unusual.

"What's wrong?"

Observing Kane's strange behavior, Kreya asked.

After scanning around, Kane shook his head and replied, "My alert was triggered just now, there seems to be danger, but the reaction wasn't strong."

"Maybe someone out there is plotting against you, be careful."

Listening to Kreya's words, Kane nodded, "Don't say, there might really be such a possibility."

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