Lilith had left.

It was similar to when Gwendolyn had left.

This was all for when they would one day meet again!

There were about nine months left before the Gold-rank quest would expire. Maxwell had to complete the quest of rescuing Brenda's mother by then.

This was also a matter he had pinky-promised her.

Therefore, within these nine months, he would have to visit the Capital City.

At the same time, he had to grasp the Conglomerate Organisation's full power, the power behind the Sky City, and also Peter Wesley's cultivation rank. Maxwell had to fully unravel all their powers in order to be prepared for his task in three years.

Peter definitely had to be stepped on like the pathetic dog he was!

Maxwell had promised himself never to give up, so no matter what, he had to stomp Peter beneath his feet.

Currently, Maxwell glanced at the gloomy forest before looking at Fernando, whose height only reached up to his thighs. "Little prince, please lead the way."

Fernando lightly frowned and said, "Do we really have to go?"

"What?"

"Are you regretting it?" There was a slight change to Maxwell's tone of voice.

Fernando immediately jumped to the front and said, "Nope, nope, no regrets."

After saying that, he started leading the way.

They were now going towards the deepest parts of Eden.

Rumours say that the deepest parts of Eden had spawned beasts in the shapes of humans. Their strength was practically heaven-defying.

In order to crack the seal on the ancient scroll, Maxwell could only venture in despite the danger.

Since it was an ancient scroll, it must be hiding some type of ancient treasure.

This was considered a great opportunity for Maxwell. If he wanted to trample all over Peter three years later, he had to gain the ancient treasure to strengthen himself. Apart from relying on the levelling system, Maxwell basically had no other backup he could count on!

He had to become stronger!

---

A human and a gnome were hurrying along Eden.

Their speed wasn't that fast.

Maxwell didn't hasten the pace since this was, after all, the depths of Eden. If some random high-ranked spawned beast popped out, its strength was simply not enough to protect themselves.

They continued travelling in a careful manner.

After three consecutive days, Maxwell felt something strange was going on because he hadn't seen a single spawned beast these past three days.

There should be spawned beasts roaming all over the inner depths of Eden, so how could there not be a single one around? Maxwell was planning on levelling up to level 2 diamond rank on their way to the gnome race's territory, but since there wasn't even a single spawned beast around, this was all just a pipe dream.

"Little prince, are you sure this is the inner depths of Eden?" Asked Maxwell.

Fernando replied: "Of course, or where else did you think we're at?"

Maxwell then continued asking: "How come we haven't seen any spawned beasts here? Fortunately, I've prepared some spawned beast meat before, or else you wouldn't starve to death?"

Fernando started swallowing his saliva as he recalled the meat grilled by Maxwell. He then said, "Don't worry; we'll meet some as we travel a bit further, and it's very normal for there to be none around here. So... Could you grill some meat for me to eat now? I'm starting to get hungry again."

Fernando had no more strength to continue travelling after thinking of the grilled meat.

Maxwell rolled his eyes at him and said, "Go get some dry branches. You know, today you've eaten six times already, so I can't understand how your little stomach can fit so much stuff. And I haven't even seen you go take a shit yet."

Fernando happily ran off to collect branches while talking to himself: "This human doesn't treat me too badly, at least not as badly as father has mentioned. Sigh... I wonder how my father and mother are doing right now. And will Uncle Asher really kill them?"

"Sigh!"

"It would be great if I could bring my friends into the gnome territories. Then my parents wouldn't be bullied by Uncle Asher all the time."

The thought of these matters made his mood a bit depressed.

Not long after, he returned holding a lot of dry branches.

Maxwell had also cleaned up the meat.

The meat he was using was all marinated with some salt, so the taste and texture would be a bit better.

After consuming several large pieces of barbecued meat, Fernando's stomach had bulged out. He then mumbled, "It's so good; I really hope that I could eat such grilled meat for the rest of my life."

Maxwell smiled and extinguished the fire. "If you're full, let's continue our travels."

Fernando stretched his waist and rolled over to stand back up. After finding his bearings, he said, "That way!"

Maxwell continued looking around his surroundings. He also sent out his spiritual senses, but still couldn't detect any spawned beast auras in the vicinity. He felt this was simply too strange for Eden to have no spawned beasts when they were supposed to be roaming about everywhere.

His heart couldn't help but feel Fernando was deliberately hiding something from him.

Perhaps this little thing didn't want to bring him to the minimalistic gnome race's territory and has been taking detours all over the place.

But, throughout their travels, they had never repeated the same route. Maxwell had been leaving markings as a precaution, and this proved they were walking on new paths the entire time. So what was going on exactly?

Maxwell felt this was getting too bizarre.

But since they've come this far already, Maxwell didn't want to give up. The only thing he could do was continue following Fernando. He then said to himself, "If this bastard really dares to trick me, I will definitely beat his ass to the point that he can't even shit anymore."

---

Sunrise, sunset.

Another day passed by quickly.

This was already the fifth day.

They still hadn't reached Fernando's home.

They still hadn't encountered a single spawned beast, not even a below bronze rank spawned beast.

Maxwell was becoming more depressed...

While Fernando was getting happier each day.

"You are my little barbecue meat, the love I have for you is endless..."

Fernando was skipping around happily while humming the grilled meat spell.

"Boss, boss, it's time to eat breakfast again. Should I go get some dry branches now?"

After being together for several days, Fernando had now started calling Maxwell boss.

And after these several days, he felt that apart from his parents, Maxwell was the one who treated him the best.

Of course, the most important point was Maxwell's ability to cook up such great-tasting meat. Fernando was like a little locust that had been subdued by Maxwell's grilled meat.

Maxwell spread his hands and said, "There's no need for you to gather dry branches today."

Fernando was startled by those words and said, "Boss is going to go by yourself? That's not good; this prince will feel embarrassed about it. Why haven't you gone off yet and still standing here?"

Maxwell raised his hand and was about to slap Fernando's butt...

Fernando quickly leapt away and chuckled. "I was only joking with you! How could I make you gather dry branches? These types of lowly tasks should, of course, be done by me."

Maxwell then said, "There's no need for that today since we don't have any meat left. We didn't meet any spawned beasts along our travels, so how can there be meat now?"

"What!"

Fernando exclaimed in shock: "My heavens, how can there be no meat!"

A series of rumblings came from his stomach.

Fernando was like a deflated ball as he instantly became listless.

Shortly after, he suddenly stood up and said, "I know a place that has spawned beasts; follow me!"

After saying that, without waiting for Maxwell's response, he already flew off running.

Maxwell faintly frowned and rushed after him. He then said to himself, "Could his spiritual senses be stronger than mine? He can actually sense spawned beasts when I cannot?"

The two ran at full speed.

Half an hour later.

Maxwell suddenly realised they had arrived at an area that was surrounded by countless mountain peaks looking structures. There were many of them densely sitting next to each other, and it looked like one of them had just moved! "What the hell's going on here?"

"Bam!"

An immense sound was heard.

The earth started shaking, and those huge mountain peaks revealed their true appearances.

Spawned beasts! Ones that were beyond ginormous!

A huge amount of oppressive force crashed down and immediately suppressed Maxwell's sea of consciousness. Cold sweat started dripping down his back. In the surrounding area, every spawned beast was at least at the above gold rank or higher. There was even an above diamond rank super-spawned beast! "Did we just rush into a herd of spawned beasts?"

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