In the middle of the night.

Including Maxwell, twelve people were standing in a line before Eden. With the terrifying soil of Eden beneath their feet, they looked up at the dark forest that exuded the aura of vicious, spawned beasts. This was something that made people feel fear deep inside their souls.

From the depths of the forest, there would be occasional howls that caused their hearts to skip a beat.

At all times, Eden was a stage portraying death. And the law of the jungle was the most accurate portrayal of this place.

Maxwell turned towards the eleven people and asked with a smile: "Are you guys afraid?"

Constantine was the first to reply: "What's there to be afraid of? I cannot wait to go in there..."

"Hahaha..." Everyone started laughing.

Maxwell rolled his eyes at Constantine and said, "You think everyone is as perverse as you? Devouring blood mana will automatically allow you to level up! You probably can't wait to go on a killing spree."

Constantine scratched his head before grinning foolishly.

After arriving at Eden, Constantine couldn't force down the excitement in his heart. It was as if a bloodthirsty beast was dwelling inside his body that couldn't wait to absorb the blood mana of all those spawned beasts.

The notion of blood mana from spawned beasts made him extremely excited and beyond happy.

Just thinking that he could soon absorb some blood mana, Constantine had to swallow a few times just so the drool wouldn't seep out.

"I'm scared!"

"I'm very scared."

Maxwell calmly said. "We could die inside there at any given moment. I fear death, but I fear losing even more. Dying in Eden is not scary, but losing on the stage is..."

"Back then, when I lost to a beggar, I was ridiculed for several years. The sounds of insult and humiliation filled my ears every day. You guys can imagine what kind of emotions I have had to endure all that time?"

"Everyone has a time in their lives that they will lose, but it definitely cannot be this time!"

As that sentence ended, Maxwell's voice became serious: "This time we're using the Gillette Household as our bet. If you guys lose, the Gillette Household name will be removed from Eden City. You are all carrying the hope of the entire Gillette Household, so that's why I'm hoping you guys will not let me down."

The eyes of the ten tightened as they clenched their fists a few times.

They were shouldering the future of the Gillette Household!

They definitely cannot lose!

Even if they were to die, they cannot lose!

Maxwell took out eleven Upgrade elements from his zero storage space that were shimmering with a faint light. He then handed them over to Constantine and said, "Hand these out to them."

"Upgrade Elements?"

"Lord Maxwell, these are upgrade elements!"

"There's... That many upgrade elements?"

The person who said this was a senior member because the just-promoted junior members had never seen what an upgrade element looked like. They only knew that upgrade elements were extremely precious and required a hundred thousand gold currency in order to purchase one.

"Gulp!"

Everyone swallowed down their drool. Their hands were trembling and they didn't dare to receive it.

Upgrade elements were simply too precious to them. This kind of item would never be their turn to utilise, so how was it possible that they were each getting one right now?

The expression on Maxwell's face as he received the upgrade elements from Gwendolyn was exactly like these guys right now.

All these upgrade elements were like toys as she gifted them away so easily. What on earth is the background behind Gwendolyn?

And she was quite happy when gifting them out as if it was nothing to her. She was completely treating these Upgrade elements like pieces of radish or cabbage!

Maxwell was immediately curious and asked why she would have so many.

She only smiled mysteriously and said she won them.

The craziest part was that this was only a fraction of it, and she had saved a larger portion for herself. She said she had to use it to cultivate so she could catch up to Maxwell, or else she would've gifted everything to him.

At that time, Maxwell's mind only thought of one title - a fair-skinned and wealthy beauty!

Constantine first looked at Maxwell while his heart was filled with excitement. But he then had a trace of unwillingness since, in his opinion, such a good item should be only left for the boss to use.

Maxwell glared at Constantine and yelled, "I told you to hand it out, so just hand it out! Why are you hesitating?"

"Huh!"

Constantine immediately replied before starting to hand out the upgrade elements. Each time he gave out an upgrade element, he felt like a piece of his flesh had been cut off, making even his heart ache in pain.

After the Upgrade element had been handed out, Maxwell then said, "I'm sure everyone here knows how to use the upgrade element without me explaining it. Apart from this life and death training experience, you can also increase your strength. Are there any further questions?"

"None!"

"None!"

Everyone roared in response. The respect and admiration they had for Maxwell had now increased as well.

If it was back then, not even mentioning the upgrade element, even good medicinal pills wouldn't be their own to utilise them.

They were all ecstatic inside their hearts. And at the same time, they secretly vowed they would absolutely support Maxwell in the future and protect the Gillette Household with all they had.

This was how their will to battle had been aroused.

Maxwell waved his hand and yelled out, "Let's conquer Eden!"

"Go!"

The ten quickly rushed into the forest as if they were hungry wolves entering a pen of sheep.

The ten of them split up in different directions.

To fully experience the life and death trial, they had to personally face, resist, and fight to comprehend the true meaning of life and death.

Constantine didn't move and was standing behind Maxwell.

"You're not planning on just following me, right?" Said Maxwell as he glared at Constantine.

Constantine scratched his head and smiled, "Boss, Lady Gwen told me to carefully protect you."

"Scram!"

"You want to take advantage by following me around and devouring blood mana without killing any spawned beasts? This time, you can quit dreaming of tagging behind me." Maxwell kicked Constantine's plump, fat ass and continued: "This trial is to test your ability to survive alone. If you just blindly follow me, it will be very difficult for you to level up and grasp your own power. You are my trump card for this competition, so if you let me down, I'm going to slice off all your fat meat one piece at a time!"

Constantine laughed in a silly manner and said: "Then I'll be leaving now..."

"Go!"

Constantine picked up his machete and stomped down. His fat body leapt off into the air, agile and had disappeared within a few breaths of time.

Maxwell had to loosen the reins.

It was time for Constantine to mature!

He was like a beast trapped inside a cage, and it was now time to let him loose in Eden. This will allow him to release his inhibitions and go crazy with his desires.

The moment he returns will be the moment the entire world will be in an upheaval!

Everyone had left, and the only person remaining was Maxwell.

Maxwell looked up into the starry sky. His lips curved into an excited smile as he said to himself. "About time!"

"Just wait for me, you two damn households! You dare to bully me? I'll make you two pay an extremely heavy price for it!"

"The day I return is the day your two households will be destroyed!"

Immediately after, a gentle breeze blew by, and Maxwell disappeared from the spot.

His level 6 silver rank strength was released, creating a surge of wind to sweep out into the surrounding area as he quickly rushed towards the position where Sandrock and the other two iron soldiers were located.

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Eden City, the battle arena of the Conglomerate organisation.

In the middle of the arena, Gwendolyn was sitting there cross-legged.

Gathered above her head was a starlight.

The starlight was giving off a white, holy light. Around her were over a dozen upgrade elements that were also giving off a white light that seemed to be working together with the starlight above her head. These upgrade elements had actually been spread around in a very unique pattern to create a mana array.

Following along with her breathing, the mana would enter her body.

Her cultivation was quickly rising!

Inside a private room.

A man of over seventy years stroked his long goat like beard while watching her in the battle arena. He then smiled and mumbled to himself: "She is indeed the saintess, her talent for cultivation is simply too extraordinary!"

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