Age of Adepts
chapter-88

Although it was impossible to verify in the meantime if the treasure of the Adept that was mentioned by Snorlax was real, it was still totally worth it to take some risks just for it.

After all, for Greem who was giving his all in becoming an official Adept, an item which a Second Grade Adept turned his nose up might be a priceless treasure that he couldn’t even buy with a hefty price. Therefore, after roughly determining the location of that ruined Elysium City, Greem started planning on how he could go there and find out the actual situation on site.

Judging from the location displayed on the map, it was located in the innermost area of the shallow layers in the Underground Cave. The distance between it and the surface was just seventeen miles as the crow flies, but it was deep within core area with abundant underground creatures. According to the data on the map, there existed a few large colonies of underground creatures that could be found at the surrounding area of the suspected site, including many powerful underground creatures which wandered around in the Underground World.

(DragonFly: As the crow flies means the shortest path between two points in a map, disregarding the vagaries of intervening terrain)

For the past few days, Mary was quite busy in strengthening and improving her overall strength, and had been running her feet off all day. When Greem finally found an opportunity to tell her about his plan, unlike her usual impulsive temper, she didn’t jump on board and agree to Greem’s idea. Instead, with a very calm manner, she told Greem that she had found herself a way to improve her combat strength, and was currently busy working on it, thus she couldn’t join him in this mission.

Therefore, Greem naturally handed over the control of Snorlax to Mary, asking her to keep an eye on this cunning little guy, while he focused all of his attention on preparing the resources he needed for the Underground World expedition.

When he finally had everything ready, Greem paid a visit to Kevin, informing him that he was going to find some Dark Grasses in the Underground World, using it as an excuse to sneak into the Underground Cave.

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Honestly saying, the Underground Cave wasn’t a place suitable for travel and sightseeing.