716 GATHERING

Arjun silently hid himself and started to listen to the conversation between the people from the Trott Clan. He wanted to get any valuable information he could grt from these people from the Trott Clan.

"You bunch of useless shits!" ,Arjun heard that "Young Master" from the Trott Clan shouting at his underlings, "After all this setup I could only remain at sixth place? What exactly you idiots are doing here? Look at that Luke! He teamed up with that bastard from the Silverwing Clan and probably attained the top spot in the preliminaries so far. I invested too much only for that map. And what exactly I get in return? Just sixth spot? Are you kidding me?"

"Yo-Young Master Wayne! Please show mercy. We tried our best to bring monsters here as soon as possible. But these monsters are very slow and they couldn't move at our pace." ,A person from the Trott Clan said while trembling.

"Shut up!!!" ,Wayne shouted, "I gave you one simple task. Our Clan Leader has worked really hard to set up this situation for us. We are fortunate enough to say that that bastard Luke has chosen to take part in the preliminaries through the Lifestyle means. It gave me the opportunity to show the world that I am better than that Luke. No! I want to prove that I am better than anyone else in the city! I have waited for the opportunity. But Luke was always given the top priority and I was used as a mere replacement."

Wayne's face twisted as he said, "Today I received the opportunity. I was expecting to become the champion! But after receiving a rare opportunity, all I could get is sixth rank? Don't joke around with me."

"Young Master! What should we do now?" ,The second person from last day asked.

"What else?" , Young Master Wayne said, "I need to kill as many monsters as possible in the next two months. It's not only to defeat Luke, but it is also to defeat other Tier-1 clans and become the ultimate champion in the preliminaries! Then my prestige in not only the Clan, but it will rise in the entire city as well."

Wayne then said seriously, "What about those other Tier-1 clans in the forest?"

"We kept an eye on them, Young Master Wayne." ,One of his lackeys said, "They are actually came in this tournament with two more teams than ours. And their hunting locations are filled with more monsters than ours. Especially that Sabretooth Clan. Their team leader Young Master Ivan has killed more monsters than any of us."

"It can't be helped." , Young Master Wayne sighed and said, "Sabretooth Clan is the hegemony of our city. The level of information they will have is much higher than ours. And if it wasn't for this leak of the information regarding the details of the tournament, then we wouldn't have gotten the location of the high ranked monsters."

"Forget about it. Tell me everything about the Silverwing Clan!" , Young Master Wayne asked.

"Reporting to the Young Master!" ,Another person said, "Silverwing Clan's combat team is slightly weaker than ours and Sabretooth Clan. And the high levelled monsters in their booked spot is much lesser than any of ours."

"Hmmm. Good! Then let's hurry and hunt quickly. Let's get higher as soon as possible." , Young Master Wayne said.

"Got it." ,Young Master Wayne's followers said in unison. They all then departed in order to find and deliberately take the monster towards their Young Master.

But Arjun who was listening everything clearly, was brimming with happy and smiley face. He knew that he finally understood everything he wanted to know. And now it's time for the execution of the things according to his plan.

Arjun immediately contacted his teammates through his Mental Connection. He said, "Guys! I have a work for you."

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Arjun met with his teammates according to his orders. He didn't tell anything through Mental Connection. He said that for his plan to be executed efficiently, they need to be together. So everyone followed Arjun's instructions and gathered together for the first time in the preliminaries.

"What is it? Why did you ask us to gather here?" ,Sitaram asked.

Arjun smiled. He then explained everything that happened with the Trott Clan. Everyone heard and had their own share of facial expressions. The experienced people like Sitaram, Gnan and Gutherson didn't have much change in their facial expression. In their lives, they had seen many things to which they are numb at the moment.

The likes of Rick and Adam who are close to Sitaram and Arjun were surprised. But they are the people who are experiencing everything. So they didn't find it surprising as they knew that things like these were common in the lives of those so called rich and noble families.

"These so called noble families are always like this. Be it the Chaos World. Or be it the Astral World. Some things always remain same." ,Gnan said while gritting his teeth.

"This is the power of wealth. We can't do anything about it. If the poor were in the place of those rich kuds, then they won't live a saint life. So no one is innocent. And no one is a gentleman either." ,Gutherson shook his head and said.

"It doesn't matter for us. Our aim is to win the championship!" ,Sitaram said. He then looked at Arjun and asked, "What do you intent to do? What is your plan?"

Arjun said, "According to the information that I have brought, the three Tier-1 Clans have come to a mutual terms and were monopolising the preliminaries as they wished it. No wonder why the Tier-2 or Tier-3 Clans always failed to produce champions in the preliminaries. The same shit is being followed here as well."

"So...?" ,Ben asked trying his best to be fearless and active as much as possible.

Arjun smiled and said, "According to the Trott Clan, there are three spots where we could find the high ranked monsters in huge numbers. The Trott Clan, Silverwing Clan and the Sabretooth Clan has shared each spot. I have already found one which belonged to the Trott Clan. We need to find the location of the Silverwing Clan and the Sabretooth Clan. Only then we can kill the monsters and gain points to raise our rankings."

Arjun continued, "We will split into three teams and find the people from the Silverwing Clan and the Sabretooth Clan. If any team finds them, then silently follow them and gather as much information as possible. Remember, no actions. Try to avoid battles as much as possible. Only after we have enough information, we will prepare a plan and then execute it accordingly."