To the arachne, the appearance of the next Spider Queen was undoubtedly a matter that surpassed everything else. It was doubly exciting because this new queen possessed a completely different bloodline, which meant the start of a new line of inheritance.

If a second Spider Queen could appear on the Sacred Mountain, they would be able to suppress the Queen of the Night. No one would be able to stop the rise of the arachne race. They would be able to surpass the demonkin and vampires to step onto the apex of the Evernight World.

It was a given that they couldn’t let the demonkin or the other races know about this.

Hence, even though Basil was unwilling, he had no choice but to take the pile of treasures and try to keep Little Zhuji around. As for the shadow in his heart, he would just have to deal with it.

Soon afterward, Pedro applied for permission to return to base. He had sufficient reason because he needed to recuperate. The current situation was clear—Predica couldn’t pinpoint Qianye’s location even if he were to go down personally. They would need a lot more experts in order to capture him.

That was...