726 TEAM UNDER ARJUN’S COMMAND

Arjun became serious. He looked towards his grandfather who shared the similar facial expression as Arjun did. He said through mind connection, "Grandfather! Are you thinking exactly what I am thinking at the moment?"

"Hmm." ,Sitaram replied, "This Forest was itself given me a weird feeling. Now what this Ivan said has increased my level of suspicion a little more. I think this entire forest was a setup by that powerful person. The mastermind who might be the reason for this entire preliminaries.

Arjun looked at the Young Master Ivan and asked, "When exactly these monsters along with this forest was discovered?"

Young Master Ivan replied, "Three months before the announcement of the competition."

Arjun and Sitaram narrowed their eyes as their suspicion grew even higher. He was now certain that there is a mysterious powerful existence behind all this. And this mysterious powerful existence might be the enemy of the Lord Void whose existence needs to be removed. Maybe for some reason, Lord Void couldn't take him down and needed some help. And hence that might be the reason why Arjun was given the power of Void.

"Three months before the competition?" ,Rick was stunned as he said using the mental connection, "Isn't that the time period when we came to the Astral World!?"

"Hmm." ,Arjun agreed, "Earlier I had my suspicion. But now I am clear about one thing. An insanely powerful existence is behind all this. And this powerful existence probably is the one whom Lord Void wanted us to fight and help him. And the set up for this forest might be his doing as well."

Arjun asked, "Who set the rules of the preliminaries? And who selected this forest as the location for the preliminaries?"

"I don't know." , Young Master Ivan sighed and said, "I don't know who gave us this location for the preliminaries. Not even my Clan Leader Who is also the City Lord of the Solar City knows anything."

"Alright. Then tell me about the other two clans? How exactly did you people shared the entire place?" ,Arjun asked.

Young Master Ivan nodded his head and replied, "You have seen the map right? In the map, you have seen 12 Yellow Zigzag lines. Since these Yellow Ranked monsters represents these 12 Zigzag lines, who arranged themselves in the Formation, we have shared them equally. We have taken the area which contains four zigzag lines under control. And same is for other two Clans as well. Each of us had taken four zigzag lined Yellow Ranked Monsters in our control."

"We already found the share of the Trott Clan." ,Adam said, "Since Sabretooth Clan is ready to cooperate with us, we could say that their share of land is under our control indirectly."

"No need. If we command your people and ask them to follow us to infiltrate the turf of other Tier-1 power, then it will be equal to breaking the agreement between you three Tier-1 clan. And it will put your clan in a difficult situation." ,Arjun said.

"I agree." ,Young Master Ivan agreed with Arjun. He said, "But we have the trustworthy allies from Tier-3 power who will be ready to help us. But they don't know anything about the secrets we three Tier-1 Clans had. So don't tell them anything."

"Allies? Who?" ,Arjun asked.

"Keth Clan! The clan which was being troubled by the Young Master Luke from the Trott Clan!" ,Young Master Ivan replied, "They were desperate for reaching top 5000 in the preliminaries. Even though they have the confidence to reach the top 5000 in the preliminaries and gain the license to participate in the competition in the Eagle Province, they still want to hit the top 50 if possible. So they accidentally bumped into us and made the deal with us for the cooperation."

Arjun sighed. How could he not know what is Trott Clan and their predicament is? After all, Farah was the Young Miss of the Keth Clan. But because of that Young Master Luke from the Keth Clan, they had no choice but to feel pressure.

Arjun kind of took the responsibility. He knew that the bet between him and the Young Master Luke was over Farah! Even though he never loved Farah, she never bothered him that much. And she was always nice to him in the campus.

Arjun said, "Fine. I will take their help. But will they listen to my command? Or will they be arrogant as their pride won't allow them to take orders from a barbarian like me?"

"They will listen. I will talk to them. Don't worry. And one more thing. Along with us, even Keth Clan didn't participate in the team that tried to stop you. L" ,Young Master Ivan said.

"Hmm. I understand." ,Arjun nodded his head in agreement. Even though he never had any frequent interactions with the Keth Clan, he still had a favourable impression about them. Arjun knew that they never bother with others matters. And this is one of those Clans in the city who never cares about the differences between the rich and poor. They always behave nicely with all the rage and all the poor people.

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Very soon all the members of the Keth Clan were assembled on the orders from the Young Master Ivan. Their team leader Kenneth Keth took the responsibility and greeted the Young Master Ivan from the Sabretooth Clan.

Young Master Ivan nodded his head and then told everything Kenneth needs to know, making sure not to reveal the secrets of the three clans. He only said that Arjun and his companions have teamed up with them and are ready to cooperate with them. And Young Master Ivan has full faith in Arjun's leadership. Ivan said that Arjun know a place where they can hunt the high level monsters. And he needed a team that could follow his lead and team up with him to hunt the high level monster.

"You are Arjun right?" ,Kenneth said, "I know you. You are the one who teamed up with that Jimmy in the preliminaries right?"

"That's right. It's me." ,Arjun replied.

"Then I am not interested to team up with you." ,Kenneth said coldly, "But since it was Young Master Ivan who recommended you to me, I will give him face and let my people follow you. But what makes you think that you are qualified to lead us?"