Sam and the archer faced each other with a series of attacks. The archer is quite skilled and he is too agile to be a normal archer. Because his attack rate is quite slower than normal and there is no way for him to beat Sam's attacking frequency at this current state.

After all, all Sam has to do is to control his will and let the bullet load, which happens with a single thought, load the methane gas which propels the bullets and that happens with a single thought as well.

Finally, a single pull of the trigger.

But the archer has a physically demanding job. But with his impeccable agility, he was able to dodge Sam and use archery skill to launch attacks at Sam.

In fact, Sam couldn't just shoot down all the arrows, he has to dodge at least half of the time. This is extraordinary and Sam must say, he is not as skilled in archery.

He is skilled in many weapons and he learned most of them in his previous life, but unfortunately, he never learned archery good enough for a battle. He only learned archery for hunt. Because, in modern warfare, sadly this ancient and sophisticated art no longer has a place.

He was never able to face a true blue archer in his previous life. But now that he got a chance, he is extremely impressed.

The opponent used some extremely difficult moves, which involved twisting, pulling, and bending the bow-string and some even used the weird angles of bows to shoot the arrows.

With these tricks, the arrows always had weird trajectories, which Sam wasn't able to predict. Sam who is a control freak, who is obsessed with control of the situation is feeling a faint irritation from this.

The arrows which are traveling in these weird trajectories are almost making their way towards his position.

He has no choice but dodge.

After some time, both of them halted as they hid behind thick trees. Although they are unable to make decisive moves, there is no way the battle will be okay for a long time. Sam is not even using much spiritual energy. In fact, his usage can be considered negligible.

"Who are you, man? And what are those weird weapons you are using? They are crazily good." The guns are easy to carry and they are easy to use, but they don't have many tricks with them. For example, the weird trajectory and such, Sam couldn't do that with the bullets normally. There need to be some special circumstances and places for that.

Sam didn't reply, he is thinking of using energy cell bullets to see if he can deal with him easily. But the Archer's voice came again.

"I am Arkiv. What is your name?" Sam only replied with silence.

"Okay, it seems like you don't want to speak. Then it is okay, let us do something else. How about this? There are two buildings, you take the treasure from one and I would do from another. The group couldn't intervene at this moment anyway.

From the looks of it, they started using their trump cards. We can just get away with it and we don't have to get in each other's ways. Are you down?"

Sam thought for a moment and replied. "Sure."

"Okay, then let us go inside and see what it has first."

Both of them walked inside and first entered the weapon room.

"I want half of those weapons. I am not giving up on that." Arkiv said as soon as they entered.

Sam just nodded in agreement, he has too many weapons anyway. There is no need for him to bother about this.

He is looking at the crystal and placed his hand on them. To his disappointment it is exactly the same as the one he got in the first one, in fact, there is even a notice indicating that it is useless to him.

"If you are the same person who took down the first hub, then it is not useful for you."

Sam looked at Akriv and probed him with a spiritual sense.

When he noticed that there is a tattoo behind him, he nodded to himself and threw the crystal to him.

"You can keep it. The treasure in the next building is mine."

Arkiv looked at the crystal orb and injected his spiritual sense. He got the message and his eyes shone brightly, that is because he is excited. Maybe the excitement came from the fact that he is extremely confident that he would be going to higher dimensions and probably waiting to go there.

But after a few seconds, he looked at Sam and asked.

"Why did you give this away?"

He is suspicious, and about two things, he is wondering if Sam is also a chosen one and the second suspicion is if he got the first hub's treasure map.

"I don't think I will be able to go to another dimension anyway, even if I want to, I don't know how to. What use is it for me?"

With those words, Sam left the room after taking his treasures, his words made Akriv lose the first suspicion, but the second suspicion is there.

"Are you the one who took the first hub?"

"Yes."

"Then what did you do to the map there?"

"I just left it there." Arkiv is dumbstruck and both of them entered the next building and once again, there is a platform and Sam got another fruit.

But this time it is a different one.

Sam didn't care though He stored the fruit after he listened to the instruction.

"What fruit is that?"

"An extremely highly potent healing fruit. It can heal all kinds of things from your body. Including curses, poisons, soul damage too."

Arkiv was surprised, but only for a bit. He didn't say anything. Since they agreed on something, they have to stay true to their agreement.

Sam looked at him and made his way outwards.

He lied to Arkiv, the fruit is not as simple as a healing fruit. It is also the same as the first one. The first one is related to the body and this one is related to the soul. That is all there is to it.

After they came out, Arkiv asked.

"Do you want to raid the third hub together?" But when he turned to see, Sam is not there. He disappeared from that place.

He shrugged his shoulders and went to the battlefield. To his surprise, the battle is still going on. There he saw many dead bodies of the monkey warriors and then only he remembered what he saw earlier.

The large group of monkey warriors couldn't have come out of thin air. That means Sam already dealt with the third hub.

He was stunned and started running towards the third hub. But how can he be as fast as Sam? Arkiv might have enough agility that could rival a close combat fighter.

But when it comes to speed of running, there is no way anyone in this place could rival Sam.

As for the battle near the second hub.

Out of eighteen, only ten people left. But they still did a lot of damage to the monkey warrior group.

Even though they are of a larger number, they are still extinguished by half.

In normal situations, this wouldn't happen, but the eighteen of them, who are elites of the major powers, have their fair share of trump cards to rely on and they are exhausting all their means to stay in the competition.

As the battle went on, a few of them noticed that they wouldn't be able to win. Because the true battle is not between them and the monkey warriors. The true battle is between Sam who caused the monkey warriors to chase the cultivators and caused this much damage to them.

All of a sudden, the 'man' from the herb garden looked at the chosen from the Beast faction and said.

"Cover for me for thirty seconds. We need to escape."

That person nodded his head and suddenly spiritual energy surged. His body seemed to have buffed a little and his eyes became ferocious.

He swung his staff with such a force, that monkey warriors avoided dodging it at all costs.

The 'man' closed her eyes and started spreading her spiritual sense and spiritual energy all around. She is using the plants as a medium to extend the range of spiritual energy.

All of a sudden, a vast number of vines, roots, and branches started moving towards them and suddenly, the monkey warriors who are being pushed back by the chosen of the Beast faction are all entangled. The attack doesn't have many offensive uses.

But it can be used for a large scale entrapment.

The whole situation turned completely upside for a brief moment.

The 'man' from the herb garden and the chosen one from the beast faction, didn't hesitate. They trapped ten monkey warriors to clear an opening for themselves.

So, they simply ran away. As for why both of them teamed up instead of going for the companions of their powers. there are none left. And at the same time, they also have some knowledge of each other since they escaped from the first hub together.

Anyway, she needs someone to cover for her and he needs someone to make an opening. Their plan is achieved.