Pearl continued his journey through the land while Alex followed at a distance. He fought beasts that showed up, defeating most of them, but whenever there were ones he could not win against, he was willing to give up.
He did face many life-and-death battles, but the beasts he fought were perfectly happy to run away instead of fighting to the death when the opportunity showed itself. If not that, he would run away himself.
He didn't have to kill many after the White Tiger, but there were a few, and he never hesitated.
Pearl found another artifact and went up to it. That made the fifth artifact he had found. It had been over a year and a half since he had arrived here, and five artifacts in that time was not a small record.
He had talked to a few beasts about it, and even getting to a single one in a year was considered a lot. In the hundred or so years that most beasts spent in the Fighting Island, most of them would visit no more than fifteen artifacts in their entirety.
