CLANNNG!
“I asked you a question,” I said, but there was no reply. Instead, she attacked me again with even greater killing intent.
Seeing that, I couldn’t help but sigh.
I don’t like doing this, but my survival is dependent on it. It would have been much easier if she had answered my questions truthfully.
I watched her spear coming closer and closer to me, but I didn’t raise my saber.
It came closer to me, before suddenly slowing down so much, that I needed to take a step to my left to avoid it.
“Last chance. Tell me why you are looking for me and it will be much less painful,” I asked.
“Fuck off!” she cursed and pushed all her power and killing intent toward my strings. It’s useless.
My strings were on her, a few minutes before we had started to fight. I could have ended the fight quite quickly, but I wanted to fight her.
I touched her hand and pulled hard, while my strings sent the pulse, crushing her resistance for a moment.
She went inside while I summoned the abode.
I came out a few seconds later. I did not like what I did, but I had to do it to get the information I needed.
I had got the information. I had no doubts about it. Even I might not be able to bear those serums once they begin their work on me.
There is good news and bad news.
The good news is that they don’t know about the forbidden power. The bad news is they know about everything else. Everything that is on my records.
My methods, my abilities, my professions and they even have my psych report.
What I had suspected had been true.
Only primes had access to that information, which had been provided to them. It will make things difficult, but also easier in some way.
Since they know about my information. I can plan accordingly.
Especially when I use general information. If I show a profession such as alchemy, they can’t say, I am Micheal Zaar.
There are millions of alchemists.
It is a thing, that made me happy. I have a lot of professions and, given my abilities, to change faces; they are going to check on innumerable people.
Something, that will bring resistance.
People don’t like it when they are scanned carefully. They love their secrets and would kill to protect them and now, a lot of people are going to be looking at them.
It will benefit me, but not as much here as it will be outside, where there are billions of people.
I will have to survive here and get out safely. That will be a challenge. Seeing the Primes are going to come here, unlike the Sky Sovereigns, they will know about my forbidden power.
Some sovereigns might also know about it.
Especially the shamans. A few of them always enter this place.
Till now, I haven’t spotted any, but I will and will need to be extremely careful.
I might escape from the group of bandits’ absolute limit to sky sovereigns, but I could forget escaping from the Shamans. They could crush me, without any resistance.
I released a deep breath and pushed through the worrying thoughts.
The fight was short, but it did a lot of damage. I cleaned off my signs before walking toward the lake. It is unharmed, and so is the snake inside.
I extended my strings and a few things inside the pool that only it would be able to sense.
I felt bad, taking his treasure, that it had spent years to grow, but I was not ungrateful. Even to the monster and kept giving back something.
It will be just as useful to it as the flower had been. It might be even more if it is a little intelligent about it.
With that done, I begin to move once again.
It is now completely dark with the energy and suppression getting heavier by minutes. An even more powerful monster, coming out.
Still, that didn’t stop me from moving when many others were taking out their abodes to spend the night safely.
I have to reach my destination by the day after tomorrow and for that. I need to travel as much
as possible. Especially when I am moving a little slowly, to collect the resources.
I wouldn’t have hurried before, but now I have to hurry.
Breaking through the absolute limit had become paramount. For it, I will take even greater risk, than I am willing to take before.
It is the reason why; I am moving toward the destination.
If it were not for that, I would have thought about it and stuck to the rumored places, but I do not have that luxury anymore.
I am not the only one moving.
There were three more around me, and I looked at each of them carefully. I was even able to get a speck of their aura, which was harder than it looked.
All three of them are powerful, with incredible stealth methods, without it.
They wouldn’t have dared to move through the forest an hour after it became dark.
Still, even with such incredible stealth. It is really hard to hide from the monster. They too have the abilities, and one monster had discovered middle-one of the three.
He too had discovered the monster had discovered him and acted immediately.
He summoned his abode and went inside while his abode became one with the tree. It is quite
a good abode; even I would have a problem sensing him if I wasn’t close.
The monster sniffed around and sensed him with its presence, but the abode was good.
It was able to hide it perfectly well.
After a few minutes and some angry roars, the monster walked away, while the man survived.
However, he will need to be careful. If he kept taking such risks, he would die. This time, too, he would have died, if the monster had targeted the tree by which he is hiding.
He was just lucky, and the thing about luck is that. Its runs out.