Chapter 186 - Stalking (1/2)

Aruslin knew very well that Moon Shadow was on the brink of destruction. If his chairman was too distracted by the party to notice the messages on the Internet, things would be very bad.

Thankfully, what he feared didn’t come true. A few minutes later, he saw Cedarnik’s reply on the homepage of his guild.

“All guild members, whether you’re souls or hiding, go to the town ten kilometers to the northeast of Isnas. There’s another Temple of Life over there. You can resurrect and gather there. The temple in the city has been occupied. Don’t resurrect there, or you will lose 10% of your EXP points after each death.”

Aruslin was relieved to read the post. He crawled back into the cabin and rejoined the game.

About fifteen minutes earlier…

Seeing that Li Lin, Raffel, and Brazil had everything under control, Roland was relieved and walked east along the city wall to descend via the stairs at the corner. But he saw a team of soldiers waiting for him at the bottom of the stairs after he took a turn.

Under the cold moon, the fifty soldiers were wearing gray leather armor and holding long spears.

The tips of their spears were particularly chilling in the night.

Roland’s first reaction was that those soldiers were ambus.h.i.+ng him at Moon Shadow’s instruction.

Subconsciously, he was going to cast Ice Ring, but he soon dropped the thought, because all the soldiers moved their heads aside when they saw him, not daring to make eye contact with him.

Also, the commander of the soldiers was obviously the captain who led him to the top of the city wall earlier.

So, it’s them… Roland was relieved.

“Why are you still here?” Roland asked as he walked down to them.

The captain behaved normally when he spoke to Roland earlier, but his eyes held much more fear now. “It’s our turn to take a rest.”

You call this a rest?

Roland raised his eyebrow, but unwilling to meddle in other people’s affairs, he said, “Please enjoy your rest. I’m leaving.”

“Suit yourself,” said the captain with a smile.

Then, Roland left.

The captain sighed a long breath of relief when Roland was gone, and the other soldiers did more or less the same.

Looking at the crimson fire not far away, they were all frightened.

After descending from the wall, Roland recalled the map and walked to a remote crossroads that was surrounded by tall weeds. He sat on the ground, and the weeds perfectly disguised him.

If Cedarnik were to return to Moon Shadow’s base, he had to pa.s.s this spot.

Roland snapped his fingers, and four transparent magic spiders the size of ping-pong b.a.l.l.s emerged among the weeds and dispersed. Three of them stayed on alert near him, and the last one rushed to the rich neighborhood along the road.

The magic spiders were small but quite fast. Also, they were transparent and hard to notice at night.

Roland sat in silence. A few minutes later, he saw still images in his head every five seconds.

The chairman of Moon Shadow and his deputies left the manor of the minor n.o.ble and went east to the city gate.

Cedarnik gave the guard who was defending the gate a gold coin, and the gate was slowly opened to let them through.

After they pa.s.sed the gate, the gate was slowly closed again.

At the critical moment, the magic spider dashed out through the gap right before the gate was fully closed.

Roland stood up and sent a message in the guild system. “Cedarnik is out of town.”

Li Lin: “Just like you expected.”

Husseret: “It’s Tom the Big Belly who guards the gate tonight. He won’t refuse anyone as long as you’re willing to pay.”