Chapter 157: An arcane skill once again showing wonderful results (2/2)
“You guys, keep a certain distance between you, don’t stick too close together. That way, if someone tries to ambush you, they won’t have the assurance of annihilating all of you together, so that should prevent them from acting.” Ferguillo first advised them with a few words, then quietly added, “Be careful.”
“Boss, you be careful too!”
Wilde and the others thumped Ferguillo with their fists, then quickly left.
“Track him down inside the sewers… It seems a little dangerous?” Joyce said, a little hesitant.
“I don’t know what other teams or army troops would do in this situation,” Ivan said, glancing at him. “When facing an unknown emergency like this, Lannister teams will immediately give chase, or else the opponent might create even greater damage if not handled in due time.”
“The feeling just now when we fought together, it was very good.”
Audrey looked at Ivan, Ferguillo, Ayrin, and Charlotte. “I’ll go down with you guys.”
“Safety in numbers.” Joyce hesitated a moment, then said through clenched teeth. “I’ll also go with you.”
“Joyce, you’re saying one thing and thinking something else,” Ayrin said with a smile. “You’re truly a brave warrior.”
“That arcane master almost killed him just now, but he can still smile.” Joyce looked at Ayrin, speechless for a while.
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“It’s so big in there, how are we going to find him?”
“Why are there so many forks?”
Ayrin and the others stopped their chase after several minutes inside the sewers.
The sewers underneath the athlete village were very wide and the ceiling very tall. It could even accommodate two traveling carriages at its widest, while two or three people could travel side by side even at the most narrow places.
The darkness inside the sewers wasn’t a problem for Ayrin and the others, to say nothing about Ivan and Charlotte having some match cords they could quickly burn stashed inside the traveling bags they always carried with them.
But the crucial thing was, there were truly too many forks down below. Ivan and Charlotte had undergone special training and could still distinguish their direction, but even so, they had no idea where these tunnels led to, or which way that Hawkmoon substitute went.
Ivan was about to clench his teeth and bring up the idea of searching separately, but just then, Ayrin suddenly said in a quiet voice, “I have a way.”
“What way?”
The group suddenly focused their eyes on Ayrin.
“Skunk Devil Summoning!”
Ayrin moved his hands. As soon as the light of arcane particles emerged, a striped skunk appeared in the light and landed with a flop on the wet slippery ground.
“Puff.” A stinky fog started diffusing in the tunnel.
“…” The group suddenly turned green.
“Couldn’t you warn us in advance before using a skill like that?!”
Charlotte’s vision went black. She even had a little trouble resisting the urge to kick Ayrin straight into the gutters nearby.
“Why can this guy also use this skill?” Desperately holding their breaths, Audrey and the others had the same thought.
“Skunk Devil Summoning!”
“Skunk Devil Summoning!”
“Skunk Devil Summoning…!”
Ayrin actually looked like he very much enjoyed this skill. He seemed energized and kept launching the skill without any pause.
Striped skunks appeared one after another. Even Ivan was about to blow his top.
He felt that even holding his breath was useless against this stink, like it was soon going to directly pass through his skin and pervade his nose.
“It stinks! Urgh…”
But just then, faint and distant swearing and retching suddenly came from the quiet sewers.
Ayrin suddenly halted his movements.
Ivan immediately flashed to the front, gesturing at the others to follow him.
…
Six people stood in front of a wall in the sewers.
The five who once stood in front of this very wall were there, respectively wearing uniforms from Abel Academy, Silver Trout Academy, Three-Headed Dragon Academy, Wind Whisperer Academy, and Sea God Academy. There was also someone else this time. It was precisely the substitute from Hawkmoon Academy.
“It’s impossible for this kind of stench to suddenly erupt in normal circumstances. It looks very much like the arcane skill from that Hunter Academy guy.”
The skinny boy wearing Abel Academy’s uniform made a nervous silencing gesture.
“That guy from Hunter Academy is just very common stuff, how would he be in these sewers… That said, this situation is a little strange.” The short boy wearing Wind Whisperer Academy’s clothes also looked around him, staying on high alert, lowering his voice as far as he could. “Let’s increase our pace just to be on the safe side. This way, even if something unexpected happens, no one would be in time to stop us.”
“Ok, let’s stop paying attention to whoever is coming.” A resolute expression also glinted on the face of that skinny boy wearing Abel Academy’s uniform. “We’re not going to leave them any time to react.”
With a quiet “pop,” he pushed his hands on the wall in front of him.
Red lava-like patterns of light quickly spread on the wall. Layer upon layer, like wind erosion in fast motion, the hard stone walls soundlessly turned into fine dust splashing away.
The mouth of a tunnel that could accommodate three to four persons appeared in front of their eyes.