Chapter 44: Shadow Walker (2/2)

This was the first time he had actually gotten a good look at her and his heart almost left his body. Although he was captivated by her beauty this was not why his heart skipped a beat. She was beautiful, yes, he could even confidently say she was even more beautiful than his beloved lady Izabel that he wouldn't mind her stepping on him also.

When he thought to this point, a striking pain assaulted this heart. He felt like he was thinking about something sacrilegious. Shaking his head he decided to cleanse all irrelevant thoughts from his mind. What was important about this seemly superficial fact was that demons physiology was different from humans. The purer a demon bloodline was the better their physicals appearance.

What this meant was that the lady that had just alighted was of a hight statue than the lady Izabel. Wasn't this dangerous, in other for her to be of a higher statue she had to either be the direct daughter of a demon Lord or maybe the great granddaughter of one of the Leaders of the Great Five.

'Should I retreat? this might be more dangerous than I thought, but if one of the great Five is making a move shouldn't I observe so i can report this back. Lady Izabel would get high praise if she brings in information of this level and she might even get an edge over her.'

Thinking of the cloaked lady in the cave a sudden cold washed over him. Forcing his attention back on his target he opted on observing them. Everything was finally unraveling for him after the realization that one of the Five might be making a move. The strength of a pair he had never seen before could only be possible if they were from the Five.

Even if they were the trump card of a regular noble family trying to undercut the five ot be recognized as one of them. This was still valuable piece of information. As his thoughts wondered he noticed thee guy with the above average looks who he now believe to be one of the outer ranking members of one of the great Five like himself. He was most likely serving under the girl as her servant just like him and a specialist in detection which was why he was noticed.

The hatred he harbored for him all this while were slowly melting away as he felt a strange sense of kinship building within him. He watched as he approached the barrier nonchalantly. The other stared at him strangely and Griff had a bad premonition.

The guy stretched out his hand to touch the barrier and it slowly went through. The tall brawny ogre that had placed both hands on the barrier that Griff had completely ignore fell through the barrier like a log with his face slamming down on the ground.

Even from this distance he could swear he heard a collective gasp follows by a deafening and heavy silence with everyone's jaws dropping to the floor, and he wasn't an exception.

He could see all his analysis and conclusions collapsing before his eyes as he stared at him dumbly. He hadn't even realized he was no longer hidden in the shadows as his mind was a flurry of confusion. The group soon recovered from their stupor before boarding their carriage and proceeded to enter the barrier.

Griff had been lucky enough to witness his family's last attempt at breaking the barrier surrounding the castle and it didn't look anything like this. It took over 8 hours just to break the first layer and grant them limited access to some areas in the castle, while the layer automatically repairs itself. Yet....

All he did was touch it. 'He touched it... Who... who is he?' All his previous thoughts and emotions were immediately shattered by a simple move. What was left could only be described as an inmate sense of fear. He hadn't seen the fight between the lesser basilisks and the settlement as the spell of remote viewing would only show the view to the caster unless another spell is used to supplement it.

Lady Izabel was the only one with enough skills to watch the town without being notice. If any of them had tried to use a spell like Mirror Connection to view her Remote observation spell they would have most likely been found out and that would compromise their mission. When someone wanted to observe a person from afar, a lot of preparations were necessary, although not many people paid attention to anti divination spells.

Any decent mage or warriors would be able to tell when someone was spying on them. If he had watch the fight he Might have thought differently, being the servant if lady Izabel his main job had been the gathering of information and he always pride himself in that aspect. Almost all her servants that had mastered the shadow skill, his version was the most suited for being a spy and the fact that someone like him had misjudged someone so blatantly was a dagger in his heart.

Grabbing his heart with his right hand he watched the group enter the barrier completely. He slowly approach the barrier as he could barely make out the appearance of the group ones they entered the barrier. From what he knew when the first layer of the barrier was.broken, it took more that 12 hour for it to repair itself and even longer if the second layer was also destroyed.

He had a.sliver of hope as he got closer and closer to the barrier. The castle was not that close to the forest so it was harder to move in the sparring buses. He left the cover of the leaves and walked to the barrier. While his.shadow abilities would help.him hide in the shadow of objects, he could not hide in his own shadow and in an open field like this, there wasn't anything he could hide in.

He was now only an inch away from the barrier and he could almost touch it with his face. As long as he enters the barrier as well it meant the guy from earlier really is a behemoth at the same level as the Elders of the Great Five, and stronger that even the leaders of the other noble families. He reach out an arm, his aim was to penetrate the barrier the same way the guy did.

A wall... It was like a thick and solid wall. ”This... I have to report this... This is dangerous.”