Chapter 189: Research Fort (1/2)
At Tyler's confident declaration, Rain's cheeks became flushed as she could no longer bring herself to offer any resistance and meekly nodded in agreement.
With that, Tyler smiled faintly at her as he patted her on the head and told her to rest up in the castle until his return. He did not even wait for a response as he immediately sent her back to the castle using Spatial Teleportation. The skill allowed him to not just teleport himself, but others as well, as long as he was touching them.
He could also swap objects that were within a 100-meter radius of him without having to touch them but that was irrelevant to the present situation.
With Rain gone, the snow-filled rocky plains returned to an eerily silence as Tyler just stared at the ice prism that was still in place with a strange expression on his face.
He was surely angry but, he found it harder to maintain that anger as the massive disappointment in himself outweighed the bottomless rage that threatened to swallow his reasoning at the moment. He may not know it right now, but that disappointment had saved his soul.
”Why the fuck can't I get a break today.”
A wave of frustration swelled inside of him. For some reason he had thought his luck since coming to Neron had changed for the better when he stumbled upon the magic library and attain power but it seemed he had been far too naive.
The castle being invaded had already caused him enough trouble yet there was still the matter of the 20,000 plus undead legion that was marching this way. And now, this happened. This was by far the worst of all as if they somehow gain Liz's Ice Domain, it will not be funny.
Those factors made him angry and frustrated. However, most of those frustrating thoughts were aimed at him. Why didn't he see such a thing coming? He was the one that had ordered them out but failed to consider the possibility that there would be spies somewhere other than the safe zones in the Darknar forest.
After corrupting those safe zones, he may have unconsciously let his guard down and had fallen prey to a fast retaliation from one of the Great Five. He had expected them to take their time investigating but the fact that they had promptly chosen to target Liz was an anomaly in his previous calculations.
Perhaps if he had given Z more details about the girls he would've been able to predict this anomaly but it was too late now. His lack of trust in his subordinates had led to him putting their lives in danger.
Tyler took several deep breaths to calm his nerves as well as use Placate on himself. After taking a minute to get himself together, he stood up from his crouching position and got out of his head as he needed to focus on the task at hand.
Rubbing his missing left arm, he grumbled about what he was about to do internally. Such a thing was something the previous him would've called crazy if someone told him about it. Yet, here he was, about to do something as stupid as storming into the energy's base head-on.
”Fine then, let's be crazy for a day.” Saying that his eyes flashed with a cold glint as he used a skill.
•Spatial Perception•
While using this ability earlier, he had only been focused on the things below and not the space around him. However, as his focus was shifted, he soon noticed what he was looking for.
Rain had told him the enemy had teleported away the first time so it made sense that they would do the same while bringing back a prisoner, so all he needed to do was locate the spot the space around her had been disturbed. It had been over three hours since they left so by now the space would've been fully recovered.
However, Tyler had still found something, this meant, rather than normal teleportation magic, they had used a gate.
”There you are.”
He raised his head, and in the sky, directly above the ice prism, was a normally invisible distortion in space but with Spatial Perception and Spatial awareness, he could now see it clearly.
His figure then slowly floated towards the distortion and stopped next to it. This was the point at which space was forced open, connecting this point to another. Making mass teleportation possible.
Without the use of similar skill as his Spatial Teleportation that controls space itself. A normal Teleportation Magic would only be able to force the connection between two points in space effectively tearing or damaging space itself in an insignificant way that would not have any lasting effects. However, such methods would surely leave behind a distortion in space just like the one Tyler was currently looking at.
With this, he now had a link to the destination the enemy had taken Liz to. Although people that could use high-level magic like Teleportation or in this case Gate would usually set up measures against being followed by similar spells. Tyler didn't have to worry about that as Spatial Domination took over and he overruled the rules that had been placed on the space around the distortion as he reached in through the distorted space and reconnected it to the previous space it had been connected to.
With that, his figure completely disappeared from the skies above the rocky plains close to the Darkin Mountain Range. As the monsters that had surrounded him could only look up in confusion as they wondered where their supposed prey had disappeared to.
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