132 The Place (1/2)
Chapter 132: The Place
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
Leading the night watchers, the several cardinals of the Church came back to Aalto. The city was still sleeping peacefully in the darkness, as tranquil as they left it earlier.
At this time, the red-robed cardinal, Vila Amelton, who was also one of the actual leaders of the Inquisition, suddenly stopped flying. A moment later, she turned to the Canon Holder, ”Salvador, go back and find Lady Camil right now. She’s searching for the princess in Melzer Black Forest.”
Before Salvador responded to the command, Count Hayward, the vice commander of Violet Knights, burst out, ”What happened to the princess?”
”In collusion with the Congress of Magic, Verdi ambushed the princess and tried to kill her. Natasha broke out of their siege and is now hiding in the black forest.”
”What?! Verdi!” Rafati and Hayward looked shocked. They could not believe their ears.
The several other noble knights present also looked very shocked. However, the reason that they were astounded was because of the fact Verdi failed.
”Yes. Sard just informed me,” Amelton answered shortly.
”I’ll go with them.” Hayward’s brows knitted together tightly. Although he looked just like a twenty-something young man, he was actually more than a hundred and sixty years old. Hayward had witnessed countless conspiracies in his life, and now he had a sense of suspicion crawling into his mind. Hayward’s intuition was telling him that the reason that they were sent to Elsinore Lake earlier tonight was much more sophisticated than he thought.
Salvador crossed himself, ”Yes, my lord.”
”Only truth lives forever.” Amelton also crossed on her chest.
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Following Aaron’s special ability of communicating with the shadows, Tod soon noticed a cluster of Ghost Aloe missing a few leaves.
”I knew they were going to use Ghost Aloe… We arrived just a bit too late.” Tod was a bit pissed off, but then he turned to Aaron, ”Any idea which direction they went?”
”The shadow told me…” Aaron scrutinized the surroundings carefully, ”they’re still around.”
”That doesn’t make any sense.” Tod fiercely hacked the plant with his sword.
”There’s only one explanation for this.” Aaron said to Tod, ”They jumped into the river.”
Ghost Aloe often grew very close to water, and this cluster was not an exception. Not far away from the Ghost Aloe, there was a running creek connecting to Massol River.
”Then we just have to follow the water.” Tod nodded, ”They were injured way more seriously than us. We can catch them.”
”What if they left the river and went back into the forest again?” asked Aaron, ”I’m not a grand knight. I cannot get information from the shadows in the water.”
”Well… then just pay close attention to the possible wet plants on both sides of the river. If they left the river, there must be a trail.” Tod looked very confident, and the horrible, long wound on his face had almost recovered.
”All right.” Although Aaron thought this strategy was relatively time-consuming, he could not think of a better solution.
Then they started to search along both sides of the river.
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After floating in the river for a short period of time, Lucien and Natasha left the water and went deep into the woods again.
When Lucien carried Natasha on his back again and was about to run away, Natasha reminded him, ”Remember to hide our trail.”
Natasha’s wet hair was dripping water, and so was his black robe.
”Yes, you’re right.” Lucien nodded. He carefully put Natasha behind a tall and thick tree and then started to collect a kind of weird-looking bush that looked like hay to dry them out a bit.
”I’m afraid they can still trace us.” Grabbing the plant, Lucien was worried, ”This is not enough.” Lucien was quite regretful that he never really paid attention to some of the first circle spells which were used for cleaning all kinds of trails when he was doing his magic structure analysis. At that time, he never thought they might be very useful one day.
”They’re powerful knights. I wouldn’t expect that we could completely get rid of them with a bunch of plants.” Natasha was analyzing with her clear mind, ”I know all the knights who were on Verdi’s side and I know all their Blessings. Neither of them is really good at tracing, however, I can feel they’re getting closer and closer.”