Chapter 307: The Chaos around the Teahouse. (1/2)

Just like Blaze had thought, Raven really didn't like using this method. She hated her own plan more than him, but time was short and they couldn't afford to make any mistakes either.

Although detestable, this seemed to be their best option.

”We just have to make sure it will not wreck the whole city. I don't believe two Rank-8 Mages cannot control a simple Beast tide,”

Raven commented before turning to the man on her left, ”You don't have to explicitly try and save the girl, just kill any Beast that comes in your way. Can you do that?”

The man in question seemed to have gotten cold feet and could only nod his head, not daring to wipe the sweat dripping behind his back. He couldn't help it while being the target of Raven's stare.

Content that the man agreed straight away, Raven looked back at Blaze, waiting for him to ask if he had any questions.

”What? Can you not even manipulate a small Beast tide? I will be there too if you are afraid that it will get out of control,” spoke Raven after Blaze wordlessly stared at her.

In response, he shook his head and kept his thoughts to himself. He was merely worried that Raven was forcing herself to do something that she hated so much. He also knew that he wouldn't be able to persuade her now.

'If only this Kenzie held recruitments, we wouldn't have to go through so much trouble,' Blaze internally sighed.

Most of the time they wouldn't have to plan anything as they just ordered a few men under them to apply to the recruitments of the organization they wanted to infiltrate. The problem here was that there weren't any official timely recruitments in the Manor of City Lord.

The City Lord, Kenzie, chose people of his own liking to bring to work in his Manor, or they were required to be recommended by his subordinates.

They also didn't have the time to wait for an opportunity to get their spy recognized by Kenzie. They had to create the opportunity themselves and this was the best they could come up with even though both didn't want to do things this way.

”Hey! What is your name again?” Blaze asked the man.

”Y-yes! Ah! Everyone just calls me Kone,” the man answered in a hurry.

”Let's go. We will start tomorrow.”

With that, the three left the place to plan the remaining details. Time was short and their methods were flawed, but they had to make do with what they had.

...

The next day, early in the morning, Raven together with Blaze and Kone appeared near the teahouse in an alleyway.

”Go on in, act like a traveler stopping for some rest,” Raven ordered. She didn't explain further since Kone was aware of his role already.

Just before he was about to walk out of the alley, a voice laced with an icy aura made him halt, ”You mess this up and that will be your last mistake.”

”Y-yes sir!” Kone hurriedly nodded before he again straightened his posture and lazily began to walk towards the teahouse.

With the way Blaze bickered with Raven, he had thought that both of them would be easy to talk with, but it seemed that this frankness only extended between themselves. To all others, the duo was two icy peaks unmoved by even the coldest of winds.

”How long do we have to wait for?” Blaze asked while watching Kone enter the teahouse.

”That little girl of Kenzie hasn't even arrived, at least wait till then,” Raven replied before she flew towards the forest. They didn't have much time to completely survey the woods yet and this was the only time they had to do so.

Blaze followed behind her.

”We can still give up on this plan,” he whispered quietly from behind.

Raven ignored his comment and continued to look for the Beasts around the area.

To create the Beast tide, all they needed to do was intimidate some strong Beasts from the opposite direction. Once these Beasts howled in fear, the rest of the Beasts would start to get agitated and in the end, all of them would be seen running away from those howls.

Some might be brave enough to not run away and that would disrupt the tide while it's at the starting stages, but they would make sure that every Beast in the area ran towards the city.

”You keep an eye on Kenzie's daughter. I will keep tabs on the Beasts,” Raven told Blaze who nodded his head before leaving.

'I have a bad feeling about this...' Raven thought internally.

The number of Beasts that they had estimated fell far shorter than she had previously estimated.

”Hmm? Ha... it seems he loves his daughter a little too much...” she muttered as she stumbled upon some markings on tree trunks.

To a normal person, these markings wouldn't mean much but since Raven had already surveyed the whole area, she could see that these signs drew a line that separated the area where there were almost no Beasts at all in the area!

And since that was the case, it was clear as day that the City Lord had been keeping the numbers of Beasts in check around this area. The markings were most likely done by the people he sent in order to clear the increasing number of Beasts.

Coming to this conclusion, Raven knew that the best course of action would be to retreat and make a new plan since Kenzie would immediately be suspicious that it was a setup.

'But there is no other choice... Ozul will be disappointed if at least not all the important organizations are infiltrated,' Raven bit her lips and continued to slowly rally the Beasts in a single direction like they were a herd of sheep instead of ferocious monsters.

Only a while later, she sensed the familiar cold aura approaching her from the distance.