Chapter 322 - The Hunter and the Hunted (2/2)
“Link, we’ve already lost him so why do we still have to go so fast?” Felina still felt that she was using up too much energy.
Link obviously had thought deeply about this. “Isendilan had always been pursuing us, and he’s familiar with our speed,” he explained. “Even if he can’t find us, he can still guess our approximate location. At that time, if he uses a wide-range search spell, we’ll be revealed. Running like this can make him miscalculate. As long as he can’t find us with a search spell, we’ll be truly safe!”
All this made Felina’s head hurt, but thankfully, she understood. Gritting her teeth, she followed right behind Nana.
“Master, where are we going?”
“White Cloud City…but don’t go directly south. It’ll reveal our target. Go east first, and don’t worry about leaving behind traces. We want to leave some marks to fool Isendilan. When we cover enough distance, we’ll turn back.”
If they cared about their trail, they wouldn’t be able to run quickly. If Link left some marks, Isendilan would definitely be tricked. This didn’t mean he was stupid. It was because he could only find these marks so he would be forced to follow them. This was an overt trick.
“Got it,” Nana answered and immediately changed her direction.
After traveling 65 miles, they’d gone around 70 miles with the distance covered before. “Okay,” Link said. “We can slow down now.”
Felina let out a breath of relief. Even with Link’s spell, she was still exhausted from running at full speed for so long. She glanced at Nana and saw that she was still composed. Felina had to admit that the magic puppet’s speed was just crazy.
On the other hand, Link activated the Dimensional Jump without hesitation to go south. He still had more than 8000 Mana Points now. After drinking the perfect Mana potion, he recovered 2000 points and jumped five times quickly.
After wiping the traces like before, he finally took a breather. “Okay, now we should be able to go south slowly. Just be careful, and it’ll be okay.”
…
Not even five minutes after Link left, a huge figure appeared in the sky. He came like a streak of dark red lightning, instantly hovering above where Link had used the Dimensional Jump.
He was almost 200 feet tall, comparable in size to the Red Dragon Queen. Dark red smoke wrapped around him. His eyes were blood red like burning fire. Here, he dove down and vaporized when he was 300 feet in the air.
The ball of vapor landed on the ground gently. When the fog dissipated, a man in a dark red Magician’s robe appeared.
He had dark red hair, and his eyes gleamed red. His pale face was very handsome and ageless. He could be 20 years old, but his aura was like a timeworn elder.
He was the first traitor of the dragons—Red Dragon Duke Isendilan.
Standing in the grass, Isendilan looked around. This guy went from here so there should be footprints, a smell, or something, right?
A few seconds later, he indeed found footprints. There were three sets. One set was thin and looked like a girl’s, but she was abnormally heavy—more than 200 pounds. Another set was wide and obviously a dragon. The last set was plain with average body weight. From the smell left in the air, it was probably a human.
Earlier, Isendilan could only faintly sense their location and send some threats, but he didn’t know too much about the specifics.
Theron came back and said there’s three of them. One is a Level-8 human Magician, one is an unbelievably fast human girl, and there’s also Felina. It’s a strange group.
Isendilan looked around. He tried to find the footprints of them leaving, but this time, he failed.
There aren’t any departure marks. They just disappeared without a trace. Huh, this is annoying. Isendilan furrowed his brows. Pondering, he reached out. A golden glow shone from his fingertip, and he pointed in the air. It was the Spatial Eye.
Spatial Eye
Legendary Detection Spell
Description: The spell-caster marks the subtle energy in the surrounding space so the spatial structure will show more clearly. This spell effectively helps the spell-caster track targets who use spatial magic to escape.
(Note: there is no way to hide!)
The air surrounding Isendilan shimmered, and the air within a 300-foot radius seemed to turn into water. There were various streaks of light and shadows that sketched out an accurate spatial structure.
Isendilan inspected carefully for a full two minutes. His brows started furrowing. These three really did use a spatial tunnel to escape, but the Magician’s understanding of space is comparable to me. He even wiped all traces.
What kind of enemy was the most difficult in the mortal world?
The first one was spatial Magicians. To these guys, space was a sea. Whenever needed, they could go into the water and either escape to somewhere far away or stay hidden for a surprise attack. They were unstoppable.
Isendilan’s traces were all cut off. He had no way of following them. The human Magician’s tricks were too frightening, and he could even decode the resurrection technique. Isendilan must find him!
Thankfully, he had a more basic approach!
He used a teleportation spell, but it’s an ad hoc teleportation, and they can’t travel far. The limit is five miles. From their earlier speed, they could only go around 40 miles at most during this time. I’ll look for them within a 60-mile radius!
With this thought in mind, Isendilan sat onto the ground and closed his eyes. A few seconds later, black-red light streaked across him for a few seconds. Then the light trembled violently and spread out at an unimaginable speed.
After around five seconds, an image appeared in Isendilan’s mind.
No one in the east but there are signs of high-speed movement in the grass. They went east!
Isendilan opened his eyes with some fatigue. Searching within 60 miles was very consuming, and he was tired out. He still didn’t find them, but he cackled.
Tricky Magician, you held back your speed earlier. Nice tricks and calculations but unluckily, I’m your opponent!
He stood up, transformed into a dragon, flapped his wings, and hurried east.