Chapter 197 - Fused together (1/2)

Although Jack didn't recognize the woman by her appearance, when she was walking past, he did recognize her smell. She was the same person who was at the tavern with Berg. The person who had made a bet with Gary over the sword.

”I wonder what they are doing here?”

Although Jack wasn't the type to sneak about, his curiosity got the better of him. He tried his best to move forward without being scene and eventually found a good place for cover.

The only problem was there was a guard at the top keeping watch. Jack waited until the guard was looking in the other direction then bolted across as fast as he could. Jack was now directly under the guard while leaning up against the wall of the outpost, located just around the corner from the cloaked people they had met in the tavern.

”Hah, wait until Gary here's about this.” Jack thought, ”It seems like I'm not so bad at sneaking myself.”

The truth was Jack was a little upset that he couldn't go down to the cellars with the other two, he felt a bit left out and hurt. Regardless Jack was now close enough to hear in on their conversation.,

”Miss Lilly! What brings you here at this hour.” The guard said.

”My father has asked me to check up on the criminal that had been caught today.”

”Yes please, right this way you two.” The guard said as he escorted the two of them into the outpost and towards the underground cellar.

”Dam this is bad.” Jack thought, judging by their conversation Lilly was planning to speak to the same person Ray was looking for right now.

Just as Jack was about to send a message to inform the other two, the guard directly above spotted Jack.

”You, what are you doing here!” The guard shouted from above.

”Dam!” Jack ran as fast as he could straight into the forest but as he turned around, he noticed some guards giving chase.

”Maybe I'm not cut out for this sneaky business after all.”

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Back in the cellar, Ray and Gary were moving around cautiously, every so often there would be a guard stationed in between the prison cells. Even though the shadow skill was effective in them not being seen, it wasn't a 100 percent.

The shadow skill was similar to casting a type of illusion, moving in and out of spaces at the right time. It took immense concentration and if you were off by a little bit, it would cause a ripple in space that was quite noticeable.

Then Suddenly Ray saw a message pop up in front of him from his system.

”taven cominnnngnn”

”What the hell!” Gary said, ”This is unreadable.”

”Maybe something happened outside,” Ray said, ”We shouldn't worry too much Jack knows what he is doing.”

The two decided to ignore the message and continued to move forward. Finally, after walking ahead for a while, they had reached the end of the room and at the same time could see the man they were looking for.