Chapter 111 - 111. The Bloody Trial Begins (1/2)
In the next day, at the capital of Centaur Three.
Two guards kept watching people in a queue using the teleportation array. It was the most tedious job of a guard but also the most safe, because no one would cause a ruckus there and risk damaging the array.
”Next”
Shouted one guard, seeing the people used the array and left the planet.
Centaur Three didn't have a two-way teleportation door,like the majority of planets, so the only way to leave the planet was using a teleportation array and inputting the correct coordinates for the planet and place they wanted to go.
Normal people could not easily remember coordinates, nor they knew how teleportation arrays worked. Because of that, by the side of the array, they had to put a board with the most common coordinates.
If people didn't know how to input the coordinates, then a guard would do it for the people and charge an extra fee.
”Next”
Shouted the guard again, and seeing that an old man and a guy in black clothes passed by him, he raised his hand for the rest of the queue to wait.
The other guard, a few steps behind, seeing people approaching, asked in a low voice,
”50 crystals for each one, and an additional fee of 20 crystals if you need me to activate the array”
”No need”
Said the old man, using a common-tongue dialect, already extending his hand and giving a hundred crystals.
The guard grabbed the money and waited by the side. His job was done. But because he had to wait for them to leave, he kept looking at the coordinates the old man was inputting. He had to make a report of unusual coordinates but in the end people only used common places and it had become a habit of him watch peoples input their own coordinates and try to calculate the destination planet using before people activated. A thing he did to pass the time.
Seeing the old man imputing the coordinates, he started to try to figure the destination as usual.
'ZrCy?....'
But when he saw two runic letters in the coordinate, his eyes grew, and he looked up. The dark smile on the old man's face was anything but a reassuring one.
'Shit..... Shit.... Shit...'
The place was outside the borders of the mage alliance.
”RUN!!!!!!”
Screamed the guard, using all the air in his lungs to alert the people behind, because he knew what happened when someone input those kinds of coordinates.
They were fugitives, or criminals, wanted by the mage association.
And if they really wanted to escape, they could not leave the coordinates behind.
And just as the guard expected, the old man threw a cylindrical sphere pulsing with a bluish glow. The sphere didn't even have the time to touch the ground and those two guys vanished using the teleportation matrix.
The guard thew himself to the ground, and at the same time, the sphere touched the floor.
A bright bluish light engulfed the entire place, and a second later, the explosion came.
~boom~
The entire building where the transportation array stood vanished from earth in a single second.
Neither the guards nor anyone close to the building expected such a day, because this day would mark the planet with a permanent scar on its history.
A day where the mage alliance would send people to rule the planet, instead of letting locals rule.
They could not allow this kind of thing happening again inside of the mage alliance territories.
People normally only destroyed the matrix and used another one when trying to go outside from mage alliance borders. This allowed them to escape and to not leave traces behind.
For the mage alliance, the ones who had the money to buy a bomb like that actually didn't need to use public arrays. They could easily create their own hidden transportation arrays.
Using something like that on a planet ruled by the mage alliance was akin to slapping them in the face, and the mage alliance could do nothing about, because not a single clue was left behind.
Everyone in the place died, with not even ashes remaining.
A few seconds later, at planet Zamith, outside the mage alliance border, a light glow flashed and two people appeared. It was Mack, and the old man.
Mack took a step forward, and could feel the gravitational force on the planet was a few times stronger than the one he was used to.
Looking around, he could see nothing but trees, it seemed they had teleported to a jungle.
A few seconds, mack noticed a dot moving to their direction in the sky.