32 City of Ravens 18 (1/2)
I walked through the streets, bought sunglasses, a baseball cap, hoodie, and backpack. I changed my look completely. I walked casually to the bus station and took the next bus to Ottawa.
The last twenty-four hours took a toll on me as I fell asleep the moment I sat down on the bus.
In Ottawa, I changed the bus for the one going to Algonquin town. I couldn't sleep anymore, so I analyzed the events of what happened. First was the fight with Alex, it was hard, but on a level, I could manage. Him being an Arcane Artist made the fight me trying to approach him.
I had superior speed, but Arcane Artist have many ways to keep their enemies at a safe distance. His and most of the Arcane Artists style of fighting is centered around their safety, keeping the distance from the enemy, which in most cases are monsters. If it is a Martial Artist the situation is the same, they only have some problems when fighting against other Arcane Artists.
But now I see the limitation of Soul Artist, at least on my current stage. I had some predictions of how I will develop and to utilize my power, but all of it required more control. In other words, I need to get stronger!
As for the fight with the man chasing me, he was a Martial Artist with a mutated elemental essence. Ice element was one of the mutations that everyone is familiar with. His use of Ice was genuinely amazing.
As a close combat fighter, he dominated the fight, superior strength and defense with attacks that could shatter my soul image if he wanted to. And the Ice needles he can deploy, in other words, he was prepared to fight close and long distance, even if his aim was terrible.
There are no tricks which could defeat him, only through pure strength!
Back at the apartment I gave Emily the picture and told her what happened.
”Now we know that they are defiantly after us. Rat helped me to clear your name from this building, so they shouldn't find our address. But he can't change anything in the MCA servers.”
”That's already good enough. Hopefully they won't find out who I'm, either way, I will be going into the hunting grounds for a while. Just in case I will leave you my phone, there is only one number so if anything happens, call it and say that I told you to do so. Maybe he will help you.”
”Sure… but really? A flip phone?”
”I know. You don't have to tell me. Just remember to use it in an emergency.”
Before leaving, I repacked my backpack, bought some additional resources and next mooring left for the hunting grounds! My lungs filled with fresh morning air and body full of energy, I moved through the forest like wind looking for pray.
I had to increase my strength, and the fastest way was to do it was with the help of the black feathers. I repeated what I did previously first kill and take monsters soul until my soul was reached the limit. When that happened, I went to the cave that I found after escaping Leshy and made a primitive wall that would block anything from getting inside.
Relatively safe I could train control and condense my soul.