Chapter: 600
“This… I need to get stronger.” Matheson looked on in awe.
He didn’t blink as he watched every moment.
Next, another mage hunter rushed through, but for some reason the girl ignored them as her lips curled into a cunning smile.
A part of Matheson wanted to call out to save the girl, but he held his tongue.
Suddenly, a flash of light happened and the mage hunter disappeared.
“Huh?” he squinted and looked away before looking back again.
“…what happened to the mage hunter?”
“It was there one moment and then gone in a flash of light…” he raised a brow silently.
A shiver went up his spine as he imagined that the mage hunter may have been suddenly vaporised.
Still, there was no time to think about such things.
The woman seemed distracted and he had a prize to claim on the other side of that portal.
Mage hunters were approaching from the north where the woman was looking, so Matheson crept around to the south side and began to sneak closer – he held out his sword though in case there were more of those light traps.
As he got closer he noticed that the girl was sweating and panting heavily. Clearly she was exerting herself and running out of time.
She couldn’t hold them off forever – but why was she holding them off anyway? Matheson didn’t care either way.
Finally he was close enough to dash to the portal now.
The woman was distracted by a mage hunter charging through the forest, and this was the perfect moment.
With a wicked grin he ran out of the forest and sped towards the portal.
As Matheson got closer to the portal he resolved himself to jump straight in. He didn’t need to think twice about it.
The treasure would be his, and his alone.
He was ready to start threatening Anya and anyone else with his nobility once he reached the other side.
If that didn’t work, the sword was also an option. He would get to the treasure before they could do anything to him.
As he was only a few steps away from the portal, Lara noticed his presence and she turned around with a relieved smile.
“Finally…. Wh-, who are you?!” she yelled.
Matheson returned her smile with a menacing grin and gave her no opportunity to stop him, as he was already about to slip through the portal.
The greedy grin on his face only got bigger.