Chapter: 601
She just analysed him and his name wasn’t Jay – he was a random adventurer.
“Wait, stop!”
Lara raised her hands to use her magic but Matheson acted far too decisively. Before it even took effect, he was gone, only leaving behind a gentle ripple on the silver portal.
Lara almost couldn’t believe her eyes.
“FUCKER!!” she screamed.
More mage hunters were bearing down on her location, and the portal could only take one more person now – meanwhile Jay was nowhere to be seen.
“Grrahh!” she gritted her teeth in anger. She had no reason to wait; her only choice was to flee.
She decisively took out the communication crystal.
“Don’t come to the stink-rat marsh. Flee Losla. We’ll find you… I promise.” she sounded as desperate as she was angry.
She used the last of her energy to send some more trees flying into the forest, trying to do as much damage as possible before jumping into the portal.
After she went though, the portal swirled more slowly and began to get smaller.
The energy dissipated quickly as it collapsed into a smaller sphere, then a black dot, before turning back into nothingness again.
For a moment the forest was silent again.
Jay could hear deep thumping noises and see flashes of light somewhere deep in the forest.
He almost stopped running and looked in wonder as a mage hunter flew into the sky before crashing down somewhere in another part of the forest.
Suddenly he heard Lara’s voice again – she sounded desperate and stressed.
“Don’t come to the stink-rat marsh. Flee Losla. We’ll find you… I promise.”
“What?” Jay said, without pulling out his crystal, “What the fuck is happening!?”
Hopelessness gripped him again. The forest suddenly went quiet.
He stopped running, pulling out the crystal to say something, but he had no words. All he could do was hopelessly grasp at the crystal in his hands.
He didn’t even get a chance to reply anyway. They simply just left him.
“Fuck…”
Humans had abandoned him again, leaving only a promise behind.
He quickly thought about his options.