Chapter: 713
As Red kneeled before Jay, he remembered he was about to check on Dark.
“Uh, guess it slipped my mind.” he thought with a shrug.
He decided to do it now rauther than later; his paranoid nature telling him to stop feeling so safe and relaxed.
“Just hang on a moment, Red.”
Red still kneeled before him, while he sat down himself and used the host skill.
The world went black and white as Jay entered the eyes of Dark.
Dark had crawled up a tree, lying in the branches as it looked at a giant crater in the mushroom desert.
“What the hell happened here…” Jay thought; he would have gasped if he wasn’t in the body of a skeleton.
Dark’s head suddenly turned to the right, its eyes landed on two large dark armour-clad soldiers on the other side of the desert.
A sting of fear rose in Jay’s heart as he recognised them immediately.
“Fuck. Mage hunters? They’re… they’ve been follow me? Shit. I thought I lost them, the marks haven’t left Losla. Dammit!”
Immediately, Jay added a mark to one of them, realizing that neither had any marks.
“Bastards, they sent some mage hunters without any marks.” he shook his head, “I thought I had gotten away cleanly…”
“They probably found the damn skeletons I left behind too. Shit. I have to keep moving. Much, much further away… I’ll need more diversions and fake skeleton paths ”
Jay sat there watching for a moment, seeing what they were doing. Both of the mage hunters had hundreds of bundles of the mushroom tendrils by their side.
“Oh, they’re cutting through them?” he guessed, and as if answering his thoughts, one of them moved into the desert.
A bright blueish light flashed in the hand of one of them as they held a tendril in the other. Soon enough it was cut, and tossed to the edge of the desert with the others.
The path they were cutting was very wide, about as wide as the Losla bridge.
A subtle fear rose in Jay’s heart, “The only reason to clear a wide path would be to let more people through it…”
By the looks from the size of their path, as well as the hundreds of tendrils they already cut, it seemed that there would be many, many that would march through this way.
Despite being much further away Jay knew he had to leave immediately and flee as fast as possible. The sooner he did, the better his chances of survival would be.
The invisible red threads of the mark he just used soon flew out of the forest and coiled around the mage hunter; the mark was set.
Just before ending the host skill, however, he had an idea.
Dark stealthily snuck down from the tree. The mage hunter’s paused for a moment, sensing something, so Dark froze too. After they went back to work, he had Dark lie down on the roots of a tree, its dagger hidden under pile of leaves.