Chapter 235: The five I
In all their years of carrying out investigations and assassinations, they had never seen anyone point directly at them before. Being unseen was their magic! That was what they cultivated! So how did this girl point them out?
And then, the next thing that happened shocked them all to the bone. The blind guy who had been sleeping sat up, stretched, and then removed the binding on his eyes.
Then he too followed where she was pointing. His eyes were shining red like coal.
Instantly, the five squad members felt a chill down their spines as if a predator was staring at them with the intent to devour them.
"There? But I can’t see anything. Come on, do something that’ll make them visible to me!" the previously blind guy said, standing up from his position.
The girl also stood, her hands weaving in a complicated gesture. "I can sense the blood in them. It took days, but since they’re living beings, I can sense their blood because they’ve been following us for so long!"
A red light glowed from her hands and then splashed on the previously blind guy’s face. He blinked, then smiled as his eyes focused on the squad with intensity. "Ah! Right!"
The minds of the five squad members trembled slightly, and their very first order came to mind. "No matter what, nobody is to know your identity. If you are discovered, you must destroy all evidence."
Of course, there was a lot of context to this order. In a case like this, where there was an active investigation, the only thing they could do was retrieve the source of the investigation to the guide and destroy the rest.
The five of them came to the same conclusion at the same time.
"They’re only circle two power level, but their power is said to be comparable to the third. It’s speculation, but we should take it seriously."
"Obviously we can’t go with our previous investigations. It was said that it was that girl who was the threat, but now, who can say? We should handle this with the highest level of threat eradication we can go with."
"We start now."
And then, for the first time since the five of them had stayed motionless, they shifted and moved.
And what terrible speed they had!
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Vacuse had come to the conclusion earlier that he couldn’t track the people following them. He had tried to trace the faint sense, but it was like trying to gather smoke with a palm, and as such, he had told Lady Slave to deal with it.
She made no promise, but she said she would try her best. And before they all retired to rest, she told Yukata that he could leave for the territory if he wanted.
It seemed she had found a way.
Although she had already made a lot of progress in tracking them, by making them focus on Yukata as he went away, she finalized her spell.
And as she said, it was their blood that she sensed.
Now, with the help of her spell, Vacuse could also sense the blood, and in his eyes, he could see five figures in the shape of red blood.
"Are you going to deal with this?" Lady Slave asked with a yawn. "I can’t get their accurate power level, and their magic is strange to me. What do you want to do?"
Vacuse straightened and looked right at them. "I will take care of them. These previous days have been boring."
Lady Slave just gave him a look. In her academy, most people knew her as the crazy lady, but who was actually crazy between her and this guy? He was not only crazy, he seemed as if he had stepped foot into absolute insanity.
"Their power is probably related to space, and that’s why we can’t sense them easily."
"Then how did you do it?" Vacuse didn’t hide the suspicion in his voice.
She shrugged. "We all have our secrets and... they’re moving!"
Indeed, Vacuse saw the five blood figures move and then appear all around him in a circle at the same time. It was so fast that he knew instantly it wasn’t that they were fast; they simply moved from one place to another.
Time seemed to slow down. An incredible sense of danger erupted in Vacuse like a volcano coming to life. His body began to react almost faster than his mind could handle.
First, he slid fully into his Dragon Perception, and his eyes blazed with purple energy that flickered through the rest of his body, condensing around his legs.
Next, his umbrella appeared around him, and void surged through his body, a wave that went to his legs as well. With his two powers focusing on his legs, a flash of pain ripped through him, and his bones actually cracked from the power.
His bones, which had started gaining the strength of the Dragons, cracked with the combination of his two powers in one place. He let out a scream, and then he also moved.
All of this happened in the second when the five appeared around him and he felt incredible danger. He didn’t even think about it as his body reacted without thought, his instincts taking over. And his power diverting to reinforce his legs was simply his own instinct to preserve his life above everything in the face of danger.
And what better way than to get the hell out of where danger was?
So he moved.
The shockwave he generated by jumping up was so powerful that it sounded like a sonic boom, and a huge crater formed on the ground. The five were like pebbles as an almost invisible energy of pure force slammed into them and shoved them away.
The shield around the camp cracked and crumbled, blasting Lady Slave and all their equipment away. Even Vacuse himself was shocked by what he saw.
After all, it was the first time he had used both powers at their full capacity in the same part of his body.