blueteamnovel Chapter 97: Escape 2
Chapter 97: Escape 2
chapter 97: escape 2
i carried cecile on my back as i walked into the city.
i zigzagged away from the main street and towards an alley.
“allen, aren’t we going to stay at an inn?”
“we can’t.”
cecile asked me a question as i proceeded erratically towards an alley, avoiding the main street. there were a few inns on the main street, but i bypassed them.
as we continued down the alley, hollow, who was monitoring the gate of this city with [night vision], spotted dagraha.
(mmm, i knew he would have some kind of permit.)
dagraha showed some kind of permit to the gatekeeper and entered the city through the same gatekeeper’s door.
then he started moving again at high speed.
(i am glad his skill is a footprint tracker and not the map type.)
i had completed my analysis of dagraha’s tracking skill by escaping for the past several hours.
when i was kenichi in my previous life, i had played many class-based games. basically, as a warrior or a wizard, i have used strong weapons and powerful magic to deal a lot of damage to my enemies. i was a total brute-force type player. so i have very little experience with tangled professions like thief.
however, i did play as thief sometimes, so i have a good knowledge of what they do.
in my opinion, there are two kinds of tracking.
in the first type, the target’s footprints can be seen on the field, and the target can be tracked.
in the second type, the coordinates of the target are displayed on the map, and the target can be tracked.
dagraha was using the first kind and i am 100% sure about it.
because when dagraha was chasing us, he took turns at the exact places where i took a turn and i know this because i observed his actions via hollow.
if he could see my position in some kind of coordinates, he would not do so, but would follow me using the shortest distance while correcting the direction.
right now, dagraha was following the same zigzag path i took in vain.
(time to finish this up.)
“hah!”
i jumped and started moving on the roofs of the houses. in order to avoid being chased immediately, i moved away from dagraha, keeping more and more distance between them.
(okay, we lost him! my analysis was perfect. it’s a hundred years too soon for him to be chasing me!)
i watched as dagraha panicked with the help of hollow. he headed back down the street, wondering if he made a mistake because he was moving so closely. it hadn’t occurred to him that i countered the search, and that i would jump on top of houses.
i was standing on a wall, the outer wall of the city.
“what? you’re not going to fight? aren’t you strong?”
in cecile’s mind, i seem to be quite strong.
“yes, he’s a bit of a pain in the ass. i probably won’t win.”
(i don’t have a ten percent chance of winning by any means. my summons are slow. even if i trap him and ambush him, he’ll probably dodge. even if a few attacks go through, he can just use a healing potion and that’s it. now let’s get out of this city. bron, come on out.)
then, on the second morning after running away from the city of carnel, i successfully arrived at the checkpoint and entered the grandver territory.
“what’s happened? is something wrong?”
“huh?”
cecile sensed something was wrong with me after we crossed the checkpoint and seemed concerned about it.
(gosh, since i’ve been noticed. i guess i’ll answer honestly here.)
“i just lost track of dagraha.”
“what?”
i was checking on dagraha’s position. when i was telling him that he was being chased, i said that he somehow had such skills.
not long ago, when eagle was following dagraha, dagraha started moving at a much faster speed than ever before. he was faster than eagle.
currently, several eagles were looking for him, but they have not been able to find him. since he’s faster than eagles, it will be difficult to find dagraha.
(i knew he had the skill to increase his speed all at once.)
i remembered how dagraha had kicked me in the magic ship. i couldn’t track him with my eyes and he seemed to disappear for a moment. i thought he might have used this skill because of what he had said about skills. after being shown something like this, i completely recognized it as a skill.
(i never thought the skill is not limited.)
i thought the skill was a [agility] increase limited to short distances, but it seems to be able to travel a great distance too. i started running as fast as i could.
“allen, wouldn’t you be spared if you left me?”
“what? what are you talking about? i’m not leaving you.”
“but at this rate...”
(hmm, cecile is only 12 years old. she should not be thinking about something like this.)
this chase that has lasted a few days has definitely made her anxious.
“it’s all right. let’s both go back to the city of grandver safely. there’s no problem. besides, i will keep my promise.”
“promise?”
“yes, i promised young master mihai that i would always protect lady cecile. i’ll keep my promise.”
“thanks...”
cecile buried her face in my shoulder.
(i’ve said some cool things, but i’m going to have to take out insurance on this one. we’ve crossed the border, so it’s about time.)
i summoned multiple eagles and ordered them to fly. then, i used
on the third day of our escape, early in the morning, i was carrying cecile on my back and heading for the city of grandver.
i hurried on, hoping to reach the city of grandver by the end of tomorrow if possible.
there was a magical beast staring at the eagle summoned by allen. that magical beast knew that there was a playmate near this bird.
he twisted his mangy dog-like face which had one eye missing, and started to move.