《Heart Of A Servant》Chapter 14 : Running for one's life
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The process of promoting Kyle to the early stage Master Hallowed Swordsman level was fairly easy. I only had to overload the body with mana which in turn was refined into essence by the body, and once the essence overloaded, it was the sign of advancement in the strength he wielded.
His advancement happened on the eve of the auction without a problem.
Just as Kyle achieved his breakthrough: "Fascinating!" A voice reverberated inside the room.
I turned to look in all the corners of the room but found nothing that escaped my notice. Kyle was the only human being inside the room.
If my conjectures were spot on, it could only mean one thing: A Magus God has appeared before us.
Only they could escape my senses. At least while my soul sense wasn't activated. I had an 8th tier soul after all. If I gave it my all, the intruder wouldn't be hard to find.
Now, all I wanted to know were his intentions towards us.
I activated my soul sense to its maximum power. While I would normally use it to look at a continent or an entire planet, in this case, it was just a small room.
It took me a few milliseconds to find a man that appeared to be in his thirties shrouded in invisible aura.
The man appeared surprised:" Oh? You could find me so soon? But that's because I only revealed myself just now...I couldn't help it...I mean seeing with my own eyes a new Power system...this is the second surprise since I started following you two...hehe."
For the first time in my life I felt fear: "You..you can see me?"
I was thinking that my invisibility would be a great asset in us countering this calamity, but it seemed I had met a Magus God that could actually interact with me.
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This was just us being unlucky.
"Of course I can see you...and I am not even the only one watching you...you see with my special Rune ability, I can share what I see with others. Since I made myself known, my two brothers will be here in the next twenty seconds as well. We are very interested in you two....hehe We've been waiting for you two for a thousand years..." The man said as he finally made himself visible to us.
He was wearing a plain blue attire. His eyes were blue and his head was bald. He had a mustache and a goatee.
Not only had we been tailed from the very beginning, but we were also even in the maws of the three powerhouses of the continent.
Kyle had already taken a stance ready to fight to the death. If only he knew we were against a Magus God and how fearsome they were.
I immediately entered the copper ring and then cast Instant Teleportation. My destination was the Crimson Forest.
While we were being teleported, I cast an Invisibility spell and an Aura Reduction spell to hide our presence.
The man's voice then sounded in our heads:" The long lost Teleportation Spell...I assume it is with that spell that you got on this planet...let me add it to the list of things you must give us...and don't bother to hide...I already put an imprint on you right now...unless you leave this planet, there's no way you could hide from me...but how could you leave? Your mana is running low."
He was right, even if I knew how to leave this planet, I didn't have enough mana. I had used almost everything that I had stored in the copper ring to help Kyle in his breakthrough.
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That Magus God had calculated the right time to make himself known.
As we arrived in the Crimson Forest, I was out of ideas of how to save us. I could already see the Magus God arrive like a meteor in the sky. His two brothers were further behind him.
I looked at Kyle and I sighed.
Was I going to see another master die because of my carelessness?
I waved my staff and the copper ring left Kyle's finger and then came to float before me.
I sent Kyle inside the ring and then waited for the three brothers to arrive.
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