Chapter 305: Reaching the city. (2/2)

With another sigh, he retracted his hand and wordlessly turned around, and began to walk away from the Druid.

”W-what...?” the Dark Druid could only stare at the departing figure of Ozul and Jinx in confusion.

But besides the confusion, she was also relieved that she didn't die today. The day when she had first met the dark-haired boy, she didn't think that he would grow up to become so powerful in such a short amount of time. Just being in his presence was gradually suffocating her.

”Just... who are you...?”

The Dark Druid muttered to herself before she also turned around and disappeared in the depths of the gorge, hidden from the light of the world.

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He would constantly seek out answers for his questions, but each new door led him to a dead end.

He even had to think about Jinx and find ways to test the limit of her strength. Because no matter how unusual she behaved before, scaring an existence not any weaker than Rank-10 Beast with just a glance was not something he could ignore so easily.

A normal person in his shoes would have already given up many times over after the number of times he has failed to find any clues to his being. Even though he wasn't even close to giving up, he did feel that he shouldn't jump at every possibility of finding the truth.

”I should take it easy...and sleep,” he muttered as he passed through the forest, not even realizing that for some strange reason, no Beast dared to come in his way.

He was too lost in thoughts to notice the slight twinkle in Jinx's eyes as well.

While following Jinx to get to the Dark Druid, he had lost his sense of direction long ago. He didn't know which part of the continent he was in right now. First of all, he had to find a settlement to understand his own location before he could get back to the Neutral Lands.

After clearing his head, he flew above the forest and then sped towards a random direction hoping to find a village at the very least. With his sensing range expanded to the maximum, he was quickly able to sense humans in the vicinity.

Luckily, it was a city and not some remote village. It would have been quite a struggle to get his location from the villagers who are always wary of the outsiders.

As he entered the city, he couldn't help but notice the exuberant atmosphere. From just a single look, the city did not seem to lose to the capital cities of small kingdoms.

'Let's see... where is the inn... I need to sleep.'

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More than 6 months had passed while Ozul was searching all over the continent in search of the Dark Druid.

And although this trip did not end up exactly as he wanted, he was still able to get used to his improved senses after all this time.

In the meantime, things drastically changed on the continent.

All of the stronger factions in the Neutral Lands had already migrated and this shift in the location of their headquarters had a huge impact on their surroundings. Though the branches in the opposing factions' areas were more vulnerable now, everyone held themselves back in order to avoid any major conflict before the tournament started.

What surprised many was the sudden downfall of the Church of Light which many still expected to stop the moment their ancestor decided to step in, unaware that the said ancestor had already left the world.

On the mainland when even the Leonhard Dynasty kept themselves modest, the Ashin family began to continuously harass the Church of Light in broad daylight!

The actions of the Ashin family puzzled many but they didn't think much of it.

It was only the Mercenary Guild and the Leonhard Dynasty who noticed that something was wrong. They kept close eyes on all the properties and resources of the Church and the Ashin family suddenly starting to overtake them was suspicious.

It further confirmed their suspicion when the Church didn't fight back at all. And even if it did, it looked more like a cornered Beast growling to scare off its predator than anything!

Even when some of the other organizations started feeling odd about this situation, they didn't make any major moves.

Though everyone kept their eyes on the Church. After all, if something really unfortunate had happened, they wouldn't miss the chance to get their hands on the production of their healing medicine.

Everyone coveted the healing potions of the Church of Light since it was so useful and even the strongest of factions would buy them.

Anything that happened with one of the strongest factions on the continent overshadowed all the other events, one of which included the sudden misfortunes of many low-level organizations.

Under Blaze and Raven's supervision, the members of Three-Eyed Raven had infiltrated most if not all the low-level organizations already.

What made their task easier was that Ozul hadn't demanded any immediate information for the members to do any activities that would have brought any suspicion to them.

Only the factions which were led by Mages above Rank-8 gave the duo some trouble. Whenever they operated in an area governed by a Rank-9 Mage, they would do it together.

Alone, they could never think to go against someone that powerful. However, their combined might could surprise even the Rank-9 Mages!

For that reason, the two had recently met in a city ruled under an ally faction of the Leonhard Dynasty...