Book 19, Metamorphosis – Chapter 21, Flee on Sight


    A short, ck-robed figure flew out, moving like dark smoke through the cold, mmy underground earth of the nar Battlefield.


    “Eh?”


    The figure suddenly came to a halt, staring stealthily into the distance. His eyes were as sharp as an eagle’s, but the strange thing was that he was bald, but ayer of dark ck light was atop his bald head, like a thinyer of ck metal. This dark ck scalp also had a round rune atop it.


    “Someone is actually here?” The bald youth stared into the distance. “An enemy!”


    After ascertaining the enemy’s status, the bald youth didn’t hesitate at all. “Swoosh!” Very suddenly, the bald youth elerated explosively, shooting out like a meteor towards the ck-robed man.


    The ck-robed man suddenly turned his head, clearly seeing him. Not hesitating at all, the ck-robed man immediately fled with a ‘whoosh’.


    “You won’t be able to escape!” The bald youth’s body shed forward bizarrely.


    The surrounding area saw the formation of a spherical, earthen yellow glow whichpletely ‘surrounded’ the ck-robed man, who was trying to flee. Stuck within the earthen yellow light, the ck-robed man’s speed dropped dramatically. The bald youth seized the chance to immediately charge forwards, mercilessly striking out with his right hand.


    The bald youth was wearing a ck glove on his right hand.


    His hand stretched out like the ws of a divine dragon, and as the space it passed through rippled and trembled. His ws instantlynded on the ck-robed figure’s shoulder. “F*ck off!” The ck-robed man growled, and then he struck back with his right leg, kicking towards the youth.


    “Crunch!” A very clear sound. The ck-robed man’s shoulder waspletely ripped apart.


    “How tough.” The bald youth felt slightly startled, but he didn’t show any mercy.


    As the right hand w smashed down against the shoulder, it also then struck directly towards the ck-robed man’s head. As the right w struck out, it actually formed a bizarre, spherical ball of light, causing even the nearby space to be bound, making it impossible for the ck-robed man’s head to dodge to any great degree.


    “sh!” The five fingers of the bald youth’s right hand pierced directly into the ck-robed man’s skull, and the man’s head immediately exploded. The bald youth was very confident. “This kick of yours won’t be able tond on me.” As the bald youth saw it, once the ck-robed man died, he naturally wouldn’t be able to continue to attack.


    “BANG!” The force of the ck-robed man’s right kick didn’t lessen at all, crashing straight against the chest of the bald youth.


    The bald youth was knocked backwards, and hended on the ground.


    “Wait. That’s a Deathgod Golem!” The bald youth came to a shocked awareness. “This is a trap!”


    “Bang!” The bald youth kicked off furiously from the ground, and as he did, that spherical glow emanated from his right foot, the foot which kicked downwards. Instantly, he rocketed away, moving at high speed. As he moved, he would asionally kick off from the ground again, each time creating that spherical glow, causing his speed to rise to a terrifying level.


    Moving as fast as lightning, in two or three leaps, he disappeared from the field of view.


    “This fellow ran too fast!”


    By the time Linley and Bebe emerged from the ground, all they could see was the departing back of the bald youth. Linley and Bebe had no choice but to vent their anger on a nearby boulder. “As soon as the Deathgod Golem discovered him, he almost instantly discovered that it was a Deathgod Golem and that it was a trap! After discovering it was a Deathgod Golem, he didn’t even pause and instead immediately fled. Jeeze!” Linley couldn’t help but shake his head.


    “Nothing to show for it.” Bebe pursed his lips and said, then turned to look at the distant, headless Deathgod Golem. “And we even lost a Deathgod Golem. Boss, who was that person?”


    “Cloyd [Ke’luo’yi’de]! An extremely strongmander who belongs to the Divine Earth ne. He likes to travel alone.” Linley said with augh. Through the Deathgod Golem, Linley saw Cloyd’s attack, and just by seeing Cloyd’s attack, Linley becamepletely certain of who Cloyd was. “However, Cloyd doesn’t have a single Sovereign artifact. We arepletely capable of killing him.”


    Linley felt rather regretful.


    It was an excellent opportunity. Unfortunately, Cloyd was too cautious. Upon discovering that it was a trap, he had immediately fled without hesitating at all.


    “He doesn’t have a single Sovereign artifact, and yet he’s strong?” Bebe said with a frown.


    “That’s what the intelligence reports your Grandpa Beirut provided to me said. Cloyd simply doesn’t wish to be restricted and so doesn’t wish to be a Sovereign’s Emissary, which is why he has no Sovereign artifacts. But despite that...killing him is extremely difficult.” Linley let out a sigh. “An expert of the Laws of the Earth! He must have fused at least five of the profound mysteries.”


    The wing blow he had delivered which had shattered the Deathgod Golem’s shoulder contained five profound mysteries.


    The Deathgod Golem was torn through like mud.


    Just as Linley and Bebe were chatting mentally, from the corner of his eyes, Linley saw a distant figure suddenly appear. He immediately turned to look...only to see that roughly two or three hundred meters away, a ck figure was lying in hiding, seeming to inspect the Deathgod Golem that was lying on the ground.


    Linley suddenly grew excited. “Bebe, we have a target. Three hundred meters to our left.”


    “Target?” Bebe turned to look as well.


    Just at this moment...


    The distant ck-robed figure, also vignt, discovered that there were two figures not far away who were lying against the corner of a mountain boulder. Right at this moment...the gazes of Linley and the ck-robed man met.


    Linley was suddenly startled, and he immediately sent through divine sense to Bebe, “Bebe, this ck-robed man...I can’t sense the badge aura on him. He is an enemy. Let’s attack!” The closer one was, the more easily one could sense the badge aura. Linley and the enemy were less than three hundred meters away.


    Logically speaking, even if he didn’t have a clear sense, he should still sense a bit of the badge’s aura.


    But if he didn’t sense anything at all...


    “Haha, one ran away, but another one was drawn close. Haha.” Bebe was extremely excited.


    This ck-robed person was indeed drawn here by the earlier actions of the bald youth. He had snuck over and watched quietly to the side. But Linley and Bebe were in a fairly hidden location, from which they just so happened to be able to clearly see the ck-robed figure.


    “Hmph.” The ck-robed figure very calmly turned and fled.


    “He’s running?”


    Linley’s first reaction was to unleash his ckstone Field. An enormous earthen yellow aura instantly sprang out, with Linley at the center, expanding to a radius of five hundred meters. This ckstone Space spread out far faster than the ck-robed man ran; as soon as the man moved, he fell within the ckstone Space.


    The gravity pulling was towards Linley!


    “Gravitational Space? What a powerful gravity, and it is pulling to the rear!”


    The ck-robed man was now shocked. He couldn’t help but turn to look, and the already Dragonformed Linley and Bebe had transformed into a pair of azure and ck blurs, advancing towards him rapidly.


    “Pursuing me?” The ck-robed man didn’t resist, instead choosing to flee.


    But attempting to flee whilepletely pulling against the gravitational force...how fast could he move?


    “You want to run?” Linley stared fixedly at the ck-robed man, pursuing at high speed. In Linley’s eyes, this ck-robed man definitely had a gold badge. Every single gold badge represented that he would be able to save another one of his family or friends. While in hot pursuit, the distance between the two quickly shrank to less than a few dozen meters.


    In the ckstone Space, the ck-robed man’s speed was reduced by simply too much.


    The ck-robed man was angry now!


    “I don’t want to fight with you two. Let me leave.” A divine sense rang out, echoing in Linley and Bebe’s minds. “Otherwise, don’t me me for being discourteous!”


    “You want to leave? And be discourteous?” Linleyughed.


    “Bebe, you can act now. He won’t be able to escape at this distance.” Linley sent mentally.


    “Don’t worry, Boss.” Bebeughed delightedly.


    Right at this moment...


    “You are looking for death.” The ck-robed man, who had been suppressing his temper, suddenly stabbed backwards with a dagger.


    “Swoosh!”


    A ck light suddenly shot out, shooting towards Linley, so fast...that Linley wasn’t able to dodge at all.


    “So fast!” Frantically, Linley stabbed out powerfully with the godspark sword, ‘Mirage’, which was in his hands.


    “BANG!”


    The tip of Mirage collided with the tip of the dagger.


    Linley only felt a terrifying powerful force press towards him, going through Mirage and into his arms. “Crackle...” The draconic scales covering his right arm, which was gripping Mirage, instantly shattered. Blood began to flow out, and Linley was knocked backwards as well.


    When Linley retreated, the ckstone Field centered around him moved backwards as well, allowing the ck-robed man to escape the perimeter of the ckstone Field!


    “A Sovereign artifact!” Linley was shocked.


    The ck-robed man had pulled away from Linley, but not from Bebe!


    “Boss!” Bebe was instantly enraged.


    Immediately, a colossal phantom of a Godeater Rat once more appeared behind Bebe. The ck-robed man turned to look, and what he saw terrified him so greatly, his face changed. “How...how can this be?! Beirut’s innate divine ability!!!” Beirut’s technique was famous throughout the universe. Even many people who had never seen Beirut use this technique in person had seen scryer recordings of Beirut using his supreme attack.


    “No....!” The ck-robed man wanted to once more speak with his divine sense.


    Unfortunately, the speed of an innate divine ability wasparable to the speed of using divine sense tomunication.


    As for Bebe, he used his innate divine ability first, and so the ck-robed man didn’t even have a chance to plead his case!


    “Rumble...”


    A strange ripple wrapped around the ck-robed man’s head, and immediately, a divine spark floated out from it. As for the ck-robed man, he lifelessly slumped downwards, while the ck dagger that had been flying back towards him fell to the ground as well. At the same time, a white badge fell out of his body.


    “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”


    Linley and Bebended before his body.


    Linley was stupefied. “What? A white badge?” Linley stared at the white badge, not daring to believe it.


    Of the two sides in this battle, the Divine Light ne had gold badges formanders and white badges for soldiers.


    “It’s actually a soldier badge?” Linley couldn’t believe it.


    A person who had a Sovereign artifact...was a soldier?


    “Boss, hurry up and leave. We can’t stay here any longer.” Bebe said hurriedly.


    Only now did Linleye to his senses. Not hesitating any further, Linley and Bebe hurriedly collected the interspatial ring, Sovereign dagger, and white badge, then immediately flew away.


    Within a cave that was inside arge mountain.


    “All of these people have divine clones outside. Even though we killed them, we still aren’t able to bind their interspatial rings or Sovereign artifacts with blood.” Bebe said, angry and helpless. “The Sovereign artifact is one thing; the Sovereign will take it back eventually, after all. But the interspatial ring definitely has quite a few things inside. What a pity, what a pity.”


    Linley just stared at the white badge. “He was actually a soldier!”


    “It really is very odd. A soldier who had a Sovereign artifact?” Bebe muttered.


    Linley suddenly had a thought, and many things instantly made sense. He couldn’t help but shake his head resignedly and say, “Bebe, I understand now. We found the wrong target.”


    “What is it?” Bebe said, puzzled.


    Linley sighed. “Bebe, didn’t you notice? When the ck-robed person discovered us, his first reaction was to flee. When we pursued him, his second reaction was to warn us that he didn’t want to fight us, and that if we kept on bothering him, he would attack. Why didn’t he want to fight? He had a Sovereign artifact, so why flee? I think...the reason was because he was on our side.”


    “On our side?” Bebe was stunned.


    “Right.” Linley said helplessly. “I think this person should be amander on our side, but he removed hismander badge and instead bound with blood this enemy’s soldier badge and became an enemy ‘soldier’. He bound an enemy’s soldier badge by blood. Once he gets close to an enemymander, he would sense their aura, and so find them easily. In addition, he would be able tounch an ambush attack. Two birds with one stone! The only w, however, is that he will be attacked by the people on his own side!”


    Disguising one’s self as the enemy had benefits but also costs.


    That poor, ck-robed man. He fell to Linley and Bebe’s deadly hands.