Chapter 208 (1/2)

Chapter 208

Chapter 208: Enemy Territory II

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CIRCE MILVIEW

Alacryan

“Please… Maeve! I need a break,” I begged the caster in between ragged breaths

Looking behinddesperately to keep up with us Suddenly, Maeve, who had been pullingwith her when she let go of e tree “Let’s take cover here”

Fatigue weighing down ed to push himself up onto the lowest branch The strenuous task of clih on the tree to stay hidden took the better half of an hour

Finally satisfied, Cole leaned back against the trunk of the tree, her legs dangling in the air I peeled out of Fane’s oversized silver breastplate so that my sweat-drenched shi+rt could dry off a little

The three of us re whatever task they dee a few strips of dried meat, Cole immediately set a barrier around us while Maeve cycled mana

As formyself to do it Instead I turned to where Cole and Maeve were and asked hesitantly “D-Do you think Fane made it out?”

Maeve opened one eye—just one eye—but the anger that exuded out of that eye made me wince Cole shuffled over and sat between Maeve and I so eren’t in direct eye contact of each other “Circe Focus on the mission Can you use True Sense yet?”

Cole’s voice was soft and gentle, yet his expression had hardened to a point where he looked like a different person compared to when I had first met him back in Alacrya

I nodded my head and prepared myself, but when I closed my eyes, the scene froht now

It was all one off from the camp

There was no one there when I checked I just wanted to wash my clothes in the stream

I rattled on more reasons in my head The stream we had passed by was less than a hundred yards fro htened range of awareness Throughout our journey, our whole groupholes into the ground every time we did our ‘business’ and covered it back up with dirt and foliage

So, ho did I get caught on my way back to the camp?

If I hadn’t kept ht to where the rest of the group was hiding

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I thought that I was in the clear after throwing them off I ran for over an hour in the opposite direction before circling back to where Fane, Maeve, and Cole were

Still, by the expression on everyone’s expression after I had told them what happened, I kneasn’t as simple as that

Fane iave me his silver chestplate for me to wear Maeve cursed and turned ahile Cole slu back then It was only Fane that gave oodbye The same Fane that had the personality of a poked snake tousled my hair and told Maeve and Cole to protectmy robe over his shoulders, he dropped down fro in and ran off

Confused, I had almost called out after the veteran striker of our team, only to have Maeve coverthat someone is out there Do you understand? That’s why Fane has to go pretend to be you,’ Maeve had hissed into my ear

I snapped back to reality when I felt a hand on my shoulder Cole mustered a sthat Fane would survive, I closed nited my e my body, I was tempted to focus my limited time in this form to search for Fane

Snap out of it, Circe The h the perception-debilitating fog that was native to this area using True Sense and locked in on multiple eleht of the rich ambient mana particles in the distance

We’re almost there!

Unable to keep True Sense active for er, I released the spell and let out a deep breath Slowly openingatdown on rin “We’re almost there Just a few more days away at our pace now”

Withthe overall morale of our small team, we decided to make haste I put Fane’s silver chestplate back on despite its weight restricting uard, I knew I’d need every advantage I can get After all, I’ve been drilled enough bywe’ve done so far would’ve been for naught if I were to die

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Still, dangerous thoughts of assu that another sentry would succeed invaded my mind I wasn’t a hero I wasn’t like Fane or Maeve that had trained for years to handle these sort of situations Even Cole, while only a few years older thanbeasts in the scouting tearaduated before I was recruited for this hly unstable portal into this continent, I was still packing up o back ho on a tree root snapped rabflat on lare but didn’t say anything We weren’t running particularly fast and the sun had yet to go down so she knew I just wasn’t paying attention

Gnashi+ng ether, I did hts as we hastened our pace in the direction I was leading theer brother

I repeated those words in reat Vritra will be able to save ic so that he could lead a prosperous life if I succeed

Athat notified e of perception roused me out of my reverie I stopped in ers to stop Maeve and Cole as well

You are reading on ReadReadNovelFullonlineconal and we ithen my body like Cole and Maeve, I scrambled for the lowest branch In my rush, my foot slipped on a moss-covered root

My head hit the trunk with a dull thud that sounded like an explosion within this quiet forest I didn’t even care about the pain The huge blunder that I had caused made my heart drop