Book 6: Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Decoy
“Hey, Black Rat, look! Three o’clock!” Just before reaching the breach, Silver Sail, who was stealthily moving, suddenly had his eyes flash with silver light. He nudged his companion beside him.
“That guy!” Black Rat followed Silver Sail’s gaze, and his eyes instantly gleamed intensely. To their right, a faint shadowy figure was sneaking toward the fortress breach.
Black Rat and Silver Sail gently bumped elbows, feeling a surge of savage joy inside. What luck! They’d finally found him without hardly any effort!
When two shadow-class professions turned invisible, they couldn’t see each other clearly. Even Silver Sail’s Eye Technique could only detect a vague ripple. But since these two were part of the same alliance team and worked together often, they could sense each other’s body language through slight distortions in space when they got close enough.
Black Rat secretly signaled Silver Sail with their prearranged gesture, and wordlessly, they closed in from both flanks.
Qin Lun was clinging to the broken wall at the breach, peering outside. He seemed completely unaware of the movement behind him.
Outside, early dawn’s dim gray light crept across the land—the moment when the Apostles were most lax. If they couldn’t break past the siege right then, they’d be trapped inside the fortress. After all, Qin Lun wasn’t a Rogue class skilled in invisibility.
Realizing this, Qin Lun wasted no time. Feet planted firmly, a puff of smoke burst beneath him as he shot from the fortress like a gust of wind, aiming for some ruins fifty meters away.
These ruins were the most intact structure around. The building had mostly crumbled, but the bottom two or three floors of the structure remained roughly whole. Scattered walls and debris stood around it, creating a tiny obstacle maze.