Chapter 730: Blake, Astor and Nick
"His aura disappeared just now," Blake muttered, frowning deeply as he turned in slow circles, frustration simmering in his voice.
Astor let out a dismissive scoff, crossing his arms over his chest as he sneered, "What do you mean disappeared? He’s probably just hiding somewhere like a little kid."
But Blake shot him a dark look, his eyes glinting coldly. "No, you don’t understand," he snapped, voice low and edged with irritation. "You should know my class lets me sense the aura of anyone I’ve ever seen. I can detect and track them from very, very far away. I followed his aura straight to this exact spot, but the second we arrived here... it vanished completely."
His tone was filled with bewilderment and mounting unease as he stared into the shadows. The more he thought about it, the deeper the lines of confusion and frustration carved themselves into his face.
It simply didn’t make sense to him—no ordinary technique should have been able to erase an aura so completely that not even his specialized tracking abilities could pick up a trace, leaving only silence and the faint hiss of distant lightning in the charged air.
"Don’t worry. If his aura vanished here, then that means he’s hiding somewhere around this area," Nick said confidently, his eyes sweeping the dense forest around them, his voice edged with stubborn determination as he clenched his fists at his sides. "Let’s search the entire place. I don’t believe we can’t find him."
His tone carried the brash certainty of a man who refused to accept the possibility of failure, and with that, the three of them fanned out, beginning a meticulous search of the entire area, their movements swift and purposeful as they combed through bushes, scaled nearby trees, and scanned every shadow and rustling leaf.
Each step crackled faintly on twigs and undergrowth as they prowled through the forest, pausing now and then to confer in hushed tones, eyes glinting with a mix of irritation and predatory focus.
Hidden high above in the same tree where he’d cloaked himself, Max watched their movements closely through the delicate senses of his Three Dimensional Body, a quiet, amused smile curving his lips as he listened in on every word of their frustrated conversation.