Chapter 153: Searching for Rennan (2)
"That’s the problem," Riku said, his voice low. "I haven’t heard from him in a long time. I fear that he might have fallen into some trouble."
"You are right, Riku! I have not heard from Rennan in two months now. Normally, he would come by every month." Chief Barou exclaimed.
"Should we form a party to track him down?" Lord Gregor offered his views. He could still get some people to help from his estate back at Luxia.
Riku shook his head. "No. Chasing after a missing person without any leads is a fool’s errand. There’s another path."
The others looked at him, confused.
He stood up. "Perhaps I can track myself. If the charms I gave him still have traces of my mana, then I should be able to. If they are destroyed for some reason, then we might have a problem."
Riku closed his eyes, focusing inward.
A spectral map of the world, visible only to him, bloomed in his mind’s eye. He saw several bright, pulsing flares of his own residual mana—one massive flare over Luxia, and smaller ones over Oakhaven and Vintross.
But then, he saw something else.
It was a trail. Unbelievably faint, almost non-existent. A single, thin, dark red thread leading from his own position, stretching far, far away.
"I’ve found something," he said, opening his eyes. "A very faint trail. It leads north. Far north."