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Shin watched everything unfold, but he sowhat lost interest in dealing with these top experts for the ti being as he beca more interested in the agenda of these suspicious people as well as those perpetrators hiding in the distance.
"Which one should I choose first?" he mumbled as he switched his gaze between the two directions.
Even if he wanted to cause trouble and join the fun below, he could not just recklessly go rampant in there when there were still so people plotting in the darkness.
A mont later, his eyes suddenly twinkled as an idea flashed in his mind. "Why do I have to choose when I can create a conflict with all of them."
With that, he suddenly sent a ssage to Exheart, who survived an earlier battle due to the sudden appearance of the horde. He was telling the latter that so people were hiding in the cliff on their eastern side.
After that, Shin gave the hooded individuals another glance before retreating deep into the woods to further hide himself and his tracks. Then he started sprinting toward the source of the dense plague energy that he was sensing.
Swoosh!
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Down on the battlefield, Exheart, who was working with the adventurer teams that had a friendly relationship with him, suddenly paused.
He had just gotten the ssage from Shin and could not help but complain a little. "Where the heck is this guy?? It feels like he has been watching everything from a safe place and taking this as so sort of entertainnt."
He pushed the Plagued Monster he was fighting back before signaling the nearby warrior to cover his place for a mont as he wanted to see what Shin wanted to say this ti.
Right after reading the contents of the ssage, he could not help but frown deeply before turning his head toward the cliffs on the eastern side of the battlefield.
This place was quite like a basin as there were a few mountain cliffs surrounding it. Even though there was quite a distance away from those cliffs and the battlefield, it was still short enough to cover given the current stats of the players.
He looked at the direction that Shin had indicated, trying to find the people that the latter was talking about. But he imdiately frowned deeper after failing to find anyone despite using his ocular skills.
"No one?" his already deep frown beca even deeper as he found this. He did not doubt Shin even for a second as he sowhat knew the latter.
Moreover, Shin had never sent any misinformation up until now. He also did not have any reason to do that, which ant that the other party was using a very high level of concealnt ability or tool to hide themselves.
Seeing that Exheart suddenly stopped fighting and was sowhat lost in thought, the leader of the adventurer team that he was working with imdiately noticed this.
He knitted his brow after seeing the frown of his friend. "This guy rarely shows any seriousness like this. Did he find sothing again?"
It was Exheart who had inford them about the incoming beast horde earlier, which was a great help for everyone. They were able to quickly disengage from the battle and swiftly set up their formation.
Seeing that, Exheart was ’distracted’ once again and staring at the empty space, this team leader knew that he had gotten another piece of information from his mysterious informant.
Thinking about this, this team leader walked over and joked. "Yoh! Why are you slacking off when everyone is working hard?"
Exheart finally took his eyes off that cliff and turned his head. "Perfect timing, Cade!"
He paused for a mont before pointing at the cliff while saying. "Use your strongest ocular skill to observe that cliff. See if you can find anything."
"What is it this ti?" asked Cade in a complaining tone while casting his gaze in the pointed direction.
As an archer, his eyes were sharper than most of the players from different classes. Even if he did not use any kind of ocular skill to enhance his eyesight, he eyes could still see everything miles away from his position in a clear detail.
The cliff that Exheart was pointing at was not that far from the battlefield, only a couple of hundreds of ters away, so it was not that far for him.
"There is nothing in there though," said Cade confusedly, curious why Exheart wanted him to look in there.
"That is why I asked you to use your strongest ocular skill," said Exheart, refusing to accept that answer.
"What’s so special about that place that you want to use my ’Sky Eagle Eyes’ just for it? Do you think it is an ordinary skill?" Cade snarled back.
"It is not that of a big deal for you. You don’t have the chance to use it on this battlefield, so it is better to contribute it for other purposes. And its cooldown is not that long either, so just do it, will you?" said Exheart, unbothered.
"Tsk! If only you are not my friend," said Cade before using his skill.
He gathered his mana toward his eyes, making it shine brightly. His pupils also took an appearance similar to those of an eagle, greatly enhancing his eyesight.
Not only he could see in clearer detail, but the flow of mana and other forms of energies could be reflected in his eyes. Through this, he could also uncover any kind of concealnt skill even at a great distance.
However, its duration was quite short as well, lasting only for five to ten seconds depending on the amount of mana he infused into his eyes.
Right after using this skill, everything was uncovered to his eyes. He did not put too much mana into his eyes since he already had the major direction where he needed to look.
But not long after, his eyes suddenly turned wide as found sothing – or to be more precise, he found a bunch of silhouettes from that place. He could not help but infuse more mana into his eyes due to this.
His eyes imdiately turned even wider when the details of those silhouettes beca even clearer to his eyes. "There are people over there!"
"They are watching us?" mumbled Exheart as he fell in deep thought and could not help but have a couple of assumptions as well. "We have fallen into a trap given our current situation. Are they the ones behind it?"
Shin had only inford him about the hidden group and their location but did not specify if they were the perpetrators of this incident, so he had no idea about it.
Cade stared at those figures for quite a while until the duration of his ocular skill ended. From his eyes, it felt like the mysterious group was veiled by the surrounding energies, making them blend with the environnt naturally.
He then turned to Exheart and asked. "How did you know?"
Exheart shook his head as he said. "That is not important right now."
He paused for a mont as he picked up his spear once again, planning to resu the battle. "You should inform your commander right now. Let them deal with it."
Cade opened his mouth, wanting to say sothing, but no words ca out from him. He then clicked his tongue before running toward his commander to report their discovery.
If those people were indeed the perpetrators of this incident, then they had to pay the price for ssing with all these forces.
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At the sa ti, on the cliff where the mysterious group was located, one of the mbers felt sothing strange and turned in the direction where Shin was previously located.
Noticing his strange actions, the person standing beside him could not help but ask. "What’s wrong?"
That mber did not imdiately respond, as he focused all his attention on the opposite cliff. After trying many thods and failing multiple tis, he shook his head and said, "It is nothing. It must be my imagination."
He kept on having a strange feeling that soone had been watching them from that cliff since earlier, but no matter what thod or skill he used, he failed to uncover anything.
Even if his senses were telling him that soone was observing them from that place, he had no choice but to forget about it since he did not find anything. After all, he was the one with the strongest ocular skill and eye techniques in their group, so he had full confidence in his scouting abilities.
Since he had not found anything, his imagination must be playing a trick on him.
"This operation must be putting a lot of stress on you. After all, we are tasked to get those items from those gods," said the other person. "We are facing the top gods of the ga, so it shouldn’t be that easy."
"Fortunately, soone is ’helping’ us right now. This is a perfect opportunity to assassinate them," he added.
The mber, who was staring at the opposite cliff earlier, nodded his head. "Those items have a guaranteed drop rate, so all we have to do is kill our targets as fast as we can and steal the items once they drop. We will retreat imdiately after that."
"Get ready, we will make our move once that chieftain-rank monster goes berserk," said the person standing at the forefront of the group.
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