1074 Chapter 1074 Is it a Bird?
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At this point ng was just confused. Nobody had risen to her rather biting comnt, or tried to attack her in five minutes. This had given her plenty of ti to fix the damage from Jian’s attack. ng was a veteran Rank 4 cultivator. Standing around for five minutes was plenty of ti to recover when there was only one issue. Especially when she didn’t need to waste qi keeping herself alive while dealing with mortal wounds. No, it was a simple fix. ng just couldn’t work out what the plan was.
*Seriously what are they doing? Does Jian think I was just bluffing about being practically immune to his poison mix? Shun’s inaction at least makes sense. He’s just here as support, and doesn’t actually care who wins. He’ll fight if he has to, but he’s fighting more out of obligation, and has no plans to risk his life on the battle. Jian… this seems a tad personal for him. Apparently I pushed his buttons a bit too much. So what’s the play here? I’m happy to stand around for as long as they like. That’s more ti for Bing and Feng to get away.
Oh shit. Bing’s leading the way. Fuck ok, I can’t stick around here once the obscuring illusions I pulled over them run out in a few hours. Bing will be completely lost by that ti and anyone with a tracker can head straight for her. Dammit Bing, I love you but how is your sense of direction so bad! Bang thought I’d done sothing to cause it! It’s that bad Bang thought it was more likely I created a unique and annoying illusion… but she’s just that bad at directions!*
ng blinked just as a black spot rose up into the sky. ng couldn’t make out any details from here… but the direction was enough of a hint. That’s probably Kat. How do I get her over here? I can’t just throw up a big illusionary sign because of her stupid Truesight. Do I have like a banner or sothing in my ring I can make invisible to the others? No… probably not because that might be poking a bit too close to breaking my oath. Making my tongue a bit longer for a gag is one thing… but preventing them from seeing important information might be crossing the line. Hmm… what else can I do?
*How do I get sothing up into the air that’s easily visible and not all that suspicious?* ng pondered for a few seconds before she was just about to break out into laughter. *Oh I have a great idea. I wonder if the idiot and his sidekick will notice that I’m doing anything strange.*
Reaching into her storage ring, ng pulled out an old kite that Bing and Feng had painted for her. It wasn’t the prettiest thing around, but they’d made it back when they were still very young children and ng loved it all the sa. Part of her winced at the idea she was using this as a signalling device. If Jian decided to be a cunt and shoot it just for a laugh she might have to rip out his entrails… but she didn’t have anything better on hand. Kites were common in the sect, but she didn’t keep spares in her storage ring. It wasn’t sothing that ca up usually.
Trying to look normal, ng unspooled the string a bit, noticing that despite her care the kite had seen better days. The material it was made of held strong, but the string itself was old and yellowed, fraying in places, and just generally in need of replacents. The kite itself had a badly drawn blue and green yin-yang Taijitu. The dots were sared, and it wasn’t really a circle, but it still ward ng’s heart. “Mind if I just fly this kite for a bit? You guys are getting really boring,”
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“No, go ahead,” said Shun with a shrug.
“Why are we letting her get away with it?” hissed Jian.
“Because we can’t really stop her?” said Shun.
“Well it’s dumb,” said Jian.
“Not any dumber then trying to attack ng in the first place. I didn’t have a lot of faith in this plan before, but it is dwindling by the second,” retorted Shun.
Taking their arguing as her chance, ng threw the kite up into the air and let it catch on the currents. There was plenty of wind here on the side of the mountain, and ng had no trouble getting it up into the air. A minor fight with the wind for control, and the kite was gliding smoothly up in the air. “Shut up! We still have a plan!” insisted Jian.
“We do? I was under the impression that we were just wasting ti,” said Shun.
“Of course we do! How could you forget?!” growled Jian.
“You’re going to have to enlighten Jian, I genuinely don’t know,” explained Shun with a sad look on his face like he was talking to soone that was slowly, and obviously losing their mind but was too polite to say it.
“Don’t give that look! I ain’t going to say anything, I’m not letting you trick into revealing the plan. You just want to spill the beans so that when we start brawling again ng goes for first! I’m on to you,” complained Jian.
“If that’s what you want to think,” said Shun with a smile, “I thought it was those guys ng knocked out at the start of the fight, and that we were waiting for them to set up so explosive talismans or a restriction array, but I an… that couldn’t be it… because they’re still unconscious. Hmm… nah, the plan has to be sothing else… surely you wouldn’t make such an amateur mistake…”
Jian glared and focused on the surroundings to find… Shun was right. They were all still knocked out. “Wait… didn’t you promise not to illusion people?” asked Jian.
“Yeah, but they were trapped before I made that promise? Why would that suddenly let them break out?” asked ng.
“But don’t you need to keep applying the illusion? Shouldn’t that contradict your oath?” asked Jian.
ng just stared at him like he was an idiot. *Is… is he serious? I feel like I may have been vastly overestimating his intelligence.* ng could also now confirm that the dot in the distance WAS Kat, and she seed to be heading for the kite so that was good. “Jian… you know what? I feel a good deal of pity for you at the mont so I’ll explain, I put them in the illusionary equivalent of a room with a hidden door. I don’t need to throw in toys to keep them entertained, the room does that for ,”
“I thought we got top of the line anti-illusion talismans for this mission,” mumbled Jian. “How co those aren’t working?”
“Jian… where did you get them?” asked ng already knowing the answer.
“Our organisation supplied them of course. Those things aren’t cheap,” admitted Jian.
“Right… and who is likely to have MADE those talismans?” asked ng.
Jian had a mont of horror and realisation. “Fuck… you made them didn’t you?”
“Yup,” said ng, making sure to really pop the ‘p’ in yup.
“But… but it’s been like a century!” whined Jian.
“Yeah? I make good money selling ‘Wind Shield Talismans’ to the organisation in my ng identity. I’ve kept up with my work, so those ones were likely made soti in the past year if I had to guess. Why would you think otherwise?” asked ng.
Jian groaned into his hands. “I don’t even know if I can live with the sha. Like, I know I’m probably not going to get away at this point but can you just do a favour and kill now? It’ll be less painful,”
ng raised an eyebrow. *Is this a bluff to try and get to break my oath?* “Nah, you can suffer,” said ng trying not to give away that she was worried Jian might have actually co up with a decent plan there. *If I was a tad more pissed off I might have taken that as an invitation. Sadly I worded my oath poorly, for this at least. Permission to attack is not permission to be illusioned.*
Kat was getting close now, and ng was pretty sure Kat could find them without trouble so she started to reel in the kite before sothing happened to it. Technically she was taking an unneeded risk, and a whole slue of her instincts were screaming at just how wrong it was to risk death, or discovery of her hidden ace because she didn’t want to damage a kite… but ng shut that voice down hard. It was more than just A kite. It was a precious mory of her children and she would risk a hell of a lot more to keep it safe then having her plan go a bit array.
Especially when ng took into account Kat’s personality. There was very little chance that the demon would just attack the two stooges that were keeping her here. It was much more likely, in ng’s mind at least, that Kat would ask what was going on, destroying the elent of surprise. Annoying, but sothing ng would just have to accept.
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