Chapter 460 - Intimidating

Alec parted the bushes, only to find that there were weapons aimed at him from Katherine, Le Xuan, Katherine's two suitors, and a rather buff man wearing tight female clothing.

The first four instantly relaxed when they saw who it was, but the buff man wearing female clothing continued to eye him warily.

Alec's lip twitched seeing this unfamiliar person. 

"Picked up a few strays when we were gone?" he said in a gentle tone.

Katherine wanted to scoff but held it back seeing that Alec was her teacher. If it were anyone else, she wouldn't have been so polite. She sheathed her dagger. "More like they attached themselves to me without letting up."

Jae and Brian didn't even refute and didn't even have the shame to look sheepish. Instead, they looked rather happy because it meant that they really had been 'picked up'.

Alec's lip twitched again. At least he wasn't the one with various love troubles. He only had Elysia for him while Katherine was stuck with two butterflies flying around her. They didn't seem like they were going to give up any time soon either.

Judging from her expression, she was completely annoyed.

"Who is he?" Alec inclined his head towards the man who didn't look embarrassed wearing the female clothing at all.

"Ah, he's apparently Klyse's disciple. His name is Qingxuan."

Alec raised a brow, and Ye Sha looked him up and down.

Ye Sha poked Alec and whispered in his ear. "MC."

Alec turned his attention towards the man again. "That slug's disciple? Hasn't he been dead for a long time? Wouldn't' his disciple be really old right now?"

Qingxuan flared up. He didn't even care about the slight towards himself, skipping it altogether. "Impudent! How dare you speak about my master like that!" As he spoke, he made as if to take out his weapon again, only to be slapped across the face by Klyse's flying slug body.

"Silence, idiot boy!"

Qingxuan immediately shut up obediently.

This stupid disciple of his had never been good at keeping cool whenever it came to him. Goodness knew how many times the same situation had happened because someone spoke badly about him.

And now, when he couldn't even defend him, he was making trouble!? This boy didn't know good from bad!

Klyse couldn't even protect him right now.

Qingxuan held his master's body helplessly, but still gave them the stink eye. Klyse wanted to pretend that he didn't see it, but he really couldn't.

"Don't give them the stink eye either! If it wasn't for this master being willing to wrong whoever came across my cave first, then this master wouldn't be in this situation."

By saying this, he was admitting his guilt – something that he hadn't been willing to do before Qingxuan came around.

Qingxuan kept his emotions to himself, but he still felt a little unwilling. His master had always been high and mighty in the sect, but he had actually fallen so low after he failed to locate his master. He had truly failed him.

Klyse suddenly jerked. "Move! They're coming! The other death soldiers are closing in!"

No one wasted any time. The moment Klyse had finished speaking, Alec had also felt the sudden appearance of many enemies surrounding them.

They had been fully encircled, but they had only started closing in after the circle had been closed.

"Once we manage to take down the person who's controlling them, the death soldiers will just continue to follow their previous orders and won't pose us any threat."

Neither he nor Ye Sha had picked up on anything previously, nor had his familiars.

"Bunbun, Fenrir, change forms."

Excited, the two familiars rapidly grew in size as they charged up ahead, their speed far surpassing the humans who were running behind.

Alec jumped, landing on Bunbun's back.

"Get on!"

Katherine jumped onto Fenrir, Jae joining her with Le Xuan, while Brian, Qingxuan and Ye Sha joined Alec.

Loeri had remained small as it hid in Alec's hair. The small mushroom could grow bigger, but it didn't have such a quick running speed.

The enemies that surrounded them had not yet realized that they had been discovered. In this situation, it was better to break out of the encirclement first before taking care of the people.

As reluctant as he was, Qingxuan quickly filled Alec in. After what the sect had done to this master, he no longer had any faith in them. He had already been on the verge of betraying them, which was why he had been inducted to become a death soldier. They wanted to use him one last time before getting rid of him permanently.

The familiars charged forward so quickly that they were even quicker than Meisters.

Alec was not surprised. He had been Awakening the two for such a long period of time, and they had trained together. The familiars probably thought that he didn't know, but they were always 'playing' in the disguise of training. Now that Loeri joined them, their 'playing' was even more intense than before, which made them seem like rowdy and playful familiars to those that didn't know.

However, their combat strength didn't lose to his.

Alec rapidly wove a few seals and threw them down. They would come in handy later.

As they charged forward, Alec never stopped producing seals in the forest they were in.

Most of the other living creatures had already been disturbed by the encirclement.

"They're definitely from the Evans Sect. Once they discovered that I didn't die, they would not hesitate to send people in to my last known location."

Klyse swore at Qingxuan from Le Xuan's shoulder. "Foolish disciple, you did not deactivate your tracking seal?!"

Qingxuan fell silent. How could he say that he had been planning on going out in a double suicide with the people who had killed his master?

Klyse must have felt something from Qingxuan's silence because he grew even angrier. "I will be having some words with that bitch," he said angrily.

"They shouldn't know that I'm still alive since my body makeup has already changed significantly. The only thing that they know is that my corpse has withered away and completely lost all signs of life. Me resurrecting had a brief blip on the stone previously, then disappeared again, so I should still be dead in their eyes."

Alec didn't say anything, but he thought to himself that secrets could never remain secrets forever. The world was a wide place, and there were always strange techniques that were being discovered every day.

"Talk less," Alec said, and Klyse shut up.

In Klyse's opinion, out of everyone here, the most intimidating one was still Alec, who was the clear leader of the group. He appeared amicable and gentle, but as time went on, Klyse realized that he really was anything but.

The one who foiled his plans previously had been Alec. Without him, he would have succeeded without a doubt.

On the other hand, Klyse rather felt that Alec… was more ruthless than he let on.

Suddenly, Bunbun charged forward even quicker than he did before, and the death soldier that had barely appeared within their line of sights had been ripped to pieces by the familiar.

Fenrir wasn't far behind and killed a few others with a tear of his claws.

"Keep some alive," Alec said quietly.

The two familiars worked together to round up three death soldiers before Loeri sprayed them in the face.

"Go group up with the rest, report that we have broken the encirclement, then take the chance to kill the rest of the death soldiers.

The death soldiers reacted like they were receiving orders from their superior, saluting before heading off.

Klyse grew inwardly alarmed. He had been right not to make an enemy out of Alec.

His familiar actually had mind control powers…