Chapter 1226 Evil Spirit (Part one)

Darren and his followers sneakily kept a low profile the entire way. The area was littered with killing intents, and they didn't want others to catch wind of them.

Caleb and Davis were still crawling around the area Darren and his followers had left; carefully scouring for any clues they left behind.

"What a powerful method! Even I'm having a hard time detecting it!"

Caleb used to be very confident about finding out their whereabouts, but after trying to detect them, his efforts were moot. This was an unpleasant surprise.

"Sir, there are so many people in their force. They must have left some low-level warriors behind. If we can catch one of them, we can interrogate them to get vital information. As long as we know where they're headed, it'll be a piece of cake for you and me to catch up with them," said Davis.

"You've got a point." The place did leave some traces of the aura of the inferior warriors.

Whoosh!

In a flash, Caleb soared hundreds of kilometers through the air. He stopped and blocked off several gangsters.

Feeling the powerful aura emanating from Caleb, the group of gangsters slumped to the ground in bowing position. They trembled as they held their breath in fear.

"Tell me, where is your leader?" These words came out as sharp as knives since they were mixed with the god's power, leaving the gangsters trembling even harder.

Despite their fears, these gangsters were believers of Darren. Since they swore absolutely loyal belief in Darren, it would be impossible for them to tell Caleb where their leader went.

"I'll kill you if you don't tell me!"

Caleb cracked down and smashed three men's heads into bloody mist. He left one unlucky member alive in order to get him to talk about Darren's location—using the three corpses as a stern warning.

The remaining gangster kept his silence despite his obviously terrified expression.

"Well then, if that's what you wish." Caleb raised his hand, ready to crack down on the last gangster's skull.

"Wait a moment, sir. You must know that Darren is a Defiant Master. He must have made them his believers. They are probably now absolutely loyal to him. Even if we slaughter the whole lot of them, they won't pipe a word."

Davis' wise words dawned on Caleb. "You're right, I completely forgot that he is indeed a Defiant Master. It seems that it's not an easy feat to track him down."

"I've got just the solution for this, sir. Here!" Davis quickly whipped out a piece of paper.

"Memory Searching Rune?" Caleb read

asked when he saw the look of terror on Wilson's face.

"Sir, five members of our team have disappeared!" Wilson's gut feeling was right. There were indeed fewer people than they had originally set out with.

Darren made a headcount with great haste. There had been forty-eight people in his team, but now, there were only forty-three people. Five of them were really missing!

They didn't sense anything different as they moved forward!

"Maybe some of them slipped away in the middle of our journey?" said Jefferson.

"Don't be silly. They are all Darren's believers and they are absolutely loyal. They would never just slip away." Wilson frowned.

"I agree with you. There is only one possibility. They must have been killed by some unknown force," Jefferson said. He immediately took up his axe and released his god's sense, keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings.

"Duke, do you feel anything?"

Darren asked as he summoned Duke to come towards him.

"No, I didn't feel anything unusual. I've been walking while healing my wounds, but I didn't sense any danger."

"How strange!" Lindsay murmured, "Duke has the Primeval Bloodline of the beasts. If beasts killed the missing men, he would have sensed it by now. So it couldn't be a beast that snuck up on our team."

"Then what could it be? If it can kill people right under our noses, this means that its strength far surpasses ours," said Wilson fearfully.

"Not necessarily," Finley shook his head and said. "If it was really stronger than us, why did it have to be so stealthy about its attack? If this was a powerful foe, they'd fight us head on."

Finley's words made perfect sense to all of them.