Chapter 326 - We Must Kill Sleeping Beauty (7)

"I already told you my answer," Luke frowned.

My shoulders slumped as my attempts in persuading him failed. I would have to try to sneak out of the room now. Luke couldn't always be inside this room with me. My chance would be when one of them opened the door again. I pretended like I had given up and grabbed the bottle on the cabinet and drank as much as I could. I needed as much energy as possible to do this.

"Fine!" I wiped the remainder of the drink on my lips.

I dug into the blankets again and closed my eyes. I would pretend to sleep until I found my chance. Thinking that I was sleeping due to over-exhausting myself, everyone went to eat lunch. As soon as they left, I began to search inside the room for more escape routes. I almost jumped when I heard some sounds of knocking on the door.

"Rika, can I come in?" Evan asked me.

I couldn't believe the perfect chance just landed in front of me. I immediately yelled at him, not daring to spare a single second, "you can open the door."

Maybe the door was open on the other side. I dashed towards the door as Evan began to turn the doorknob. When the door finally opened, I sprinted outside the room. I couldn't take the elevators, there would be a higher chance of getting caught. Instead, there was a glass panel to show the beautiful scenery underneath.

I used my mana to enhance my strength and punched the window. Evan froze as the glass shattered. I used this time to jump from the floor and find a good place to land. The sidewalks would be the best place, if I jumped into the garden, then I would be still stuck inside the hotel. I chanted a spell to cushion my landing as I ran to the location with the map open on the screen.

It was a race against time. Alex would soon figure out about the broken window and tell Luke. I ignored all the people who stared at a girl covered in bandages. I didn't wear any shoes, but I could recover the scratches once I got back. With my desperate hopes, I managed to find the Mercier logo on a high skyscr.a.p.er. I walked past the receptionist who began to call for security.

I waved my hands over all the places that needed an access card with a spell and dashed into the elevator. Fortunately, there was no one inside as everyone was already out on their lunch breaks. I pressed the button leading to the top floor after it got authorized from using another spell. People in the second district weren't able to use mana to this extent yet, making it easier to break in.

I also used this time to place the tracking device setting on my marble off. I didn't have the time to do it before escaping or else Luke would notice. I was glad I didn't tell others the location of where I planned to go to convince them. The doors opened to reveal the topmost floor. I searched the floor for the label of the chairman's office. But strangely, I felt like that office didn't exist as I circled around the floor.

Of course it couldn't be this easy. Maybe I would have to enter each office one by one to find the place. This was when I ran into a person for the first time in this floor. She stared at a young girl in a long nightgown after coming out of the president's office. It was the perfect chance to ask her about the former chairman.

"Do you know Jason Mercier?" I placed my hopes in her.

"The founder of this company?" She appeared extremely confused.

"Do you know where his office is?" I clasped my hands together.

"It should be in the old headquarters, the neighbouring city," she continued to answer my questions.

My jaw almost dropped as this mission was starting to get more hopeless. The neighbouring city was near that planetarium where the children without mana stayed. How was I supposed to run there on my own? I also needed to escape this building as well. I couldn't use a car since it would be easier to track me.

"I can take you there. You're looking for the grave, are you not? Only a few people know about the existence of Jason Mercier," she explained.

Was she an angel? I could see angel wings behind her back. Although Luke's warnings of following unknown people rang inside my head, I chose to ignore it. This was the only choice I had. When she got a call from the receptionist that someone broke in, she answered to say it was her distant relative.

I stepped into the elevator together with her and walked into the parking space with all the cars. Strangely, there weren't anyone roaming in and out when it should be a busy time with everyone meeting other people for lunch. I started to get a bad feeling that I shouldn't follow her anymore. I stopped following her and began to scan my surroundings instead.

"Only the people in my family know about Jason Mercier. We had to eliminate anyone else who knew about him. My ancestors killed him to control the company," she revealed while opening the car door.