181 Chapter 173 - A Real Cliffhanger.

"What do you think about this?" Sky asked.

Chris thought for a while before looking back into the records.

"Hmm... The moment where Dominic's assistant gets injured is not shown by the trackers as well, from where he last been seen before injured to the moment when the tracker showed with he crawled to the view of the trackers, it is most likely he was injured in the area of the blind spots, but since my repellant magic has a limited range, and so, we can safely consider that he gets hit by my repellant magic in this area." said so, Chris circle up the area in between the abandoned building and the other area.

"Since we didn't see anyone suspicious in the abandoned building and I assume that he wouldn't even have the courage to get near to that building, so it is confirmed he is nowhere in this area." said Chris while crossed out the area of the abandoned building.

"Which means he was injured by your magic in between these two blind spots, but why the trackers did not detect it?... Hold on... He was in the underground." said Sky, Chris nodded in agreement.

"Which also means that, there's a high possibility, these two areas are connected through an underground tunnel." said Sky.

"And most likely, these areas as well." said Chris while pointing to the other blind spot area...

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White's Village, forest. Maria and the others followed the footprints into the middle of the forest, then they reached the borderline of the deeper part of the forest which is marked with a row of neatly arranged stones.

"Hmm... I wonder who was the one that arranged these stones here?" Yuki asked while pointing at one of the stones.

"That row of stones are placed there by our ancestors as a warning to not step across the borderline, as the deeper part of the forest can be very dangerous." said Grandpa White.

"Have you ever cross the borderline before?" Maria asked.

"Yes, I crossed it once, it was back then when Junior first disappeared, I tried to find him in the deep forest but getting assaulted by an unknown creature, I was lucky enough to survive and escaped." said Grandpa White. Maria nodded.

"But the footprints of that little guy had crossed this borderline, so it means that, Mr. Teacher really had gone into the deep forest." said Maria.

"Mr. White, it's quite dangerous to stay in this forest as the day's getting darker, you probably should get back to the village now, before it gets too dark. Don't worry, we will go into the deep forest and look for Mr. Teacher by ourselves." said Maria.

However Grandpa White is still a bit worried.

"Oh! About Yuki chan and Ai-chan, they are much stronger than how they look, don't worry." said Maria, and the girls nodded in agreement.

Grandpa White hesitated for a while before turned back and walk out of the forest.

"Let's go, and be cautious." said Maria before leading the girls into the deep part of the forest.

While they are getting deeper and deeper, they did not realize that something is slowly following their steps...

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7 pm, Quill Town, homestay.

Sky and Chris had halted their examination (stalking) of the trackers and returned to the homestay. In the room, they saw Ben lying on the bed with his eyes closed without his glasses, he looks a bit fatigued.

"Ben, are you alright?" Sky asked, a bit worried.

Ben nodded without saying anything.

"He had gone through a hard time today, let him have a rest." said Chris after briefly checked Ben's condition.

Then Chris lie down as well.

"Don't wake me up before the sunrise." said Chris while covering his face with a plushie.

Sky looks at the two and smiled, he decided to join them since he himself was having a hard time as well. He put on a barrier around the room before lie down to the bed with Ben and Chris.

Meanwhile, the cathedral. Dominic is leading a group of clergys/angels for the evening recite and prayer, however, he seems to be bothered by something and makes some small tiny insignificant mistakes in the ceremony, which never happened before, but no one noticed it, as the mistakes are so small and he covered it so well that everyone thought that he did it on purpose.

During the whole ceremony, Dominic had his eyes locked on that clergy who took over Dan's place, he never really paid any attention to this man before, but this time, that man had successfully drawn up his attention, and it's obviously not in a positive way...

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White's Village, deep forest. Maria and the girls had followed the footsteps of Big Nose for about thirty minutes, but instead of leading them to the location of Mr. Teacher, they reached the end of a cliff, most importantly, there's a deep and low growl from behind of them...

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*Something out of the story

Sky: "Dear readers."

Chris: "Hmm?"

Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."

Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."

Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."

Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.

Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows  two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."

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