Chapter 27 CHAPTER 27: TO PURSUE OR NOT

'Shit…! so I wasn't imagining it,' Davies thought with a wry smile as he realized that his cover was blown.

"A human!?"

"Where!?" Khal Ed looked in the direction of his liege's gaze in surprise and confusion. After looking at the direction and using his senses to the fullest, he was barely able to sense some mana coming from Davies's direction. He still wasn't able to spot out Davies's elemental state which was almost perfectly camouflaged on the icy ceiling of the room and the only thing that gave Davies away was the slight mana that was coming off from him, but it couldn't be helped, it was still an incomplete skill after all.

"How insolent!" Unlike his liege who seemed to be finding this situation amusing, Khal Ed was less than pleased that a human dared to come into his base and even got into the same room as him without being detected, not to talk of displeased, he was infuriated.

'Looks like that's my cue,' Davies saw the look on Khal Ed's face that was screaming for him to get the hell out of dodge, and that was exactly what he planned to do. He began to use his elementalization to melt into the icy ceiling, but as he began to do that, he saw Khal Ed's eyes beginning to glow blue.

Just before he melted completely into the ice ceiling Khal Ed shot a ray of blue light that raced toward his location. The blue ray collided with the icy ceiling, exploding with freezing power that formed huge ice spikes on the icy ceiling. Luckily Davies was able to melt into the ice before the ice ray touched him.

[Shouldn't it be heat vision and ice breath?]

[Why does he have ice vision?]

'That's why he's a light version and not the original,' Davies replied as he began to move through the ice that the whole fortress was made of and began to make his escape.

**Meanwhile back in the boss room…**

Khal Ed was even more infuriated when he realized that the human that crawled into his base like a rat was also slippery enough to escape from his attack. If before he was infuriated, now he was fuming. He quickly wanted to chase after Davies, but his liege had different ideas.

"Don't bother Khal Ed," the ice elf on the other side of the ice mirror called out to him before he could begin to charge after Davies in pursuit.

"But…?" Khal Ed tried to protest.

"I said… don't bother," his liege repeated himself as the oppressive force in the room increased slightly, pressing down heavily on Khal Ed and forcing him back to his knees.

"Apart from the fact that he is quite an interesting human, don't forget that he was able to get this close to you without you even managing to notice,"

"Meaning that even if he is not as strong as you, he is probably not far off… and also, unlike any normal human, he was extremely decisive even after I mentioned that we would be attacking the humans' settlement, he didn't lose his cool, nor did he even seem in the slightest bit uneasy…"

"People with such decisiveness and confidence are dangerous… I can't afford to have you dying or even suffering losses from a profitless battle," the ice elf gave his reasons for dissuading Khal Ed from pursuing Davies.

"But he found out about our plans, and he will tell the humans and they can begin making preparations to counter us when we begin to attack them," Khal Ed still complained, not prepared to let Davies get away.

"Even if he manages to survive in this small world, there will be little credibility to his words, and even if the humans do listen and begin making preparations, we already have contingencies for that…" his liege replied, leaving him confused.

'Contingencies? When? How don't I know about them?' Khal Ed thought and was about to ask, but controlled himself while thinking to himself, 'if he didn't tell me, then there must be no reason for me to know'.

To be honest he didn't quite agree with his liege letting the humans go. After all, they were trapped inside the gate and couldn't get away from him if he decided to attack them along with the aid of the other monsters in the gate, but his master had given him other orders and while he didn't understand his reasoning it was not his decision to make, so he didn't need to think too much about it.

'How could that human even defeat me?' he thought pridefully.

His master could of course realize his thoughts as he wore them on his face, but he only smiled wryly and didn't bother explaining further. Power wasn't the only thing that decided a winner in a battle. Khal Ed was only unwilling to admit that he could lose to a human, after all the humans were the weakest humanoid race. They were so weak that without the blessing from those weird towers, they wouldn't have survived more than a year after The Great Cataclysm.

"Make your way to the next small world and continue the preparations, this small world's inhabitants are not of much value, neither are they worth making any effort to save," he began to give orders to Khal Ed,

"I don't want to find out you did otherwise," his eyes narrowed as he said this, the oppressive force in the room becoming even heavier, making it clear that Khal Ed should not try anything contrary to his given orders.

"... Also, when you get back, we'll need to have a discussion about your… choice of dressing," the ice elf said and eyed Khal Ed's clothes with distaste evident in his eyes. Immediately after these words, his image disappeared from the ice mirror and the ice mirror shattered to pieces.

"Phew…" Khal Ed breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the oppressive pressure on his body ease away.

'My liege really is scary,' he thought as he rose and looked in the direction of the door. He knew that the human that had just gotten away had probably not gotten far, also he knew where the rest of the human's companions were previously, but unfortunately, his master had told him not to fight against them.

He was about to begin his preparations to leave this small world when his eyes fell on the huge ice spike bear sleeping on the ground of the room, completely oblivious to everything that had happened in this room in the past hour.

"Master said I can't go after him… but if the ice spike bear goes after him, then it has nothing to do with me, right?" he muttered with a crafty smile, his eyes gleaming evilly.

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