Chapter 690: No [Ko-fi Donation Bonus Chapter]

Chapter 690: No [Ko-fi Donation Bonus Chapter]



The Runes were very cleverly hidden. That was because they weren't Runes at all, but rather hidden away in the arrangement of the buildings. It didn't take Sylas long to see through it, but afterward, he had still been confused.

That was because the Runes themselves were nonsense. Normally, Sylas was quite confident in himself to see through them, but this time, even with Rune Essence, he didn't have an idea.

Until it clicked.

Coordinates.

The only reason Sylas was familiar with this was because he had seen similar Runes on his Planar Convergence Gate. They weren't Runes in the usual sense, but rather markers.

What Sylas didn't know was that this was a special Rune language used for teleportation and things of the like. It was a special class of Runes that could only be used by spatial Professions, and unsurprisingly, it was a rare profession.

Still, Sylas had been able to see through them even though he couldn't use them, and as though something was whispering into his ears, he subconsciously knew where the coordinates were directing him to.

He was sure that it was a location on Earth. And the reason he knew that was because it was a very prominent location, one that he had already been to.

The volcano.

If it was just this alone, it would be fine, but then this realization allowed Sylas to understand the rest of the message.

Archibald wanted him to steal something from that location... again. Namely, he needed a large amount of raw materials that were being produced there.

Obviously, Archibald wanted to build something. That was what his Profession was all about.

But he wanted Sylas to risk his life to go and pick up these materials while he was in the shadows pretending to be mysterious.

Sylas had no desire to do this.

He had formed a partnership with the Grimblades, one he had no doubt Mortimer thought he was getting the longer end of the stick on. But he was just getting payment for something he wanted to do already, all while receiving information that would make it far easier to do.

But by comparison, this Archibald was directing him from the shadows to execute things that Sylas had no understanding of.

Every day, he was proven more and more right about how valuable a flying beast was. Unfortunately, Mature Aether hadn't helped his Symbiote Mount to level up like his beast contracts, for whatever reason.

Sylas had a general understanding of Lone Star's landscape by now and it wasn't long before he was hovering over Carter's home.

Carter was the young man that Sylas had seen thieving when he, Bloom, and Mark first came to Lone Star. Sylas had ended up finding him at a skating park.

Afterward, Sylas saved Professor Fembroise from an attack from Legacy and entrusted her family to Carter.

Sylas had given Cassarae the task of bringing them back, but after seeing the Professor on the list, Sylas knew that he had to come personally. This situation had become far more tricky than he knew.

He didn't outright dismiss the reports of the Grimblades.

When he had last seen Professor Fembroise, she was grieving over the loss of her son and had a great deal of pent-up anger toward the government. She believed that if they had gotten warnings first, this would have never happened.

This was the reason she had joined Sylas in the first place.

But then Sylas disappeared for months. It wasn't even fair of him to expect her to wait all the time without even knowing if he was dead or alive.

Even if she gained access to a Nexus and learned about him through those channels, she would have no reason to believe that he still had her in mind. Or even if she did, she might think that he was in too much danger to consider her at the moment.

If Legacy wanted her... then others certainly would.

And therein lay the problem.

'As expected, she's not there.'

Sylas hovered high over the house, but he didn't panic. That was because the report the Grimblades had given him had already confirmed that.

In which case...

He knew exactly where she was.

But he would need the night before confirming that.