Chapter 768 Hunting trip

Chapter 768 Hunting trip

For the first time in a while, I was finally let outside.

I was surrounded by several men in dark clothes that all belonged to the Snake Syndicate. They looked like they were there to protect me, but there was no mistake that they would have cut me down at any moment if they were even the slightest bit suspicious of me.

They had been sent by Duke Yuletide to make sure that I did what I was supposed to do.

As for what that was, there was a reason why I had been brought to the forest like this.

Simply put, I was here to accomplish our goal of taking the Wyvern Stone.

Why the Wyvern Stone would be here, there was a simple reason.

The fourth prince had suddenly proposed a hunting trip, which was why they would soon be arriving in this place.

Duke Yuletide had certainly been surprised that the fourth prince would suggest a hunting trip at a time like this, but it was also the perfect opportunity for him to accomplish his goals.

So he accepted and arranged everything related to this.

He wanted to make sure that the fourth prince wouldn't be able to do anything on this hunting trip.

Which was why he thought the fourth prince had arranged this hunting trip in the first place. He thought that the fourth prince wanted to bring him into the woods to do something to him.

But he would turn this around on the fourth prince.

That was what Duke Yuletide was thinking.

It was just too bad for him that the fourth prince was fully aware of this.

After all, the fourth prince had one spy that Duke Yuletide never would have suspected.

With my perfect acting, Duke Yuletide was fully convinced that I was on his side.

He never would have suspected that I was feeding the enemy information from the inside.

All of it was going from Shadow Five to the fourth prince.

Suddenly, Duke Yuletide's horse stopped in the middle of the road near where we were and he got off the horse.

He waved his hand at the fourth prince and then moved to the side while holding his stomach.

It was as if he was saying that he needed to use the washroom.

But as he walked over, he shot a look at our group as if he wanted us to do something.

I didn't know what he wanted, but the thugs around me did.

So they had me move closer to the fourth prince.

Was that really their plan?

Faking a bowel emergency and then having me run forward to grab the Wyvern Stone?

This seemed like a plan that any idiot could come up with no matter how one looked at it.

It didn't seem like something that Duke Yuletide would employ...

But it seemed that this wasn't the only thing that Duke Yuletide had prepared.

All of a sudden, there was a loud rustling that came from the bushes on the other side.

While everyone was turning to look in that direction, there was a roar that cut through the air. This was a powerful roar that could even pop eardrums if one was right beside the thing that gave this roar.

Then the bushes parted to reveal a large bear charging through it.

Everyone was surprised since they hadn't sensed the bear at all, but the fourth prince's men didn't hesitate to move in to stop the bear.

Duke Yuletide's people also moved, but they didn't go as forward as the fourth prince's men.

If I had to guess, this was most likely the signal that Duke Yuletide wanted me to take.

So I stood up and started moving towards the fourth prince.