Chapter 294: Bad Timing

Chapter 294: Bad Timing

"Do you want to go back to see if it's a problem for them and they need our help?" Tiff didn't think it was a great idea for her to go fight and she needed Lake alive to find the dagger so she didn't want to go. They did need the group alive to open the barrier though so she wouldn't fight against it if Lake said he was going.

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Lake felt the Demon Worshiper wouldn't be running towards the battle if they were useless so he felt it would be for the best if they went. "I think we should go back but if it looks bad we'll just run. It would be sad if the Metal Domain stays trapped but there's no point in fighting a battle we can't win." Continue reading on No_veLbIn

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Tiff wondered what the Temple Head would say if she was here right now. On one hand some very powerful people that were part of the Temple were in that group and it would hurt if they lost them but she was sure the Temple Head would say she was more important to the Temple of Light now.

"Ok lets go." If the person was as fast as Lake made it sound they needed to go quickly and not waste too much time talking. Around ten minutes later they were back where they had been before she had suggested they move away and she could tell whoever this new person was they had really changed this battle.

"I know the fact the barrier is shaking is a bad sign but it doesn't necessarily mean it will break right?" Lake was right if your barrier got destabilized all you needed to do was restabilize it but the real problem was the amount of time it had taken the new person to shake them. If this continued eventually whoever it was that was in charge of the barrier would lose focus or all their mana and it would fall.

"They're still fine but be ready to act if it goes down." On their way over Tiff hadn't planned to get involved so she was a little surprised at how fast she had made up her mind just now. Her words sounded like they had come from a person who wanted to fight.

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The Timing of it made him wonder if it too was a trick like the speed at which they were moving. He could see them pretending to be closer to losing their barrier than they actually were to draw the Demon Worshiper to over committing to an attack. From there he was guessing they would use the few seconds they had to drop their barrier and attempt their first attack on the next group of Demon Worshipers.

Lake didn't know what target they would prioritize though with there still being two of the original groups left in addition to the new Demon worshiper who was all on their own. Realizing that this was still going to take forever with all that had changed was how high the stakes were, Lake could feel himself start to lose interest but didn't let himself look away in case he was wrong and the group would need their help soon.

"They just dropped the barrier." Lakehad been watching this time so he had seen it happen. It seemed his guess on what they planned to do had been extremely close to reality. This wasn't that surprising considering you had to attack for it to be a fight you would win and they really only had a few seconds that they could in between the giant spell from the new Demon Worshipers formation.

"I wonder why they're going for that group, the only one that seems to have an effect on them is the new guy." Lake didn't know the answer but like everything else they were doing he was sure it was for whatever hidden plan they were working off of. "I'm going to go sit down again." Lake was sure at this point that he didn't need to be ready to move so he decided to just go back to where he had been waiting earlier.

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Tiff was surprised at how fast Lake had lost interest and said. "If we don't need to be here let's move further away." She was even more worried about the fact one of the Demon Worshipers would notice her now that the much stronger one had shown up so if they weren't here for a reason she wanted to leave.

It had also become increasingly clear that where they were going was going to take longer than she could stay outside so she actually felt it would be best for her to go back to the temple at least until the barrier in the Metal Domain was down. "That's fine, lead the way." Hearing he was fine with leaving again Tiff went ahead and said. "I'll be going back to the temple actually. When we set out I didn't know we would be going to the Metal Domain so I wasn't actually ready."

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Hearing Tiff wanted to call it quits he wasn't surprised, the timing had just been bad and him trying to slow them down so he could keep an eye on the group had been unnecessary. He should have just led them to the Metal Domain and hid the dagger in the first hole in a mountain they passed.

"I'll come with you. There's nothing I can do until they get to the Metal Domain anyway so me being at the Temple will let us leave together to retrieve the dagger when it's time." Lake didn't know what he would do until the barrier came down but he guessed he didn't actually have to wait. In her mind they were chasing after Jon who was the one who had the dagger so he could just tell her he was on the move again in a few hours.

This would make it seem like he had been sleeping and he just happened to be close to the Metal Domain instead of inside of it. Him being close would probably make sense to her since there were probably lots of strong people that would be involved in the Metal Domains crisis.