Child of Destiny

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Shin watched everything unfold, but he somewhat lost interest in dealing with these top experts for the tbeing as he becmore interested in the agenda of these suspicious people as well as those perpetrators hiding in the distance.

"Which one should I choose first?" he mumbled as he switched his gaze between the two directions.

Even if he wanted to cause trouble and join the fun below, he could not just recklessly go rampant in there when there were still speople plotting in the darkness.

A moment later, his eyes suddenly twinkled as an idea flashed in his mind. "Why do I have to choose when I can create a conflict with all of them."

With that, he suddenly sent a message to Exheart, who survived an earlier battle due to the sudden appearance of the horde. He was telling the latter that speople were hiding in the cliff on their eastern side.

After that, Shin gave the hooded individuals another glance before retreating deep into the woods to further hide himself and his tracks. Then he started sprinting toward the source of the dense plague energy that he was sensing.

Swoosh!

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Down on the battlefield, Exheart, who was working with the adventurer teams that had a friendly relationship with him, suddenly paused.

He had just gotten the message from Shin and could not help but complain a little. "Where the heck is this guy?? It feels like he has been watching everything from a safe place and taking this as ssort of entertainment." n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

He pushed the Plagued Monster he was fighting back before signaling the nearby warrior to cover his place for a moment as he wanted to see what Shin wanted to say this time.

Right after reading the contents of the message, he could not help but frown deeply before turning his head toward the cliffs on the eastern side of the battlefield.

This place was quite like a basin as there were a few mountain cliffs surrounding it. Even though there was quite a distance away from those cliffs and the battlefield, it was still short enough to cover given the current stats of the players.

He looked at the direction that Shin had indicated, trying to find the people that the latter was talking about. But he immediately frowned deeper after failing to find anyone despite using his ocular skills.

"No one?" his already deep frown beceven deeper as he found this. He did not doubt Shin even for a second as he somewhat knew the latter.

Moreover, Shin had never sent any misinformation up until now. He also did not have any reason to do that, which meant that the other party was using a very high level of concealment ability or tool to hide themselves.

Seeing that Exheart suddenly stopped fighting and was somewhat lost in thought, the leader of the adventurer team that he was working with immediately noticed this.

He knitted his brow after seeing the frown of his friend. "This guy rarely shows any seriousness like this. Did he find something again?"

It was Exheart who had informed them about the incoming beast horde earlier, which was a great help for everyone. They were able to quickly disengage from the battle and swiftly set up their formation.

Seeing that, Exheart was ’distracted’ once again and staring at the empty space, this team leader knew that he had gotten another piece of information from his mysterious informant.

Thinking about this, this team leader walked over and joked. "Yoh! Why are you slacking off when everyone is working hard?"

Exheart finally took his eyes off that cliff and turned his head. "Perfect timing, Cade!"

He paused for a moment before pointing at the cliff while saying. "Use your strongest ocular skill to observe that cliff. See if you can find anything."

"What is it this time?" asked Cade in a complaining tone while casting his gaze in the pointed direction.

As an archer, his eyes were sharper than most of the players from different classes. Even if he did not use any kind of ocular skill to enhance his eyesight, he eyes could still see everything miles away from his position in a clear detail.

The cliff that Exheart was pointing at was not that far from the battlefield, only a couple of hundreds of meters away, so it was not that far for him.

"There is nothing in there though," said Cade confusedly, curious why Exheart wanted him to look in there.

"That is why I asked you to use your strongest ocular skill," said Exheart, refusing to accept that answer.

"What’s so special about that place that you wantto use my ’Sky Eagle Eyes’ just for it? Do you think it is an ordinary skill?" Cade snarled back.

"It is not that of a big deal for you. You don’t have the chance to use it on this battlefield, so it is better to contribute it for other purposes. And its cooldown is not that long either, so just do it, will you?" said Exheart, unbothered.

"Tsk! If only you are not my friend," said Cade before using his skill.

He gathered his mana toward his eyes, making it shine brightly. His pupils also took an appearance similar to those of an eagle, greatly enhancing his eyesight.

Not only he could see in clearer detail, but the flow of mana and other forms of energies could be reflected in his eyes. Through this, he could also uncover any kind of concealment skill even at a great distance.

However, its duration was quite short as well, lasting only for five to ten seconds depending on the amount of mana he infused into his eyes.

Right after using this skill, everything was uncovered to his eyes. He did not put too much mana into his eyes since he already had the major direction where he needed to look.

But not long after, his eyes suddenly turned wide as found something – or to be more precise, he found a bunch of silhouettes from that place. He could not help but infuse more mana into his eyes due to this.

His eyes immediately turned even wider when the details of those silhouettes beceven clearer to his eyes. "There are people over there!"

"They are watching us?" mumbled Exheart as he fell in deep thought and could not help but have a couple of assumptions as well. "We have fallen into a trap given our current situation. Are they the ones behind it?"

Shin had only informed him about the hidden group and their location but did not specify if they were the perpetrators of this incident, so he had no idea about it.

Cade stared at those figures for quite a while until the duration of his ocular skill ended. From his eyes, it felt like the mysterious group was veiled by the surrounding energies, making them blend with the environment naturally.

He then turned to Exheart and asked. "How did you know?"

Exheart shook his head as he said. "That is not important right now."

He paused for a moment as he picked up his spear once again, planning to resthe battle. "You should inform your commander right now. Let them deal with it."

Cade opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but no words cout from him. He then clicked his tongue before running toward his commander to report their discovery.

If those people were indeed the perpetrators of this incident, then they had to pay the price for messing with all these forces.

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At the stime, on the cliff where the mysterious group was located, one of the members felt something strange and turned in the direction where Shin was previously located.

Noticing his strange actions, the person standing beside him could not help but ask. "What’s wrong?"

That member did not immediately respond, as he focused all his attention on the opposite cliff. After trying many methods and failing multiple times, he shook his head and said, "It is nothing. It must be my imagination."

He kept on having a strange feeling that someone had been watching them from that cliff since earlier, but no matter what method or skill he used, he failed to uncover anything.

Even if his senses were telling him that someone was observing them from that place, he had no choice but to forget about it since he did not find anything. After all, he was the one with the strongest ocular skill and eye techniques in their group, so he had full confidence in his scouting abilities.

Since he had not found anything, his imagination must be playing a trick on him.

"This operation must be putting a lot of stress on you. After all, we are tasked to get those items from those gods," said the other person. "We are facing the top gods of the game, so it shouldn’t be that easy."

"Fortunately, someone is ’helping’ us right now. This is a perfect opportunity to assassinate them," he added.

The member, who was staring at the opposite cliff earlier, nodded his head. "Those items have a guaranteed drop rate, so all we have to do is kill our targets as fast as we can and steal the items once they drop. We will retreat immediately after that."

"Get ready, we will make our move once that chieftain-rank monster goes berserk," said the person standing at the forefront of the group.

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