Book 2 Chapter 56: Paranoid

Right before Micheal Valiant teleported away he saw Lintian smirk. Lintian saw Micheal scowl before teleporting away and he couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

After the top ten schools were teleported away it finally came down to Quincy Middle school.

The female announcer kindly asks, “where is your third participant?”

“He is still badly injured and can’t make it,” Lintian replies as calm as the summer lake.

“The rules will still be the same whether you have one participant or three,” she warns.

“I understand.”

After hearing that she finally handed out the gold medallion and watches to him and Alex. For the two of them Lintian took the medallion but they both received a wristband style watch. Once it was on their wrist it was locked on with no way of taking it off until the end of the battle Royale.

Swish!

Lintian and Alex were both teleported away. In the next second green grass and trees appears before both of their eyes.

“Hey Lintian so whats the plan?” Alex asks.

Lintian didn't respond and chose to activate his dragon eyes and scan the field. He saw three two inch sphere drone cameras flying around watching them.

“We are going to hide and hunt down some demonic beast,” Lintian answers.

“Wouldn’t we just be wasting our energy and effort? It is only a twelve by twelve mile inclosure.”

“Let me ask you a question. If life give you lemons what do you make?”

“Lemonade?”

“Yup. So with all these master realm demonic beasts why should we not take advantage of this and collect some demonic cores to cultivate later?” Lintian asks rhetorically with a playfully shameless expression on his face.

The people watching this didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this statement from Lintian. They want all their disciples to focus on winning the competition and here is an anomaly trying to waste energy on hunting demonic beast for demonic cores to cultivate. This is just extremely laughable especially when you he is one of the top twelve in this competition. It really degrades it.

“Lets get moving,” Lintian commands as he jumps into the trees. For Lintian to travel twelve miles at his fastest speed would only take him about 50 secs but with the detergent of trees Lintian or anyone in this forest can never reach their full speed.

Multiple spell diagrams began to appear in Lintian’s hand as energy tracking spells flew out everywhere.

“What are you doing?” Alex asks.

“I’m sending out energy triggering spells. This will keep us safe for the time being,” Lintian explains.

“Alright,”

Then Lintian saw a tier five tiger jay walking through the forest.

“Should we kill it?” Alex asks.

“No, not yet,” Lintian replies. “The spell array I am setting up is still not done yet.”

The small spell arrays that Lintian sent out were sinking into the trees and ground. In Lintian’s vision he began to see the lines connect between each small spell array he sent out.

“Follow me,” Lintian whispers and changes directions.

Alex trusts that Lintian knew what he was doing and changes direction with Lintian without asking.

When Lintian changed directions it was because his eyes saw some suspicious energy a mile up ahead. What he saw wasn't exact but more like a blob of energy.

After hopping, skipping, and soaring around for thirty minutes Lintian has covered the whole 12 by 12 mile area.

“Lets find somewhere to hide,” Lintian said a bit tired. Covering a 12 by 12 mile area caused Lintian to expand half of his mental energy. Even with his strong soul it was lot of work to cover such an area especially when you also have to avoid everyone here.

They went into a cave. Lintian then set up a concealing spell array with an illusion array.

“Help me watch. While I take a nap,” Lintian said.

“Alright.”

As Lintian closes his eyes he slowly snoozes off. He didn't even bother going into the dream orb. His mind was exhausted. It was like taking a sleeping pill and then trying to stay awake.

After sleeping for three hours Lintian felt completely refreshed. When Lintian woke up his eyes scrunch together, but also couldn't help but let out a sly smile.

Someone is cracking his spell formations a lot quicker than he expected.

“It is time to move,” Lintian said.

“I want to take a nap too,” Alex replies.

“The person cracking my spells are here,” Lintian murmurs in a low tone.

“Lets take them out,” Alex suggests.

“Not yet. Its not time,” Lintian whispers.

“What are we waiting for?”

“The area is too small. If we take one school out we will be weaken and then the other teams will be able to take us out. We have no where to hide if we are injured. My nap for example took 3 hours but in those three hours someone crack a third of my spell formations I set out,” Lintian explains.

“Make two clones of yourself and transform into me and then have those two run off and then we will sneak out,” Lintian explains.

“Okay.” Qi began to gather around Alex as two versions of himself appears. Then one of his clones transform into Lintian. The only problem was that his qi did not resemble Lintian’s at all. Thats why Lintian walks over and touched the forehead of the clone and injected conscious energy into the clone. Masking Alex’s qi with his own.

The two sprinted out of the cave as they perform the same evasive techniques.

The school outside was the Divine Academy.

They began to chase after Alex’s clones.

Lintian than used the spell formation he set up and had a location on everyone within the twelve by twelve. The only problem was one-third of the diagram was cracked but luckily he hid tracer diagram in all of them making it so he can still detect them. The tracer diagram spell is hidden underneath the ground and uses the vibration of footsteps to track them.

Lintian knew that the statistics of him being the only spell master in this competition is extremely low so he decided to use the energy detection spell as a decoy to distract them from his actual diagram underneath the ground.

Once Lintian notice that all of the people began to chase after the clones, Lintian also flew out from the cave closely followed by Alex.

“What is your aim?” Alex asks a little bit confused. He knows for a fact that Lintian could have easily took out all three of those outside with his help but Lintian is somehow wasting energy here on tracking spells, and illusion spells to hide.

Lintian gave him a mysterious smile and kept sprinting.

“You know keeping me in the dark is not going to be helpful,” Alex grumbles.

“Don’t worry you will know soon enough,” Lintian sent through a voice transmission and signals with his eyes to look at the camera drones following them around.

Since the assassination attempt from last night Lintian has always been in constant thought of the person who hired the assassination in the back of his mind. Also he might be being paranoid but in this kind of world only the paranoid survives.

The reason he won’t tell Alex his plan is because he felt like someone is not only watch through those cameras but actually sending out information to their teams inside. At first he wasn't suspicious at all but for someone to crack his spell and see through the illusion spell he placed. There are only three possible reasons.

One is someone is providing them information from the outside.

Two is someone is in the King’s realm.

Three is the person sent in is also a rank three spell master like him but he has already checked the top ten teams and none of them can possibly have a rank three spell master among them. This is due to their cultivation. To be at stage seven of the Master realm and be a rank three spell master is almost statistically impossible. Especially when Lintian already probed them and there was only one two spell masters among them and one of them was rank one while the other just entered rank 2.

Therefore only the first two reason is logical even if the first one seems almost impossible. A person can never be too safe.

As Lintian hops from tree to tree he opens his hand and qi began to condense in his hand. A spear appears in his hand made from qi with a wisp of black flames hidden inside.

Lintian threw it through the air.

A loud shriek rings through the forest.

Lintian hops down and took the dead tier four demonic beast corpse into his ring as he continues to run through the forest. Alex following behind wasn't even remotely surprise by his actions anymore.