NOVEL NEXT Chapter 106: Escape
Dropping Lena on the floor, Blake turned and faced the other of Patricia's guards, this one already having his sword drawn out.
With his mana bursting, the man ran towards Blake his steps calculated and sword poised to pierce, but even with most of his stats halved, to Blake the man moved quite slow and with a sigh Blake shot forward, meeting the man halfway and delivering a hard punch straight to his guts.
Blake's opponent did not see him move, one second the man had been acting on the orders of Patricia, charging towards Blake and ready to strike him down and then the next, Blake disappeared from his sight and he was hit with a heavy punch.
The man felt darkness coming to claim his vision and though he fought it, he in the end collapsed to the ground, the daylights knocked out of him.
Dealing with the first of Patricia's guards, Blake turned to the last one, this guard being the one who had fired off the fireball, and seeing the man stuck looking at him in shock and fear, his expression already telling Blake that he had seen how effortlessly he had taken out his colleague, Blake closed the distance with the man and despite his fearful eyes delivered a hit to his guts, also rendering him unconscious.
From the moment the first man had cast the fireball to now when Blake knocked out the two guards, it had been less than 10 seconds, and with both men out, Blake went after Patricia who had set loose her guard on him and then wisely chosen to run away.
With the ground floor included, the library had three floors and considering that they were on the second floor, it meant that if Patricia wanted to flee from Blake, then she just had to descend one more floor and she would be on the ground floor from were she could easily flee.
This had been Blake's predictions of Patricia's actions, but then when Blake noticed the woman ignore the exit door and began heading towards one of the windows of the second floor, he accelerated.
Luckily, each floor of the library was quite large with a high ceiling, so Lena still had some distance to cover before she could jump out of the window and alert the whole city that something was wrong.
Blake's figure zipped forward and grabbed onto Patricia's shoulders just before the woman's body could touch the window. Experience adventure on m-vl-em|p-yr
Effortlessly, Blake pulled Lena back, sending her stumbling backwards so that by the time she regained her balance, she was now staring at him who was standing between her and the window she had intended to make her escape through.
Looking at Blake with fear, Patricia turned to her left wishing to seek help but then froze when she noticed that other than the area through which she had been, the rest of the library was at peace, everyone focused on the book they were reading, none the wiser of what had happened.
"What do you want" Patricia asked looking at the much taller man whose charismatic appearance had a sort of calmness filling her.
"You are scared at the moment, is there any reason for that" Blake calmly asked.
"Well, you were doing something to me some minutes ago so I got scared and decided to run" Patricia said looking left and right worriedly, "Why is everyone so calm, can't they see us?"
"They can't see us because they are under an illusion," Blake said, his words making the woman's expression more fearful.
Pressed for time, Blake took a step forward, Patricia reacted by taking a step backwards, but when Blake took another step forward, she stood still until he was directly in front of her and began rubbing her cheeks.
Blake had kept lust aura active and so with just the few seconds he and Patricia had spoken he had gotten the woman horny and her mind foggy once more.
Not wanting whatever artifact Patricia had to take effect and free her of his lust aura again, Blake took her by the hand and quickly led her to where they had been previously sitting, a sigh leaving his lips when he noticed that Lena was not there and then silently staring at the chaos around him.
The truth was that while Patricia saw a library filled with people who seemed unaware of what was happening this was just a result of an illusion Blake had cast on her because in reality, screams, a blazing fire and smoke filled the library floor.
Though Blake had told Patricia that he had cast an illusion on the whole library, that couldn't be more far from the truth because though the thought had crossed his mind a limit on his Illustra was the fact that he had to see his target to put them under an illusion, something he could not do in the library considering the several tall shelves that filled it.
"I have to get her back" Blake told himself but then could only grimace as he was hit with a realization that Lena could possibly have already figured out.
In exchange for a near-perfect disguise and even the ability to evoke the power of the sun god, Blake got most of his stats cut in half and also lost the ability to actively use any of his abilities and skills that came with his demon bloodline.
In other words, if Blake wanted to use the soul mark he had placed on Lena to locate her, then he had to switch his current title to either of the other two, an action that would lead to him transforming into his demon form.
Understanding that he didn't have much time as soldiers would soon be climbing up to this floor, Blake quickly thought about his next actions and came up with two options.
Reveal his true form and recapture Lena while also telling the entire country where he was, this information bound to attract the country's stronger rankers, the possibility of a fifth order being appearing not being out of the question considering what his presence could be interpreted as, or let Lena go and make the best of his situation.
Seconds before soldiers burst into the second floor of the city's library, their weapons out and ready to slay whichever evil doer was disturbing the peace of the city, Blake, had already made his choice as he stood beside two dead guards.
Several minutes later, the city was put on lockdown and a city-wide hunt for a black-haired woman with dark eyes and most importantly a thick black collar around her neck was issued out.