10 pm of the previous night
hiding in the darkness of night a shadow was moving stealthily through the city. after some time it came to a stop at a dark alley and hid there.
A few minutes later another person entered the alley. even though the face was not visible due to the absence of light it could be determined that this person was a girl.
as she looked ahead into the alley she came to a stop for a second and turned back and went to a house in the next alley. it looked like she took the wrong turn.
a few minutes after she left the shadow came out of hiding and stood at the exact location where the girl earlier stood. because the shadow was not facing the bright streets its face was now barely visible. it turned out to be liyan.
she spread out her senses toward the tile she was standing on. something was written on the lower surface of the tile that was embedded into the road .
(pope will be meeting someone at 1pm at the temple )
liyan read the message. used her powers to erase it and left the location.
" father just worries too much, I'm no longer a little girl who needs help with everything. I even got late because of him." liyan grumbled while walking out of the castle.
after she got the news of the pope secretly meeting with someone she came back to report it to her father. even though her father wanted to send someone else to spy liyan insisted on doing it herself. At the end her father had to agree.
since there was not much time left liyan rushed to the location and reached there in just a few minutes she reached there. arriving at the location she activated a device which helped in stealth and disappeared into the dark.
"it should be happening soon" she thought waiting for the event to begin.
after around half an hour the pope came out of the temple and stood at the gate along with two bishops. after waiting for some time five people covered in black arrived. only their eyes were visible under the black mask they wore.
"greetings your holiness" the leading person of the five said as they all bowed down a little.
"there is no need for courtesy, please come inside." the pope said while motioning them to enter the temple.
the leader of five and pope walked alongside while the two bishops and other four followed them. some distance behind them was liyan also secretly following them.
"you guys can start your work. Till then I'll have a talk with your holiness here." the man walking alongside pope said to the four members who came with him. hearing that the four of them dispersed in temple.
the man and pope then entered a room while the bishops stood guards at the entrance.
"what to do now. I'll be exposed if I try to follow those four and listening to the Pope's conversation also seems impossible, especially due to that man. he is really strong, I'll get caught if I get too close to him" liyan pondered on what to do.
In the end she gave up on the pope and decided to follow one of the four men.
as liyan followed him, the man went to a room on the second floor. liyan jumped out the building through a window and arrived at the window of the room he went into. when she looked inside he was holding onto a cylindrical container. It was as thick as an adult human finger and around half a foot long. inside that was a yellow coloured liquid.
"looking for something? "
while she was wondering what the man was going to do with it a soft sound fell on liyan's ears. she turned to her left to see a first coming at her face.
pow!
before she could react completely the fist landed on her face shattering the mask she wore before coming here. she quickly covered her face before anyone could see it.
she stabilised herself and landed a few meters away on the ground. looking above she saw the man man who was with pope earlier.
"i didn't even sense him coming" she knew that this person was strong, but not to the extent that he could hide from her senses.
"i need to get out of here" she thought and turned around to leave as she could sense others approaching fast.
"oh what's the hurry, since you are here why don't you stay with us for some time." the man spoke as he saw liyan turning around to leave.
without listening to whatever he was saying liyan dashed off at her Max Speed. but a second after the man arrived at her left side sending another punch at her face. this time she was able to block out by placing her hand in front. liyan used the force of impact to change her direction slightly toward right and get some distance between them.
she continues to run while either dodging or blocking the attacks coming at her with her left hand while using her right to cover the face.
but the man's attacks were slowing her down allowing others to slowly catch up to them. they were not too far away from her.
"come on, let me have a little peek at that face of yours. i promise i won't tell anyone" the man said again in a soft and pleading tone while sending another punch at her.
"he keeps attacking me the same way each time, feels like he is just toying with me. it's frustrating" liyan complained in her head trying to go faster.
"i was trying to end this the easy way but youngsters nowadays just don't listen. " the man said with a tone of regret and brought out 2 glass bottles of the same size as the man liyan was spying on holding.
he smashed both of the bottle together and a green coloured smoke escaped from the broken bottles. but instead of escaping into air it went towards the man's hand and started spiralling around both of his first.
"ok then, let's try again" he said with a smile as he bumped both his fists together and bolted toward liyan with increased speed.