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Chapter 69 - The Pursuer

Caelus hurriedly put his hand on Hiroto's shoulder. The latter immediately tensed up, clearly, Hiroto was afraid of making an enemy out of Caelus. But Caelus didn't have any time to explain. He immediately cloaked both their presence with Qi. Five seconds later, two figures appeared in their view.

"Amazing. A skill that can hide one's presence? And it's AOE at that." the man who suddenly stopped near Caelus and Hiroto suddenly said. The man was clearly a human, while the other beside him was a Dragon Rider.

Caelus frowned as he eyed the Dragon Rider. His face darkened when he realized that the Dragon Rider was one of the four Dragon Riders they encountered before. It was the extravagant lead that was curious.

He couldn't fathom why the two were together.

"Can you just show up and let me kill you? Let's get this over quickly." The man said emotionlessly. Both Caelus and Hiroto shivered inside. It was as if the man was just asking for candy when he asked to let them get killed.

*Has people changed so much since the past two months?*

"Let's go." Caelus said cautiously. His voice only reached Hiroto with the use of his Qi. He then guided Hiroto away from the two. Since both were still in Qi Cloak, there was no reason to be afraid. Clearly, the man and Dragon Rider couldn't see or feel them. At least for now.

"Come on. How long can you stay hidden? Let's stop with this hide and seek. You should know that humans are no more. Dragon Rider rules this world now."

"What's up with this dude? Did he join the Dragon Riders?" Hiroto was dumbfounded. But there was a glint in his eyes.

Caelus glared at the man. "If you want to join them, I'll remove the cloaking on you."

"Hey, hey, Brother Caelus. Don't joke around like that. He clearly wants to kill us!"

"Just give up. Our world is already over. Only by allying with the strong would we survive."

Caelus was walking away when he heard the man say that. He stopped and frowned. He didn't like the man's attitude and aura when he said that.

Caelus strongly disagrees with the man. Unable to hold himself, he turned back to the man and let his Qi enveloped his voice, distorting the sound he produced and making it vague so no one could discern where he was.

"Even if our world is indeed over, that doesn't mean we should give up. Yes, we can survive by allying with the strong. But at what cost? Losing our freedom? Letting the future generation suffer from our cowardice? If that is how we could survive, then I would rather struggle and fight my destiny!"

After saying his piece, he turned around and continued walking.

Hiroto blinked with awe while eyeing the walking man. He felt moved by what he said. *Caelus is amazing…*

"If you want to stay here, I don't have a problem with that. But I'm warning you, there's a limit on the range of my Qi Cloak." Caelus was somehow embarrassed seeing the look of admiration from Hiroto. He didn't like the man, but seeing him being awestruck was making him feel complicated. He strongly felt the need to separate from this man.

But even if he strongly wanted to run away from Hiroto, that doesn't mean he would let the man suffer from the unknown man and Dragon Rider.

For quite some time, the unknown man was stunned. But soon enough, the unknown man felt a deep unsettlement in his heart. The unknown man felt angry towards the person who just spoke.

"Futile struggle! You're too naive to think that you alone can do anything that would impact the world! Only a fool and naive person like you would think like this. I highly doubt you had any experience with the hurdles of what the new world we have now! You don't know who our enemies are now!"

The unknown man sneered, continuing even when no one answered him.

"You're too lucky! But not everyone is lucky like you! There are a lot of humans who are dead now because of their useless struggle! But they're luckier than any of those living! Hah! I admire your naiveness! Only a naive person could think like that! Wait until someone you trust betray and backstab you. You'll know what true despair is at that time!"

Caelus didn't stop for a moment after hearing those words. He just frowned deeper while walking away.

He had to admit, some of the unknown man's words struck him hard.

He was just lucky.

He had Alpha who had protected him. He had almost minimal experience since the Super Phenomena happened. And after that, he was inside Sanctuary, having all the time to train and strengthen himself.

He was just damn lucky.

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"B-Brother C-Caelus…" Hiroto panted as he silently broke the silence between them. "A-aren't we going to rest? Y-you don't look good at all…"

For a while, Caelus didn't say anything at all.

Because of the unknown man and the Dragon Rider's sudden appearance, he was forced to use his Qi Cloak while moving forward. He didn't know what kind of ability the two had to track them down. But he knew that the two were dangerous. That's why he was decisive in using his Qi Cloak and walking away from them.

"Sanctuary, can you support us to hide?"

[I'm sorry, Master Sho. I don't have enough mana to do that.]

"Alright. Thank you." He sighed. He was expecting that. Because no one was inside the Sanctuary Shelter, Sanctuary could only get the Mana she needed from Natural Essence. As such, it was a slow process of accumulation while he had to spend most of it too.

And because he had recently used Mana to communicate with Xiu Fang, he had used more than the Mana Sanctuary could release.

It was plain overspending when someone doesn't earn enough.

"A-are you alright? Brother, we really should rest. Overwork could do you harm, you know."

Caelus looked at Hiroto. He realized that the man thought he was hallucinating because of him whispering. He forgot to mask his voice to only be heard by Sanctuary because he was tired of using Qi Cloak excessively.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry with the sudden misunderstanding.

He sighed and didn't explain. However, the corner of his lips lifted behind the facemask.

This was one of the reasons he didn't want Hiroto to tag along with him. He had too many things he didn't want to expose. And the more he interacted with others, the more he might expose some of his secrets.

He looked around the area which had been destroyed. It was void of life even the forest of trees lacked any sense of life in them. It felt like those trees were just left standing but one push would make it collapse to dust.

"We'll stop once we reach that area." He pointed to a distant forest of trees.