I moved toward it without wasting any time.
Since I had decided to do that even before I had left the abode, there was no need to wait.
I moved toward it but kept an eye on the surrounding caves. In my excitement, I don't want to be careless and get killed. That would be terrible.
So, despite wanting to run toward it, I moved toward it slowly. Keeping careful eyes on the caves around me.
Soon, I crossed the halfway distance. Suddenly, I stopped, with a shudder spreading through my body.
I had sensed the monster, and this one was also peak, about as powerful as the wolf earlier, but unlike the wolf, this black cat is stealth type.
It was why it was able to come so close to me without me sensing it.
I wanted to bring out my abode and hide it, but I had to see what this monster could do. Not this one, but the one that is more powerful than this.
It is one of the monsters that the tigress attacked.
The monster is fast, very fast, and its senses are sharp. I don't want to do anything that might alert it of me.
Seconds passed, and I remained frozen on my spot. I didn't breathe and didn't so much twice. I became a statue that melded finely with the environment.
The only thing I kept active aside from the stealth is the soul waves.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have kept them active either, but I need to. Without them, I would be blind about the monster's movement.
I wanted to curse this bastard. In the past hour, I didn't sense any monster other than the wolf, but now that I had found this cat.
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The jump pad lasts only a few hours. If it disappeared the next second, I am going to curse this bastard a lot.
I calmed myself; it might make sense of my emotion. Monsters of its level and abilities are very good at it. Because of their understanding of the world that their law provides.
I had made big progress in my laws. Better than I had thought I would.
The runemasters are good with laws, and seeing, I have a solid base thanks to rules. I am comprehending them fast and have reached quite close to the level of understanding that Carter has.
Carter would be shocked. If he comes to know about it, it isn't just a single law, but all four of them.
Though, in this condition. Even if I could use the laws, things wouldn't have been much better. It is too powerful to stop by the level of comprehension I had of my laws.
A few minutes passed, and I saw the monster moving before turning toward me.
My heart skipped a beat, and I readied myself to summon my abode, but saw a few seconds later felt relieved. Sensing it moving forward, instead of taking a turn toward me.
It made me relieved, but I didn't move or so much twitch as it could sense me at any moment.
I had just thought that when it had stopped, but only for a moment before it had moved again more slowly, but not toward me.
Minutes passed as it moved away from me slowly till I couldn't even sense it anymore.
Seeing that, I moved.
I would have waited for a few more minutes, but I don't want to push my luck with the jump pad. Who knows, it might disappear in the next few seconds.
Soon, I appeared in front of it. I didn't immediately step inside.
I first checked my preparations. I need to be ready in case I throw in the area I had been. I was lucky, that tigress was far. If it had been closer, I would have been a dead man.
It took me a second to check everything, and I stepped through it.
It was dark for a moment before everything lit up.
What I had sensed made me alert immediately, and I brought my sword out and turned while activating the burst at the same time.
My sword clashed against a long sword covered in yellow lightning with the power of law.
"So, Prime Arys. You are not dead after all," said the woman, who is wearing a yellow mask and black cloak.
There had been a battle here that had been finished a few seconds ago. Likely someone who had come from this jump pad.
Most jump pads have a two-way connection, but a few are connected to more than one spatial node.
So, it is likely that a person came out of a different jump pad than I had. I didn't sense any other person in the caves, not even a faintest aura.
However, I did not discard that theory. Right now, I pushed it away and focused on a powerful enemy that attacked me.
"You were waiting for me?" I asked. To which she laughed. "Not you per se, but people. To rob them of the wonderful treasures they have. Especially those that had been here two years ago."
"Some of you hadn't left the place yet," she replied.
So, she is a simple thief, but that is the only thing simple about her.
She is extremely powerful, and even after enhancements of two years, I don't have much confidence, but it didn't matter. She wants to kill me; she is not even hiding that killing intent.
"How many have you killed so far?" I asked.
She laughed and disappeared into the lightning. Appearing behind me and attacking with even greater power than before.
I increased the power immediately and spun back with my sword forward.
The attack clashed, and it was more powerful than before.
The lightning destroyed through energies from the sword and struck my armor hard, covering from head to toe.