Chapter 299 - What's Going On?
"An Inscriber," Reynolds looked at the blue symbol on the air in shock.
He would never have thought there was an inscriber amongst the group chasing him, he knew just how rare Inscribers were. The fact that Grey was the only Inscriber he had seen shows how rare they are.??
"Oh, you know about Inscribers. Guess you're more knowledgeable than I thought. Since you know about us, then I believe you should be aware that your chances of escaping just went down by a whole notch," The leader of the group snickered when he saw Reynolds' expression.
The only way Reynolds could escape now is if he were willing to risk being injured by an attack.
Reynolds looked at them with a serious expression, and just when the thought of using his Elemental Warrior to block the attacks as he escaped came to his mind, he saw a black cat sitting leisurely on top of a rock.
That's a cat he was all too familiar with, there was no other cat in the world that had such pitch-black fur and the glint of intelligence in its eyes was very evident.
'If Void's here, then that means he's also here. Heh! Guess I don't need to escape anymore,' He thought with a smile.
From how Void was looking, he could tell Grey wasn't captured.
'Hmm, but since Grey wasn't captured, how do they keep finding me?' He asked himself.
This question had been bugging him for some time now, he initially waited for them because he thought they might've caught Grey. But after speaking to them, he knew they did capture Grey, this meant that they were using another way.
"Who says I want to escape? The likes of you can't make me run away," Reynolds sneered.
The group looked at him strangely, they clearly saw him trying to escape a few seconds ago, yet now he was denying it so casually.
"Tsk tsk, so shameless. Surrender yourself now," Johanne said while approaching him.
"Even if he surrenders himself, he's not going to escape the punishment of killing my compatriots." The leader ordered icily, "Attack!"
'Crap! I thought they were only going to continue speaking until Grey showed up,' Reynolds thought, but quickly summoned his Elemental Warrior to fight against the group of five.
'Got it,' Void replied before disappearing from where he was lying.
The battle had been going on for two minutes now, and Reynolds had already been hit by a few attacks. Some parts of his clothes had been burned, and he was bruised on his shoulder after being hit by an earth attack. The only attack that hadn't hit him was the water element attack of the leader.
Reynolds looked around, searching for Grey, but to his disappointment, he hadn't arrived yet.
'Damn it! Where's that damn cat? It shouldn't have a problem with beating at least two of them,' He cursed when he couldn't find Void.
While Reynolds was cursing at Void, the leader sent an ice spear at him after he just dodged an attack. The Elemental Warrior was blocking two attacks, so it wasn't free to help him.
'F.u.c.k!' Reynolds cursed, trying to mobilize his elemental essence to block the attack since it was already too close to dodge.
But just then, something strange happened, the ice spear started gradually disappearing from its tip, down to the last part.
This scene stunned the leader, as well as the others, they couldn't believe their eyes. Reynolds was the only one who heaved a sigh of relief, he knew this was the handwork of Void, and it came at a perfect time.
'Finally, he decided to help' He quickly scrambled to a better position, and even called off the Elemental Warrior.
With Void helping to divert all the attacks, he didn't need to finish his elemental essence on the Elemental Warrior, he was already almost dry.
"What just happened?" The leader asked in disbelief.
"I don't know,"
The others shook their heads in unison.
"Maybe he destroyed it with an attack, attack again, he's almost out." The leader said after he saw Reynolds dismissing his Elemental Warrior.
They all knew about the huge elemental essence needed to sustain the Elemental Warrior, so seeing him call it off meant that he was already almost out of elemental essence.
But the leader's expression changed when his next attack disappeared just like the last one. The attack of the others also disappeared when it got close to Reynolds.
"What's going on?"