Chapter 338 - Lightning Tree
After walking into the town, Grey headed for the Inn that wasn't far from the gates. Whenever he enters a new city or town, he has built the habit of first finding out what's happening in the place before doing whatever brought him to the place.
The inn he picked looked a little shady, the plaque that the name of the inn was written in was hanging vertically by the side of the inn, swinging from side to side.
On entering the inn, he noticed it was filled with people, there were only about two empty seats or so. He calmly walked over to one and took a seat.
As soon as he sat down, he overheard the conversation of the group sitting on the next table.
"*Sigh* Over half of the group was wiped out," A middle-aged man sighed with a sad look.
"Damn that guy! He gave us false information, I'll kill him!" Another man said angrily.
"Yeah! If not for him, then we wouldn't have gone there in the first place," A slightly younger man said.
Grey turned his head to look at the table, there were six people sitting around the table, there were four men in the group, the other two were ladies. Of the men, three looked middle-aged, the last one was younger, looking to be in his mid-twenties.
The two young ladies also looked to be in their mid-twenties.
"Heh! No one sent you guys there, you went on your own free will," A man from the next table scoffed.
"Who called you into this?" One of the men from the first group yelled angrily, standing up.
The rest of the people in the group immediately stood up to confront the other group.
The inn went silent as the two groups attracted the attention of everyone.
Grey, who was sitting close to them stared at the group curiously, he tilted his head to look at a young man sitting not too far from there.
The young man had a robe on, just like him. The lower part of his face was visible, and he could see him smirking while looking at the group that were in a heated quarrel.
The young man suddenly sensed something and looked in Grey's direction. Grey turned his head after seeing that the young man noticed he was looking at him.
'Hmm, a treasure,' Grey thought to himself.
Had Void been fine, then he wouldn't mind finding out what this treasure was. But now, he doesn't have the time to spare.
"Like I said, I'm not interested, good day." Grey didn't change his mind and continued walking away.
Even if he wanted to hunt for the treasure, he had no plans of going with the young man. Firstly, the young man must be the one the group were talking about.
While he was in the inn, he sensed the Cultivation Planes of the group who were complaining, and he noticed that other than the two young ladies and the young man, the three middle-aged men were all at the Peak of the Origin Plane.
If over half of such a group could be wiped out, why would the young man who was in the Seventh stage of the Origin Plane want to team up with him to hunt for the treasure.
'He's purposely spreading the rumor of the lightning tree. If my hypothesis is correct, it means he knew I wouldn't team up with him. He doesn't plan on going in the first place.' Grey thought while walking in the busy street of the town.
He walked to a hidden spot in the town before taking out the disc. After looking at the distance between his light and Reynolds' light, he calculated the direction Reynolds light was coming from before going in the direction.
It took him twenty minutes, but he finally stopped at a two story building.
"It's coming from here, I'll find out what this place is before heading in." He muttered while looking at the front of the building.
He walked a bit further into the street before stopping at a small shop. After asking around, he found out that the building was surprisingly the headquarters of the guild.
'Hmm, what's Reynolds doing in the guild's headquarters?' He asked himself.
After brooding over it for a moment, he decided against going inside.
The Emperor was searching for them, so he didn't know if Reynolds was being held captive or not. He planned to wait till later in the night before going there.
He would sneak into the building at night, then search for Reynolds. If Reynolds was in trouble, he would find a way to rescue him, if not, he'll speak with him then give the device to him before leaving.
Later that night.
Grey suddenly appeared on the side of the guild headquarters building. After looking around, he sent his spiritual sense into the building, trying to figure out if there were people walking close to the other side of the wall.
A few seconds later, he vanished and appeared inside the building.
What looked like a reception desk was at the front, facing the door of the building. The doors were currently locked, and no one could be seen around.
Grey brought out the disc, and started following it to where Reynolds' light was coming from.
With the increase in his knowledge in arrays, he improved his personal disc. The closer he got to the other light, the more accurate it was. It seemed to zoom closer, so he could get a better idea of where the light was coming from.
He continued following the light deeper into the building.