Chapter 2092 Undercover (Part 2)
The female Forgotten took a leather glove that hung from her belt and wore it. Then, she placed her left hand on the first carriage and activated the breathing technique of her corps, Clear Mind.
The glove amplified the effects of Invigoration whose energy flooded the carriage like a wave without losing its cohesion as it moved further away from its caster.
'Fuck me sideways! The Kingdom can learn a thing or two from Thrud and so can I. That glove allows anyone to inspect a large surface with Invigoration. I learned how to do it as well, but my technique is neither that quick nor precise.' Lith thought while observing Solus' predicament via the surveillance spell.
The moment Invigoration was about to reach her stone form, Solus Blinked to the second carriage, escaping detection. Luckily for her, Lith's plan had given her a way out.
In order to use the glove and focus on the breathing technique, the Forgotten had been forced to dispel the array.
"It was just an interference." The woman said amid pants after checking every nook and cranny of the cargo. "You can search the remaining carriages while I rest."
Solus exploited the time the Forgotten needed to cast the Life Sensing array again to move back to her original hiding place so that the anomaly seemed to not have moved.
'It seems that glove is more a focus than an artifact.' Lith thought. 'Using it costs a lot of energy and the guard had to use Invigoration to recover from a single use but it's still worth it.'
The caravan started moving twenty minutes later, but it took Solus almost one hour to find a secluded alley isolated enough to open the Steps.
"We are going in." Lith said as he and Tista shapeshifted into a less conspicuous appearance. "Keep your communication amulet at hand. We'll let you know when to start the attack."
"Damn, those Demons are terrifying." Merrik and many others said as soon as the dimensional corridor closed. "They could get inside our houses, spy on us when we work, and we wouldn't even know.
"I mean, you've seen how good Thrud's security measures are yet none of them worked." Solus and the Demons shared Lith's energy signature which made it believable that it was one of them opening the Steps.
"Commander, aren't you scared of the use Verhen might make of them? He has over a thousand of those things at his service and we don't know how far away from him they can get.
"He was here the whole time and the city walls are kilometers away, let alone the outer rim!" The Lieutenant said.
"No, I'm not scared of Lith." Phloria replied. "At least no more than I'm scared of the Council, the Abominations, the Guardians, and any entity that could end our lives on a whim. You should do the same."
Once inside Zehnma, Solus slipped back on Tista's finger.
'What's our next move?' Tista asked while walking hand in hand with Lith to hide their mind link and help Solus to recover her strength.
'We must tour the city and identify the key nodes of the arrays that you have to weaken.' He replied.
'The whole city?' Tista was flabbergasted. 'Even with the Eyes of Menadion, it will take us hours if not days.'
'Maybe and maybe not.' Solus split the artifact into two Monocles and gave one to each of them in order to share the mental burden in three. 'We can't fly but there should be more than one panoramic restaurant in Zehnma.
'Things will go much quicker if we take a good look from above.'
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