Chapter 244: Enjoy It While It Lasts

Chapter 254: Enjoy It While It Lasts He halted in his tracks and stared intently at the figure for a long moment. After a second, he exhaled deeply through his nose and continued moving forward.

And truly, the figure heard the incoming footsteps.

Slowly, he reached out for the hilt of his weapon, his knuckles turning white.

The tension rose slowly, thick and suffocating.

"Who is there?" he shouted one more time, his voice cracking with fear.

Hmm?

’How is this possible?’ he exclaimed in his mind, his heart racing.

Even though he was confused, with many troubling questions swirling in his mind, he recovered quickly and showed an expression of shock and relief.

"I can say the same about you," Thoren responded calmly, his expression did not change.

There was a mole among their temporary party. And it was only Neville and Cressida who knew his full name at that time.

Looking at Thoren’s piercing, unblinking gaze, Neville could not help but forcefully swallow the lump in his throat.

"Have you seen the others?" he asked, trying to sound casual.

"No," Thoren shook his head slowly. "I do not know. Have you seen anyone?"

"Alas, my luck is bad today. I have not been lucky enough to find any rare treasure. I only found powerful beasts that would not hesitate to tear me into pieces."

Thoren did not comment on his statement. He turned to look at the deeper part of the ruin with cold calculation.

His undead servant walked behind him like a silent shadow.

"Ah, yes. Let us go together," Neville said quickly and rushed to keep up with him.

’How is this possible,’ he thought, deeply confused.

He himself had been close to death many times, and it was only by pure luck that he had managed to escape with his life.

Without the hidden armor underneath his robe, he would have long been killed by the creatures.

But compared to the person walking beside him, he did not know how to feel.

’Is it possible he had been hiding in that safe place from the very beginning?’ Neville creased his brow and became lost in thought. ’With only a single summon, there is no way he could have battled those terrifying beasts and escaped completely unscathed.’

The various changes in his expression were all seen by Thoren, and the corner of his lips could not help but curl upward.

’You can continue your charade for the time being. Enjoy it while it lasts,’ Thoren thought coldly.

Merely looking at them, he could tell something was deeply wrong. This place was far from ordinary.

However, no matter how hard he tried to perceive what was inside the clusters of booths, he found nothing at all.

But he knew better than to believe that.

When they arrived at the edge of the cluster of small wooden booths, he noticed the desert sand was completely gone from the floor.

He stepped forward into the narrow path between the dozens of wooden booths without any hesitation.

"Did you hear that?" he asked with a tense, trembling voice.

Since they had stepped into the narrow booths path, everything had been strangely, unnaturally quiet.

"I heard the captain’s voice," Neville responded, pointing to the third booth on their right.

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