Blake was almost having a panic attack
"Shhh, don't make a sound, nod if you understand" a voice whispered beside Blake's ear
Blake still in panic soon recognised the voice and nodded vigorously. It was the very girl how had woken him up at the cell.
"Good I'll release my hand now" whispered the girl.
"You want to give me a heartattack?!" Blake exclaimed while whispering
"What's a 'heartattack' ? Also I was just making sure you don't make unnecessary noise or both of us would be caught"
{She made a fair point host}
(Who's side are you on? Who's system are you exactly?) Blake was absolutely speechless
(Also why isn't there a red dot in MPM? It supposed to show everyone in the area! You are practically useless what if it was an enemy??)
{Negative, host you have to understand nothing is absolutely fullproof. MPM runs on the mana pulse logic, it can't detect it if the object is actively nullifying or avoiding the pulse, just like an electromagnetic rader if you are familiar with it}
{She is might have some kind of mana pulse redirectory artifact that's why the signal didn't pick up her location}
Watching him stay silent for a few moments, the asked him the question that was bothering her for quite a bit.
"Hey, so how did you escape him? Didn't the guy take you to their leader? You don't seem to possess any mana nor do you look strong enough to pull it off..."
Hearing her whisper Blake shifted his attention. Though she didn't finish the sentence Blake could guess what she was thinking.
"Sorry to disappoint you but it's not what you think. I was just lucky. The leader was some kind of puppet and it stopped moving for some reason. It just so happened that no one was actually guarding the area and I sprinted as fast as I could" Blake answered, though not exactly true but true none the less.
"Right...""the leader, a puppet, and he actually lost connection to his puppet"
"You do realise none of that makes sence, right?" The girl asked sceptically
"Well, that's what happened believe it or not"
Seeing she couldn't get any other information from him, she just sighed
" I'll believe it for now. Just know I'll be keeping my eye on you"
"Yea yea, do what you want" shrugged the boy. "By the way did find any clue to the exit?"
"Yes and no"
"What do you mean 'yes and no'?
"I did find the exit door on the second floor, but as you can guess it's looked"
"I tried breaking it but it wouldn't budge"
"We need something else to get out"
"By something else you mean?" Blake asked still confused.
"Maybe a teleportation scroll or the key to the exit"
"Then we should probably go back to the puppet, he might have the key, he was their leader after all"
"Not so quick. First, I won't just trust a random someone I met like a few hours ago. And second if what you said is true it would still be dangerous to go back considering we don't know when the puppet might wake up again"
"Then?" Blake couldn't understand where the girl was thinking.
"I've more solid plan. Do you remember Fredrick?"
"Who?"
"The man with the scar. He threw a dagger at you remember?"
"Oh! him?"
"Yes him. He might have other teleportation scrolls with him. We just have to find him and take it"
"That's suicide! Don't you remember what he did? None of could even put a scratch on him-" before Blake could finish
"It was trap! There is no way someone as incompetent as him could even touch my hair!" The girl exclaimed in a serious manner.
Then she grabbed Blake by his collar
"listen we don't have time to waste if you going to help me just do as I say, if not stay out of my way"
(Damn! she has quite the temper. Does she hate that guy that much?)
"Now tell me what's your decision"
Blake didn't know what to do in this situation, if what she said was true then he would either have to go back to get the key or follow her to get the scroll. Either way it would be dangerous. After a pause of a few breaths time Blake came to conclusion, he decided to trust his gut felling again.
"Ok I'll count on you" Blake said resolutely
"That's more like it"
"Now I think we should start with-" before she could finish another pair of footsteps could be heard at the room entrance.
"Shhh, keep quiet for now" the girl whispered
In the corridor outside the room entrance
"Hey have you checked the storage compartments?"
"Room 1 and 3 is clear, I was just heading to the second one"
"Let's check it out quickly before the lord finds out, it would be disaster if we can't find her before the ritual"
Then the pair hastily entered the room and started sorting through all the chest, cabinets and racks in order.
"Don't do anything I have a plan" she whispered faintly
"She's not here"
"Not here either"
"Did you check the other cabinet?"
"Yeah, what about behind the racks?"
"Nothing, what about that old cabinet in the corner?"
"No that's the last one, let's check it"
The two robbed man stood in front of the cabinet ready to open it, then the door suddenly opened, two hands heading straight towards both the guys neck almost instantly leaving them no time to react.
BAM-
A loud head on head collision could be heard across the room.
Phew*
"That takes care of it" said the girl relieved
(Wow! She's strong. Almost lifting two grown adults in both hands)
"Stop daydreaming. Let's go quickly" called out the girl
"Wait I have another idea"Blake said looking at the two unconscious cloaked man.
"Let's change outfit and wear these cloak and mask. It would be easier to navigate"
"That's a good idea actually" the girl said after thinking a bit.
Then they collected their battle spoils. Tied and gagged the bodies with ropes and cloth they found in the same room, before throwing the bodies inside the same cabinet, locking it from outside.
"Say why didn't we just kill them? Like I don't think it would be wise to leave them alive" asked Blake curiously.
"We can't risk that, what if they had heart tokens? It would reveal our exact location" the girl answered as they exited the room in disguise and walked towards a certain direction not to fast not too slow to avoid suspicion.
(Hey system what is a heart token?)
{Reporting to host, it's a special mana infused device that monitors the subject's data such as death, location and other things}
{If something happens to the subject it sends all the recorded information to the person who is linked with the device}
As they were walking through multiple corridors the girl took a left turn and entered another hallway that led to a single door just ahead of them.
"Found it" the girl exclaimed with gleam in her eyes.