After adding the final touches to his plan, Lucian decided to rest for a few hours before putting his plan to action. He had only one shot at this and had to make it count.
Although Lucian was a ten year old in this world, his soul wasn't exactly ten years.
Since he carried the memories of his past life into this world, he could be said to be much older.
And this made him understand and adapt to his situation much perfectly more than a ten year old would do. Sometimes he wondered if he was just trapped in one of the video games he played back on earth but every pain always reminded him that he was facing real life.
As darkness engulfed the world, Lucian lay on soft wooly carpet he had taken from his storage ring as he counted the minutes passing by. Since the masked man usually came to him after midnight, he planed to go in earlier in order lure him into his cage without failure.
He watched as the beautiful moons of Ferun hanging in sky, half blocked from his view by the tree branches moved slowly, almost unnoticeable with thoughts of home running through his head from time to time.
When the moons were almost at the center of the sky, Lucian smiled as he made his move under the shadows of the tall trees.
After almost an hour of walking Lucian stopped as flashes of burning fire appeared in a distance.
He opened the map Nexus had made for him and cross checked making sure he was at the right location.
He took out his dagger, VoidPiercer and stealthily made his way towards the small fire camp ahead, making sure not to make any noise. He made his way around the camp and hid behind one of the nearby trees, taking a good look at his surroundings.
A few seconds later, he spotted a person with long black hair with his back turned to him while tying his hair in a ponytail.
The person put on a black mask before turning towards him. Just then as if waiting for that moment, something clicked and they both came face to face with each.
"F*ck"
Lucian cursed as he ran to the center of the camp fire and slid with the fastest speed in him. He dipped a torch into the fire lighting it and at the same time, picked up a bag nearby before dashing into the woods, running with all his might.
"Map"
Lucian commanded and heat map appeared in front of him.
"Oh sh*t! Wrong direction" Lucian said as he stored the bag in his storage ring and made a turn, running with every strength in him. It wasn't that he needed the bag, no.
He only took it because he needed to give the masked man a reason to chase him.
He had initially planned to take anything as long as it belong to the masked man and the storage bag was the perfect bait. He knew the unknown man wasn't stupid and wouldn't just follow him because he came to steal fire but a storage bag was a valuable item to every hunter.
After a few minutes of running, Lucian heard a whistling sound at the back of his ears and a few seconds later, an arrow embedded itself in a tree in front of him.
"Can this get any worse" Lucian bit his lips as he leapt over fallen tree branches with all his might while holding onto the burning torch.
He needed to put some distance between him and the man in order to allow his plan to work.
"Okay Nexus, plan B" Lucian thought out loud as another arrow brushed his cheeks, drawing blood.
[Uhh…there's no plan B] Nexus replied.
"It's called survival Nexus. Surviving is winning" Lucian said as he kept running with the man hot on his trail.