Chapter 719: Tracking and Questioning

On the other side, Xia Duo, who had already transformed into an air current and was rapidly departing, felt the violent Magic fluctuations from the direction of the South Tower Plaza, causing his speed of departure to increase by another ten percent.

Bloodline Ability stems from bodily instinct, no different from hands or feet; ordinary people can burst forth with immense strength, and naturally, Xia Duo can also burst forth with extreme speed.

In the process of rapidly moving away, he saw an energy Rainbow Bridge spreading from the West Tower of the Rodney Territory to the South Tower, almost rapidly enveloping the South Tower Plaza.

"Could it be that a fight has broken out over there?"

Xia Duo guessed in his heart, but everything here had nothing to do with him anymore; having already been "assassinated" once, the only thing he needed to do now was leave.

Leave this place of trouble!

All of this seemed long, but in reality, it only took a few short seconds.

Within these few seconds, Xia Duo had experienced an assassination, evasion, and then transformation into an air current to escape; he had even flown out of the South Tower Plaza by now.

After another few seconds, Xia Duo suddenly felt a sense of relief in his heart; although there was no obvious boundary prompt, he knew he had flown out of the effective range of that large-scale Forbidden Restriction field similar to a Forbidden Spell.

In other words, as long as he was willing, he could Teleport away right now.

Of course, Teleportation was out of the question; he was not yet sure if he would be noticed by the South Tower Plaza side if he teleported here, and if he were noticed and then tracked down, it would be miserable if they gave him another hit!

It was even best not to have any Spellcasting behavior at all; leaving quietly like this was the safest!

Never had Xia Duo felt such fondness for his Bloodline Ability as he did today, and the depression he felt a while ago because his Bloodline had accidentally awakened and caused him to come into contact with the Deep Weave was also swept away today.

……

Not until he had completely left the Rodney Territory and felt the commotion at the South Tower Plaza subside did Xia Duo still not lower his guard, continuing to fly south and entering the unexplored primeval forest in the south.

At this moment, Xia Duo relaxed slightly, and just as he was preparing to Teleport away, he keenly discovered an abnormal fluctuation in the surrounding Magic Net.

Xia Duo was very familiar with these fluctuations, and they had even long been listed by him as key monitoring targets, but usually, there were Spells to automatically deal with them; now, he did not have a single Protective Spell on him, and perhaps he could manually counter them, but there was no time left.

Xia Duo immediately extracted a Teleportation Spell from the Magic Net; this near-instantaneous Spell required almost no casting time, and almost at the same moment he triggered it, the effect was already realized—

He appeared in another unfamiliar environment!

Xia Duo dared not delay and restored his normal human form; although he could cast Spells himself in gaseous form, he could not use Magic Items (which were also vaporized), and the Spells stored in the Magic Net were very limited and not something to rely on.

He still needed to borrow some external forces.

After restoring his human form, Xia Duo discovered that except for the Mending added to the silver belt at his waist via Magic Permanence, which was still unusable, all other Magic Items had returned to normal.

Especially his Spellbook.

This Magic Item, on which he had originally placed high hopes, had been a bit disappointing in this incident, but it had to be said that without it, Xia Duo was truly a bit unaccustomed.

——The abnormal fluctuation appeared again!

Xia Duo's expression sank; he knew this was someone tracking him, not just tracking his position, but also tracking him on an informational level, and it just so happened that when he escaped from the South Tower Plaza earlier, all the Protective Spells on his body had been stripped clean.

The first thing he needed to do now was no longer to Teleport away, but to add Avoidance of Detection-type Protective Spells to himself.

This was the combat instinct Xia Duo had practiced during long-term simulation training!

The Spellbook flashed with a faint light, and Xia Duo immediately felt much more at ease; subsequently, he again extracted a stored Spell from the Magic Net and Teleported away.

No matter who was chasing him from behind, at the very least they were at the Archmage level; using Teleportation via the Spellbook might result in being caught up by the opponent, and only stored Spells were the most reliable choice.

Just like that, after two Teleportations, Xia Duo had already replenished the various Protective Spells that had been dispelled earlier during the intervals between Teleportations.

Only then did he dare to truly say that he was basically safe!

Afterward, more than ten seconds passed, and no abnormal fluctuations appeared; Xia Duo guessed that the opponent might have given up, so he felt at ease to cast a more precise Teleportation Spell.

Although he had gone through multiple Teleportations before, considering speed and safety, he had chosen Fuzzy Teleportation over shorter distances; truly precise Teleportation was difficult to cast in a short period of time.

The person who had just been chasing behind him was actually also using Fuzzy Teleportation, but now that Xia Duo had hidden himself, the opponent had no way to track him.

……

Perhaps the tracker had truly given up; until Xia Duo returned to the Tower of Time, he did not encounter any more tracking, but there was a saying in Xia Duo's hometown: "The monk may run, but the temple cannot run away," and that was the case now—

In the Reception Room of the Tower of Time, Rodney Lord looked at Xia Duo with a look of displeasure, "Lord Xia Duo, you can really run!"

Shaking off the tracking was not much; if he really wanted to keep chasing, he would eventually be able to track him down. The key was that Xia Duo had run too early and too secretly.

It once made him think that Xia Duo had already died under the assassination of Keersi and the others; in his rage, he had almost tortured Keersi and the others to death.

Now it was a fine mess; originally, Rodney Lord had been thinking of minimizing the hostility of that person, after all, joining the Seven Towers could not guarantee absolute safety.

But now he had already killed one of that person's Archmages, as well as several High Mages; how could that person not have hostility!

Rodney Lord now hated Xia Duo to death; he didn't even know what to do anymore. His only hope was that that person would be completely suppressed by the Seven Towers, but this possibility was extremely, extremely low.

"Rodney Lord, why are you here!"

Xia Duo said, feigning surprise.

In fact, he had long had guesses about the identity of the tracker; as long as the Mage Tower still belonged to Rodney Lord, he basically could not lose.

And when he returned to the Tower of Time and Niya told him that Rodney Lord was waiting for him, Xia Duo had already completely confirmed that the tracker was Rodney Lord.

"Lord Xia Duo, do you know what you have done!" Rodney Lord lowered his voice and issued a question in a near-growl.

"Me?"

Xia Duo was stunned for a moment; he lowered his head and his gaze fell on the Spell Reversal ring on the index finger of his right hand, and he hurriedly took off the ring.

Then he took off several Amulets from his waist and handed them to Rodney Lord, saying somewhat embarrassedly: "Sorry, I almost forgot about these! None of them are damaged; returning them intact now!"

Could it be that Rodney Lord was chasing him just for these things? Xia Duo was a bit suspicious; even if they asked for these things afterward, he wouldn't not return them; was it necessary to chase him like a criminal?

Rodney Lord soon answered this question with his actions.

Rodney Lord snatched those few Magic Items from Xia Duo's hand and put them away without any inspection, but after that, he still stared at Xia Duo with a face full of anger, grief, and displeasure.

Xia Duo was full of confusion; what was this all about!

If anyone should be displeased or angry, it should be himself; he had been inexplicably dragged into a dispute involving a Great Arcanist without gaining any benefits, and he wasn't even displeased, so why were you, a turncoat who abandoned darkness for light, still displeased?