Epic Of The Demonic Sage

After hearing the explanation from Lucius, Kiana couldn't help but chuckle. Not only had Viscount Drew made himself a trap, but he was also taking others down with himself.

"That is rather amazing. Though when do we act?" Kiana questioned.

"It shouldn't be long. Considering how angry the priest was, he should be wanting to leave the city as soon as possible. At most, it might take him a day since he will probably search for some carriages first.

And I'm pretty sure he doesn't know fully of the change in travel restrictions that are between the Inanis territory and Drew Territory. John should know when the priest leaves and should send someone to inform us.

Till then we can wait." Lucius answered.

Kiana nodded her head, and the two of them continued doing their tasks. Kiana went to supervise other servants while Lucius just read some books, not wanting to miss out on the opportunity with the priest in case it happened.

'Seeing how he is, I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves at night, too. He should be at least strong enough to fight some beasts even if his gift wouldn't directly help him.' Lucius thought to himself.

He looked at the empty cage and wondered if the Bore Shrews would be enough.

"For the plan to work and to cover all bases, it is important that I only use a beast for the attack. Using the Lost might reveal a human link and see as the church of Duran has a gift that can detect lies, they might even have a gift that detects what killed something." Lucius muttered to himself.

Time passed and hours flowed like a stream. In the blink of an eye, it was already night time and a knock was heard on the door of the lab.

~knock~ knock~

"It's me. John sent a messenger telling us that the priest has left." Kiana's voice could be heard from outside.

Lucius stood up from the chair and closed the book before heading to the door.

~Creak~

"Very well, it's a bit early but night time will be better for us to act." Lucius spoke.

"Where do we go now?" Kiana asked. "Do we follow the priest?" 

"No, first we go to the reeducation center." Lucius replied.

"Why there?" Kiana asked, not understanding.

"We have to get our ride, of course…" Lucius said with a smile.

Kiana finally understood what Lucius meant and widened her eyes. The two of them quickly left the mansion and headed for the reeducation center. Entering from the back, Lucius went to his lab.

"Doyle, come on we got work to do." Lucius spoke.

"ENG!" Doyle's grunt was heard coming from the corner as he woke up.

~swish~

The Lost picked up a robe that was hanging on the side and put it on his body. Kiana had already gotten a couple of such robes made and they were perfect to cover the body of Doyle. 

It had a string that tied at the front of the neck, while the hood covered the head. The rest of the long robe just hung down, hiding the rest of the body effectively. Only when Doyle was moving fast would his body would be seen, but at that speed, people would not be able to see it clearly anyway.

The three of them left the area under the guise of darkness and quickly made their way to the city wall. 

"This should be far enough…" Lucius said as he looked around.

"Lower your back," Lucius said to Doyle, and the Lost complied.

"Come on now, climb up." Lucius said.

"Okay," Kiana said with a slight reluctance.

Even if she had been on Doyle's back before, it was still a bit unnerving experience to Kiana. Lucius who was used to a much faster mode of travel, was not bothered by this speed at all.

~shua~ thud~

Doyle stood up and took a step, shooting up like a cannonball. Just like before, he reached the top of the wall and then jumped down with Lucius and Kiana. 

"Head there, Doyle. But from the forest." Lucius pointed.

"Eng!" Doyle grunted in response as he moved like a deer weaving through bushes and rocks alike.

With its speed, it didn't take long for them to reach the border of the main road. The two sides of the roads were covered in dense trees from this point onwards and it was the perfect location to act.

~shua~

"This is far enough, stop." Lucius ordered, and Doyle came to a stop.

Lucius and Kiana got down from his back and looked for the priest.

"He's not here?" Kiana asked.

"He should still be a bit far. We were much faster in travel even if he had a head start." Lucius replied.

"Oh yeah, where are the bore shrews?" Kiana questioned.

Lucius closed his eyes in response and tried to sense the positions of the Bore Shrews. They were distributed around the area and had been silently lying in wait. Since Lucius didn't fully know what place the Priest could go to, he had gotten the bore shrews to spread around.

This way, even if the Priest took any unexpected path, at least one bore shrew would be able to attack him.

'Come out,' Lucius said in his mind.

~skwee~

A low cry could be heard from all around, but didn't seem that displaced in the forest. There were many animals and beasts living in the forest and strange sounds could be heard from time to time, making it easy to disguise this sound as normal.

"You're gathering them already?" Kiana asked.

"Yes, we will need to follow the priest for a bit. Can't kill him this close to the city. He needs to be at least halfway to the territory of the bandits. I'll need to do a command for the bore shrews and they should be able to take care of the rest." Lucius replied.

Kiana didn't know what exactly Lucius was going to do but she just nodded her head, deciding to wait and see.