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Chapter 75: Confusion (2)

Ethaniel turned to the direction of where he had heard his name being called out. Through the cloud of shadows around him, he could clearly see everything that was going on in the spaceIn fact, it seemed to be as if his vision was much clearer than before. But despite the clarity, he couldn't gauge where the voice came from.

"...this fog... just what?" This was all too familiar for Ethaniel. Just some time ago, he had seen and directly been in this same fog which had saved him from the group in the forest. To be greeted by this again, it was no coincidence.

However, he could not have time to ponder on this matter at all. Despite the ongoing confusion that the shadow caused for his enemies, Ethaniel still had to get out and find safety.

"An opening, an opening..." He quickly scrutinized his surrounding area in hopes of finding for an escape path that he could take. Although the enemies around him were in confusion. There were still players outside of the fog which could strike at him the moment he walked out of the space.

"Ugh... can't these guys be more confused?" He clicked his tongue. Despite the chaos, the players still remained on guard, as if they knew that this fog was coming. "Looks like that bastard must have seen this coming and warned them."

Still looking around in hopes of finding for a way out of here, he heard a small voice from below him.

"Psst! Ethaniel! Over here!"

"...?" Ethaniel raised his brow as he saw a small animal below him that seemed to be a fox. "W-what the...?"

"No times to be questioning things! We're escaping, now!" Without waiting for the latter's reply, the fox began to move its way out of the fog.

"Hey...!" Ethaniel frowned at the sudden movements of the animal, however, he couldn't do anything about it. All he could do was trust the animal and followed after it.

...

Outside of the fog of shadow, a young man moved around the battlefield, smoothly dodging all the attacks aimed at him. Whilst evading, he held onto his staff as he countered with his own basic attack, mana spark.

"Argh...!" The player stumbled back upon being hit by the attack.

"Hey! What the hell's up with this? Why is it so hard to catch a black mage?!" The casters from the distance shouted out angrily to the front liners. "Can't you do a better job?!"

"I'd like to see you try than just staying at such a distance missing all your damn spells!" One of the players clicked scoffed at the remark.

"Ugh, it's not our fault that someone couldn't keep the target at bay!"

"Bah! Enough of this!" The player roared out as he charged towards the young man who was busily dodging all the attacks, gripping onto his sword tightly, he swung at it towards him.

"These attacks are never-ending..." The young man clicked his tongue as he dodged the player's attack, simultaneously after, he sent a mana spark out.

"Argh...!" the player gritted his teeth in frustration. "Why it so damn hard to hit him! Just what is his agility?!"

"Well, this guy must have placed all his stat points into agility since the damage he deals is so shit!" One of the players said.

"But still! It's annoying! It's as if he can see our movements or something!"

Ignoring the complaints among the players around him, the young man turned towards the fog of shadow that slowly disappeared away as he thought to himself. '...Kon and Ethaniel should be at the rendezvous point by now, I should hurry up and escape from here.'

The man who had been dodging all those attacks aimed at him was none other than, Shinto. For a person whose class is of the mage archetype, it wouldn't have made sense to anyone as to why he could be dodging the attacks like there was no tomorrow despite being skilled, this was because mages had a lack of mobility.

But that sort of reasoning was under the assumption that Shinto had invested his points in Intelligence, which was not the case. Before the fight had begun, he placed one-third of his stat points into agility.

'Hmm... escaping would be a little hard...' Shinto dodged another attack that was swung at him whilst he let his thoughts run loose. 'Their beginning to encircle me...'

Although it may look as if he could endlessly dodge all attacks, it wasn't true. Despite doing well currently, in the long run, if the player's continued to attack at him endlessly, they could form a formation in which they would be able to entrap Shinto in it just as they did with Ethaniel earlier.

'I'll still be able to last for three more minutes and that won't be enough time to use Shadow Fields...' Shinto swiftly moved around the players, simultaneously shooting out a basic attack to them respectively.

"Agh..." Being knocked slightly back, the patience of the players ran thin. "This guy..."

"Hey! You all! Stop being distracted that mage and looked at where Ethaniel is!" A caster shouted out.

"H-Huh, what?" Surprised by the sudden shout from the mages, the players looked around the area. "W-What?! E-Ethaniel's missing!?"

Simultaneously after the player's realized, a dark orb flew forward towards the area around Shinto, quickly hitting all the players around him.

"Master! Now!" A voice shouted out to Shinto.

"Right," Shinto nodded his head, as he began to make a run for it, heading straight to an alleyway.

"That guy's heading over there! Quick chase after him!"

...

Running through the alleyway, Shinto swiftly made his way through the narrow road, whilst doing so, he sent a blinding light behind him.

[ Hallowed Crest ].

"Argh...! What the?!" Surprised by the sudden light that hit him, the man stumbled back, quickly tumbling down to the ground.

"A priest's skill?!" From behind the man, a player shouted out in surprise.

"Bah! Does it matter?! He's getting away!" Another player clicked their tongue as they moved forward, swiftly running pass his allies. However, the moment he did so, he was hit by an orb of shadow, that pushed him back to his party. "Ack...!"

Ignoring the player that was hit by the attack, one of the player turned to look at where Shinto was now. "Tsk...! He got away!" From the skills that were shot out towards them, Shinto disappeared into the night.