"Hmm?"
Ezra watched as the puppet barged in, its eyes glowing red.
The puppet looked around, standing still for two minutes as it examined the room but not finding anything.
After two minutes it walked back out with Ezra tagging right behind it.
It then went back to its dormant state.
Moving a ter away from it, Ezra dispeled and the seal lit up.
Instantly, the puppet moved into action, charging towards him.
Stepping back, Ezra activated , avoiding the puppet.
Waiting for the seal to deactivate, he moved out of the three ter range and canceled .
To his surprise, the puppet’s eyes lit up at the sight of him and charged towards him once more.
’Is this distance not far enough?’ thought Ezra as he quickly widened the distance by two more ters, but the puppet kept up the charge.
Going invisible, he watched as the puppet halted and, after a few seconds, it turned and walked to the front of the building it was guarding.
Once it was back in front of the building, Ezra took ten steps back, asuring an eight ter distance between him and the puppet before deactivating .
To Ezra’s astonishnt, the puppet was once again running towards him.
’Does it recognize ?’ he wondered, taking a drastic leap back until he was more than 10 ters away.
Zydrax chid in at this point.
[Or rather, it’s just attacking anyone it sees]
That was unlikely as the puppet stopped moving upon Ezra creating a ten ter distance and went back to its post.
’Seems it’s going to attack anyone who enters within ten ters of it. But isn’t that too much?’ Ezra said.
[I think it’s because the procedures for this particular scenario weren’t programd into it]
’What do you an?’
[Those puppets have instructions programd into them for two main scenarios] Zydrax explained.
[One, to enter battle mode and crush any opponents that gets within three ters of them, and two, to chase down anyone who steals the pills without defeating them first, but your case is different]
’I see’
[It’s very reasonable to assu that the Constellation who built this place didn’t program what to do in case the perpetrator was unidentified because he already put in arrangents to nullify all types of stealth] Zydrax continued.
[He probably could’ve never imagined that there would be a Transcendent with abilities that exceeded his]
Ezra chuckled.
[I wouldn’t imagined it either]
Ezra nodded, filling in the rest of the details.
’So, because there’s no programd instructions for what just occurred, it’s improvising?’
[Exactly] Zydax replied.
[If we leave it like this, it’s probably going to chase the next person who passes by within ten ters of it and do so until it kills him]
Ezra shook his head imagining what that would look like.
’That would be terrible...’
Ezra’s thoughts halted as the image of a set of Dragons appeared in his mind, a wicked smile soon forming on his face.
’This...can’t I use this?’
Just as he pondered, Zydrax reaffird his suspicions.
[You can. You definitely can]
The response caused Ezra’s smile to widen.
Done with their tests, Ezra activated and swiftly dispatched the puppet.
This ti, after gluing the case to the description, Ezra sat inside the building in a lotus position to recover his energy and lay out a concrete plan of how he would cause trouble for that set of Dragons.
He’d promised to kill that Black Dragon asshole once he arrived in the secret realm, but Ezra also knew he had to be careful about how he went about it.
One, he didn’t know what kind of ability each one had.
If he used to dispatch all of them and one of them was able to survive, he’d be put in a tough spot once it was reported to the higher-ups since the Nascents had seen him use such an ability and it was very likely that one of them sent them after him.
This would put him under a lot of suspicion, and even if they didn’t have evidence, they could simply fabricate it and use that as an excuse to attack the Red Dragon clan or extort them in other ways.
Beyond that, they could be gathered in a large group of up to fifty people, aning Ezra would have to kill all fifty people.
Either way, if soone amongst them survived, he was bound to be suspected.
So, he had to make sure to leave no witnesses.
For this, he originally intended to wait until a day or two before the end of the two weeks period before striking as most large groups would’ve scattered, split between those who decided they had gained enough and those who were persistently looking for more.
But even if he succeeded, he then had another problem.
If he successfully killed them all while using , he would have to hide them from being seen by others as their thod of death would be too unique.
I an, how many ways could one explain multiple rank five or even rank six Transcendents cut apart in one stroke? As that was what was very likely to happen.
Inevitably, their reasoning would lead them to suspect him, which was what he intended to avoid.
This now had a simple solution since he could simply use
’Put this corpse sowhere to be eaten up by insects and worms’
Feeding Black Dragon blood or at to people wasn’t sothing he would do.
Moreover, the Black Dragon’s space ring didn’t have any pills within.
Just as he’d seen through , the leader amongst the Black Dragons was holding all the pills.
’They must trust him a lot’
Making the Dragon’s skin into a weapon was only asking for trouble, so it was better if it was given to insects to devour.
With that, Dekan’s body and head were dragged away by an intangible force.
Done with that, Ezra took a lotus posture and ditated to recover his energy.
Using so many skills while was still active ant the energy expenditure was no joke.
He’d originally aid to stay out of his universe for the duration of the secret realms opening, but Zydrax changed his thoughts, citing that his universe was within his soul, and therefore there should be no harm in doing so.
With the primary target dead, all that remained was to clean up the witnesses.
And Ezra had already planned how he would do that.
’They should be in disarray by now’
Using the he left behind, he could faintly see them arguing with one another.
It was only natural.
The sudden disappearance of a rank five Transcendent should at least have this much impact.
’With this they will have to stay put for a while or move slowly’
Either one worked for Ezra.
Ezra intended to leave them alone for the next two to three days to give them ti to grief and get off their tense state.
Once their guard was lowered and relief set in, he would strike.
Half an hour later, Ezra’s energy reserve was back to full capacity.
Concealing himself, Ezra used to appear in the sa grass patch he had abducted Dekan.
Not far off, he saw the Black Dragons huddled together as they gathered ideas on where their friend had suddenly disappeared to.
Nodding at the expected situation, Ezra raced off, making sure to move out of the sight of the Black Dragons before heading towards the buildings.
Setting his plans in motion, Ezra bypassed the puppet to enter the building and steal the pill, but stopped.
’I forgot to take glue from Orion’
Using , he entered his universe and teleported straight into Black Sky.
Concealing himself, he grabbed several cases of glue off the shelves and exited the universe, appearing back in the building he left.
Since he couldn’t chip away parts of the puppets anymore to glue the pills and the descriptions together, he substituted it with glue from Orion.
In any case, now that he knew he could visit his universe even while in the secret realm, there was no need to use tal anymore.
Taking the pill, he cut off the top part of the stool with the description, swiftly leaving before the puppet barged in.
Getting out of the ten ter distance, he glued the box and stool head together and placed it in his space ring.
About to leave, Zydrax chid in.
[Take the entire thing]
"Why?"
[That way it’s less suspicious]
Waiting for the puppet to exit the building, he went in again.
Looking at the headless stool, it indeed looked out of place.
Ezra nodded, placing the rest of the stool into his space ring, closing the door as he left and leaving a as he did.
’I should make sure the doors are closed too’ he noted.
Done, he went for the next building and did the sa thing.
Unlike he who was traveling deeper in and clearing out buildings in his path, the Black Dragons were clearing multiple buildings on the sa line before heading forward.
By taking the treasure, the puppets would attack them once they got in a ten ter range with more ferocity than normal, only for them to defeat it and find that there was no treasure.
By the ti this happened four to five tis, they would be worn down with serious injuries or one of them would’ve died.
The more damage, the better.
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