Chapter 430 - Chase Or Retreat
Without hesitation, Theo used his Blink to regain his distance and started running again.
The black-haired guy furrowed his eyebrows and ordered, "Kill him. Don't let him get away."
The group hurriedly followed him.
'That's not working?' Theo furrowed his eyebrows. 'I thought I could use my reputation to probably make them hesitate or something, but to think I'm their target… What is going on? Who are they?'
Theo remembered that Agata had dealt with the Faerie Group, so he thought there was only one more influence that still aimed at him, the Lange Family. However, there was no indication of the Lange Family as everything seemed to be unbelievable.
He recalled their strength and his expression became grim. "Their mental fortitude is undeniable, but their strength is not too strong. If they were from the Lange Family, why didn't they send them on the Dragon Extermination? They are clearly calmer and more troublesome… Are they from a different influence?"
Theo couldn't grasp their identity and understand their intention with this limited information.
At the same time, Ava finally came out of his bag with the pocket watch in her mouth. "Kyu!"
Seeing the pocket watch, Theo grabbed it and slightly opened the pocket watch to avoid anything inside flying into the air.
To his surprise, he could see a paper sticking out of the gap.
Theo pinched the paper with two fingers while handling the pocket watch to Ava. "Carry this for me first."
Ava nodded while turning around, seeing several people approaching. "Kyu!"
Theo clicked his tongue and noticed their presence too. However, he also had a fair share of his problems as well.
From the big clash between the wolves and the mummies to when he was surrounded by many wolves, he already exhausted most of his Magic Power.
It was true that he could injure two guys with a single blow, but fighting all ten of them was not possible with his current strength. That was also the reason he thought he could get away by using his identity and why he had yet to use his Telekinesis to fly.
B Rank Skills were too exhausting for him. If not for the fact most of his B Rank Skills didn't require too much Magic Power like Nella's powerful skills, which reflected the Magic Power consumption, he would have exhausted all his Magic Power.
"What should I do?" Theo opened the map while Ava warned him again. "Kyu."
Seeing two people closing in, Ava looked at them from on top of Theo's head. She raised both feet as lightning started to spark in front of her.
The lightning formed a small sphere and flew to one of the enemies. "Kyu!"
"!!!" Unfortunately, their enemies had seen it coming and leaped to the side. Even though they couldn't come closer, tailing him like this was good enough.
Little did they know Ava's power was far beyond their imagination. The small lightning sphere suddenly dove to the ground and exploded, sending multiple lightning in all directions.
The shock wave blew them away.
"What?!" The two were surprised as they needed to halt their movement while the rest used their shields to proceed as if nothing happened.
"If he is really Theodore Griffith, this means not only he has a clone, but he also has a summoned creature, that rabbit… Be careful with his illusion. One mistake may take your life." The black-haired guy commanded, fully aware of Theo's threat. "How are the others?"
"They're catching up to us."
"Good." The leader waved his hand to the right. "We are going to trap him with the terrain. Tell the rest about the new meeting point. Make sure your focus is on me."
"Understood."
Ava furrowed her eyebrows when she listened to their conversation, albeit she had no way to tell him the real details. And Theo was trying to open the piece of paper in his hand.
Unfortunately, the moment he saw what was inside the paper, he was very disappointed.
"What the heck is this?" Theo widened his eyes, staring at the paper in disbelief.
There were seven hand-drawn stars connected by a single line that looked like a constellation.
However, nothing else was spotted, making Theo frustrated.
"I don't need a freaking constellation, goddammit!" Theo simply couldn't understand the meaning of the constellation, especially when his brother told him he could save his life by opening the pocket watch. "Did my brother lie to me?"
His disappointment just increased. From his parents to his brother, he somehow lost trust in them right now.
"As expected, I shouldn't rely on someone else…" Theo's expression abruptly changed to an extremely cold one. He felt there was no need to trust others anymore because there wasn't a single family member telling him the truth and now he risked his life for something like this.
"Ava…" Theo took a deep breath while assessing his situation. "I have a plan."
Now that he didn't care about the help from the pocket watch, his mind became clear as he started thinking about another escape plan.
Theo glanced to the right and saw three people closing in. Hence, he slightly changed his direction to the left to avoid them.
After that, Theo used his Blink to cover himself for a moment and summoned his clone.
Because he was carrying the bag, he used his Illusion to make him not carry a bag.
With this, the pursuers could see his face.
"What? There is that red-haired man again?" One of the enemies exclaimed in surprise.
"It should be his clone. He put on a disguise by using his illusion," said the leader before finding Theo and his clone split up.
"What?!" All of them were surprised while the leader gasped. "The real Theo is… Wait, he may be using the illusion to confuse us. Which one is real?"
From the Grand Gaia Competition, he remembered Theo could make one doubt whether it was a clone or not.
And facing it directly, he realized there was no real answer. He gritted his teeth and raised his hand. "Rath, come with me to the one with his real appearance. The rest will handle the other one."
"Roger."
They split up according to the situation while Theo couldn't help but smile.
Ava hid again as Theo continued with this pace for a few minutes. During the escape, Theo used his Magic Bullets two times with the Tracking on to buy some time.
However, the enemies were stronger than he expected because they dealt with them easily.
In the end, Clone Theo disappeared and Theo used his clone again to split them up.
And it turned out the leader had followed the right one.
But he still needed to answer another question.
"What? He is splitting once again?" The leader's body shook as he realized what Theo planned. "From ten to five to two to one… He wants to kill us one by one? He also has his clone and that rabbit…"
He looked at Theo while shaking. There was one thought in his mind as soon as he noticed the trap Theo had planted.
Chase or retreat.
