Affinity: Chaos

Chapter 1430 I Know That Cat!

”The bounty hunters said they were sent here by Aries, your Faction Leaderʼs student.” The man said, he looked at the shadow and said, ”Do you by any chance know how she got wind of my strength? All my puppets are gone.”

The shadow was shocked when he heard this, he knew Aries was not in the Faction, but he didnʼt know where she went. Greyʼs presence in the Faction had taken most of his time. All he heard was that Aries left with Greyʼs friends.

ʼCould she have sent his friends here?ʼ The shadow thought.

”Aries has been out of the Faction for some time now, I donʼt know her whereabouts. But no one has accepted that mission which means itʼs still active.” The shadow didnʼt voice out his concerns, only telling the man what he knew.

”What about the people, did you kill them?” The shadow asked.

”No. I handled the matter, but I couldnʼt kill them. Theyʼre too powerful. But theyʼre seriously injured, I donʼt think they will be coming out anytime soon.” The man replied.

”A shame.” The shadow shook its head before looking at the man, ”What about my goods, are they safe?”

”I donʼt use your puppets, theyʼre still in the safe.” The man snorted.

The shadow heaved a sigh of relief. He had expended a lot of energy to get those people to come out and be killed by this man. They usually share the people in half. He had sent a good amount of people over to the man and the man had killed all of them. He picked his puppets and preserved the others for the shadow. The shadow hadnʼt been able to take some of the recent batches, so he had quite a good number of people present.

”So what now?” The shadow asked.

”I need to know if she will still come after me or not. Those people are alive and know that they would need a little more help and they can kill me. If they send a Pseudo-Sovereign my way, Iʼm doomed.” The man said.

”Why didnʼt you leave this place then?” The shadow asked.

”The best hiding place is in plain sight. Who would believe that instead of me leaving this place after it was compromised, I still chose to stay here?” The man shrugged.

The shadow thought about it and nodded. Indeed, everyone would think the man was no longer present here, especially given how boisterous the town has been recently, it was easy to assume that the man had been gotten rid of.

”Iʼll take my goods and then head back to make inquiries about Ariesʼ whereabouts.” The shadow said, he paused and said, ”If the people are the ones who left the Faction with her, then they are trouble. Thereʼs an even stronger one still in the Faction.”

The eyes of the man widened, ”I better leave then. I need to find a better hiding place. Do well to make sure Iʼm able to travel through without any hitch.”

The shadow nodded and turned around, he seemed to have seen something and paused, ”Since when did you have a cat?”

”A cat?” The man asked with a questioning look.

”Thereʼs a small cat there. Itʼs not yours?” The shadow pointed at the small black cat that was resting by the side.

”It must be a random cat from one of the townspeople. Thereʼs no need to worry about it.” The man waved it off.

….

In the town.

Grey and the others saw the shadow when it was moving around.

Klaus was about to step out when Grey stopped him.

”Thatʼs not his real body.”

”What do you mean itʼs not his real body?” Klaus was taken aback.

”Heʼs very cautious. Heʼs afraid of being captured. Luckily, thereʼs no way he will be able to control that thing without being close.” Grey said, he called for Void and Void appeared on his shoulder, ”Head over and tell him to stall this guy. Iʼll use him to track the original body.”

Void appeared lazily on his shoulder, looked around and disappeared.

”Alright, letʼs get to work.” Grey sat down and closed his eyes, he quickly picked out the link from the shadow and started to track it.

He was very careful so as not to alert the original body of the shadow.

The others watched Grey, waiting for him to move.

Grey opened his eyes after three minutes or so, ”There are three tracks.”

The facial expressions of everyone changed.

”What does this mean?” Alice asked.

”Either there are three people, or this guy purposely spread out the link just to be safe.” Grey explained.

”Iʼll give you guys the location to the other two links, Iʼll go after the last one.” Grey took their location plaques from them and after a few seconds, they saw another glowing light dot.

”Youʼre such a freak.” Klaus was left speechless when he saw how quickly Grey dealt with this situation.

The fact that he was able to easily place the exact location on the tracking device so easily was astounding.

Aries looked at the items in the hands of the people present, shocked.

”Alright, letʼs go, we donʼt have all day.” Grey was the first to leave, heading in another direction.

The others split into groups of two just like when they went to fight Barbarians and rushed toward the light dot.

The group left the town, all heading toward different places outside the town.

….

The shadow looked at Void, not moving his eyes away from him.

”I know this cat.” The shadow murmured.

”What?” The man didnʼt hear the shadowʼs words and questioned.

”I know this cat. It belongs to Grey Dawson.” The shadow panicked.

”This cat belongs to Grey Dawson?” The man pointed at Void, ”You mean the Grey Dawson the Gnomes want dead?”

”Yes. Theyʼre close, we need to leave, now!” The shadow hurried.

”What about me, youʼre leaving me here to die?”

”Think of your own way to survive, I canʼt die because of you.”