Chapter 527 – Failure to Succeed

Chapter 527 – Failure to Succeed
The two padded their feet, making as little noise as possible as they hurried through the cave-like rugged corridors.

Before passing the room where the old hag usually rested, both Ochili and Sol were so nervous that they stopped breathing.

Luckily, the worst didn’t happen, and the two passed through the old witch’s room with everything going smoothly.

Until after Ochili suppressed the cave entrance alert witchcraft spell with a potion and escaped with Saul, the old witch still didn’t appear behind them.

The two carefully made their way through the cave entrance without setting off the alarm and finally left the old hag’s stronghold.

It was late at night outside, and the stars overhead added a bit of luster to the dim world.

Ahead of them were several small hills and barren wildlands with gentle terrain.

Seeing the scenery outside and then looking at the cave behind them, Saul was a little emotional that they had been kept in a hole in the ground all this time.

When they left the hole in the ground and then looked back, they realized that when they viewed it from the outside, the hole in the ground had turned into a fist-sized mouse hole. And there was not a single bit of magic fluctuation emanating from inside.

It seemed that the old witch was using this method to hide from the people chasing her.

They ran all the way to the bottom of the nearest hill before hiding behind a few lone aloes.

“Well, let’s part ways here.” Ochili, whose chest was constantly heaving, suddenly said.

“Separate? But ……” Sol was interrupted again before he could finish.

“Now that we’re out, naturally, we’re each escaping on our own. Now is not the time to relax, the old witch is very good at finding people. I asked you to raise your strength as soon as possible, not just to get out of the cage. What’s really scary is the subsequent pursuit. Together, we’re too big a target, and we’re more likely to be caught. I’m going to escape that way, so remember to change directions.” Ochili’s lips quickly collided as he explained a few words to Sol.

Then his whole body was hidden into the black mist and drifted away in the direction he said.

Saul looked at the remnants of Ouchli’s sorcery, but stood still, not immediately escaping.

He put one hand on his right arm that had just been grabbed by Ouchli and said thoughtfully, “So …… which direction should I run in?”

……

While running away, Ouchli had been acting very calm, but in fact, his heart was about to jump out of his chest.

After being locked up by the old witch for three years, he had longed for freedom all the time, and was threatened by the shadow of death all the time.

For this escape plan, he had been planning for over a year.

The sorcery materials he had asked Saul to steal were only a small part of it, as early as a year ago he had begun to secretly keep a private stash of materials for future needs.

But there are some important materials that are hard to get hold of, the old witch will always be watching him from the back, if not for Saul and him cooperating with each other, he would not have been able to put together the last few materials.

Now he finally managed to run out!
Ou Qi Li who had been running for most of the night stopped at a mountain pass, took out a plant root from behind him that could restore magic power, and devoured it with a big mouthful.

Such unprocessed materials directly swallowed, in fact, has a certain degree of toxicity, but Ouchili now does not want to delay.

A lot of toxicity had long been accumulated in his body over these three years, so he could only wait until he regained his freedom before slowly resolving it.

And now all he had to do was race against time. He had to rush to the closest wind demon’s territory before the old hag used the magic mirror to find it.

As long as he found the wind demon’s subordinates and reported the old witch’s whereabouts, he thought that not only would he be safe from here on out, but he could also get a hefty reward.

It was just that it would take three days to rush from here to the wind demon’s nearest territory.

The uncertainty during this period would be too much.

Fortunately, there was someone who could help him stall for time.

Ochrei waited for his magic to return, craning his head into the distance and fading into a twisted smile.

“Saul, run, use your maximum strength, think of every way you can, run as fast as you can, run as far as you can! That way the old hag will be able to spend more time when she is following the scent on your body to look for it.”

Ochili had actually prepared another ingredient when he configured the potion.

This material, when applied to the body, had the effect of concealing the scent at first, but if it wasn’t wiped off with a special potion within twelve hours, it would begin to emit an extremely noticeable smoldering odor.

And the old hag who always used this material to evade pursuit was naturally extremely familiar with this smell.

When she woke up, she would naturally go first to catch Saul, who had left a small tail.

It also disguisedly prolonged the time for Ochre to escape.

And it was this material that Ochili purposely smeared on Saul’s arm when he was pulling him out of the cage.

As for the little bit stained on his hands, naturally he washed it off when he escaped from Saul’s sight.

As long as Saul could last a day, Ochili was certain that he could run away to the wind demon’s territory!
……

Three days later.

Ochili hid in a patch of grass and looked at a settlement in front of him. There were no houses made of masonry and wood in the settlement. Instead, there was a huge tent.

The tent in the center was the most massive, and other tents were built around it.

Because the Lordless Land was a place where danger could occur at any time, all Wind Demon subordinates would choose this kind of tent, which was easy to dismantle and move around, as their residence.

“This should be the Wind Demon’s territory. Looking at the size of the tent in the center …… there should be a second-order sorcerer stationed here.”

Ouchli was overjoyed, if there was only a section of sorcerers stationed here, then at most the old witch’s movements to chase him would become a little more stealthy, but it would not be able to stop the other party.

But if a second-rank wizard was stationed here, the old hag would definitely weigh whether she would attract more enemies before coming in.

“Only the last three hundred meters are left now.” Without letting his guard down, Ochili carefully advanced while trying to cover himself with his sand-stained grayish-yellow outer robe.

He was coated with the kind of material that could hide his scent, and it would wash off immediately when it was time.

Now that he had just applied a new material, there was still plenty of time.

“Just wait until I see that second-order sorcerer ……”

Suddenly, two people walked out from the settlement while talking and laughing.

Ochili didn’t dare to show himself right away, and only crouched to the side and cast a concealment spell.

Those two people were emanating the fluctuations of a Sorcerer Apprentice. Perhaps it was because they were not far from the settlement, they did not maintain proper vigilance at this time, and they were still talking about the recent news.

It happened to also be related to the old witch.

“I heard that someone has discovered the old witch’s trail.”

“Ha, Lord Wind Demon has already sent extra manpower to catch her. When the old hag falls into the net, we won’t have to worry about people around us going missing if they know what they’re doing in the future.”

At this time, the first person suddenly lowered his voice, “You know, it is said that the old hag appeared last time and actually injured Lord Wind Demon ……”

The voices of the two people were getting lower and lower, and Ouchli could no longer hear them too clearly.

But just from the news he had just gotten, he could totally report the old hag’s sighting here.

Maybe the second-ranked wizard here would even reward him for it!
Ouchli’s eyes were glowing and he was about to get up from the ground.

Suddenly, his legs went numb, and he was unexpectedly unable to exert any strength at all.

Ouchli’s heart was beating wildly, and a bad thought surged into his mind.

He opened his mouth, wanting to shout, but when he did open his mouth, he only made a sound not much bigger than a breath.

“It can’t be? It can’t be!”

“It won’t! It won’t! It won’t!!!”

In the next second, the soil under Ochili’s feet loosened, and his entire body unexpectedly fell.

“What person?” The two apprentices who were just exchanging whispers instantly realized the abnormality.

“Hmph, sometimes it’s not good to be too vigilant.”

An eerie voice rang out, and immediately afterward, the blood and flesh on the two apprentices’ bodies began to roll down, as if there was an invisible knife that quickly cut through their bodies, not even sparing their skeletons!
Soon, everything returned to tranquility.

Ochili lay on his back in a deep pit of dirt, feeling a warm liquid dripping down a little from his head, slowly soaking his face.

“You’re a fast runner, aren’t you?” The old hag pressed against Ochili’s back.

She hung her head low, the pinky on her braid nudging right on Ochili’s nose.

“It’s over!” Ouchili clenched his teeth tightly, his heart incomparably desperate.

He had lost the bet.

“That bastard boy is really useless, he didn’t even last a day!”

He couldn’t help but hate Saul, who had worked with him, and felt that that little wizard was only good for research and nothing else as well.

The old witch heard Ochili’s muttering and slowly grinned, “Ho ho, what, did you escape with Saul then?”

Ochili was stunned, how could the old hag ask that?

The old hag’s voice continued to ring in his ears, “Then do you know …… that boy didn’t run at all?”

(End of chapter)