The Escapades
Episode 80!

After that incident, Tora became like an insane person and went berserk in front of the royal gate. He became a fugitive on charges of rebellion and was to be put to death at the time.

In the end, Paul helped her. Educate him and teach him all things about fighting and other knowledge. He was not trained in the best army units but he had been trained by the best soldiers, the best war leaders and a general who was very idolized by many people.

   “Do you understand?” There's a crease on Paul's forehead and his eyebrows are linked.

Tora raised her head to look at Paul sitting in front of her with his legs crossed, there was a dislike look on his face but there was a faint smile there as well.

   “Understand, I won't do anything stupid.”

   “True, that's why you became my subordinate.”

Just then, a small dagger suddenly appeared and headed straight for Paul. There was a blinding glint as the sharp pointed-tipped flatcloth flashed between the incoming light through the gap of the window.

Ting!

A loud clanking sound rang out as Tora as fast as lightning drew the sword on her back and instantly repelled the small blade until it bounced far down the shelf in the corner of the room and her eyes grew wary. Stand in front of Paul to protect him, who is now still sitting casually in his chair.

   “See yourself before asking, will this person be a traitor?” a man appeared while laughing out loud.

Her tall slender body was clad in a white shirt and black tights with a short mini skirt fifteen centimeters above her knees were white as well.

His round glasses featured pitch-black eyes that now looked narrow from laughing, his springy fingers waving in the air before finally landing on his pointed earlobe and playing the silver earrings attached there.

   “Hey, Tora. I'm surprised to hear you ask so.” He waved his hand in the air while continuing to laugh.

Tora had stored back her weapon and stood stiffly between the two people who were now laughing loudly until her ears were ringing.

   “You are also here?” ask Tora.

Cliff gave a small smile as he heard it, although Tora's face was covered in a mask and only displayed her two cold eyeballs, he could feel that Tora was putting a sour face behind the plain mask.

   “Oh, come on buddy, I'm back. Aren't you happy?”

   “Not really.”

Cliff chuckled then walked up to the chair, pulled it up and sat there with his legs crossed, exactly the same way Paul sat.

   “I don't think I'll be called again for this year's party,” he said sadly.

   “You think you were called to a party?”

   “No.” Cliff shook his head, while his fingers continued to rub the silver earrings that were on his pointy earlobes, he continued. “There must be a problem, right?”

Hearing that, Paul nodded with his eyes closed. Makes Cliff cluck.

   “Of course!” pekik low. “When am I called to good things? Never!”

   “Heh, bad boy. It's a good thing for you, you can do your crazy experiment on the enemy, right? And if there are other things as well you can use it too.”

   “Iya anyway, but I also want to have fun, Boss,” he said sighing tired.

Paul waved his hand as he said indifferently, “Since when was your pleasure a party? Your lab and all your weird experiments are just your style.”

   “It's enough base.” Paul quickly stood up before Cliff could speak his words again. “There are some issues you need to take care of.”

Paul glanced at Tora with the tail of his eyes and said, “Bring him around, I want his clear result today as well.” After saying that, he stepped away with his hands on his back.

Cliff looked at Tora with a radiant face while Tora was getting more and more incubated in his heart. Working with Cliff is as good as working with a super-active parrot.

   “There's something.”

   “What?”

   “Follow me.” Tora declined to go into more detail because if that happens then they might just do an investigation tomorrow morning.

Cliff, the tall, slender man disappeared along with Tora. Now only the breeze left passed and two pairs of yellow eyes that shone behind the darkness, then disappeared without a trace.

Now, Tora and Cliff are in a lush bamboo forest. It was the Skaydry City Protected Forest, a forest that was indeed cared for and intended for a special place and opened for certain rituals or events only, such as the ritual of reverence and thanks to the earth goddess for the prosperity of the city and so on.

Half of the town of Skaydry itself is mountains and small hills, so it is no wonder there are so many fields of plants that make people prosperous, as well as rivers and waterfalls with various types of freshwater fish.

   “Haw is very bad here,” comments Cliff shuddered.

They were walking down the ground that was made to resemble a rung of stairs. Tora walked in front and did not say anything, her eyes had no light at all, it made her look creepy.

   “The more viscous! What do you want to show me, heh!”

   “One point of formation.”

Cliff smiled stiffly at himself, a moment later starting to babble about a lot of things—especially about some of his new discoverieswhile continuing to play the silver earrings that adorn his pointed ears.

A few minutes passed, the two of them were now standing in front of a single large tree. There were many towering bamboo trees, the leaves were rustling as the wind blew on them.

   “Look,” says Tora on Cliff.

The man advanced, passing through Tora who was slightly out of the way to give her wider access. Cliff looked at the huge tree then his hands stretched out and touched the surface of the tree bark, when his hands touched the tree, his eyes flashed brightly and a large formation appeared.

A round-shaped formation rune with a dark purple color surrounded the tree, Tora who saw that felt her heart beating violently. Previously, he had only found a few large formation points and could not activate them at all because if forced then it would be bad.

But Cliff, with just one hand was able to find and activate it easily without any damage at all. Tora could guess that it didn't even cause any warning at all to the installer.

The corner of Tora's eyes twitched when she saw Cliff's sinister smile. The tall man turned his head and grinned in satisfaction while one hand touched the earrings in his ear and the other hand still held the formation key.

After a few minutes, Cliff let go of his hand and let the formation stay the way it was. When he turned around, his face changed. His usually relaxed and strange expression now vanished, now he had become very serious.

   “How many points are there?” ask Cliff. His hand had already stopped toying with his earrings and now it was dangling freely on both sides of his body.

   “Five dots.”

   “No.” Cliff shook his head loudly, then continued. “Other reforms may be just a hoax, this one is also.”

   “This is not simple, this is far from the simple word.” Cliff's face was sour but his eyes were brightly lit, there was a spirit he was trying to cover in his eyes but Tora could read it.

   “Show five other points.” After saying that, the two of them disappeared like the wind.

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   “The second point is in the middle of the lake north of this forest.”

After removing the thickets high enough, a large lake was immediately visible. Her golden water seemed to sparkle in the sun which was quite stinging that afternoon.

   “Beauty once!”

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