Eye System

Lex rushed towards the borders of the country, knowing that the forbidden mist grounds were not in the Aria country, but were still in the eastern continent.

[I can't leave through the border that is monitored and controlled by the royals, so I need to find another way to leave] realised Lex who was still managing to stay calm.

Thinking for another way out, Lex suddenly remembered the sewers he was training in.

[The open sewer storage that I train in, should be outside of the country's borders and I should be able to leave from the collapsed ceiling] Lex thought.

With a plan, Lex rushed towards the drain that he would usually enter the sewers from, but he couldn't suppress his thoughts.

"These repeated events are getting uncontrollable now and when will they stop. There are still differences and one major one being that I haven't seen or met Ella in this reality" mumbled Lex.

[She must be in a sub-dimension hiding from whoever was pursuing her and if fate wills we will meet again and if not I need to live my own life and gain more strength so I cannot keep running blindly after her after meeting her for merely a day despite the connection and mutually feeling in the past reality] thought Lex was beginning to doubt everything and the one he saw as his soul mate.

[No, I must stay strong and I will pursue Ella and protect Angela] he declared regaining his composure as removing his doubts.

Lex is usually too easily overwhelmed under pressure, but despite the situation he was in, he didn't feel overwhelmed this time.

Pulling the drain and jumping in, Lex dashed towards the open sewer through the sewer pipe.

Kano was extremely angry that it was being worn by Lex as he ran through the sewer pipes, but knew better than to complain while Lex was already frustrated.

Lex was running as fast as he could through the pipes and reaching the end of the sewer pipe after a while, launched himself into the air.

"Kano, lift me up to the surface" ordered Lex.

The robes sucked on Lex's energy as it flew him up to the surface through the collapsed sewer ceiling.

It was the first time in his life Lex had seen such a large open area that was empty.

In his past reality, he also lived in a slum-like area and with the overflowing population there weren't any open areas like this and when he transmigrated he was transmigrated into the outskirts of the country within the slums, but now after leaving the country could see land for as far as he could see.

Behind him was a tall wall that seemed to go on forever in both directions circling around Outer Aria with a few guards he could see that were stationed on the wall, but luckily where he was despite being close to the border had a few trees and plants growing around it to cover it from their view.

[System where is the forbidden mist grounds] asked Lex who wasn't given a directive with the mission he accepted, because it was impossible for the Weston Family to give them an exact location for their captured daughter.

{Ding, the host should head north-west for 100 miles and should see the forbidden mist grounds} the system announced.

Lex at his full speed would be able to cover that distance in an hour and a half, but even in the situation he was in, wanted to slow himself down to save his energy and planned to cover the distance in more than 2 hours.

The white-robed figure could be seen dashing towards the north-west away from Outer Aria at speeds close to 60 miles an hour.

{Ding, to warn the host, many of those comparable to the host in LVL and even higher are all converging on the location you are heading towards in groups, however, nobody that has surpassed a Complete Mortal} the system warned.

Instead of being scared or nervous, Lex was weirdly excited to battle if he had to and watch the scenes unfold, but was also worried mostly about Angela and slightly about the Weston Family's daughter.

Lex was desensitised to death and morality ever since the first time the Eye Demon had gained control of his body and wasn't affected much by the death of others as long as they weren't those that he was close to and cared about.

Fatigue was the least of Lex's worry and the pain was bearable to him, but what he couldn't bear was to give in to fate and allow Angela to die.

After covering halfway at full speed, Lex slowed down and activated the Scouting Eye as he got closer to the area the system had pointed out to him.

He could hear noise all around him, and could see groups in the distance with tied up girls all heading in the same direction as him that also noticed him.

Underestimating the lone hooded figure that was heading in the same direction as them, they didn't pay much attention to him and weren't threatened by his presence, but the greedy groups were all eyeing each other and gauging each others strength.

[System why did they want young females this time] asked Lex, still baffled by the reasoning behind young females being kidnapped by the groups.

{Ding, from what the system has collected, there are rumours that the forbidden mist grounds has treasure and would take in young females once every year and all of them would come out alive, but wouldn't have a memory of what happened so as the rumour spread all large bandit or criminal groups would capture young females hoping to steal any treasures they gain. However, this year with the Weston Family's daughter being kidnapped and offering such a large reward it has been made much worse} the system explained.

[Who are the Weston Family] asked Lex, seeing them come up so many times.

{Ding, the Weston Family is an upright family that is situated in the border between the Outer Aria and Inner Aria and are quite wealthy merchants. However, they don't live in extreme luxury and spend most of their money on trying to help those in poverty, which is why they requested all those missions to save the people} narrated the system.

Knowing more about the family, Lex felt it was his duty to try and help the girl and save her, but if he couldn't, it wouldn't affect him much.

Lex lowered his speed so that he was jogging, but the speed could still be comparable to the others that were running. Most of the groups had some sort of rideable beast and were much faster than Lex, but Lex wanted to watch from the sidelines and swoop in to save Angela then leave.

Mentally preparing himself and calming down, there were many groups stood around the misty area that was beginning to enter Lex's vision.

It was situated in the centre of a forest-like area that was beginning to form with a higher amount of trees and the greener setting.

Jumping up into a tree, Lex stood there, from a short distance of where the mist began to form and the groups stood.

"Hand over the girl and we won't have to fight" shouted a male voice that Lex recognised.

Looking over Lex could see the hunter group that chased him and Angela in his past reality and were ordering another much larger group that had tens of young girls captured in a cage that was pulled by a large horse beast.

Lex was seething with anger when he recognised the blonde archer that killed Angela, but calmed down and watched everything unfold before him.

"Is that a threat, I have a small army, you are merely a few Voltacs" ridiculed the bandit leader with his dozens of men.

In this reality, the hunter group were much stronger than they were in Lex's past reality and Lex knew that it was because they were very talented and were suppressed by the past reality's environment but flourished in this reality.

"Numbers mean nothing and my group is much stronger than your weak men" shouted back the swordsman.

Lex ignored their useless shouting and was trying as hard as he could to conceal his presence and used a basic assassination technique to calm his breathing and make it almost unnoticeable.

Looking into the cage Lex saw the girl that he recognised as the Weston Family's daughter, but couldn't see Angela out of the girls and seeing their ripped clothes and the way they were treated was worried for Angela.

It would be a long and hard battle that he would even have to go as far as to use the Eye Demon again and risk losing control in order to defeat either of the groups and saving the girls and finding Angela was looking to be a very hard task for Lex.

He only had one choice, to gamble with the one thing he was almost certain of. The Temple and the spirit within it.

While they spoke, Lex streamed as much energy as he could into his legs and burst off the branch he stood on and into the mist before any of them could react and stop him.