Liam watched from close by, strain written on his face. He stared at the two fighters, ready to take a.

  The fight should es hottest phase soorasn’ar is pletely engrossed itle. This is my ce.

  Pontrakas arasn’ar cshed again. A green magical sphere gathering an unbelievable amount of mana exploded, sending even some pyers at the shore flying.

  “ARRHH!”

  With a brutal shout, the city lord brought down his axe colliding with the magic. The world lost its color and all noise seemed to vanish.

  Liam gritted his teeth. Enduring the pressure he finally enced his pn. With a flip of his hand an old fishing rod suddenly appeared.

  It was the item he received for helping old Gabe.

  [Gabe’s first fishing rodCategory: rare

  Effect 1: Increase your luck when fishing by 50%.

  Effect 2: be used on nd to fish items off others. he steal skill.

  Effect 3: be used on nd to tie up others. Afflicts a stun of maximal 5 seds.

  Effect 4: Ignores barriers to a certain degree.

  A fishing rod used by Gabe during his younger years. He created a lot of trouble with it, earning him a notorious reputation. Luckily, he calmed down in his older years.]

  Liam wasn’t pletely idle when he spent time with Sereerday. Each time the siblings pyed together, Serena was happy to discover new ways of pying the game.

  Thus, Liam used the opportunity to show her the [Steal] auxiliary skill.

  Although many thief-reted csses got this skill for free, it didn’t mean others couldn’t learn it. With some time to spend it was easy to reach level 1, meeting the prerequisite for handling Gabe’s fishing rod.

  At this moment Liam prayed to all the gods he knew and flicked his wrist gently. A thin, nearly invisible liraveled through the air.

  Above the ke the skeleton and demon were still fighting fiercely. A massive axe reached Pontrakas. Barely proteg himself at the st sed the liberator was smmed towards the floor, crushing a rge boulder to dust.

  Rentrasn’ar desded abruptly, chasing his victory. Some trap was suddenly triggered. A tall, bkh appeared in the air, ied with the aura of hell. A rge cw came out of the magical struct, swiping towards Rentrasn’ar.

  The demon bellowed angrily, swinging his axe engulfed in dark mana, prepared to overe all obstacles with brute force.

  A massive collision reverberated for miles around the ke. Lava spshed into the air, obsg the view.

  Pontrakas staying on the ground suddenly felt something. He looked upwards but didn’t spot anything.

  Liam looked at the skeleton with a tense heart. But fortunately, his fishing line had the effect of evadiion. It sneaked into the va, arriving behirasn’ar.

  A small pouch dangled from the demon’s trousers, inspicuous against the rge body.

  The fishing line whipped over, toug the pouch. A small spark lit up. Suddenly an item was attached to the line. Liam felt a pull, hastily retrag the fishing rod. It was magically rolled up, returning to its ow a breakneck speed.

  A moment ter Liam held a small bck stone taining an ominous aura in his hands. His body was frozen as he couldn’t believe his luck. He sed the stone multiple times just to make sure.

  [Seal of the Bck Abyss DemonCategory: Unon

  Effect: Pce a seal on a member of the Bck Abyss Demon . be used to suppress their strength or seal away a single skill.

  Charges: 3

  A seal handed down within the Bck Abyss Demon . It is only meant for the hands of their higher-ups to solidify the hierarchy.]

  Liam let out a long breath. Only when the pressure left his body did he feel how severe it was. But now he could just watch the show before leaving calmly.

  Luckily Rentrasn’ar didn’t notiything amiss as he was caught in the heat of the battle. His axe moved faster and faster, sshing at the bck cw.

  Its firied to close around the demon but were tinuously pushed back. On the ground Pontrakas watched in horror as cracks emerged on his trump card. He hastily held up his hands, providing more mana.

  But it was futile. Rentrasn’ar bombarded the cw with wild attacks, pushing it back. Soon one finger was destroyed, shattering in a violent explosion.

  With one part gohe cw’s fate was already sealed. It didn’t hold on much longer, bursting into millions of pieces.

  Rentrasn’ar let out a brutal shout, venting his emotions. His head was tilted towards the air and his axe raised high.

  However, wheurned back towards the ground to finally end Pontrakas his face looked stupefied. There was no sign of his oppo.

  “Bck Rebellioreat!”

  A strained shout echoed in the surroundings. Rentrasn’ar was suddenly ed by anger. He couldn’t fathom that an infernal would run away from a life ah challenge.

  “Poontrakaaas!!”

  tless emotions could be heard irasn’ar’s voice as he stared at the fleeing figure in the distance.

  Pontrakas shook, knowing that his reputation among the infernals would be forever ruined. However, his life didn’t matter but he couldn’t lose the Staff of Melvun or he would be aernal sio the Bck Rebellion.

  The pyers around the va watched the end of the fight with dumbfounded expressions. A few quies noticed the skeleton esg above their heads, hastily throwing out attacks.

  However, even a barely alive Pontrakas was not something these pyers could mess with. A rebound force hit them across space, sending most of them to the graveyard.

  Like this the even tended. Rentrasn’ar sughtered a few members of the Bck Rebellion on his way back to the city but quickly lost i.

  The pyers also walked away with empty hands. However, soon someone would find out how ter Pontrakas’s quest. From then on, the fight would repeat every few days.

  Liam watched calmly as the otion ended and the pyers began to leave. However, he had to curse inwardly since a few curious people stayed.

  He didn’t know what they hoped for, annoying the monsters in the ke. But with them staying he didn’t dare to e out. Eventually he even had to grit his teeth in anger while drinking a health potion.

  It took another hour until he finally dared to leave. With his orb of flight, he returo the shore. Without returning to the city, he directly set of for the southern chaotic mountains.

  Moving carefully, he avoided all the pyers and hiked along another secluded mountain path. Soon, he was finally ba the Southern Light Kingdom.

  Liam could finally take off his shadow cloak enjoying some liberating fresh air, knowing that he didn’t have to stantly be afraid of getting discovered.

  “Hey, are you Bleary Mirage?”

  Liam looked at the teen with sparling eyes appearing before him, his face freezing.

  With a sigh he shook his head a at a brisk pace. The teen watched the leaving back with fused eyes before it vanished into the crowd.

  Liam found a seclude bench to rest. With his goal achieved he messaged his friends.

  Soon, the entire party gathered by a gurgling little fountain in a er of Duabalis City.

  “Mirage! You took quite the time!”, greeted Silver Bde with a joking smile.

  “Well, you were quicker than expected.”

  “Probably because we had some help. Mirage, this is Final Fend, my brother.”

  “o meet you!”

  Final Fend happily shook Liam’s hand, pretending to meet for the first time. However, his ag was rather enthusiastic, drawing suspicious gazes.

  “Well, seems like you did a good job. And you to!”

  “Don’t mention it, don’t mention it. If you want to thank me, I would prefer if you teach me some tricks!”

  “No problem. I was about t everyoo train anyways.”

  Before Braag could answer, a tired groan could be heard. It was Cye who leaned against the fountain with an exhausted expression.

  Silver Bde chuckled faintly:

  “Cye, what’s up with you?”

  “It’s s, promoting uild all day. I just want to go to bed.”

  “Really? I always took you for the type who enjoys talking to others.”

  “But it’s not the same expining the same thing over and ain.”

  “I agree!”, interrupted Fortune. “I oried being a streamer and it made me want to bang my head against the wall.”

  Fortune’s ent drew ughter from the whole group. But suddenly Liam’s eyes fell on someone quietly staying at the back.

  “Hey, Shield? Why are you so quiet? Did something happen?”

  “Ahh, I…”

  At this moment Cye suddenly regained her spirits, exg with a bright smile:

  “ht! I met Radiant Shield earlier!”

  “Ehm, Cye… please…”

  “e one, why so embarrassed? I think it’s cute! Guys, guess what Radiant Shield did?”

  The tank wished he could sink into the earth as everyone looked at him with puzzled expressions.

  “You’ll never guess! Radiant Shield went around helping newbie pyers with their quests. He even made quite the name for himself!”