I've Got Him Now!

“Where the hell did that bastard go…”

It had been a very long time since I’d come to the western forest. I’d always preferred buying herbs rather than gathering them myself.

Besides, even though I had hurried out after hearing Ria, Kairos had already left the dormitory thirty minutes before me.

Thirty minutes was more than enough time for Kairos to cross several hills.

I stared at the still-intact uphill path for a moment, then shook my head with a sigh.

‘For now, let’s look a little farther.’

There was a way to find him. I had a special spell that could detect even his mana from a distance of several thousand paces.

But Rene’s ‘constitution without a limiter’ was still unfamiliar to me, and I knew all too well from the treasure hunt just how horrendous the mana consumption of a wide-area detection spell sweeping the entire mountain could be.

I fiddled with the pouch of moonlight grass I had brought just in case, then steeled myself and started walking again.

About twenty minutes passed like that...