Time later it seems like the old woman would not much later find Veylan “Heh...I had time plotting against her, but I know myself to good there, I can’t get a plan by thinking much of it. It needs to pop into my head…” His feelings were mixed; one side was worried. Worried to get caught or not getting a plan. The other side was calm, not worrying. This side thought “There is no need to worry, I am finding a plan somehow. Even if not, it isn’t that serios…”

  He got some ideas, but either they were useful earlier or for a hiding spot and every other idea didn’t gave him the big feeling of “YES! This is a great plan!” He already got ready to run and even managed to get away for a short time “It’s really bad like this isn’t it? Wait…” He saw multiple trees with many bushes and also tendrils, there he got idea.

  His tendril arm already regenerated, he could almost use it normally. He used his tendril arm to cover his whole body with it; the tendrils were so thick he couldn’t breathe if hadn’t a little hole but also it made it harder for energy to go through it. After time the old lady stopped searching for Riven “Hehehe…maybe not all young people are as weak and soft as I thought…I don’t want to use my full energy up to now and without using it I am probably not going to find him…Veylan I am coming for you!”

  She went to the hole and managed to make the entrance free again, she used iron hair for that. “I remember when I was young a doctor needed to operate every single hair into me…Hahaha…that was painful as hell…”

  Going in into the tight cave the old woman encountered only little threats “Hehe…no wonder he easily made it through!” After a while she arrived at an exit that leads to another forest “Well, well, even though I know this forest so well I have never been here…”

  This forest looks way different than the one the game began, the other is very foggy dark, like the typical forest in a horror movie. But on the other hand, this new one looks straight up like it is from a light fantasy story. Almost like a fairy tale.

  In the fresh earth the old lady sees footsteps “Ah, you got sloppy there…but maybe if I thought no one comes here, I would not have been different…” After following the footsteps long enough she arrived at a house, it also looks like a fairy tale.

  As she looked up in the sky, she was a little shocked but stayed calm. “Oh…in about four hours it is morning, if Veylan is in this house, I am going to use all my power to catch him. After filling the whole house with her energy, she was shocked “What? I can’t feel him. Is he hiding so well or…damn it!” She looked out of the window of the house just to see Veylan running back into that cave.

  There are still a few problems, she needs again an amount of time that is going to make everything even harder. But in the end, she has not unlimited stamina or endurance.

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  In the cave something fell off, she had a way to get back up in her head, but something was different. It felt as if the cave was suddenly different, she took the most similar looking end but his ultimately lead her to a dead end. Again, it cost her little time. She went through the whole cave until she realized it “This young fuck! He blocked multiple ways to confuse me!”

  Now it wasn’t just getting serios, she began to panic. She didn’t want to lose for some reason even though she isn’t really a competitive person. As Veylan got up the cave he found Riven because of his tendrils and hid with him.

  And so quick the old woman only had little more than two hours left.

  But still, even though she is in real trouble does not mean she cannot win. She is using now everything she has, letting out all her energy. At some point her energy even reaches almost fifty meters/over one hundred fifty feet. Both know it, both know once she reaches them, she is going to detect Veylan, without a doubt Riven too. They had exactly two options, run away. This option can work but everyone is tired and maybe her soul energy slows them down in some way. The only other is to fight her.

  Not much later she came near, they tried to hide their energy, but they quickly knew that they should begin. Riven quickly made the tendrils that hid them go back in his arm and ran away “Shit…it feels completely numb…” But Veylan wasn’t running he was going straight up to her letting out his energy “Hmm…I must really complement you two, you really got me back down there. Your energy really got a lot stronger, and I must also say Riven is really got at hiding his energy…but still. At least this time I am still going to win…”

  The old lady attacks again with a kick, he just easily dodges it “Well, you expect it now, don’t you?” She takes out her sticky paper, just walking at him. After dodging for a while Veylan went for an attack, right before it connected it felt like an invincible power would stop him from connecting, with a little smile she kicked him in the face, sending him to the ground.

  Out of a reflex he lets out his aura, but it felt different, it felt like back in the triple fin shark pond. She looked at it proud “Hehe…not much more and your energy is almost equal to mine, but this is only because of your strong emotions…” With this little power he managed to keep on but ultimately, he could not have stay any longer. While sitting and leaning at a tree completely exhausted the old woman also retreated hers. She almost collapsed at the ground “Hehe…I still have one and a halve hour…” Only a few centimeters before the paper were attached to Veylan, he looked at it coming nearer and nearer.

  Sticky!

  Riven never ran away in the first place, they simply combined both ways. Veylan was fighting and distracting her. He just came for the ambush to finish it. She looked at her arm with ripped open eyes, not believing what she was seeing. Purely technically this doesn’t count, the hider cannot simply catch the seeker. But as she understood the plan and thought about everything they did, she just said she did not want to admit it. “Sigh…you won and…you approved the second phase, let’s go to the next…”

  As they left this scary forest, they saw the sun rising, there she realized something and told “To be honest I think I barely ever found someone learning this so fast. I once heard the president of the Alecti association should be a one in one hundred million talent, if this is true you two are probably something around a one in thirty million talent.