Second World

Behind the room were three people sitting around a table. They were wearing concealment coats but the hoods were down. Hence, their data was not hidden. Jack's Inspect revealed that the three were all World Maker members.

'Bingo!' Jack exclaimed within. With two establishments owned by Hidden Dragons hiding World Maker members, it was clear that the two guilds were in cahoots.

The three were still confused as to why the Hidden Dragons players outside let a stranger into the room. Jack didn't let them be confused for long. Jack cast Myriad Venomous Vipers.

The fifteen vipers burst out from the floor. When Jack was prepared to deal with the three as he expected them to escape capture, they were bound by the snakes without any resistance.

'Huh? I thought this group is supposed to be experts?'

Jack was confused. But as the saying went, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth,' he happily accepted this easy capture.

He walked toward the three and took out three runic ropes to bind them.

As he approached, he noticed that while two of the bound players stared at him in bewilderment, one of them was looking past him, at a corner.

This corner was out of his field of view when he entered the room. But since neither his radar nor his mana sense identified a presence other than these three in the room, he didn't bother to look at the corners.

Now, after the player's strange stare. Jack turned to that corner. And all of a sudden, both his radar and mana sense detected a fourth presence. At the same time, he saw a palm heading straight at his face.

It was only due to his incredibly high reflex that he managed to dodge that palm in the last instance. He bent backward and the palm went past above him.

When Jack was about to counterattack, his legs received a sweep kick. Since his balance was still off due to bending backward, his legs gave way. Before he knew it, another palm landed on his chest.

*PANG!*

An extremely loud impact sound resulted from that soft touch and Jack felt as if he had been driven into the floor by a pile driver. The floor underneath his body cracked and a damage number appeared above him. That palm strike had been fueled by strong mana manipulation.

While Jack was still trying to make sense of the situation, he saw his ambusher run out the door he just entered. He couldn't get a good look at the man. He could only see that it was a draconian in a battle monk's garb.

Jack quickly rose by doing a kip-up. He ignored the three players in the room who were still bound by his vipers. Those three were not the ones responsible for the rare elite victims, the martial art expert who had just hit him and escaped was.

Jack ran out the door and saw his three royal agents and the two shopkeepers looking in confusion. He threw the three runic ropes in his hand to Amy.

"Go in and tie the three inside!" He ordered.

He then fished out another two runic ropes and threw them to Lindsey.

"Tie those two as well!" Jack meant the two shopkeepers.

He then ran out of the shop without explaining further. He had also sent a message to Arthur informing him about this shop. The old swordsman knew Jack came into this town. He should be here as well. It shouldn't take long for Arthur to arrive here and take custody of the captives here.

Arriving outside, he looked around. He couldn't see that draconian battle monk among the pedestrians. He looked at his radar. He didn't see any black dots. The guy must have again done something that made his radar unable to detect him.

'Does he blend into the crowd?' Jack thought in dismay. It would be difficult to locate a single player on this street.

"Anyone saw someone running out of this shop in a hurry?!" Jack yelled at the crowd.

One of the draconians passing by stopped and said, "Yeah. You."

'Dude. That's not helping,' Jack thought annoyingly.

Then a little kid who was walking with his mother said to Jack while pointing, "I saw someone coming out of this shop and jumped up the roof there."

Jack looked at where the kid was pointing. He turned back to the kid and said, "Thank you, kid! Very much appreciated!"

He then ran to the wall of the roof the kid was pointing at and made a super jump upward. His super jump only brought him to three-quarters of the wall. He stepped on the wall and did a second jump, which brought him up to the roof.

Arriving up there, he did one swipe with his eyes. He immediately located the draconian he was chasing. Since the draconian had a good head start, he was very far already. He was almost a speck in Jack's vision.

Jack activated Strength of the Wild and Acceleration to increase his movement speed and started chasing after the draconian.

Most Hydrurond buildings had high pointy roofs. This made running along roofs extremely difficult. A lot of jumping was involved. The draconian seemed extremely comfortable doing all kinds of acrobatic jumps from roof to roof. Jack wondered if the guy was a parkour expert in real life.

But Jack's agility was above standard. He also had the super jump ability from his beastmaster's passive skill similar to the battle monk class, so he could do what the draconian did.

Jack increased his speed even further by using Acceleration. Jack closed in the distance within thirty seconds of the spell duration. But after that, his progress in reducing the gap between them was very slow

Jack was astonished. Though his speed was still faster, the draconian didn't lose too much in terms of speed. Jack could see the draconian was using some sort of skill. His legs created shaking images as they ran. Peniel informed Jack that it was a tell-tale sign of Speed Run skill. It was a non-standard skill that could be learned by any classes branched out from ranger class. The skill increased the user's movement speed by a great deal.

But Jack himself was still under the Strength of the Wild's effects. Even though this skill didn't primarily increase his movement speed, he thought his three special classes' attributes were more than enough to make his speed trump anyone else. But it turned out he could only shorten the distance between him and the draconian at an irritatingly slow pace. The irregular terrains of the unusual roofs also prevented Jack from using Shooting Dash.

"Ah, screw it!" Jack cursed and transformed into supreme dragon form. He originally wanted to save this skill in case of an emergency.

He used his dragon form's inherent wind jet skill, shooting himself forward. He then cast the wind jet spell. This second blast of air shot him forward again like a jet. With the two consecutive wind jets, he had crossed over one hundred meters in a heartbeat. He was close to the draconian then.