Corrupt Creations

As soon as they entered that room, Arwen felt like at least complimenting the Merchant Guild, for acting quickly.

"I see that you are at least competent and able to quickly act. After we come back, we could discuss about having your Irumdell Merchant Guild move to the capital." While saying those words, she quickly floated towards the platform, as if telling the merchants that she was in a hurry.

Mr. Olsen eyes lit up and he quickly curved his fatty body ninety degrees, bowing towards the queen. When he heard her words, his round body couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

It wasn't an easy task to receive a permission to operate inside the Ereinrith City. That's why whenever he traded with the merchants that lived there, like the Allakkiir Family merchants for example, it would always require him to send a caravan full of supplies towards the capital. That maneuver would inevitably cost a lot of money and getting to set up a building inside the capital, would make their upcoming trades more profitable.

"I'm honored to receive your Highness' grace. We are certainly willing to cooperate in every way." Mr. Olsen swiftly replied, as he was happily rubbing his hands in expectation.

Naturally, as an experienced merchant, he saw through the elf Queen's hurried actions and turned around to see how the work was being conducted.

Noticing that the guards were all just staring in amazement, Mr. Olsen furrowed his browns and quickly shouted: "What are all of you waiting for?! Activate the teleportation array!"

"Yes, sir!"

The guards started acting, moving to different spots inside and outside the room, as they used their connection with the teleportation array, in order to activate it.

At the center of the platform, where Arwen, Seth, Lan Xue and Mr. Olsen were already standing in, spatial energy fluctuations started to form.

Mr. Olsen started telling them about the last piece of information they should know, explaining that it was a fixed-point channel that could only deliver them to the desired area and could not support their return trip back to the Elven Territory.

He looked a bit flustered, as he felt like he was only able to provide half of the job, even though he was not even getting paid for it.

Seth looked at the fat merchant, while the teleportation channel was still getting formed and saw through his worries. He patted on his shoulder and said: "Don't worry, it's not like were going there to sightsee... It is already enough. See you at the Ereinrith City next time."

He started walking forward, as if he knew the right time that the teleportation channel would open and right before Mr. Olsen's eyes, he vanished.

At the same time Seth disappeared, a spatial tunnel formed, cutting a straight line in space that led to a fixed point inside the Human Territory. The amount of blue Skystones required to power up that formation was imaginable, but Mr. Olsen knew it couldn't be compared to the benefits his Merchant Guild would receive later.

Right in front of his eyes, two more silhouettes vanished and he swiftly signaled for the guards to cut the energy supply, sealing the portal and ceasing with the spatial fluctuations.

"Sigh... Hope everything goes fine. Men, what are you doing?! Get back to work!" Not even a minute had passed, since the trio had vanished and he was already back to ordering his employees. Time was money, after all.

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After a few milliseconds of darkness, Seth saw the light once more. However, it seemed he was inside a poorly lit storage room or bunker.

With a sweep of his Soul Sense, he was able to instantly recognize the whole environment in a ten-kilometer radius, swiftly understanding where he actually was. But before he could even decide to do anything, two flashes of light happened at the same time, bringing Arwen and Lan Xue to his side.

Just like him, they did the same thing, but their senses could only stretch up to three hundred meters around them and there seemed to be nothing, but a steep rocky region circling that area.

However, even though there were signs of a forested area in their senses, it was enough for them to feel the hazy aura present in the environment. That thin smoke lingering in the air, was one of the characteristics of the place they wanted to go; the Purple Illusory Forest.

But due to how weak and thin that smoke was, they were certain that this bunker was not located inside the forest.

Lan Xue looked at Arwen and asked: "Have they told you where this place is located?"

"No."

"Then, how are we..."

"Heh... You worry too much. We can locate it ourselves, through our senses."

Arwen was talking about the Soul Sense, since inside the Purple Illusory Forest, normal senses were going to be eluded, by the activity of a purple smoke that was present everywhere. Even though Mana Sovereign Realm cultivators wouldn't be instantly affected by it, with time, they would also find their senses being suppressed to a certain extent.

However, the Soul Sense would be unaffected by it, working perfectly at all times. The only problem Lan Xue found on it, was that it would only cover a tree hundred meters radius; a distance that wasn't enough to cover the whole area of that forest.

In her mind, the only possible scenario, would be to aimlessly travel through that unknown forest, while they try to map it out with their Soul Senses. But it would inevitably take a lot of time.

Lan Xue was about to complain that it would take too much time to do it, when Arwen continued: "And with Seth here, there is no need for you to act. He can do the hard work for us."

Seth shook his head in exasperation, as he still felt they were not in total harmony yet. Before Lan Xue could misunderstand it as Arwen being lazy or uninterested, he decided to clarify what the Elf Queen meant with her words.

"It isn't a hard work though. I can easily see everything in a fifteen-kilometer radius with my senses. We'll be at their doorstep in no time."