Chapter 2525 - 1108: The Imprisoned Goddess of Wealth
Even those bloodthirsty and brutal demons, here, have donned a guise of courtesy and refinement, with some even wearing tailor-made suits.
Yet on them, everything appears exceedingly awkward, filled with endless deceit, giving the impression of a monkey impersonating a king.
This is naturally under the influence of their master, Prince Grazte of the Ubar, who desires to create an incredibly prosperous marketplace, where all visitors feel safe, and where violence is prohibited.
Anyone who dares to incite violence here and is discovered and reported shall undoubtedly face Prince Ubar’s thunderous wrath.
If you believe this too easily, you are but a step away from falling into the abyss of despair.
Indeed, physical conflicts are prohibited here, but political manipulation and deceit are not, nor is assassination.
As long as you ensure that everything is done cleanly, leaving no witnesses or evidence, with no one reporting it, it shall be as if nothing happened.
In this city, three types of establishments are the most popular — taverns, Joy Hall, and the slave market.
Each is filled with depravity and distortion, where even the mortals’ expressions become extraordinarily twisted, filled with madness and ferocity, their souls gradually twisting and corrupting. One day, their twisted souls will transform into vicious demons, tearing through their skin, bursting out.
The Triple Shadows ignored all temptations along the way, and at a five-way intersection, her figure flickered for a moment, splitting into three, disappearing in different directions in an instant.
Seconds later, a shadowy figure appeared where the Triple Shadows had just stood, her gaze swept back and forth in the directions the three figures left, hesitatingly.
The most troublesome part of Taharissi is her Triple Clone, indistinguishable between real and fake; both can be false, or both can be true, depending on which one she’s tracking.
The tracker quickly made a decision, also splitting into three, pursuing in three different directions. But unlike Taharissi, among these three figures, two were distinctly thin, with dense shadowy traces.
This should be some doppelganger technique, unable to achieve the phasing transformation like the Triple Shadows, leaving no choice but to gamble, hoping to force the opponent to merge back into one.
As the tracker’s figure followed into a dark alley, a chilling dagger silently stabbed out, accurately hitting the shadow doppelganger’s back, unleashing concentrated Divine Nature Force in an instant, shattering it with one blow.
The tracker, not having walked far, immediately sensed it, sprinting back and turning into the alley.
But upon returning, couldn’t help but stamp her feet: "Fooled again!"
The opponent’s aura stopped abruptly at the ambush site, meaning the opponent ambushed her shadow doppelganger to lead her true self closer.
Meanwhile, during her trip back and forth, the opponent had long fled far, possibly setting more traps, leading her to scurry like a headless fly through Zelata.
The tracker stomped her foot in anger, gritting her teeth: "I refuse to believe your luck is always this good. Sooner or later, I will uncover your secrets! I will prove to Father that I am his most outstanding daughter, and his favor should belong to me!"
The most important thing in tracking is secrecy. Once one’s trail is exposed, there’s no point in continuing, and it even becomes extremely dangerous.
Triple Shadows Taharissi is no easy prey; although her mother was a mortal, she inherited three divine nature forces from Prince Grazte of the Ubar, and within a few decades perfectly fused them with her capabilities, unlocking her exclusive ability — Triple Shadows.
She even received her mother’s true teachings, a legendary Eternal Monk from the Felen Continent, a unique advancement profession, who revered death immensely, seeing bestowing death upon others as a form of mercy.
It’s an existence that perfectly blends the seemingly incompatible professions of Martial Monk and assassin into one.
In the hands of the Triple Shadows, this profession was pushed to an extreme, with much indirect evidence suggesting she is responsible for the permanent deaths of three of Prince Ubar’s children.
Those three were not nameless ordinary people but exceptional, powerful, and cunning among Prince Ubar’s offspring, and when they were killed, their reputation was even more illustrious than Taharissi’s, with power widely acknowledged to surpass hers.
It is said that Triple Shadows murdered them not only to replace their positions but also to acquire the divine nature forces in them. Sacrificing these half-sisters was what stabilized her divine nature force, earning her the name Triple Shadows.
Not only was Taharissi not heavily punished for this, but instead, she became Prince Grazte’s most favored daughter, often entrusted with important tasks.
This aroused the envy, jealousy, hatred, and emulation of other children, of which the tracker was one.
For Triple Shadows to stand out among the countless children of Prince Ubar, she relied not just on strength; brutality and cunning weren’t lacking either.
Her elaborate feint wasn’t because she discovered the tracker but was out of an innate instinct, the tracker merely a prey caught in the instinctive trap.