Pivot of the Sky

Trackers continued their journey, entering Tanis City before dark. Haven, the old hunter, was amazing, and found Amon's horseshoe not far from the north gate of Tanis City along the way. - Amon threw his horse in the suburbs before entering the city, walked directly into the city state, and left no identifiable footprints, completely breaking the trace.

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The size of the Tanis City State is modest, with a population of about 100,000 inhabitants living in the main city, relatively less prosperous than the Cape Town State, where the majority of the inhabitants depend on farming and fishing. Amon found a nice inn in town, asked for the best room, closed the door after eating, and didn't wander around.

Even on the way, his meditation in divine arts at night has never been interrupted for a day. Neither fifth degree body surgery nor divine arts have reached their peak, but there are no signs of advanced breakthroughs. As Bell once said, the harder it is to cultivate the power of both sides, the harder it is not only to have the will to persevere in cultivation, but also to have certain opportunities and fortunes.

The divine cultivation breaks through from level 5 to level 6. Although it is not as difficult to advance from level 6 to the great magician, it is also a very difficult threshold. Being a level 6 magician means you can cultivate high-order magic. Naturally, it is not that simple. Fortunately, Amon is not in a hurry, but honestly do what is right in front of him, and according to the requirements of strength training on both sides, the next test is the "breakthrough of limits”.

This should be a physical test, and according to Bell, the force of being awakened in the blood causes a qualitative change in the body, just like building an object, to be re-cleansed. Naturally, this process is not easy. One has to endure and break through one's own limits. One can clearly experience and understand all of this, but no one will push oneself into an unacceptable situation to break through again. Even if the opportunity comes by chance, one may be injured or killed.

It's simple to say, but I don't know how to do it.

During this evening, Amon practiced the basic meditation of the divine arts, keeping an extra vigilance and carrying out the detection of the divine arts, keeping an eye on the movement around the inn. It was precisely at night that a noise was heard in the street in front of the inn, and soldiers on patrol opened the doors to check the identity of all the occupants and discovered that there were suspicious foreigners taking them away for questioning.

From the conversation between the innkeeper and the soldier captain, Amon learned that something had changed in the city state today, and that a noble magician, His Excellency, had been stolen. It was a very important artefact. The city owner ordered a big search of the city. Amon's room was naturally searched, but nothing was found. The cat snuck out the window and hid what might be suspicious in the bone, which Amon stashed on the roof.

Apart from the fact that he had to look into things of course, Amon did not speak, but merely presented a document that was given to him by the Mayor of Dasti, whose name would prove that he was a citizen of the Ecumenical Empire. That instrument finally came into play today, and Amon wrote the name Arocho.

Naturally, Vitru did this. He found Jonah, the city owner of Tanis State, claiming that he had returned to Isis City on the orders of Lord Julian. Upon entering the city, several precious magic scrolls were placed in the package of his entourage. When he parked, he was accidentally taken by a thief from a foreign country. These scrolls belong to Lord Julian and must be retrieved! I don't know what else he said to Jonah privately, so he searched the city all night.

The soldiers did not sleep in the middle of the night and knocked on their doors throughout the city to carry out this offensive work against the local population, naturally complaining, but orders had to be executed. The innkeeper gave the team leader some advantages and asked him not to offend the guests when searching, otherwise the business could not be done. The soldiers didn't have much difficulty, Amon. After all, this Guest lived in the best room in the store. The ID card was fine, and they went out after a brief glance. They were looking for a foreigner.

This sudden city-wide night investigation was not fruitless, caught a lot of chicken-howling dog thieves, even the concubine of the city owner in the inn and cheating with the horse, were blocked into bed by the soldiers of the patrol on the spot, it was an unexpected harvest. There are many suspicious expatriates and young men who happen to pass through Tannis City State who are taken out for questioning, and not everyone walks on the road with identification.

But that's exactly what Vitru was looking for. Amon is missing. After all, their true purpose cannot be publicly stated, nor can they go door to door and search people themselves. After dawn, calm returned to the city.

What happened at night made Amon more alert. He always felt that this big search was coming for him. After dawn, pack up and get out of town while the city has the most pedestrians. He went out through the south gate of Tanis City, and there was an inventory at the gate, and Amon still came out of town with the identity document that said "Arrocchio”.

There was a man standing upstairs, Julian's nephew Schutter, who saw Amon's back feeling a little familiar, rubbing his eyes but couldn't be sure, waiting to come back to Amon had gone far. He saw the look of Amon in Vitru's tracking magic, but Amon changed his clothes today, and it really wasn't easy to spot him in the crowd.

Without searching for Amon last night, Haven guessed that Amon might leave town as soon as possible, and Vitru thought of another way to send several men to guard the gates and find Amon's whereabouts to signal his companions at any time. After all, this cannot be made public, nor can they take Ammon openly at the gates of the city, nor must they follow Ammon anywhere.

When Vitru and Haven got the news rate and the crowd kicked out of the South Gate, and Amon was long gone, Haven had to continue to pursue the clues left by Amon to the South. He's amazing, I can't believe he found it! The branch of the tree in Amon's hand lay on the ground, leaving a shallow, circular pit that was seen several times in a row on a trail that leads to the mountains not far from the city.

Keep chasing forward, these marks are gone, and Amon should have put away his cane. At the last trace, Vitru used tracking magic again, several people saw the figure of Amon. The outsider was walking alone on the sheep intestine trail between the mountains. It didn't seem to slow down, but the foot speed was extremely fast!

Haven looked at the mountain peak in front of him: “The man entered the mountain and the straight line was not too far away, he had just bypassed the two mountains. It's just that this road can't be ridden, let alone ridden. ”

The magician Vitru and the other three samurai looked ugly. I thought it was hard to catch Amon, but I didn't expect to catch up with him! Hiking across the wild mountains and mountains is a pain they would never have liked to suffer, but Ammon will not follow their wishes only on flat avenues, now he does not want to chase but must chase, Lord Julian's orders must be fulfilled.

Traveling in the mountains is where Haven shows off. Amon couldn't do it without leaving any trace, and the stamps trampled on the grass leaves and the occasional broken dead branches were clues to follow. Whenever the clues were temporarily cut off, Haven didn't waste time searching around, and Vitru tracked the magic next to the latest traces to reposition Amon. They'll be there as soon as possible, usually shorter than Amon's.

It's usually easier to escape without seeing the target's tracking, but Amon met Haven and Vitru at the same time and couldn't get away with it.

Unlike Amon, the fake “hunter”, who was born from a true mountain hunter when he was a kid, and who systematically learned various tracking and assassination techniques in Isis Temple, and who was talented for his hard work, is now only one step away from becoming a great samurai.

Vitru is a brilliant Lv6 magician with a precious magic instrument from Isis Temple, named "Lamp of Chase," which simultaneously performs puppet detection and information tracking, and always finds Amon's latest location at the prompt of Haven. The mountains are not the same as the avenues, but the terrain winds ups and downs, and the straight line is not far from the pull.

Luckily, these people don't fly.

Unfortunately, the area south of Tannis State is not much of a mountain, and if it's a land like the Little Bottom Valley, nobody but Haven is going to keep up with Amon, he can get rid of most of the followers. And the wild mountains and dense forests here are not dangerous. Ammon is just using the terrain to pick the hardest path possible, and the folks behind can still keep up.

Haven opened the road with a sharp knife and tried to pick a path that was both good and close. Vitru hurried down with the help of two samurai, scolding Amon with hatred. He actually let his noble adult suffer like this, playing hide-and-seek tricks in the deep mountain wilderness, and using the light of chase every other time to carry out a brilliant magic trick. It's really tiring!

Haven consoled: "Lord Vitru doesn't have to rush, he walks in the deep mountains with both advantages and disadvantages, and he can't make it in the dark at night. And we have the guidance of your magician, who can still go forward and take him down overnight. ”

The spirits only aroused a little when people heard the words. The pursuit was finally coming to an end. Wilderness Hills was suitable for hand-to-hand torture. Before killing Amon, be sure to torture this troublesome guy. The journey was too painful, and they all hated Amon.

If Amon knew this kind of resentment would be funny, just because these people want to kill him, does he have to walk the road honestly and make people feel comfortable catching him?

When it gets dark, the tracker starts screaming again, because Amon hasn't stopped, walking almost as fast as the day! "He was perfectly able to see the path in the dark, and he didn't have a bit of torch lighting," Haven warned. "He must have mastered the art of detection. Lord Julian guessed correctly that this man is a magician and we must not lighten our enemies. ”

Schutter hated to say, "So what about the magician? We have Lord Vitru here, and even if he had studied magic secretly, it would be like death. ”

Vitru frowned: “Be really careful with the scrolls in his hand and don't give him a chance to expand. We must work with each other when we do it. If this is not possible, use the scroll first. Since he is a magician, there is no problem in taking him down, even if it is revealed, it can be explained afterwards. ”

Haven also warned: "But Lord Julian told me that it was very important to interrogate, that there should be no leakage at all, and that this person could not keep it. After he was killed, no one could prove he was a magician, so he had to do it in secret. ”

By midnight, Amon finally stopped. He was tired and needed rest. He found a hidden place to sit quietly and practise the basic meditation of the divine arts. Vitru and others also stopped. They couldn't keep up. Although they could detect the topography in the dark, Vitru was not as convenient and his strength was far less than Amon's.

Ammon continued to leave at dawn, and Haven and others followed the trail in the deep mountains, which was like a rough march. Perhaps it's an intuition, or an induction in the state of theological meditation, or perhaps it's a reminder from Schrödinger that every time Amon walks in the deep mountains, there's always a nervousness in his back, like being stared at dead by someone.

They walked in the mountains for another two days, and the tracker spotted Amon camping every night, and the kid was still cooking on fire, and he seemed to be ready. Vitru et al. did not bring too much dry food and would have to go hungry. Fortunately, the mountain area was not large and came to the plains two days later, and Amon returned to a town on the official road.

Vitru and others relieved themselves of their burdens and followed them out of the dense woods to Ji Town, where they learned that Amon had bought several horses and a car and drove himself south. They got good at it this time, picked up enough dry food in the town, bought two wagons with the best horses, and drove in the back. Sitting on a carriage, though turbulent, is always more comfortable than hiking through the deep mountains and is a break for several middle-class samurai.

To the south of Tannis City State is Bubbas City State, where Ammon has not stopped, heading directly towards Helio Town State, further south, where, apart from a brief camping at midnight, he has barely rested, which exhausts his trackers. Except for Haven, Vitru and the other three samurai were somewhat unbearable and secretly said in their hearts: “Isn't Amon tired? ”

In fact, Amon is also tired, he can take turns to rest and change cars like a tracker, and he is waving his own whip to catch the carriage. The feeling like a man on his back reminded him of the danger, always trying to escape quickly, but no matter how hard he tried for so many days, that feeling was always hidden, his body and spirit had almost reached the limit of what he could bear.

If it keeps going like this, with or without a tracker and a tracker who can catch him, Amon himself will have to stand up and get down first. Aware of this, Amon has also begun to pay attention to saving energy, rather than flying as fatally as he had just begun. No matter what the accident, he must retain his hand. At least he still has plenty of scrolls to rely on. Even the Underworld has broken out, and this can be done.

The state of Helio lies on the eastern bank of the Ronnie Shen River, far away from the river from the city of Monfis. It is already the economic and cultural center of Lower Ecuadorian, near the Ronnie River Delta, the land is fertile, rich in property, economically developed and densely populated. Amon went south again, walked off the official road, entered the mountains on the eastern bank of the Ronnie Valley, and the pursuit of crossing the mountains began again.

Amon slowed down this time, taking longer and longer nights off, deliberately wanting to go nowhere in the desert.

Long before entering Tannis City State, Amon felt that someone was following him. These trackers were by no means easy. They followed him all the way to the banks of the Ronnie River, and it appeared that he could not escape. Before you are forced into despair, find a way to fight back. The most used scrolls in the deep mountains are now the best option.

Amon has his plans, and Vitru has his heart. When he followed Ammon past Bubbas City State, he found Ammon circling the city and going south, he couldn't help but ask Haven: "Look at this man. Where the hell is he going? ”

"He's headed southwest on his way to the Ronnie River," Haven thought. "Think about it. If you want to escape the pursuit of Lord Julian, where should he go? ”

Vitru suddenly reacted and said, "Memphis! ”

Haven nodded softly: “If I were him, I would be dangerous and safe to escape into the dream. We don't know who sent him, and we don't know why Lord Julian wanted to kill him. When he really enters Dreamfield, it won't be convenient to do it, and Lord Julian can't cover everything! ”

Julian, a high priest of the Temple of Isis, has a noble natural status, but there is no way to hide from the sky in the City of Dreamfield. At least a few others are not in his power, and everything is not Julian's call. If Amon enters Dream Fest City, it's harder to do it in secret, and Julian can't control the situation if he leaves something behind.

Vitru also thought of this, closing his eyes: “It seems that this man's destination of eighty-nine is Dreamfield, and we must intercept it before he crosses the river.... be careful with the scrolls in his hand, it would be better if someone else did it first. ”

Haven smiled, but the smile looked very harsh: “Just know his destination and you can notify * * * - Linton to do it first, we won't rush with Amon. He also slowed down and seemed to be losing it. During this time, the circle tried to get rid of us and didn't get rid of us. * * * Coming directly from the official channel will be much faster than Amon. ”

Vitru and Haven had plans, and they were in no hurry when they found Amon abandoning his horse and entering the mountains on the outskirts of Helio City State. Now that Ammon is slowing down, they're slowing down, just keeping track. Vitru and Haven have studied the terrain, and no matter how much Amon circles in the mountains, he will surely walk out of the valley in the southwest direction, which is the road to the Ronnie River ferry.

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