After a few hours, early in the evening two guards in armour wielding a Rapier and Spear strolled across a forest with a Brown ish black haired boy with chains all around him being carried by a cart, both of the guards were chatting away, waking the boy, immediately he noticed being chained up, his goldish eyes growing wide after realising he was caught by the City guard, he thought "damn it i need to find a way to escape or il be tortured- or worse lose my life!" after realising there was no immediate way to escape his mind started reeling back to his last memories his emotions which had just calmed down immediately was full of unimaginable terror, at that moment he was sure that if he could remember what he saw he would be dead by now.
Just thinking about what he saw induced a head splitting headache, to try and mitigate it he started focusing on what the City guards were talking about, the one with the rapier said "Hahaha! This boy archon really messed up this time, stealing a cultivation technique from the city lord! Hes definitely gonna get executed this time" "Indeed Polar, this thorn in ourside will finally be removed! its a tad bit sad the citylord didnt kill him before he took his oppertunity to cultivate! What a scumbag honestly! Hes been taken care of by our city for so long yet all he brings is misfortune"
"Indeed Benny he truly is a misfortune, but not for us!! Think of the payout that we'll get for capturing this rascall!" As archon listened to the two middle aged men talk his golden eyes flashed with hatred, thinking to himself "these two have always had it out for me.. I swear when i become a cultivator il get my revenge" as he thought this the two Guards Polar and Benny realised he had woken up and started talking even louder "oh boy i cant wait to go to the bar tonight and drink till i drop dead with all this money from his capture!! Ey benny wanna come with me?" In reply to that Benny started laughing " Of course i will Polar We havent gone out drinking in half a decade! "
As the guards kept chatting Archon zoned them out to focus on making his escape plan, realising that from where they were he had around a hour before getting to the wall of the city, if he wanted to keep his head he would have to escape before that happened, as archon knew where they were since he often came out to the forest, he realised his only oppertunity to escape would be for one of the more powerful wild animals like a wolf or bear to come scare away the guards, of course that means his life would be at risk too but he would rather a chance of death then dying outright! and to his delight he realised there were signs of a wolf nearby recently, the two guards wouldn't have noticed it due to not being near the forests often but archon did and with that he prepared and shouted as loud as he could trying to mimick the sounds of a moose, a common enough prey around this area "whats all that racket for you brat!?" Archon just smiled coldly, his ears were much sharper then most and he could hear wolves walking on leafs making a crunching sound, Archon's first step of the plan complete, muttering to himself "now comes the hard part" as the wolve came into view Archon, Polar and Bennys eyes all grew wide with horror as the wolve that appeared wasnt a normal one, it was a spirit wolf of the lowest kind, but even something like that could easily kill ordinary humans Polar who had seemed like a Gruff man not afraid of anything instantly let out a woman like screech immediately pushing Benny behind him and running, knowing he had no chance of fighting with it he also dropped his weapons and armour to lower his heaviness to run faster.
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Benny who had been betrayed just now looked at Polars running figure with a mix of betrayal, anger, and killing intent! shouting at polar "IF I SEE YOU AGAIN YOUR DEAD POLAR!!!" Archon realised his plan had backfired badly, frantically started pleading benny for the key to unlock his chains, "uncle benny please! If im out of these chains we have a higher chance of surviving!" showing a look of pure desperation and begging, Benny being somewhat obvious started thinking about making Archon a meatshield while he runs and thus tossed the keys to him! "HAHHAA GOOD LUCK ARCHON" He shouted while running as fast as he can removing the armor while keeping his spear for defense.. even knowing that a ordinary spear like his could never scratch the hide of a spirit beast.
Archon grabbing the keys that had been tossed onto his hands quickly started fiddling with them to try put them in the lock, but strangely the wolve didnt attack him but instead ran towards the direction Polar & benny went. Archon quickly chalked it up to the wolve smelling fear or something and started moving quickly but not quick enough to cause a commotion in the forest, lest he attracts more spirit beasts, after 20 seconds he hears a blood curdling scream and less then 40 seconds after he hears another one, although far more quiet, Archons eyes glowed with a light of almost unsatiable hunger, he talks to himself "when can i obtain such power..."
