After Sie left the office, Halan sat on his office chair, deep in thought. A human awakening their bloodline abilities was a huge crime, and as the general overseer who was supposed to keep every human in check, he was going to be punished for it because a human awakened right under his nose.
"Damn that Sie! Now of all times, when the Circuit Overseer is coming," he growled under his breath.
He couldn't just leave his office because he still had to prepare for the Circuit Overseer's arrival.
"Balo," Halan muttered, his face serious as he arrived at a conclusion.
From the darkest corner of his office, where the sunlight didn't reach, the shadows thickened with swirling tendrils. A pair of light green eyes reflected from within the darkness.
"You called, my lord," the shadow, Balo, said.
"Follow Sie and take care of the awakened human by all means necessary before the Circuit Overseer arrives," Halan said in a serious tone.
"As you wish, my lord." The green eyes flashed, and the shadowy tendrils in the dark part of the office disappeared.
After that, Halan returned to what he had been doing before his rest was disturbedfilling out the documents on his office desk.
Now fully prepared and armed, Sie took thirty-some dark elves and goblins as they went to the district where Ariel and his family once lived.
When they got there, Sie was annoyed because she couldn't find anyone except the bodies of her dead entourage, and she shouted at her squad.
"Spread out! You must find where they ran to! Now!"
Immediately, without waiting, the dark elves and goblins spread apart, looking for any sign of where the family might have fled.
But no matter how they searched, it was impossible, they couldn't find any clear direction of where the family had gone.
A dark elf went to report to Sie, which made her even more annoyed because her life was already dangling if she failed her mission.
"Damnit! I should have brought along the search squad," she said angrily.
She initially thought she wouldn't need them because she believed the family wouldn't run away, something that had never happened in their town before.
But now it seemed she had calculated wrong, and every minute they wasted allowed the family to run farther.
Fear crept into her heart at the thought of what Halan was going to do to her because of her failed mission. Her body trembled with fear and anger. She gnashed her teeth together, trembling with rage and hatred in her eyes as she remembered Ariel.
He was the one who had made her life go downhill.
Sie turned towards her squad and shouted in anger.
"Search properly! If you can't find them, be ready to forfeit your lives!"
"!!!!!"
The dark elves and goblins were stunned and filled with fear. They knew Sie wasn't joking, if they failed to locate the family, they would lose their lives.
With fear driving their adrenaline, the dark elves and goblins began searching more frantically for clues of where the family might have fled, bumping into each other without even apologizing.
Their lives were in danger now as well.
COUGH! COUGH!!
Just as Sie was about to angrily join the search, she heard one of her entourage members, whom she thought was dead cough.
She turned back to look at him and saw him pointing toward the forest with a shaking hand, struggling greatly.
Sie was no fool. She immediately understood what the dark elf was trying to say.
Because the door had been left open, the dark elf who had fainted when Ariel's heavy punch landed on his belly had regained a little consciousness and saw the family escaping before fainting again.
Without saying anything or showing any care toward the injured entourage, Sie turned and shouted,
"They ran into the woods! Go into the woods and find them! Be alert for any clues! You must not fail!"
"Yesss!"
As if pardoned from death, the dark elves and goblins abandoned their previous search and immediately ran into the woods without a second thought.
Sie followed behind them and quickly caught up.
'Just you wait, you brat! I'll choke you to death myself! Hehehe!' Sie thought.
But she wasn't aware of a shadow trailing behind her and her squad.
Ariel could have run faster than his current speed due to his awakened ability, but his family was much slower, and he couldn't leave them behind.
'Damnit! Just how big is this forest?!' he thought nervously.
Now that he knew this world was a fantasy world, there were many possibilities that their enemies might catch up to them through magic.
But there was nothing he could do. Though his mother had a stronger physique than his father, she was still weak. His father might have been tired from work, and his twin sister literally had no stamina or strength to run through the woods.
Ariel turned and saw his father breathing hard from exhaustion while carrying Uriel.
He stopped running, confusing his family.
"What's it, Ariel? Are you tired? Come, let me carry you," his mother, Eyla, said, her tone filled with concern, her eyes narrowed with worry.
"No, I'm not. I'm worried about Father," Ariel said, which made Huston raise an eyebrow.
"Father, let me carry Uriel," Ariel said.
"Don't worry, I'm doing fine," Huston replied with a forced smile despite his tired face.
No, he wasn't fine. He was just trying to hold on without making his family worry.
Most of all, he wanted them to escape as far as possible. But Ariel saw through him and said,
"Let me carry her. I don't know what's going on, but I'm stronger than adults," Ariel said with confidence and concern.
He had once been a trained adult back on Earth. Back there, he could easily beat most untrained adults. But now, in a child's body, he felt strength he never thought possible.
He had been running for a while now, yet he hadn't run out of breath. In fact, he felt full of strength.
"I don't…" Huston was about to argue when Ariel suddenly turned sharply.
Ariel sensed something was wrong. There was no more time.
Without waiting for his father's approval, Ariel dropped the bag he was carrying, took Uriel, who yelped as she was lifted from their father and carried her on his back.
'Wh… what strength!!'
Huston was stunned at his own son's strength and immediately understood how he had been able to fight against the dark elves and win.
"We have no time to waste. It seems they are behind us," Ariel said as he picked up the bag again. "We must hurry!"
"Aren't you overdoing it, Ariel?" Huston asked with concern.
"This is nothing," Ariel replied before running forward with the big bag in one hand and Uriel on his back.
Uriel had been silent for a while because of everything that had happened. It had traumatized her mentally.
Without hesitating any longer, Huston and Eyla ran after their children, but…
SWIISSHHH!!
CLANG!!
Beside Huston's ear, a sharp sound cut through the air, followed by a heavy impact as something struck a tree in front of him.
It was an arrow.
"!!!!!!"
Huston turned back but saw no one, yet he knew their pursuers weren't far anymore.
"They are getting close to us!"