The Reincarnation of the Kingmaker

Chapter 148: Being followed

With that being said, Kayn and the others began picking a cave to explore.

As soon as they were all finished and were out of sight, Kayn suddenly walks out of the magma waterfall and went to another path.

He purposely picked another path because he felt that something is amiss. It feels as if someone is following them.

Right now, Natas is continuing the path that leads to the Molten Magma Core. While he would try to find out what exactly is causing him to feel uneasy.

He had given Natas a Storage Ring, which is a very tiny object that he can carry with him and he can use to store the Molten Magma Core once he finds it. He isn't worried whether Natas could pull it off or not because as far as he could remember, the latter can interact with objects even though he is currently in his spirit form.

Contrary to that, he is worried about someone else stealing the Molten Magma Core from him. Hence, he is going on another path in hopes of misleading anyone who is following him.

"I wonder who they are," Kayn muttered to himself as he continued walking forward. Strangely enough, he isn't feeling like his life is in danger.

The longer he continues to walk, the wider the path slowly becomes.

"Strange…"

The path was in a straight line, it wasn't going down or going up as well.

"Is this path perhaps connected to other paths?" As far as he had observed, it is most likely going to be the case.

After a few moments, he came to a halt.

In front of him appears a huge open space, and to his left, right, and front are three other entrances leading to different locations.

"It seems like I got myself into trouble,"

If he continues along this path, there's a good chance that he will find himself in a maze. He isn't familiar with the Peaceful Volcano, so it's not a good plan to continue.

"This is not good. I have to get back before it's too late…"

All of a sudden, Kayn quickly hid in the closest spot as he heard some footsteps approaching his direction.

"I truly didn't expect that there would be caves hidden behind the magma waterfalls…" The man felt amazed.

"We never thought of this possibility despite how long we've searched this place,"

"Though, are you certain that this path would lead us to the center of the Peaceful Volcano?" One of the men can't help but ask.

Shaking his head, their leader responded, "I am not, but that person who seems to be their leader surely knows what's up. And if I am not mistaken, that young man definitely wants to keep the Molten Magma Core to himself since he went to another cave after the members of his party left. Quite greedy, I must say,"

"That young man would surely be in for a surprise when he finds out that there are other people who are following him,"

"Who told them to come here while looking very appealing to people like us," The man started laughing.

"It's such a shame. If it wasn't because of the Molten Magma Core, we would have definitely gone for their women first,"

"Exactly!"

Laughter immediately echoed throughout the entire place.

Eventually, the men came to a halt just like Kayn as they looked at the three paths in front of them.

"This is a bit problematic,"

"Why?"

"That's right! There are ten of us here, let's just split into three groups. Whoever finds that young man first, has to immediately report it to the rest of us,"

"I agree!"

"Alright!"

The party immediately split into three groups with one having four members and the other two groups having three members.

After that, they were assigned by their leader which cave they would explore through a simple lottery.

Kayn can't help breathing a soft sigh of relief after seeing that the group going in his direction is only made up of three people, and they also don't seem strong as well.

"I should be able to handle them fairly easily," Kayn muttered before slipping away to go deep.

He is intending to look for a dark location to hide and prepare to ambush the three when they are deep enough that their comrades won't be able to hear them anymore.

"Do you think we'd be lucky enough to stumble upon that young man?"

"If we do, I suggest we don't report it,"

"That was exactly what I was about to propose to you guys,"

"Why?"

"Think about it, no one knows exactly where that young man is right now, thus if one luckily finds him, that would be a perfect opportunity to keep the Molten Magma Core to themselves. And believe me, the rest of our party should be thinking the same as well,"

"I guess so,"

"Just trust the two of us. Anyways, the fewer people there are, the more profit we would get, right?"

"Indeed,"

Eventually, the three passed by where Kayn is currently hidden.

"Quite foolish," Kayn thought inwardly. Selfishness has always been one of the major root causes of failure.

An example of why is about to take place right now…

Without any hesitation, Kayn quickly rushed towards the closest person among the three.

Raising both of his arms, he then waves it down with a lot of force to hit the man with the hilt of his Molten Ice Sword, which instantly causes the man to lose consciousness.

Subsequently, he waves his sword to the left to hit away the sword of the man on the left.

At the same time, he sent a powerful kick to the man to the right.

Clang!

Bang!

Boom!

One dropped unconscious, the other became defenseless, while the last one was sent farther to the back so that he won't be able to run away.

In the next moment, Kayn waves his hand and threw a dagger at the man who was sent away. Albeit the hilt of the dagger was in front as he isn't intending to kill anyone here.

He then grabs his sword once more and waves it to the neck of the defenseless man beside him.

Bang!

The other man lost consciousness.

"Don't move if you don't want to be the one who will lose his life,"

"O… okay…"

Bang!

Kayn hit the man with the central part of his sword to make him lose consciousness like the rest.

In that quick and fluid combination of attacks, he successfully knocked the three men out.