Chapter 1296: Measures

He was quite certain that he was well outside their sensory range. Furthermore, Master Deivon was fighting her head-on, she needed to dedicate attention focusing on him if she did not want to lose.

Still...

RUMBLE

He nervously glanced at the quivering land beneath him. He already knew what was the cause of this seismic activity. Two calamities in human form had begun clashing a great distance away, and the indirect remnant ripples of their power reached him more than a thousand kilometers away.

It was absolutely incredible.

Yet now was not the time to marvel at them.

'Now, it's time to choose what to do.' Rui narrowed his eyes. 'I need to pick a course of action that will minimize the probability of her detecting me even if she does chase after me.'

One thing that was an advantage was the fact that he roughly knew where he was and even the broader geography of his surroundings. He even knew the directions to the Kaddar Region because he had memorized its location as well.

'The good thing is that she doesn't know that my destination is the Kaddar Region.' Rui mused. 'Since Master Deivon had chosen to obscure that fact, he was able to make sure that she couldn't learn that. This was probably why she attacked me before he obscured our travel through some convoluted path or means.'

That meant that as long as he got to Ajanta Island, he won.

'I need to plot a straightforward path to Ajanta Island if that's the case.' Rui noted. 'It's best I take some precautions if she does somehow manage to end up tracking my trail.'

Based on the map inside his Mind Palace, there were many suitable locations along the way, as well as suitable trading paths where he could disguise himself while traveling.

What he was truly afraid of was that if he took a remote path with no other human presence, she would easily identify him if she happened down a path where he would enter her sensory range.

If he could get rid of his attire and the mask, and perhaps alter his appearance with some sort of appearance mask, that would be perfect. Even if her senses detected him, she was likelier to miss him as a traveler among many.

'Alright. So the next destination is directly Ajanta Island. Will travel there directly and fast, but will take measures to ensure that she will have more difficulty identifying me even if she detects me down thispath.' Rui decided.

He immediately began running in the general direction of the Kaddar Region. There were many general traveling paths that he could get on to travel to the region. But his first stop was certainly going to be a commuting town along the way. His attire was way too attention-drawing.

He still hadn't even gotten rid of the fancy attire that he was expected to wear as the Virodha Champion. He would draw way too much attention in it.

The good part was that it was multi-layered, so he could get rid of seventy percent of it and still have clothes on that were still less ostentatious.

BOOM!

He dug a huge hole, tossing in the absurd fur coat among other things, before covering it up.

"And now that that's done..." He murmured.

He quickly traveled to the closest town along the way a few thousand kilometers away. He ignored the attention he drew walking in.

He knew that he looked like the lost and stranded son of a noble of some sort. That needed to change.

"I need new clothes that will help me blend in as a traveler," Rui spoke the moment he entered what looked like a cheap clothes shop.

"Ya sure are in need of them," The shopkeeper laughed before providing Rui with a set of clothes.

"Thanks," Rui told him after donning them before putting a Shionel gold coin on the table. "Keep the change."

The man's eyes widened. "That's too much!"

Yet Rui was already gone. He came and went like the wind. He didn't speak with anybody else, or leave any other trails. The greater the impact of his presence, the greater the likelihood that something would go wrong.

That was the reason that he had already moved on from the town, minimizing his presence with Mind Mask. The technique wouldn't work on Martial Masters, but it worked fine against normal people.

Rui continued traveling in a straight line toward the Kaddar Region with an absolutely unerring momentum. He didn't take rest stops or slow down for anything. He just continued sprinting at top speed in the direction of the Kaddar Region without caring for anything.

The initial journey was the most important. More important than any other phase. The Kaddar Region was a considerable distance away from the Virodha Theocracy, even on a continental map scale.

He knew for a fact that even a Martial Master could not possibly search a whole continent. That was the kind of absurdity that he would expect from a Martial Sage or the mysterious Martial Transcendents.

Which meant that as long as he got even halfway through, he knew he had successfully gotten through.

His rationality was in overdrive as his mind furiously evaluated and analyzed circumstances looking for anything that could make his circumstances more favorable in his regard.

So much so that he disregarded his emotions.

His heart had been beating heavily and furious ever since Master Uma showed up. The thought of being caught by her and bein brainwashed and trained to become a religious deity made him sick to his stomach. He would rather kill himself than to allow that to happen.

He hated everything that she stood for. But he also feared her power, the power that he saw the two of them wield was beyond his understanding. But what he did understand, and truly felt in his bones, was that he was insignificant compared to her.

No wonder she didn't care to respect his will. He was too weak for it to mean anything.

'One day I will become a Martial Master. And when I do...' Rui narrowed his eyes.

He was going to have a little chat with her that day.

Until then, he needed to make sure that he evaded her eye. Thankfully, that wasn't too hard. The continent was absolutely gigantic, just its size was greater than Jupiter. On top of that, it was highly disconnected compared to the human civilization of Earth. There were many places to hide where she could never find him.

That was why she had chosen to attack them before it was too late and before Master Deivon obscured Rui's path through whatever means.

It was a race, and it was one that he could not afford to lose.