Rise Of The Infinite Sovereign-Chapter 403: Plundering

With his objective achieved, it was now time to officially begin his plundering spree.

Yet...

[You can’t end things like this]

There was another problem.

[Or else you will definitely be among the top suspects]

"What?"

[Out of one thousand people that entered into the secret realm, I doubt there are any other dragon groups that were completely wiped out. Only this group, do you really think that Avaken wouldn’t find that suspicious?]

Ezra then nodded, realizing his mistake.

"So, I have to cause damage to other black dragon groups too?"

[Not just black dragon groups but other groups as well. If the range of people attacked isn’t wide enough, then there will undoubtedly be suspicions towards you. So you have to include as many people as possible]

"Hmm...wouldn’t this earn the ire of too many clans?"

[You have already earned black dragon’s ire, and once the black dragon clan demands you dead, do you think the other clans will oppose them? No, they will actively support them to hunt you down!]

"...I have been complacent," Ezra replied.

[Now that you’ve already done this, you have to make sure to clean up properly or else there will be dire consequences]

"You’re really ruthless"

[I don’t want to hear that from you]

Arranging his thoughts, Ezra nodded.

"Alright, while I plunder, I’ll leave the puppets in frenzy mode for others who appear behind me. Besides, I don’t have to do everything today, it’s still just the first day"

Even if he wasn’t willing to be ruthless, he wouldn’t have attacked Lipeter’s group in the first place.

Concluding his next course of action, Ezra used a gatemark to appear far away from the scene of the dragon’s group annihilation.

If before Ezra intended to head straight in and leave others in the dust to hunt by himself, now, he intended to clear buildings on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth line.

Doing so, he would steal the pill while leaving the puppets intact to attack those who came after him.

Using deduction, Ezra estimated most groups would hunt within this limit, from the first line to the sixth line of buildings, since after all, very few were capable of moving as fast as Ezra.

After all, would it not be too suspicious if a secret realm malfunction only affected a single line of buildings?

Moreover, there was no one who could recover as fast as him, so they would stay within this limit to get the best advantages.

Ezra got to work, excited!

He was already imagining the piles of pills he would take out of the secret realm with him.

Then, he also planned some coherence into his actions since it would also be bad if too many people got hurt.

Now, at night time, a figure sprinted across the grassland at a fast speed, appearing and disappearing like a mirage.

His first objective was to find another group of people, large or small.

After running for over an hour while clearing out multiple buildings, he stumbles into another group of thirteen.

What would you know? It was another black dragon group, though not all of them were black dragons.

’It makes sense since black dragons are the ones who came in the most’ he concluded, concealing himself.

While concealed, Ezra watched them and estimated their charted path.

’Good’

Sprinting, he goes ahead of them to the line of buildings they were headed, and clears the building on their path, along with the other two buildings at both sides, leaving frenzied puppets for them as he heads on his way, deeper inside

Plundering pills and puppets, Ezra clears out buildings in two fashions.

One, he would steal the pill and leave a frenzied puppet for whoever was unlucky enough to step in its range.

Or he would steal the puppet while it was dormant and steal the pill as well.

A few times, he even stole the dormant puppet but left the pill, so everyone would have the general misconception that it was the secret realm malfunctioning.

And without exception, he left a <Gatemark> as each of those buildings so he would be able to tell how many people had actually witnessed the ferocity of a frenzied puppet and also how many people had died to it, which was important.

Rinse and repeat.

The first victims to the pranks were the party of black dragons he had first spotted.

Moreover, on their first sudden encounter, one member was killed.

’Good’

The effect he was hoping to achieve was beginning to manifest.

While they suffered like that, he was stealing pill after pill without even counting.

He decided he would do the counting once he exited the secret realm.

Until then, he had to steal as many pills as possible.

Ezra continued this action for the rest of the two weeks, resting only to regain his energy reserves back to full capacity.

As a result, he had recorded thirty eight deaths from the frenzied puppets he left in various places and many more injured, thus halting many groups from exploring further and in turn reduced competition.

Concealed most of the time, Ezra had not been spotted once throughout his stay.

While that was good, if that was reported to the elders outside, he would undoubtedly be suspected, so by Zydrax’s advice, Ezra engineered accidental meetings with other groups.

Beforehand, he purposely fought a frenzied puppet and thus sported injuries, so as to make himself appear without suspicion.

After all, how would someone battling puppets on his own be without a haggard appearance but clean and spotless? Was that very suspicious?

Approaching different parties, he would introduce himself, making subtle hints of him fighting the puppets by himself before mentioning the problem of frenzied puppets’ sudden attack to get into a conversation.

Slowly, he would then leave them suggestions that it was probably the secret realm malfunctioning, saying he heard such from another group he had come across.

Whilst doing this, he heals his wounds in front of them to highlight his fast regeneration, thus answering the question of how he fought frenzied puppets by himself and survived.

After chatting a while longer, he leaves the group to find other buildings, relaying intentions to head either further in or head back a line.

For such specific things, Ezra only appeared to three groups each in a separate line, but that would be enough.

With his preparations, they would have to exclude him from suspicions or any suspicions directed would be of the lowest level.

Getting that objective set up as well, Ezra plundered to his heart’s content.

He stopped leaving frenzied puppets around from the start the last three days and instead stole them along with the pills.

Thanks to his actions, word that the secret realm was malfunctioning would soon spread.

With this, along with the death of so many promising Transcendents, the elders wouldn’t even look in his direction, except for Avaken who ordered his death and whoever else might have known about it.

To that...

’I’ll take care of him in due time’

Ezra would wait till he was powerful enough.

Beyond all that, Ezra couldn’t grin as he packed pill after pill after pill.

Also, because of how he’d been exerting himself, he had become more proficient in recovering energy and now sucked in the energy that filled the secret realms to lessen the time he needed to rest.

He perpetually raced through the secret realms clearing more buildings than he could count.

Utilizing his speed in conjunction with his spatial abilities, Ezra utilized <Gatemark> to move between the building lines in order to plunder more efficiently.

With his focus on plunder, his actions soon blended as one, placing the puppets in the universe and gluing the pill to the description were done in one motion before then burning the stool.

When there remained only three days, Ezra started simply gluing the pill to the top of the stool and sending it into his universe to save time.

So focused on grabbing pills, time blurred as he worked.

Irrelevant thoughts were eliminated to allow his brain to work faster and make his body work faster.

[Ezra!]

It was Zydrax’s loud voice that woke Ezra from his reverie whilst in the midst of glueing a pill to a stool.

"Huh? What?" Ezra answered, blinking in confusion.

[It’s been two weeks] said Zydrax. [It’ll be time to leave soon]

As a result, Ezra didn’t even know when the set day arrived.

"Oh I see"

Yet, there wasn’t too much surprise on his face.

Acknowledging the fact, he simply places the pill into his universe and then looks through the <Gatemark> he’d placed to pick which one to appear at.

Picking one, Ezra opens the portal below his feet and falls.

On the other side, the portal was stationed in the air, facing the ground, so Ezra fell to the green ground with a soft tap.

As the skill most used in conjunction with <Universal Concealment>, he had gained proficiency in it, making it easier to deploy and with less energy.

Closing the portal, Ezra looked around.

There was no one nearby, just as he wanted.

Fitted in haggard clothes, Ezra did not change it since it would be weird if he came out with different clothes.

Not too weird, of course, since some others would have packed clothes into their space rings, but Ezra aimed to appear as inconspicuous as possible.

Since the secret realm automatically scatters entrants, it also didn’t require that they gather at a single place to exit.

Instead...

A portal synonymous to that of Ezra’s, opened beside him, but rather black or white, this one was of light green luster.

This was the exit.

Once the time to exit arrived, all participants would have a portal open beside them as the exit.

Taking a deep breath, Ezra stepped in.