"We've picked up the traces..."
Somewhere in the underground city.
Looking at the teleportation spell that was gradually being restored through magic.
The Mind Flayer Elder in charge of managing the underground city nodded in satisfaction and said:
"Then begin deciphering the teleportation coordinates within it."
"Hopefully, we can finish before those fellows get too far away..."
The other five Mind Flayer Elders who had come to assist replied with considerable confidence:
"That shouldn't be a problem..."
When Fredos and the others had teleported away, they had all left together.
They had left no one behind to cover their retreat and erase their traces.
As a result, although the great explosion had destroyed most of the teleportation array they had left behind.
Some broken remnants had survived in the end.
Now.
Using the information revealed by those lingering traces.
The other Mind Flayer Elders who had come to assist could follow the trail straight to the region Fredos had fled to.
Provided nothing went wrong along the way...
But, quite obviously.
Something was bound to go wrong!
Nothing going wrong?
That was utterly impossible!
Did they think the power of fate surrounding Fredos was some kind of joke?
And so, before the Mind Flayer Elder repairing the teleportation array could even finish those confident words.
The moment he finished restoring a particular magic rune, a concealed spell beneath the surface runes was triggered!
Then, in the very next instant.
Before the terrified eyes of everyone present, caught completely off guard, a violent explosion erupted without warning!
"BOOM!!"
In this area that had only just been filled back in.
Another mushroom cloud over a hundred meters tall rose into the air!
Only this time, unlike the last, turbulent currents of time and space were mixed into it.
They were like the