[0759] Unwarranted Misfortune

With Karya gone, Jax and Shyvana began the tedious work of watching the surveillance feeds. The sand paintings shifted unpredictably, so they had to watch every detail closely and make sure the "key figures" Karya had marked stayed in view.

Karya himself, meanwhile, left Ixaocan City and returned once again to the forbidden zone in Ixtal.

The anchor he had left in the forbidden zone last time was still active. To him, this place, so heavily guarded by the Ixtali, had become a public restroom: he could come and go as he pleased.

That was convenient for Karya, but it also meant the forbidden zone's defenses weren't all that reliable. If he could treat it like a public restroom, there was no reason others couldn't do the same.

Although the spatial barrier could block spatial perception, making it second only to creating a personal subplane in terms of secrecy, Karya knew of at least three or five ways to get around it if someone truly had malicious intentions.

So the forbidden zone probably wasn't as reliable as it looked.

Earlier, while keeping an eye on Malzahar alone, Karya couldn't be everywhere at once and couldn't watch the forbidden zone constantly. Now, with Jax and Shyvana helping monitor the feeds, he could finally enter the forbidden zone again and wait for his moment!

Malzahar, under surveillance, had no idea he was being watched.

In fact, this Void Prophet hadn't just looked well-behaved lately; he really had been well-behaved. While Karya worried that he might be up to something, Malzahar hadn't actually done anything suspicious.

Ever since becoming the Forbidden Zone Inspector, he had been diligently studying all the documents and information he could access about the forbidden zone, trying to understand how its barrier worked.

However, even though he was now