"I must be crazy."
Ascalon shook her head.
If she were driving, going this fast would definitely make for a horribly bumpy ride.
"There hasn't been a single attack along the way."
W looked at the surrounding scenery.
Ursula's team had already been targeted, so there were clearly Confessors' informants nearby.
They would definitely have noticed a vehicle that had left the convoy alone.
Yet after all this time, nothing exciting had happened.
The Sarkaz girl found it terribly boring.
If it were her, she would have at least planted some roadside bombs.
But in the end, there was nothing at all.
On the road, landmines buried in advance were quietly doing their job, waiting for some lucky soul to arrive—
Provided the vehicle could actually run over them.
"What kind of Originium Arts is that?"
On a distant height, several mercenary-looking Sarkaz held binoculars and stared wide-eyed at the vehicle hovering close to the ground.
The landmines they had buried beforehand were completely useless—
Because the damn vehicle could not step on them at all!
The proximity-triggered mines had failed outright.
"We've failed here. The target is heading toward your encirclement!"
He watched the off-road vehicle gradually move away.
If the mines were useless, then the Originium explosive launchers should work, right?
"This terrain is ideal for an ambush."
After a while, W looked at the canyon below and offered that assessment.
At that moment, the vehicle was driving straight upward along the cliff face.
Ascalon fell silent.
She had noticed—
Zerg's route was a perfectly straight line.
There were no turns at all.
That truly was the fastest way—
But it was far too strange.
The female assassin looked down into the canyon. She seemed to see several Sarkaz lying in ambush below.
There also seemed to be