Green followed the traces Suzune had left behind while ordering the patrols that had entered the Underground Black Market to conduct a sweeping search.
Suzune had thought entering the Underground Black Market would shake Green's men. Instead, it had backfired and left her trapped. Once the cordon tightened, she would be forced into the open sooner or later.
Still, Suzune did not resent Green for bringing so many people. Their game of hide-and-seek had never been a fair contest. She simply had no choice but to play.
Green held the advantage for now, but he had to finish this quickly. The poisonous Psychic Energy clinging to Suzune's wound was dwindling as her own Psychic Energy dissolved it. If he took too long, he would lose her trail completely.
Green could still detect the traces Suzune had left, but the Psychic Energy within them grew weaker each time. At this rate, he had half an hour at most before the trail vanished.
Green frowned. He still did not have enough people. He summoned the Kobold Shaman, Emma Hart, and a mass of Kobold Zombies appeared throughout the Underground Black Market. These small, ugly Undead creatures were quick, and they had numbers on their side. More than ten thousand Kobold Zombies spreading through the market were like a plague of locusts. With a search network of over a thousand ravens overhead and patrols from the Anomalies Bureau and City Guard, they swept through each area and steadily tightened the cordon around Suzune.
The search proceeded smoothly through most of the Underground Black Market. But when they reached its central district, a large group of powerful Transcendents emerged to confront them. There were over three hundred of them, all fierce-looking and far from weak. Their two leaders, a man and a woman, were