The Magic City, Korelon.
Holding a spear and wearing a standard-issue bright silver knight's half-plate, the young gate guard stood dutifully before the entrance. Whenever someone passed, he raised a hand in salute and greeted them enthusiastically in a lively voice:
"Thank you for your hard work, travelers! Nothing out of the ordinary today, either!"
"Come to think of it, fewer and fewer people have been coming out during the day lately. Could it be too hot?"
This time, however, the young guard's enthusiastic greeting went unanswered.
With a whoosh, the two men and one woman who had just been at the gate vanished.
The guard blinked in confusion. "Where did they go?"
Meanwhile.
On a street in the city center.
With a ripple of spatial power, the missing trio suddenly appeared.
Blargh!
Sika opened his mouth and vomited his lunch all over the ground. "Boss, I think I'm a little dead."
"You've got some nerve complaining. Would I have pushed myself that hard if I weren't helping you?"
Chen Feng's face was ashen. To rescue Xiaomei from the slave traders as quickly as possible, he had cast Spatial Teleportation repeatedly, blinking the three of them all the way to the Magic City's gates.
Even Chen Feng struggled to withstand those consecutive spatial jumps. Right now, for instance, he could clearly feel the spatial portion of the spacetime divinity within him raging out of control. It seemed temporarily unusable.
"I managed to disable my only escape skill before even meeting an enemy. If Savior heard about this, he'd definitely cut ties with me."
Chen Feng tried using Reversal to repair himself, but just as a physician could not heal himself, a Reverser could not use Reversal to reverse his own Reversal.
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