Rena watched Xu Yi and Great Mage Camilla repeatedly look him up and down with seemingly ill-intentioned gazes, and a chill slowly crept into his heart.
But the situation was entirely against him. He could neither win a fight nor escape, leaving him completely at their mercy.
If Great Mage Camilla killed him outright, he would have no chance at all. If they wanted to try something else, however, he might still find a sliver of opportunity to survive.
With that thought, Rena maintained his ashen, utterly defeated expression, but his mind had already begun racing, ready to seize any opportunity.
Unfortunately, Great Mage Camilla kept a close watch on him, giving him no chance to gather his mana and suddenly escape with space magic.
Rena could only wait patiently.
What puzzled him was the young woman named Stille, who was holding an iron box and muttering into it.
Rena could sense a trace of mana fluctuations coming from the little iron box. It was presumably some novel piece of magic machinery created by the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
But what use could such a little iron box have? Rather than alarm, Rena felt delight.
Under these circumstances, more people would only mean more chaos, and the greater the chaos, the better his chances of escaping.
The rhythmic footsteps rounded a bend on the cliff and continued down the nearby slope. Moments later, a group of uniformly dressed soldiers appeared in the distance where the beach met the hillside.
Rena glanced over and was startled.
There were roughly four or five hundred soldiers. Not only did each one's armor give off faint mana fluctuations, suggesting magical armor enhanced with magic arrays, but the various oddly shaped objects they carried also emitted mana fluctuations. They were clearly magic machinery as well.
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