22 Ai

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I will take care of myself. I also need to buy somethings since I will be leaving tomorrow."

Merlin furrowed his brows, after contemplating a moment he nodded.

"Don't spend too much time outside, tonight is not safe, if it gets noisy, be sure to not involve yourself."

A luxurious black sedan slowly came over and stopped near Merlin.

"When I saw you being more outgoing, I was truly happy, but don't always wander around aimlessly, go home early and cultivate diligently, otherwise your University life is not going to be easy."

After once more reassuring Merlin, Lucas opened the door of the vehicle for Merlin.

Lucas stood still for some time and watched Merlin go. He stood still there until the vehicle was out of his sight. After discreetly making sure that no one was watching him, Lucas himself walked in a leisure manner and headed to the heart of City of Datura.

After a while, Lucas quietly put his grey robe and as soon as he put it on the grey robe automatically activated it's passive function camouflage.

While walking, Lucas browsed through his SmartWatch aka PLUTO, at first he didn't think much of the black technology of MagiTech. He felt PLUTO must be somewhat faster and more precise, that's all.

But he was truly surprised, while trying PLUTO he found that it is the can easily hack into most civilian facilities and also gain access to some dark websites, from PLUTO he could access many prohibited pages and without using any type of account he could access many information. His trace was covered in online.

Amazed Lucas was ecstatic, MagiTech high technology was not simple, worthy of a gift from grandpa.

It had a basic artificial intelligence(AI) and is capable of smart management. Artificial Intelligence was not rare in Sea-Mist plane, most of the high level business have their own customized AI. Individuals don't need AI's in their SmartWatch because when cost-performance-need was concluded. Expert level operating system was enough.

Lucas named his artificial intelligence 'Ai' simplifying artificial intelligence. Quite simple isn't it?

Lucas was hesitant in looting after he killed the three in Underhood Market, he was afraid of leaving any clues, more he explored the world the more he got enthralled and confused.

He wasn't quite sure of the magical and technical means of the era. So he didn't want to leave any possible trails.

At that instance an idea sprang in his head.

He hastily tried to access the SmartWatch of the man who seemed like the leader. Finding his idea may work, he couldn't stop himself.

With the help of Ai Lucas easily hacked into internal system of the SmartWatch and copied all the data from it.

Lucas once more glanced through the data, most of information inside was irrelevant to him. But he could still find some interesting purchase history related to many prohibited drugs and other materials.

By backtracking some of their movements and from communication log between the members of mercenary group, Lucas quickly narrowed down the place of Blood Hawk Mercenary.

Lucas was right now may seem just walking aimless, but he was slowly walking towards the outskirts of the city in a round trip manner. While going through the narrow streets, busy markets, wide roads he slowly changed from Lucas Arsln to an youth fighter.

Lucas looked like an complete novice warrior who was taking a night stroll.

He was wearing a grey robe, it looked completely ordinary without an special patters or runes no one will recognize it as a artifact. While moving around it was obvious for others to see the leather armor peaking out and glistening silver hilt of the sword.

Lucas leisurely walked through the crowd and moved his vision fall all over the place.

Lucas at first wanted to look like a middle-aged man, but his body, skin color his face everything revealed a youthful energy. After cultivating True Life Origin Scripture, Lucas further looked like a youth with vigorous life force and energy. So it was almost impossible to hide Lucas's real age using any beginner level medicament.

As he slowly walked towards the hideout of Blood Hawk mercenary group, he peaked his senses and suppressed his presence using. After learning True Life Origin Scripture and cultivating to the peak of Purification stage he could somehow see and measure life force in an individual. Well it is only in the case of ordinary people and cultivators in the lower three realms. For those in higher realm, Lucas could only feel that they are bright and their life force vigorous, he couldn't measure it, at a glance every higher realm seem to be about the same. Due to the huge gap in their abilities Lucas wasn't even capable of roughly measuring their capabilities.

Using system function [Assimilation], he can hide the presence of his life completely. It was an another benefit he got from True Life Origin Scripture.

Moving through the shadows Lucas quietly moved towards the hideout, what made Lucas puzzled was the arrangement of the city guards. He felt like they were surrounding the Blood Hawk mercenary group.

'Did they already knew about the Blood Hawk mercenary group?'

'No, they aren't surrounding them, it's like protectin-'

Lucas immediately cut off his thoughts.

'it's like they are preventing others from accessing that area. But Why?'

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Inside the small building belonging to Blood Hawk Mercenary group 10 individuals were standing inside a hall with an alert look. Rain was standing on the corner of the hall in a dark shade, his expression unknown. In the center of the hall Hawk sat cross legged. Right now he was wearing a blood red robe and the cold look on his face had faded and replacing that was an indescribable calmness. He looked completely different now, he was like an uncle next door.

"So you've come, I was waiting."

All ten of the men panicking and looked around to find the intruder. But no matter how they couldn't find any sign of any intruders.

Hawk with a calm voice continued, "It seems you have used plenty of Daydream Spirit Elixir. Such a waste."

The moment the other mercenaries heard the name 'Daydream Spirit Elixir' the panicked expression quickly changed to despair.

Hawk shook his head, "Wasting such precious resource for the sake of killing some low level thugs. Such a waste."

Tap! Tap!

From the front door Antonio slowly walked inside the hall, with a smile he said

"For you it is worth it." If only his eyes were not bloodshot and filled with madness, his smile could be easily described as a gentle.

Hawk slowly stood up,"A wise man once said, follow the strong, you will thrive."

"He also said, without struggle there is no success."Antonio replied.