Counter-Strategy (Part 1)

It took me less than an hour to teleport all of the enslaved villagers in area 4, and honestly, I felt like I was cutting it close.

I could feel the magic quartz coming from area 10, which was good and bad.

It was good because I knew that Melina was already teleporting the people there, and bad because it meant that any experienced mage would be able to sense it.

'If I'm able to sense it all the way from here, there is no reason why the empress' guards wouldn't…' I thought.

Still, the fact that the city was so big also slowed down the guards since they needed to cover so much area.

By the time I was done teleporting everyone, I stowed away the magic quartz back in my void pocket and flew back to the eastern gate without anyone noticing.

I could have teleported back directly, but we needed to enter the gates so the guards could write down our names. Otherwise, they would think that the Xuanji family had disappeared.