Chapter 15: 10,000 steps and 10,000 troubles
Chapter 15: 10,000 steps and 10,000 troubles
He immediately ran to the other room and checked to see that the hook rod was placed beside the secret stash slab.
His uncle in the same room also had a dark face looking at the situation.
They quickly moved the slab and found that there is nothing in the pit below.
His uncle wanted to cast a spell to find the person that stole the things from them.
But he cannot cast twice and cast the spell for a long time.
Also he cannot move from his current position due to the conditions of his body.
Using the tracing spell is already something hard for him in his current condition.
Unfortunately even if he uses the trace spell he will not be able to locate the most important thing.
That is the storage box with the ring.
It was placed in a special place inside the system space.
Naturally it is not something that he can access or connect.
Well he used the spell irrespective of the condition because the contents in the storage space ring are very important.
It actually has a piece of map to the inheritance of Poseidon the god of sea along with many important things of his family inheritance.
This is the reason why the protagonist Santosh has come all the way here and is in hiding.
Vikram doesn't know about this matter.
But what he guessed is correct and there is something important.
The uncle of the protagonist cast the spell to trace but it did not work.
Instead he coughed up blood with his face turning white.
But still he cannot stop.
His duty is to protect his young master and also the inheritance.
With his current power he can only cast the lowest grade tracing spell called the 10 thousand steps that would trace the presence of the person that is targeted.
Naturally their target is the person that wrote the words on the wall.
Usually a thief would choose to run away using vehicles when running away instead of walking.
In the 10 thousand steps trace technique it literally traces the last 10 thousand steps.
The ride on some vehicles did not count.
The traces will give out the footsteps of the target and a clear line of direction for the last 10 thousand steps.
They are awake till nearly 12 in the night and they understood that the theft has happened around 3 or 4 early in the morning.
So naturally they were sure that the thief did not take 10 thousand steps in such a short amount of time.
Well cultivators are strong, but most people don't know about the 10 thousand step trace.
It is especially so for the people at this forsaken place that recently got into contact with magic cultivation.
Unfortunately their opponent is Vikram that has problems with his brain circuits.
The old man cast the technique and a trace is formed.
He transferred the tracing point to Santosh and gave him a charm that stores one strong attack with his former strength and protective power inside for safety.
So the protagonist Santosh started to follow.
Vikram has already thought about this and took a special trip around to complete the 10 thousand steps before returning home.
He first went to the female bath house and public toilets.
Well he is a kid and it is early in the morning.
There is no one.
But now these places are full of people.
The 10 thousand steps trace has a drawback that he cannot deviate from the path.
Naturally he has to go through all these places to follow the thief to catch.
It is like a free running game that would be very hard to complete.
He quickly ran across the area and when he came to the public toilets he got into the problem.
The footsteps went into almost all the toilets and there are more than 50 of them.
Since it is rush hour most of them are filled.
So he has to wait outside in a long line to get into the toilet and come out.
Once again go to the next toilet and come out.
His uncle that is maintaining the spell back at the broken house is turning more and more pale gritting his teeth.
He can sense the movements and situation through the senses of the protagonist.
This did not end here.
It took an entire hour for the protagonist to clear the toilet area and then it went to the next area which is the zoo.
Here Vikram ran across two laps covering the food area of the ferocious beasts and the shitting area of all the beasts.
The staff of the zoo was angry because a kid stepped on the shit of the beasts and ran around the zoo increasing their work.
Well he really wanted to jump across the shit but the strict requirement of the 10 thousand steps trace is that he has to step on the footsteps of the target accurately.
Naturally here comes the problem.
The protagonist is running and the staff is running behind him.
But that is not all when he stepped on the big basins that contains the food of the beasts they also started to run behind him.
This chase went to the streets creating a bigger problem as the entire group went straight to the bath house and rich ladies spa area.
Usually no one would come to mess because of all rich people and the security is lax.
This gave Vikram to walk all over this place.
But the protagonist is different as he was being chased by many magically mutated ferocious beasts, the zoo staff, the cops and even the media is following him.
The entire scene can go in a comedy movie.
Many onlookers took their phones to shoot the entire thing and the protagonist became famous.
Before he doesn't want to stop but now he cannot stop because of the crowd behind him.
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