Chapter 1002: Extreme Measures
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Chapter 1002: Extreme Measures
Sage used the Master Seal to change his identity at a fundamental level, becoming a completely different person while acting with his Infernal Qi. He used this alternative identity to abduct those from the Chain Ocean Palace that carried important materials. Afterwards, he switched back to his other human form, using disguising techniques to change his appearance and capturing other debtors with the help of the Purple Mist Sect and Demonic Beasts.
He covered his tracks and hid his identity to fulfill his job as the agent of the Dream Dealer. Then, he used even more drastic methods to change who he was and cover his tracks to appear as someone entirely different. Most of his jobs were capturing the regular debtors and extorting them for payments. It was only once every few weeks where he would switch tactics and strike one of the important targets in a completely different fashion, but then tried to cover up his tracks to appear as if multiple people performed the crime using Demonic Beast mounts.
Thats because he never released that old man or the others like him. Anyone that experienced the Infernal Qi was captured to the Inner World and never seen from again. He went to the extra trouble of making it seem like a copycat was using the Agent of the Dream Dealer to cover up their crimes. Since Sage had openly opposed the Chain Ocean Palace and had not killed any of their members, it made it seem like his tactics were known. He moved around randomly and used different fake identities to attack with a large group. When they caught on to the fact that some of their members were missing, they would find the place scoured clean and then small bits of Demonic Beast fur as well as tracks from a large group. A superficial analysis would point the trail back to the Agent of the Dream Dealer, but sooner or later, a more skilled investigator would enter the mix and realize there was another party behind the disappearances.
At this moment, Sage was sitting atop the back of a large flightless bird with long powerful legs and a thick ruff of fluffy downy feathers along its throat that hid the large gular sac that hung there. It was reminiscent of a giant kiwi bird with thick knobby scaled legs like a chicken, and the head of a pelican. Sage was even more unrecognizable, appearing as a blond haired westerner, quite unlike the easterners that populated the vast majority of the Tianxia Empire. Hed even had a set of plate armor built in a western style, covering him from head to toe with a layer of metal. To complete the look, the armor even sported spikes upon the top of the shoulders and helmet.
Sage climbed off the back of the bird and walked through the underbrush of a coniferous forest that rose a hundred feet into the air. He placed his hand upon the trunk of a pine-like tree and looked out over a rushing river a mile wide. Just in front of him the rocky ground ended abruptly falling a dozen yards down where the river carved its own little valley through the stone. A light mist rolled out over his ankles, caused by the same thing filling the air with a loud roaring sound. He was at the top edge of a huge waterfall, stretching from one edge of the mile wide river to the other, with the exception of a quarter mile stretch in the very center where a large spire rose up into the sky. This lone structure was shaped like a spiraling horn, a narrow conical building with a circular ramp around the outside.
The river moved at high speed to feed the massive waterfall which made it a powerful fortification. Such a thing wasnt much more than a slight inconvenience to Cultivators, but it caused quite the problem for his Infernal Qi fighting style. The river was large enough that if he used his usual tactic of encirclement and then slowly closing the net the people in the spire would easily notice. That was without even mentioning the kind of disruption that would ensue from impeding the river. When all that water was redirected there was certain to be others downriver who would notice. The alternative was not to encircle the whole place, but then how could he ensure his target didnt escape? Since he intended not to give away his skill with formations in this identity, there would be no safety net to trap the target.
I either have to become a flawless hunter and succeed in a single ambush, or come up with something new. Its a good thing I have a whole world of help.
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Chapter 1002: Extreme Measures
Sage used the Master Seal to change his identity at a fundamental level, becoming a completely different person while acting with his Infernal Qi. He used this alternative identity to abduct those from the Chain Ocean Palace that carried important materials. Afterwards, he switched back to his other human form, using disguising techniques to change his appearance and capturing other debtors with the help of the Purple Mist Sect and Demonic Beasts.
He covered his tracks and hid his identity to fulfill his job as the agent of the Dream Dealer. Then, he used even more drastic methods to change who he was and cover his tracks to appear as someone entirely different. Most of his jobs were capturing the regular debtors and extorting them for payments. It was only once every few weeks where he would switch tactics and strike one of the important targets in a completely different fashion, but then tried to cover up his tracks to appear as if multiple people performed the crime using Demonic Beast mounts.
Thats because he never released that old man or the others like him. Anyone that experienced the Infernal Qi was captured to the Inner World and never seen from again. He went to the extra trouble of making it seem like a copycat was using the Agent of the Dream Dealer to cover up their crimes. Since Sage had openly opposed the Chain Ocean Palace and had not killed any of their members, it made it seem like his tactics were known. He moved around randomly and used different fake identities to attack with a large group. When they caught on to the fact that some of their members were missing, they would find the place scoured clean and then small bits of Demonic Beast fur as well as tracks from a large group. A superficial analysis would point the trail back to the Agent of the Dream Dealer, but sooner or later, a more skilled investigator would enter the mix and realize there was another party behind the disappearances.
At this moment, Sage was sitting atop the back of a large flightless bird with long powerful legs and a thick ruff of fluffy downy feathers along its throat that hid the large gular sac that hung there. It was reminiscent of a giant kiwi bird with thick knobby scaled legs like a chicken, and the head of a pelican. Sage was even more unrecognizable, appearing as a blond haired westerner, quite unlike the easterners that populated the vast majority of the Tianxia Empire. Hed even had a set of plate armor built in a western style, covering him from head to toe with a layer of metal. To complete the look, the armor even sported spikes upon the top of the shoulders and helmet.
Sage climbed off the back of the bird and walked through the underbrush of a coniferous forest that rose a hundred feet into the air. He placed his hand upon the trunk of a pine-like tree and looked out over a rushing river a mile wide. Just in front of him the rocky ground ended abruptly falling a dozen yards down where the river carved its own little valley through the stone. A light mist rolled out over his ankles, caused by the same thing filling the air with a loud roaring sound. He was at the top edge of a huge waterfall, stretching from one edge of the mile wide river to the other, with the exception of a quarter mile stretch in the very center where a large spire rose up into the sky. This lone structure was shaped like a spiraling horn, a narrow conical building with a circular ramp around the outside.
The river moved at high speed to feed the massive waterfall which made it a powerful fortification. Such a thing wasnt much more than a slight inconvenience to Cultivators, but it caused quite the problem for his Infernal Qi fighting style. The river was large enough that if he used his usual tactic of encirclement and then slowly closing the net the people in the spire would easily notice. That was without even mentioning the kind of disruption that would ensue from impeding the river. When all that water was redirected there was certain to be others downriver who would notice. The alternative was not to encircle the whole place, but then how could he ensure his target didnt escape? Since he intended not to give away his skill with formations in this identity, there would be no safety net to trap the target.
I either have to become a flawless hunter and succeed in a single ambush, or come up with something new. Its a good thing I have a whole world of help.
Chapter 1002: Extreme MeasuresSage used the Master Seal to change his identity at a fundamental level, becoming a completely different person while acting with his Infernal Qi. He used this alternative identity to abduct those from the Chain Ocean Palace that carried important materials. Afterwards, he switched back to his other human form, using disguising techniques to change his appearance and capturing other debtors with the help of the Purple Mist Sect and Demonic Beasts. He covered his tracks and hid his identity to fulfill his job as the agent of the Dream Dealer. Then, he used even more drastic methods to change who he was and cover his tracks to appear as someone entirely different. Most of his jobs were capturing the regular debtors and extorting them for payments. It was only once every few weeks where he would switch tactics and strike one of the important targets in a completely different fashion, but then tried to cover up his tracks to appear as if multiple people performed the crime using Demonic Beast mounts. Thats because he never released that old man or the others like him. Anyone that experienced the Infernal Qi was captured to the Inner World and never seen from again. He went to the extra trouble of making it seem like a copycat was using the Agent of the Dream Dealer to cover up their crimes. Since Sage had openly opposed the Chain Ocean Palace and had not killed any of their members, it made it seem like his tactics were known. He moved around randomly and used different fake identities to attack with a large group. When they caught on to the fact that some of their members were missing, they would find the place scoured clean and then small bits of Demonic Beast fur as well as tracks from a large group. A superficial analysis would point the trail back to the Agent of the Dream Dealer, but sooner or later, a more skilled investigator would enter the mix and realize there was another party behind the disappearances. At this moment, Sage was sitting atop the back of a large flightless bird with long powerful legs and a thick ruff of fluffy downy feathers along its throat that hid the large gular sac that hung there. It was reminiscent of a giant kiwi bird with thick knobby scaled legs like a chicken, and the head of a pelican. Sage was even more unrecognizable, appearing as a blond haired westerner, quite unlike the easterners that populated the vast majority of the Tianxia Empire. Hed even had a set of plate armor built in a western style, covering him from head to toe with a layer of metal. To complete the look, the armor even sported spikes upon the top of the shoulders and helmet. Sage climbed off the back of the bird and walked through the underbrush of a coniferous forest that rose a hundred feet into the air. He placed his hand upon the trunk of a pine-like tree and looked out over a rushing river a mile wide. Just in front of him the rocky ground ended abruptly falling a dozen yards down where the river carved its own little valley through the stone. A light mist rolled out over his ankles, caused by the same thing filling the air with a loud roaring sound. He was at the top edge of a huge waterfall, stretching from one edge of the mile wide river to the other, with the exception of a quarter mile stretch in the very center where a large spire rose up into the sky. This lone structure was shaped like a spiraling horn, a narrow conical building with a circular ramp around the outside. The river moved at high speed to feed the massive waterfall which made it a powerful fortification. Such a thing wasnt much more than a slight inconvenience to Cultivators, but it caused quite the problem for his Infernal Qi fighting style. The river was large enough that if he used his usual tactic of encirclement and then slowly closing the net the people in the spire would easily notice. That was without even mentioning the kind of disruption that would ensue from impeding the river. When all that water was redirected there was certain to be others downriver who would notice. The alternative was not to encircle the whole place, but then how could he ensure his target didnt escape? Since he intended not to give away his skill with formations in this identity, there would be no safety net to trap the target. I either have to become a flawless hunter and succeed in a single ambush, or come up with something new. Its a good thing I have a whole world of help.
