章 252: Volume IV - Chapter 97: Running Away from Soldiers

I kept running, invisible, not expecting to run into any more trouble, but it didn't take me long to realize I was wrong.

It had only been three minutes since I had swiftly killed that dwarf, I was nowhere near the meeting point, but something I never wanted to happen happened.

The cracks in the artifact that made me invisible, the charm on my chest, suddenly widened. The amount of mana it absorbed from me almost doubled compared to before because of the widening cracks.

Wasting no time, I quickly broke my invisibility. I could not afford to lose the artifact, even though it would be my greatest aid in making it to the meeting point. 

So, even though I was aware that I was now visible to the enemy, I decided not to use the charm until I could somehow repair it. I still didn't put it in my ring, because if I faced a life-threatening problem, I would have to use it, no matter what the consequences.