The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 30: My ambushers

This is why having a cloning skill is very important. This skill is useful in many ways, especially for protecting yourself from dangers such as what I just experienced myself.

Someone or something just killed my clone.

I have no idea who or what caused my clone's death but I felt it. The death was certainly caused by a sharp blade. I am 100% sure of it. So the most likely culprit that killed my clone has to be a human.

Yes, there are some humanoid monsters like Goblins, Trolls, Ogres, etc... that use weapons but why I am sure it was another human because of how and where I died.

If my clone had faced an Ogre, it would have made a run for its life. Ogres are huge and they smash, not sneak up and slash throats. Also, they don't live in this part of the forest.

Goblins and Trolls can do that, but this area is not something where Trolls live and Goblin Assassins are rare and they mostly live in large goblin settlements. In fact, most of the humanoid monsters don't appear here in this region as it is near to human settlements.

Anyway, I would soon know who killed my clone and destroy them one way or another.

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"Hey, what happened?" one of the ambushers asked the others.

"I have no idea. I obviously killed him, but the next minute his body disappeared, leaving behind his bracelet", the ambusher who killed the boy spoke.

"Disappeared? Shit, he is not dead. It is a clone and now he knows that someone is out here to kill him. Watch yours backs", the first one warned his compatriots.

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Hehe, it looks like I was ambushed by humans like I guessed and they know that it is a clone and are vigilant against me but that doesn't matter.

Feeling their energy, I don't believe that they have crossed Tier-2 and reached Tier-3. Since they are below me and my attributes are obviously better than them, I should get rid of them soon.

There are five of them, so it won't be a problem for me.

How do I deal with them? It's obvious. I have only one Multi-target skill and it needs practice to level up and now it can get practice.

[Shadow Bolt Volley]

[Shadow Blot Volley]

I spammed them with my multi-target skill. They missed to detect my first attack but they didn't miss the consecutive ones but that didn't matter. As long as they were hit, they lost a lot of health and died miserably.

I even heard them crying, "Why me?" "How is it possible?" "I'm dreaming", and sentences such as those.

They still think that I am a Tier-0 brat, who should have died at their hands but with the situations reversed, their mentality collapsed easily. No wonder, these idiots didn't progress much in their lives.

I don't recognize them, so I assume that they were hired by someone. Since they are dead, that means it could be said that whoever hired them is safe.

Wrong.

Even if they were dead, I have ways to extract the details from them.

[Soul Prison]

I caught all five souls of the ambushers using my Soud Prison Skill before their souls disappeared from this world. Though the system didn't explain the details of my skills and started to act weird, I can concur with what exactly this skill would be useful for.

It is used for souls to be imprisoned and tortured to learn their secrets, all of them.

Huh!

[You have killed Tores, Tier-2 Level 45]

[You have killed Eddy, Tier-2 Level 27]

[You have killed Valos, Tier-1 Level 51]

[You have killed Estin, Tier-1 Level 100]

[You have killed Kula, Tier-2 Level 13]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have reached Tier-3 Level 4]

[You have gained +1,250,000 HP, +1,250,000 MP and +125,000 INT.]

So, one can improve their levels by killing other humans too. No wonder there are a lot of criminals out there. I mean after awakening they can just hunt monsters and can become rich. If they live of monster hunting, the governments wouldn't be after their asses but there are many who rob and kill other people.

These people who have no morals consider other humans as EXP, and I don't think people such as these would let go of easy EXP.

Anyway, after imprisoning their souls, I searched their bodies and found their bracelets on them. They should have thought that since I am an easy and rich target, they should be thinking about taking the resources from my bracelet and disposing of me. To store the goods that they should have found on me if everything went well, they brought their own bracelets.

Stealing another person's bracelet would be a stupid idea. This was because it has a tracking feature. My family can track me using this. The feature was introduced to find the remains of people who were lost in the wild.

This isn't a GPS with maps and all such. They are used to alert the tracker to see if the person is nearby. They should first know the approximate area to search for this person, or else they wouldn't be able to find others.

Speaking of tracking, how did they find me in this forest?

Were they searching for me in the forest all this time? Judging from their clothes, that doesn't seem to be the case. Did they track my bracelet?

How did they get the bracelet's ID number?

The only way for one to track using the bracelet was to know their number. Without the number, no one can track others. The number would be randomly generated after the bracelet was brought.

Only my family knew the number. There is also a chance that the sellers or the manufacturers know the number, but why would they want to kill me? It's not like that they would know who brought the bracelet anyway. The sellers won't record those details and the number was generated after it was opened for the first time. So the chances of them knowing my number is NIL.

Even if the manufacturers knew what the number of a bracelet would be, they wouldn't be able to know who brought which one. So they trying to kill me, meh, I don't think so.

There are only two scenarios now.

One, it was someone from the family, who wanted to eliminate the competition.

Second, an enemy of my father was able to get their hands on the number.

Now the question is which one? Or did they track me using an entirely different method?