Clap, clap—clap, clap!
On the street of the North Boroughs, the crowd applauded the young magician's performance, shouting praises and requests.
"Amazing!"
"Do that fire thing again!"
The kids were especially amazed; the crowd contained more than 20 people.
Jace bowed repeatedly and hesitantly. "Th-thank you—thank you, ladies and gentlemen." His cheeks were flushed with surprise at the applause of the crowd.
But this was his 'clumsy Magician's apprentice' persona. In this persona, his name was "Harrison Houdini."
Jace, on the other hand, had been expecting this; his performances were being well received.
He bowed a few more times to the crowd and picked up his hat from the ground, which had quite the collection of copper and silver coins in it.
Saying thank you a few more times, he went through the crowd and disappeared among the people walking in the streets.
This was not the only spot Jace performed; he had a few other places, but this was one spot where he was particularly well received.
As he walked on the street, his demeanor shifted from the shy apprentice to the usual Jace. But the usual Jace was tense today; he frowned.
Because he was being followed.
While performing to the crowd, he had put the Polymath Ring on his finger to perform slight tricks.
That's when he noticed it.
You see, Jace had been continuously practicing and trying to imitate different abilities with the Polymath Ring, and in one of his attempts, he had successfully imitated the Devil's 'Danger Premonition.'
Though it was only about 30 to 40 percent as powerful as the original, it was still effective.
While performing, he used the imitated power on a whim, and to his surprise, it actually gave him a chilling sensation—a warning.
So he quickly ended his performance and disappeared into the street.
But this was serious; it truly was. As a Seer, he should have had an intuition of some kind of being watched or predated upon, but he had gotten nothing from his natural senses.
That meant the person who was targeting him was definitely a Beyonder, and that of a higher sequence or a unique pathway, since he wasn't able to get a spiritual intuition about them.
Jace did not take any rash decisions. He did exactly what he would usually do after a performance; he didn't act cautious or anything like a person who realized they were being followed.
He continued walking as if nothing had happened, but he did know something. That would be his only upside in whatever would happen, and now that he knew he was in danger, his spiritual intuition was alert.
Taking a left, he walked into a dark alleyway between buildings, as he usually did.
When he was deep in the dark alley, he felt for a moment that no one was watching him directly.
So he flicked his hand, throwing something onto the pipes that were embedded in the wall slightly above his head and kept walking.
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On the street, a charismatic middle-aged man with short hair walked along.
He wore a brown two-piece suit and carried a cane in his hand.
Francis, as usual, was strolling around in the streets, but he stopped as he felt something valuable in his range.
He looked across to the other side of the street at a crowd of about 20 people or so.
Being a curious man, he smiled and walked toward the crowd, where he found a clumsy young magician.
Immediately, he used his Decryption on the whole scene. All the things here he saw and heard—every action flashed before his eyes as he decrypted the reality of the performance.
Turns out, the clumsy magician was not clumsy at all; in fact, it was the opposite. His every action, his tricks, even his facial muscles were precisely controlled.
Francis decrypted that this boy was likely a Sequence 7 Beyonder, but he wasn't able to decipher his pathway yet, as that needed more information and knowledge.
But his eyes widened as he grinned. He saw the young magician pull out a silver ring with inlaid diamonds from his wrist and wear it on one of his fingers.
The action was swift, with a slight, perfect sleight of hand; the action and the ring went unnoticed by all the people.
Except for Francis.
As a Sequence 6 Prometheus of the Marauder pathway, he could feel all the expensive and valuable things within a range of 50 meters.
And this was the object that had attracted him here. It was a Sealed Artifact; Francis could see that.
So, as a Marauder, he couldn't resist the thought of stealing it.
With a flick of his hand, he could steal the artifact and take it for himself. He could even steal one of the boy's Beyonder powers while he was at it.
But he decided otherwise for the moment.
The boy was a Sequence 7 Beyonder, and Sequence 7 Beyonder characteristics were very expensive on the market.
The young magician ended his performance and disappeared into the streets.
Francis didn't notice any problems, so he decided to follow the boy. It was easy for him to find him in the street as he used Decryption to track his trail.
Now he would wait until he was in a proper range and place.
He continued following him for a few minutes until the young magician turned left and walked into an alley.
It was a convenient place for Francis, but he was still cautious. He decrypted again to figure out if his target had figured out he was being followed, but that didn't seem to be the case. The magician's movements remained casual.
In the alley, as he walked at a range of about 20 meters from the target, Francis decided it was time to take action.
The first and most basic thing to do when eliminating a target was to disarm the target of his weapon.
In this case, the weapon for the young magician was the Ring.
The magician was still wearing the Ring on his right hand, so Francis focused his eyes on the ring and flicked his hand with a greedy smirk.
"Theft!"
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