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Three shadows streaked across the desert. Two of them belonged to a former ranger and a top-class assassin—both professions that specialized in tracking.
With experts like these, there was no hesitation. Leon only had to follow in their wake.
Had only one of Hamel and Karen been present, the pursuit might have taken longer. Hamel’s tracking skills were fine-tuned for forests and mountains, making it harder to apply in the desert.
However, with the tracking scent Karen had used earlier to guide them, it was a different story. The pursuit progressed swiftly and without issue.
After running for dozens of minutes, Leon and the others began to feel a shift beneath their feet. The once soft surface of the sand had grown firmer.
There were two primary types of desert terrain: sandy deserts and rocky deserts. Most people imagined vast seas of sand when they thought of deserts, but in reality, rocky deserts were more widespread.
“Looks like we’ve tracked them well,” Hamel said with a chilling voice, glancing down at the ground as he jogged.
Unlike sand, rocky terrain left more persistent tracks. Just beyond the battlefield, strange sets of hoofprints branched off in several directions, indicating that they hopped on some form of transportation.
Karen spotted them too and nodded. “Ah. Camels.”
“Camels? Aren’t those slow?” Leon asked without thinking, only vaguely...
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