The Insider System

Chapter 337: Gone Forever

After some time Lake decided to look at his skills to see if he had one that could help him. He had so many at this point he didn't know all the things he could do and with the fact he was sitting behind a couch safe for the moment there was plenty of time to read them again to jog his memory.

After a while he found a skill called Ghost Touch and wondered when he had even received it. He didn't even remember seeing this skill but he knew there was a chance he had used it in the past and just forgotten about it. He tended to not remember everything he did or thought so there was really no telling.

Ghost Touch (L) Lv.1

You can turn things you touch ethereal for a short amount of time.

While they're ethereal you can still interact with them.

Doesn't work on living things as well.

(Amount of time scales off of Intelligence)

The second part said he could still interact with the things he made ethereal if he wanted but that might mean he could just slide through them if he didn't. If that was the case he could just slide through the floors and walls to get to where he wanted.

Getting ready to start walking through walls with his path planned, Lake was able to go straight for a while before he had to switch directions to avoid people in the next room ahead of him. After two more walls he made it outside and didn't stop heading right for the wall ahead of him.

There was no one looking this way and he didn't want to spend a lot of time out where someone could turn and see him so even though he would have liked to test his skill on something as thick as this wall before he walked into it he didn't. If he wasn't in constant contact he would be more worried but he was able to completely control Ghost Touch while inside the wall.

After an estimated twenty feet of wall Lake popped out on the other side and just walked away like he was supposed to be. Now that he was outside the other guards up on the wall would see him so how he acted as he walked away needed to be normal enough that they didn't think about where he had come from.

They would all know the wall's gate hadn't been opened so a guard outside all of a sudden would look weird. It wasn't important enough for them to think about these facts though if he wasn't running so none of them would put this together and start asking questions.

They would just think someone was heading home or had something to do in town and go no further to put things together. Once he was about to turn the first corner to go behind a building he felt the amount of attention on him go up slightly and knew one of the guards probably saw him but a few seconds later the feeling went away and he knew the guard had already forgotten about him.

Being out of sight he picked up speed and headed to where he had placed his things earlier in the day to get changed. If someone had been chasing him he would have left the items here and recalled them to him later but since he had made a clean getaway there was no reason to not get changed before he headed out of the town.

Once he found his stuff, which was all still there, he quickly got everything including the clothes he had stolen earlier off of him and put his own clothes back on. He decided to take all the stuff that he had just taken off with him and destroy them once he made it out of town because they could be used as evidence like anything else he had taken.

Once he was outside of the city he took off and flew to a nearby rocky area to burn all of the evidence. Getting everything into a pile he started the burning using Fire magic before calling the body of the guard to him. This was the biggest piece of evidence that could lead them to him so leaving it in a pile of garbage with its face intact had been a mistake.

All that would have had to happen for him to get caught was someone to discover the body before calling the guards who would recognize the face of the person he had turned into and the guards would have spread word that he had died. Then they would see him alive and it wouldn't take a genius to put together that there was something wrong.

None of that had happened though and he was able to destroy the body now with no one ever knowing what had happened. He was sure they would find it weird that one of the guards disappeared around the time they were robbed but he would be gone by then and all the evidence was going to be dust.

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