The smell of burned woods was all over the place, people could smell it all in district one because the forest was so big and their houses were all closer to it. Chris and all of the mages from district one spent all day trying to stop it from going further and they finished that after a long time.

He didn't participate in the process, he went to check on the people from district 2 next to the palace, yet when he arrived he didn't find anyone, as he was walking back to join his people he got to think more about what he saw there.

There were no images of destruction, nor corpse, nor blood, or victims of the attack of the monsters, he didn't think of that when he was there but now when to get to look at the victims of the fire, he knew that something was wrong.

Chris divided his people into three groups, those who were able to use medicinal magic were left to heal the injured people, and those who finished stopping the fire got selected to go with him.

On the road he started to speak of what he saw, he couldn't even know how to explain things to them when he didn't even know how they survived the night.

It was something miraculous, it never happened in the past .

He walked his people toward the palace and stood there looking at the empty place with suspicion, that something was not right .

He turned around and then looked at the mages with a straight face:" Does someone know what happened here last night? "

Several of them nodded their heads in disagreement, he said with a firm voice:" Look around you , do you see any sign of them being killed or attacked ?"

Everyone looked around the palace with surprise, for a second they thought that Chris brought them here to celebrate with them their execution.

" The place is empty, it feels like it was untouched, the people that were trapped in here last night survived the night, they were not attacked"

" That is impossible! They would have been killed because there was a portal closer to this place last night, sir" Someone said with a loud voice.

" But do you see any sign of it? I know this never happened, they were in open-air and they were not harmed, it sounds crazy but that is my idea, how else would explain to me the state of this place, it is intact .." Chris raised his voice at the end.

" Sir, you think that they survived, let's say it is true, okay! Where are they ? "

Chris was silent now because he didn't have an answer to that question, most of the mages that were with him were confused about the new revelation.

They started to search all the area under his commands, he was very upset because he knew that they somehow escaped and that they were alive and planning to hit him after what he did to them .

He couldn't hide his anger, he started yelling at the mages around him asking them to search carefully to find them.

After hours of search, he couldn't find a single soul of them so he collected his man and asked them to continue searching later, his man was not convinced with what he said until one of the men found a lead, a puppet that was thrown near the palace, the mage thought that it was weird for it to be here, and that the kid would never leave such a thing behind him if they escaped.

The mage held on to the poppet and cut his finger to connect his energy with it to track the owner who left it there.

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The locator spell was very hard to be done especially if someone with low divine energy is doing it .

It took so much time for it starts locating, a string of blue energy started to appear, it was transparent and if he didn't look precisely he wouldn't see it, which meant two things, it was either the person that he was tracking was about to die, or that he didn't have much power to do the spell from the beginning.

And instead of wasting so much time calling his friends he started following the string on his own, it didn't lead him to somewhere far, it was very closer to what he expected, yet he was not able to see anything.

" Guys, i think i found something here " He called his friends and told them what he found.

Chris heard him while he was speaking, he had a big smile on his face and then said: " They are hiding, i told you, now..i want everyone here "

All the mages obey his order immediately especially when he proved his point.

"You all know the hiding spells, i want you to reverse one of them collectively, try every one you know, i feel their divine energy now that i am focusing on it "

The mages did exactly what he asked them to do, it took them a while to undo their spell because they tried three reversed spells, and they didn't succeed until the fourth time, and because they were numerous they were able to do it despite the resistance on the other side.

When the veil disappeared 10 mages appeared standing in a circle while dozens of people were inside of the circle.

" 10 mages doing the hiding spell, that is why it was so weak, and we are able to break it, '' One mage said when the veil disappeared.

The mages didn't move to try to calm the situation when Chris said as he looked at all of those people:" You were supposed to be dead, you just made things harder on yourselves and on us too, i see, did you take separate ways by the way, the number is not right"

None of them answered his questions, but the kids started to cry and the women too.

Chris turned around at that moment with a fake tear in his eyes then said:" We should get rid of them before people from districts 4 and 5 hear about last night"