Chapter 41: Elder Crane Has Tea (2)

He closed it and kept walking.

The encounter had confirmed two things. Crane was actively monitoring him now, checking the mana signature personally rather than relying on the formation’s detection layer alone. And Crane’s read on him was twelve days out of date.

Mist fell into step beside him. The three tails moved in the slow thoughtful rhythm that he’d learned meant the fox was processing.

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