A(lie)ment Isekai (Part 2) (Finished)

Chapter 9.1: PVE

"We are in the neutral territory." Kaliris pointed out.

Although, I don't think it needed pointed out. Compared to the regular trails, which was heavily traversed upon, which many streams in the dirt from the caravans, there was less and less streaks coming this direction. Because of this, the dirt path has changed from dirt to mainly just grass, long at that. It was clear that this fantasy world didn't have a lawn mowing service.

I'm glad I'm wearing long boots and pants. "So, what's the plan?"

"Give me your hand."

"Ok." I ended up giving him my hand. His hand, like mine, was gloved. His hands were far bigger than my hands. Immediately, I ended up feeling him siphon mana off of me, akin to a vampire draining blood from me. "Hey! Not cool." I yelled out, before moving my hand away.

"Calm down. I just needed some of your mana for my jutsu."

"Jutsu?"

Immediately, he ended up doing something, causing both me and him to split into two completely same duplicates.

"WHOA!!! What's this?!?!" Both me and copy-me's eyes glimmered at this unique sight. It was the 2nd time I have seen this happen, but the first I was ever duplicated.

"Doppelganger jutsu."

"I know that. I've seen it before. But what type of magic is it?"

"Jutsu are generally the amaterian's specialty. It's practically aura magic."

"I see." I ended up staring at myself. It seemed she stared back. I ended up trying to try move my hand, yet she also did the same thing. She was acting like a mirror. I continued to want to test the limits, however, the two Kaliris flicked both me and my forehead.

"Enough. We are going to split off now."

"Like, ninja-like?!"

"Consider it your first."

I was ecstatic, as this would be my very first ninja thing, besides all of the assassin training I did. I would be sure to learn as much as I can. As Kaliris ended up generate a large black cloud in his hands, he ended up throwing it on the ground, to which ended up acting akin to a smoke bomb, to which we scattered, going into different directions.

If we were navigating by the regular map of the Alkerian Nation, we would be traveling south-west through the neutral territory to Amaterian territory. As for my perspective, me and my clone ended up spitting off both left and right respectively as we decided to different directions to Amaterian village, hoping to minimize the amount of people following us.

As we were traveling from tree to tree, although we were making haste and managed to slip past a majority of the people who managed to surround us, battle has commenced. The hunters, people who were already in the trees, were the first to chase up, managing to stay closely behind. They were extremely skills with bowmanship, as rain of arrows ended up coming my way.

I ended up turning my direction to face them, only to be chastised by Kaliris.

"Keep your eyes in front of you."

"Right." Activating the ability, it seemed my stronger version of domain sense provided me with greater sensory feedback. It felt akin to electroreception that eels use. I could feel the electric charges of a given radius, as well as the incoming ranged weapons and magic spells. Combining this with my flash steps to shift slightly out of the way of incoming fire, as well as my battle rhythm, I gained through my new Blade Dancer class I gained during the "banquet guarding arc", I was seamlessly able to dodge all of the projectiles.