The Transmigrated Professor

Chapter 60: Escape

'Pant! Pant!'

Running through the barren black sandy plains of Tartaros, a lone dishevelled man dodged as a bolt of dark red lightning barely missed him.

Flying in the sky above him were two humanoid figures with bat-like wings, cackling away as they enjoyed their hunt.

The Demons' superiors had told the two that he was an important prisoner, so they intended to bring him back without alerting the Duke of Death of his escape.

But considering all the trouble they had to endure because of his escape, the two Demon Guards decided to "play" with him for a bit before heading back to the castle.

After all, he was just a weak C-Rank human, who barely had any offensive abilities.

One of the Demon Guards pointed his index finger at the figure running in the distance, and shot another bolt of red lightning.

Sensing the danger, the man swerved right and jumped down a sand hill to dodge the attack.

'Aahh!' A scream wailed out from behind the large hill.

"Haha! Look at him howling like a swine. Humans really do make better prey than Elves and Dwarves." The Demons cackled as they flew up, to see the prisoner groaning in pain.

'Flash!'

Suddenly a dark red flare exploded in the distant sky.

Being long-time guards of the Duke's Castle, they were already aware of the various signals that the wall guards used to communicate with those on patrols.

The flare shot in the sky indicated that the Duke would soon be arriving at the castle.

It means that it was time they had to bring the prisoner back.

Well, it had already been a week that they had been searching for and playing with him, so it was about time.

"Let's grab him and head-" As he turned, he suddenly froze.

"A-Azron..." He called out to his friend, pointing to where the lightning had exploded.

"What happened?" Turning to where his friend was pointing, Azron's body froze in fear.

In the location where a human prisoner should have been running for his life, all they could find was a barren sand pit.

"Shit! Where did he go?" Quickly rushing to the location, the two looked around, but there was no living creature in sight for miles.

"The sand sink around here looks too deep to be natural. Shit, you must have hit one of the underground tunnels." Arod cursed as he checked the sand that was spiralling downwards. "I told you that we should have just taken him back when we caught him."

"WHAT?! Don't lie! You were even more excited than me to chase him back to the castle."

"S-Still, it's because of you that we lost the human prisoner..."

'Flash!'

Another flare lit up in the sky behind them, stopping them from fighting.

"Shit! Let's just quickly find the human and go back."Arod suggested.

"Yeah!" Azron agreed with this plan.

They could fight about this matter later, but right now the main priority was the human.

If they didn't bring the prisoner back, they wouldn't even be able to guess how they died.

Shifting the sandpit using mana, it wasn't hard for them to find the hole in the ground that had sucked up their valuable prisoner.