We had been found.

  “How close are they?” I looked out the door to the RV as Gesai ran outside.

  “Rix saw some Bounty Hunters coming straight for the warehouse. They stopped a few blocks away, but they were setting up scrying equipment to look through the warehouse’s defenses.” Whisper shook his head. “This is too many people to move quietly.”

  “Are you offering to fight them?” I was trying to think of my options.

  The blonde man shook his head. “No, even if I can go out there and restrain them all, that won’t stop whoever they might have alerted.”

  “You think they called for backup?”

  Whisper looked insulted. “We’re lucky that there aren’t any Tier Six Adventurers in town or we’d have a really big problem. But yes, sharing the reward for bringing me in is better than not getting one at all. Even if they have been greenlit to use lethal force, the two things that can remove a PK tag are the Gods and an ArchBishop or higher. You have people like Trent that can hide them, but those will show up again as soon as they get another PK, which can make life a little more difficult if they have to justify an old kill over and over.” He nodded towards the west. “Even if the new Six greenlit lethal force, they don’t have the power to actually expunge it, just to keep the current Authority from going after them. Without Mive to back it up, I doubt any will actually try to go through with it.”

  “So we just break through and…”

  “That was just the Bounty Hunters. The Authority would get expunged by Slece, so they’ll definitely be out to kill.” The bandit cut me off.

  “Which means we need to get out of…”

  Ether, Fray, Oz, and Ren climbed into the RV with Gesai. The other teacher nodded at the Blonde man. “Go, I’ve got these.”

  “Wait!” I watched Whisper leave as Gesai got behind the wheel. “We’re splitting up?”

  “Rix had to stay with Whisper and we have to get you out of the city.” Gesai pulled up a map. “Sydney has marked one of the sewers that we can get through, but we have to travel with as few people as possible.” She nodded at the women. “They can carry our patients and Ren will speed them up.”

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  “But what about..?” I couldn’t help but notice that she had selected all of the women that were part of my harem. Though to be fair, by her logic they were the best four to bring, even if I could carry one of the unconscious passengers.

  “They’ll be fine.” Gesai floored it and the RV shot out of the warehouse. “We’re the bait, which gives them time to hide.”

  “Wait, we have the people they want and we’re the bait?” I grabbed onto the back of the passenger seat and slid into it.

  “There wasn’t enough time to switch vehicles.” Sirens began blaring in the distance as if to accentuate Gesai’s point.

  “Should I get on the turret?” Oz pointed her thumb at the ceiling.

  “Too many civilians!” Gesai took a wide turn and entered traffic.

  “Is this smart?” I looked at the console to see the vehicles chasing us. There were only two at the moment, but that number was only going to get larger.

  “We might be fair game, but they won’t risk hitting a civilian!” The redhead gritted her teeth as she swerved around vehicles. She nodded at the crystal in between us. “How many crystals do we have?”

  I checked the readout. The vehicle ran off of crystals, which usually required crystals of equivalent power to the Tier of components to run. Too high of a crystal would overload the magical and the electrical components while too low of a crystal wouldn’t give it enough power. Since Trent had been able to collect Tier Six crystals, he’d attached a converter to this specific RV that would break down the energy within the crystals and release it as the Tier Four RV needed it. It was an expensive piece of technology that wouldn’t make sense for almost anyone else to have because few would be able to use it.

  “We’ve got enough in here to fill it up at least three times.” Granted, we had a much larger reserve than any other Tier Four RV. There were a lot of modifications that took more power than normal.

  “Good.” Gesai looked around as she timed her next turn so she could cut through oncoming traffic. “We’re getting close! Find something to hang on to!”

  I looked at the building she was aiming for. “Are you going to ram that?!”

  “Fastest way into the sewers.”

  “But..!”

  “Blueprints say that it’s a Tier Two building that was vacated last month. Renovations are supposed to start next week, which means it should be empty.” The redhead gripped the wheel. “We’ll be fine.”

  Any other protests I had were cut short as our Tier Four vehicle drove through the side of the building.

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