CHAPTER NINE
Beams was surprised by how fast the Ariopolitan hunters ran. They were almost as fast as cheetahs, tearing through the streets of Ariopolis to reach the ruins of the temple that lay in the center of the city. Beams had to give himself an energy boost just to keep up, and even then, he found himself falling behind occasionally due to his unfamiliarity with the city’s layout. But the hunters seemed to know the city ruins like the back of their hands, running through the streets, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and pulling off all kinds of awesome parkour moves. Beams wished he had brought his phone with him because he had a feeling that if he recorded their moves and put them online, that that video would definitely go viral.
But if it did that, the Ariopolitans would probabl
