Chapter 966 - Tracking (1/2)

“Sir Merlin, why didn’t you get rid of those guys? Did you see that smile? I’d love to tear those mouths apart, especially that Morgan. He really is too loathsome after daring to snatch our things. They are tired of living! I really want to snap their necks…”

Although the mages of the mage army didn’t say anything, Kurumu came over as a representative.

“Sir Merlin, they obviously took it away but refuse to admit it. We have to make them pay the price for snatching what belongs to us…”

Enderfa also came over, his three faces filled with rage. He was loudly yelling, “Merlin, get rid of them, they dared to steal our mana crystal! We have to take all their magic tools. These guys carry a lot of good things. I felt as many as eight True Spirit Magic Tools just waiting to be snatched…”

Lin Yun waved his hand with an indifferent expression.

“If they want to collect mana crystals, then let them gather them. That’s only a level 40 ice mana crystal, and it is the mana crystal of a fake Heaven Rank Magic Beast. It’s the most inferior kind among level 40 mana crystals. There is no need to waste more time with them.”

Although everyone was annoyed, they stopped talking about killing the members of the Henry Family.

Lin Yun had a strange smile on his face as he looked in a certain direction. A kilometer away, that Spirit Snake True Spirit Magic Tool rapidly chased after the members of the Henry Family.

The Spirit Snake couldn’t be discovered with probing spells, Detect Mana, Detect Life, Detect Elements, or Detect Undead. Those spells were ineffective against the Spirit Snake, not giving the slightest bit of feedback.

But the Spirit Snake wasn’t completely devoid of existence. It had a physical body, so a person could use their eyes to see the Spirit Snake.

Lin Yun hadn’t said anything earlier. He only used his Magic Array to analyze the surroundings and derive the location of the Spirit Snake.

With the Magic Array, he could see where the grass had been pushed down and where the air wasn’t flowing, as if there was a transparent thing moving.

Although it couldn’t directly find the Spirit Snake, the Magic Array could capture any minute point in the Spirit Snake’s surroundings.

The Henry Family’s people had left, but the Spirit Snake hadn’t. It was spying from a distance until it was sure it could depart.

In the future, Spirit Snakes would be the best investigative True Spirit Magic Tools. They would focus on the fact that they could be seen, but not felt. Two groups continuously tried to outwit each other.

One group would keep refining Spirit Snakes, while the other would keep developing ways to discover them.

The Spirit Snake before their eyes couldn’t compare with the almost imperceptible Spirit Snakes of the future, so handling it was too simple.

Lin Yun opened the Book of Death and opened the Planar Path to the Bone Plane, sending Xiuban in to grab an ordinary skeleton warrior.

A strange incantation came out of Lin Yun’s hand. That skeleton warrior’s body kept shrinking, its bones rapidly turning into nothingness.

Ultimately, it was transformed into something that seemed incorporeal, akin to a mass of thin smoke. It had no limbs, only two illusory eyes.

That was a rarely used spell. It wasn’t a spell of a particular element, and it had been developed by that group of researchers.

That thing was a Specter. By forcibly sacrificing one of the Undead, one could transform it into a Specter. It had no firepower, and it was only useful in sharing one’s field of view. Aside from Light Magic and Undead Magic, no element was effective against a Specter. Physical attacks were also ineffective.

However, the weakest Light Missile could kill the Specter, and even some illumination spells could make the Specter dissipate.

But that thing was, in fact, the bane of Spirit Snake… because based on the detection pattern of the Spirit Snake, it simply couldn’t discover the Specter. Even if the Specter was floating in front of it, the Spirit Snake wouldn’t detect it.

Since the Henry Family’s people had a Spirit Snake and they still left it here to investigate, it meant that they were very confident in its investigative abilities.

Perhaps the task of warning and investigating was all given to the Spirit Snake. If that was so, what would happen next would be interesting.

Lin Yun caught the location of the Spirit Snake and had the Specter chase after it to follow the Henry Family’s tracks.

A few minutes later, the weightless and incorporeal Specter overtook the Spirit Snake.

Through the shared field of view, Lin Yun clearly saw that silver-colored snake twist its body silently as it rapidly slithered forward. It was very fast, and as it travelled back and forth in the forest, it was crossing several dozen meters every second.

Lin Yun smiled as he tracked the Spirit Snake.

“Merlin, what are you doing? Why did you send out something so weak? Are you trying to trail the Henry Family? Just what is so different about that mana crystal?”

Enderfa’s three faces floated over. He originally thought that Lin Yun had compromised too easily, but seeing Lin Yun’s movements made him ponder.

And it wasn’t just Enderfa… Everyone was doubtful.

Lin Yun smiled and pointed at the Specter in the distance.