Chapter 170: Tracks

Chapter 170: Tracks

After delivering the final blow and starting to deal with the Flying Magical Beast, Zheng Yichen stared blankly at a Stream of Light that shot swiftly away from the creature’s head, falling into a brief stunned silence. Um, what the… does the Otherworld even have a concept of souls escaping? Hey! This is fantasy! Did you somehow wander onto the wrong Shooting Set from the neighboring Xianxia or xuanhuan genres!

“Huh, feels really off. The power of the Prophecy Art?” Glancing around suspiciously, Zheng Yichen flicked his claw in displeasure. Dan Marina had excellent drawing skills. She had drawn a picture of how she saw Zheng Yichen’s current state.

The dragon was him, but the dragon’s body was covered with numerous black threads. Those black threads kept colliding with his body and then bouncing off, over and over again. Dan Marina’s drawing was too vivid. Without her needing to explain, Zheng Yichen understood his own situation.

Anyway, when he left, Dan Marina had clearly stated: don’t overthink it. For any unusual situation encountered, it’s always right to forcefully link it back to oneself. So, this golden light encountered now might be a trigger for some unexpected events. Based on this thing, it would always manage to attract the Sanctuary Church’s Saintess over.

Thinking about the power of that milky-white-haired woman… so far she hadn’t shown any particularly aggressive strength, but in terms of control, it was simply unmatched. Zheng Yichen had personally experienced the feeling of helplessness after being controlled back then. If she really had no offensive power, that would be one thing, but once she did… sigh~ trouble!

So before this power of Fate dissipated, he’d probably have to keep matching wits and courage with her. As for Dan Marina? That woman couldn’t be relied on. Her own Fate Backlash hadn’t been fully cleared yet. Asking her to undo the Prophecy Art at this time?

That was pretty much the equivalent of shooting an arrow, then catching up to it and grabbing it mid-air… ahem. Many in the Otherworld could achieve such a feat, but which ordinary person could do that?

He could only rely on himself. Besides, the situation wasn’t that terrible. Dan Marina had hidden some of the Prophecy Art’s targets. The Sanctuary Church now only thought they could definitely capture Zheng Yichen, but they never imagined that while the Sanctuary Church could indeed “capture” Zheng Yichen based on the Prophecy Art, the one who captured him could only be the Church’s Saintess. The threat posed by a single person versus a massive organization was too far apart.

For the former, Zheng Yichen had plenty of room to maneuver. The latter? He probably would have been captured long before he even reached the Lockdown Zone.

“Tsk~ That black-hearted woman!” Zheng Yichen curled his lip. Skillfully, he went through the whole process with the Flying Magical Beast: plucking feathers, skinning, deboning, and cutting the meat. After cleaning up traces that only belonged to him at the scene, he immediately left the place. Magical Beasts and such… just treat them as game. Zheng Yichen never saw them as his own kind or anything.

Such important reserve food, storing it was better than those ordinary foods. At least eating it gave double the energy, like eating the new Gai Zhong Gai… one piece equaling five pieces of meat from ordinary beasts.

Lockdown Zone.

The black threads that completely enveloped the area, blocking all outsiders from entering or leaving, had been pulled and scattered into nothingness. The guards stationed within the Lockdown Zone also breathed a long sigh of relief. Even with the Archbishop and Saintess guarding the place during this time, their pressure had been immense. Now that the crisis was resolved, they finally felt completely at ease.

But before they could properly relax, a Stream of Light rapidly approached from the horizon, making these guards tense and suspicious again. Last time, it was because of an unidentified flying object that they got trapped in this godforsaken place for a full month. If this wasn’t a Lockdown Zone, meant to be sealed for a long time with sufficient supplies stored here, they would have starved to death over half a month ago!

So even though the crisis had just been slightly lifted, they remained extremely vigilant, lest they encounter something even worse just after gaining their freedom! Facts proved their vigilance was correct. That Stream of Light was blocked immediately. Fortunately, the familiar aura on it made the Spellcaster who intercepted it not destroy the thing right away.

“This is… the Church’s secret communication Arcane Arts?” The Mage who intercepted the Stream of Light murmured in slight surprise. Why would this thing fly here? He couldn’t help but glance at the Archbishop and Saintess who were preparing to leave, resisted the urge to check the information inside the light sphere, and handed it to the Archbishop.

Since this thing flew here, it obviously wasn’t meant for people like them to see. Without someone of a higher rank present, looking would have been fine, but doing so now would be overstepping.

“…” Looking at the information within the light sphere, the Archbishop’s mood, already not great after being trapped for a month, instantly worsened further. So much so that he couldn’t even maintain his usual serene expression. His face darkened!

“Deya, see for yourself.” The Archbishop said nothing further and handed the light sphere in his hand to the milky-white-haired girl beside him.

Taking the light sphere, she immediately saw through it some of the information preserved within. A Flying Magical Beast attacked a Juvenile Dragon, but not only did the Juvenile Dragon blast away its protective shield, it also severely injured it. Before it even hit the ground, the little dragon cleanly finished it off, then plucked, skinned, and deboned it in one go… The scene ended there.

Flying Magical Beasts and such, while related to the Sanctuary Church, weren’t deeply connected. It just had a Secret Method of the Sanctuary Church placed on it, which would periodically feed back some special information it saw. That Flying Magical Beast was still wild. This was also a way for the Sanctuary Church to gather intelligence. The reason this light sphere appeared here was solely because the Secret Method on that Flying Magical Beast had been placed by the Archbishop next to her.

The feedback information naturally also went to the Archbishop’s side… Actually, many similar light spheres had appeared during this period, but most of them were blocked by the black threads of the Lockdown Zone, few noticed, and as the light spheres approached the black threads, they immediately disintegrated and vanished, let alone anyone reading the information inside.

It was just this light sphere… If it had appeared half a minute earlier, they would have had to watch helplessly as it was annihilated by the few remaining black threads. So the timing of this light sphere’s appearance couldn’t be more coincidental, appearing just after they broke free.

“Is the power of the Prophecy Art still in effect?” Deya said quietly. Dan Marina had left the Sanctuary Church, but that was one thing. The matter of the Prophecy Art was another. Once you fire an arrow, there’s no turning back. This was done by Dan Marina. Since she had already paid a heavy price herself, wanting to undo this Prophecy Art? No matter how you thought about it, she wouldn’t pay an even more severe price to do something that harmed herself and benefited others.

Anyway… The effect of the Prophecy Art was still active. That could be considered a piece of good news within the bad news. Since they had grasped the little dragon’s latest information, of course they should act quickly without delay!