Chapter 326: How to Target?

Chapter 326: How to Target?

Not a big deal? That was what Dan Marina said. But whether something was a big deal or not depended on her level. “Not a big deal” was only relative. For ordinary people, if some remote place was destroyed by a Magic Disaster, it wasn’t a big deal to them. But for the people of that place, it was a catastrophic event.

In short, nothing Dan Marina said could be taken lightly. “What exactly is the matter?”

“That Forest seems a bit off. Hmm~ It should be a method that affects the mind. The stronger you are, the worse it gets. But even the weak quickly grow frail. I estimate at most three to five days. Don’t worry, the little girl you care about is fine. She isn’t affected by the environment.”

“You… why didn’t you say so earlier?” Zheng Yichen rubbed his head in slight headache. She only mentioned it now, so Zheng Yichen was sure she must have noticed something was wrong long ago.

“This has nothing to do with me~” Dan Marina rolled her eyes. “That little girl is fine too, so why waste breath mentioning it?”

What a perfectly natural tone. Zheng Yichen shook his head, but he wasn’t very worried. After all, Lily had already summoned the Magic Weapon Summoning Book. He could create a Projection anytime. He was watching the whole thing here, and if anything happened, he would know immediately. There was no such thing as delay with this.

In the Forest, Lily cautiously observed her surroundings. She had a frustrating problem: her perception. Perception involved not just physical senses but also mental perception. She didn’t even have a Soul, let alone that kind of perception. Sixth sense? It completely didn’t exist. Special things others could perceive, like being stared at, she was utterly power less against.

Whether it was a malicious gaze or any other kind of stimulating feeling from a look, she wouldn’t experience it… So in terms of perception, Lily was already missing a part compared to others, and it was a permanent loss. All she had left now were physical senses: hearing, smell, touch, and the like. She had no ‘spiritual sense’.

“This is really uncomfortable,” Lily whispered. Because she lacked that part of perception, she could only compensate for her shortcomings in other areas. Discovering that snake earlier was because she heard a faint sound and felt an abnormal flow of air with her body, which prompted her reaction. Unfortunately, detecting surroundings through air currents ultimately had a delay.

If an attack was too fast, even if she noticed, it might be a bit too late. After all, perceiving things around her through air currents—unless she actively created them—required time for externally caused movements to reach her, not instantaneously.

Of course, this method was very effective for range perception. But she wasn’t specializing in just one area. She was also strengthening her hearing. As for smell… smell was innate. She didn’t have a dog’s nose. However, smell offered an additional advantage. Her Corpse Puppet physique gave her a stronger ‘sense of smell’ for beings with Life Force. It was a scent ordinary humans couldn’t smell.

It was like a special vision that Undead possessed. But she was different from other Corpse Puppets. The intensity of this sense of smell didn’t seem very high. She didn’t know what a normal Corpse Puppet’s sense of smell was like. Hers was just like this, needing development. Of course, what made her keen on developing this area was also Zheng Yichen’s influence. In the ‘martial arts framework’ he described to Lily, there was mention of this.

Skilled individuals had superhuman control over a certain area around themselves. This range wasn’t too large, but every change within it could be detected, including every move of an enemy… In Lily’s view, this characteristic meant raising the body’s senses to the extreme, where perception of airflow, hearing, vision, and other senses worked together in a complementary way.

Completely capturing every change within this range.

But wanting to reach that realm, who knew how long it would take. This made Lily feel a bit… oh well. Anyway, she had a lot, a lot of time in the future. There was plenty of time ahead. For now, she would treat it as laying the foundation… Speaking of which, apart from that snake just now, there didn’t seem to be any other beasts in this place. Had she become so powerful that they ran away upon seeing her, not daring to appear?

Thinking about it, Lily took out a special bait from her pouch. This thing was issued by the Academy, specifically for practical combat. As long as you broke the outer isolation layer, the bait would take effect, stimulating beasts within a certain range. This bait came in several grades. High-grade baits emitted a special lure only powerful beasts or Magical Beasts could smell.

The bait in her hand was only low-grade. The beasts it attracted wouldn’t be very strong either.

After crushing the bait’s shell, Lily twitched her nose and slightly pouted. Sure enough, she couldn’t smell the scent this thing gave off at all. She didn’t know how those beasts were attracted. After crushing the bait, she didn’t feel like moving around anymore. She just waited there. Meanwhile, she glanced at a small watch on her…

“Such good treatment…” Carlin, who was watching, muttered inwardly. “Huh? Something’s coming…”

He couldn’t control his body, but his hearing still existed. Moreover, his vision was now synchronized with Karin’s. What Karin could discover, he could too. What she couldn’t discover… it was almost like finding differences between two seemingly odd pictures. Karin’s eyesight was better than his, so he couldn’t spot them. But Carlin didn’t want to admit that.

“What is that!?” Looking at the beast that burst out from the Forest, Carlin exclaimed in shock. The beast’s skin showed a grayish, sickly color, but it didn’t look fragile at all. Instead, it gave a feeling of hard stone, similar to the changes a Magic like stone skin brought to the body. Not only that, the beast’s eyes were pitch black, with no visible pupils. The entire eye seemed like a piece of obsidian shoved in.

What gave Carlin an even weirder feeling was that this thing gave him a sense of being both strong and fragile!

“The situation is a bit off, sis. Don’t hesitate, take care of that group of Demon Sword Cultists first.”

“…Mm.” Karin nodded. Her figure completely concealed itself, silently moving around to the backs of that group of Demon Sword Cultists, who also started moving after this beast appeared. She didn’t act immediately but waited to see their subsequent actions. However, these Demon Sword Cultists surprised Karin. They actually directly attacked the abnormal beast first, and did so forcefully while Lily was somewhat dazed.

The Demon Sword Cultists’ fighting style was simple: a blade in the right hand, a Blood Qi Blade in the left hand, or, not afraid of consumption, just one in each hand, then charge forward and slash-slash-slash. Regardless of what injuries they suffered or what they consumed, as long as they could hit the enemy, they could replenish those losses.

“Wow! How disgusting…!” A young Demon Sword Cultist slashed the strange beast with his blade, and his face immediately changed dramatically, as if he had swallowed several flies. He even forcibly stopped the Blood Qi Blade from absorbing blood and flung off the black blood staining it. Even so, his face remained listless, turning dark… not figuratively dark, but literally turning black!

“Be careful, this blood is problematic.” As the young Demon Sword Cultist shouted, black blood vessels appeared at the corners of his eyes, rapidly spreading across his entire eyeball. “Yuck!”

The next instant, a large amount of black-red blood spewed from his body. Most of the blood was an abnormal color, a small part was normal. He staggered back two steps, leaning against a tree. He grabbed a small pouch he carried, which contained a kind of red Magic Potion. This potion accelerated injury recovery. Its main function was to replenish blood, as people with serious injuries always lost a lot of blood.

Of course, this kind of Magic Potion was quite useless. If injured and not healed quickly, what use was replenishing blood? To bleed more before dying?

But Demon Sword Cultists weren’t afraid of injury. As long as their blood quality was high enough and their Blood Essence sufficiently vigorous, their injury recovery speed was very fast. They could even expend extra Blood Essence to stimulate the Life Force contained within, recovering injuries extremely quickly in a short time. However, this method greatly consumed blood and couldn’t be used frequently. Therefore, this kind of Magic Potion, once not very popular but capable of quickly replenishing blood, saw its sales become booming…

What gave the Sanctuary Church a headache about this was that the hotter its sales, the more Demon Sword Cultists there were. Damn it, even peasants hoeing fields could be Demon Sword Cultists. You, this cult, why aren’t you focusing on your own business, but developing the populace!?

Similarly, those Dark Forces were also unhappy with this unconventional, independent cult. Originally thinking the Demon Sword Sect was also a cult, some people wanted to pull them to their side. After all, the combat power of Demon Sword Cultists was evident to all, and an unprecedented new system of power had emerged. It would be best to pull them over. However, the Demon Sword Sect still wasn’t intimidated by these Dark Forces!

Target them? How do you target them? The Demon Sword Sect was a loose organization similar to a Mercenary Guild. You just got a badge and verified your identity. The only difference was you couldn’t just quit if you didn’t want to do it anymore. The power of the Demonic Sword Evil God wouldn’t disappear, but you could choose not to use it. Not using it wouldn’t affect you, nor did it require regular offerings or sacrifices. If you didn’t want to use it, you could just wait until you died of old age, letting this power fade on its own.

How do you target a cult like this? Setting aside other Cultists, they couldn’t accept other Evil God’s Power, so they definitely wouldn’t collude with the Demon Sword Sect. But normal Dark Forces were a different story. If a joint targeting operation really happened, there might be Demon Sword Cultists within the Allied Army itself… How the hell do you fight like that!?