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In the dark forest, a man and a cat sneak in a certain direction one after another.

"You should feel the other party's configuration, right?"

"One druid, twelve warriors. They are all newbies, and there are no races capable of night vision. 」

I learned in advance about the happy encounter of the enemy's configuration, and also made a corresponding plan.

"In a moment, you and I will break or shoot the torches and the like first, and it won't take long for the snow on the ground to extinguish the torches. Then I'll restrict their movement out of their line of sight, and you can just steal the device and run to me. 」

Considering the weakness of the other party who can't see anything without relying on the light in the polar night, Xi Xiangyu easily thought of a plan with less effort. Antinomie, on the other hand, made a more straightforward proposal.

"Question, since they are all weak chickens, isn't it more convenient to kill them all?"

"They're just tools used by the Ivy League executives, and they'll be my tools when the time comes. Besides, even if I don't consider the legal issues, it is my goal to pour dirty water on the ivy and make everyone shout and beat it, and if I slaughter a group when I see it, won't it seem unreasonable on my side?"

Although the two are communicating and sneaking towards their destination, after all, one is a wild cat, and the other is a professional druid who specializes in the wild, and they even reached their destination at full speed.

Looking from afar, I saw the camp in the bushes. Two torches on wooden racks were the primary targets, and a glowing disc-shaped device placed in the midst of the heavy defense was the purpose of the trip.

Joy meets and softly recited a spell to cast a "detection magic", and no defensive spells were found around the camp. Come to think of it, generally speaking, low-level druids don't have rich spells to set traps.

「3...2...1。 」

The moment it counted to one, a cat pounced on one of the torches from the treetops above the camp. At the same time, an arrow precisely cut the connection point of the torch holder far beyond the normal upper limit of range.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, no one even reacted to what was happening, one by one either you look at me and I see you just staring at the torches on the ground. Seconds later, the torches were extinguished, and the people in the camp who had been deprived of vision went into a panic.

"There are enemies!" "Where's my weapon!"

Warriors are not professional warriors, they are just trained in the use of some weapons, so they are greatly lacking in many aspects.

But fortunately, there are still people who understand, and due to the loss of light, the warriors fell into a panic, and the druid decisively began to chant the 0th-order magic "Light Technique". In that way, a magical light source can be created to provide them with vision, and it is too late to think about whether it will be set on fire, and if they hesitate like this, they will probably be slaughtered before they have time to do anything.

Originally, it was supposed to create a light source and judge the situation and respond to it, and it was supposed to be like this.

As soon as the druid's "light spell" opened his mouth, it turned into a wail that frightened everyone present and chilled his crotch, and it was obvious that his spell was interrupted in some extremely unexpected way the moment he spoke.

But it has to be said that this interruption has a significant effect on most creatures, and the constant pain is so intense that the druid can't even utter a full sentence, let alone cast a spell.

But from a humanitarian point of view......

"Hit...... Awareness is good, and I'm sorry for that. 」

Only then did they hear the voice of the attacker, and driven by a strong hatred, the druid finally endured the pain and gave orders in a vicious voice.

"Let it go...... Shoot the arrows!"

The warriors who had been reminded suddenly realized, and the 12 people hurriedly took off their bows, drew feather arrows from their quivers, and fired a volley in the direction of the sound they had just made.

But the happy encounter that can see the situation clearly in the dark is simply a place with one stone, and after finishing speaking, he left the place directly.

"By the way, what about the cat?"

It was then that the people in the camp remembered the white cat that had just disappeared after knocking down the torch.

After knocking down the torches, Antinomi used her snow-white fur to hide in the nearby snow, and suddenly people didn't have time to notice where the cat that suddenly appeared and left ran away, so she hid peacefully in the camp until now.

"I'm here. 』

「......」

Hearing that he was being mentioned, Antinomi jumped out and stood next to the device, and his very poor tone told him where he was, which drew everyone's attention to it. Then it ran away with the device in its mouth, and all the warriors immediately aimed their bows at it - with the glimmer of light from the device they could easily aim at the white cat.

To be honest, Antinomi's taunt was completely unplanned, but fortunately, Xi Xiangyu had a premonition about it, although at this time he was also helpless and wanted to use the crossbow to train Antinomi, but thinking of his plan, he had to postpone this matter.

Prepared in advance, the Joy Encounter targets the enemy's camp and casts a Tier 1 "Heavy Rain".

"Really, why the hell did I extinguish their lights in advance, wouldn't it be good to save me a little spell?"

In an instant, the torrential rain poured down. The rain interfered with the movement and vision of the people inside, so Antinomi easily returned to the joy of the encounter. The torrential rain hit the group of people, and within a few seconds it turned into ice, and some of the falling rain turned into ice needles in the air, causing unexpected damage.

Putting the glowing device in his backpack, he took Antinomi and ran to the next camp, where the warriors were long gone by the time they ran out of the rainstorm.

After running far enough, Xi Xiangyu took out the device and observed. It looked like a sophisticated instrument, with various mysterious runes engraved on it, and a crystal that radiated magical energy in the center was glowing.

"It looks like a magic device, but I'm not very knowledgeable in the occult, so I can't tell you anything. 」

Using the Tier 0 "Detection Magic" again, I saw the aura on the device. It was a hybrid aura of necromancy and prophecy spells.

"The aura of the necromancy should represent the spell that keeps the plant growing, prophecy words......

"It's a device that can be used to locate it, and if I want to investigate something, I'll have to carry it all the time. 」

There was no need for Antinomi's reminder, and the happy encounter already felt that something was wrong before he got the device.

"Look, investigators are a high-risk profession in every world, be honest and be a brute, intuitive stupid. 』

"Come on, this isn't an unreasonable world where you see anything and you lose your mind. As for this positioning device......

As he spoke, he looked at Antinomi, and Antinomi suddenly felt a chill behind him......

Remark:

Detect Magic

Department of prophecy

Levels: Bard 0, Priest 0, Druid 0, Warlock/Mage 0

Spell Components: Speech, Posture

Cast Time: A standard action

Distance: 60 feet

Area: A cone-shaped diffuse area

Duration: Focused, up to 1 minute/level (dissolvable)

Exemption Check: None

Spell Resistance: No

You can detect the aura of magic. The information you can get depends on how long you've been researching the area or item.

Round 1: Determine if there is a magical aura.

Round 2: Detect the amount of magical aura, and the strength of the strongest.

Round 3: The position and intensity of each aura. If an item or creature is in sight, you can identify the spell check to see which school the spell belongs to. (Each aura is checked once; DC = 15 + spell level, if it is non-magical, it is 15 plus half of the caster's level).

Magic areas, multiple spell effects, or powerful area spells can distort or obscure weaker magical aura.

Aura: Aura's strength is related to the level of the spell in effect or the caster's level of the item. If a single aura contains more than one type, the spell will show the stronger of them.

Remnant Aura: When a Magical Aura is destroyed (a Magic Item) or disappears (a spell), it leaves a Remnant Aura. If you look at it with Detection Magic, you can see a dim aura (dimmer than a dim glow). The duration of the aura depends on the power of the item.

Otherworldly and elemental creatures are not magical items per se, but spell-based spells can be detected if they are summoned.

Each round you can detect a new area. This spell can penetrate obstacles, but 1 foot of rock, 1 inch of plain metal, lead flakes, or 3 feet of wood or dirt can block it.

Detection magic can be permanentized with magical permanency.