Chapter 1586: 437 Elental Mark and Aspect Hound_3
Even Legendary-level Elental Elders were the sa.
The three of them maintained a certain distance from each other, advancing slowly along the main thoroughfare.
The reason for their slow pace,
was because Matthew had to keep his “Equalized Perception” active during the entire journey.
This ability could help him perceive the brands left by the Elental Marks from the elental plane.
Of course,
Matthew did not completely trust the traces left by the elental life forms, as Sener had said, there was a possibility that these elental life forms were setting traps for others.
Therefore, Matthew simply extracted information from those buildings marked with Elental Marks along the way.
More often,
he relied on his own thods to search for the potential hidden entities of Lost Paradise.
“The Evil Crown and Holy Grail of Sin have not been subdued by …”
Matthew felt a slight regret in his heart.
If these two items, said to originate from the divine body of god Poole, could fully heed his commands,
then finding Lost Paradise might have been a bit more straightforward.
Just like that,
he steadily walked along the street patrolled by the Fire Elent.
He also found sixteen buildings marked by the Earth Elent.
“There’s just too many things like a number two in the city of trolls!”
Matthew couldn’t help but complain internally.
This was just one street, and even elental life forms had eliminated so similar buildings during their inspections.
Given such density, the entire Magic Zone likely contained hundreds of suspicious targets.
To investigate each one would take quite a while!
But aside from that, he had no better plan.
He could only continue to collect information patiently as he moved forward.
Unknowingly,
more than three hours had passed.
Matthew had painstakingly covered almost half of the eastern part of the Magic Zone, and he had gathered 67 Elental Marks.
With his deepening journey,
the efficiency of his information gathering had slowed down.
There was no helping it.
There were too many elental life forms nearby.
Especially those two Fire and Water Elental Elders patrolling the nearby streets.
Their perception was sowhat exaggerated.
Several tis Matthew nearly got detected by them, but fortunately, he was lucky enough to repeatedly turn danger into safety.
“That mark up ahead seems a bit strange…”
Passing a Y-shaped intersection,
Matthew suddenly noticed an object resembling a streetlight at the edge of the intersection, which was sowhat similar in shape to the number two of the Giant Troll God.
What was different was,
Matthew discovered that both Earth and Air elents had marked it.
This was the first ti Matthew had seen markings of two types of elental life on the sa structure.
This piqued his curiosity.
As a result, he unconsciously took a few steps forward.
But at that mont,
a chilling sensation surged through him—
Matthew’s outstretched foot hung midair.
He neither stepped forward nor retracted it, but rather seed frozen in ti!
It wasn’t that Matthew wanted to pose.
It was that he had already sensed sothing was amiss—
Thirty seconds after Matthew ca to a halt, suddenly, about fifteen ters to the left of that streetlight-like structure, the air began to twist slightly.
An ugly, sleek hound with sharp horns on its head slowly appeared.
The hound’s tail was short, like a pompom tucked behind its rump.
Its eyes were small, yet they exuded an extre sense of danger!
“Aspect Hound”!
Matthew’s heart went cold.
He imdiately looked toward the “streetlight”, realizing it was bait set by little Ingram and the others!
If his perception hadn’t been so acutely sharp,
he might have been exposed by now.
Even though Matthew remained motionless, the Aspect Hound seed to have noticed sothing.
It was not only looking around in its original spot,
but also let out a few loud howls.
Before long,
two more hounds appeared at the mouth of the alley.
They seed to be responding to their companion’s calls, wanting to find a suspicious stealthed figure.
Matthew’s heart leapt to his throat.
Fortunately, he was prepared.
A few seconds later,
a fat-eared rat suddenly darted from the side of the street.
The three hounds were imdiately drawn to it, madly chasing after the critter.
The rat scampered into an alley,
and the hounds chased it relentlessly.
Soon after,
one of the hounds erged proudly with the rat in its mouth, followed by the other two who playfully pushed and shoved each other behind it.
A few nearby elental life forms saw the spectacle,
but they only showed a hint of disdain in their eyes,
without sensing anything amiss.
In the diagonal alley,
Matthew, who had narrowly escaped danger, quietly wiped off a bead of cold sweat.
He was acutely aware of what the consequences would be if discovered by the hounds—
the local elental life forms would swarm him, and that would be one thing,
but if he was encircled by Audacia and others again,
he would likely have a hard ti escaping without revealing so of his trump cards.
“Aspect Hounds too, so treacherous…”
Matthew fud.
He realized he couldn’t afford to take such risks anymore.
There were many ways to gather information, and while personally doing so was the most efficient and effective,
at such a critical juncture,
preserving his combat strength took precedence over everything!
Matthew found an abandoned cellar where he set up a Hidden Barrier and Guardian Barrier.
Then, he took out a glowing bamboo tube.
Upon opening it,
a dozen or so rats scurried out.
This tube was given to him by the Plague Daughter Kesha.
Previously, when creating the Death Plague Sphere, Matthew had thought the rats in the tube were Consumables, gone once used.
He later discovered,
both the Poison Realm Giant Tree Sorinka and the Plague Daughter Kesha had provided containers for the four poisons and four plagues to Matthew, which after being used up, could slowly spawn more poisonous and plaguelike entities.
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