Chapter 86 Divination

Chapter 86 Divination

After the first circular pattern was found, Magus Karl cast his spell several more times to follow the trail. Adam had dropped many stones, it seemed, to make it convenient for his team to follow.

Edward, who was following right behind Magus Karl, curiously looked at the floating hand hovering above the old Magus and muttered, "What an interesting spell! I wonder which school it belongs to?"

Lisa, who was walking beside him, habitually nudged her round glasses and replied, "School of Divination."

"Really?!" Edward was amazed. "I've never seen a divination spell before."

"Spells from the School of Divination are hard to come by," Lisa began, "and Magi who major in this school are even rarer."

Edward raised his eyebrow in surprise but then nodded in understanding. "You're right. Come to think of it, I haven't met a single Magus who specializes in divination."

He then looked at old Magus ahead of him and asked, "Magus Karl, do you specialize in divination?"

The old magus, who was drenched in sweat from constantly having expended his mana, replied weakly, "I'm not. I was just fortunate enough to find this spell during one of my adventures."

"I see." Edward nodded. He decided not to disturb the old man anymore.

As everyone continued to follow after the old Magus, Edward came closer to Lisa and whispered, "By the way, I'm curious. How does this spell work?"

Lisa looked at him and rolled her eyes. "Did you not pay attention to anything when we were going over the plan?"

Edward replied with a slight blush, "Did I need to? I have you, don't I?"

"Hmph, idiot!" Lisa pouted in annoyance. "Do you remember the small stones that Magus Karl gave Adam yesterday?" This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Edward nodded. "Yeah, what about it?"

Lisa replied, "Those stones were personally marked by Magus Karl. And right now, he's divining the location of those stones."

"Oh!" Edward came to a realization. "So that's how it works. I couldn't stop wondering if Magus Karl already knew how to divine someone's location, why didn't he divine the vampire's hideout in the first place? So this was the reason."

"Divination isn't omniscient. The caster needs to have some sort of connection with the target to divine their whereabouts. The stronger the connection, the easier the divination. In this case, the target is the stone." Lisa explained.

The group continued to follow Magus Karl for a long time. They had almost covered half the city, but the trail still didn't seem to end.

Adam subconsciously clenched his fists.

Things are not looking good.

...

Magus Karl retreated his palm and gazed at the circular pattern that had just emerged on the ground. "This is the last one."

The moment he said those words, everyone around him lost hope. After all, currently, the group was standing in an alley, and in front of the circular pattern that Magus Karl had just found was nothing but a wall.

They had reached a dead end!

Count Hannes asked with furrowed eyebrows, "Are you sure?"

Magus Karl nodded weakly. "Yes."

"Then..." Magus Emory came forth and spoke in a disheartened manner, "Does that mean Magus Adam made a mistake?"

"Of course not!" Edward blurted out. But he didn't have any proof to back it up. He subconsciously said those words due to his utmost faith and confidence in his friend.

The atmosphere turned silent.

Did we fail? This thought echoed in everyone's mind.

Suddenly...

"Look!" Lisa's voice brought everyone out of their state of dismay.

Everyone looked at the wall she was pointing to in confusion.

"I can sense faint mana fluctuations from the wall." She stated while slowly walking toward it.

In ordinary circumstances, she might have never realized this, but now that she paid close attention to the wall, she noticed something different.

As everyone looked on with hopeful eyes, Lisa stood next to the wall and pressed her hand against it. And what happened next caused everyone to be dumbstruck.

Lisa's hand went through!