Chapter 285: Intel Gathering

After defeating his enemy, Prince Aragorn decided to help their captain when he was conjuring a Seishin Royalty-ranked seishin spell. In response to that, the captain of the enemy used the Ice Dome seishin spell to protect herself.

Kraftvoll used that opportunity to finish what he was conjuring. The moment he finished that seishin spell, Prince Aragorn canceled his Python Stream seishin spell and his First Brother punched the Ice Dome seishin spell into smithereens.

On her last moment, the captain of the enemy squad thought to herself, 'Thanks to Tristan's carefulness, the enemy will not be able to find THAT place. Well, it's not a bad way to go.'

After that punch, Kraftvoll was able to knock out the captain of the enemy squad. after all, she was just a Middle Seishin Sage-ranked practitioner. 

"The captain was defeated by that wretched being!" one of the demibeasts shouted after seeing Kraftvoll's victory.

After finishing that matter with the leader of the group, Kraftvoll and the elven prince decided to deal with the rest until they were able to knock them all. 

"Whew! We finally finished these damned things!" said Godwin after knocking the last remaining enemy.

"Tie them all. Make it as tight as you can! After all, our lives would be endangered if they ever get away! Here use this seishin device that I personally created" Kraftvoll commanded after the conclusion of the battle.

While he was giving that command to his subordinates, Kraftvoll handed a rope made up of special silk engraved with special seishin runes.

"I can use some inner seishin essences to burn them if they ever try to do any funny business," said Kraftvoll upon handing the seishin device to Godwin.

"Yes, captain!" Kraftvoll's seven subordinate said in response to their captain. 

Using Kraftvoll's seishin device, Prince Aragorn and the others tied each of the enemy soldiers from the Dark Alliance. 

After a few moments, Prince Aragorn and Princess Kyomi went toward Kraftvoll to say something. Upon reaching Kraftvoll, Prince Aragorn was the first one to say a word to their captain.

The elven prince said, "Captain. The enemy squad was about to enter something in the ravines before that thing thought of conjuring a detection seishin spell. We better check for some hidden passageways in the ravine."

Upon hearing his First Lieutenant, Kraftvoll suddenly showed a smile on his face.

A moment later, he said in response to him, "Before we meet you and Adelle, I managed to learn an earth seishin spell which would be helpful in our search. Continue using Gale Survey seishin spell constantly, I will try that seishin spell."

After saying those words, Kraftvoll decided to activate his brown seishin aura before he began chanting. He walked toward the front part of the Quietus Ravine before conjuring that seishin spell.

Without a moment of hesitation, Kraftvoll began saying his chant at the next moment. He chanted, "As the representation of the foundation of the whole world, I beseech thee to realize this will of mine, let thy pulse guide us to the right path, Mother Earth's Inspection!"

The moment Kraftvoll began saying his chant, a gigantic amount of brown seishin essences from his surroundings suddenly began converging toward him. In the middle of his chant, Kraftvoll slowly touched the ground while the gigantic amount of brown seishin essences merged with his senses.

At the end of his chant, Kraftvoll was able to feel all of the particles of the earth in the 500 meters radius. After conjuring that seishin spell, Kraftvoll said to his teammates, "There's a cave behind that center part of the cave. I will destroy it so wait for me here."

Upon saying those words, Kraftvoll charged toward the shallow part of the ravine. Using the strength of his Steel Overlay seishin spell, Kraftvoll destroyed the shallow part of the ravine where he was able to open a secret path.

"Let's start searching this place. We have to search for intel as fast as we could. After all, the comrades of these wretched things would come after they didn't return for a period of time." Kraftvoll commanded after he opened the secret base.

The other members of the golden unit followed Kraftvoll's command without saying a word to their leader. They carefully explored the secret room because there might be some trap but they did not encounter such a thing.

After walking for almost a single kilometer, Kraftvoll and all of his subordinates reached a certain room inside the secret passage that their captain had found earlier.

"Be careful, everyone. There might not be any traps in the path toward this room but we need to be careful because we can't say the same thing here," said Kraftvoll before entering the room.

Fortunately, they did not find any traps when they entered the room. The only thing that they saw was a room that had the typical outline of a planning or meeting room.

"Is this really just a meeting room?" asked Godwin upon observing the room.

Kraftvoll and the other wondered the same thing as well. To answer their question, Kraftvoll decided to conjure the Mother Earth's Inspection seishin spell because the area past this room was not reached by this seishin spell earlier.

After activating his brown seishin aura, Kraftvoll chanted at the top of his lungs, "As the representation of the foundation of the whole world, I beseech thee to realize this will of mine, let thy pulse guide us to the right path, Mother Earth's Inspection!"

After chanting that seishin spell again, Kraftvoll was able to scan the whole as he did earlier outside the Quietus Ravine to find the secret passage.

After conjuring that seishin spell, Kraftvoll suddenly showed a hint of a smile on his face. He said to his subordinates, "There are some hidden compartments here. There is one, there, there, there, there, and there."

While he was saying those words, Kraftvoll pointed in various parts of the meeting room. Since they really trusted their captain's capabilities, Kraftvoll's subordinates went to the five spots that he pointed to.

Due to her skills as an Inventor, Belle was the first one to realize the mechanism to open the hidden compartment where she went. "There are some documents here but there are some problems," she said after opening the compartment.

Despite hearing her, the others continued their search to the spots that Kraftvoll pointed to them. Kraftvoll was the only one that went toward her side.

"Let me see those documents," he said after reaching his girlfriend.

After Belle handed over the documents, Kraftvoll was able to see what's wrong. He said to her, "It's written in the native language of the draconians. I think there are some people from the headquarters that can read this so let us just bring all of these with us."

"Yes, captain," Belle said in response. 

After searching that spot, she decided to help the others to find some hidden compartments using her technical skills. After all, things like these were the creations of the inventors.

'The art of invention is still thriving at that side of the continent, huh?' Kraftvoll thought to himself as he watched his comrades while protecting them from a possible attack.

They continued to search until they were able to find the four remaining hidden compartments inside the meeting room found in the Quietus Ravines.

After finishing that matter, Kraftvoll said to all of his subordinates, "I think that's all, everyone. Let's go back to the base. Maybe we will be able to decode these documents with the help of the experts. Let's go, then."

"Yes, sir!" the other seven subordinates of Kraftvoll said in response to him.

While Kraftvoll and the other soldiers from the golden unit were transversing through the long path inside the Quietus Ravines, the soldiers that were tied in a huge tree were all awake except the captain which Kraftvoll had dealt with personally.

"Those wretched being! They didn't even give Tristan a proper burial! And what is this rope!? The moment use our seishin essences, it would immediately produce a heat unbearable to stop us!" one of the demibeasts stated as he was tied together with his comrade.

The only female demibeast answered him saying, "This rope must be a type of seishin device. I have never seen one like this before so I am not quite. The seishin runes were placed in a very systematic way. It seems like the one who created this is at least an Advanced-level inventor."

At the very moment, the captain of the squad suddenly woke up from being knocked out. "Where are we!? They didn't kill us!?" asked the captain of the squad after just opening her eyes.

"Yes, captain. But they tied us using this rope that makes us unable to conjure any seishin spell. Every time we use any form of seishin essences, it exudes an unbearable heat," said the female draconian beside the captain of the squad.

"What!? You're a proud draconian and you can't even handle a mere heat!? Let me show you how it's done."