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Chapter 18. A Drill! It Was a Drill!

Char still could not tell if he had been discovered by Carly that night because he had accidentally exposed himself, or if she had already discovered him.

Because Beast Dancers rarely chose to fight in close combat. Most of the time, the battles between them were like this, substitute vs substitute.

It was Jojo-like.

Kali's "Substitute", or beast spirit, was a tall, faceless man with a sharp head and a thin body. The lower half of his body seemed to be hidden in a magic lamp, but his arms were like the depiction of sailors in American comics, thick and strong.

Its body was covered in snake patterns, just like the ones on Carly's arms. As it lifted its back to the sky, the black patterns on its arms wriggled and fell off, entangling with the white smoke.

In comparison, the skull in the sky was a huge fellow. Its mouth was still opening and closing, and white mist was constantly spreading out. Besides the people who were being controlled like walking corpses, the entire camp was quickly covered in a layer of frost.

The ground was frozen, hard and slippery. Fortunately, the outside of the tent was mostly soft fur, which made it the best foothold.

Char stepped on the tent and reached the entrance of the camp. She immediately felt a force resisting her entry.

He was currently using "Shadow Travel" which allowed him to move through dimensions, so he simply went straight in.

However, he regretted it halfway through.

"What the hell!"

"What is blocking my vision!"

He simply retreated.

Carly was fine for now.

She had been holding on to the "Seed of Origin" ever since the first day she took it away. Char was not in a hurry to get it back after returning to the team. Now, he had helped her deal with the attack from above. She would not have been able to handle it with her ability.

Everything was fine, but…

She seemed to like sleeping naked a little too much.

...

Other than Carly, the only other thing that could resist this power was the Moonlight Lupus.

Char went to the Moonlight Wolf and found that its fur was covered in white crystals. One of its legs was dragging on the ground, and it was lunging back and forth, as if it was fighting with the air.

Could it be that I'm not the stand-in emissary? Is that why I can't see what it's fighting with?

Char was curious and tried to help the beast, but as soon as he took a step, the beast glared at him with a pair of bloodthirsty eyes.

Terrible!

As soon as the thought popped up in its mind, the Moonlight Wolf threw away its imaginary enemy and charged at Char. As it charged, it also began to condense a ball of light in its mouth. It raised its neck, and a moon-white beam of light shot towards Char.

"Come on! Wave!"

Char was already prepared to cast the level 50 Elementalist skill [Ice Spiral]. Seeing the Moonlight Wolf cast the skill, a rapidly spinning drill of ice appeared out of thin air, and was pulled forward by Char!

The drill was a man's favorite tool!

Now!

Hold on!

The drill was just as its name described. It was made of ice, with spiral patterns, and extremely sharp!

The high-speed rotation sent out sharp ice crystals and cold air, drilling a hole in the Moonlight Wolf 's attack and pushing it back without losing any momentum!

Beasts were beasts. Even if they knew a few skills, they would only use them roughly.

The drill was cumbersome, a huge and slow ice attack, Char could even race with it after casting. The Moonlight Wolf could have avoided a direct confrontation if it had been slightly more flexible, but it did not do so.

The drill hit the Moonlight Wolf that could not dodge in time, and just as it was about to tear its skin open, Char suddenly rushed forward and used his shoulder to knock it away.

A man and a wolf rolled into a ball and smashed a totem.

The shattering of the totem seemed to have produced a faint ripple. After it spread out, the Moonlight Wolf that were affected by it quickly regained their senses, and the bloodthirsty light in their eyes disappeared.

It looked at Char, nudged him with its nose, and whimpered in a certain direction.

Char knew what was going on with just one look. It was a basket for storing grain. It was now covered with a pile of wheat straw and was even wrapped in fur.

It was the baby that was given to it during the day, and it was now being properly hidden.

"I know. The child is fine. You did a good job." Char patted its head. "Carly's fine too, but she can't last much longer. We need to find the mastermind, and we need your help, understand?"

The Moonlight Wolf whimpered, as if in response.

"Follow me."

Char brought the Moonlight Wolf about a kilometre away from the campsite. From afar, the campsite looked like an open-air disco hall, with a heavy metal-style skull hanging in the air, shining brightly.

He took out a small piece of flesh that he had shown to Carly during the day and let the Moonlight Wolf smell it.

The latter sniffed for a few seconds and then quickly locked onto a direction.

This direction was exactly the opposite of the direction in which the people in the camp were moving.

"It's really like this. Even if it's discovered, it will go south and north."

Char said in a low voice.

As a level 50 Elementalist, his perception wasn't considered low. In addition, as a Beast Dancer, Carly was a third cultivator of strength sensitivity. There was definitely something fishy about how neither of them had discovered this.

And because of his intervention, a hidden mission was generated here. Since it was a mission, there would definitely be enemies who were much higher in level. In this situation, the enemy gave off the feeling that he was an undefeatable Demon King, which was obviously impossible. The only answer was that the enemy had left behind a trap to monitor them, which meant that there were clues in the mission that could be solved, but they had not discovered it.

But were there any traps in the camp?

No, there weren't.

It was impossible for Carly to not notice. The only explanation was that it was hidden in plain sight.

For example, the totems.

The priest of the Gray Wing Tribe injected power into the totems so that the people protected by the totems would not be disturbed by the demonic wind that often appeared on the prairie. Before he left, he would definitely "charge" the totems in advance to ensure that the totems were in an effective state during his absence.

However, it had been a day and a night since the priest's death, and the totem pole was still working despite the fact that the old priest's surname was not Nanfu.

This was clearly unreasonable.

In addition, the Moonlight Wolf had only woken up after crashing into a totem pole. The situation was very clear.

The enemy was not far away, using a special method to power the totems, which meant that the skulls above the camp were released by the totems, and had nothing to do with the mysterious "Demon King".

The totems could monitor them and also act as a medium to complete the spell.

Furthermore, the enemy had deliberately controlled the barbarians to move in the opposite direction.