With the increase in my strength as well as my new found storage of demonic energy my confidence soared through the rood. When I left the cave I activated stealth but this time it felt stronger than before.From my hypothesis because of the addition of demonic energy in my body as well as my proficiency in controlling life force my stealth capabilities went up a couple notches. Finding myself a nice place to hide not far from the cave I observed my targets.
After 5 minutes I save 17 shadows appear from the forest. 5 of them had power levels of high rankers, 7 of them were mid rankers, and the rest were low ranking devils. Luckily the didn"t sense me or I would have had to fight a losing battle.
Slowly getting closer I would able to hear their conversation.
Mid Devil - Boss are you sure it"s here? None of us could find any clue of where the source of the problem could have gone.
Leader Devil - Yes it must be here, Naberius-sama and the Professor want whoever or whatever made the phenomenon to be brought to them as soon as possible. All of you fan out, and you 5 go and report the situation back at the manor.
All Low Ranking Devils - YES SIR!!!
Their conversation was short but was enough to cuz multiple thought to form in my head.
Yuu - [Naberius ... Professor ..... Research....!! s.h.i.t! I know what"s going on I can"t let those guys report what happened. But I also need these guys to show me where their boss is so I can confirm if my hunch is right!]
Leaving behind the bigger group of devils I follow the ones that were heading back to the manor. While still in stealth I followed them for 10 miles before I used Hawk-Eye to scout ahead. There I saw a big mansion a couple more miles ahead of us and decided that I don"t need these guys anymore.
With the a.s.sistance of [Ground Shrink], [Coercion], and multiple [Void Slashes] those devils based on without even knowing what happened. Sending their corpses into the void I continued my mission.
Once I was about a couple meters from the mansion I felt a sudden jolt in my spine and stopped where I stood. Using all of my detection skill I was able to discover that a barrier was in front of me.
It was invisible but my skills were able to pick it up (thank G.o.d). When I focused my appraisal on it I discovered that it was a surface detection barrier that would notify the barriers master whenever someone entered.
This was a pain in the a.s.s, considering the fact that my knowledge of barriers was close to none. This discovery made me lose some hope but not all, with what the system told me it was not a strong barrier and there were some flaws in it I just had to find them.
After 30 minutes of circling around the premises, I discovered what I believed to be a way in. It was a draining tunnel that seemed to have not been used for a long time. Knowing this was my only discovery I looked up at the sky which had started to get dark and entered the tunnel.
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It wasn"t really well light in there so I had to rely on my senses to get by, I had already lost track of how much time I"ve been here but I continued to march on. Finally, while I was feeling the low ceiling texture I noticed the ceiling made an abrupt rise in height.
Releasing my spirit sense that I haven"t used since I got here I sent it towards that ceiling. After a quick observation, I found out that it wasn"t the whole ceiling but a small tunned that I can climb through. At the top of the tunnel was a secret door that leads to the inside of the mansion.
This tunnel I was currently in was probably an escape tunnel in case anything ever happened to the master of this place. Happy with my discover I made my way up.
When I first opened the secret door I peeked in through and found a dark and gloomy bedroom, but I saw that no one was their so I immediately opened the door and walked in.
However, against all my expectations, I heard a small whimper in the corner of the room. There the air slowly started to distort before I saw who made the winter.
She had a small body, short white hair in the form of a bob cut but 2 long bangs on the side of her face that pa.s.sed her shoulder. On top of her head were a pair of cat ear, and her eyes were a nice shade of gold.
When I got closer she seemed to be shaking and her eyes had a look of fear in them. Her actions may not have been what I would have expected from a future h.e.l.lcat but there was no doubt this was Koneko Toujou or Shirone Toujou right now but where was Kuroka?
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Time Spent on Quest: 17.5 hours