Chapter 18 Storm Pigeon in Action
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The three freshly created Beyonder characteristics naturally needed to be dealt with first. So, Lin Ruo first placed the three Beyonder characteristics into iron boxes. Then, he performed simple rituals to create closed spiritual walls tightly adhering to the surface of the boxes, shielding the three Beyonder characteristics.
This could effectively ensure that the Beyonder characteristics would not contaminate the outside world.
Next, Lin Ruo took out the iron-black metal glove belonging to Harras and simulated the abilities of a Seer pathway demigod to divine the glove's abilities and whether there were any tracking marks on it.
Fortunately, the divination results were not bad. There was no extra tracking information on the iron-black glove—although there might be tracking that wasn't divined, considering the person holding the glove was only a Sequence 6, this possibility could basically be considered non-existent.
At the same time, Lin Ruo also confirmed the functions and side effects of the iron-black glove.
According to the divination results, the iron-black glove corresponded to the abilities of the Sequence 5 "Disciplinary Knight" of the Justiciar pathway. After wearing it, one could use the Disciplinary Knight's ability to prohibit something within a certain range, such as "No floating allowed here," or punish specific targets, thereby increasing one's targeted attack ability.
Besides that, the glove had no other abilities. Its side effects were also very simple. Usually, just wearing it without using it had very small side effects, only increasing the wearer's inner desire for symmetry, a bit like enhancing obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it could be overcome.
Apart from that, for five hours after each use, the wearer would be prohibited from a certain behavior.
This prohibition was completely random. If lucky, it might be a prohibition like not drinking water, a behavior that didn't matter at all within five hours. If unlucky, one might even be prohibited from using a certain Beyonder power. But no matter what, no matter how many times it was used, only one behavior would be prohibited within five hours.
"Really... quite the mystical side effect!" Lin Ruo sighed inwardly. After exiting the simulation, he put away the iron-black glove again, as he didn't need it for the time being.
After doing all of this, Lin Ruo took out paper and pen and began to review today's actions.
Honestly, today's hunting operation was undoubtedly very smooth, even smoother than Lin Ruo had imagined, perfectly achieving all his goals. He not only solved Capim, killed three Beyonders, but also successfully played the role of an angel, guiding the Storm Old Birds' attention to Tingen.
But although the result was perfect, the entire hunting process, in Lin Ruo's view, had many flaws.
The first point was that he underestimated the crushing power of a demigod against ordinary Beyonders.
Thinking carefully, one would realize that in the original book, which battle between low-to-mid sequence Beyonders and demigods wasn't thrilling and difficult? Even Klein, the cheat, when fighting the dragon that could only be considered half a demigod in the book world, still had someone sacrifice in the end, even with their lineup of five or six Sequence 5s and above.
These guys, who were already the best among Beyonders, were still like this, let alone others.
Secondly, Lin Ruo wasn't familiar enough with the demigod-level abilities of each sequence.
Given the crushing gap between demigods and ordinary Beyonders, Lin Ruo still allowed Harras to seize the opportunity to attack. This was because Lin Ruo wasn't familiar enough with the Puppet's abilities. When using non-living things to attack the people in the restaurant, he relaxed his control over Harras, leading to this result.
If Lin Ruo had been more skilled, he wouldn't have allowed Harras to seize such an opportunity, and could have controlled him to death.
But apart from that, there weren't any other major problems. After all, this was never a fair fight from beginning to end, but a cheat's crushing of ordinary Beyonders.
After reviewing the shortcomings in the hunt, Lin Ruo then began to write down the acting principles he had summarized from this hunt:
First, prepare thoroughly before hunting, collect information, and formulate a plan.
Second, an excellent hunter should actively try to hunt powerful prey.
"It feels like nonsense..." After writing these two sentences, Lin Ruo suddenly muttered, but then smiled again.
After all, he was also clear that as a Sequence 9, the Hunter's acting principles wouldn't be too complicated.
Moreover, to be fair, these seemingly nonsensical acting principles are definitely not easy to operate in practice.
Not to mention anything else, if an ordinary Sequence 9 tried to play out a hunt like Lin Ruo did today, it would basically be no different from courting death.
"Hoo!" After summarizing the acting principles, Lin Ruo lazily stretched. He then took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, only to find that it wasn't even eight o'clock yet.
This wasn't surprising, after all, his hunt itself didn't take much time, and the time spent reviewing and summarizing the acting principles was even more.
"Time to study..." Lin Ruo muttered and went to the study to start learning Ancient Giant language.
Considering that one couldn't avoid learning the various mystical languages involved in the extraordinary field of this world if one wanted to delve deeper into the extraordinary, Lin Ruo had basically arranged his spare time during this period to be fully occupied, in order to learn these languages.
This was undoubtedly a very heavy task, but fortunately, Lin Ruo had confidence in his learning ability, confident that he could complete the learning within a month.
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Backlund, Saint Wind Cathedral—
"Who is Capim?"
After completing a preliminary investigation of Capim's villa, "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake looked at the captain of the Punisher squad in front of him and asked without any emotion in his eyes:
"Why does his villa have an underground prison?"
The Punisher in front of him immediately replied:
"A wealthy man, but rumored to be related to multiple missing girls' cases, suspected of being a human trafficker, and also doing slave trade in private."
"That underground prison proves that the rumors are true."
"Why can a human trafficker get the protection of several Beyonders? And even have an angel personally take action to kill him?" "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake continued to ask.
Involving angels is no small matter. Even "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake didn't think that a person whom an angel made such a big move to kill would be an ordinary human trafficker.
And judging from the fact that the killed Capim was actually protected by several Beyonders with not low sequences, he was indeed not simple.
"Your Excellency, this remains to be investigated. We have tried to obtain clues using Beyonder means, but all have failed." The Punisher captain replied somewhat tremulously, naturally referring to obtaining clues related to Capim.
"I've tried it too." "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake didn't blame the other party, but continued, "Continue to investigate this matter. If there are clues, don't act rashly, report to me immediately!"
"In addition, arrange for a deacon and his team to go to Tingen to increase the search efforts for Aurora Society members in Backlund and Tingen."
After the Punisher squad captain left, "Spellsinger of God" Ace Snake took out his usual notebook and wrote on it:
"Capim, human trafficking, suspected angel of the Apprentice pathway, possible organization codenamed Tarot, True Creator's sacrifice, hidden plot."
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