Chapter 730: Chapter 299 Unlucky Stica (6k)
The next day, Elf Forest
Just after officially elevating Sea Son to Hero Unit and sending him back to the ocean, upon returning to the Elf Forest, the ocean promptly delivered a message.
After carefully reading the message, Bai Yi was silent for a long time and then questioned life with a hint of disbelief.
"So, what kind of unlucky star is this big demon?
Why does it seem like he’s encountering every unfortunate thing possible..."
The source of the message was a group of Sea Son clans from the ocean.
The ocean on this planet is vast, and its area is much larger than typical planets. Only recently did Sea Son and the Fungus Blanket officially complete their coverage.
Moreover, due to the high level of combat power on this planet combined with past encounters with demons in the ocean, the current Sea Son operates by gathering numerous descendants around themselves and acts in a clan-based form.
The message this time came from one such group, and its content was their discovery of a special "invisible" fleet.
Recently, Bai Yi had just experienced Stica’s capabilities, so he had already synchronized this kind of psychological invisibility ability with all his subordinate clans.
This invisibility ability, which targets only the biological soul, is extremely difficult to deal with. Detecting invisible units has always been feasible; there are always corresponding methods to notice them.
But the problem is that this psychological invisibility targets the very source.
It’s not that you haven’t discovered it, but rather you’ve made the discovery yet ignored the target deliberately.
If such a discovery can still be achieved through shared memory from the network, letting unaffected individuals detect anomalies, then when this ability reaches the level of an Abnormal Object, this shortcoming disappears.
This influence can even penetrate networks, hypnotizing them together.
After all, the network in a certain sense can be considered part of her, an entity as a whole.
It’s virtually impossible to be discovered.
This time, it was purely accidental that the Sea Son detected it.
Stica’s ability, acting directly on the fleet, indeed managed to make the fleet invisible to all external biological eyes, but unlike Stica, a single demon target is inconspicuous and doesn’t significantly interfere with the environment.
The fleet is actually a colossal object, and its various effects on the ocean cannot be completely hidden.
However, in the end, what exposed the fleet turned out not to be any surging waves or abnormal water flows, but daily garbage tossed off from the ship...
Coincidentally, some garbage that fell and hit a descendant’s head immediately sparked curiosity from the passing Sea Son group, and they soon discovered this unexpected oceanic appearance of trash and subsequently noticed the abnormality in the water flow.
This invisible target made them instantly connect it with just-received intelligence, leading them to suspect the special big demon.
But until then, it was merely suspicion. When a descendant emerged to interact formally with the fleet, the fleet suddenly appeared before them, confirming the target for Sea Son, who then promptly reported to Bai Yi.
"Good grief, what’s the big demon thinking? Just ran off from me and then passed under Magga’s domain.
Now, unexpectedly, ran into my territory?
And to come to my territory is one thing, but to be so careless, being discovered by Sea Son while invisible..."
Yet, truthfully, Stica couldn’t really be blamed.
As the ability holder, he knows his capability’s deficiencies better than anyone.
His ability essentially affects biological souls – while it can hide the self, many accompanying impacts are unpreventable or could not be fully interfered with, which thus exposes possible flaws.
This is why he hasn’t chosen immediate escape in a high-speed manner during consecutive encounters, instead opting to stay concealed prudently.
Whether against Bai Yi, who displayed formidable power, or facing humanity’s strongest, Magga, who controls breathing power, he didn’t have complete confidence in masking traces wholly during quick movement.
If discovered, the powerless he would absolutely perish at light speed.
Indeed, he was highly cautious this time at sea, using his abilities to encompass most of the fleet’s impacts; even the waves were entirely no different than normal sea waves before formally departing the area.
Never expected, that in the end, he would be exposed because of something as routine as garbage...
Moreover, if that garbage had deviated slightly, the descendants would not deliberately focus attention on a piece of floating marine refuse, let alone perceive the fleet within waves already indistinguishable from normal ones.
In short, Stica was incredibly unlucky this time.
But Bai Yi’s comments aside, now that Stica has delivered himself, Bai Yi finds it reasonless not to accept.
"This guy is truly slippery, a regular siege might just let him slip away; we’ll still need to employ the ’Scarlet Arrival’ once more, leveraging You’s ’Black Curtain’ to envelop the battlefield.
Otherwise, although this big demon unwittingly stumbled into the spearhead this time, finding them next would be substantially more difficult."
The day went by, and Ju had already recovered from yesterday’s exertion, ready to support another operation of ’Scarlet Arrival’ on the same scale as yesterday’s.
Upon receiving Bai Yi’s notification, a Teleportation Gate opened beside him, and a blonde-haired girl stepped out.
"Sorry for the delay, cross-world teleportation still takes a bit of time, there was a slight issue with the ’artificial relics system’ project in the territory earlier, was coordinating adjustments there.