"Did you have any idea?" asked Jade.
"If I am not wrong, those Vitas have the ability to blend with the ground or somehow liquify the ground to travel through them. With this ability, any earth-based spell is useless since it just passes through them." analyzed Angus.
"Any large-scale magic will be useless since they could escape the moment large-scale magic is cast. It means any high circle magic also couldn't be used." added Angus.
"Right. So, did you know how to deal with them?" asked Jade.
"Uncle… Did you know an expert hunter always watches their back not to get hunted by the beast?" said Angus.
"What did you mean?" asked Jade.
"Sometimes the beast deliberately lures the hunter and becomes the hunter instead of prey." said Angus.
"Did you want to lure them using bait?" asked Aunt Extalia as she noticed Angus' purpose.
"Not really… I actually don't like that kind of roundabout method. I just thought of massacring them." said Angus with a mischievous smile.
Then, Angus begins to tell his aunt and uncle about his plan. After many heated arguments, Angus excuses himself and goes to Jayna's room. Arriving at the room, he finds Jayna already wearing an enchanted camouflage cloak with Anna.
While Angus discusses with his Aunt and Uncle, he also tells Jayna and Anna to get ready. Still, he didn't expect Anna also be well-prepared since she is famous for being hard to wake up after falling asleep.
Still, Jayna and Angus know when they are trying to do something related to combat or fight, Anna will always be punctual. Sometimes, she even gets ready before them.
Then, Angus takes out a crystal and activates it with mana. The crystal covered with countless small runes shines and covers the whole room. The crystal is Angus' custom-made magic tool to apply a few isolation and barrier runes on the enclosed space.
Until now, Angus feels no need for this kind of magic tool since he rarely travels around or does a covert mission. Then, he finds applying the runes when they change places during their vacation in Sunset City is a hassle.
These magic tools are actually sold in the market at high prices. But, only fools with a lot of money buy them. Runes work similarly to a lock. Once people can find the key and spread it around, everyone will have access to it.
People with the key could create other tools to cancel or even modify the runes to harm the people inside the isolation rune. Although not many people can make and have the means to alter the runes, it is still a dangerous situation that Angus doesn't want to experience.
As an expert scriber, he knows exactly how dangerous modified runes can be. It is also why he never let his place with someone else's rune or bought pre-made rune tools in the market.
Expect his rune product or rune that he applies by himself. He will not feel safe about it. Angus was certain no one could decode or alter his rune enchantment easily.
Angus may keep using his self-creation language for his rune as the base, but he also occasionally improves and alters this language.
The rune language he uses now was slightly different from the one a few months ago. The difference may be small, but the effect is enormous.
Not only will it prevent others from modifying or canceling his rune, but it also may injure any person trying to change it carelessly. After the room is completely sealed off, Angus looks intently at Jayna's shadow.
"Come out!!" said Angus coldly.
Knowing that she is the one that is being called out, Jayna's shadow guard immediately comes out from the shadow. Unlike Jayna, Angus and Anna didn't have any shadow guards who hid in their shadow for a few reasons.
But, King Leon also couldn't just let her daughter roam around without any protection even if he knew she was strong. Hence, he always attaches a shadow guard inside her shadow who will keep following her everywhere.
Unless Jayna is using teleportation skills with Angus, this shadow guard will keep following her. Jayna, Angus, and Anna also notice this shadow guard and let her be since it is her job as shadow guard.
As soon as the shadow guard came out, she immediately knelt on the ground and didn't dare to look at Angus with cold sweat covering her body. She still remembers the clear vision she witnessed inside Madam Malkin's prison room a few weeks ago.
If not for her strict training, she would definitely puke at what Angus and Jayna did to the old lady. To her, the couple in front of her are ordinary youngsters but monsters in human skin. Since that day, she swore never to antagonize the couple even though she was tortured to death.
She even prefers being tortured by Extermination Squad to become the enemy of Angus and Jayna.
Ignoring the submissive attitude of Jayna's shadow guard, "I believe that other shadow guard groups are operating in this area. Did you have a way to contact them?" asked Angus.
"That's… May I know what young master Angus needs for them?" asked the shadow guard with hesitation.
As shadow guards, it is taboo to reveal the other location, even if it is towards their master they need to protect. But, she also didn't want to antagonize Angus by refusing him directly.
"I need the help of the shadow guard group to find Vitas' mercenary camp." said Angus.
"Vitas mercenary? In that case, I could ask them about this matter. But…" replied the shadow guard while hesitating.
"What is it?" asked Angus coldly.
"Hiii… I am sorry… I just can't bring you to them. But, I also can't leave Lady Jayna alone." said the shadow guard in a hurry.
"Hmm… How troublesome. Can't you just contact them?" asked Angus.
"I am sorry… I also don't have any way to contact them." replied the shadow guard.
Hearing this, Angus releases an evil smile and looks at Anna beside him.
"Anna, what do you think about her?" asked Angus while pointing at the shadow guard.
"She is a pervert!! Peeping Tom!! Stalker! Weak shadow bubble!! Ugly!! Shady! Meanie!! Pervert!! Stinky…" replied Anna as she kept saying bad things about the shadow guard.
Anna keeps saying bad things non-stop to the point it becomes ridiculous. She even calls the shadow guard fatty and gluttony, along with a picky eater.
"Alright.. Alright.. That's enough. Then, what should we do with this naughty shadow guard?" asked Angus.
"Hmm… Burst it?!" asked Anna.
"That's… too vicious. Hm… Why don't I make her stay inside your shadow?" suggested Angus with a sadistic smile.
"NO… Please, young master Angus. Anything but that!!" pleaded the shadow guard in panic.
There is a reason why Anna didn't have a shadow guard despite being a troublemaker who needs a constant watch. It is because no one ever survives after entering her shadow. Every shadow guard that enters Anna's shadow turns into mindless crazed people.
After entering Anna's shadow, they will become vegetative states with completely broken minds. No one knows the real reason, but they find if they enter Anna's shadow for a few seconds, they will still become a crazed person while they keep saying gibberish things.
Only one shadow guard can slightly recover before ending his life. They find when shadow guards enter Anna's shadow, they will hear evil whispering for them to do bad things. Unfortunately, this is not ordinary whispering.
After a few moments, they will hear this evil whisper from their thoughts and hearts. It is like they get infected and start to think evil things. But, this wicked thought is unnatural and not theirs.
Their body and mind are forced to fight this thought repeatedly until their mind completely shut down. Even if they tried to do the evil whisper, their body and mind would stop them. This kind of strange phenomenon becomes torture to the shadow guards.
They couldn't run from the evil thought and also couldn't comply with it either. This situation will keep going until their mind completely break from this endless mind torture. Since then, no one has dared to enter Anna's shadow even for a moment.
"Alright, then please don't lie to me again. I hate liars, especially those that I consider allies. So, let me ask you again, did you have a way to contact the other shadow guards?" asked Angus.
The shadow guard begins to tremble in fear and hesitate to answer.
Before she could reply, "I hope you give me a satisfactory answer. Otherwise, I will not think twice about forcing you into Anna's shadow." said Angus coldly while releasing a little bit of killing intent.
"Hiii… I am sorry!! I am sorry!! I really don't have a way to contact them." said the shadow guard in a hurry.
As Angus grabs the shadow guard with a sigh, "B-But, my superior may be able to contact them." replied the shadow guard in a hurry.
Angus releases the shadow guard, "Continue." command Angus shortly.
"We… The shadow guard didn't have a way to contact each other. But, we could contact our superior in an emergency. Then, our superior will contact another squad nearby." explained the shadow guard in a hurry.
"I see… No wonder the shadow squad is very secretive. They have a very strict hierarchy." said Angus.
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