After all, things like magic, familiars, monsters, golems, and magic circles were all tangible and visible.
Or rather, they were all things that could be materialized.
But divination with a one-hundred-percent success rate was indeed a bit too fantastical.
“Found him!”
“Found him?” the eleven others echoed in unison.
As soon as Esmeralda announced the result of her divination, everyone who had been pretending not to care on the periphery crowded around, asking in synchronized curiosity like a well-rehearsed chorus.
“He’s on a bald guy.”
“A bald guy?”
“Wearing leather armor.”
“Leather armor!”
“His weapon is a long blade.”
“A long blade!”
“His name is Xia Siqing.”
“Xia Siqing?”
“He has a very high hairline, a side-part, and a high ponytail at the back of his head.”
“Wait a minute!!!”
Everyone had been listening intently to the information about the blood's location, but the Wheel of Fortune’s last sentence was so jarring it nearly caused their brains to short-circuit.
They immediately called for her to stop.
“Didn't you say he was bald? How does he have a hairline, a side-part, and a high ponytail?”
The Star asked the question that was on everyone’s mind.
Under the gaze of twelve people, the Wheel of Fortune unhurriedly packed away her crystal ball and other tools.
Only after she was finished did she calmly utter a single word.
“Wig.”
“...”
The Wheel of Fortune's words almost made the focused group of twelve trip over their own feet.
Fine, fine, playing it like that, are we?
He’s even using a wig.
Why on earth would someone in a magical world wear a wig?
“Since we know who’s holding the bulk of it, should we save that person for last?”
Lan Qingyou suggested.
“No problem.”
Everyone accepted her proposal.
“Which way are the enemies?”
Lan Qingyou looked at the two doors facing each other and asked the Empress.
The Empress pointed a finger with the flair of a cartoon character. Before Frenna’s startled eyes, Lan Qingyou took off in third gear and flew out of the house in a puff of smoke.
Seeing this, the others let out strange cries and followed close behind.
They looked exactly like hunters heading out for a kill, especially with their eyes practically glowing.
“Is... is this going to be okay?”
【Lovers】 Frenna didn't follow them out because, like 【Empress】 Jiang Lan, she was a non-combatant.
Well... technically not zero combat power, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to escape the pursuit of Formation 505.
It was just that she had become a non-combatant for now.
Possessing self-awareness, she didn't follow. After all, that would only force the others to protect her, which would actually lower the team's overall combat effectiveness.
“It should be fine. Although I haven't seen them fight either, based on their levels, dealing with those people from Formation 505 shouldn't be a problem,” Jiang Lan said with a smile.
She had a good idea of what the people in the villa were capable of. Putting everything else aside, the sheer amount of research results they possessed meant that if all eleven of them ganged up, they could probably take down a dungeon boss with ease.
BOOM!
Just as Jiang Lan finished speaking, a violent explosion echoed from outside, followed by the ground beginning to shake.
“An... earthquake?”
“Probably not, right?”
The two of them looked at each other in confusion, unsure of what exactly had happened.
They decided to run outside to check.
Jiang Lan's shelter was quite ordinary—just a few wooden houses joined together in a row.
The front door of the row house led to the Empress's Farm, while the back door was where Lan Qingyou and the others had charged out.
The massive roar had come from that direction.
When the two of them ran out, they were surprised to find that everyone who had charged out earlier, except for Lan Qingyou, was standing by the door, frozen with expressions of shock.
In the distance, a mushroom cloud was rising into the sky.
“What is...”
Jiang Lan turned in bewilderment to ask Chu Yuan, who was also standing there agape.
“Don't look at me. The Tower did it.”
“Where did she get that much destructive power?”
Jiang Lan was dumbfounded.
She knew Lan Qingyou was powerful, but wasn't most of that power supposed to come from her army of golems?
How could one person's attack look like a nuclear explosion?
“No idea. I just saw The Tower fly up into the sky, drop a stone, and then... this happened,” 【The Star】 Ruan Qingyi murmured from the side.
“...”
“If we calculate based on gravity and acceleration...”
【Righteousness】 Riesling, with a cigar clamped in his mouth, frowned as he prepared to say something that completely clashed with his appearance, but he was immediately interrupted by 【The Sun】 Ingrid.
“Stop calculating. I wouldn't understand those technical terms anyway. Just say something we can all understand.”
“...It’s significantly weaker than an atomic bomb, but stronger than a conventional bomb. Can you understand that?”
Riesling, annoyed by Ingrid’s retort, grumbled back.
“Got it.”
Gu Xiaobei raised her hand, which effectively shut Riesling up.
And so, the group stood there in a daze, waiting until the dust and smoke finally cleared to see what had happened on the field.
Actually, they didn't even need to see clearly to know the result.
There were very few people who could remain in one piece after being hit by a stone falling from the sky like a meteorite.
Forget others—even among the elite transmigrators from Blue Star present, those who were confident they could tank that and remain unscathed were few and far into the single digits.
“Holy crap, when did The Tower become so violent?”
“There’s zero aesthetic sense. She’s lost that elegant composure she used to have.”
“Hey, she never claimed to be elegant or composed.”
“You know what I mean. This is a complete change in style. If I didn't know how strong her spirit was, I’d think she’d been possessed.”
“Possessed? Like those stories? ‘Transmigrated: Possessing the Origin Witch at the Start’?”
“Haha, you’re hilarious.”
“Wait, someone’s still standing there!”
【The Moon】 Shang Chuan shouted, pointing into the distance where a black silhouette was appearing in the thinning dust, instantly shattering the relaxed atmosphere.
“No way?”
The group, who had been joking around, all turned their heads to look. Sure enough, they saw a dark figure.
“There is someone. And looking at the proportions, they don't seem to be standing on the ground.”
“Holy crap, is he on a horse?”
“What! That arrogant?”
“Sky-pointing ponytail, leather armor, long blade—that’s him! The guy from the divination!”
When the dust settled completely and everyone saw the dark figure's attire and appearance, they all cried out in shock.
But amidst the chorus of shock, there was a different kind of sound.
“Holy hell, that’s my damn horse!!!”
It was the enraged roar of 【Lovers】 Frenna.
With that one scream, she successfully drew everyone’s eyes to her.
“I used to breed monsters! That horse is a first-generation Four-eyed Long-eared Horse that I spent six months crossbreeding from a Four-eyed Brute and a Long-eared Motu! Not only are its bones and muscles well-developed and its mouth a healthy, bright red, but it’s also incredibly handsome!”
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