Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

After leaving her room, Weiss perfectly hid her presence and left the Skepa castle from a window of the third floor.

Then while she was in the middle of the air, she coated her body with ancient force and increased her falling speed by a huge margin by pulling herself downward and making her body heavy using the super versatile ancient force.

But just when she was about to hit the ground, she suddenly killed all her momentum by pulling herself upward and making her body to be lighter. This way, she was able to land on the ground of the Skepa garden very quickly, perfectly safely and without making any sounds.

Then while keeping her body her light and hiding her presence, Weiss also started to use the Fleet Footed steps to leave the Skepa Castle’s garden and came outside of it.

After coming out, Weiss hid herself inside a thick and large bush and started to use a new technique that so far only she had been able to master. Even another talented genius knight like Elise had not managed to learn this technique so far.

Weiss refined her ancient force again and again. This way, slowly, she turned them into thin threads. After that, the threads spread out everywhere and connected to anyone and everyone that it came across.

This thread made of ancient energy was undetectable to anyone who was not a grand knight. So no one who was marked with it were able to detect the presence of this thread.

The reason why Weiss was doing this was simple. Even though she was able to sense the presence of many men who were definitely here to keep an eyes on the Skepa castle and report about what was happening here, there were no way for Weiss to know actually how these men looked because she was just sensing their life force.

Not just that but if they went outside of her current sensing range, even Weiss would not be able to continue tracking them anymore. Even though her range was rather large, it was not infinite by any means.

But now that they had been marked with her ancient force, Weiss had almost gotten rid of this limitation. Even though this marking did not give her unlimited tracking capabilities, it actually increased her sensing range by 10 times of her usual range, which was enough to cover almost all of the Skepa territory.

After she was done doing this, Weiss relaxed. She needed to focus very hard while using this technique and it was actually quite energy consuming and tiring even for someone like her.

But this small disadvantage was nothing in front of the huge amount of advantages that this technique provided. So Weiss was quite satisfied with this self created technique of hers.

This marking was the main task that Weiss needed to do and why she had came out of the castle at this hour. And now that she was done with it, she was free to investigate anything that she wanted at her own pace.

There were a lot of spies from quite a few orginisations present in the vicinity of the Skepa castle. Not just from the big three orginisations mentioned before, but even many smaller orginisations had sent people here and were keeping an close eye on the house of the noble lord of the territory.

For the time being, Weiss did not plan to capture anyone or interrogated them. She first wanted to use these men to find out all the head quarters and hide outs that these orginisations had in the Skepa territory and how many members were working for them.

Only after getting all this information, would Weiss make her final plans. If she wanted to get the best possible outcome for herself, then she obviously needed to have a huge amount of information to plan everything out.

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So for a little bit more, she continued to sneak around and scout the castle. She easily manage to discover many loopholes in the security of the mansion.

Even though the Skepa household was her friend and an ally for the time being, there was no saying when they might start to clash for one reason or another.

So there was no harm in scouting out some of the weaknesses of this place. In the future, if the relationship between her and the Skepa family became even better, then she could help them out in mending these flaws as a gesture of goodwill.

After doing this for about an hour, Weiss went back inside the Skepa castle. The same way as before, she made her body to be light and made a super fast and super high jump by combining both her ancient force boosted jumping and upward pulling. This way, she had no trouble in returning back to her room without being noticed by anyone.

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As Weiss returned back, all the maids present in the room and Elise bowed to her again. Weiss made a gesture with her hand to make them to get up and started explaining the situation to the ladies here.

When she was returning back, many of the spies had started to returned back to their bases too.

As soon as the security of the castle seemed to increase and no major incident was seen, it became clear that the plan had failed. The assasins had not been able to kill anyone.

Realising this, the spies stationed outside immediately left in order to tell their superiors about this disappointing news.

And now Weiss just needed to continue tracking them and as soon as any of them came before their bosses or superiors, Weiss’s ancient force thread would connect to that person too and would make them a target of Weiss’s tracking too.

So now, Weiss just needed to wait. By the morning of the next day, most of the members and hideouts of the orginisation should already be marked by her ancient force thread. Then Weiss could start working on her next plans.