Chapter 571: Enshrouded
“Any success?” Ihuarah asked after waiting for a while.
“No… The mana here is really too thick, I can hardly perceive anything. Normally I can feel things like a good kilometer or two away if I focus, but here it’s hard to even see what’s in front of me.”
“And the locket is unresponsive,” Ihuarah added, “our best choice might still be to have you get closer and try to feel the essence resonance.”
“I still can’t even feel the essence you have, so that’s a bad start.”
“That is true, but we are starting to lack options. Should we proceed with the preliminary elimination?”
“If only identifying worked… Yeah let’s start taking the obviously wrong ones down. Keeping only Sorrow and Progress rune ones.”
“Certainly,” Ihuarah agreed, and he quickly got to work. Extending his arm several meters, he started grabbing the flying shrouds one by one, precisely plucking them out of the air. Whenever he touched one, it fell to the floor like a lifeless rag.
Sofia observed him work silently, when he was done, about 40% of the shrouds remained, which was still more than a thousand of them, but already a lot better. Out of those, about one out of twenty had a Progress rune while all others had Sorrow’s.
“Just going by the imbalanced quantity, I feel like we can eliminate the Progress ones as well. It is Sorrow’s artifact to begin with, but since it’s a set item with an artifact of Progress…”