Chapter 260: Spirit Of The Lake
They found the island by its glow, well before the mana detector pointed the way.
It was well past midnight when they made landfall, leaving Terry at the boat.
"She has to be here," Kordia declared.
"How can you tell?" Kir asked. It wasn’t the first island they’d searched with a mysterious glow, though to be fair the last island only glowed because of its lighthouse, which Kir didn’t recognize as such due to the fact it sent a pillar of light straight up instead of horizontally. But there was no such structure here.
"I can feel it," she said. "Can’t you?"
"I can see more mana in the air here... But aside from that... No wait... It almost feels like a dungeon," Kir said. Was his ability to interpret ambient mana warped by his time in a dungeon?
"This is nothing like a dungeon. We entered its domain a few measures back... How can you not feel it?"
"I don’t know," Kir admitted. "I’ve never really had a reason to study spirits before."
"Your moms surely told you something about them..."
"Yeah, they told me not to mess with them. And I never heard anything about them coming near my village."
"They don’t typically approach places with large groups of people. If a spirit wandered anywhere near a settlement, it would have to be because angry or forced out by something else... When that happens, people typically try to trap or hunt them."