Pillar of Yita

”One, two, three... thirteen,” Fang Hong adjusted the brass ring on his wind goggles with a click, counting carefully amidst the snowstorm—like counting ducks, not potential opponents, ”...excluding that Alchemist, there are twelve.”

A thousand meters away, the Clockwork Fairy hovered steadily in the cold wind, snowflakes landing on the visual transmission crystal, melting one by one. Fang Hong counted the opponents clearly before ordering it to move closer, but just then, someone dressed as a Magic Guided Conductor turned their head in this direction in his field of vision.

Lightning seemed to flash through Fang Hong’s mind, he suddenly stopped, and the Clockwork Fairy made a sharp halt in mid-air.

”What is it?” Sophie noticed the change in his expression.

”Interesting.”

Fang Hong couldn’t help but smile—the Construct Detection Magic, in the 22nd century, there’s still someone using this ancient spell. Although its comprehensive detection method is obviously advantageous, its shortcomings are hard to ignore.

The distance is too close.

It has some effect against Combat Artisans below Level 20, but it’s difficult to work against opponents with higher calculative power—after the ’Battle of Innovation,’ real high-end Magic Guided Conductors have started using the ’Eye of Omniscience’ to deal with the ubiquitous ranged scouting abilities of Combat Artisans.

Though finding opponents through visual means is primitive, it can sometimes be exceptionally effective, requiring the Magic Guided Conductor to have excellent spell control abilities. Otherwise, once caught up in competing with a Combat Artisan in multi-line operations capabilities, it’s essentially akin to waiting for death.

After watching many confrontations between masters, he didn’t expect to encounter a truly retro style here.

”How do you plan to respond?” Sophie asked him on the side. She naturally had her ideas, as the Captain of the Silver Weslan Elite Youth Training Group, her field response would likely be more calm and swift than Fang Hong’s.

But firstly, at least, this isn’t within her team, and the current ranged scouting capabilities rely solely on Fang Hong, and the information she has is far less sufficient than his—in the absence of adequate information, she wouldn’t make conclusions lightly.

She curiously glanced at Hilveld, the beautiful Miss Ship’s Officer, who seemed confident and composed, arousing her suspicion. Is this guy really that trustworthy?

Fang Hong didn’t answer immediately. He just turned to look back, seeing only a snowstorm, yet as if something behind the snow captured his gaze, he looked for a while before turning back.

Detection Construct Spell.

This is a rather targeted spell, almost designed specifically to deal with Combat Artisans. Though somewhat outdated, its essence remains unchanged. He glanced through the Clockwork Fairy’s vision at the Alchemist—his intentions and targeting are quite apparent.

But he still did not issue a direct command, only asked: ”Mr. Greyrock is still in the Valley, right?”

The others all nodded.

...

”What’s up?” At the same time, Dark Fairy Tale was also asking the magician in the team—though the person seemed somewhat obtrusive to him.

Yin Shi looked into the snowy wind once and shook his head, answering: ”Nothing.”

Detection Magic sensed something at extreme distance momentarily, but beyond three hundred meters, the spell isn’t as reliable as people imagine, thanks to magic power disturbance, false reports are frequent—

He didn’t realize his actions had exposed his spell, and without continuing to capture the signal in the sensing, subconscious believed it was a false report again.

Of course, out of caution, he still cast a ’Surpass Vision’ spell in that direction—yet this spell is far from the ’Eye of Omniscience’ of high-rank Magic Guided Conductors, returned visual info was brief and unstable, lasting only a moment.

It just allowed him to miss a cautious golden light slipping past the edge of the snowstorm.

Yin Shi steadied his mind, carefully withdrew the spell, and then checked his remaining mana value, which is undoubtedly a good habit an excellent Magic Guided Conductor must develop.

In Eteliria, learning to calculate mana is the first step into the professional Magic Guided Conductor domain.

But here, spells often don’t have fixed consumption, influenced by casting duration, environment, Ether distribution, and opposing attributes, even native Magic Guided Conductors experienced for years can’t always accurately grasp it, let alone them?

So for ’newcomers,’ learning to focus on their Magic Guided Reactor is the primary task.

Caution is the first step to becoming a Magic Guided Conductor.

”Are you a bit nervous?”

Dark Fairy Tale looked at him with a teasing smile.

Yin Shi knew the other was mocking him, but he only shook his head, ”Just the magic power disturbance is too obvious, a bit distracted.”

”Think someone could escape the surveillance of detection magic, at our level?” The young ranger took his longbow from his back, laughed a little: ”Don’t be paranoid and scare yourself, Yin Shi.”

”Better safe than sorry.”

”Is that another motto of you Magic Guided Conductors?”

Yin Shi clenched his fist, looking at this guy.

Privately, he also felt he was making a mountain out of a molehill; indeed, he had learned many things—caution is not the same as indecision. He had already cast ’Surpass Vision’ in that direction, as a Magic Guided Conductor. He should learn to trust his spells.

Could it possibly be a Flexible Construct, avoiding his vision spell’s range?

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