Chapter: 636
There was even one group which travelled in a stone house which somehow sat on top of a large, rolling boulder.
Still, Vanderby was smiling, as he had a better chance than all of them, and that was due to one person: Estra.
Estra’s class was unusual to say the least. After it was discovered by the local adventurer guild, she was locked away, but after some discussion and a few interviews, they came to the conclusion that she wasn’t dangerous enough to be classified as a variant.
After a few days passed, she left the guild, still as a level one – but by then, she was simply too far behind, and with her unusual abilities no one would bring her into their party; she was dead weight.
Her only option was to join these two. Coincidentally, her only ability, which was useless in dungeons was quite practical in the real world; of course, she had gained more abilities since levelling up.
As for the ability which would help them find Jay?
<[Heart Trace]>
[- You miss your beloved; you long for their embrace and to listen for their heartbeats once more.]
[- Requirements not met.]
As for the requirements, she already found that out the day after receiving the skill – she merely had to sleep in the bed of her ‘lover’, though this could be any bed at all.
When she woke up, she would have a list of names to choose from – those whom she could choose to heart trace.
After that, all she needed was some quiet, and she would be able to hear a gentle heartbeat in whatever direction her ‘lover’ was in.
Still, she would need to sleep in Jay’s bed for this to work, and first they would have to get to Losla.
A few times, this skill revealed some more opportunities as well, such as when a name of a ‘righteous’ young noble’s name would appear in the bed of an ‘entertainment’ house.
This strange skill was their edge over others – others who would have to rely on information gathering, basic tracking skills and either heat, life or blood-based mana pulses.
All of which were time consuming and tiring.
The mage hunters used the latter, relying on the variants body warmth, life energy or blood, revealing anything with either of these on a spell-linked map.
However, it had its drawbacks, as these couldn’t distinguish between human, monster or animal alike, and in the wild Loslan forests which were brimming with life, there would be thousands of signals to track.
This also required a specific magic type, and in Lieutenant Marsh’s small party there were not any men who even had much skill with magic. They were low ranking soldiers who had melee classes. Most of them only used mana to power their armour.
The mage hunters armour shielded them from such tracking, however the approaching hoards of adventurers and bounty hunters coming to search the forests would only make the forests fill up with even more signs of life, making tracking more difficult.
Thankfully they didn’t have to execute anyone, but could simply mark off a signal from their map once they realized it was a person or harmless animal.
~Losla~
Losla was still locked down as the mage hunters conducted their door to door search.
No one could stop them – not only due to the authority of the mage hunters, but physically were much stronger, and if anyone tried to resist it would result in an instant execution.
A few knocks on the door and one would have to open it, otherwise the door would be smashed to pieces; the mage hunters were simply uncompromising in their duties.