Chapter 164
Chapter 164: The female alchemist
They changed rooms and switched into one of the rooms on the other side of the artificial mountain in the yard. From this room, they could look directly into Belinda’s room through the window.
Candice seemed to be discussing something with Belinda upon returning as she stayed within the room and didn’t come out. The other mercenaries were arranged in the rooms on either side of Belinda’s.
The three people who had followed Belinda were given rooms neighboring Han Shuo and Emily’s room. Thanks to a magical mirror, they could directly observe the three’s movements.
The trio looked like nondescript, ordinary featured men. They actually looked quite similar and could have been three brothers. One of them leaned against the window and kept an eye on Belinda after moving into the room, whereas the other two fell into a deep sleep on the bed, likely because they were too fatigued.
It was still daylight, so the two groups of people made no moves, maintaining a calm, peaceful situation. Han Shuo observed them for a while and noticed that both sides were doing nothing out of the ordinary. He returned to Emily’s side and thought for a moment, “Keep an eye on the situation for me. I’m going to make a trip to the cemetery of death to check on things.”
“Hmm? Why do you suddenly want to go back to the cemetery of death?” Emily was a bit surprised by Han Shuo’s decision and stared at him with a questioning gaze.
Smiling mysteriously, Han Shuo said, “I recently took in a follower and want to see if his injuries have healed yet.”
Han Shuo had already moved further into the room and ripped up the wooden panels of the closet, setting up the transportation matrix inside. Emily was long since used to Han Shuo’s mysteriousness by now and didn’t ask much when she saw that he was about to leave. She said, “Alright, I’ll stay here and observe them. I’ll go over and pull you back if anything happens, so you’d best not stray too far from the cemetery of death.”
“Mm, don’t worry, I’ll stay within the cemetery. You can come find me anytime if there’s anything out of the ordinary.” Han Shuo responded and stood within the matrix, closing the doors to activate it.
The cemetery of death was once hallowed ground for necromancers, and the green Eye of Darkness was the key to opening the cemetery of death. The white bone staff could enhance necromancy magics and although its function was different from the Eye, they were both items of necromancy. Han Shuo held the two in his hand and weighed them up, trying to see if there were any commonalities between the two.
Han Shuo couldn’t help but focus his attention on the two items in his hand. The Eye of Darkness suddenly lit up and shot out green light, resulting in a surge of strength entering the white bone staff. A trace of black light suddenly shot out of the white bone staff and instantly sank into the Eye of Darkness.
Shocked, Han Shuo originally paid no attention to the Eye of Darkness and set his concentration on the white bone staff. He originally hadn’t sensed anything out of the ordinary from the white bone staff, but suddenly discovered that there was a small magical formation within it.
“Ah, it’s a boundary formation that acts as a magical brand, no wonder Belinda could sense the white bone staff.” Han Shuo suddenly realized what had happened when his concentration made a round through the staff.
There was a type of boundary that acted as a magical brand in Clarendon’s memories and could be placed on weapons and clothes. It usually existed in the formation of a magical formation. The owner of the magical brand would be able to sense the existence of his brand within a certain existence.
So it turned out that such a magical brand existed within the white bone staff. There were traces of magic left within the staff that had not only blocked Han Shuo’s mental exploration and alerted Belinda of its existence.
Perhaps it was the Eye of Darkness absorbing the residual magic within the white bone staff, causing the magical brand formation to collapse from lack of energy, but this allowed Han Shuo to take a peek at the situation inside.
Han Shuo’s concentration sank thoroughly inside and discovered a small line of text within the formation — Work 17 from Alchemist Belinda of the Calamity Church. “The Calamity Church alright.” Han Shuo said lowly and didn’t plan on remaining within the cemetery of death. He reemerged on the ground and went back to the hotel, planning on coming up with a good strategy to take care of Belinda.