Supreme Magus novel Chapter 808

Chapter 808 Laruel Part 2

"Their victims retain their physical strength during the day, so we can already rule out all the undead that would be harmed by exposure to the sun. Sadly, it doesn’t narrow the research enough.

"Even if they belonged to an undead who is paralyzed during the day, we have no idea how Jiera’s plague altered its metabolism. Maybe the tissues are still, but the organisms carrying them are not undead and allow the infection to spread even during the day." Kalla said.

"Then what are we doing here?" Friya asked. "Wouldn’t be better to get back at night, when all kinds of undead can freely move around?"

"We’re doing research, child. If we find out that no undead matching the energy signature we are looking for is outside during the day, it means that they probably can’t move.

"Also, this is the perfect time to look for Erlik. Draugr can’t move as long as the sun is up, no matter if it’s covered by clouds or leaves. If we find him, he can’t escape."

"What makes you think that we can succeed where even Leannan’s network of spies and constables failed?" Phloria asked.

"Plants folks are too obsessed with power to mind the small details, while you humans are helpless without your toys. Us beasts are natural hunters, and hybrids like me have many aces up their sleeves." Kalla grinned, winking at Lith, who would have loved to share her optimism.

Sure, they had Life Vision, something that non-Awakened could only dream of, but the magical aura of the place was overwhelming to the point that even Solus’s mana sense was foggy at best.

They needed to get really close to a treehouse to see past its shrouding and with all the sweet scents lingering in the air, Lith’s nose was already jammed. Yet Kalla was right. Among the plant folks, there were undead spying on them.

’Sorry. I don’t recognize their energy signature, which means none of them is the one who spawned the disease nor do they belong to the same undead kin.’ Solus said.

They had already put all the books about undead they had inside Soluspedia after their first squabble with the famished creatures in the Rothar forest, but that didn’t allow Solus to recognize an unknown type of greater undead just by looking at their blood core.

Lith had met very few undead in the past, like Liches, a banshee, and a couple of vampires. Whatever the things watching at them were, he had no clue what they were capable of.

While Lith and Kalla looked carefully around themselves, with their eyes glowing because of Life Vision, Phloria focused on the details of the scenery and the crowd, looking for anything out of place.

The first thing she noticed was that she wouldn’t expect more hostility from the locals even if they were there to conquer the city rather than save it. She was wearing her acorn on her chest as if it was a badge, yet the glares she received were spiteful at best.

The second thing she noticed was the absence of children. It wasn’t just that, except for those watching at the group from behind their windows and those loitering, the streets looked deserted.

Phloria couldn’t hear a child cry, laugh, or any noise related to the presence of someone who wasn’t an adult. She had studied plant folks at the academy, but she had never met many of them before.

Treantlings were humanoids who looked like trees, with bark instead of skin, leaves instead of hair on their head, and both had different shades of colors just like it happened for human hair.