The Martial Unity

Chapter 1920 Targeting The Strongest

"What's the game plan?" Kane asked him, glancing around nervously.

"We target groups of monsters or beasts one by one. Then, I scan their memories for the Divine Doctor," Rui replied. "We keep it low-profile, and we should be fine."

Because the region had beasts and animals that could threaten their lives, Rui wanted to be more clinical with how he approached the matter.

He would rather not be crude and haphazard like he was in the Valley of Prisms. This time, he intended to conduct surgical operations of memory scanning while drawing the least amount of attention to himself.

The two of them carefully navigated the Forest of Death. The absence of almost any other color, barring black, was unnerving. They drew so much attention by virtue of being extremely bright-colored in comparison that they activated their misdirection stealth techniques almost subconsciously.

It wasn't long before they arrived at several deer-like creatures grazing on black grass.

"Blackhinds," Rui whispered. "Good. They are docile and herbivorous beasts. On top of that, these are Squire-level. Let's go for them first."

He turned to Kane. "I need you to watch my back and keep an eye on our surroundings while I scan their memories."

Kane nodded as the two of them activated their Martial Hearts. Kane expanded his senses to the surroundings while Rui appeared before the blackhinds in the blink of an eye. Before they could even react—

Sleep.

The world went dark as Soul Void overtook their senses, leaving only Rui—who promptly misdirected them while planting suggestions in their subconscious mind—visible. Instantly, the conscious mind grew dimmer while the subconscious mind grew more active. Before they knew it, the blackhinds were in a semi-conscious state. Of course, Rui still needed to bind them with heaven-bending, for their cognitive capabilities had remained untouched, not reducing in the slightest. They still did everything they would have done otherwise: thrashing and resisting while bleating, except they did so semi-consciously rather than consciously.

Kane kept a sharp eye on their surroundings

the image of the Divine Doctor, now refined from the memories of the catoblepas, before conveying that

they

it to them over and over again, yet they didn't so much as twitch

appearance of the Divine Doctor

due to the fear of the forest being absent for some time, causing their

grew grave. "All the animals who bore witness to the Divine Doctor

They were probably dead.

very vivid memories of the Divine Doctor, the same could not be said for the Forest

solely a temporary exodus, the

information that would tell Rui

Kane

necessarily, but our job has definitely become a lot harder than it was in the Valley of Prisms." Rui heaved a sigh. "We need to

are millions of animals and beasts in this forest. "How can we possibly find the ones who survived the mass extinction caused by the Divine

identify the traits that would predict survival in such a circumstance and then search for beasts with such traits. They are the ones that are the likeliest to have been able to

frowned. "And what traits

would not have gone absolutely batshit insane leading to their deaths. So creatures that are more fearful than others would be far less likely to do the kind of things that

very little innate fear so that when it got amplified by the fear-inducing substances in the air, they would reach normal levels

of innate fear," Rui breathed deeply. "There is one other trait that could help us find who we are

"…Which is?"