Chapter 897 (1/2)

Chapter 897: Friendly Fire

Before the underwater capacitor package mechanos spirits exploded,

above the sea surface of Subsea Area No.18.

Lonco and his two companions were still in an invisibility state.

“This appears to be some extraordinary artifact disguised by magic,” Benjamin Jelani said, staring at the magic screen before him.

The magic screen created by Clint “Windhawk” had breached the illusionary disguise of the Queen’s Barrier and to some extent, exposed the ‘Mental Illusion’ that Noland Lee had cast over the mechanos.

Out of the 1500 mechanos, Clint “Windhawk” had uncovered a few dozen.

They appeared on Clint “Windhawk’s” magic screen as blurry tiny white dots.

“Clint, can you detect the specific forms of these little things?” Benjamin asked.

“No.”

Clint “Windhawk” shook his head and responded in a hoarse voice:

“The spell disguising them left no energy fluctuation in the physical medium.”

Benjamin mused as he spoke:

“There are very few types of magic energy that do not propagate through a physical medium, mental energy being the most typical. The spell controlling and protecting these little things must be mental magic, and of the saint tier, at that.”

Benjamin looked toward Lonco who was intently watching the magic screen:

“I remember you saying that Noland Lee Jarvis has achieved a saint position in mental magic, right?”

“Yes, Your Excellency,” Lonco said respectfully:

“I have witnessed Noland Lee Jarvis’s methods. He should have mastered one to three saint-level mental magic spells. But he only presents himself as a First Rank Wizard openly, so I maintain doubts about whether he is hiding his true strength.”

“Who determined he was a First Rank Wizard?” Benjamin asked.

Lonco thought for a moment and said:

“His lecturer professor Erica Claudia, as well as my sister Selena, both confirmed him as a First Rank Wizard.

“The Deep Sea Branch also used a detection spell to test Noland Lee Jarvis’s level. The feedback from the detection spell showed that he indeed is a First Rank Wizard.”

Lonco paused for half a second before venturing his guess:

“I suspect that Noland Lee Jarvis used mental magic to interfere with the detection spell’s results.”

But Benjamin simply waved his hand and said:

“Impossible. The ‘Wizard Level Detection Technique’ has already been included in the Ascension Fortress. It possesses the feature ‘Immune to Interference.’ No spell can affect its detection results. However, this does not mean that Noland Lee Jarvis is indeed a First Rank Wizard.”

“What do you mean?” Lonco asked, somewhat confused.

If the ‘Wizard Level Detection Technique’ couldn’t be interfered with, then the detection results must be accurate.

Furthermore, didn’t that mean Noland Lee Jarvis is a First Rank Wizard?

But how could Benjamin then suggest that Noland Lee Jarvis might not necessarily be a First Rank Wizard…

“You don’t need to know too much, Lonco.”