Chapter 436 - A Fourth Person Appeared (1/2)

Chapter 436: A Fourth Person Appeared

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

He circled the Neanderthal girl many times. When his search proximity reached 100 feet, he still couldn’t find any trace of the Yabba.

The Yabba had appeared out of thin air and then vanished.

She must have used some portal spell. Link checked the surrounding air but didn’t find anything.

This wasn’t surprising. The event had happened at least one day ago, but the Void’s aura was very heavy here, and the space was extremely unstable. Anything left behind would have been erased by the chaotic circumstances.

Link returned to the Neanderthal girl and checked her injuries.

Broken bones, chewed clothing and accessories. This must be some powerful force field spell. While looking, Link’s gaze fell on a fist-sized rock below the corpse.

The rock was soft mudstone. An average person could break it with their hands. One side was normal, but the other side had a finger-sized scrape. The mark was very smooth and could clearly reflect one’s image like a mirror. One needed very mature and condensed spatial energy to create this effect on mudstone.

This Yabba is a Spatial Magician. From the looks of things, she’s at least Level-9, Link realized.

Spatial Magicians were rare in Firuman, but they still existed. In addition, most Spatial Magicians looked at the world differently than regular people. To them, there were no restrictions. Even different realms weren’t restricted.

As a Spatial Magician continued growing, they would generally turn into a Hermit Magician. They chose to live in isolation, cut off from the world to avoid all the complications.

This Yabba Magician was probably like this too. Otherwise, the Yabba wouldn’t have appeared when Lirico City was in danger.

He searched for a bit more but didn’t find anything else.

Link started retreating carefully and went to meet up with Magician Gaimin. Halfway there, he saw the dwarf. He seemed to be in a hurry to find Link. After seeing him, Gaimin immediately called, “Master Link, come with me. I found something.”

Link’s heart jumped, and he caught up. “What did you see?”

“A Yabba woman’s corpse. It looks bad.” Gaimin shook his head as he spoke. “I’ve never seen such a horrible death.”

The two bypassed the dark shadow and walked around 1500 feet to the location of the corpse.

Link looked at the body and his temples pulsed. It was a Yabba woman, around three feet tall. She was tall for a Yabba. Her clothes were all gone, and she was completely nude. Her skin had cracked apart, as well as her muscles and flesh. Her skin looked loose and flaccid.

This injury made the Yabba look as if someone had pumped air into the body. She swelled like a balloon. After her skin exploded, the air inside escaped, and she turned into this limp and shattered state.

“I don’t know what happened, but from her contours, she’s different from the Yabba I’ve seen before. She’s stronger and has strange characteristics. Look here, here, and here. There are dense, dark-red scales.”

Gaimin squatted and prodded the corpse with a stick. There were red scales on the Yabba woman’s private spots.

Link studied them and concluded, “They’re dragon scales.”

The scales had advanced resilience to magic, and the patterns on the surface were natural runes. Only dragon scales were like this in Firuman.

He opened the Yabba’s tightly shut eyes and saw her pupils were vertical slits and crystal-red in color. “She should be a half-dragon, the product of crossing Yabba and dragon blood.”

Gaimin shrugged in confusion. “But Yabbas are so small. Even if dragons transform into a humanoid shape, there’s still a limit. They’re usually over six feet tall. How can such a big thing get into such a small hole?”

Link shrugged too. “Maybe it’s a small thing inside a big hole?”

“Uh… That…” Gaimin tugged at his beard. “That’s probably really interesting.”

Link moved on from that weird topic. He squatted and continued studying the Yabba’s body. After a few minutes, he found another inexplicable detail. “She probably was a Magician. Look at her hand. There’s a small mark from being burned by focused Mana from a wand… but the problem is, I found another trace of the Yabbas over there. That Yabba used spatial magic to kill a Neanderthal. Comparing these two signs, it seems to be the same person.”