Chapter 107 Shadowsigh (1/2)

The first thing Arran did was to take care of his wounded shoulder He rinsed the wound ater, then carefully bandaged it

Although the wound wasn't too bad — for his Essence-enhanced body, at least — he did not want to take even the slightest risk He needed it healed, and he needed it healed fast The region was sierous to be weak

This tied to defeat his attacker But what if a stronger creature showed up? Or what if he stue? Snowcloud had told hi anyone here, but after she blinded him, Arran was reluctant to trust her

Yet all of that was of later concern Right now, there werematters, and the first one was to find out just what he could do using the mist of Shadow Essence he had used to save his life

He took so how far it would allow his The result was soh not unexpected

He quickly discovered that he could spread the mist to a distance of around twenty paces before it became too thin for him to Sense objects within it, but the amount of Essence needed for that meant he could maintain it for just a few minutes

If he limited the mist to a distance less than five paces around him and kept a close watch on the amount of Essence he used, he couldhis Shadow Essence But if he did that, it was little better than being in a pitch-dark forest with only a dim candle

Still, even if it was a far cry from what he was supposed to achieve, it was incomparably better than what he had just a day earlier And not just that — it was a technique of his own, so he had invented by himself

It was so simple that it could hardly even be called a technique, but it allowed his, and it had saved his life For that, he figured it deserved a proper naht, he settled on 'Shadowsight' Though the narand as it could have been, he thought it described the technique well enough

His new technique named, he switched his attention back to the creature he had killed

Using his Shadowsight without the distraction of battle, he could now tell that it was definitely a bear, but one that was so e it seemed like an entirely different species

For a e, and he was reo At the tierated when he said he had battled a bear the size of a sht have been true

The bear he had just killed wasn't anywhere near as large as the one Lord Jiang had mentioned, but then, it probably wasn't anywhere near as strong, either

He frowned as he considered the possibility of anier as they absorbed row if that was the case Would there be ani the thought of mountain-sized beasts aside, he turned his attention back to the dead bear in front of him As he did, he could not help but think about the final part of Lord Jiang's story — killing and eating the bear