Beast Taming Patrol

Immediately, it closed its eyes, fully concentrating on observing the inside of the cave through its clone's senses.

Inside the cave, the clone slowly infiltrated along the enveloping shadows, carefully heading deeper.

Compared to the Fear Demon Statues residing in the depths of the cave, it still had some advantages.

The Fear Demon Statue was not dark-type, merely spirit-type.

In this pitch-black darkness, it had the advantage of terrain.

Soon, controlled by the ghost, the clone moving rapidly through the Shadow Space and observing the outside slowed down.

It had already seen the Fear Demon Statue.

The first to enter its range of observation was a Fear Demon statue the length of an arm, which was writhing its grotesque tentacles, clinging to the cave's inner wall, drawing supernatural energy from the dim cave as nourishment for its growth, completely unaware of the clone's approach.

That was just a juvenile-stage Fear Demon Statue. Your next journey awaits at empire

After observing for a few seconds from within the Shadow Space, the clone did not linger but continued further in.

As the ghost went deeper, the interior of the cave became wider, and more Fear Demon Statues started to appear.

Initially, there were a few juvenile-stage statues, but soon, elite-stage Fear Demon Statues, standing one meter tall, emerged.

The clone's movements became more cautious.

The elite-stage Fear Demon Statue was now of the same rank as itself, and it was hard to say whether it could detect it.

As the clone slowly approached, the elite-stage Fear Demon Statue momentarily paused its movement.

However, it only felt something was off and did not discern the source of the irregularity, so it quickly resumed the writhing and retracting of its tentacles.

The ghost slightly relaxed, continuing to control the clone stealthily circling around the elite-stage Fear Demon Statue towards the deeper areas.

Now it seemed that the elite-stage Fear Demon Statues could sense something was amiss, but that was all; they could not pinpoint the ghost's exact location.

It only needed to be a bit more careful and slightly circumvent to avoid the elite-stage Fear Demon Statue's detection.

While cautiously taking detours, more and more Fear Demon Statues appeared in the clone's view.

Juvenile-stage, elite-stage.

The habitats of the Fear Demon Statues seemed to have become denser.

The clone stopped at a distance; meanwhile, outside, the ghost quickly opened its eyes and informed Lin Su of the situation it had just seen.

"Very good," Lin Su nodded slightly, his expression somewhat relaxed after knowing that the elite-stage Fear Demon Statues could not detect the ghost, "The habitats of the Fear Demon Statues have become denser, which indicates that we will soon see the core of the nest."

If things went as expected, the overlord-stage Fear Demon Statues and possibly the monarch-stage Fear Demon Statues lived together.

So, as long as they entered that core area, the ghost could quickly investigate the strength distribution of the others.

"Approach carefully and try to test how far their detection range is," Lin Su instructed in a low voice, and the ghost rapidly nodded in understanding before closing its eyes again.

In the cave, the previously halted clone moved again.

It slowed down to the minimum, inching toward the direction where the Fear Demon Statues were becoming denser, step by step approaching the very core area of their nest.

At last, at the end of its line of sight, the ghost saw a figure clearly taller than the elite-stage Fear Demon Statues, standing two meters tall.

Overlord-stage Fear Demon Statue!

It was about to continue approaching to see how many overlord-stage and monarch-stage beings were in that area when, at that moment, a scarlet eye suddenly emerged from the gaps between countless tentacles behind the Fear Demon Statue.

Fear Demon Statue Talent Skills, Fear Gaze!

That scarlet eye became the last image seen by the ghost's controlled clone.

The clone, shattered.

"Hee, hee... (⊙▂⊙)" (I just saw an overlord-stage, and the clone shattered...)

The ghost opened its eyes, a hint of frustration on its face as it spoke.

"It's all right." Lin Su rubbed the ghost's cap, soothing its spirits, "It's only the first time, and you did very well. We have ascertained the general location of the nest's core area, so it was not without gains."

His expression was somewhat grave.

Could the ghost see the opponents from the distance they could detect the ghost?

This was not good news.

Moreover, with this incident, the Fear Demon Statue that had just attacked would definitely become more vigilant, and the next reconnaissance could be even harder.

"What do we do next?" Lin Su looked at the others, relayed the findings of the ghost's investigation, and then asked.

"Captain, my pet beast specifically learned Earthquake Wave last night for the assessment task, but has only just grasped it," Ye Han hesitated for a moment, pushed his glasses up quickly, and spoke, "If it can be used, my pet beast can also contribute."

Earth-type teaching skills, Earthquake Wave.

This skill is similar to the wood-type teaching skill Grass and Wood Probe and is a detection-type skill.

It works like a bat's echolocation, using the delicate vibrations reflected by the earth to probe some underground conditions.

However, the problem is, a newly learned Earthquake Wave can only roughly sense things like a cave's depth and shape, and cannot even detect the smaller creatures living inside the cave.

If not handled properly, not only might it fail to probe the situation, but it might also attract the attention of the creatures inside the cave when releasing the Earthquake Wave.