Church’s Partner (3)
Artis was speechless when Ryu Han-bin said he had a Tracking Skill.
“No, you’ve been using the Guidelines for over 20 years, and you never knew it has that feature?”
“There was nothing to track down on the Rocky Mountain.”
Tracking was the act of clearly setting the target and following it.
He never had to track down Demon Dogs. He just had to search for them a little bit.
“After I fell into this world, I had nothing to chase after.”
“Well, try it now.”
Ryu Han-bin concentrated his mind.
The message in the Guidelines had changed.
[Please specify the remains or the body part of the target to be tracked.]
“The remains or body part of the target to be tracked… It looks like we need something like hair or blood.”
“That’s the same as the Spiritist’s tracer.”
Convinced, Artis nodded.
Han-bin felt a little embarrassed.
“But where can we even get their blood?”
“Let’s go back to the village. They must have bled somewhere.”
* * *
Watching Ryu Han-bin and Artis return, the surviving villagers fell into even deeper despair.
“Have they given up?”
“How can those great Hunters spend days doing nothing? They must have checked the empty quarters and quit right away!”
“But it’s too early to give up! I thought they would at least pretend to go through the mountains for a day.”
The villagers whispered among themselves, but Han-bin could hear every word they said.
With a hardened look, he tapped Artis on the side.
‘Do something.’
Currently, Ryu Han-bin was disguised as a Valtara warrior, so it’s up to Artis to deal with people.
‘I know.’
Standing in front of the villagers, Artis began to speak.
“We’re not giving up the search. We just need a magic catalyst to track them down. Do you have any weapons with the blood of the bandits?”
Hope came back to the villagers’ faces.
“Ah, we have what you need!”
An elderly woman quickly came forward with a broken spear blade.
A vigilante young man managed to stab a bandit in the arm before being killed, leaving blood on the edge of the spear.
The woman cried out as she held out the spear tip.
“Can you find them with this? Can you save my daughter?”
“I cannot give you a definite answer.”
As he tried to respond objectively, Artis took the spear.
The woman wiped away her tears.
“Sob-sob, Smith, maybe your courage can save your sister…”
Still, it was comforting to know that the bandits didn’t kill her son.
Watching the woman cry made their hearts ache. Ryu Han-bin and Artis left the village hastily.
Going back the same way to the bandit’s house, Han-bin sighed deeply.
“Oh, this is really frustrating. I think I’m going to go crazy.”
“Calm down. Our top priority is to hunt them down.”
Artis handed the bloody spear tip to Han-bin.
“Try tracking it.”
“Yeah.”
After peeling off the dried blood off the spear blade, Ryu Han-bin activated the Guidelines.
[Start tracking the target.]
[Track Target: Human]
A stick made out of pure light appeared in front of Han-bin.
It stood upright in the air for a few moments, then fell to one side.
After a while, it disappeared.
“… What was that? Was that all?”
[The target’s location is somewhere in the direction the stick pointed to.]
“Are you kidding me?”
Speechless, Han-bin was struck with astonishment.
Artis felt a little curious.
“What happened?”
In his eyes, neither the stick of light nor the message of the Guidelines was visible.
Ryu Han-bin briefly explained the situation.
“It’s just something like a shining stick that falls to one side, and that’s all?”
Surprisingly, Artis understood.
“I’m sure that tracking function also came from Latna’s tracking technique like the search function or the level measurement function.”
Based on the way Artis talked, it seemed that the original Spiritist’s tracer operated similarly.
If they activated the tracking technique and placed the light wand on the ground, it would fall to the side where the target was located, giving the Spiritist an approximate direction.
However, the direction it could fall towards was only limited to the east, west, north, and south.
Even if they were to follow the direction the stick fell towards, they weren’t guaranteed to find the target.
Han-bin was dumbfounded.
“This is completely out of date! You call this a tracer?”
It was almost as superstitious as spitting on the ground or throwing one’s shoes up in the air and seeing where it landed.
Even Artis, a native of Latna, seemed to agree that the Spiritist’s tracer seemed insignificant.
“It’s not efficient, but that doesn’t mean the result is wrong.”
Before the tracking spell, they didn’t even have a small lead to follow.
The rough direction alone was already extremely useful.
“Anyway, you mean we’ll find them if we go this way?”
Ryu Han-bin clenched his fist.
“Let’s go!”
* * *
After a long run, they still couldn’t find the bandits’ hideout.
Han-bin frowned.
“What happened? Is there something wrong with the tracer?”
The stick’s direction wasn’t reliable.
Artis shook his head.
“I don’t think it’s wrong. Tracers only give you a rough idea of where the target is.”
When a Spiritist was chasing after someone, he would frequently reuse the tracking technique as he moved.
It continued to infer the direction and improved accuracy.
“But Han-bin, you can only use it once every 6 hours, so it’s very inconvenient.”
“Tsk, It should just let me use the function without any restriction.”
“I think it’s only right to put restrictions on the many functions of the Guidelines.”
The Guidelines’ had so many functions that Ryu Han-bin, a Warrior, could use tracking techniques.
Similarly, even though he wasn’t a Mage, he could use much more advanced measurement magic.
“The Guidelines have too many amazing functions. It can’t be without limits.”
If there were no limits in the Guidelines’ functions, there would have been no need to raise Aliens from Level 1.
They could just put all the necessary techniques in the Guidelines and use all of them right from the beginning.
“I get it, but…”
Biting his lower lip, Ryu Han-bin looked around.
Both mountains and forests surrounded them.
It was the same, no matter where he looked.
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