Dominion (Part 2)

Yin Le followed Ronan's instructions, sitting upright with her hands folded over her knees and her eyes closed. Once the outside light was reduced to a faint reddish glow through her eyelids, the bright colors from over three thousand kilometers away swiftly flooded past the boundaries of her own perception.

No, this was not the true scenery of the wilderness. It was a gift from the boy beside her, one who seemed like a god yet was far from fully grown. As those rippling thoughts spread out, vivid images of the B-Rank powerhouses who had previously existed only in intelligence files—Horned Demon, Fei Long, Gardner, Hua Dian, and the rest—appeared one after another within this filtered landscape of color.

Yin Le saw that, apart from Black Mist, Anthony, and Wan Ta, everyone involved in the transaction had gathered at the edge of a churning mud pool. They were discussing the projection area on an off-road vehicle, and the atmosphere was quite lively.

"They're checking whether this Mud Pit I made bears traces of Extraordinary Power at work." Ronan briefly explained what had happened to Yin Le.

Yin Le asked in alarm, "Have they discovered it? Realized someone was behind this...?"

"Not yet."

Ronan explained this point in a little more detail. "Creating this mud pool, along with the things that came afterward, did involve Configuration and the corresponding Extraordinary Power. But to make full use of the terrain and geothermal heat, I buried the points of action rather deep. As things stand, they're still far beyond the range they can detect.

"On the other hand, some of the interference I made while observing and sensing earlier left relatively obvious traces. Fortunately, while they were discussing it, they never imagined I was right beside them listening in, so they gave me