Report: Undead Fanuen's "Investigation"

The werewolf Awa met those scarlet eyes and fearfully shrank his neck.

Something stirred within the Undead Fanuen.

How had it not thought of that!

The humans who had assisted "Shadow Claw" Uur were dead. Could something have happened to the two werewolves as well?

"Message."

Undead Fanuen raised a withered finger to its temple and began chanting.

It felt as though a thread spilled out from its mind, stretching endlessly into the distance as if searching for something, yet it could never find its target.

Whoosh!

The aura of Negative Energy around Undead Fanuen suddenly intensified. Its magic robe trembled once as it began chanting again. "Message."

It had contacted "Trample" Ufala just now. This time, it contacted the other werewolf, "Shadow Claw" Uur.

The result was the same. It still could not connect!

What that meant went without saying.

Unless they were too far away, "Shadow Claw" Uur and Ufala would never dare refuse its contact. Moreover, it could not even locate them through its senses.

Something had happened!

Undead Fanuen reached that conclusion. The red light in its eye sockets flickered like flames—the emotion was "excitement."

The werewolves' lives or deaths were irrelevant!

What mattered was death itself. It represented an anomaly, especially during an investigation.

"Shadow Claw" Uur and "Trample" Ufala were not weak. They also carried tribal treasures of the werewolf race. Killing them would not have been easy.

The death of Ska, the werewolf leader, had been an accident!

He had died while facing the combined forces of the human nations' Adamantite Rank adventurers. In Undead Fanuen's eyes, that was already humanity's strongest power.

"Lord Fanuen."

Noticing the abnormality in the Undead before him, the werewolf Awa cautiously asked, "Did something happen?"

"Useless trash, just like your leader."

Undead Fanuen's voice was hoarse and