They had walked for less than half a minute when they saw the "object with a faint extraordinary reaction" Angel had mentioned.
Angel had not spent any computational power examining it closely before. He had only known it was a small item, perhaps some extraordinary object left behind by those who came before.
But when they actually approached it, they discovered it was not an object at all, but a very small skull.
When they first spotted the skull, its back had been facing them, and they had thought it was an infant's skull. But when they saw its front, they froze.
"Do humans have one-eyed variants?" Kael silently asked as he stared at the skull with only one eye socket.
"Whether humans have one-eyed variants or not, have you ever seen a person with a mouth split all the way to their ears, with over a hundred sharp teeth interlocking inside?" Dox retorted.
Kael shook his head. "Doesn't seem like it."
Dox said, "Then there you have it. This is actually a Demonic Beast's skull."
Dox picked the skull up from the ground. The tiny skull fit perfectly within one palm. After closely examining its details, Dox pondered, "There are many one-eyed Demonic Beasts, but with only a skull, I can't tell what kind it was."
Once he finished speaking, Dox looked toward Black Earl.
Among those present, none had more experience and knowledge than Black Earl.
Black Earl truly did not disappoint them. He merely glanced toward the skull through his nostrils, sniffed a few breaths, and gave them the answer.
"This is a Flying Skull Demon juvenile. It has only a head and no body. At two months old, a Flying Skull Demon's head is already comparable in size to an adult human's. After three months, it