That was right. Fu Qian had seen the thing in Ariel's hands before.
Back in Dunis, when the Camus he was playing had been afflicted with the Blood God Curse, a high-ranking member of the Native Council had helped remove it.
The method they used had been to transfer his will into a little doll, abandon his original body, and be reborn inside it.
In both size and shape, it was exactly like the one before him.
The person who had handled that emergency treatment had been called "Crow Feather," hadn't they?
Fu Qian recalled that rather unusual name, along with everything associated with it.
And the most unusual thing of all was the way that entity existed.
Based on his earlier deductions, Crow Feather was like a character who existed only in people's perceptions.
Throughout the operation in Dunis, Crow Feather had relied almost entirely on his colleague Weihle to "imagine" him into being, and had no physical form of his own.
Yet his strength as a high-order Transcendent was very real, and he had plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
Thinking about it, he and Her Excellency the Needle Witch were almost like soulmates.
Joking aside, Crow Feather was a very suitable choice for this operation.
His many abilities would let him deal with all kinds of situations, while his lack of a physical body made him difficult to expose.
And beyond that, he had one major advantage: he might not need to worry too much about the Lone King's negative influence.
In this situation, even the most optimistic person would find it hard to believe that the vessel could emerge unscathed after the Lone King descended.
The fact that the Lone King's power had affected Fu Qian, a Second Order, to this extent already proved its might.