"Detect Invisibility!"
"Reveal the Ghost!"
"Life Detection!"
At the sight of this, the mages perked up.
Then, under Senator Heinz's lead, a series of spells quietly flew toward the opposite side.
Unfortunately, the empty room still held not a single person.
The apple's flesh quickly disappeared, until all that remained was a core, which was tossed into the trash.
Some lock-picking tools on the table, including wires and wrenches, floated into the air, then vanished.
"Record this as A-172: Invisible Cloak. It makes the wearer invisible and resists all detection spells. No—not just spells. Every means of detection!"
Heinz picked up a thermal imager, then quickly tossed it aside. "But the target still exists in the material world. They leave footprints on the carpet, and anything they pick up disappears. That tells us as much!"
He was clearly experienced, and quickly guessed the cloak's properties.
"In other words, once someone puts on this cloak, they vanish from the world. We can only infer their presence from the reactions of other objects..."
Fang Yuan thought it over. It doesn't seem... all that powerful!
"No! You don't understand. This is an absolute property!"
Heinz shook his head gravely. "I suspect not only our instruments and ordinary spells, but even tracking spells can't detect him. Finger of Death, for instance! Curses can't find him either, because the moment he puts on the cloak, that person ceases to exist in the world!"
Fang Yuan nodded, beginning to understand.
In other words, if this world had a King Yama who claimed the lives of everyone on the planet, the person wearing the cloak would still survive. Even the world itself would overlook him.
"Beyond the Three Realms, outside the Five Elements; erased from the Book of Life and Death!"
It was a realm that countless