Most importantly, he had only just arrived in this area. There was no reason he should have been discovered.
The only explanation was that the Indigenous Coalition possessed some kind of detection method beyond his expectations.
"Damn it! Alchemy's scouting range is still too small!"
When he tried to control the Rune Artifact and take off, only to find that the surrounding airspace had already been sealed, Benjamin's expression darkened sharply.
After all, Alchemy and Analysis Art were not specialized scouting wizardry. Even with Benjamin's sixth-level Qi Refinement cultivation bolstering them, the maximum detection radius of these two spells was only a little over a hundred meters.
Their advantage was that they could inspect energy and matter in greater detail, making them very useful when searching for all kinds of materials.
But their weakness was exactly this—if the enemy had prepared in advance, they could surround him without him even noticing.
"Fuck! Once I get out of here, I'm studying scouting wizardry first!" Benjamin's tone was exceedingly foul.
Being hunted on such a massive and premeditated scale stirred a fierce anger within him.
Benjamin was not someone who enjoyed slaughtering enemies or indiscriminately killing innocents, but neither was he the sort of person who would let others bully him at will.
Since they had come knocking on his door themselves, there was nothing more to say.
He slowly let out a breath, his expression turning cold. "Want to kill me? Fine. Since you want to fight, then I'll fight!"
Benjamin activated the Movement Rune Artifact—although its flight capability had been suppressed, the Movement Rune Artifact was still inscribed with the incantation for the Lightness Spell.
His body turned into a blurry afterimage as he charged toward an outer flank of the Indigenous Coalition. In Benjamin's perception, that was where the