The scene Li Wei saw when he took out the crystal ball was this Bane cultist solemnly feeding an eyeball-like alchemical magic item to the slime, Steel Egg.
By his guess, it was probably something like a [Mage's Eye] or a [True Sight Eye].
Uh, the latter was unlikely. The materials alone would cost quite a bit.
Then, like an old father, the Bane cultist took out a map that left even Li Wei completely baffled and earnestly instructed Steel Egg on what it should do after infiltrating the Thieves' Guild.
Li Wei was rendered utterly speechless by the sight.
He thought, If a slime, that supposedly wise and brave creature, could really complete a mission this difficult on its own, then I, Li Wei, would have long since become the most feared spymaster in all Coriel.
Still, in order to keep this rare informant among the Bane cultists—the sort who had delivered himself to his doorstep—Li Wei decided to "help" him out.
With Remlu stationed in Water-Drawing City, these self-propelled spherical monitors effectively had Kaka, their "brain," remotely directing them.
Although Li Wei felt that Kaka's "Turing intelligence" had probably been caught in the Spatial Gate when it crossed over into Coriel World and was not much smarter for it, that did not matter. As long as there were enough of them, they could patrol along predetermined routes and be scattered out like a carpet spread over the ground. It was only a branch of the Thieves' Guild, after all—sooner or later, they would catch a scrap or two of useful information.
After he gave Kaka the order, at least ten thousand slimes throughout Water-Drawing City began a coordinated reconnaissance operation.
And as more and more slimes converged on the address supplied by the Bane cultist—the location of the