Mirai was about to crouch down when a sudden stabbing pain shot through his left eye, nearly making him collapse onto the demon wolf's body. Its horn was extremely sharp.
"Mm..." Xiurou let out a muffled groan. The pain was not intense, but it had come far too suddenly.
"Alice?" The sudden pain in his Silver Eye had to be caused by something else, not the quiet call in his heart.
[Master, Energy detected]
"What? Where?" Startled, Mirai had not expected to detect energy here.
The demon wolf's speed had become so fast—it was indeed related to this energy!
Mirai understood at once. When they had first encountered Horned Demon Wolves at Thunderstar Mine, those two wolves had moved far faster than Jack and Uncle Bill had expected. That was why the two wolves had managed to ambush and injure them.
"So the demon wolf before us is related to the Energy Armor too. Did it gain its speed through mutation?"
As he pondered this, Mirai pulled the bolt from the wolf's head.
A line of green characters flashed past, and a red circle immediately appeared over the demon wolf's abdomen.
"Is it here?"
Mirai picked up the bolt and poked it into the marked spot on the wolf's belly. Sure enough, he felt something hard against the arrow.
He used the arrow to cut open the wolf's stomach. Filth spilled out from within, mixed with a blood-red crystal.
"Yes!"
Suppressing the urge to vomit at the smell, Mirai reached for the red bloodstone and wiped it clean against the demon wolf's fur using its sharp horn. The bright bloodstone reflected the sunlight, revealing its original strange, transparent red color. Among the Yuege people, it was also called a "Moonstone."
At that moment, a small green circle appeared in Mirai's