Anfuni's expression darkened. No mage could allow an insignificant tail to follow them around; that was the foundation of survival.
Clearly, this shadow had not been tracking her. All he wanted was information about Li Ziran.
If this had been an assassination attempt, she might no longer have been in this world.
She raised her head to look at Li Ziran, wanting to see his expression. This could affect their relationship, but he remained utterly composed. Holding a scalpel, he was slowly cutting down the black woven-sack-like thing and putting it into his mouth, seeming to have no intention of blaming her.
"I'm sorry. I didn't notice," Anfuni said softly.
Li Ziran spat out the lingering shadow at the corner of his mouth and frowned slightly.
The taste was far from good, like chewing a stalk of gray grass. Other than detecting a trace of Dark Element, he could not make out anything else.
There were elements in it beyond anything he had imagined.
He had never considered it. Logically speaking, the Shadowfolk were also a race of the Red Soil Continent. Their bodies should have been affected by the Elemental Tide and contained quite a few Core Elements.
Core Elements were called core because they were the principal materials that made up a body. There might be differences, but they could not escape the scope of Core Elements.
A living creature was generally formed from several Core Elements blended together, interspersed with a certain amount of Rare Elements and Trace Elements.
As for Ultimate Elements, they should only exist in creatures at the top of the food chain.
The Shadowfolk's body was brimming with Dark Element, yet he could not capture the existence of the other five elements. Such a single-element makeup was quite special.
He began injecting a