"Failed again..."
With a sigh, Mr. Sarr, dressed in a crisp white shirt and a fitted brown vest, appeared beside the pitch-black figure and casually removed its disguise.
It turned out to be a Mechanical Doll with an exceptionally smooth surface.
Unlike the others around it, which held six-barreled machine guns, this doll was made of an especially unusual material. Judging by its luster alone, it resembled Obsidian, while the bubble-like structures within produced a "snowflake" effect.
Abner was not surprised. Through the Magic Mirror, he had long known that the black figure was not a "person"!
"Is this made from ground fragments of Shadow Stone? As far as I know, the Heart of Shadow Stone is one of the main ingredients of the Shadow Ascetic potion... Fragments of this stone truly are excellent materials for carrying shadow-type spells.
"Mr. Sarr, are you trying to create a Mechanical Doll for stealth?"
While making his guess, Abner watched with interest as Mr. Sarr removed the doll's head and examined where the problem lay.
After watching for a while, Abner roughly figured out the issue. The detection abilities of those defensive Mechanical Dolls mainly came from thermal sensing and sound waves. Although the other doll, capable of Hiding in Shadows, could isolate heat and sound through the characteristics of the Shadow Stone itself... its shape was simply too irregular, covered in sharp angles and flat surfaces. That was likely the main reason it was "detected" by its counterparts...
After all, a doll was not a true Shadow Ascetic and could not use Beyonder Abilities flexibly enough.
Seeing that Mr. Sarr could not find the key point for the moment, Abner considered it, dispelled the psychological Invisibility effect within Ivens's Concealment Barrier, and smiled as he offered guidance:
"Why does it have to