Even so, when Pan Long thought back over how he had dealt with the Calamity today, he could not help feeling astonished.
That thing... it knew how to hide!
Hiding underground was one thing, but there had been another one beneath it!
If he had not taken Colin's warning firmly to heart and refused to set a single foot inside the garden, things would never have gone so smoothly.
"Ah! Colin really did have a wealth of experience!" he exclaimed. "It's a pity that even all that experience couldn't save him from being caught off guard..."
After a sigh, he waved his hand and stirred up a Wild Wind with his Internal Power.
The Wild Wind surged through the garden, sending the ashes left by the burned Calamity swirling through the air along with dust from the ground.
After several palm strikes, the garden was finally much clearer. Pan Long searched through the disturbed earth and eventually found a silvery-white gemstone.
Its surface was riddled with countless tiny holes, exactly like the one he had seen before.
"So it really was because of this gemstone!"
He nodded, feeling that he had found an important clue.
Calamities did not erupt without a trace of warning. This kind of gemstone was one of the major triggers.
But... the gemstone probably was not the only trigger.
After all, he doubted Thor the Thunder God had carried one on him while he was alive.
He then entered the villa beside the garden.
The villa was empty. There was no one inside, not even a dried corpse. He saw no signs of fighting, and the place was not particularly messy.
In the bedroom, he found that the bed had been moved aside. A safe stood open, with nothing left inside.
Clearly, the people who lived