Arcane Detective of the Steam Age
Chapter 99

Tracking to the Limit

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Deep in the forest, shadows flickered.

The enormous black wolf held Ovelia in one hand as he raced through the trees. Like Tarzan in the movies, he leaped from tree to tree, occasionally catching a trunk with the sharp claws of his free hand to steady himself or change direction.

From a distance, he looked like a ghost drifting through the forest, without making so much as a sound.

Even the most experienced hunter would have struggled to track him.

For Li Wei, however... none of that mattered.

Standing on a nearby cliff, Li Wei watched the forest below. In the field of vision provided by [Soul Sight], the radiance of souls shone brilliantly.

This was an attack from a whole different dimension.

It was like military camouflage. You could lie motionless in the grass, not even making a sound when mosquitoes bit you. No matter how carefully someone looked, they would never spot you hiding there. But all it took was a drone sweeping the area with infrared, and no amount of willpower or skill could keep you from being exposed.

The same applied here.

In a contest of tracking and evasion, Li Wei certainly would not have been a match for this werewolf.

But why would he compete on those terms?

With something as useful as an unmanned reconnaissance drone, why would he doggedly trail behind his target? Li Wei had no interest in that.

Besides, it was not as though he was following some beautiful woman.

Naturally, Li Wei had his own method of keeping up with the werewolf.

He controlled two Doll Birds.

One kept tracking the werewolf, while the other served as a prop for Li Wei's [Shifting Positions]. It allowed him to catch up in the shortest possible time, or even far outstrip the

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