While mobilizing his forces, Roland did not remain idle. He began preparing Strategic Deduction.
He entered the various factors into the spell formula as known conditions, then communed with the world through a series of complex sensing processes and calculations, obtaining information from the feedback of mana resonance.
But with only a single corpse, it was like having too few known values to solve a complex equation.
He decided to use the ninth-level spell he had just acquired to help find the solution.
Since he was using an object as the medium this time, he could not fully draw upon the ley lines of a fixed location. He chose revealing dust, mana crystals, and locally sourced water, soil, wood, and other objects as his spell components.
Only after thorough preparation did he begin chanting.
"~~~..."
White light appeared amid ripples spreading like waves across water.
An illusion resembling a three-dimensional projection appeared before Roland.
The dead gray wolf seemed to come back to life, lunging fiercely at Misius and Wofte.
But the scene flashed past, and the images rewound to the wolf stumbling through the forest, with other human and animal zombies appearing nearby.
He kept rewinding...
Nothing.
He kept rewinding...
After several patient searches, he still found nothing, and he had already traced the zombie wolf's existence back half a year.
Just as Roland's eyes began to ache faintly, dry from overuse, a figure finally flashed past.
Then the scene returned to a point when the gray wolf was still a normal living creature.
Roland hurriedly changed the way the spell operated and began playing the scene forward.
He saw a mysterious figure in black robes, wreathed in a hazy gray-black mist like smoke, kill the gray wolf and cast a spell to turn it into an undead creature.