The situation was urgent, and Little Mage dared not waste a moment.
He decisively turned toward the Guide Water Orb hovering beside him:
"Brother Guide, I need help. I need detailed intelligence on this faction."
Faced with his question, Guide remained somewhat impatient and raised a hand to create a screen of light.
At the center of the image was a humanoid creature with lifeless, blue-gray skin. Its hair consisted of countless writhing little snakes, hissing and flicking their tongues.
Its most striking feature was its pair of eyes, which had no pupils and were entirely deathly white.
[This race is called the Gegong Race. Its social structure is matriarchal, and it possesses a racial talent called "stone condensation." You can also understand it as a curse-type ability. It is transmitted by projecting mental energy outward, rapidly petrifying any living being that comes into contact with that energy... This was once a spell, but through long ages of use and refinement, the ability has long since become a living Legacy Imprint and part of the race's innate talents. They are born with it, as naturally as humans breathe...]
As Guide explained.
The image shifted, showing one of these creatures hunting in the woods.
When it moved, its lower body fused into a powerful snake's tail, slithering forward at tremendous speed.
A Spirit Breath Race warrior flashed into view at the edge of the image. After meeting that deathly white gaze for only an instant, his body rapidly turned gray and rigid from the point of contact. In the blink of an eye, he became a terrified stone statue, then was easily smashed to dust by a sweeping snake tail.
But the hunt was not over.
This was a massacre between utterly unequal opponents.
Every tactic and coordinated maneuver of the