Above the Whispering Forest in Tirisfal Glades, the Arcane Rocket circled at its lowest speed.
After they had searched more than half the forest in a grid pattern, the Black Knight finally reacted.
"An Artifact! I sense a new Artifact!"
Seeing the Black Knight wave his arms and stamp his feet in excitement, all but ready to jump off the Arcane Rocket, Herad hurriedly began to land.
Freed from his restraints, the Black Knight ran in the direction he had sensed.
Herad sent the Arcane Scavenger out to follow him.
This was not because he feared the knight would escape.
The Black Knight had a tracking mark on him, so there was certainly no escaping.
The main reason was that there really was something strange about the Whispering Forest.
A sound somewhere between wind and whispers kept echoing in his ears.
It seemed like the whispers of the Old Gods.
But Herad sensed no danger from it.
That was probably because its power was not up to par.
Still, there were bound to be powerful shadow monsters here.
If the Black Knight encountered a shadow monster and was quickly killed by it, Herad would have to go back and capture another Black Knight.
Things did indeed turn out as Herad had expected.
The closer the Black Knight got to his destination, the more shadow creatures sprang out.
These bizarre shadow creatures were troublesome.
Fortunately, the Arcane Scavenger had stored quite a lot of holy energy.
Dealing with those shadow creatures was not difficult.
Under the Arcane Scavenger's powerful protection, the Black Knight safely reached the Artifact's location.
Watching the Black Knight dig furiously at the earth, Herad used an earth spell to probe underground and discovered an enormous structure below.
But there were at least ten meters between the top