Chapter 33 - Tracking

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Jetto lowered his head and bowed. Along the way, they led Soren and his subordinates to the base's monitoring room. Not waiting for Soren's orders, one of his subordinates, an information processing expert led his assistants and started to collect the base's monitoring records and related information.

Every Knight of Blood had their own private army. The army commanders and soldiers could be recruited from the outside, or they could be rented out or even bought from the military. And the size of the army often reflected the strength of each Blood Cavalry. For example, Soren, because of his clan's financial support, his private army was maintained at around a hundred people.

This army consisted of 90 ordinary soldiers, one information processing expert, one Tracing Specialist, one biochemical expert and seven level 2 espers.

Just to maintain this army's daily needs, Soren had to pay around 100 thousand every month. This did not include the daily maintenance of the equipment, salaries, etc. But from what Soren knew, there were a lot of people in the private army that numbered in the thousand, so his group was not really that big of a deal.

Naturally, in other places. This kind of hundred man army was enough to pose a threat to bases under the middle class, and it had not even included Soren's strength as a Element Domain Capable of the third step.

With his own strength, just the investigation on the disorderly person was more than enough, whether it was the council itself or Soren himself.

Jetto humbly lowered his body and told everything that he knew about what happened that day to the red-haired youth. After he finished reporting, Jetto's body was already trembling slightly. Standing beside Soren was like standing next to an armory that could explode at any time. Fire-element Su would always unwittingly emit its own intense and ruthless aura of fire. It was already considered pretty good for Jetto to be able to stand there for so long without fainting.

Each Adept had their own unique style. These auras were related to the powers of the Adepts themselves. Only the highest ranked Adepts at the tenth step or higher were able to seal their own auras, making them no different from ordinary people. Soren was still far from that realm, moreover, he had never intended to retract his aura. That was his symbol, his glory. In his view, only cowards would restrain their auras, because they were afraid of challenges.

The moment Jetto finished reporting, the information processing expert also finished his own work. When Hans sneaked into the base, the first thing he did was to paralyze the base's electrical system. As a result, in the monitoring devices scattered around the base, a majority of the cameras had lost their power supply and stopped working. Only a small fraction of the instruments equipped with backup batteries are still functioning properly.

But out of these surveillance devices, only two of them recorded the match between and Zero. The information expert organized the videos obtained from the three pieces of equipment, clipping them together to form a complete video. Then, he transferred it to the tablet computer that he carried around with him, and played it for Soren to see.

In the video, the fight between Su Yun and Hans was extremely short. There was only 1 minute and 23 seconds of video, but two-thirds of the time it took for the two to chase each other through the base. The final scene of them leaving the base one after another was deeply engraved in Soren's mind.

At noon, the biochemical expert came to report. He was in charge of heading to the base bar where the two of them were fighting to extract the blood of the disorderly, but unfortunately, even though Jetto and the others had preserved the scene, their target's blood had already solidified and the cells inside had already died, so they were unable to use it for research purposes.

"Then we can only go to the wilderness. Kabu, everything depends on you. " Soren's gaze landed on a short and thin person.

This man called Kabu was's Tracing Specialist, and was also a second class ability hunter. His ability to survive in the wild and his tracking abilities on living organisms were exceptionally outstanding, thus Soren placed great importance on him.

It had already been almost a week since the battle between Zero and Hans, and the traces of the battle between them in the wilderness had almost disappeared. However, Kabu did indeed have the skills of a human. Relying on his judgement of smell, mud stone and other subtle clues, Kabu had brought Soren to quite a few battle locations. Of course, although Hans's blood still remained in these places, they were still necrotic cells like the ones found in the tavern, and could not be used as specimens in the research.

At the foot of the mountain beside the base, Kabu found the place where he had used the high concentration of alcohol to burn Hans down. Behind the old tree that was already charred, there was also a piece of mountain rock that had been burned into black ash.

Soren picked up a shard of glass that had been left beside the tree, which reflected his face that had a disdainful smile on it.

"Interesting fellow." Soren said softly, not pointing at Hans, but zero.

Under Kabu's lead, they found a few battlefields, and also discovered a few traps. Kabu deduced that the soldier called Zero did not have the strength to fight the disorderly, but he used all kinds of traps to try and kill the monster. Judging from the different categories of traps, Kabu inferred that Zero had been eliminating the possibility of killing Hans step by step and was trying to find the weakness of the disorderly person.

"It's high temperature this time." Kabu lied on the ground and took a big sniff with his nose. He even picked up the sand on the ground and gently licked it with his tongue: That's right, it's high concentration of alcohol.

He fished a warhead out of his pocket and pointed at the broken glass on the floor. "The soldier must have used some method to get the target to pick up the bottle of alcohol, and he himself shot through the bottle in the distance with a sniper rifle and set it on fire," he said. Their goal was naturally to use high temperature flame s to burn the target to death. However, the plan failed because the target had traces of moving towards the east. Judging from the speed of the move, the target did not suffer a fatal blow. "

"Got it, keep chasing." Soren frowned.

Looks like this mission isn't as easy as I thought. As the red-haired youth spoke in his heart, he suddenly thought of zero. To Soren, Zero's fighting style was like a hunter or a soldier. In addition, while there were not many warheads left on the battlefield that Karen had discovered, almost every disorderly person had suffered varying degrees of damage.

That meant that Zero's marksmanship was very good, and the shooting angle and timing were perfect. To be fair, if it weren't for the fact that the disorderly possessed some special abilities, the other monsters of the third step would have already died under these traps and bullets.

When did this small base recruit such powerful gunmen? Soren thought like this, and naturally, no one could answer his question.

When they were at the base, he had already asked Jetto and knew that Zero had already left not long after Hans's death. He thought to himself, what a pity, otherwise he would have recruited this gunner under his command.

Soren's team was currently lacking an outstanding Sniper Specialist. Undoubtedly, Zero was quite suitable for this role.