Chapter 789 Lord Shepherd's Brocade Bag (4K)_2
But claiming that they could disguise themselves as humans or creatures seemed a bit of an exaggeration.
Rakshasa had never heard of such a thing.
The captain said, "There's a monster known as Thousand-faces, first discovered three years ago. These monsters have the ability to devour creatures, transform into them, and read their memories."
"This unique way of disguising allows the Thousand-faces to have exactly the same characteristics as the creatures, making them indistinguishable by their aura."
"However, the transformation of the Thousand-faces has a flaw. They are always monsters and they have to discard their shell and find a new creature to devour and transform regularly, otherwise, their monstrous scent will gradually reveal itself."
"We estimate that this time frame is between ten days and half a month."
The captain with a full beard paused and continued, "During this time, we have had some disappearances in Baihe Town. Just yesterday, we found a lifeless body with no face among our guards."
This body was now at the guards' station.
Rakshasa saw it soon after.
The body's face was unnaturally smooth, without eyes, nose, or mouth—its face had been devoured.
Rakshasa fell into thought.
Even he could tell that the situation didn't look good.
If the Thousand-faces were so powerful and elusive, how could he flush out the culprit?
'If it were Lord Shepherd, how would he think, where would he start?'
After some thought, Rakshasa looked around and asked, "Could this Thousand-faces... be inside the guard corps?"
The bearded man was startled and replied, "Lord Rakshasa, everyone in the guard corps with the rank of captain or higher has undergone special inspections to ensure they haven't been replaced. The high officials of Baihe Town have as well. We suspect that the Thousand-faces would replace someone with lower status but with access to many matters. You can start from there."
After leaving the station, Rakshasa walked around inside and outside Baihe Town and dispatched three Storm Falcons and Dragon Hawks with Vision Sharing abilities for repeated observation.
He found nothing.
If the guard corps hadn't been able to find the Thousand-faces after so long, how could his short observations yield any results?
Besides... he was not familiar with Baihe Town, so how could he spot the flaws?
Rakshasa fell into thought again.
After pondering for a long while, he still couldn't find a way to break the deadlock.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
He thought for a moment, then took out a Brocade Bag.
It was the Brocade Bag that Lord Shepherd had given him before he left.
"Try for another two hours, if you really can't find a way, then take a look," he told himself.
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At the same time, in Lushui Town.
Saint of Holy Light Xi started with the guards, waving her hand; glorious light from the heavens fell and hissed, purifying all that was impure.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Immediately, a professional from the guard corps knelt and begged for mercy, admitting he should not have been greedy for that batch of Soul Crystals last month.
But not a trace of the Thousand-faces was to be found.
"Is it really not here, or is my Holy Light ineffective against it?" she wondered.
She felt the latter was more likely.
She had already heard about the Thousand-faces from her Great Lord before.
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In a certain town.
God Martial Forbidden Army Rick exclaimed, "Where, oh where, come on out, you cursed Thousand-faces, and fight your grandpa for three hundred rounds."
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In a certain town.
Dragon Blood Royal Cavalry Iron Hand, through the shared vision of a Dragon Hawk, caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.
"Is that Tianyuan Rakshasa? He's here too?"
"Wait, this spy suspicion mission, could it be a competitive task? If all the monster spies are ferreted out by competitors, my assessment... would likely be a failure."
"Damn it!"
"Sneaky instructors!"
Iron Hand started to ponder, knowing he had to act faster now.
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In a certain town.
Lord Giant Elephant had already gathered information from more than a dozen informants and circled several highly overlapping pieces with a red line.
In his heart, he vaguely had an outline.
"Since the Thousand-faces are masters of disguise, I have two options to choose from," he murmured.
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"Luring them out or waiting for them to reveal themselves," Lord Shepherd Mu Yuan whispered to himself.
To avoid suspicion, he had not contacted Rakshasa but had gathered a rough understanding of the task on his own.
Thousand-faces.
"There's such a bizarre monster?"
"If a Thousand-faces infiltrated my Tianyuan Territory, how would I detect it at the earliest opportunity?"
All the methods used in the Great War Zone failed to detect the Thousand-faces, so naturally, the methods like Reconnaissance Sky Eye in his territory were also ineffective.
Mu Yuan began to ponder.
This was taking precautions.
It's always wise to prepare dozens of contingency plans in normal times, so that one is not caught off-guard in critical moments.
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Lushui Town.
Two figures arrived here without making any sound.
One was the instructor Ice Fist, who squinted his eyes slightly; the other was a top-tier instructor of the Heaven and Earth Realm with the Fiery Domain, Fierce Wind.
Fierce Wind was puzzled, "Why have we come here, and sneakily at that? Aren't the recruits' assessments something we need not personally attend to?"
They were busy people after all, and only had a few days to give mandatory lessons to new recruits. How could they possibly babysit an assessment?
Ice Fist squinted and said, "Didn't you find it strange why I turned this spy mission into a competition?"
Fierce Wind asked, "Why?"
Instead of a direct answer, Ice Fist replied, "Thousand-faces is very peculiar and possesses the ultimate disguise abilities... or rather, it's not merely a disguise, they completely replace someone. Until exposed, they will flawlessly follow that person's behavior patterns without giving away the slightest flaw."
"If you were completely replaced by Thousand-faces, even if I were faced with you directly, it would be hard for me to notice anything amiss."
"In this situation, do you think, relying on a bunch of new recruits, even if they are legendary recruits, they could uncover Thousand-faces? The harm and destruction Thousand-faces could cause to our war zone is far more severe than just one or two beings of the Legendary Realm. If not handled promptly, the entire area will be in turmoil."
Ice Fist continued, "The reason I wanted there to be a competition was to stir the waters. Only when the water is muddied can the perfectly hidden Thousand-faces be fished out."
"From beginning to end, the task of dealing with Thousand-faces has been my responsibility."
Leveraging the assessment as free labor is one;
Creating a competitive mechanism, stirring things up and having fun is two;
Lying in wait, drawing the snake out of its lair, is the third;
It's killing three birds with one stone.
Fierce Wind widened his eyes and after a long while, he fiercely spat out, "Old Silver Coin, you sly fox!"
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Baihe Town.
Still unable to find much of a clue, Rakshasa pulled a small brocade bag from his storage ring.
He opened it.
Inside, there weren't the imagined 360 contingency plans; instead, there were just a few brief hints.
"No matter whether you are in the Great War Zone or on other missions, always remember one thing: play to your strengths, showcase what you have that others do not."
"What is your advantage? Combat Power? That's not quite right, at least not entirely."
"Your advantage lies in your three unique Epic Skills, the greatness of Epic Skills."
Some things that Epic Skills can do are truly unique and can accomplish many feats that even those a hundred times stronger than yourself cannot achieve.
"My Epic Abilities..."
Rakshasa murmured to himself.
Three-phase Body: Possessing the Ego, Good Body, and Evil Body, each with its powers, any of which could be used as the real figure.
Slaying Evil Decapitating Malevolence: He could see malevolence and slay it.
Evil Aether Prison Sea: Transform into an immortal sea of Evil Aether.
Rakshasa began to have some ideas.
Apart from Combat Power, what else could these three Epic Abilities be used for?
"Evil!"
"What is evil?"
Those who commit evil are evil; those who are enemies are evil; those who are enemies and harmful are even more so heinous.
Rakshasa suddenly understood.
He turned into smoke and drift to the top of the town's tower in an instant.
Within the brown cloud, a pair of indifferent eyes appeared, staring into the distance.
In his eyes, the people began to lose their colors, leaving only a dull, luminous black and white.
Most of the patrolling warriors and the soldiers following their leaders were left only as white shells. They were purely of the warrior class, devoid of intelligence, and thus devoid of good or evil.
Other professionals and Lords occasionally emitted wisps of black smoke from their bodies.
The smoke wasn't thick, but there was some nonetheless.
These wisps of black smoke gathered and intertwined in mid-air, lingering.
Rakshasa's brow furrowed slightly.
"Not enough, still not enough."
"I must observe a broader spectrum."
He thought for a moment, found a wider high ground, and ordered several warriors to guard the surroundings.
The next moment, Rakshasa transformed into the Evil Aether Prison Sea, and the Power of Evil within him began to boil.
In his eyes...
The silent, dull, lusterless world rapidly expanded outward.
The two-colored black and white space incessantly devoured the heavens and the earth.
Tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of professionals turned into symbols in his eyes.
Black smoke wafted.
A howl of the cold wind.
Malevolence roared as if in the clouds.
The black and white picture was thus set.
The drifting fog of Evil Aether converged, and a burly man with a green face opened his eyes, his gaze filled with a chilling fierceness.
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