One-Eyed Monster

Igor’s mind vaguely held impressions of the Kangen family, but he couldn’t quite recall when he had first heard of them.

It seemed like it wasn’t too long ago, but at the same time, it felt distant.

Regardless, Igor couldn’t afford to delve into matters concerning the Kangen family, as the current priority was to force out the hidden enemy.

The enemy was in the shadows, and Igor had no way to pinpoint their exact location; he could only determine the enemy’s movements by observing energy fluctuations. Moreover, this movement was only a direction of the enemy’s spirit power.

This meant that Igor could currently only judge from which directions the enemy was preparing to attack based on the energy fluctuations.

Even this was quite an extraordinary feat.

Being able to anticipate the enemy’s attack direction meant that every assault could be successfully defended against. This preemptive judgment ability indeed frustrated these unseen enemies greatly.

Originally, they thought the newcomers would be distracted. However, when the enemy finally found an opening to launch a coordinated attack, it was still preemptively uncovered by this guy.

Igor’s ability to identify energy fluctuations indeed posed a significant obstacle to these Soul Devourers.

These Soul Devourers never expected that their actions would be so greatly hindered.

Igor and Kadi began to accelerate their pace. As soon as Igor determined the direction, Kadi launched an attack without reserve.

The rhythm accelerated, leaving the adventurers at the Brass Hotel quite astonished.

In fact, it wasn’t that these adventurers were weak, but rather they hadn’t encountered the type of energy Igor referred to; they had always fought by comprehending spirit power, which was energy-based. These Soul Devourers used these fundamental elements to fight, and thus had the advantage of unfamiliar methods.

If the knowledge of energy could be popularized, everything wouldn’t be so troublesome.

In this regard, Luona had always been ahead. After all, Luona had firsthand experience battling Soul Devourers.

The Governor of Rostov in Luona was tirelessly pushing this agenda. This Lord Rostov always stayed ahead of others.

Est and Bruto exchanged glances, gratified that Coban Kangen had come to assist.

Regardless, Bistal also counted as joining this battle now.

Their city being guarded by two unfamiliar youths wasn’t a particularly pleasant sensation, but now with one of their own joining, their feelings were alleviated.

Est and Bruto also trusted Coban because he was from the Kangen family.

The Kangen family, as a member of the ancient families of the Kayne Empire, naturally possessed many secret techniques, which were passed solely to their kin, just like how Lord Popovich would only pass his Scholar’s secret techniques to his own kin. These ancient families held specific positions in the Kayne Empire, safeguarding different corners of Kayne. They were seldom seen, but when Kayne faced adversity, their kin would continuously emerge.

They were like the Empire’s planted infiltrators across the continent.

As a member of the Kangen family, Coban naturally knew some spellcraft. Though he appeared as a Fighter now, he could transform and wield spellcraft at critical times without surprising anyone.

Coban Kangen was now transforming his role.

His family was predominantly of Wizards, where most naturally became Wizards. As Coban made no progress in the Wizard’s domain, he transitioned to being a Fighter.

However, those from ancient families always have some heritage of their family’s legacy, including Coban Kangen.

He had some skill of the Wizards.

Flame Type, Water Type, Earth Type, Wind Type, Thunder Type... Wizards typically categorize by natural elements, but Coban Kangen’s awakened ability was a bit awkward.

His intuitiveness pertained to sound—not water, fire, wind, or thunder, just sound...

This insight left the family at a loss to classify or categorize his ability.

Thus, Coban Kangen’s ability was abandoned by the Wizard family.

But ancient families are not organizations that seek quick results. They continued to study Coban’s ability, and Coban himself never gave up; over time, it developed into a new skill.

This skill was soundwave.

Soundwave attack skills are typically a Hunter’s capability, but it was merely a skill discarded by the Hunters long ago. They had once developed such an attack while studying the calls of beasts in their hunts.

The Hunters deemed this skill too rudimentary, offering no significant transformation for their profession, so it was abandoned.

The skill lingered among some Dark Force practitioners, who regarded it as a treasure.

Igor and his group encountered such a move while battling Wizard Reed on Guru Mountain.

Yet Coban Kangen’s soundwave differed from those used by Dark Forces.

His attack was Wizards’ style soundwave; instead of relying on noise like Dark Forces, his soundwave was bass...

Ordinary people couldn’t sense this bass, but adventurers could.

Coban utilized this auditory element to disrupt the opponent’s rhythm, causing an attack.

At this moment, Coban had completed his identity transformation, signaling to Igor and Kadi that he was ready.

Kadi looked at Coban without noticing any change, feeling a touch of doubt. Kadi thought, after all this buildup, was there really any substance to it?

Igor pointed out a direction to Coban, hoping he could force those hidden enemies out.

"Understood!" Coban Kangen let out a muffled grunt and immediately launched his bass wave attack.

Igor and Kadi immediately felt dizzy and disoriented, as if a swarm of insects buzzed around their ears...

Could this be Coban’s group attack skill?

Kadi reevaluated Coban, realizing that this bass wave was indeed area-of-effect!

Though not harming the opponent, it inflicted an endless sense of nausea upon them, causing panic and irritation.

Even Kadi himself felt he couldn’t withstand such constant bass wave interference.

This buzzing swarm... could drive him insane!

Besides, what they felt was just the residual energy from the group attack skill; the actual assault must be even stronger.

Kadi and Igor both focused intently; if the enemy grew nauseated, they might expose their weaknesses at such a moment...