Chapter 497 The First One in the Soul Realm (4K)
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"A single Black Crow, two Black Crows, a hundred Black Crows, ten thousand Black Crows."
Inside Tianyuan City, Sophia held her hands high as if blooming like a flower bud.
From the palms of her hands, Black Crows flapped their wings and flew out one after another.
She was updating her crows.
If there was anything troublesome about this legendary evolution, it was that she had to refine all her dispersed Black Crows anew.
Looking at the Black Crows she had created before, she could only facepalm.
The old version of the crows were inadequate in every way.
Their endurance was lacking, combat ability was lacking, concealment ability was lacking, flight speed was lacking...
She had to update her entire Black Crow Legion without fail.
"In the new Black Crow Legion, there are three types of crows for now."
"Scout Crows, Battle Crows, Life-Substitute Crows."
Sophia planned.
"Scout Crows just need to maximize their concealment and observation abilities, no need to spend too much energy on other aspects. Hmm, some Scout Crows need to have a faster flight speed, otherwise, they might not be able to keep up with the target."
Thinking this, Sophia lightly tapped her finger.
The wings of a Black Crow in front of her suddenly elongated, transforming from a regular crow into a large bird with elongated wings and red eyes.
She had never created fast-flying Scout Crows before.
Because there was no need.
Previously, Sophia could share her 'Phantom Night Eyes' talent with her Created Black Crows, giving them the ability to conceal and see through low-level Illusion Techniques.
The concealment methods of the Black Crows were extremely strong, not even the Legendary Realm with their Domains could detect anything.
However, such concealment was limited to when the Black Crows were stationary. Once a Black Crow took flight, it would easily be exposed to the eyes of the Legendary Realm who were constantly aware of their surroundings.
Therefore, Sophia used to prearrange Black Crows to stand guard, treating each Black Crow like a fixed camera.
But now,
"Even in flight, the Black Crows possess an extremely strong concealment ability, even stronger than the previous stationary state, after all..."
She had grasped a trace of the Power of Concept.
Not the Power of Concept that came from using an Epic Skill for a brief moment, but a concept she truly controlled in her own right.
One of those was concealment.
The Black Crow Constructs couldn't really possess the Power of Concept of concealment, but even a youthful version, beggar version, incomplete version, or fragmented version of concealment concept still caused the hiding ability of the Black Crows to surge dramatically.
It would be quite difficult even for the Heaven and Earth Realm or Soul Realm to detect the Black Crows.
And...
'Your 'Phantom Night Eyes' Talent has been enhanced during the evolution. When you observe a target, your concealment effect relative to that target will increase by several times, even tens of times.'
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Sophia had already tested this ability with Lian Yue.
When she gazed at Lian Yue, her whole body, her entire existence, would be erased from Lian Yue's world.
Combined with her already strong Night Hiding ability, she would completely vanish from the world.
Even Lian Yue's intuition was at a loss in the moment.
"This super stealth move, who could crack the crows, hahaha!"
"But the flaw is equally obvious."
'When you observe a certain target...'
After experimenting and verifying, she confirmed it was a single-target skill.
When she disappeared from Lian Yue's view, to Lord, who was standing by her side, her figure was still very clear, clear to the point where the faces she was making were recorded into the Crystal of Image Retain.
Right, without combining with other concealment methods, she was completely visible to 'targets' other than the one she focused on.
It turned out to be a skill suited for one-on-one combat, or rather... tracking a single individual alone.
"Scout Crows, if only performing routine tasks, can almost exist indefinitely, at least using them for a few years is not a problem. However, if they need to engage in high-speed pursuit of a certain individual and consequently consume a large amount of energy, it will significantly reduce their lifespan."
"In this respect, Battle Crows will inevitably have even shorter usage times."
But it doesn't matter.
She created a batch of Battle Crows for Nether Raven, just in case of emergency. She wasn't planning on engaging the enemy.
Slipping in quietly, taking the intelligence quietly, that would be enough.
For this reason, compared to Battle Crows, Life-Substitute Crows were more important.
"The strength of Life-Substitute Crows determines how much power I can retain after revival."
Thinking this, Sophia flipped her wrist and grasped a black dagger.
The dagger cast a dark shadow in front of her.
Thud, thud, thud, she stabbed thrice in succession.
In the center of the forehead, the throat, and the heart.
The next moment, blood sprayed out furiously.
Sophia suppressed her instinct to heal and save herself, she knelt to the ground as blood spread around her.
"Ah... it's kind of painful..."
"But this is... a necessary test..."
Her body grew increasingly cold, and her consciousness gradually blurred.
She collapsed to the ground with a thud.
On the cold floor, the blood spread, and her black dress was also stained red, like a withering red lotus flower.
A few seconds later,
Where the wounds of the girl lying on the ground were, black feathers grew rapidly on the skin like dense fur, covering her entire body in a few seconds.
The spreading pool of bright red blood also turned into a black solid substance at some unknown time.
"Bang—"
The body, the bloodstains, vanished in the blink of an eye as if they had never existed.
In the spacious room, only isolated black feathers were slowly falling, falling.
...
"Huff~ Huff~"
Like someone who had been drowning, Sophia suddenly woke up. She was just about to feel her body when she lost her balance and fell forward.
Thud!
She fell from the tree, landing face-first onto the ground.
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