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chapter-495

Chapter 495 Pandora's Box

Making their way across China, they had to traverse quite a few mountain ranges which wasn’t too hard considering their level. Whenever Shiro discovered a potentially dangerous entity, she would either send a flaming arrow to deal with it or warn the party, allowing them to take it out swiftly.

This allowed the journey to be relatively relaxed as nothing too serious had happened due to the satellite system scouting out everything around them.

Deciding to camp out for the night, Shiro opted to take the third watch while Keiko and Keomi took first and second. Naturally, the final watch went to Nan Tian who didn’t have any qualms with it.

"I doubt anything would happen but take this just in case." Shiro smiled and handed Keiko an orb of sorts.

"what’s this?" Keiko raised her eyebrows curiously.

"It’s... something I’ve developed on my own. Should you be in a dire situation, just throw this orb at the enemy and it should wrap around their body, cancelling all of their mana for a short period of time which should be just enough for you to deal with them." Shiro smiled.

"Well damn... I don’t even want to know what it’ll be like if this was mass produced. Assassinations would be a breeze all over the world." Keiko shuddered to think what kind of chaos this could cause in the world.

Looking at Shiro, who gave her this murder tool with ease, Keiko thought of two words that describe her perfectly.

Pandora’s Box.

She was a box containing knowledge and power but the price for this would be the chaos it causes in the world.

Not only did she have the blueprints of her twin hand cannons that could kill people with ease, but she also had an orb that cancelled out a mage’s most powerful tool.

"Shiro, are you sure you’re a mage? What kind of mage carries things like this?" Keiko asked jokingly.

"Well, if I was a common mage, I would have died quite a few times in this current life." Shiro smiled while walking back to her own tent.

Opening the tent flap, she was half expecting to see Nan Tian laying on her bedroll with a pose or something but her worries were for naught.

’Damn, hanging out with this guy has made it so that I’m being cautious around every corner in case I’m caught off guard by his advances.’ Shiro thought with a frown.

Shaking her head, she tapped her glasses a few times and had her satellites roam the surrounding areas, scanning further and further away from camp.

Once that was done, she rested her body and went to sleep.

The first few hours of the night were relatively peaceful as the satellites didn’t detect anything major so Shiro could sleep with ease. The same happened with Keomi but she had to deal with a few monsters that got a little too close but they were dealt with ease.

However, on the third shift, Shiro saw that her satellites seemed to have detected something big within the outskirts of its detection range.

Furrowing her brows, Shiro activated a camera function on the satellite and tried to get a closer look. Hoping that it wasn’t one of the three level 500 monsters in the area, she controlled the satellite carefully.

Thankfully, the monster that the satellite picked up seemed to be a large turtle that had a small forest on its back.

Looking through the camera, she could see the turtle crawl out of the ground and move away from their location.

’Fu... it’s nothing too big.’ Shiro sighed in relief since fighting here was not an option. Once they fought, the mana fluctuations would no doubt draw more attention, causing hordes of monsters to charge towards them. Should that happen, escaping would be very hard since they could probably just track where her rift opened up once more.

’Though it’s quite strange... The satellites should have picked up on the turtle much earlier than this. How come it only discovered it wh- wait a minute... Why are the fluctuations different.’ Shiro narrowed her eyes as she noticed a small inconsistency in her scans. The first fluctuation the satellites detected was much sharper while the turtles was rather mellow. Meaning there were two monsters rather than one.

Standing up, Shiro had a serious expression on her face.

"This monster must be adept in stealth." She muttered before quickly waking up everyone in the tent.

"*Yawn~ What’s going on?" Keiko asked while rubbing her eyes.

"There seems to be a monster adept in stealth near here. I barely detected it for a moment before they replaced themselves with a different monster to mask their presence." Shiro said as they all sobered up and quickly packed their things.

"Then we should probably move through the night. Fighting would only make matters worse." Nan Tian suggested.

Agreeing with his suggestion, the party started to travel through the night while making sure to constantly keep a watch on their surroundings.