"Strange, didn't see any traces? Longbei, you also search around, Yoyo is conducting a scan nearby."

Kane compared the map, walking and stopping in this area of only a few hundred meters.

Looking for anything with an energy reaction, but besides seeing some corpses and many undead still sleeping in the soil, found nothing related to the Soul Box.

Hearing Kane's words, Longbei also began searching around.

Though he didn't have many detection skills and techniques, he analyzed the composition of the soil here.

Using knowledge of finding mineral veins to judge if anything was amiss.

Yoyo directly conducted a red-ray scan.

Kane first opened Eagle Eye, scanning this small area and saw no non-undead energy sources.

Finally, he activated Divine Gaze, unable to spot anything unusual.

This seemed like an ordinary piece of land, with no peculiar aspects.

This left Kane somewhat puzzled.

"Could Lulula's divination be blocked? It shouldn't be, with her colorful strength."

With a whole tier difference in strength between Lulula and others, there should be no misleading of Lulula.

Could it be that there are other three-color level strong entities, or is this lich actually a trickster at the three-talent level?

That's unlikely too, if there were three-color level undead, why be Facundo's subordinates?

They would have formed their faction long ago, rather than waiting for the world to shatter.

If there were three-color entities in the undead influence, then tasks would be nonexistent.

At that time, Mist might take action.

After another thorough search, still nothing was found, and Longbei and Yoyo also had no unusual discoveries.

Thus, this truly was just ordinary mud land.

If assuming Lulula's divination was correct, what could cause such a situation?

And if assuming Lulula's divination was wrong, then what are they doing here? They'd have returned to the fortress battlefield already.

With this thought, Kane turned to look at Longbei.

Longbei shrugged at Kane's gaze, spreading his hands with a helpless expression.

"Don't look at me, you know I'm least skilled in these matters. I certainly don't know the reason."

Hearing Longbei's words, Kane sighed, indeed this wasn't something Longbei would ponder over. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Still, he could only think on his own.

Making sure there are no traps or protection measures around, and saw no objects with energy reactions.

Then Kane first thought about whether it was possible that a space was opened up here.

If the entrance to the opened space was here, that's why Lulula's divination indicated this location.

Considering that the lich was a Mage.

Reaching the gold level, using some space-related magic would be rather normal.

Using such a method to hide one's Soul Box indeed was plausible, a good strategy.

With this thought, Kane sat down cross-legged.

Then spread his hands, palms facing the sky.

Magic Power began to flow out from his palms.

A mechanism with delicate structure slowly started to condense in front of Kane.

Given Kane's current rules and strength, such slowly manufactured machinery must be exceptionally precise.

After about two or three minutes, a 4-meter-tall tower-like cylindrical machine was created by Kane.

The reason such a small piece required so much time was mainly due to its precision.

Secondly, this was something Kane designed based on the current situation.

The core space detection magic machinery component naturally came from the sealed arm of the God of All Machines.

Though Kane had such technology and support, he hadn't encountered a need for such equipment.

Therefore, there was no previous plan, only an immediate design of a functional mechanical device.

Fortunately, it was designed using Origin Skills, because of their characteristic of monitoring, modifying, and maintenance at any time, operation was barely possible.

So, this was a very unstable early test version, but at least usable.

Then Kane nodded to Yoyo beside him.

Yoyo flew up and landed on a groove of the machine.

While Kane continuously maintained and repaired this machine, ensuring its operation.

This machine, under Yoyo's control, continuously detected space data differences nearby, primarily analyzing whether fluctuations showed errors.

As the machine ran, faint grey energy dots began to float in the surrounding air, flashing.

Thus, after operating for more than an hour using this crude machine, managed to barely calculate the space parameters nearby.

Looking at the report provided by Yoyo.

Kane frowned tightly, surprisingly guessed wrong, there was no separate space or any evidence of spatial fluctuations around.

Any operation related to space would leave traces, and such traces would linger for a long time.

At least one or two years would still allow complete detection.

This explained that indeed a spatial fissure didn't occur as Kane thought here.

Meanwhile, at the fortress battlefield.

Cannon fodder was heavily consumed, and the lich began changing tactics, employing all kinds of undead capable of long-range attacks and bone creations tossing decayed corpse fragments.

Conducting remote attacks and harassment on the entire fortress.

No longer organizing undead for aggressive siege actions.

It looks like they're planning to play a war of attrition with everyone inside the fortress.

At this moment, Kane stood still, deep in thought, pondering what other reasons could have led to the current situation.

Meanwhile, Longbei beside him was idly observing the surrounding situation.

Another Walking Dead was attracted by the aura of living beings from their place and staggered towards them.

Longbei, feeling a bit irritated by the approaching Walking Dead, conjured a short spear of lightning and hurled it, blasting it to pieces.

Looking at the scattered broken bones and charred meat around, it was clear that this Walking Dead was not the first victim within the hour.

As they watched the body that Longbei had just blown to pieces.

Kane seemed to have thought of something and said.

"Do you think there's a possibility that the thing containing the Soul Box isn't in a fixed location and is actually moving around continuously?"

Following this train of thought, Kane felt enlightened.

"Exactly, the container with the Soul Box is a moving object, and when Lilu was divining, it just happened to stop here, which is why we have this situation now."

Hearing Kane's words, Longbei nodded beside him.

"Yes, you have a point."

Listening to Longbei, Kane told him, "Wait here for a bit, I'm going up to observe from the sky."

With that, Kane flew directly up to the sky to a certain altitude, then took several Intelligent Cores from his Space Equipment and installed energy detection tools before spreading them out.

Then he himself opened Eagle Eye and Divine Gaze from high up, scanning below.

During this time, Yoyo was continuously receiving intel detected by these Intelligent Cores.

Objects that might be Kane's target were all marked.

Once the detection was complete, Kane personally distinguished whether they were the targets.

Time slowly passed.

After a few hours, Kane had started the selection of targets.

Controlling the aircraft, he quickly weaved through the targets, checking if they were what he sought.

However, halfway through, still nothing was found, and none of these targets were what he was looking for.

This made Kane wonder if he had overthought the issue.

Maybe there was a mistake in the divination.

But having already come this far, it would be too foolish to give up halfway.

So he had to continue searching.

At this time, Kane also received intel from the fortress.

The Undead had already started engaging in long-distance attrition with the fortress.

They were occasionally dispatching units for siege.

Several hours of continuous fighting had left many soldiers a bit weary.

Upon receiving this intel, Kane also began to speed up.

Efforts are eventually rewarded.

Finally, Kane smiled when he spotted an ordinary Skeleton soldier.

Why did he smile? Because this Skeleton was glinting with hints of golden luster.

Although it had many concealed magic spells covering it, in the face of Kane's Divine Gaze, nothing could be hidden.

A golden-level Skeleton pretending to be an ordinary one, wandering aimlessly—it was suspicious no matter how one saw it.

Upon getting closer, he saw this Skeleton, its spinal bone having a faint gray aura mismatched with itself.

It seemed similar to the rule aura emitted by the Witch Demon Kane had seen before.

Target confirmed.

Kane quickly instructed an Intelligent Core to lock on it, then swiftly piloted the aircraft back to his previous location and picked up Longbei.

Then, through the bb machine, he relayed the information into the hands of Meizike inside the fortress.

The long-waiting members of the Lantern Knight Order and the Mermaid's Deep Sea Song division burst out by opening the fortress gates directly.

The rest of the troops followed in their charge.

The vanguard was led by Kane's golden-level generals and the six golden-level Mermaid generals brought by Miralina.

Seeing the troops suddenly charging out, the Witch Demon let out a piercing, hoarse laugh.

"Hahaha, I knew these flesh-and-blood creatures would always be swayed by their emotions. All troops, surround them for me."

The Banshee's shrieks echoed once more throughout the battlefield, and the Witch Demon's Bone War Chariot began to move, readying himself to personally counter Kane's attack.

...

"It's about time, Longbei, let's go!"

With that, Kane and Longbei charged directly toward the golden-level Skeleton.

As they were about to attack the Skeleton, a shield as sturdy as an eggshell enveloped the Skeleton, protecting it.

Then the Skeleton immediately curled into a ball, curling around the spine bone emitting the gray-black aura, sheltering it.

Layer upon layer of runes hovered from the protective bones around it.

"So it is, truly layered with so many protective runes and arrays, what a coward."

...

"Impossible!"

The Witch Demon driving the chariot towards the battlefield shouted crazily.

Then, ignoring the Undead on the battlefield.

He soared straight into the sky with the two Immortals guarding him, transforming into a gray stream of light.

This scene was clearly observed by the golden-level generals of the fortress faction.