The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 770 Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 37
"Moran said it's on the east side of the camp! Go check it out quickly!"

Ren Miao quickly pointed in the direction of the watchtower.

She knew the rules. In normal battles, everyone could cooperate with each other, but when someone had identified a target Mirror Beast to extract skills from, unless the situation was critical, it was best for that person to be responsible for killing it, or at least to deliver the final blow. Others should try not to interfere, so as not to affect the completeness and compatibility of the extracted beast core skills due to different energy residues.

Upon hearing this, Xiang Yufan disregarded everything else, said "Thanks!", and immediately crouched low, rushing towards the watchtower in the center of the camp as quickly and quietly as possible. He nimbly climbed up in a few movements, slightly out of breath, and, suppressing his excitement, asked in a low voice:
"Molan, where is he? East of here?" His gaze was already fixed anxiously on the darkness to the east, searching for the Wind Chaser Antelope.

Moran's gaze remained fixed on a point in the darkness to the east. Hearing Xiang Yufan's voice, she didn't turn her head, but instead pointed very subtly in a direction with the hand holding the dagger, her voice extremely low but rapid:

"About two hundred meters in that direction, at the edge of that slightly elevated patch of grass. It just paused there briefly, seemingly nibbling on the luminous moss."

It has moved now, and is currently hovering in a small area at a high speed, but its trajectory is regular, and it is very vigilant.

Her senses and vision seemed unaffected in the dark, and she accurately reported the target's location and movements.

Xiang Yufan immediately focused his gaze in the direction she pointed, trying to adjust to the darkness in the distance.

At first he saw nothing, but a few seconds later, with the help of the extremely faint starlight and the strange glow emanating from the distant meadow itself, he indeed caught sight of an extremely blurry gray shadow moving silently like a ghost at an astonishing speed—it was the Wind Chaser!

His heart skipped a beat, filled with excitement and nervousness.

Xiang Yufan took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down and recalling the hunting plan he had devised before setting off.

The Wind Chaser's magical skill is called "Following the Wind," which allows it to sense extremely subtle signs of danger in the air through the wind.

When the wind is favorable, its perception is extremely sharp, allowing it to detect almost any threat coming from upwind, and it can use the wind to unleash astonishing straight-line speeds. Headwinds, on the other hand, interfere with its perception, and although it can run as fast as lightning in a straight line, it is relatively slow to change direction, making its trajectory easier to predict.

This skill is widely recognized as a powerful life-saving skill among one-star beast core skills. It is extremely practical and will continue to play an important role even after the mental power is upgraded to a higher star level in the future.

But precisely because of this, hunting it is extremely difficult.

For a one-star scout without speed-boosting abilities, catching up with and killing a Wind Chaser Antelope head-on is virtually an impossible task.

Xiang Yufan was very self-aware; he never dared to hope that he could kill the enemy "face-to-face" alone.

His goal has always been to "kill alone," not to force a head-on kill, which means he can use the environment, traps, or other means.

While this doesn't achieve the perfect extraction conditions, resulting in the "Following the Wind" skill being slightly less powerful than the Wind Chaser's own, it's still a dream come true for low-star Mirror Explorers.

By abandoning the stringent condition of "positive," his room for maneuver has become much larger.

He prepared two plans for this.

One is an ambush trap.

After locating the area where the antelope frequently roams, set up ground traps such as tripwires and pitfalls in advance, and then patiently wait for it to walk into the trap.

This plan has a high success rate, but its drawback is that it is extremely time-consuming, requiring a lot of preliminary reconnaissance and waiting.

He specifically learned a lot of tracking techniques and trap-making skills for this purpose, and also prepared a lot of related materials in his backpack.

But clearly, there's no time to prepare for this sudden situation. The second option is long-range sniping from downwind.

Approach the Wind Chaser cautiously from downwind, using the wind direction to mask your scent, and then attack with ranged weapons.

He dared to devise this plan because he inherited his father's good archery talent; his accuracy was quite good among his peers, and he also had a foundation from practicing since childhood.

However, this plan is extremely risky. The wind direction is unpredictable in the colorful plains. If the wind direction changes midway, or if he makes any slight noise, given the alertness of the wind antelope, it will instantly burst into speed and escape, leaving no second chance.

He didn't have the almost intuitive sense of wind direction that the Wind Chaser had.

He couldn't guarantee that he would always be downwind when approaching the Gale until it came into range, so even now he wasn't entirely confident about this plan.

Therefore, in his plan, this second option was always a matter of luck; it would be best if it succeeded, but failure was also expected.

Now we have no choice but to gamble on our luck.

Xiang Yufan quickly took out a lightweight but powerful short crossbow from his storage equipment and carefully loaded it with a specially made armor-piercing bolt.

His heart was pounding like a drum, but his hand holding the crossbow remained unusually steady.

"Moran, keep an eye on its movements for me. I'll sneak over from downwind," Xiang Yufan said in a low voice to Moran on the lookout tower.

"Judging from the direction of the grass, the downwind side should be over there, about 180 meters away. It's still eating with its head down, and the frequency of its movements has decreased, so it seems to have relaxed its vigilance," Moran said.

Xiang Yufan nodded immediately, then crouched down and stealthily made his way downwind as Moran had indicated, like a ghost.

He made full use of the grass and the undulations of the ground to conceal his figure, and every step he took was as light as a raccoon.

The night breeze blew, blowing precisely from the direction of the Wind Chaser towards Xiang Yufan, perfectly masking his scent.

Everything seemed to be moving in a favorable direction.

Eighty meters... sixty meters... forty meters...

Xiang Yufan could clearly see the graceful outline and slightly shimmering fur of the Wind Chaser.

He slowly raised his crossbow, began to aim, his breath almost stopped, and his finger gently touched the trigger.

Thirty meters! At this distance, within the effective range of his crossbow, he was 70% confident of hitting a vital spot!

However, at this critical moment——

Something unexpected happened!

The unpredictable weather of the colorful wilderness once again demonstrated its capricious nature!
A sudden, unpredictable whirlwind swept across the meadow from the side, causing the previously stable wind direction to deflect ninety degrees in an instant!

This sudden change in airflow was like a piercing alarm for the wind-chasing antelope, which has the ability to "go with the wind"!
The Wind Chaser, which was munching on the luminous moss, suddenly raised its head, its sensitive ears twitched violently, and its head instantly turned towards the direction where Yu Fan was lurking!
The wind carried a strange, dangerous scent from that direction, a scent that belonged to humans!