Ian's gaze turned ice-cold in an instant.
He quickly cleared away all traces of his Alchemy and the Potions, leaving only a few common experimental materials on the platform.
He himself was like a wisp of smoke, silently melting into the shadows in the corner of the room, becoming nearly one with Gaga's Shadow Energy.
His Spiritual Perception spread out at full force, like invisible ripples on water, blanketing his entire residence.
'It's here.'
That familiar, veil-like Shadow Energy seeped through the crack in the window once again.
It was more cautious than the last two times. It moved with extreme slowness, nearly blending in with the natural fluctuations of the ambient shadows.
Instead of performing a wide-area scan as it had before, it "flowed" toward the Alchemy Platform.
It seemed to be searching carefully, checking for any residual energy signatures or material traces.
