NOVEL NEXT Chapter 285: Fog of War
The puppet's arrow was nowhere near as fast as the original Huntsman, but it was still fast enough to be a threat to Atlan.
He quickly tried to move to the side but found that his movements could not catch up to the arrow.
It hit his chest with a powerful pushing force, making his entire body fly out into the dark forest.
"Atlan, are you okay?"
Carmine gritted his teeth and watched as Atlan's entire body got blasted by the arrow.
"I don't understand how it's able to move your body so far out! Your battle suit is supposed to weigh thousands of tons!"
Meanwhile, the White Canzer didn't even look at Atlan and simply took to making herself beautiful once again. She conjured a blanket out of the magical yarn and needle, and used it to wipe the violet blood off her chitinous skin.
After a few seconds, she was as good as new. There was not a speck of blood on her white chitin.
'I'm going to have to teach those puppets a lesson once they get back. Today was a close one. If they had simply just died sooner, then I could have summoned all of them back and I wouldn't have to dirty my hands.'
Then, she turned to the puppet.
'Huntsman, who's the fairest one of them all?'
The Huntsman puppet, after firing the arrow towards Atlan, simply looked back at the White Canzer and kneeled towards her.
'You are, my princess. No one is more beautiful than you.'
She smiled.
'That's good. You're much better than you were before. Now, would you be a dear and finish off that human so that I can go back to my cottage?'
The Huntsman notched another arrow in its bow. But when it looked forward, it couldn't see any sign of the human.
Atlan seemed to have disappeared deep into the fog, nowhere to be seen.
'I…can't see…,'
uttered the Huntsman puppet in disbelief.
It shouldn't have to be mentioned that the original Huntsman had complete control over the fog in the Remedium. It could see everything around it in crystal clear clarity, with nothing being able to hide in its sights.
The puppet shouldn't be any different. It retained all the powers of the Huntsman, albeit a bit less toned down. But its mastery over the fog shouldn't have been affected.
But when it looked around the fog of the dark forest, the puppet realized that it couldn't see anything beyond a few meters.
'How…how is this possible….'
The White Canzer frowned.
'What's wrong?'
'I can't control the fog…which means…this is not mine…'
The White Canzer almost laughed at the absurdity.
'What do you mean? This is one of your powers. How could it not be yours?'
'.....'
'Don't tell me…do you think that the human can summon a fog like you?'
The Huntsman puppet nodded.
'Affirmative.'
Meanwhile, the live video feed projected back to the real world at the Emergency Meeting room was acting weird.
They could see nothing but a gray smoke very similar to the fog of the Remedium.
However, this fog obscured everything from the video. They couldn't see anything.
Usually, they would have been able to see at least one meter into the fog. They would even see Atlan's hands and legs move from their perspective.
But this time, they couldn't see anything.
The worst part about it was that they couldn't even hear anything from the video. It was mute.
Carmine and the rest of the Operators were having a meltdown trying to figure out why this happened and how they could correct it. They inspected the hardware and software of the battle suit, but they couldn't see any problem at all.
It should be working properly. But it clearly wasn't.
Even the Elder Heads watching at the side couldn't help but try to give out solutions to the Operators, but it was to no avail.
Carmine shouted towards the mic.
"Atlan! Atlan, are there? Can you hear my words?"
Yes. I can hear you loud and clear. Sorry, but I don't want to show you my powers just yet,
Atlan thought to himself.
What Carmine didn't know was that the battle suit worked properly. There was no malfunction in the video feed. The fact that they couldn't see anything was because Atlan intended it so.
He looked at his new Intern-realm LifeSkill in his Soul System.
—Sniper: (A) Fog of War
——— 1st stage Intern realm
[This LifeSkill allows the user to create a fog that obscures everything in a 50-meter radius. No visual or audio cues would leak out from the user's position, allowing them to remain in stealth.]
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According to the description, this Sniper LifeSkill would give Atlan the advantage of surprise.
From the moment he obtained this new LifeSkill, a description popped up and gave detailed information as to what his new powers entailed.
He was immediately interested and wanted to try it out immediately.
Back when the arrow hit his chest, he let himself be flown outwards so that he could create proper distance between him and the Canzers.
Only then was he able to experiment on his new LifeSkill.
The moment he activated it, he felt tremendous amounts of power flow through his veins. But this didn't last long. It quickly dispersed out of his bloodstream and seeped out of his skin.
This new power turned into a gray fog that leaked out of him, slowly spreading out in a 50-meter radius.
The best part about this was the fact that he could still see everything with crystal clear clarity. He could see grid lines everywhere and these lines distorted into an object and showed their location.
Judging from the fact that the Huntsman puppet couldn't target him a second time, meant that the Canzers couldn't see him.
And judging from the fact that Carmine was panicking about not being able to see anything, he knew that the video also couldn't see anything.
"I can hear you," Atlan replied to Carmine to test if they could hear him.
"Hello? Hello? Damn! We lost connection!"
Atlan smiled. Finally, he could use his real strength.