"First, I will try to upgrade my vision ability inside my domain." He closed his eyes and concentrated. Far above, on the ceiling of his domain, he created a kind of intangible eye. In his perception, his domain was shaped like a rectangular pillar with a height of 300 kilometers from the ground. Of course, no one knew or saw that there was a kind of domain enveloping them.
He kept concentrating until he could see the entire city as if it were a miniature model. He could see all kinds of activities in the city with his vision and not just sense them. After a few minutes of adapting to his vision ability, he frowned.
"It's still too much for me to watch the entire city at once. My brain and soul feel overwhelmed by the many views of living beings." He could see not only humans, elves, and other races but also the movements of animals like cats, dogs, and even ants!
"But I think the higher my cultivation, the better I will be able to perceive all these visions. I just have to get used to it in the future." He continued to train his vision for a few hours until he could focus on a specific target: the devils teleportation artifacts. With his combined vision and sense, he could see inside structures, rendering any obstacles to his view within his domain useless. Aldrian focused on one place first: the abandoned house in one of the outer districts close to the city wall. In one of the empty houses, there was a devil teleportation artifact protected by the same formations as the others.
"Now let's see if I can deactivate the formations from here." He then controlled the surrounding energy of the artifact to try to disable the formations. He meticulously controlled the energy to disrupt its flow and break the formations. After a few moments of silence, the barrier and illusion around the artifact were finally lifted.
"Success!" He smiled, satisfied with the result.
"Next, let's see if I can look for the karma from here." He once again focused his senses on the artifact, and soon the karma strings began to appear, branching in many directions. He felt truly grateful for his domain ability, which made his life easier.
"Now that I can break the formations and look for karma connections from here, I will take it to another level." He then located every single devil teleportation artifact in Balin more precisely. In the end, he found 1,034 teleportation artifacts across the city.
"I hope it's manageable. If I succeed, I won't have to break the formation and look for karma one by one from each artifact." He heightened his senses and domain's vision to focus on the artifacts. Many real-time views entered his line of sight and senses. Now, he saw different places inside Balin all at once, but the next step was more difficult because he had to control all the energy in different places simultaneously.
He took a breath and started to move the energy in one place, then kept increasing: 2, 9, 17, 25. He didn't stop until the last artifact. When he felt he could control all the energies, he immediately moved to break the formations. At many places inside Balin, the flow of energy moved on its own and broke many formations, revealing the mysteries hidden behind them.
Some of the artifacts were not in abandoned places but in hidden underground rooms under buildings with many visitors. Many infiltrators were still unaware that their teleportation artifacts could now be seen by passersby and their energy sensed when using the artifacts. Not waiting too long, Aldrian heightened his focus again and tried to see the karma all at once.
The branches of white karma strings started to appear from all the artifacts, creating a view of tangled threads for Aldrian. With this, he finally succeeded in solving the connections to the artifacts. He kept his eyes closed to adapt to this new sensation, feeling not only his new achievement in his ability but also a deepening comprehension of karma and energy.
A few minutes later, he opened his eyes and exhaled. "It's really refreshing. Every time I create something new, it feels so good. But come to think of it, I never give a name to any of my techniques because there are too many of them. Maybe I should name this vision technique inside my domain. Also that transparent screen that shows information, it's just not good to call it 'the screen' every time," he mused.
"Then it's decided. I will name this vision and eyes technique 'Eyes of the Heaven,' the eyes that can see anything, even the deepest secrets of the soul. Yes, that is my target for this technique."
He felt that the name was appropriate, even though it used the name "Heaven" which some people would consider blasphemous and fear that heavenly punishment would come down. There were not many things appropriate to attach the name "Heaven" to, after all.
"I hope those guys from the church 'Heavenly Direction' will not be offended by this." He just smiled. He could also see the branch of the church in the city. He didn't know the specifics of the power called the church 'Heavenly Direction' but he could see that the church had many followers, with many people from various races entering and exiting the church.
He looked at all the artifacts to ensure there was nothing wrong, but he suddenly caught an odd situation when he saw a congregation of karma branches converging in one place. He followed the strings until he arrived at a large building in the elite business district. This district was packed with people, and one of the buildings was a tall, ten-story tower, standing out due to its impressive status.
"Golden Swan Commerce," he read from the sign above the tower's giant entrance door. He didn't know who owned this place, but the karma branches converged heavily in this building, and he look in one of the rooms at the highest point. In the luxurious room, he saw 12 people, 8 men and 4 women, engaged in conversation. They were dressed in luxury clothes and seated around a round table.
"Ah yes, it would be better if I could also hear what people are saying. Yeah, let's do that. The concept is almost the same as my eyes, but it uses my ears." He connected with the energy surrounding those people, linking the vibrations from their voices to his ears.
"I….thi…ther…" Gradually, the sound from that place became audible to Aldrian. He kept listening to their conversation and as he suspected, they were discussing their plans for the future and the Devils operation from the previous night.
"We should look for them. If something happens, it will jeopardize our plan in the Ivory Empire," one of the women said.
"Yes, I agree with her, especially since he is one of Wrath Devil's disciples." Answered the other man.
"All right, tonight we will check the place where he came from first, and then we will decide our next move."
"Are they talking about that Arion guy? Tonight they will check that place?" Aldrian pondered. He looked at these people and tried to see their information while improving his Eyes of the Heaven. When all the information about the men and women appeared before his sight, Aldrian smiled.
"There you are. Is this all the Duke stage cultivators that infiltrated Balin, or are there more?" Aldrian kept listening to them until they dispersed an hour later. He confirmed that all these people were Dukes who had infiltrated Balin—a formidable number of Dukes, as it's not easy to cultivate to that stage. His fighting spirit ignited, and he was eager to try his many techniques.
"Let's move to the next phase of the devils hunt." he thought, smiling.
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In his workplace, Livrin sat on his chair with his eyes closed, leaning back. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, looked around, and his eyes widened. His butler, who was standing behind him, was confused by the mayor's behavior. When he saw Livrin stand up and walk outside, he followed him. Livrin walked until he saw Aldrian in the hallway, standing and looking out the window.
"Young master, are you sure?" Livrin asked Aldrian with doubt. Aldrian then looked at him and said,
"Yes, we can start tonight."