Just then Xue Fang noticed the indifferent guy at the front stop, after a while he continued walking.
"What the hell happened or what the hell want to happen"
Xue Fang panicked slightly, he was now very alert with his appraisal skill, ready to view any information of any creature bounding his way.
"Rong Xia too?"
Xue Fang saw as Rong Xia also stopped in her tracks, however, it seemed he was the only one attentive to this latest occurrence, every other person was busy chatting their boredom away.
"Wow!"
An unexpected sound drew Xue Fang out of his paranoid thoughts.
"Since you are the first aspiring hunter in your family, your family is quite rich, and they could afford to buy you a full set of Soul Avatar gear."
A girl was groveling to the head of the girls' group. The head of the group was a tall girl with slender legs; she wore seamless, delicate full armor. The front of the armor was a character of unknown meaning engraved in her chest area.
'Perhaps the language of the slayed Supernatural species.'
Xue Fang noticed the mask she wore, which prevented people from seeing what she looked like. It was made from an unknown material, and the mask covered her nose and mouth. It was so refined that it took the very shape of her facial features. Most of all, every word the girl said was as clear as ever, with no difficulty in speaking. It was as if the mask didn't restrict nor obstruct any sound wave or the framework of her mouth.
'An Avatar gear that doesn't exude dark aura, I doubt that Avatar gear could protect her body from the blow of some entrants among us like Rong Xia with enhancement level of 22"
Xue Fang could remember her body level of enhancement the time he appraised everyone, it was 10—the maximum level of body enhancement a genius could attain when they first awakened their Soul Will without any Soul coin.
Xue Fang grinned like some mischievous brat and then appraised the avatar gear.
If an armor-type soul avatar could protect the body against physical attack, then certain Omni-armor could also grant defense against mental attacks of some level, give stamina, augment certain body attributes, and even grant immune abilities against disease attacks, elemental attack, poison attack among other things.
And since this one was inferior, Xue Fang figured that, that was the limit of what it could do as a Common-grade. However, what was the grade status about?
Promotable? He had never heard of Soul Avatar grade being promoted, how would it be done, perhaps that was one of the many mysteries of the HighRealms that were unknown to civilians.
And if the body armor could defend against blows, what the girl's mask, gloves, leggings and boots do wasn't displayed by his appraisal skill, Xue Fang realized that this was how far his appraisal skill could go.
And as for the Avatar gear auralessness, Xue Fang couldn't point to one thing in particular, maybe it was the nature of the Soul Avatar, or the art the girl was practicing, some cosmic body arts have the power to subdue dark aura of soul avatars, government have even been investing on the projects of professors in military academies who develop this Cosmic body arts so that Soul Avatar could be used unconditionally in the human world.
Without the accumulation of dark aura from Soul Avatars, human technology would be safe.
Xue Fang continued grinning, then he thought in his mind;
"What else can this skill appraise? What about a creature's body—"
"KYaahh!!
A frightened voice drew Xue Fang away from his thoughts.
It was the boy who got spooked earlier, everyone turned to him with an exasperated expression.
This time, no one knew the reason he had shouted, this prompted a boy beside him to give him a questioning look.
"Yimo! What is with that look, I heard some creaking sound, then I turned to look only to see the head of this stone monster turning and facing me"
At the sound of "stone monster", everyone turned to look at the statue, and for a moment, the whole building was silent, after all, no one had encountered a stone monster since the time they first ventured inside the tomb, which would be roughly two hours.
Among the humanoid statues was a statue with two pairs of bat-like wings, a round bald head, and pointed ears, compared to the humanoid statues which were tall and standing, this one was perched on a raised platform, making it the same height as the other statues, its long talons were so sharp and frightening, causing a feeling of dread to washed over the entrants' body even though it was a sculpted statue.
Xue Fang wondered if that was the reason the indifferent guy and Rong Xia stopped earlier, and if it was, were they that frightened that they needed to stop to compose themselves?
"Anfeng, aren't you hallucinating, this bizarre statue isn't even facing us, how do you know this was how stone monsters look like"
"I swore I saw it turn and face me, the head turned!"
Yu Anfeng was trying his best to make his claim believable, but no one seemed to believe him, look of distrust was deeply etched in their features.
Meanwhile, Anfeng was already panicking, and from the fear of the statue, he refused to shift his gaze from the statue, as if waiting for the statue to perform the action again.
And so the statue turned again, looking at him grimly, triggering Anfeng to get so scared that he shouted.
However, before everyone turned in his direction, Anfeng was already headless, the stone monster with its two pairs of wings had soared up and flew toward him, its stony wings creaking and shaking off dust as it flew and in one swoop, it had clawed at his head, its sharp, long talons cutting it off cleanly from his shoulder.