Vile Dominion

Chapter 46: Detectives

Ethereal Peak Territory

Fang Chen, Li Gang and others are travelling over a Flying Spiritual Beast. It is Thunderclap Talon. This spiritual bird not only has high speed, but also strong attack power.

Li Gang's attention was on Fang Chen at this time. He was continuously moving his hands and using some kind of Secret Technique. 

Yuan Guo glanced at Li Gang and understood his thoughts. He explained. "Senior brother Fang is removing our traces."

Li Gang was surprised. He questioned. "What kind of trace? Aren't we moving through wind route?"

He thought. 'No one should be able to find trace through air, it's too unrealistic.'

Yuan Guo asked. "What do you know about classes of Warriors?"

Li Gang thought and replied. "There are various classes like Alchemists, Forgers, Formation masters and so on."

Yuan Guo nodded. He replied. "These are some basic classes. In this world, there are countless such classes, like Beast masters, Flight masters, Assassins, Healers, Constructors, Destructors, and so on. Among them, there is one such class called Detectives. They have very strong perception and are able to find trace even from peculiar air movements. Every living being interact with their atmosphere and leave their own unique traces as they do. Even if you move through air, the unique Spiritual Essence that corresponds you leaves traces in the air. Even your body scents, your breathing styles, your movement all leave minute clues. Though these traces reduce with time, but if searched in time, it can lead to our origins."

Li Gang was surprised. 'Indeed, everything we do would always leave traces. But to be able to find clues from Wind shouldn't be so easy. It is like increasing dimensionality. You need to deal with even larger search space.'

Li Gang's thinking is in fact right. Finding traces from more sources is like increasing variables to find solution. The more variable, the larger search space! For example, one variables' search space would be a line, but in case of two Variables, the search space would be a plane, and in case of a three variable, it would be a volume! But this is just a basic mathematical concept, the real life variables are even more complicated.

But, although they are increasing search space, Detectives can still find clues and reach their result, because most of the times the pre defined knowledge again reduces their search space. These Detectives use some of the pre defined established laws of this world to filter the Search Space and when reduced enough, they can manually verify one by one if the person is the target or not.

This is not easy to achieve, at least one need to practice for countless years, day and night to reach such heights. It needs very high level intuition, perception and creativity.

Li Gang asked. "If they are so capable, wouldn't they be able to find any assassins just by looking at the scene?"

Yuan Guo nodded. "Yes, they can. This is why we assassins use different kind of means to remove our traces. Detectives are the worst nightmare for all the Assassins! Have you ever heard of Shadow Killer?"

Li Gang denied. "No"

Yuan Guo said in a deep voice. "He is the greatest Detective ever born. It is said that he can find trace of any Killer just by looking at the Death Scene. "

Dai Lin agreed. "Rumour has it that he is able to see through all the Karmas and deduce anything about past, present and future by just looking at once! But I don't know why such a great character became the leader of Shadow Sect. Detectives are known as nightmare for Assassins, but he is both Assassin and Detective at the same time!"