Chapter 539: The Giant Spirit Dog Big Nose, Enhanced Shadow Reconnaissance Ability

This really is an exceptionally large dog!

It looks just like an ordinary Shepherd Dog magnified several times over; a single dog head is not much smaller than the entire person of Xueya Site, and the total length of this giant dog, including its tail, is estimated to be five meters long!

Its shoulder height is over two meters!

Yet, such a huge and terrifying thing is currently staying right beside Xueya Site, sniffing Jier's companion with caution and curiosity. Xueya Site himself did not notice, and Jier did not notice either, when such a huge animal appeared by their side!

"When did it appear!" Jier shouted in surprise, then pulled up the Dwarf Soldier Spear stuck beside him, took a step back, and raised the spear with both hands, aiming at the giant dog.

Seeing this action from Jier, Xueya Site was also startled. He immediately performed a forward roll, and without even getting up, he lay on his side on the ground, grabbed the front of his Heavy Crossbow with both hands, and kicked the crossbow string diagonally upward with his feet, quickly loading a Crossbow Bolt into the Heavy Crossbow.

By the time he panted and raised the Heavy Crossbow to aim behind himself, he found that there was nothing there; nothing existed.

But Jier's surprise and the subconscious reaction he made just now did not seem fake.

So, Xueya Site looked slightly toward Jier and asked cautiously: "Jier, what did you discover?"

Jier looked puzzled, but he finally realized that this giant dog was the Spirit Beast of his heart that he had summoned using his blessing ability. So, he put away his weapon, approached cautiously, and tentatively reached out a hand, trying to pet this huge Shepherd Dog.

Woof!

The giant dog barked, but it did not seem to dislike Jier's actions; it even actively leaned its body forward, letting Jier pet it.

The fur of the Great Spirit Dog felt a bit coarse, but it was soft and loose, and the body beneath the fur was quite solid; clearly, this huge body was not just for show.

"Hey, Jier, what's wrong with you?"

But the same thing looked exceptionally bizarre to Xueya Site, because Jier was currently leaning his body forward, reaching out to stroke the empty air back and forth, with a satisfied expression on his face—it was simply insane.

"Can't you see it? Such a huge Shepherd Dog!" While stroking it, Jier beckoned for Xueya Site to come closer and pet it too.

But unexpectedly, after actually walking over, Xueya Site walked directly into the body of the giant dog.

No, not walking into it, but rather both seemed to exist, yet in reality, only Jier's Human companion was real, while this giant dog was an illusory thing.

"Is it fake? But why am I able to touch this dog?" Seeing with his naked eyes that Xueya Site walked into the dog's body and moved around in confusion, while his own hands could touch and stroke the dog's fur and body—both appearing simultaneously—caused a conflict in Jier's senses.

Jier then leaned his body forward to stroke the giant dog's forehead. This action looked exceptionally bizarre to Xueya Site, because Jier was standing on tiptoe, reaching out his hand, and waving it back and forth at the empty space, as if he were rubbing something located high up.

But there was clearly nothing around Jier.

Xueya Site rubbed his eyes; he felt as if he were hallucinating.

But the next moment, he saw Jier grab something in the air with both hands, at least that was how it looked in terms of movement.

As a result, after Jier gripped it tight, he exerted force with his toes and jumped, and his whole person just sat in the void on something!

"Huh?!!!"

Xueya Site was stunned.

He rubbed his eyes again, wondering if he had been training too hard with his newly acquired Heavy Crossbow over the past two days, causing his mental state to become unstable? To be so tired that he was hallucinating.

"Ha! This is not a hallucination! But it might look really strange from your perspective? Siter, I am currently riding my new animal friend! A huge Shepherd Dog! Although it's not as tall as the Tianxuecao, it's soft to sit on, not as uncomfortable as a Muan. And it has a big, wet nose and a pair of loyal eyes."

Jier shouted excitedly, asking Xueya Site to come over and test whether it was true that only Jier could see and touch the summoned Spirit Beast as if it were real, while others could neither see nor touch it.

If that were the case, then things would be very interesting.

Just with this characteristic alone, Jier could come up with several combat tricks.

Xueya Site walked back and forth around Jier several times, even walking twice around the legs of Jier, who was floating in mid-air.

But he truly could not touch anything Jier was talking about.

He could neither see the giant dog in Jier's mouth nor touch the giant dog that Jier was riding in mid-air.

This made him suspect whether one of them had eaten an excessive amount of poisonous Mushroom, or accidentally ingested the powder of a poisonous Mushroom?

But Jier squeezed his legs, and floating in mid-air, he just ran off!

While moving through the air, he also shouted excitedly: "Haha! It really can run! So obedient! Good dog! Good dog! What name should I give you?"

Xueya Site had a look of being unable to laugh or cry, but the tense and bizarre feeling from before had disappeared.

Jier drifted away and quickly disappeared from sight in a few moments, but before long, he drifted back through the air from not far away, just floating at a height of two meters around Xueya Site, wandering back and forth.

It seemed that Jier was controlling the giant dog he spoke of, pacing around Xueya Site.

"Have you noticed, Siter, there isn't a single large dog footprint on the ground around here!" Jier turned his body to the side, carefully observing the ground around them, especially the places where the giant dog beneath him had walked.

It was clearly a two-meter-tall, five-meter-long giant Shepherd Dog, weighing at least several hundred kilograms at the lightest; if it were heavier, it would have to be a ton.

But the ground did not leave a single footprint. Clearly, this thing only interacted physically with Jier himself and did not interact with the surrounding environment in the slightest, as if this giant dog only existed relative to Jier, but was false and unreal to the surrounding real world.

Thinking of this, Jier shouted: "Oh no! It's over, it's over! I didn't come here to ride a dog for fun, I need its nose to sniff out the enemy's location! If it cannot interact with any matter in the real world, then how can it smell the scent left by the enemy or the captured civilians?"

Xueya Site thought about it, and that was indeed the case. If this giant dog—a giant dog he couldn't see, so he would pretend it really existed—if the giant dog couldn't interact with the real world, then how could it smell scents and complete the most important task Jier needed it to do?

"Jier, this blessing ability is so powerful, it can't possibly have such a big problem. This is a blessing ability given to you by the gods; you should try it, let it sniff around and see if it can smell anything."

Although Jier knew that this giant dog had a very friendly relationship with him, he didn't know if this kind of magical Spirit Dog without training could understand his meaning. Controlling it to move was also Jier applying the method of riding a warhorse to this giant dog, which seemed quite useful: squeeze your legs to move forward, pull the fur on the giant dog's neck to the left to move left, move it to the right to move right, and pull backward to slow down and stop.

So Jier had no choice but to lean his head toward the giant dog's ear and whisper his request.

Unexpectedly, after Jier finished speaking, the giant dog immediately lowered its head, tried hard to twitch its nose, sniffed left and right, and soon found a direction, letting out a "Woof."

"Got it! It really works!" Jier said excitedly.

But Xueya Site just stood to the side, watching Jier strangely floating and drifting around, floating bizarrely as if haunted, and he didn't know what Jier and his illusory giant dog were doing.

"Did you find it?" he asked.

Jier nodded, seemingly having heard the giant dog's barking response: "Big Nose seems to be saying to go this way!"

"And who is Big Nose?"

Xueya Site asked helplessly: "Don't tell me that's a temporary name you gave to this so-called giant dog? Is its nose really that big?"

Ignoring his companion's sarcasm, Jier immediately rode on the giant dog's back, extended the Dwarf Soldier Spear in his hand backward, and signaled for Xueya Site to reach out and hook onto the spear shaft: "Don't say so much, hurry up and get on the vehicle! No, get on the dog! Grab the spear shaft, and I'll show you right now whether it really exists."

In Jier's eyes, after Xueya Site heard his words, he walked directly to overlap with the lower half of the giant dog's body, first unloaded the bolt from the Heavy Crossbow, then slowly released the string of the already-cocked Heavy Crossbow, then put away the Heavy Crossbow, jumped up, grabbed with both hands, and caught the spear shaft above his head.

Jier felt the force on his hands, and the spear shaft swayed downward, but he quickly squeezed his legs tight against the giant dog's back to ensure he didn't move, then stabilized the spear extending behind him with both hands.

Xueya Site just passed through the giant dog's body, barely climbed onto the spear shaft, and carefully maintained his balance while sitting sideways.

"Sit tight! Big Nose, chase after it! Move in the direction where the scent is strongest!"

As Jier finished speaking, he himself heard a series of "woof, woof, woof" responses from a giant dog.

Subsequently, the giant dog ran easily in the direction it had chosen; Jier also rose and fell with the dog's movement, maintaining his balance and trying his best to keep Xueya Site, at the other end of the Long Spear, sitting steadily.

At this moment, Xueya Site also felt exceptionally bizarre.

Because in his eyes, Jier was hovering in mid-air two meters above the ground. And Jier, who was already floating in the air, was even able to use the shaft of the Long Spear he extended to incidentally support him in the air as well.

With this, both he and Jier were suspended in the air.

If there were nothing to bear the weight of both Jier and himself, that would be impossible. Inferring from this, in a place he could not see, did there really exist a massive giant dog that only Jier could see and touch?

And it could listen to Jier, clearly unable to affect the ground when moving, and seemingly unable to bump into things, yet it could smell the scent left by enemies and captured Villagers, and was truly carrying both of them to move quickly through the Forest?

Truly a peculiar animal, a peculiar ability.

If an outsider were to look over at this moment, they would discover a very bizarre scene.

Two armed Warriors were unexpectedly moving quickly while floating, one sitting astride something in mid-air in front. And the Long Spear extended backward by the person in front was actually carrying another Warrior, both of them suspended two meters in the air, moving rapidly.

At the beginning, Xueya Site could still sit on the Long Spear and maintain stability, but as the surrounding ground became increasingly pitted and sunken, and the terrain became rugged, the invisible giant Spirit dog was currently traveling through the dense Forest, accelerating, running, and leaping, which caused both Jier and Xueya Site to sway back and forth.

Xueya Site soon could not sit still; he had to use both hands to hug the wrist-thick Dwarf Soldier Spear shaft to avoid falling off.

The sound of the wind whistled past his ears; even in the woods, Jier and the others were moving extremely fast because of the giant Spirit dog.

Jier looked nervously at the surrounding environment, constantly constructing a concrete map model of the path they had run in his mind, and estimating their orientation and heading.

Although he still had the Positioning Stone Ball on him to ensure he could find the Forward Yingdi in the end, losing his sense of direction because of the fast movement of Big Nose was, after all, not a good thing in the Forest.

It was unknown how long they had walked or how far they had run—at least that was what Xueya Site, who was hugging the Long Spear shaft tightly for fear of falling off, thought. The two men floating in mid-air gradually slowed down.

Jier said at the right moment: "Big Nose has slowed down; it seems we are almost there."

Xueya Site retorted: "We are almost there, the meal I just ate this morning is about to reach my throat."

"Then why are you still talking!"

As soon as the invisible giant dog stopped, Xueya Site let go, landed on the ground with a thud, and with a "wua" sound, turned to the side and vomited all over the ground.

Most of the food he had eaten not long ago that morning was vomited out.

Jier also dropped the Long Spear and shook his sore and aching hands vigorously.

He had just used all his strength, which was the only way he could keep the Long Spear stable all the way, treating Xueya Site like a piece of luggage to make him follow along.

What, you ask why Jier didn't ride the giant dog and carry Xueya Site on his back; wouldn't that be easier?

But Jier would rather expend more effort than carry a fully armed grown man on his back. He was a Knight; even if he had not been formally knighted by the Kendall Baron, granted a fief, and a title, he already possessed the most important foundation of a Knight—martial power exceeding that of ordinary people.

He should be riding something, just like he was riding the giant dog Big Nose now, rather than being ridden by others, even if it was just carrying someone, he was unwilling.

Bringing a companion along as if they were luggage was already a method Jier could accept.

Woof!

"Big Nose seems to be saying that there are enemies nearby? What? The enemy's Mine is actually this far from Changmai Village!"

Jier said to Xueya Site in a low voice. While speaking, he also kicked some thick fallen leaves from the ground to cover the food Xueya Site had just vomited.

Xueya Site, feeling a bit better, also lowered his voice while panting and said to Jier in a whisper: "What do you mean?"

Jier took out a map of Sasi County from the small Backpack on the back of his armor inside his Cloak. He pointed to the location of Changmai Village, which was at the very bottom of the map, the southernmost Village in the southern part of Sasi County.

And Jier gestured with his finger, moving south from Changmai Village: "This is the Forward Yingdi."

Jier continued to move south: "Moving south again on foot through the Forest for a day's distance, we are right here!"

"What, this bit of distance on the map actually requires a day of walking?"

Jier nodded: "Just now, Big Nose carried the two of us for about ten kilometers. Don't look at this as a distance that could be covered in a short while on a plain or a road; with just the rugged ground we just traversed, wanting to walk ten kilometers in a day is already the result of me exaggerating the mobility of ordinary people."

"In this way, we will hide here for a while. I will let Big Nose, whom others cannot see, go out to scout a circle first, and then we will carefully conduct reconnaissance!"

Xueya Site, who was squatting on the ground and looked like a dead tree trunk covered in Mushrooms, had already opened the Plant Concealment Cloak on his body at some point. At this moment, this tree trunk, which looked eighty percent like a real rotten tree trunk, spoke: "Fine, anyway, with this treasure on me, I don't think the enemy will discover the two of us."

Jier touched a buckle on his Cloak engraved with the Divine Emblem of the agricultural god, and soon the Plant Concealment Cloak on his body also underwent a change.

He became a dead tree with nothing left but a ring of old tree bark. Soon, the dead tree that Jier had turned into spoke: "That's right, so just wait with peace of mind; Big Nose will be back soon."

But in fact, while Jier sent out the giant Spirit dog Big Nose, he also tilted his head, letting the Shadow Bird fly out from his right eye at an angle Xueya Site could not see, to fly out and conduct reconnaissance.

Xueya Site whispered about his feelings just now, but Jier's energy at this moment was focused on the reconnaissance of the Shadow Bird.

Yes, ever since the Shadow Bird absorbed those Defeated Soldiers killed in the previous battle, its various abilities had been improved, among which 【Shadow Reconnaissance】 had become what Jier called the 【Strengthened Shadow Scouting】 ability.

The Shadow Bird sent out to scout was no longer like before, where it was completely uncontrollable once released and could only move and scout according to a pre-set reconnaissance path. At this moment, the strengthened ability already allowed Jier to divert a portion of his energy to command it in real-time and see the line of sight of the Shadow Bird's reconnaissance.

Even if this ability consumed his energy excessively, and the scene seen by the Shadow Bird was also very different from the scene seen by the Human naked eye!

The field of vision seen by the Shadow Bird had relatively monotonous colors, but perhaps because of the source of its power, it could easily see through things in places with dim light. Therefore, the world seen by the Shadow Bird was a line of sight where light and dark did not change much, but the colors were not rich.

But Jier also noticed that besides these things, the Shadow Bird could also see some perceivable magnetic fields similar to magnetic fields in the surroundings.

Jier guessed it was a magnetic field, but it was also possible it was not.

But clearly, in the Shadow Bird's line of sight, everything had an Energy Field of one size or another; big trees had them, small trees had them, rocks had them, the sky had them, and the earth had them too. Even Human bodies had inconsistent strong or weak Energy Fields.

The Shadow Bird, hiding on a tree nearby, looked at Jier himself and the Xueya Site beside him; the two dead trees were emitting Energy Fields different from the real big trees around them.

Xueya Site's Energy Field looked weak and rose and fell with the rhythm of Xueya Site's breathing.

Looking at Jier's side, the Energy Field on his body far exceeded that of his companion beside him.

It was just like the size difference between a sesame seed and a grape.

Jier did not expect that the Energy Fields on the two of them would be so different; it was not like the difference that should exist between the same species.

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