Wallace immobilized the guard after asking a few more questions and stealthily headed to the dome.

As he approached the place, he noticed that the number of guards outside increased even more. It seems that the man he scanned a while ago had been alerted and added security in the place.

"At least, it seems that the alert level wasn't that high."

Wallace surmised as he observed the relaxed guards overlooking the place. It could have been a common routine they've been doing in the past two decades as well, so Wallace wasn't sure.

He doesn't have time to study their routines or schedules to find a loophole on their security. He could only think of a few methods to get inside the dome.

At first, he had actually planned to infiltrate the dome using the uniform of the guard for himself but the guard wasn't even aware how to enter and when he had used his Divine Sense a while ago, he recalled that there's indeed no entrance whatsoever that can be found to enter or leave the place.

This made him realized that all these guards in the vicinity really came from small barracks near the dome.

Also, there wouldn't be any huge advantage disguising as a guard and at most, he might reach the dome unobstructed but he wouldn't take his chances.

Using the Cloak Mode of his armor, Silence Wall from his Mana Artifact, and the Enhanced Magic Jammer to avoid being detected, Wallace made it closer to the dome.

"There should be some secret here." He whispered to himself after checking out the purple dome made of unknown metals or stones.

There's no way that this dome is empty and missing an entrance. He tried circling the place to make sure if there's any visible mark for entrance.

"There must be a hidden path since the person I felt a while ago came from this dome." Wallace analyzed and after his failed probing, he quickly approached the smooth wall of this purple dome. He touched the wall and activated the Mana artifact that he had first-ever received from the Pathfinder.

[ Necklace of Clarity

Increases the user's concentration, memory and reaction speed.

Ability: Glimpse of the Mind ]

[ Glimpse of the Mind

Allows the user to see the flaw in any material upon receiving enough mana

Duration: 5 minutes

Cooldown: 3 days ]

He was worried that his Divine Sense would alert that powerful magician so he would try to limit his usage for now but the Glimpse of the Mind has different laws in itself.

Wallace had never seen any other Mana Artifact or Mana Spell capable of looking through a material's flaw. At the very least, not that he was aware of any. Even the Magic Engineers within the National Magic Trade and Industry doesn't have such tools when they examined Wallace's Float Drive System before.

A few seconds passed by and turned to minutes, Wallace's palm was still placed at the wall.

Currently, the place was so silent, there wasn't even any noise and only the bantering of some guards can be heard. The wind was so stable in this deeper part of the small island, there's no rustling of leaves and the noise from the waves of ocean could no longer be heard.

These were some of the things Wallace had missed due to his extreme focus in understanding the flaws on this wall.

A few more seconds had passed and Wallace opened his eyes. His eyes contained enlightenment as he realized the structure of the dome.

Not only that, some mysterious thing was trying to communicate with him!

He couldn't explain it but there's definitely something calling out to him now that he had gotten closer and touched the wall.

"Hey, Pathfinder won't you help me out here?"

***

Kharvatt Sierra.

After the girl defeated the illegal hunters and discovered their identity as someone connected to Z-Company, she immediately reported this to her point of contact within this place. She couldn't report this yet to the police or government officials since she wasn't too aware of the political inclination of this place yet.

The Z-Company isn't a simple organization as it wouldn't survive long without the support of some prominent figures. She would let the agents they have here to settle this problem.

It didn't last long before an officer she knew arrived.

"Senior Officer Yumi, are they really a member of that organization?" An agent with a Zairusian accent appeared near Yumi. The man wasn't surprised whatsoever upon seeing the child in front of him and even addressed the latter as his senior.

Although Yumi works at NMTI, she had a special status allowing her to utilize the resources of Lucent Force in this country.

"That's right." Yumi answered and looking blankly in a certain direction. She didn't wait for her to speak and continued.

"How many members of the Lucent Force can be called here?"

This time, the man had a grave expression. Their delegates were assaulted in the hotel by this Z-Company. Now, Yumi found traces of this organization. It was easy for him to connect the hidden message of his senior.

"Aside from me, there's four more we can call out. Hmm, there's also about 30 personnel we could use but only 7 of them had reached Battle Mage." The man only wore civilian clothes and had a long brown hair reaching his shoulder. He actually looked like someone who'd just woken up with a messy hair. He seemed to have hurried here upon receiving communication from Yumi.

"I understand. Well, I have a bad feeling about this. What do you say about our current situation, Eagle?" Yumi wanted to take the opinion of this Lucent Force officer assigned in this country.

"We're aware that this Z-Company had been in contact with some high ranking officials of Montego. But all their transactions were all too secretive and we're unable to dig deeper. We can only make a theory based on the clues we had..." Eagle paused a bit as he took a deep breath before continuing.

"It seems that more than two decades ago, the Montego's president that time, the father of the current one, had been in huge trouble and leaned to an underworld organization for help in stabilizing his status. What I'm saying is that we can't handle them here in their turf. Haaa~ Everything started on this island."

"Oh? This is the first time I heard this."

"Ugh, you're just probably not interested in the political status of this far island."

Yumi nodded in agreement. She was more interested in making artifacts recently than to study the history of other countries.

"So, there really is a problem on this island?"

"Mhm... We couldn't tell the level but there's definitely a single powerful magician stationed deep within this place."

"I see. Right, how will you handle this members of Z-Company?"

"Hmm... It seems they're from another faction within the same organization so I could use them to gather more information before erasing them."

Yumi could only stare at him as she didn't fully understand.

"Ah, You can say that the faction of Z-Company that Raven was dealing in Zairus was different in members that you can find here. These individuals came from Ember's Fist Faction while those who attacked you guys in your hotel were members of Shaman's Hex Faction. That faction originated from Zairus."

"Hmph, they're all the same."

'Uhmm, they actually have different goals. Ember's Fist focus on controlling political power to gain advantage but Shaman's Hex although had a certain part in political manipulation they focus on human experimentation to gain power.'

Eagle could only say in his mind because, at the bottom of this, they're really on the same underworld organization.

After leaving Eagle to settle those eight people she apprehended, she left in the same direction Wallace had chosen.

"Now, where did that kid go." The girl said while contemplating her next plan. She was already near the shore as she continued her journey to find Wallace.

***

Meanwhile, after Wallace called for Pathfinder's assistance, he received a response unexpectedly.

[ You have arrived within the range of mission item, Cube of Paradox ]

[ Would you like to establish a connection? ]

Wallace smiled after seeing this within his vision. But before he could answer, he felt a menacing presence locking down on him putting a lot of pressure that he even had to kneel whilst on his armor.

He raised his head and saw the same powerful magician he felt a while ago.

He was still wearing his long gray robe as he stands on the air and looking down on Wallace.

The middle-aged man was now frowning as he stared at the humanoid black being below him.

"What are you?"