Skye paused as she tried to get more sense of the situation…
Soon, she could feel it again… that faint ripple of Dark Energy in the air.
"Tsk… Why is this happening now?" She muttered.
Most Arcanists would have needed to activate detection spells to notice such a disturbance, but she didn't. As a Homunculus, her senses were built differently. Every shift in energy, every trace of corruption, was clear to her without effort.
As a successful product created by the Church of the Fortune Goddess, she would never miss something like this at all.
It wasn't just about detection.
Her body reacted naturally to changes in the environment. The vibration of the ground, the distortion in the atmosphere, even the faint wave of malice carried by the summoning… all of it reached her like instinct.
Where others relied on spells, she relied on what she was…
