In the shadows of the Black Stone Gobi, beneath an unremarkable speck of dust, hid a creature smaller than a single strand of hair.
It was called a "Bloodwing Mosquito," one of Grock's proudest techniques.
This type of Magical Beast had almost no combat power, but its reproduction rate was astonishingly fast. It flew silently and could naturally bend light, achieving near-perfect optical invisibility.
By controlling the queen, the entire swarm became his eyes and ears.
A month ago, he had received his orders from the Son of the Abyss and had been lying in wait here ever since.
To that end, he had released tens of billions of Bloodwing Mosquitos.
Now, aside from the core areas of the two workshops and mines that he avoided for fear of detection, every mining site and every Golem on this vast expanse of land was under his surveillance.
"Alchemy Wizard..."
