Chasing insects and playing with them was something it had always enjoyed doing.

Hwi might have been foolish, but Byeol certainly was not.

It had stopped Hwi from acting recklessly and had practically exhausted itself trying to keep this little family together.

Even so, Byeol had also noticed how long Joo Joowon had remained standing there, and finally could not stop itself from asking.

If the human really wanted those things, then perhaps it could work very hard and secretly catch a few bugs and bring them back.

Joo Joowon gently rubbed Byeol’s little head and felt his heart soften.

He had his precious little companions with him out here.

Being forced into danger by circumstances was one thing, but there was no way he would willingly walk straight into danger of his own accord. "Good boy, Byeol. Don’t make any moves later, okay? I’ll take you two to meet a good person in a little while. Well, maybe not a good person. More like a good zombie."

"Meow?"

Joo Joowon did not explain further.

If they attacked once they arrived, he could stop them then.

While Hwi had been busy stuffing himself earlier, Joo Joowon had not simply been standing around doing nothing.

Instead, he had already spread out his search threads as a warning network, weaving them together like an invisible spider web with every strand secretly connected to another.

As long as anyone approached within a certain distance, the threads would temporarily hinder their movements.

The sluggish physical awareness possessed by zombies made tricks like this extremely easy for Joo Joowon to pull off.

Of course, the situation at that time had not actually been suitable for a fight.

That was why, while attempting to imitate the pressure released by the Big Belly Zombie and create something similar to intimidation, he had also quietly left traces of Mental Power behind on those creatures as markers.

In truth, Joo Joowon had cheated a little.

He had not left mental imprints directly on the zombies themselves.

Instead, he had left the marks on the spider silk attached to them.

Spider silk naturally possessed an excellent ability to conduct Mental Power and, more importantly, it belonged to him.

Because of that, leaving Mental Imprints on it was absurdly easy.

This had also been the direction in which Joo Joowon had been trying to make breakthroughs all along.

Because the Spider Web Launcher only allowed him to sense movement through the silk while the other end remained connected to his body.

But in reality, after a spider finished weaving its web, the web was not still connected to its body at all.

Spiders relied on the sensory organs in their legs to determine whether prey had become trapped.

Naturally, Joo Joowon could not achieve something like that, so what part of his body could possibly replace a spider’s legs?

Without a doubt, it was Mental Power.

The problem was that the previous Joo Joowon had never succeeded in doing this because once His Mental Power left his body, it became like a fish that had been taken out of water and quickly dissipated.

He had never known how to stabilize his Mental Power and prevent it from dispersing, and inside the Big Belly Zombie’s skill, the very first thing Joo Joowon had learned was how to protect his mind and stop his Mental Power from collapsing.

However, the mental battles inside the sea of chaos and mental interactions in reality were ultimately different.

In reality, Mental Power needed something to attach itself to if it wanted to exist for a longer period of time.

That attachment could be a living body, or it could be an object.

Under the suppression of the Mental Pressure he had released earlier, it had been extremely difficult for anyone to notice the little tricks Joo Joowon had used at the time.

Now, those marks finally became useful, allowing him to vaguely sense whether the locations carrying those Mental Marks were moving or remaining still.

This crude tracking method was completely useless against creatures with high Mental Power.

If it were Joo Joowon himself, he would have noticed it immediately.

Its concealment ability was not particularly impressive.

However, just as Joo Joowon, who had deliberately chosen to deeply study Mental Power, still knew very little about the methods used by psychic creatures, these zombies that had only recently stepped into the world of the supernatural likewise had no understanding of how terrifying and difficult to guard against psychic abilities truly were.

In that regard, both sides were more or less equally inexperienced.

Unfortunately, Joo Joowon’s Mental Marks were not permanent.

If they did not receive replenishment from Mental Power of the same origin later on, these marks would probably only last for a single day.

That was right.

Only one day.

After all, this was Joo Joowon’s first time doing something like this, and he was still not very skilled at it, resulting in the stability of the Mental Marks being rather poor.

Being able to maintain them for an entire day was already the ideal scenario.

If the target entered combat during that period, the Mental Mark would quickly collapse because of the fluctuations in energy.

Perhaps it was precisely because he had been using Mental Power so frequently before it had completely stabilized that his mind had been exposed to danger and nearly developed problems.

Fortunately, after gaining practical experience this time, Joo Joowon was confident that the next time he created Mental Marks, they definitely would not last for only one day.

At the very least, they should remain stable for around three days.

Furthermore, during that time they would no longer collapse simply because the target entered combat and caused energy fluctuations.

The only exception would be if the target remained in constant battle without interruption, with elemental energy exploding around them every moment.

However, the chances of that happening were simply too low.

Most of the Elite Monsters he had encountered possessed abilities that focused mainly on physical transformation.

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