While other paths of magic may not be common around this region, it wasn't something too surprising to find them.
Hadrian had chosen to attack the death fiend now, because it had just come from a hunt itself, and had surely used some of its essence. Even if not a lot, every drop of depletion counted.
Like a lot of the other paths, he didn't know anything about the abilities of the death path, but like he'd said back then, sometimes no plan is better than a plan, and a true test of one's abilities.
Even if he failed, he would still learn something, and in the future, were he to face a death path mage or another fiend, he would have an idea of what he was fighting.
While the black gas interfered with his spatial sense and heat vision sense, his view of the essence sea still worked fine.
One of the orange haired monkey Hadrians scanned the black gas and located a sea of essence with three spinning fogs.
