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Immediately, a glowing pale orb flares up from the dish and the contents have apparently disappeared. A line of light traced down the length of the map from one side to the other and once it reaches the far side, the entire map glows briefly before settling again. As far as you can tell, nothing has changed and your teacher lets out a sigh of relief.
"We have a bit of luck still left for us today. It seems as though whatever that mimic was, there are no others like it that mimic the nodes of the system itself. I suspect it must have encountered some energy of Change in a location within very close distance of a node, and whatever happened, it needed a new disguise so it changed to become how we saw it. With how the mimics are all rocky in appearance, I doubt it really knew what it was doing, but we killed the only one that seems to have mutated."
"Small blessings", you huff, "but I don't like that the map didn't pick up on it. Is there a way to have the map show more than it is now? We need to have a foot forward on finding mutated things more often."
Oranya hums thoughtfully, then drags her the thumb, index and middle finger of her hand along the map and a quill materializes in her grasp. She begins to write with it on the map, each word fading away as she completes it, and soon another line of light travels along the map until it glows again. This time several markers show up where none had been previously and as you suspected, more monsters were revealed...along with herb, ore, bone and icons for strange things the map simply declares as "discernable oddities". How strange.
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