Chapter 78

Chapter 78 Strongest Sage, Confirms

"Let"s get back to about the demons for now . "

"T-that"s right! We saw some kinda huge explosion, what was that!?"

When I said that, Alma recalled something and asked me .

"That was the demon imploding . And of course, I"ve confirmed that he had died for sure . "

Pretending to die in an explosion while actually secretly fleeing the scene is a relatively famous tactic .

You need to keep monitoring the enemy"s mana reaction as they"re exploding, to prevent yourself from getting tricked .

"Demon, imploding . . . . ?"

"Yeah . That"s the kind of magic it was . . . . But the problem isn"t the demon . But what"s left of it . "

"Left . . . Hm? There"s some kind of weird rod sticking out, what"s that?"

After a bit, Alma pointed at a broken stake .

Ruli and Iris shifted their glance there .

"It looks similar to the pillar used for making barriers . . . . It"s very big though . "

"It does look similar . . . But isn"t that a Dragon Vein Pillar?"

Iris replied to Ruli .

"Iris is correct . That"s a Dragon Vein Pillar . A tool to manipulate the mana flow in the Dragon Vein by sticking it into the vein . The problem is its purpose . . . We defeated a demon called Ashril recently right?"

"Rather than we, it was mostly Mathi-kun alone though . "

"At that time, Ashril used a magic to cause a large outbreak of monsters . "

"Outbreak of monsters . . . Is that the same magic that exists in myth? It"s said to require your life as compensation . . . "

That magic was in myth huh .

It should have been a hardly usable minor magic .

"I don"t know about myth, but it"s true that it requires your life as compensation . I only managed to delay the magic since I had lost most of my mana at that time . "

I probably would have been able to stop that magic if I had as much mana as I am now .

. . . However, even if the monsters are of questionable quality, it"d be a waste to stop them from coming .

I think I probably would"ve just delayed the activation to after the completion of the capital"s barrier even if I had some mana remaining .

"You speak as if you stopped a myth-cla.s.s magic . . . . "

"It"s Mathi-kun . . . . I mean, Iris is also a mythical creature if it"s really the real one . . . . "

"Hm? What about me?"

Iris replied with human language hearing its name got called .

"Ah . They"re talking about myth and stuff . I"m not peculiar about myth at all . . . How about you Iris?"

"Un . Since I have never gone down that mountain, I don"t know either . . . . "

Looks like Iris isn"t really useful for getting information .

Well, even if Iris is a mythical creature, the thing it has to do won"t change .

. . . But I"m curious if G.o.ds really exist .

I"d like to fight them eventually .

" . . . And that stake . . . Does that Dragon Vein Pillar have anything to do with monster outbreak?"

Alma returned to the point .

"Yeah . Judging from the magic carved on it, no mistake about it . Arias and the other demons stayed here in order to control the Dragon Vein below and shift the outbreak location . "

I didn"t defeat Arias normally and made him implode by using up large amount of mana because I noticed that .

The Dragon Vein Pillar had been set for quite a long time so its effect had solidified . . . But it should be shifted a bit after breaking it that bad .

" . . . I"ve got a bad feeling about this . . . . "

"Me too . . . . Mathi-kun . The location of that outbreak is . . . . "

I reply the two"s question .

It"s probably the worst possible answer they could"ve guessed .

"--It"s at the royal capital . "