Chapter 196
After that, the monster’s attack decreased noticeably.
The monsters that attacked were all A-class monsters.
There were no B- to D-class monsters approaching.
Everyone was frightened by the mana that Captain Charles spewed out.
“… … Did you notice?”
The monster attacks decreased after I sensed the corrupted mana in the body of a dying monster.
Judging by the timing, you could say he realized we noticed and started crouching down.
“no. I didn’t notice.”
But no.
The enemy has not yet realized that we have finished our assessment of the current situation.
“It’s not speculation, is it certain? What is the basis?”
Why do you think the enemy has not grasped the current situation?
Charles asked me that.
“First of all, among the taming magic that warlocks deal with, there is a magic called ‘sense sharing’ that shares a sense with a monster.”
I slowly started explaining.
“Sense sharing? Are you hearing this for the first time?”
“You will hear it for the first time. Warlocks who use taming magic are rare. This is information I came across by accident.”
Since there are so few of them, it is inevitable that the information is not known.
I wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t for Mimir.
“No, it’s not that it’s rare… … .”
How can a black mage tower expert know information he doesn’t even know?
It looked like he was saying that.
“no. Please explain further.”
“yes. The reason why they attacked us with goofballs earlier was probably to use that sense sharing to collect information on us.”
“So you kept repeating such meaningless raids?”
“yes.”
“… … It makes sense.”
Charles nodded a couple of times as if he understood.
“for a moment. Didn’t you get caught then? If he was sharing his senses with the monster, that means he heard what you said earlier.”
Earlier, I said, ‘As expected. Black Mage’s Mana… … ” he muttered.
If the enemy heard that, it would mean that they had grasped the current situation.
“no. He didn’t hear me.”
okay.
It means ‘if you heard’.
“The monster that attacked us earlier was Riflondon. It is a mole family monster that lives in the ground. It is characteristic that the senses including sight and hearing are degenerated like a mole.”
“right. Because they capture their prey through vibrations and mana that spread through the ground. But why… … . ah.”
Charles opened his eyes without saying anything.
As I speak, it seems that I have realized.
“Right. Share your senses… … . If you share your senses with someone who has no hearing or sight, you won’t be able to hear them.”
“yes.”
He doesn’t understand the current situation.
“The reason he stopped raiding is because there is no point in continuing raids any further.”
“You mean you’ve finished gathering all the necessary information?”
“no. It can’t be. Since Captain Charles continued to use magic with his strength relaxed, it would have been impossible to collect proper information. I wasn’t even using magic. There’s no way we got the right information.”
There is no way that proper information collection has been done.
“The reason he stopped raiding is most likely because he judged that there was no information that could be obtained by conducting more raids.”
“Do it. It wouldn’t have meant much if such raids continued.”
“Right.”
Dealing with B-D class monsters was as easy as lying down and eating rice cakes from Charles.
“But why did you repeat such meaningless raids five times? If you sent it to get that much information, wouldn’t it be okay to send it only once?”
“It’s simple. The raid from the second round onward was not aimed at gaining the power of Captain Charles.”
Now that I think about it, the 2nd to 5th raids were all multi-faceted raids that aimed at Captain Charles and me at the same time.
At the time, I just thought that the monsters cleverly surrounded them and then jumped in.
After I figured out the whole situation and thought it over again, I could see that it wasn’t that reason.
“Its purpose must have been to test my strength.”
“Look at your strength?”
“yes. It must have been quite annoying for me to keep still. In order to play against the opponent, you have to understand the level of the opponent at least roughly, but how annoying it must have been to keep your hands behind your back.”
“aha.”
I took out the ace I put in earlier and put it on again.
“I happened to be wearing this robe just before.”
“Why Grove?”
“This robe has the property of absorbing mana from the outside into the inside. From the senses of the monsters, it would have looked like there was only empty mana around me.”
“Seeing the empty mana around you, I thought there was a high probability that you were a high-ranking mage. This is it.”
“yes. Mana converging into nothingness is a characteristic that occurs when saving mana unique to high-ranking wizards.”
“… … okay. I know what you mean.”
As if Charles had completed his grasp of the situation, his eyes lit up.
“In short, the reason he stopped raiding was because he thought that if he continued raiding, I would be able to stop them all alone anyway, right?”
“yes. Besides that, if the raid continued any longer, they would have thought that we would notice something strange.”
The raid continues despite Captain Charles’s mana release.
If this continued continuously, this side would have no choice but to prepare in its own way.
He was wary of that and stopped the attack.
It’ll be easier for us to attack later if we’re not vigilant.
“So you’re saying he still doesn’t quite grasp who we are?”
“yes. If you could see our faces with your own eyes, there would be no reason to raid five times.”
The proof is that the attack was repeated five times.
“That means he’s not around.”
“My guess is that it’s probably at least 10km away.”
At least not within sight of us.
It was like this.
“Then there’s a chance you’ll lose your body at all?”
“There is no chance of that happening. No, it will be high.”
If the opponent is ‘Parade’, an executive of the Black Mage Tower, there is a high probability that he escaped.
“I heard that Parade used almost all of its power in the 3rd magic stone warehouse before. The fact that such a guy is now on Mt. Baekdu means that it is to make up for the lost monsters.”
In other words, the fact that the parade is on Mt. Baekdu itself is evidence of his poor physical condition.
“As much as I lack power, there is no reason to fight against an unknown opponent… … . Just this.”
I don’t think a parade in such a state would dare to attack us by force.
Since it is an unknown opponent, there is a high probability that it will retreat.
“… … That’s a bit difficult.”
Charles clicked his tongue with an expression of genuine annoyance.
As a person whose purpose in life is to kill a warlock, it seems that he is quite dissatisfied with the parade.
“Maybe not. I was watching the liver quietly somewhere. It could be an ulterior motive to attack us after that.”
I activated the Shinan again and looked around.
It also doesn’t look suspicious.
“I don’t see any sign of that yet.”
I don’t know if he uses excellent stealth magic.
According to the information obtained from the 3rd magic stone warehouse, Parade’s stealth ability is almost non-existent.
With that kind of crappy stealth, we’re 100% detectable when he’s within visual range of us.
“No matter what, we do what we have to do. We have no choice but to prepare as much as possible for an attack by an unknown guy.”
“… … There is no choice but to do that. It would be impossible for us to find him first in this wide area.”
At that moment, the altitude began to rise slowly.
He entered Baekdu Mountain in earnest.
“Oops. Gumi married or single, you shouldn’t have brought him. The detection ability is awesome. Then I think I could have found a parade or something.”
“It’s true that Miho’s senses are sensitive. However, it is not enough to cover this large area.”
“… … but. Then it’s not too deceitful.”
If Miho had seen the parade before, he could pinpoint the location through ‘soul detection’.
Unfortunately, Miho has never met Parade.
Therefore, it is impossible to find the parade even with Miho’s help.
“Oh, and aside from that, Miho. I brought you.”
“… … what? You brought it?”
Charles stopped walking, leaned his neck back, and looked at the backpack I was wearing.
“Did you put it in your bag? You, that animal… … No, monster abuse.”
“no. It can’t be.”
Is there any way to put Miho in an expedition bag with poor ventilation?
“If you didn’t put it there, how did you get it?”
The only thing I brought was a backpack strapped to my back.
Actually, I don’t need this either. To me with A.S., being a burden is literally just a burden.
I just put this in a subspace and threw it away.
As much as I didn’t tell Charles about the subspace, I was just wearing it to show off.
‘Ah, come to think of it, now that I’ve said everything, I guess I can throw it away in AS.’
There was no need to cumbersomely tie a bag.
As usual, I took out Aes and put it on.
Then, I put my backpack in the A.S.
“Captain, please give me the baggage I don’t need right now. I’ll put it in.”
“… … Ah oh. That’s right. That would be fine.”
Captain Charles smiled shyly as if he hadn’t taken it for granted that he was entrusting his luggage to me.
“ruler. here.”
They handed me all of my luggage except for the things I needed for battle and the simple things I needed right away.
I put everything I received into AS.
“Big. It will be really comfortable. that. Are you thinking of selling it to me?”
“doesn’t exist. Even if you give me enough money to buy America, I won’t sell it.”
“Sorry. I was willing to accept it, even in writing a real slavery contract.”
Captain Charles licked his lips as if he was sincerely sorry.
“Anyway, thank you. It’s comfortable, it’s comfortable.”
As if enjoying a much lighter body, he jumped lightly in place and thanked me.
“Oh yeah. than that. Keep talking. How did you bring the nine-tailed fox?”
“hmm. I just reached Mt. Baekdu… … I will show you.”
I held the ‘Covenant Stone’ hanging around my neck with my hand.
Then lightly infuse mana and cast ‘Factio’, albeit in a simple way.
It was forged with magic.
Aaah-!
A red light flashed briefly.
and the next moment.
beautiful person-!
Miho was cradled in my arms.
Captain Charles’ eyes widened like rabbits.
“You too… Can you summon monsters like the parade gnome?”
“yes. Well, it’s similar.”
To be precise, he made a passage through the Book of Mimir through the Covenant Stone, and called only Miho from the Book of Mimir.
There is no reason to go into detail.
“… … No wonder, really. Is it space magic again? Then, later, you will use teleport magic, too?”
One of the 7 difficult magics.
Space movement magic using the wizard’s own body.
Teleport.
“well. Maybe not?”
In this era, it is the 7th difficulty, but it is not a difficulty for me.
There is no such thing as impossible in the Bytenor style.
No, even if it wasn’t by tenor, if you look at Aslan, the space movement magic itself isn’t magic that can be called a conundrum.
“… … Now that you say it, somehow it doesn’t sound like bluffing.”
“Because it’s not bluffing.”
“you. Don’t you hear from your friends that you’re unlucky?”
“one person. I have a kid like that.”
“right? I knew it.”
Captain Charles, then it is. He nodded his head with a smile on his face.
Looking at Captain Charles like that, I smiled a little and turned my gaze to Miho.
“Miho. Could you guide me towards Laplace?”
At my words, Miho gave a cute cry and jumped down to the ground.
Then he turned his head and looked at me as if to follow me. I started walking slowly.
“let’s go.”
“… … Was the herb you were looking for Laplace? No, rather than that, is he looking for that herb?”
“yes. Didn’t I tell you?”
“The horse is a bitch. I only said medicinal herbs, you bastard.”
Come to think of it, I didn’t really say anything.
I was too distracted by Shadow. To the person who will help me, I can’t even tell the basics like this.
“sorry.”
“it’s okay. Well, I don’t know what kind of herbs and how to pick them up. Keep your promise.”
promise.
He said that he would give me information about the Black Mage Tower if he would go to Mt. Baekdu with me and protect me until I gathered herbs.
It was a sharp look that said that if the words were false, or if you didn’t keep it, you wouldn’t really forgive.
“yes. When this is over, I will tell you everything I know.”
I was thinking of handing over the information about the ‘spy’ I was supposed to receive from Shadow to Charles.
Sophia-sama would use that information better than anyone else.
“okay. That’s it.”
Charles smiled and accelerated his steps.
And just then.
Woo-woo-!
The terminal device in my inner pocket vibrated.
“what. did you bring the phone? What if the location information is updated later?”
“no. This… … .”
I stopped walking and took out the terminal from my inner pocket.
“… … Secret line terminal C-V97? Why do you have something like that?”
Before, after negotiating with Shadow. When the data to be handed over to me is finished, the terminal imprinted on the secret communication line that I was handed over saying that I will contact you through this is vibrating regularly.
