Chapter 199
Chapter 199
Afterward, I activate the detector magic device .
Maximum output . Judging from our enemy’s capability, they’d probably know anyway even if we tried to detect them with minimal output .
So might as well end this in one go instead of taking half-baked measures .
“It’s shaking quite hard . ”
At maximum output, the ruin has begun to shake violently .
The ground around this area was sturdier when I made this ruin in the past, so it never shook this much .
The ground here must have changed along with times .
. . . Thankfully the magic tool buried in Dragon Vein under ground for supplying mana is still working fine .
If that were broken we’d need to provide the device with a vast amount of mana ourselves .
“W-would this ruin be all right?”
“The construction seems really sturdy, I think it should be okay . . . ”
Alma looked around anxiously as she said that .
On the other hand, Iris is staring at the magic device without taking any notice on the shaking .
This much shaking is probably nothing for Iris who originally lived in a volcano .
A few minutes later .
. . . The result is in .
The magic device here is excellent .
It makes clear of everything; the target demon’s location, mana, name, current situation and even its original mana quality .
“I got the info about the demons . . . It’s the worst . Well, I guess it’s still better than not knowing until it’s too late . ”
I put a red marker on the map .
The demon is located there . . . but honestly speaking, there’s almost no point in knowing that .
“What do you mean by the worst?”
“The demon from before . . . The name’s apparently Zaridias, that guy is currently sealed . Its original strength is . . . well, the me right now probably can’t beat it . ”
It’s true that I posses the magic techniques forged in my past life .
My crest now is also practically the strongest crest in battle, and I’ve raised my mana big times .
Judging from its amount of mana, this demon is probably relatively experienced in battle, but I’m far above it in term of battle experience and techniques .
However, there is simply no way to overturn the overwhelming gap in mana .
No matter how skillful someone is, they cannot cut orichalcum with a wooden sword, it’s something like that .
I won’t be able to beat the demon even if I use up all of my mana and deliver a perfect strike, while the demon is strong enough a single blow from the demon could kill me if it hit .
In such a situation, you have no chance of winning no matter what skills you have .
“But that demon is sealed right?”
“That seal has mostly been come undone . It’s probably only gonna hold for another half a day . . . To begin with, considering that demon has been giving instructions to other demons, the seal probably hasn’t been working correctly for a while . ”
It’s impossible for other demons to interfere with the seal if it’s still working as intended .
This demon probably made use of the chance when the seal was weakened during the past several years to spread its influence .
In order to make it as easy as possible for the demon to move around when the seal broke .
“True, it shouldn’t have been able to move with a working seal . . . ”
“What would this Zaridias do once it broke out of its seal?”
Ruli asked me the question .
However, she probably knew the answer already without asking .
Laying waste to the Dungeon City’s Dragon Vein, manufacturing mana bombs in Folkia .
There’s only one thing the mastermind of such plans want to do .
“Annihilate humans . ”
I gave an immediate reply .
In the first place, demons have no other behavioral principle than that .
“Annihilate . . . Like, right away?”
“That’s right . With powers like Zaridias’, there’s no need to take roundabout ways like slipping in Eis Kingdom other demons did . It could just fly to the capital of a country somewhere, and rain down magic attacks from the sky . Repeat that until it’s done . ”
The current humanity has practically zero chance of winning after its seal is broken .
Judging from the state of the seal, a civilization from my past era probably created th seal .
After the civilization was destroyed, no one maintained the seal, and now this is the result .
. . . Good grief, they sure left behind quite a mess .
They should just have killed this demon rather than sealing it in a half-baked seal .
And the past me even went the trouble of distributing magic devices to kill demons to various countries in order to prevent this kind of situations .
“That means . . . We’re all done for?”
Alma asked in despair .
True, we’re in the worst possible situation .
However, I have something in mind that could get us out of this conundrum .
“That’s not necessarily the case . I know a way . ”
I replied while operating the detector magic device I used just now .
“How do you even deal with an undebatable opponent?”
“The simplest method is running away . In this world there are facilities with an even more sturdier defense than where we are now . We could use Immortal magic, train there for 200 years, then defeat Zaridias . ”
“T-two hundreds . . . You’re joking right?”
“I’m dead serious . Since we don’t have time, I would have brought us there to go into hiding if we had no chance of victory . ”
In that case, humanity would probably suffer catastrophic damages .
However, the number of demons is limited . Even if they destroyed all the big cities, they wouldn’t be able to eliminate every single human .
After completing our training, we would defeat the demons, then humanity could rebuild slowly .
Guess, I’ll fetch Giruas who’s nearby if we go with that route . He’d turn into a valuable asset if I train him .
“But Mathi-kun hasn’t gone into hiding yet . . . Which means, we have a chance of winning?”
“Yeah . Though, that depends on this result . ”
I activated mana detector at maximum output .
The target is a disposable magic sword the past me created .
The weapon can only be used once, but it’s extremely powerful so I’ve been looking for it without avail .
However, this detector should be able to find it .
” . . . Isn’t it taking too long?”
“Yeah . Cause it’s looking for a magic sword . Looking for that takes time compared to a demon that’s emitting a huge amount of mana by itself . ”
It’s already been 10 minutes since the activation .
It only took about five minutes to find the demon, but unlike demons, magic items and magic swords only emit trace amount of mana, so it’s quite hard to locate them .
And there’s probably only around 10 of that sword left in this world .
There’s a lot of reasons why there’s only a few of them, well, let’s not think about it for now .
The problem is where that sword is .
The magic device stopped while I was thinking .
“Alright, here’s the res–ult?”
I froze for a second when I saw the result .
The magic sword is on a coordinate that I’m all too familiar with .
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