Chapter 132


Chapter 132 Strongest Sage, Watches Over


"Avoiding us!?"


"Yea . I see with focused Pa.s.sive Detection that monsters are moving like they"re avoiding us . From what I tested earlier, looks like they were detecting our mana . "


Afterward, I slightly moved forward and went back again .


I didn"t move far at all, but I could sense the movement of monsters .


Not all of the monsters are like that though, sometimes the weaker ones showed themselves up before us .


"Well, it"s true that monsters with intellect wouldn"t voluntarily go and challenge Mathias . . . . "


"Now that you mention it, escaping itself is an act that an intelligent monster would take . . . "


"If I have to say, I think it"s Iris that they"re detecting . Iris"s mana reaction is the bigger one here right?"

The difference in mana quant.i.ty between a dragon and a human child is obvious .


On top of that, I normally control my mana so it won"t leak out too much, thus it"s only around the level of Alma and Ruli .


A monster with great detection ability might be able to see through the difference in mana quality, but I don"t see any monster like that .


" . . . Our prey escape because my mana leaks out . . . Should I better suppress my mana too?"


" . . . Can you do it?"


Considering her track record so far, Iris"s mana control is catastrophically bad .


A fireball she intended to go straight forward went right above instead .


And since the output is high, it"s unnecessarily dangerous .


"Un . I don"t understand, but I"ll give it a try! . . . Please back away a bit since we don"t know what will happen!"


Apparently, she"s aware of the danger herself .


Well, with how st.u.r.dy Iris is, her mana running slightly out of control probably won"t hurt her .


Expecting that, I watch over Iris with Ruli and Alma from a place a bit farther away .


And then . . . .


"Here I go!"



With the yell, Iris"s mana rapidly contracted--and right afterward, pokon! Iris flew up vertically along with that sound .


While leaving a small crater on the ground .


. . . . Looks like the mana that was forcefully contracted exploded and launched Iris up .


"Uun . . . . I failed . It felt like I managed to suppress it at first . . . . "


Iris who landed without a scratch looked down on the crater while saying that dejectedly .


"Your mana reaction did get smaller for an instant . . . All the monsters around here escaped the moment it exploded though . "


I concentrated on Pa.s.sive Detection after saying that .


The number of monsters who were just keeping some distance away from us have reduced to the level of an average plain one .


The remaining monsters are all moving like they"re straight running away from us .


"I . . . I"m sorry! I didn"t mean to scare them away . . . . "


"Well, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses . I think you should be able to control your mana to a degree once you get used to that body too . . . . And there"s no point in beating monsters that would run away just from sensing Iris anyway . "


A properly strong monster won"t run away just from sensing the current Iris"s mana reaction .


Some of them might run from the previous Iris, but the Iris right now isn"t emitting as much mana as she did back then .


"I"m glad if that was the case, but . . . . "


"Rather, a monster that"s truly strong might come after Iris . And that"d be most welcome . "


"I don"t feel welcome about that at all . . . "


Ruli frowned when she heard me .


Well, judging from the mana reaction, there"s fewer monsters coming here than expected .


For now, let"s continue to press ahead without expecting much .

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