Chapter 290


Chapter 290 Strongest Sage, Faces off the Swarm


" . . . This should be fast enough . "


I lowered the lever for acceleration once the magic freight car had gained enough speed .


"Aah, it"s not going as fast as the one we rode here . . . This is so much nicer . . . "


Alma looked relieved as she said that .


Looks like the magic freight car we took to get to the research facilities proved to be too much thrill to Alma .


"Yeah . This magic freight car has got to stop before it gets there . . . We"ll find the [Broken Star] at the terminus of this line, but the track is probably not intact . I"ll stop right before the spot where ancient monsters prowl around, then I"ll head off along with Iris from there on . "


Afterward, I check the mana situation with [Pa.s.sive Detection] .


I"d put the brakes if I sense a monster ahead of the track .


"So me and Alma are to wait on the magic freight car?"


"Ruli, please support us from afar with Augment magic . . . Since there"s a Dragon Vein near where [Broken Star] is, you"ll have to meddle through Dragon Vein . "


"Dragon Vein . . . Like how I did at Dungeon City?"

Ruli played a support role through Dragon Vein when I was fighting a demon in Dungeon City .


That should serve as a good practice .


"Yeah . Hinder the monsters" movement with your magic through Dragon Vein as medium . . . It"d be much harder than that time, but I"ll end this one quick . Bear with it until you can"t anymore . . . Alma, protect Ruli . Ancient monsters may be strong, but I"ll make it so those you can"t beat won"t pa.s.s through . "


"Gotcha!"


Alma also nodded readily .


Looks like these two have gotten much more courageous than ever, guess fighting all those demons were not for nothing .




After a little while--A sign of monster showed up in my [Pa.s.sive Detection] .


I immediately tell the three .


"I"m stopping the freight car! Hold on to something!"


I fully lowered the acceleration down, and put up multiple layers of barrier in front of the magic freight car .


The freight car crushed the barriers with a loud sound and decelerated .


"GYAA!"


"I-it"s shaking so much!"


The girls tightly held onto the interior enduring the impact as the magic freight car hit the barriers .


And it managed to stop before it reached the monster .


" . . . That huh . "


There"s an abnormally gigantic mana reaction three kilometer away from where we are now .


It"s emitting mana even though [Supra-natural Art] is not magic .


However, its mana pattern is extremely bizarre, like it"s not of this world .


I"ve never seen something like this before even counting my past life .


"W-what an incredible mana reaction . . . "


"I"ve never seen this mana reaction before, you could tell even from here . . . "


"This mana feels yucky somehow!"


The girls sounded surprised to see the mana reaction .


Heck, even Iris who usually never noticed mana reaction could sense [Broken Star] power .


Normally, you won"t even notice its existence at this distance .


This is the power of [Supra-natural Art]


It"s on a whole other dimension than the powers that exist on our planet .


A power this great exists in this universe .


. . . And I need to eventually catch up to these bunch .


The thought alone sounds fun .


"This mana reaction is [Broken Star] . I"ll be going now to reach that . "


"T-three kilometers inside this . . . "


Alma murmured so to hear me .


That much distance is nothing if you only need to walk .


However, swarms of monsters are crowding the area around [Broken Star] with nary a gap .


The tunnel that connects to [Broken Star] has been destroyed, the spot slightly ahead of us is gouged out .


All other outbreaks we have seen so far look like normal forests compared to this [Broken Star] surroundings .


It"s easy to imagine why Anmorr brothers gave up trying to fetch [Broken Star Flake] after seeing this spectacle .


Even if I ride on Iris dragon form"s back and fly in the air, the problem persists .


Though there"s not a lot of monsters capable of flights in the current era, that"s not the case with ancient monsters .


Even the ground monsters have many ways to shoot at airborne objects .


Rather, the sky above [Broken Star] is the worst danger zone in the whole world right now .


Pushing our way on ground is still a better choice here .


"No choice but to break through the front line . . . Ruli, interfere with the Dragon Vein and spread as many dense movement jamming as you can . Keep at it for just three minutes . "

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