Chapter 311
Chapter 311 Strongest Sage, Confirms Information
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"So these are all the doc.u.ments then?"
Later on .
I"m standing before the demon-encoded doc.u.ments gathered from all over the country .
"Yes . Those are all . "
There"s only five new doc.u.ments .
However . . . I found a new valuable information among them .
" . . . That sword has a guard huh . "
I plan to use [Man-eating Blade] in order to defeat the [Chaotic Demon] .
And this doc.u.ment is talking about exactly that sword .
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There is a chance [Chaotic Demon] may be defeated due to artifacts .
The most dangerous among all known artifacts is considered to be the [Gravy Wood Altar"s] [Man-eating Blade] .
Though I do not believe the people of this current world can make use of it, we have to erase all possibility .
Send a greater demon to sneak into Gravy Wood altar and bar any attempt to utilize the sword .
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"Greater demon . . . !"
Princ.i.p.al Edward shouted as he read the pa.s.sage .
. . . You can"t blame him for jumping in surprise .
The me now can beat mid cla.s.s demons just fine in a direct confrotation . . . But that"s almost impossible when the opponent is a greater demon .
"Are you sure this information is accurate? . . . Is there any chance they"re just bluffing to keep us on edge?"
" . . . That"s unlikely . There"s too much cla.s.sified information contained in doc.u.ments written in this language . They would have made use more codes if they antic.i.p.ated it getting deciphered . "
"That sounds reasonable . . . Which means, the [Man-eating Blade] is guarded by a greater demon then?"
"Yeah . No mistake about that . . . The problem is just how strong this greater demon is . "
It"s probably weaker than the greater demons found in my past life .
Those past greater demons were stronger than even Zaridias .
These demons wouldn"t have gone out of their way to awaken [Chaotic Demons] if they had that much power already .
It doesn"t mean we can relax our guard though .
Most demons I fought so far would be cla.s.sified as lesser demons in the past era .
Were I up against a [Mid-cla.s.s Demon] by the past era standard . . . whether I could win a direct confrontation or not would depend on compatibilities .
We have no choice but to go there since there"s no other [Man-eating Blade] left in the world .
Let"s just hope that the demon guarding [Gravy Wood"s Altar] is one that the me now could prevail against .
I unroll the map while thinking that .
"This Gravy Wood altar . . . appears to have become a town called Zadoria now . "
"You mean a demon is lurking by in the middle of a town?"
"Yeah . I mean we knew that so many lesser demons were lurking in towns . . . No surprise to see a greater demon would too . "
I replied so to Alma .
Demons in this era sure love to lurk in human towns .
Or maybe it was because towns back in the day were littered with demon-detecting magic all over, so they simply couldn"t manage to .
But this is convenient to me .
If the sword is located in places with human traffic, we may be able to slip in among the crowd and grab the sword .
And since Iris"s mana stands out a lot, maybe we can use her as a decoy while we carry out the deed .
As I thought that . . . Alma spoke .
"But the demons know where that sword is right? Couldn"t they just, you know, throw it in a volcano or something instead of going out of their way guarding it?"
She has a point .
Grevil answered her question .
"The sword at Gravy Wood"s Altar is heavily protected by magic . . . No demons can even touch the coffin where the sword sleeps . "
"How exactly is it being protected?"
"We deployed the [Coffin of Sealing] . . . The protection on that coffin is absolutely inviolable . . . Is it not?"
" . . . I see . No wonder they can"t move it far . "
I gave my reply to Grevil .
[Coffin of Sealing] was a box the past me had created to preserve valuable articles .
That box absolutely cannot be opened without the matching key .
It"s also virtually indestructible .
. . . However, the true value of [Coffin of Sealing] is not because of the key"s performance or the coffin"s durability .
[Coffin of Sealing] is furnished with a magic that prevents it from getting carried more than 50 meter away from the spot the seal is activated .
No matter how strong the demons are, they"re no match against the magic"s compelling force .
Hence they weren"t able to throw it in a volcano or sink it in the ocean .
Their decision to post a guard is proof of their inability to break the seal .