Chapter 313
Chapter 313 Strongest Sage, Discovers Someone Unexpected
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A while later .
We"re walking toward Zadoria in aloha shirts Ruli made .
"Think it"s about time we start concealing our mana . "
I put [Mana Concealment] on Iris .
Iris"s mana would have straight up revealed us no matter the disguise we put on otherwise .
With this magic . . . Her mana will be hidden unless it"s getting specifically probed .
" . . . Iris-san"s mana reaction disappeared!"
"Mathi-kun, you can do something like that!?"
Ruli and Alma were shocked at the disappearance of Iris"s mana .
This magic is exactly like its name suggests, it conceals target"s mana .
It"s difficult to put on a bearer of enormous mana like Iris . . . But I can somehow manage now thanks to my reinforced magic circuits I got from Gaias resurrection .
That said, I can"t fight while maintaining this, so I"m gonna need to remove the spell when we engage in a battle .
"Yeah . It"s only been recently I can cast it on Iris . . . Let me adjust it a bit, having utterly no mana is not natural . "
I adjust the output of [Mana Concealment] .
Then Iris"s mana reaction got to around average human"s level .
Now we won"t get found out the instant we enter the town .
. . . The mana leaking out of her is slightly different than that of human though so she still can be found out if you observe closely .
I check the mana reactions inside the town while thinking .
" . . . Doesn"t seem like there"s a demon at a glance . "
"I don"t see any demonic mana anywhere . . . "
"Maybe that magic really did kill it off?"
Ruli and Alma couldn"t detect the demon"s mana either .
But we can"t relax our guard yet .
"Greater demons are great at hiding their mana . We"re unlikely able to detect it unless we get close to it if it really intends on hiding its mana . "
"The image I have on demons don"t really fit with the word hidden . . . "
"Yeah . Hiding that much mana will be difficult, and they normally won"t try to . . . But I believe it"s doing exactly that right now . After all, 1,200 of its kins have just dropped dead recently . "
And . . . The demon is most definitely on high alert right about now .
After all, this was right after the annihilation of other demons by way of [Eye of Heaven] .
The demon probably has no clue about [Eye of Heaven] .
That"s my original magic . . . In other words, it had never been cast in the past several thousand years .
From demons" point of view, it must look like . . . some kind of unknown attack raining down upon the earth killing their kins .
. . . You"re crazy if that situation doesn"t put you on high alert .
At the very least, you"d attempt to hide your mana from being detected by this unknown enemy .
"Now that you mention it, that makes sense . . . "
"It"s a shame that we can"t use mana detection though . "
Ruli check the surrounding mana after saying that .
But there"s no response anywhere .
" . . . But it"s not all bad . "
"There"s good things too?"
"Yeah . For example, the [Mana Concealment] I put on Iris . . . [Active Detection] will immediately expose it . "
[Mana Concealment] is a magic that erases the target"s mana emission en route, avoiding [Pa.s.sive Detection] in the process .
But since [Mana Concealment] also erases mana coming from [Active Detection], the mana in that spot alone won"t return to the [Active Detection] user . . . Creating an unnatural situation .
There are ways to deal with this problem, but it"s not applicable to Iris due to her enormous mana .
"[Active Detection] . . . It"s the magic that emit your own mana and then detect the rebounded mana?"
"Yeah . [Active Detection] can be used to immediately find [Mana Concealment] . . . But [Active Detection] is practically like announcing your own location . If the other party is trying to avoid detection, it won"t attempt to cast the spell . "
In other words . . . We"re in a situation that discourage the usage of detection on both sides .
"Err, it"s like we"re both groping around in the dark then?"
"Close enough . "
If the greater demon wasn"t hiding its mana, both sides would have likely found out each other locations, and it would turn into a frontal brawl in Zadoria .
Compared to that, this situation where both sides can"t see each other mana reactions will make the battle easier .
In term of pure power, I can"t win against demons as usual .
The more it consists of technical matches, the higher my chance at winning .
We pa.s.s through the town gate while thinking .
Then . . . I found a familiar mana reaction inside the town .
This mana reaction . . . resembles Giruas .
" . . . Is that a mana reaction from Giruas?"
Giruas is a rank S adventurer from Raginia Union .
He lost to me in the rank up test, learned chantless magic and eventually got strong enough to kill a demon alone .
Wonder why that Giruas is here .
This place should be within Eis Kingdom"s territory .