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 [Passive Detection].
I'd put the brakes if I sense a monster ahead of the track.
"So and Alma are to wait on the magic freight car?"
"Ruli, please support us from afar with Augnt magic… Since there's a Dragon Vein near where [Broken Star] is, you'll have to ddle 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' movent with your magic through Dragon Vein as dium… It'd be much harder than that ti, 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 pass 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.
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After a little while--A sign of monster showed up in my [Passive Detection].
I imdiately tell the three.
"I'm stopping the freight car! Hold on to sothing!"
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 kiloter away from where we are now.
It's emitting mana even though [Supra-natural Art] is not magic.
However, its mana pattern is extrely bizarre, like it's not of this world.
I've never seen sothing like this before even counting my past life.
"What an incredible mana reaction…"
"I've never seen this mana reaction before, you could tell even from here…"
"This mana feels yucky sohow!"
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 dinsion 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."
"Three kiloters inside this…"
Alma murmured so to hear .
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 movent jamming as you can. Keep at it for just three minutes."
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