Chapter 117: Chapter 117
Chapter 117
"Having monsters coming out in a place where it's easy to fight above ground is the best possible chance to gain experience points . It's no bad news at all . "
"T-treating monsters like mere resources . . . "
"They are resources though . Moreover, if we know where they will appear, we can prepare a trap . There's never been a better situation . . . . and so let's go have a look at the Dragon's Vein while we're activating the barrier . "
"Dragon's Vein?"
"Yeah . As Dragon's Vein is an enormous lump of mana . You can look at the Dragon's Vein if you need to observe magic, convenient stuff . "
I know that the summoning magic has gone haywire, but observing from the surface only nets me a rough picture of the way the monsters will appear with my current detection capability .
We've got to go there to activate the barrier anyway, so might as well .
"I saw the Dragon's Vein when I installed the magic stone . . . But it only looked like a jumbled mix of mana inside the soil to me . . . "
"Me too, it doesn't feel like I can get anything from watching that stuff . . . "
Well, it's probably still a bit too hard for Ruli and Alma .
Dragon's Vein does look like a jumbled mess after all .
Once you get used to it, you can read things like its composition and such .
" . . . Eh? Iris, you should know about it shouldn't you?"
Just as the name suggests, Dragon's Vein are used by dragons for stuff .
Like say, instead of using maps, they make use of Dragon's Vein, there's no way she doesn't know--
"I can understand its rough geography, but even dragons don't know how to distinguish a slight magic mixed in the vast Dragon's Vein! The only one who could do that is Mathias-san and . . . no, only Mathias-san!"
She was going to say more just now .
Was she trying to hide something perhaps .
"Weren't you going to say someone else's name besides me there?"
"There was another person, but not anymore . "
Iris replied to me .
So there was someone who could do it in the past .
Now that I think about it, I never met anyone who knew how in my past life, but I'm sure those people did exist and only didn't want to say it out loud .
It's not a particularly hard technique .
It can't be helped now since magic technology has declined, but there must have been a lot who could before the decline .
"By the way, that person said 『I'm going to reincarnate . Please don't look for me』 as his last before he passed away . "
Such a guy--hm?
Isn't that the past me!
"And the one Iris knew was only that person?"
"Only Mathias-san and that person . "
" . . . Well, Iris is a dragon . It's should come as no surprise that she doesn't know much human techniques . "
"I think Mathias-san is worse here in the sense of not knowing the technique level of normal humans . . . . "
We arrived at the Dragon's Vein while having that conversation .
The magic tool has been installed inside the dug Dragon'S Vein just like how I asked them before subduing the demons, and one part of the magic absorption installation is already in operation .
With this we can start the barrier anytime once the other devices are in places .
I checked the Dragon's Vein before starting it up--the situation has gotten quite interesting .
The magic that had been there fused together with mana of the dead demons, turning it into quite an extraordinary situation .
Looks like I can expect much, in many ways, from this .
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And also, judging from the Dragon's Vein state, the monsters will be summoned tomorrow noon .
Even the amount of mana I will have to use to activate the barrier won't be recovered by then .
--Which means, let's start the barrier for now .
It'd be troublesome if some demons were to infiltrate during this time .
"I'll go make the space to insert the barrier, wait a bit . "
"Yes!"
"Got it!"
"I understand!"
After hearing the three, I start to dig the surrounding walls .
I could do it freely now since the parts needed for the Dragon's Vein were finished already .
Afterward, I put together the barrier composition with the help of the three .
Lastly, the main event is augmenting the magic device .
"Ruli, carve this magic circle into this magic stone . "
I took out a magic stone and a paper drawn with a magic circle .
The subjugation back then was over by the time I arrived, but I knew that Ruli had succeeded augmenting the magic circle I gave her back then by looking at the dead prickled demon in the schoolyard .
This one is simple compared to that .
"Yes!"
Ruli quickly finished augmenting the magic device after saying that .
Her skill really has improved remarkably .
The Ruli before the fight against the demon couldn't have possibly augment that magic circle .
Yet, counting on her getting it right after repeating for many times, I still gave her the magic circle .
The weights of experience between augmenting in the heat of battle and peacefully augmenting with no penalty in failing greatly differ .
"Well then, here it goes!"
I started up the completed magic device as I said that .
The magic device vibrated with a dull sound and then it stopped before long .
The mana supply from the mana collecting device has stabilized .
Looks like the barrier has been activated safely .