Chapter 199

Chapter 199 Strongest Sage, Probes

Afterward, I activate the detector magic device .

Maximum output . Judging from our enemy's capability, they'd probably know anyway even if we tried to detect them with minimal output .

So might as well end this in one go instead of taking half-baked measures .

"It's shaking quite hard . "

At maximum output, the ruin has begun to shake violently .

The ground around this area was sturdier when I made this ruin in the past, so it never shook this much .

The ground here must have changed along with times .

. . . Thankfully the magic tool buried in Dragon Vein under ground for supplying mana is still working fine .

If that were broken we'd need to provide the device with a vast amount of mana ourselves .

"W-would this ruin be all right?"

"The construction seems really sturdy, I think it should be okay . . . "

Alma looked around anxiously as she said that .

On the other hand, Iris is staring at the magic device without taking any notice on the shaking .

This much shaking is probably nothing for Iris who originally lived in a volcano .

A few minutes later .

. . . The result is in .

The magic device here is excellent .

It makes clear of everything; the target demon's location, mana, name, current situation and even its original mana quality .

"I got the info about the demons . . . It's the worst . Well, I guess it's still better than not knowing until it's too late . "

I put a red marker on the map .

The demon is located there . . . but honestly speaking, there's almost no point in knowing that .

"What do you mean by the worst?"

"The demon from before . . . The name's apparently Zaridias, that guy is currently sealed . Its original strength is . . . well, the me right now probably can't beat it . "

It's true that I posses the magic techniques forged in my past life .

My crest now is also practically the strongest crest in battle, and I've raised my mana big times .

Judging from its amount of mana, this demon is probably relatively experienced in battle, but I'm far above it in term of battle experience and techniques .

However, there is simply no way to overturn the overwhelming gap in mana .

No matter how skillful someone is, they cannot cut orichalcum with a wooden sword, it's something like that .

I won't be able to beat the demon even if I use up all of my mana and deliver a perfect strike, while the demon is strong enough a single blow from the demon could kill me if it hit .

In such a situation, you have no chance of winning no matter what skills you have .

"But that demon is sealed right?"

"That seal has mostly been come undone . It's probably only gonna hold for another half a day . . . To begin with, considering that demon has been giving instructions to other demons, the seal probably hasn't been working correctly for a while . "

It's impossible for other demons to interfere with the seal if it's still working as intended .

This demon probably made use of the chance when the seal was weakened during the past several years to spread its influence .

In order to make it as easy as possible for the demon to move around when the seal broke .

"True, it shouldn't have been able to move with a working seal . . . "

"What would this Zaridias do once it broke out of its seal?"

Ruli asked me the question .

However, she probably knew the answer already without asking .

Laying waste to the Dungeon City's Dragon Vein, manufacturing mana bombs in Folkia .

There's only one thing the mastermind of such plans want to do .

"Annihilate humans . "

I gave an immediate reply .

In the first place, demons have no other behavioral principle than that .

"Annihilate . . . Like, right away?"

"That's right . With powers like Zaridias', there's no need to take roundabout ways like slipping in Eis Kingdom other demons did . It could just fly to the capital of a country somewhere, and rain down magic attacks from the sky . Repeat that until it's done . "

The current humanity has practically zero chance of winning after its seal is broken .

Judging from the state of the seal, a civilization from my past era probably created th seal .

After the civilization was destroyed, no one maintained the seal, and now this is the result .

. . . Good grief, they sure left behind quite a mess .

They should just have killed this demon rather than sealing it in a half-baked seal .

And the past me even went the trouble of distributing magic devices to kill demons to various countries in order to prevent this kind of situations .

"That means . . . We're all done for?"

Alma asked in despair .

True, we're in the worst possible situation .

However, I have something in mind that could get us out of this conundrum .

"That's not necessarily the case . I know a way . "

I replied while operating the detector magic device I used just now .

"How do you even deal with an undebatable opponent?"

"The simplest method is running away . In this world there are facilities with an even more sturdier defense than where we are now . We could use Immortal magic, train there for 200 years, then defeat Zaridias . "

"T-two hundreds . . . You're joking right?"

"I'm dead serious . Since we don't have time, I would have brought us there to go into hiding if we had no chance of victory . "

In that case, humanity would probably suffer catastrophic damages .

However, the number of demons is limited . Even if they destroyed all the big cities, they wouldn't be able to eliminate every single human .

After completing our training, we would defeat the demons, then humanity could rebuild slowly .

Guess, I'll fetch Giruas who's nearby if we go with that route . He'd turn into a valuable asset if I train him .

"But Mathi-kun hasn't gone into hiding yet . . . Which means, we have a chance of winning?"

"Yeah . Though, that depends on this result . "

I activated mana detector at maximum output .

The target is a disposable magic sword the past me created .

The weapon can only be used once, but it's extremely powerful so I've been looking for it without avail .

However, this detector should be able to find it .

" . . . Isn't it taking too long?"

"Yeah . Cause it's looking for a magic sword . Looking for that takes time compared to a demon that's emitting a huge amount of mana by itself . "

It's already been 10 minutes since the activation .

It only took about five minutes to find the demon, but unlike demons, magic items and magic swords only emit trace amount of mana, so it's quite hard to locate them .

And there's probably only around 10 of that sword left in this world .

There's a lot of reasons why there's only a few of them, well, let's not think about it for now .

The problem is where that sword is .

The magic device stopped while I was thinking .

"Alright, here's the res–ult?"

I froze for a second when I saw the result .

The magic sword is on a coordinate that I'm all too familiar with .