Chapter 86 – Large Monsters – Part 1
“Hmm.”
There is no trace of magical power in case someone is not a covert type.
Looking at the very neatly cut out marks, it reminds me of a sandy beach neatly dug with a shovel. Although this is made of hard earth and stone.
“Have you ever seen a sign like this?”
“Oh no! There is not! I’ve been going around for 10 years, and I’ve never had one!”
It is Hans who answers my words with a gulping saliva.
Looking at me, I must have noticed that I’m not an ordinary person. Well, if you didn’t know yet, that’s kind of it.
“Quaaaaang!”
A seven-colored tiger is seen screaming.
Chloe and Isabelle skillfully deal with trying to escape. Although they have never held hands, the way they did what to do and subtracted when they took off showed that they were skilled in combat.
I wouldn’t be able to I don’t know if I just push with force.
“But the traces themselves seem to belong to him.”
Then you should do a test.
I took out the magic radar from my chest. It’s hard to call it Radar now, but maybe it’s because I’ve already given it that name, and everyone around me says it’s Radar, so I just call it Radar.
“This, like this…”
Fidget.
It’s not just a device that moves with magical power. Since it was a device that was made in a hurry and generated sensitive magic waves, it did not even have convenience.
As a result, many parts have to be done manually.
“I need to fix this soon.”
Let’s make a note of it.
It’s important to find this job quickly, so I’ll pass it on. Although it’s limited to magical powers, there’s also a function that records the surroundings, so if you think about collecting data by leaving it to adventurers, it’s a part that needs to be modified.
“What, what is this?”
“I’m curious?”
“Oh no!”
Young. Scared
Are you shutting up thinking you shouldn’t know?
“It’s not very dangerous. It’s just a tool to search for nearby magic power.”
“Ah, that’s right… Heeuk!”
-Kooung!
Suddenly, I turned my attention to a loud sound coming from behind me. Hans was also startled and immediately turned around.
The huge, seven-colored tiger was breathing heavily while lying on the ground.
“Oh, it’s over.”
“Sorry. It’s late.”
Chloe came closer, wiping the blood from her sword.
“Isabel did a good job too.”
“No. … Is that the magic radar?”
Isabelle came too, placing her two daggers with small pointed blades in her arms. A unique weapon. Well, if you strengthen it with magical power, durability is also a problem from before. Might be a matter of taste.
“Well. That’s right. Now this is over.”
As Isabel said, she showed her magic radar.
It’s a small stick about 1m long, but it has a support part on the ground, and there is a small gap in the square box.
The wavelength of the mana measured in this gap is recorded and output.
… I don’t even know how it was made.
“In this state, it searches a certain range around it and measures the magic data detected nearby.”
“Hey, that’s great.”
That’s what you say, but I don’t know what’s so great about it.
I smiled wryly at the slightly grave expression.
In fact, even now it is not that accurate. In the first place, they do not even know what the recorded wavelength means.
So, it takes time to collect and organize data.
… If you have time for that.
“It begins.”
Seeing that the presence of Hans, who was sitting in a corner watching, had become zero, he laughed and started the machine.
Emits blue light
Since she had given up on stealth, she could feel magic flowing from the machine.
But is it because the magic power itself is small? It’s hard to notice unless you’re close by.
The blue mana gradually gathered around the machine.
In my eyes, I could see magical power like water droplets condensed in the machine. Every time the vibration of the machine gradually increases, I feel the pulsating mana taking over.
And.
-Paaaaa!
Blue magic waves began to spread in an instant in the direction the machine pointed.
I saw the blue magic that could only be seen with my eyes spread in the air and immediately flew away.
“Can you feel something?”
“… Well. It feels like something lightly brushes against me.”
“Certainly, when you focus, you feel something. It would be difficult to notice if it was far away.”
“Yes?”
Chloe and Isabelle tilt their heads and say. It’s not bad for being this close.
How about Hans?
“Yeah? What, was there something?”
You don’t know.
Wouldn’t it be bad to give up secrecy?
I guess it’s harder to feel than I thought. Great.
-Paaaaa!
As I changed direction, I looked at the magic wave that exploded several more times.
The direction still needs to be adjusted manually, and the spreading magic waves are not constant. It is not that all the magic waves are reflected back there. No, it does come back, but it doesn’t come back neatly enough to measure.
You can see that there are still many things to fix. I checked this part as a part to be corrected separately, and looked at the contents printed on the paper.
Certainly Marlton taught me some patterns.
-Jiji Jijijik!
If you observe magic with a certain level or more, the pattern that appears is…
-Jijijijijijijijijijik!
“Uh?”
The lines drawn on the paper suddenly became complex.
A long line that rises in an instant between small lines. It is being drawn over and over again.
What is this. Maybe right from the first day?
Great. Let’s get rid of it at once.
* * *
It burrowed into the cliff and suddenly raised its head at a strange sign.
Choosing to go down the mountain was the right choice. Satisfied with its choice, it aimed for prey scattered everywhere. There was a lot to eat. At least in this area, there was no equivalent to the power he possessed.
But hunters need to be clever. Even while the pain of hunger tormented its body, it looked around the area for prey, and soon realized that there was no danger, and began to slowly hunt for prey.
The power he had in his body was only smaller than where he was, but the increase in the number of objects of his prey was a welcome thing. At first, I hunted and ate them one by one, watching the liver, but now I got used to it and started swallowing it randomly.
In the meantime, he found an animal hunting prey similar to himself.
Now, I hid in the familiar nature and observed it.
The animal, the animals, did not go alone, but moved together with each other to hunt prey.
When he was shown walking on two legs, wielding something strange in his other hand, and using the power in his body just like where he was, he decided to stop hunting it for now.
Is it suitable for hunting, and is there a return enough to take that risk? It looked at it slowly, but soon decided to hunt.
Compared to his own strength, he was infinitely weak, and he was easily tired, and his leather itself was not thick. The chewy taste seemed lacking, but it seemed perfect for coveting the power it had in the body.
There, they always move in groups, but the groups themselves are small. Even if they run into each other, they immediately part ways, so the timing itself for hunting a small group is easy to catch.
When it was decided to take a short break, it felt the presence of the outside.
My nose swelled and I felt a sense of smell. Ears perk up and hear sounds. What I feel from the scales surrounding my body is the presence of animals and the scent of power.
It moved as it opened its eyes, unable to hold back the hunger that was slowly growing back.
I gave up the competition and came down, and now I have come down.
Reaching the end, it hid in nature as usual and glared at its prey.
Could it be because they ate too much of this area? Having eaten a seven-colored tiger that came down due to lack of prey, it began to head toward a place where it felt different from the animal it ate.
A small group seen from a distance.
The strangely colored power at its core. You may not know it, but the color is called gold. When the prey with the golden power entered his eyes, his pupils turned. In an instant, thirst began to afflict it at the quality of power it felt from its prey.
That power is a power that is difficult to see even in the place where you originally belonged. It doesn’t look like a lot of quantity, but it’s a very desirable prey.
Thirst and hunger burn reason and instinct dominates the body. Faithfully following its emotions and desires, it leaped out of the darkness to devour its prey in one bite.
* * *
“What the fuck.”
Covert type.
A large-scale monster, assuming.
It moved first
I didn’t feel it before I got close, but as I got closer to this distance, I sensed something secret.
Even I, who is confident in my ability to control magical power, had to focus on it so that I could barely feel it. The sign began to move, and I felt it move in the opposite direction to where I was.
At first, I thought it might have noticed my approach, but considering the direction and speed of movement, I realized it wasn’t.
So it sounds like you’re looking for something.
As long as I had a clear grasp of the presence anyway, there was nothing to miss, so I immediately raised my magic power and tried to figure out where it was headed.
… Father?
