Chapter 132

Chapter 132 Strongest Sage, Watches Over

"Avoiding us!?"

"Yea . I see with focused Passive Detection that monsters are moving like they're avoiding us . From what I tested earlier, looks like they were detecting our mana . "

Afterward, I slightly moved forward and went back again .

I didn't move far at all, but I could sense the movement of monsters .

Not all of the monsters are like that though, sometimes the weaker ones showed themselves up before us .

"Well, it's true that monsters with intellect wouldn't voluntarily go and challenge Mathias . . . . "

"Now that you mention it, escaping itself is an act that an intelligent monster would take . . . "

"If I have to say, I think it's Iris that they're detecting . Iris's mana reaction is the bigger one here right?"

The difference in mana quantity between a dragon and a human child is obvious .

On top of that, I normally control my mana so it won't leak out too much, thus it's only around the level of Alma and Ruli .

A monster with great detection ability might be able to see through the difference in mana quality, but I don't see any monster like that .

" . . . Our prey escape because my mana leaks out . . . Should I better suppress my mana too?"

" . . . Can you do it?"

Considering her track record so far, Iris's mana control is catastrophically bad .

A fireball she intended to go straight forward went right above instead .

And since the output is high, it's unnecessarily dangerous .

"Un . I don't understand, but I'll give it a try! . . . Please back away a bit since we don't know what will happen!"

Apparently, she's aware of the danger herself .

Well, with how sturdy Iris is, her mana running slightly out of control probably won't hurt her .

Expecting that, I watch over Iris with Ruli and Alma from a place a bit farther away .

And then . . . .

"Here I go!"

With the yell, Iris's mana rapidly contracted–and right afterward, pokon! Iris flew up vertically along with that sound .

While leaving a small crater on the ground .

. . . . Looks like the mana that was forcefully contracted exploded and launched Iris up .

"Uun . . . . I failed . It felt like I managed to suppress it at first . . . . "

Iris who landed without a scratch looked down on the crater while saying that dejectedly .

"Your mana reaction did get smaller for an instant . . . All the monsters around here escaped the moment it exploded though . "

I concentrated on Passive Detection after saying that .

The number of monsters who were just keeping some distance away from us have reduced to the level of an average plain one .

The remaining monsters are all moving like they're straight running away from us .

"I . . . I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare them away . . . . "

"Well, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses . I think you should be able to control your mana to a degree once you get used to that body too . . . . And there's no point in beating monsters that would run away just from sensing Iris anyway . "

A properly strong monster won't run away just from sensing the current Iris's mana reaction .

Some of them might run from the previous Iris, but the Iris right now isn't emitting as much mana as she did back then .

"I'm glad if that was the case, but . . . . "

"Rather, a monster that's truly strong might come after Iris . And that'd be most welcome . "

"I don't feel welcome about that at all . . . "

Ruli frowned when she heard me .

Well, judging from the mana reaction, there's fewer monsters coming here than expected .

For now, let's continue to press ahead without expecting much .