Chapter 267

Chapter 267 Strongest Sage, Completes Objective

『I-I didn't know we could do that . . . 』

『 . . . But we still have to defeat 700 monsters either way, don't we?』

『Well, ranks are the one thing that takes time to raise after all . . . 』

Normally you raise your guild rank slowly over the course of years .

Trying to do that in just a day is pushing it .

『But since you declined the special test . . . Mathi-kun knows an even faster method, right?』

『 . . . Yeah . Actually, we've done it before . 』

『Ah that huh . . . 』

『Yeah . That . 』

When we were trying to raise our ranks at Raginia Federation, we used Enforced Detection all over the places and defeated the gathered monsters to complete the quests we took .

Defeating 700 monsters would be easy using that method .

『And Senisye Plain is huge too, no better place to use that method!』

『 . . . I'm afraid we'd get too many monsters thanks to how huge it is instead though . . . 』

『No worries, we just need to adjust the intensity of [Enforced Compulsion] . 』

We thanked the branch head before leaving the guild .

Let's do this and upgrade our ranks quick .

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A while later .

We arrived at a spot in Senisye Plan far away from the town .

Using [Enforced Detection] here won't cause trouble for the town .

" . . . Are you ready?"

"It's the second time we're doing this, I'm okay!"

"Let's do it!"

"I've kinda got a bad feeling about this somehow . . . I'm ready when you are though!"

I checked the girls . . . and got these replies .

I don't usually care much about hunches and stuff . . . But Alma's usually right on the money . . .

"Bad feeling, like?"

"Uun, feels like we'll get some weird ones coming instead of usual monsters . . . "

"Ah . . . You're right, some weird ones probably will come along . "

I checked the surrounding mana reaction with [Passive Detection] as I said that .

The range of my [Passive Detection] has gotten quite more far-reaching than before thanks to my developing magic circuits .

Yet, I don't see powerful mana reactions in my detection range .

Normally, I'd conclude that there's nothing of worth around here . . . But not in this particular case, something undetectable is probably lurking here .

Well it saves us the trouble if those guys come though .

"Weird ones . . . You mean monsters?"

"No, human . "

"Human . . . Ah! You mean the [Swords Extremers]!?"

"Yeap . "

There's a high chance that the [Swords Extremers] are hiding in this Senisye Plain .

This plain may be vast, but we've got a chance of having those [Swords Extremers] be within the range of [Enforced Detection] .

[Passive Detection] can't be used to find [Swords Extremers] but they will definitely notice if they get in the range of [Enforced Detection] .

It's not surprising at all for those [Swords Extremers] to come picking a fight with us as they are currently looking for challengers themselves .

"Would be bad if those [Swords Extremers] come when our hands are full dealing with monsters . . . "

"Oh you'll be surprised . . . They're saving us time taking on quests if they come for us on their own . "

To begin with, we're trying to raise our adventurer ranks to fight the [Swords Extremers] .

We're lucky if they're coming on their own accord .

" . . . We'd be up against monsters and [Swords Extremers] at the same time, can we win?"

"We can . . . Assuming we'll receive an attack, I'm going to revise the way I use Enforced Detection this time . "

The three nodded .

In the previous era, [Swords Extremers] were indeed strong .

But they've fallen as low as picking a fight with high ranking adventurers of this era .

Those guys have no problem fighting against weaker opponents . . . But they won't bother with those that are extremely weak .

. . . As long as the high ranking adventurer who fell victim wasn't as strong as Giruas by chance, those [Swords Extremers] should be weaker than ordinary demons .

I activate [Enforced Detection] while thinking that .

"[Enforced Detection] . . . Our enemy is coming!"

Last time, I scattered [Enforced Detection] all around, but not this time, as I narrowed down the direction .

Broadcasting it in all directions would be better if we wanted to gather monsters, but we'd be surrounded in all directions then .

By narrowing down the direction, we'd be able to cope with it in the event of [Swords Extremers] attacking .

However . . .

"To think they'd come this quick . "

I murmured while checking mana reactions in the area .

–A mana reaction suddenly appeared out of nowhere at a spot 1 kilometer away .

And–That mana reaction is rapidly moving to where we are .