Chapter 291

Chapter 291 Strongest Sage, Breakthrough

The railway tunnel we're in right now is located next to a running Dragon Vein .

She should obtain the power needed to interfere with ancient monsters if she makes use of this Dragon Vein .

"I-I understand! . . . I'll go with this one!"

Ruli showed me her magic circle's composition as she said that .

. . . It's quite a complex composition . . . Pretty strong for movement jamming indeed .

Maintaining this with the pulsing Dragon Vein will be quite an arduous task . . . But the Ruli right now can surely maintain it for a short while .

Nice choice .

"Looks good . . . Can you maintain this?"

"I'll do my best!"

"As for me, I'm gonna buy time by aiming for legs of any monster coming this way!"

. . . These two should be fine here .

There's probably only going a few monsters coming here thanks to the tunnel .

Alma alone should be more than enough with the help of Ruli's movement jamming magic .

I just need to end my fight quick in the meantime .

"I'm counting on you . . . Tell me once you're ready with the Dragon Vein . "

"I understand!"

Afterward, Ruli augmented several magic stones, and installed them on the Dragon Vein .

She's doing good up to making the magic tool . . . but as to whether she can maintain it or not, all I can do is bet on Ruli's skill .

When dealing with Dragon Vein, regulating the magic tools once they've been activated is the hardest part .

"I'm done preparing!"

"Got it! Start the magic tool up once I contact you through comm magic . . . Iris, we're heading out!"

"Yes!"

The two of us ran in the tunnel .

A monster showed up ahead of us right after we started running . . .

"SOII!"

Iris's spear pulverized the monster .

"Alright! Good going!"

Inside the tunnel, only one monster can pass through each time . Iris herself can take care of them .

We came out of the tunnel while I was thinking .

"I'm turning into dragon now!"

Iris cast the magic to transform her back into dragon .

A moment later–A huge Darkness Dragon manifested, shoving many monsters away .

The ancient monsters here are big, but none can compare at all to Iris in her dragon form .

The monsters launched a concentrated attack on the suddenly appearing foreign object–but Iris paid them no heed .

It's all about body size and sturdiness in a free-for-all-fight like this .

『This body really is nice! It's so easy to move around in!』

Iris began rampaging around after saying that .

Then all these ancient monsters got blown apart in a blink of an eye, but . . .

『 . . . Haven't you forgotten our objective here?』

Our goal is to arrive at [Broken Star], not to defeat monsters produced by it .

After all no matter how many monsters we defeat, [Broken Star] will just keep resurrecting more unless we do something about it .

『Aah! . . . Should I shoot out my breath!?』

Iris asked me after recalling our objective .

Indeed, getting closer to Broken Star should be easy if she uses her breath to thin out these monsters, however . . .

『Please go with physical attacks . We have no idea what would happen if a high ranking dragon's breath clashed with [Supra-natural Art] . 』

『I got it!』

Iris turned toward [Broken Star] .

Seeing that, I give the instruction to Ruli .

『Ruli, the magic please!』

『Yes!』

Iris mowed down the monsters with her claws .

Almost at the same time, Ruli activated movement jamming magic .

Even if our enemies are ancient monsters, the power of Darkness Dragon is just overwhelming .

Monsters who got hit by Iris's claws blew away other monsters near them .

Then a gap opened between these monsters .

This little gap would have been buried in no time flat were I had no support at all, but thanks to Ruli's Dragon Vein control, the gap persisted momentarily .

Maintaining the magic must be difficult with thousands of ancient monsters here–but Ruli seems to be giving her all at it .

However, this situation won't stay for long .

It's a match against time .