Chapter 178 (1/2)
Chapter 178
Chapter 178 Strongest Sage, Finds Traces
"We should arrive at Testra Prairie soon"
A while after we left the town
We reached the vicinity of Testra Prairie's entrance
"It's really quiet here"
"Yeah, so quiet it's creepingabnormal at Testra Prairie
We would have heard sounds from various monsters and small animals at an ordinary plain, but there's barely any sound here
Instead--
"Do you recognize that?"
I point at the thing on the ground
A long sword made of mithril
The sword is broken at the base, but it doesn't look old
It's probably been there less than a month
"That'sBlue Blade Jin's sword!"
"Is he an adventurer?"
"Yeah! He's one of the adventurers who never came back froot aht after he arrived at the prairie
Equipment that appear to be of adventurers are scattered around the area
There's no body to be found, but there's no doubt that they've been wiped out
"Looks like the last adventurer party was attacked here"
"YeaI don't see any ood idea to watch your surroundings"
The examiner surveys the vicinity as he says that
Fortunately the visibility is good thanks to this place being a prairie
You can see quite far away as there's not a lot of tall grass
We won't get easily asis probably what the last adventurer party had in mind
And the reason for their demise
"Al Alma here since Ruli must have noticed the monster's mana reaction, no doubt
Al unsure
"GroundI think?"
"CorrectEveryone, stay where you are!"
I took some distance away from the four and activated 【Enforced Detection】
A few seconds later
The ground below an to vibrate
"Over here!"
I've expected this
The shaking is turning htly backward
The nextsnake juround
I evaded that by a hair's breadth
"HISSSS!"
The snake angrily hissed to have its attack evaded
However, the serpent seeround
It didn't pursue et inside the ground
"I won't let you!"
I activated a round
The serpent couldn't burroell into the hardened soil and slowed down
I swung ically reinforced sword easily slice off the serpent
Befitting of a creature with strong life force, the snake stillas it could do nothing after getting cleanly cut in half
"This monster was most likely the one that wiped out the adventurer party"
I pointed at the dead monster
The most troublesome aspect of this monster was that you only had about a few seconds chance before getting attacked fron
For those experienced in fighting, those few seconds should be good enough to take proper counter like this before, they will eat the ambush for sure
"AahDoesn't matter how experienced of an adventurer you are, no way you could do anything when such a roundHeck, hoere you guys able to perceive this monster's attack anyway?"
"We just detected its otten used to it, you can even detect round"
"Monster mana? Is that even detectable?"
"YeahIdentifying the type ofthe their uaranteed"
Hoellon the placesand you can detect up to 100 h distance to cope with aet the reason why Branch Head-sauys pass the test if it weren't for the standards"
The examiner looked at the monster I beat as he said that