A completely wasted space architecturally speaking . Located around the center of a building . And . . . All the areas surrounding this space cannot be entered by anyone .
"It's suspicious all right . . . So, think the sword is in there?"
"At the very least, I'm sure it's hiding something . "
Ruli glared at the map . Then she drew a line .
"Breaking walls on this line nets us the shortest route to this suspicious space . . . But these walls seem to have been deliberately reinforced, don't they?"
"Yeah . Good eyes . "
"Because they're using some unusual building materials . . . "
Ruli is correct, the walls in the shortest route have been reinforced . They're made of an abundant amount of stuff like Mithril, rare in this era, and expensive building materials like steel .
The construction seems recent too, and we've even found traces of processing by way of magic . There are also other miscellaneous marks of reconstructions in the mansion .
Since the [Coffin of Sealing] where the [Man-eating Blade] sleeps can't be moved far, they must have no choice but to build a house that's easy to protect to keep the Coffin hidden away .
"Mere sturdy walls can be destroyed any time . . . Our problem in this case is the demon itself . "
Even if we make Iris break the walls, it will still take us around 10 seconds to get to the hidden space . It would take less than 10 seconds for the demon lurking in the mansion to make its way to us . We can't avoid fighting either way .
" . . . We should cook up a plan while scouting the demon's strength . Let's go to the lord's mansion once again . "
"Got it!"
"Yes!"
The girls stood up .
Then just as the three were about to leave the room I told them .
" . . . Also, careful not to use Comm magic until after we beat the demon . "
"Is it because it could be tapped, like when we fought Grevil-sensei?"
"Yeah . Comm magic transmits out mana . They'd suspect us . "
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A few minutes later . I investigate mana reactions outside the lord's mansion .
"It's hiding really well . "
I murmured while looking at the surrounding mana .
"I don't sense even a tiny bit of mana that fits the bill . . . Mathi-kun, can you tell?"
"I can . Of vestiges of magic used by demon rather than the demon itself though . "
I couldn't see the demon's mana itself even after getting this close to the mansion . The only demonic things I could sense from here is vestiges of mana from when the demon used magic and stuff .
However, you can guess a demon's strength by such vestiges . But you'd need a proper analysis and enough amount of mana as sample . . .
"Oh found it . "
I'm paying attention on walls surrounding the town lord's mansion . There were traces of a recent repair on the corner of the walls .
I feel demonic mana from that repaired part . The demon must have done the repair itself . And . . . Magically repaired walls are a treasure trove of mana sample .
I put my hand on the wall . . . and analyze the mana .
" . . . No wonder it's 'Greater', this demon is pretty strong . "
I managed to guess the demon's strength from the mana reaction . It's weaker than Zaridias . . . But it's the second strongest demon I've encountered after reincarnating so far .
It's not like I can't fight it head-on . . . But winning would prove difficult . It'll most likely turn into a stalemate where we both attempt to exhaust each other's mana .
If it comes to that, we'll be in a huge disadvantage . A demon has a far larger mana pool than human . We need a plan to win .
As I was thinking that . . . I sensed one mana reaction among many in the town rapidly approaching .
This mana, it's Giruas . Looks like he found us out .
We could shake him off . . . But this is a good timing . It might even be the breakthrough we need .
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