Chapter 267
『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]!?"
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"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 .