ACT084: Human Tracks
The day after officially entering the disaster area, Lytis finally found the first anomaly. Located in a shallow ditch near the border, this anomaly looks like a giant dome glowing with a rainbow of light. Although the condensed magic elements have not yet begun to crystallize, Lytis speculates that the concentration of magic inside it is more than 300 times the normal value.
If anyone walks in, they can become a super ** master in the blink of an eye, and then in the blink of an eye, people will be finished playing!
After seeing the glow from a distance, everyone got out of the car and walked closer, and Lytis, who was holding the detector, stared intently at the meter in her hand, and when the value on it was about to reach the point where it could trigger a cavity bomb, she reached out and signaled her companion to stop.
"Just get here, we can't get any closer, we're going to have to fire cavity bombs at this distance, and if we go any deeper, the bombs will explode before they are launched. ”
"But it's still about 120 meters away from the target, can you really hit that far?"
"It's okay in terms of range, but the accuracy may not be ideal, and it still seems to be a hole over there. To be honest, I didn't expect the actual range to be so large, and it seems that what I simulated in the lab is still not as good as the real thing!"
When she said this, there was a hint of regret in Lietis's tone, as if she was lamenting that the scale of her "great experiment" recorded in the history of the university was not large enough, which made Weiss pinch a cold sweat for the scholars who worked with her.
"Otherwise, how about throwing me in with my hands? ”
Thumbs up and measured the distance, Adele felt that the strength of her chariot was enough to replace the launcher to complete the task, Wendy estimated it, and found that she could do it too, both of them can be said to be full of "weird women".
"That's fine, but you'd better take a rock and try it first, whoever throws it will come. ”
Soon everyone found a pile of stones about the same weight as a cavity bomb from all sides, and Adele, who had practiced shot put for a while, quickly found a feel that was much better than Wendy's accuracy, so Litis solemnly handed the first cavity bomb to her. And Adele did live up to expectations, hitting the target directly with the first one, but when the bomb fell into the anomaly, the sharp increase in brightness made everyone realize that something was wrong.
"Lie down!"
In just a few seconds, the anomaly point that was originally soft in light was so dazzling that it was impossible to look at it directly. The quickest responder roared, and with open arms, he pushed everyone to the ground, followed by a deafening explosion and a violent shock wave, and all kinds of debris fell in an overwhelming manner, almost burying them.
"Ahem...... Maybe we should dig a bunker first next time......"
Although she almost buried everyone alive, Littis was a success with her cavity bomb, and the mutation points that were blasted did not recover again, and the concentration of mana around her was rapidly decreasing, from more than 300 times to about 10 times.
According to Lytis, blasting any one of the anomalies would be enough to create a new transformation in the flow of mana throughout the Mana Storm area. If you are lucky, the destroyed Mutation Point will re-form elsewhere, and if you are lucky, its disappearance will also weaken or even disintegrate other Mutation Points.
If Lytis's conjecture is true, then there is a high probability that there is a "core anomaly" in the magic storm! It is like a floodgate in a pond, stuck in a vital position, and as long as it can be pulled out, all the silt will flow smoothly. And the question now is, no one knows where this core is?
"Chance! It's like an egg smashing lottery, and maybe the next one is the jackpot. ”
"Luck? That's probably what we're lacking the most. Weiss looked at Ling Lan behind him and said.
Despite the fact that Lytis's cavity bomb has successfully passed the actual combat test, proving that it is indeed destructive to the anomaly, they still can't get support from the Republic's political axe, because the reason why the old guards hinder her is precisely because they are afraid that her bomb will induce a magical storm to enter the final stage early, further reducing the already insufficient evacuation time. If Lytis wants to prove that she is right, she must destroy the Storm of Mana once and for all.
Over the next two days, the group destroyed two more mutation points, each of which triggered a change in the movement of the Magic Storm, and Lytis recorded the collected data, hoping to deduce the pattern and find the core that might exist. The other party buried his head in the data paper and forgot to eat, and even Lena, who didn't deal with her much, couldn't bear to disturb it.
By the fifth day, the team had completely crossed the border line under the actual control of the Republic and entered the famous Oss region, which was once a "semi-public battlefield" where the three [***] forces were intertwined, and it can be said that the three countries of Xiyanzhou were able to maintain an overall peace situation, all relying on the continuous skirmishes here to "decompress".
However, there is no longer any hustle and bustle here, and after discovering the anomaly, the countries have withdrawn their large forces, and the Federation and the Empire, like the Republic, have begun to move people on a large scale. In the face of this natural disaster, which has the strongest name, none of them can show the arrogance of the past.
"I guess if it had been two weeks ago, no one would have believed that there would have been such a quiet day here!"
"It won't be quiet for long, and when it officially enters the third stage, this place will become a battlefield for monsters, and those guys who don't know what 'restraint' is definitely fighting more fiercely than humans!"
At this time, the magic storm is still in the middle of the second stage, and the mutation points and monsters have just appeared, the former is not numerous, and the latter's strength is not yet a pervert. If that's all the threat to the disaster area, then everyone's task is not too difficult, but what makes people feel bad is that since yesterday, the powerful Eras and the hearing keen Adele have successively said that they have noticed the presence of stalkers nearby.
The other party has been cautiously hiding in the dark and peeping, judging from this way of acting, it is definitely human! In this regard, Eras said that he would not take the initiative to attack these people if it was absolutely necessary. The heavenly realm has a rule for mortal gods, unless mortals take the initiative to attack them, otherwise angels and demons are not allowed to attack mortals without permission. Eras will only be responsible for ensuring the safety of Wess and them, and will not act as a "thug".
However, it is obvious that this kind of "small problem" will not be difficult for Weiss at all, since Eras will not take the initiative to attack, then it is enough to lure the other party! If these stalkers are the bodyguards sent by the Elric family to protect the two chicks, they will definitely not take the initiative to attack, but if not, then their actions will provide conditions for Eras's attack.
There is a big demon behind him as a backer, and Weiss is so confident in even "doing death"! )