22. A New Sealing Technique

A talisman with a pentagonal character stamp on it.

When I touch that talisman, my Mana gets disturbed and absorbed.

――Mana Sealing.

The conditions required for sealing something are “knowing the other party’s name”, “putting a character stamp on the other party”, and “the other party’s Mana is lower than yours”.

However, these conditions are necessary to seal a creature as a whole or an object.

Then, what if I divide the target into smaller pieces?

Something like the soul?

Or only the body?

Or the Mana?

If the target is narrowed down, the conditions required for sealing may be reduced accordingly, right?

But my Mana is unconditionally disturbed and absorbed. Perhaps there are no requirements to seal the Mana. 

If I were to mention one, perhaps the other person must touch the pentagonal character stamp. Ah, also, only those that do not have Mana can be marked.

So, dominate and seal the target’s Mana…

What is different from normal sealing is the ratio of Mana that is being put in.

Sealing Technique is a technique that is activated by putting Yellow Mana on the opponent. However, in reality, there is Mana that can be put in other than Yellow Mana. It’s Blue Mana, the Mana of Operation.

The Mana of operation is the Mana that manipulates Mana. And this Mana Sealing manipulates (absorbs) the opponent’s Mana and seals it with Yellow Mana. I guess, the theory would be something like this.

If so, I need to increase the ratio of Blue Mana compared to normal sealing. Perhaps, the ratio should be half and half?

I draw a pentagonal character stamp on the stones nearby with a brush. Then I pour the Yellow Mana from my right hand and Blue Mana from my left hand.

The first time, I failed.

The mark disappeared because it’s not correct. Next, I adjusted the ratio to 6 : 4 for blue and yellow.

The second time I failed. 

Next, blue and yellow are 4 : 6.

Third time, success. The character stamp glowed red. 

I touch it as a test, but only a small amount of Mana is being absorbed. If only this much, it’s not useful in battle.

Is the image I usually used when circulating Mana bad? 

I always imagine that the other person’s whole body is being tied up with a thread of Mana, but maybe it is not necessary to be the whole body?

A new image huh, hmm…

A hollow thread of Mana that flows from the character stamp. The tip of the thread should look like a needle. When the opponent is pierced with the needle, the opponent’s Mana is sucked and will flow inside the hollow thread into the character stamp.

――Alright, let’s go with this image.

I write a pentagonal character stamp on the stone and concentrate.

Thread ―― Needle ―― Absorb ―― Seal

The character stamp glowed red. 

I touch it as a test, and my Mana gets sucked at a speed that is not comparable to the previous one.

A great success. 

It took me only 15 minutes for this.

“Ignacio, Carrs. Lend me your weapon.”

Ignacio and Carrs, who were watching the sea, with a confused look entrusted me their weapons… a rapier and a long spear.

I returned the rapier and the blade of the long spear with a pentagonal character stamp. The rapier’s blade was slender, so I failed a couple of times.

Ignacio and Carrs tilt their heads at the inscription on their weapons.

“General. What is this?”

“It’s a character stamp that seals Mana. When it is pressed against the opponent, the Mana will be extracted from the opponent and sealed in the weapon. Even your normal attack that would normally be repelled with Mana, as long as that character stamp is attached to it, the opponent’s Mana will be scraped, and they will still receive damage. Even you who can’t use Mana can hurt them.”

“W, wow, that’s amazing …!”

“Hoooー! This is amazing! Then… hey, young lady, can we also participate?”

Shura and Frederica, who were on the lookout, return to the shade of the rock.

“Well, if so, I can count you as a force. Red, Blue and Green hair, you guys move in a trio. Three of you will be counted as one force.”

Me,

the ‘Ashura’ sisters,

Carrs,

Ignacio,

and Frederica.

There are actually three Magicians and two Non-Magicians.

As for the Non-Magicians, they have weapons with a pentagonal character stamp

…With this, I guess we’ve finally reached a position that is not bad to called as a platoon.

“Alright, we somehow managed to prepare…”

When I tried to raise my hips,

Right at that moment,

BOOM!… The earth shook.

An earthquake?

――But, the sun’s light was cut off.

The rocky place where we are… No, the entire sandy shore, it is covered in the shadow of a humanoid figure.

I look up and become speechless.

A green giant with its arms and legs stretched out.

“Oi, oi, oiii?!”

A hard to dodge attack.

But, we didn’t get crushed by the giant.

――Because a small body kicked the giant’s belly.

“I told you not to look down on me!!”

{Troll} falls back to the ground and the forest is being crushed…

We go out from the shade of the rock.

Shura lands on the rock. Her small back looks extremely reliable.

“Leave this to me. You must kill or seal that bone guy!”

“Naturally, I’ll do my best ――let’s go! “

“Ok!”

“I understand!”

“Yes!”

Talismans containing a lion spear and <Lutta>

Dozens of pebbles with pentagonal character stamp.

And… two trump cards.

I carry only what I need and put the rest in a drawstring bag and leave it in the shade of a rock.

When we jumped out, Shura made a fist with her right hand and covered it with Red Mana.

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While avoiding {Troll} we aim for the settlement.

Some small fry are in the way, trying to attack us.

I keep moving forward while killing them with my bare hands.

When we made a big detour around the forest, we came to a place with a flower field.

A place where flowers of various colors bloom. ‘That’ was there.

A monster that grows human arms from its whole body ――{Orobas}

” [O, Ohhh. It‘s, been a while …] “

Like a gatekeeper, he tried to stop us.

When I put a talisman between my fingers, Carrs stopped me.

“General, keep going. These guys, we’ll deal with them.”

“It would be better for all of us to work together to defeat this guy and then go to settlement together.”

When I say so, Frederica denies it.

“No, it is dangerous to leave the {Corpse Emperor} unchecked. Whether you defeat this monster or the giant you mentioned earlier, if the {Corpse Emperor} comes, the corpse might be reused, and the situation may return to the beginning.”

“……I see. If someone doesn’t stop him, the others will be brought back to life huh…Alright.”

I put the talisman back in my pants pocket.

“Goodbye, general! When this battle is over, we’ll have a campfire on the island!”

“You are… not nervous at all huh… Well, it’s nothing bad!”

Carrs and Ignacio pull out their weapons.

I leave them and start running.

“He can use wind magic! Be careful! “

I pass through the flower field and head for the settlement.

{Orobas} did not even look at me. It just let me go.

All I have to do now is go straight.

It’s about 20 minutes of running to the settlement.

The {Corpse Emperor}, ‘Reyes Rou Ampleur’…..

The old man sealed him,

But, he was probably resurrected due to the old man’s death.

In its heyday, the {Corpse Emperor} was a monster that could finally be sealed with two sealers ――

At times like this, it is normal for humans to be frightened, trembled, and shrunk.

But what happened? Ever since I jumped out to help Frederica ―― I couldn’t stop this noise in my chest. It keeps beating wildly.

There is a part of me that is enjoying this situation and this development.