Tensei Kenja – 159

Great Magic Detected

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‘It’s another dead end!’

 

The slimes shouted after seeing that the path was blocked by a metal panel.

There wasn’t even a door. It was just a panel.

 

‘What’s on the other side of the wall?’

 

‘There’s nothing!’

 

A slime had slipped through the crack between the panel and the wall.

However, there was nothing to be found there.

 

‘…It seems like it was originally a very big mine.’

 

Most of the routes were like this.

Apparently, they had used a small part of the mine to create this facility.

 

The paths were probably blocked off so they could stop intruders from coming in through the unused passages.

We had already discovered over 100 passages that were blocked off.

 

But…it would have taken an enormous amount of time and resources to block off all of those passages.

It seemed like they would be better off expanding the facility they made the Cursed Water in, and keep the device in there… But maybe there was a reason that they couldn’t.

 

As I wondered about this, I continued to send the slimes out to search the area far and wide.

And then…they detected a spot of huge magical energy in the mines.

 

‘…This…is big…’

 

I could feel it through Shared Senses. It was clearly on a much different scale than an ordinary human or magic tool.

In fact, it was much closer to a dragon, if anything.

But even the Fire Dragon had not had such strong magical energy.

 

‘Something is there!’

 

‘It’s huge!’

 

The slimes said as they headed to the source of the energy.

 

‘Be careful.’

 

Whatever it was, it wasn’t moving.

But that didn’t mean that it was safe.

Well, I could always protect them with ‘Magic Transfer’ if things got a little dangerous.

 

As I considered this, the slimes continued to go deeper in.

And then…they were suddenly in a very large room.

 

It was so big that I couldn’t take in the entirety of it from where the slimes were standing.

In such large mines as these, there are often gigantic underground chambers where the ore once was…that’s probably what this place was.

 

And in this gigantic space…was the gigantic and ominous-looking machine.

There were armed men protecting the area…but they were somehow smaller than the individual bolts that held the machine together.

 

Yes, even the dragons I had fought looked small compared to this machine.

This was most likely…the Universal Purification Device.

 

‘So this is the scale that is required when making a machine that can destroy a continent…’

 

After seeing the Universal Purification Device, I could finally understand why the Blue Moon of Salvation had built it in a mine.

It was too big to have it on the surface.

 

Had they wanted to hide it in a factory, they would have had to construct a building that was dozens of times wider and taller than the facility that made the Cursed Water.

It would draw too much attention…in fact, it would be like asking for people to be suspicious.

And so that was why the Blue Moon of Salvation had put the magic device deep within this old mine.

 

That was my conclusion. Now I had to figure out how to deal with it.

Would I be able to destroy it if I used Hellfire of Obliteration on it?

 

But…this device was supposed to be able to destroy a continent.

There was no guarantee that it wouldn’t be able to withstand the heat of Hellfire of Obliteration.

 

‘Maybe it would be better to just take over the entire facility and prevent any members of the Blue Moon of Salvation from getting inside…?’

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