on Saturday, May 12, 2018 ein zwei

Chapter 189 Strongest Sage, Curse The moment Ruli declared the activation, wave of mana spreading out of the magic tool around her.

It's spreading evenly with enough range to cover all of our foes.

Quite excellent for something that was made impromptu.

But there's one thing that bothers me.

That is... the fact that Ruli and Alma are included in the magic tool's range.

There shouldn't be any problem if they have another magic tool to protect them from the sleeping magic tool though--.

It's on! Huh? I kinda feel sleepy...

Oy, don't tell me...

Zz...Zz...

...Looks like my fear was proven correct.

Ruli's voice turned to snoring midway through.

Apparently she forgot about their own protection in her quest to make a magic tool to drowse people in the surroundings.

It might not be a problem if the enemy fell asleep without fail, but if they were strong enough to withstand the sleep magic, it could spell disaster.

I've got to properly teach her how to use areeffect magic tools later on.

I approached the two while thinking that.

"...They're fast asleep..."

"Yeah. Glad that they didn't seem to hit their heads at least."

Sleep magic is a relatively dangerous magic in spite of the name.

Since you fall asleep from a standing position, there's a lot of cases where your head hits something.

Although there's rarely a case where the practitioner died, many suffered injuries at least... But the two seem to be fortunate enough to avoid that, they're sleeping so peacefully.

Kind of makes it hard to wake them up... But unfortunately, we can't let them sleep here.

"Alright, let's wake them up."

I used some simple rousing magic on the two.

And they quickly opened their eyes.

Munyamunya... Huh? Where am I?

...Why was I... Ah!

Alma didn't seem to get what just happened, but Ruli quickly realized the reason why she fell asleep.

After looking at the magic tool she made herself, Ruli's expression turned awkward.

"You've gotta make sure to protect yourself the next time you're making areeffect magic tools, okay."

"I made a mistake... I'll be careful..."

Ruli stared at the magic tool she created reproachfully as she said that.

I could teach her how to protect herself from magic tools right here and now... But right now we need to focus dealing with our sleeping assailants.

"Well, since you've successfully drowsed our enemy, this plan was a success. And they've got the things I wanted with them to boot."

"Things you wanted?"

"Yeah. This."

I took out a plate from one of the assailants' pocket.

The plate is written with Member's Badge.

"Member's Badge... of the bandit gang?"

"Yeah. A badge to prove you're a member of this bandit gang... or at least that's how it looks like."

I then began to decipher the Member's Badge.

Deciphering it is easy. After all, the code used is completely the identical as the one used on the Pass.

Special Pass. Back Gate 174532.

Those words showed up on the Member's Badge afterward.

Alma speaks up when she sees that.

"...Isn't this basically the same thing as the Pass?"

"That's right. I figured that these fake bandits employed by the territorial lord should carry some with them, I was spot on."

I transcribed the magic code on the plate to a paper, and returned the plate back to the assailant's pocket.

I did the same routine four times and extracted four magic codes from four Member's Badges.

Afterward, I handed over four small magic stones to Ruli.

"Carve these magic codes using magic."

"Magic codes... I've never done it before, is it like this?"

Ruli carved the magic code into one of the magic stones.

It needs precisions since the magic stone is small, but it's not at a level problematic for Ruli.

She quickly finished carving all four magic stones.

"Excellent. Next you do this..."