The New Gate - Volume 18 - Sacred Place Conquest Campaign by Kazanami Shinogi

Author:Kazanami Shinogi [Kazanami Shinogi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2: Part 5

“As long as we go like this, it’ll feel like the sea, just without waves.”

Tiera seemed to have made up her mind: she did not hide anymore, as her hair fluttered in the wind.

Maybe, because they were sailing on waves of sand instead of the sea, the ship did not rock much, if at all. The currents were far more subdued in the sand sea.

“No monsters to be found…”

The party had been wary of monsters emerging from the sands at night, but nothing happened.

They had been on the lookout ever since they set foot in the sand sea, but could not detect any hostile presence. They spotted a few rare monsters moving about on their own, but they showed no intention of attacking the party.

“I suppose they’re all waiting to ambush us?”

“It’s likely. I’ve been having a harder time scanning for monsters ever since we entered the sand sea, though. They might be jamming our senses somehow.”

Shin did not feel like his scanning abilities were halved or neutralized: but if he tried to extend the detection field, he felt as if he was looking at smoked glass: he could see, but not with clarity.

It wasn’t as if he couldn’t see anything, but the unusual sensation gnawed at him.

“Schnee, Milt, do you feel anything?”

Shin asked for Schnee and Milt’s opinion, as the former had the widest detection range after him and the latter was a former player like him.

“I do feel something is off, but it’s so small that I’m honestly not worried.”

“Same here. It feels like something is strange, but if you told me it was just my imagination, I’d agree.”

The sensation they felt was smaller compared to Shin. He asked the same to Shibaid, but received a similar reply.

“It feels like something is trying to trick our senses. The Boundary Guardian here is based on a Vanwood, so that might very well be true.”

“Now that you mention it, it does feel like that.”

In forest areas and dungeons dwelled monsters with the ability of disrupting detection fields: certain locations also had an innate ability of blocking detection.

“I’m pretty confident if it’s about plant-type monsters, actually. I’m a priestess of the World Tree — the apex of plant life, after all.”

Tiera proudly stated that she wouldn’t lose even to Schnee in that area.

What she said was the truth: if dealing with plants, her senses were sharper than Schnee’s or even Shin’s. It was something she was born with, so Shin couldn’t match her abilities.

“Hm?”

Shin nodded, impressed, when his scan picked up something.

They had ignored the occasional lone presences they had felt until then, but the newly appeared monster had an aura that was simply too large to discount: Shin accelerated the ship.

“Ah…could this be…”

“Yeah, it’s here after all.”

Judging from Milt’s reaction, she had surely detected it too. She nodded, showing there was no need for further explanations. Schnee and the others reacted in a similar way too.

“Eh? What?”

“I have a real bad feeling about this…”

Tiera and Sety had

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