Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 3] by Aloha Zachou

Author:Aloha Zachou
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 6: A Ghost From the Past

With our new house plans on the back burner, Teto and I headed back to the Wasteland of Nothingness for the winter.

“We’ve let the place sit for a whole year thanks to the mission. Let’s do a thorough check of everything we’ve got going on here,” I told Teto as we flew over the Wasteland on my broom.

“Roger!”

We made sure the archdevil we had sealed in the middle of the Wasteland hadn’t escaped, inspected the World Trees and the rest of the mana hot spot, checked the barrier devices... But then I suddenly noticed a strange, small shift in the mana.

“Lady Witch? What’s wrong?”

“It feels like...somewhere in the wasteland, there’s a hole, and the mana’s draining through it, a little at a time.”

The Wasteland’s mana production was already pretty low to begin with... Scratch that, it was nonexistent. For the past ten-odd years, we’d been hard at work planting trees and releasing my own mana in the hope of upping its mana density, but we were still nowhere near done. So if something was sucking up what little mana we’d cultivated, we’d never manage to rehabilitate the Wasteland.

“Teto, let’s go find out what’s causing this.”

“Roger!”

Gathering mana into my eyes to use Mana Perception, I turned my broom in the other direction and followed the flow. But when we arrived there, everything looked normal.

“Seems like it’s right under here. Psychokinesis!”

My spell cleared the snow from our surroundings, revealing a slight fissure in the ground. The ambient mana here was drawn inside in rhythmic pulses, almost as if the ground was breathing.

“Teto, can you check what’s under us?”

“Leave it to me!” Teto said, using her Earth Magic to inspect the ground below us. “Lady Witch, there’s a building under the ground.”

“Oooh! These must be ruins from our precursors.”

Around two thousand years ago, an ancient magical civilization had gone on a rampage here, reducing their land to a barren moonscape. Everything above ground had been destroyed in the process, but it seemed that a few underground structures survived the catastrophe. I had actually stumbled across some ruins elsewhere in the wasteland a few years ago, where I’d found documents about the control devices our precursors used for their magic tools. I’d used them to create a similar magical apparatus that I was, to this day, using to manage the barrier devices around the wasteland. I’d been wondering what exactly was left of the ancients for a while now, but I hadn’t gotten the chance to do any further spelunking. One thing was for sure though: I never thought whatever was down there would randomly start working again, just like that.

“Let’s try digging up whatever’s draining all of the mana. We should put up a barrier to try and limit the effects too.”

“Teto’s good at digging things!”

I quickly set up a barrier device to prevent more mana from being sucked up and started moving the earth with my magic, Teto doing the same next to me.

“It doesn’t seem to be sucking up live beings’ mana, and it’s not preventing us from using magic either.

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