TENKEN 489 (1446 words)

Even the Sky is Absorbing!
空でも吸われる！

Once we escaped into the sky, we felt the pressure from the Wight King weakened. It seems that it is difficult to attack us when we are flying.

No, Wight King's magic was quite accurate. Moreover, it has a good eyesight. However, the Wight High Wizards under his command did not have that level of ability.

「Keep going up」

『Okay』

「Woof!」

We continued to gain altitude as Fran had instructed. We must have already climbed more than 100 meters.

『Now if we can just shake off the ghast――Oh?』

「It run away?」

「Woof!」

The Greater Venom Ghast that had been following us suddenly stopped moving.

Apparently, it has reached its limit huh?

『We should have went up to the sky from the start huh』

「Nn」

「Ofu」

When I thought "Shall we continue to gain a little more altitude and head to the center"

「Eh?」

『Th-this is....! Dangerous!』

「Wo-woof!」

We suddenly lose our balance and begin to lose altitude rapidly like a paper airplane that has lost its buoyancy, and Fran is wobbling because of it.

Urushi is in even more danger. He moves his feet repeatedly to activate his aerial jumps, but he can't step on the sky and falls all at once.

The way he flapped his legs for a moment and then fell down was like a scene from a gag anime. However, this is not a gag, and it is very dangerous.

Fran tried to chase him with an aerial jump, but it still didn't work.

「Muh」

『Wha, Fran!』

Urushi and Fran fall with such force that I can even hear the whooshing sound.

I panicked and tried to use teleport, but it didn't work either.

I felt as if I were in the forest of exhaustion. No, I think I am actually experiencing the same phenomenon as in the forest of exhaustion right now.

『So it was because of this altitude that caused that ghast to run away huh!』

Perhaps the higher up we go, the more the magic absorption phenomenon hits us.

As if to confirm this speculation, when we have fell to a certain height, I was able to activate telekinesis and other functions, although they were somewhat required more power.

Fran and Urushi are also using the aerial jump again to regain their balance.

『Fran, are you okay?』

「Nn! But that smoke is coming once again!」

「Garruu!」

『Let's rise our altitude again!』

「Eh? but.....」

『We have to find its edge!』

Escaping into the sky was not a bad idea. The idea was the same as the strategy of using the forest of exhaustion as an escape route. We need to find an altitude at which Ghast could not pursue us, and at which we could still use our magic power.

「Understood」

「Woof!」

We gained more altitude once again. To tell the truth, it was difficult to maintain the same altitude for a long time. Because there are no landmarks around us as a comparison.

Still experiencing a few falls, we had found the last possible altitude. The ghast didn't chase us anymore, but we were pretty exhausted, we also managed to find an altitude where we wouldn't fall.

We didn't gained altitude by teleporting. No, I was going to do it at first, but if it not a short distance teleport, the point of appearance will shift quite a bit. In the beginning, it was difficult to control teleport over medium distances, and due to the phenomenon of magic power absorption, my accuracy was considerably reduced.

I'm sure Fran was very upset when she was upside down with no skills or anything else available for her to do after teleporting. But it might lead to a bigger accident.

Short distance teleport's control wasn't disrupted so much, but its magic consumption is tremendous. It would be safer to proceed with aerial jumps.

At first, the ghast were relentless in its pursuit. But after five minutes, it gave up the chase. Or maybe it can't follow us because of the area. Anyway, we were thankful that we were able to shake off that troublesome magic beast.

Besides, this near-border altitude strategy was quite easy since we could also avoid the magic beasts on the way. We encountered a few bird-shaped monsters, but they ran away as soon as we threatened them.

As I moved, I checked the skills I had acquired from Invisible Death.

I already had light magic, thunder magic, scale regeneration and rushing, but I was also getting four interesting skills. Well, one of them looked really interesting, but it wasn't going to be useful.

The first one is Magic Disruption (1). Perhaps this skill is the ability of its crystal scales to disrupt magic power. When I tried to use it, I definitely felt the magic in the vicinity being disturbed. 

However, there is a problem. It even interferes with the skills I use, such as magic steal. Also, it might affect me when I try to cast a spell on Fran. I think it's best not to leave it activated all the time.

The second is a skill called shooting correction (2). This seems to be a skill that simply increases the hit rate of long-range attacks. The power and accuracy of my telekinetic catapult will no doubt be increased. 

It seems to be a passive skill, but when I equipped it, it was definitely different. It's not that my vision has suddenly improved, but my sensitivity to distant targets has clearly increased. When I aim lightly, I feel like I can see the target clearly, and I feel more confident that I can hit it.

『This skill is interesting』

The third skill is the light distraction film (3). It is used to create a semi-circular field to reflect the light that hits its surface. However, the output is low, and it doesn't seem to be able to reduce the power of light magic. It seems that it is only a skill to distract natural light or weak light. 

It seems that optical camouflage was an application of this skill, but it's very difficult for me to imitate. I mean, I have to calculate the amount of light reflected, the angle, and everything in detail. It seems that just randomly reflecting the light has some effect, but I don't think I can imitate the same level of perfect optical camouflage as Invisible Death.

The fact that it is able to supplement this with his wild instincts is probably the reason why it is categorized a high-ranking magic beast. However, it is a skill that can't be easily used.

The last skill was Crystal Transformation (4). As the name implied, it was a skill that could transform the shape of a crystal into any shape.

It probably used this skill to transform its own scales into bullets, or it may have used it like reactive armor, daring to transform itself into a fragile form in response to our attacks and then releasing its magic power to make it pop. It's an interesting skill, but it's also one that I have no use for.

Now that I think about it, it had huge electromagnetic cannons, laser weapons, reactive armor, detection jammers, and optical camouflage. It was more like a Zo〇ds than a magic beast. (5)

I also learned a lot from it. In particular, the increase in the power of my telekinetic catapult was a big gain. Well, I guess it can't be used everywhere, though.

In other words, the increase in power has made it more difficult to control. Just to stabilize myself from firing it would need tremendous powerful telekinesis. I may need to be a little more selective in the skills I use huh. 

If telekinesis is used for trajectory control, the critical injection speed will be reduced. If I try to compensate for this with magic or skills, the power used for control will increase even more, and its magic consumption will also increase. In the worst-case scenario, the power might not even increase by ten percent, even though it consumed many times more than the usual.

While I was thinking about it, I could see where I was going.  interrupt my thoughts and scream involuntarily. That's how nostalgic I felt.

『Fran! I can see it!』

「Over there?」

『Yeah. That ruin-like place, that's where I started』

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(1) 魔力撹乱 maryoku kakuran
(2) 射撃補正 shageki hosei
(3) 光撹乱膜 hikari kakuran maku
(4) 水晶変形 suishō henkei
(5) ゾ〇ド zo〇do (zoids reference)(beast like fully armed mecha)

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