Chapter 75: Chapter 75 – Pitfall and a Feast

Astrid finished making her shelter within a small valley that was tucked away by a group of tall, looming hills. With her Psycho Warping, she could create a fortress of metal with a little time spent. Two hours, to be exact. She didn’t want to use all of her mana and be forced to use any of her mana potions, and she had half of her container to spare. If the voidlings attacked her, she wanted to have reserves just to be safe.

With not being able to properly see, she had to rely on getting closer to any object within the range of her Psych Domain.

It made finding anything a chore, and she didn’t like the fact that she had to walk blind. Who knows what was watching her out of her current range?

She could only imagine what horrors lurked within this void? She wondered where this place was. It was clearly not Ruitera. Another world perhaps? Despite the unknowing risks that skulked in the darkness, it filled her heart with excitement. It was just a wild theory from the science classes, but this environment was unlike she had ever seen before.

Are the dungeons portals to other worlds like they believe it to be? The Jailer dungeon must have taken us somewhere underground? Guesses were forming in her mind.

It was more than she could ever have imagined before she became a Wayfarer. She was always expecting to go on adventures as a magic-swordsman, but to think she was now a mage class, and on other worlds at that.

Who else could say the same? Maybe she was the first? Astrid giggled in anticipation.

Astrid finished her fortress with large metal spikes that surrounded her magically formed building. She just hoped nothing was dumb enough to charge into it. Wouldn’t that cancel her illusion only mission?

She wasn’t sure. Astrid sighed at the amount she had to guess, but it was fun. There were no answers. She just had to discover everything herself, with her own strength.

With everything set up, she had also made another discovery about her newly upgraded Skill, Major Image. Once cast, it would remain until something had physically touched it. Before she had made her fortress, she prepared a wide illusion that used just a little more than half of her entire mana container.

It covered the entire valley, and she had made sure that the entrance blended into the nearby hills. To the outside, the entrance was just another wall. With her newly strengthened illusion, she had made another discovery about the Skill.

Major Image, once destroyed with physical touch, would expend a little amount of mana. Although it wasn’t a great expenditure, she realised it would be a non-perfect alarm set-up.

It would work in the way it would detect her if something had broken her illusion, but it was non-perfect because then they would see her fortress. But it was better than nothing. At least that way she could come prepared for an ambush if the voidling monsters lay in wait.

If they even had the intelligence for that.

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Astrid sat cross-legged. She hovered just above the floor at the border of her illusion as she looked out. She couldn’t see anything, but she could feel the mana fluctuating in the distance. Judging from the overwhelming strength, it couldn’t be anything good.

Thankfully, it seemed to be a great distance away. Sensing mana as a mage was just like an average person, feeling the wind against their cheeks. The only difference was that a mage could filter it through the air and absorb it into their container.

With Astrid’s experience of mana in different environments, she could tell that it was very far away. How far exactly, she did not know, but she vowed to stay away from wherever it was.

It would be different if she could rely on the raw destructive capabilities of her Psychokinetic class, but now the dungeon limited her to only using her Illusionist class to kill.

This is going to suck. Astrid lamented, no more eyeball pulling, or crashing skulls, or blasting bodies into little pieces. She pouted and stood up from her hovering position. It was time to get to work. Hopefully, she won’t be here too long.

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Astrid finished her Mind Domain attack as a bunch of voidling insects lay scattered around the ground. She wiped the dripping blood from her arm. Thankfully, it was just a scratch.

It was pure luck that it had harmed her; it happened during the wild attack as they ripped each other apart. One of them had broken out of the brawl and attacked her despite the illusion covering the battlefield. Astrid guessed it had smelled her presence, or something like that anyway, and attacked. It was an easy fix. She just created a Major Image on the floor and levitated up into the air above the misty illusion.

 

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