Hero or Villain, Both
Chapter 105: Mana explosion

Chapter 105: Mana explosion

"So in the end, you could only turn to me for help?"

"You know that I’m not as good with that mana stuff, so it’s better if you do it."

"Not good? We’re the same person, so you should be just as good as me."

While scratching his head, Conan said, "Well, you’re more used to it since you use it more. Plus, you’ve read more than I have about this matter, so it’s clearly your field of expertise."

With a sigh, I said, "Once again, we’re the same person. It’s just that you don’t want to do it, so you’re making me do it."

A smile crept onto Conan’s face as he said, "Just call it a favour to myself then. I’ll do something for you later."

I just shook my head without saying anything else.

I certainly never thought that I would be in for this much labour when I moved my operation into the wilderness, but now I was being called by this muscular idiot every few days.

"I heard that. You and I share thoughts, so I know what you’re thinking." Conan complained from the side, but I just ignored him.

It was my right to complain since I was being forced to help him with this matter.

It was decided by the avatars that relocating would be best since I had already provoked the Undead Society quite a bit with all that I had done. As such, they had started sending out more and more groups to scout out the area that I had been in.

If it was just scouts, then it would have been fine.

But as a lich, I was more sensitive to undead and the energy that they released. That was why I could tell that there were powerful undead that had come out with the scouts, waiting to ambush me.

It was clear that the elder that I had heard of before had gotten involved in this matter.

So moving to the wilderness really was the best option with the settlement that Conan had taken over and all the materials that were here.

Once I built up enough forces, then I would take it out on the Undead Society.

"That’s why it’s best if you help me with this. If we take down that Iron Fist Gang, won’t you get a bunch of new materials?" Conan asked with a wide smile on his face.

"Tch, the last bunch of materials that I got weren’t that good. They were nothing more than weaklings that could only be turned into normal zombies."

"Well, there’s plenty of other material waiting to be taken. It’ll all depend on how well this plan works."

"Humph." I didn’t bother answering as I just gave a simple snort in response.

I looked down at the town in front of us before asking, "Are you sure that they’ll gather?"

The smile disappeared from Conan’s face before a serious look soon replaced it.

He too looked at the town for a bit before saying, "I had Vanessa take care of this matter and you know how good she is at taking care of things like this. There shouldn’t be a problem."

Right as his voice fell, there was a sound that came from the ground in front of them.

The smile reappeared on Conan’s face when he heard this before he said, "There, don’t you see? You answered your own question."

"Humph." I gave another snort before taking out an orb that I brought down to the skeletal hand in front of us.

Handing that orb over to the skeletal hand, I said, "You know what to do. Make sure that there aren’t any mistakes."

The skeletal hand tried to salute even though it was already holding the orb which just made it look awkward. But it took the orb and disappeared into the ground.

When it was gone, I said, "Now we watch the show."

"Do you have to act like that?" Conan complained from behind me.

"Humph." I just gave another snort in response.

...

"Do you think that you can fool us? We’ve all heard the rumours, so just let us check this place and then you won’t have to worry about anything."

"This is the territory of our Iron Fist Gang, how can we let outsiders like you just do whatever you want in our territory?"

Though he acted tough, Iron Head couldn’t help cursing under his breath.

He never thought that rumours like this would spread across the wilderness all of a sudden like this. He had even tried to stop the rumours, but whoever had spread these rumours in the first place knew what they were doing.

So even with the influence of the Iron Fist Gang, they hadn’t been able to stop these rumours from spreading.

Though right now it was only people who came to cause trouble and to watch the fun, it was still dangerous since the powers behind these people were far greater than what the Iron Fist Gang could face alone.

Right now, the only thing that Iron Head had to do now was to send these people away without causing any trouble.

But in the middle of their talk...

"Boom!"

There was a loud sound that came from the center of the town before this wave of strange energy came from it.

The moment that this wave of strange energy came from there, the expressions on the faces of the people that had come for fun changed. That was because they recognized this was a wave of pure mana that had just been released from the center of the town.

For this kind of pure mana to be released, there had to be something special there.

It seemed like the rumours that the Iron Fist Gang was hiding some kind of secret treasure wasn’t completely baseless. It seemed like there might actually be something hidden inside of the town.

Only Iron Head couldn’t help thinking to himself, "Just what is this explosion? And where did all this mana come from?"