Chapter 133: Non-Magic Power

Although it sounds a bit strange, since I promised to let Iriush take the stage, Miss Vilyric wouldn’t change her mind at the last moment.

The doll girl opened what looked like an unremarkable metal panel and fiddled with it like it was a real laptop. Not long after, a classic, monotone voice echoed from it.

“[Multi-Function Travel Assistant No. 71] startup complete, please verify user identity.”

“Administrator 01, voiceprint recognition.”

“Beep beep… Voiceprint recognized, welcome to use, Administrator 01, please state your request.”

“Hehehe~”

Iriush turned around slightly, feeling a bit smug as she glanced at the curious faces in the crowd, especially at the priestess miss who was silently watching her performance. She then gave an order to the black metal panel in her hands.

“Activate Rain Shelter Mode, range… one hundred meters around, starting now!”

“Command received, activating Rain Shelter Mode.”

The black panel emitted a series of buzzing sounds and actually floated up, transforming into an inverted triangular pyramid in the air, spreading out a circle of special waves that were invisible to the naked eye.

It seemed this was not a solid shield directly formed by magic, nor did it affect anyone. It felt more like sound waves or some kind of physical phenomenon?

“All right, you can take that shield down now.”

Miss Iriush placed her hands on her hips proudly and pointed to the golden shield of [Radiant Protection] above her head. Although Miss Vilyric was somewhat skeptical about the reliability of this thing, she still complied, dispersing the magic amidst the slightly anxious gazes of the crowd.

“Boom!”

As the shield disappeared, torrential rain immediately poured down like a waterfall.

However, just as it was about to fall on everyone, the rain was suddenly pushed aside by an invisible repulsive force, as if some hyper-powered blower was continuously whipping up gusts of wind to blow outward. In reality, the people inside felt no wind at all; in fact, even the wild winds coming with the downpour were completely blocked by that invisible force.

“Oh? It actually works?”

To be honest, the priestess miss was a bit surprised.

Although in the end, this thing seemed to serve a similar purpose to [Radiant Protection], the latter was at least a sixth-level magic, while the device Iriush brought out didn’t emit a single hint of magical energy. In this magical world, that’s quite a remarkable feat.

You should know that even the Puppeteer Clan’s [Father], a guy whose gaming nickname is probably [Hao Miao Yi Meng], relied on magic to perform imprinting and powering to create beings like Iriush and her kin. How did this guy manage to surpass the original and actually develop a purely mechanical device?

Moreover, this thing wouldn’t obstruct vision like a shield would in heavy rain, so it seemed Iriush really wasn’t bragging.

Even though she’s usually a mess of a person, her inventiveness is indeed impressive; I had underestimated her before.

“Hehehe, look at you all stunned! Now you know just how amazing I am, right?”

After seemingly setting that inverted triangular device to follow her around automatically, Miss Iriush smugly turned her head. Miss Vilyric didn’t feel embarrassed or flustered; she always gave praise and recognition to things that were genuinely useful.

“It is indeed interesting. Did you design the AI for this machine yourself? What principle does it operate on?”

“Oh? Vilyric, you know about AI? How knowledgeable! Even I learned that term from the old man’s notes. Actually, it’s not entirely my design; it’s too complex, the foundational logic code uses the old man’s standard template. My main effort went into making this [Multi-Function Travel Assistant No. 71] truly multi-functional.”

Enjoying the amazed gazes surrounding her, Miss Iriush suppressed the urge to look down her nose at them and posed dramatically for a moment.

“As for the principle… it’s so complicated that you wouldn’t understand even if I explained. Just know it’s relying on a power called [Force Field].”

Force Field…?

I see, it’s a phenomenon similar to the repulsion between magnets? No wonder the wind and rain are continuously pushed outward… This machine’s ability to float in the air without magic must also be related to similar forces.

However, though I can’t explain it in magical terms, regardless of gravity, the attraction and repulsion of magnetic poles, and various physical powers of “infinity” and “limitlessness” still fundamentally express a kind of power of [Laws].

Or perhaps, it’s one of the basic forces that constitute this world itself.

Whether magic or technology, in the end, they both lead to the same higher [Laws]…

I can discuss scientific matters later; since we’ve unexpectedly gained help from Iriush’s invention, moving through the downpour is naturally no longer a problem.

The force field created by Iriush can actually also be understood as a simulation of laws. As long as the device is around, regardless of how fast the mountain wolves run, it can change its range accordingly.

Having the memories of living on Blue Star, it was easy for Miss Vilyric to grasp this point.

Then, the group pressed on through the gusty rain in the mountains. Thanks to the action of the [Force Field], visibility greatly improved, and they no longer had to worry about their clothes or fur getting soaked by the rain.

From a distance, it looked like a vacuum area moving swiftly.

Although the ground beneath their feet remained quite muddy, this level of mess was nothing for mountain wolves skilled in scaling and traversing perilous terrains as long as they were cautious.

After another two hours of travel, two particularly steep, almost sky-scraping peaks appeared side by side before the group. Their shapes were especially interesting, resembling some wild beast’s sharp claws bursting from the ground, shooting straight up into the sky—truly a marvel of nature.

Upon seeing these peaks, Aiste, in her wolf form, immediately exclaimed in delight.

“We’ve arrived! This is Wolf Claw Peak, the gateway to our tribe’s residence! Miss Vilyric, just pass through the gorge between the two peaks, and inside is the valley where our Moonshadow Clan lives!”

“We finally made it…”

This escort journey for Noviya from Demon Town to the Moonshadow Clan was relatively short but had been quite winding.

In just a few days, they first helped the mountain wolves resolve their survival crisis, then encountered the Puppeteer Clan and all of Iriush’s inexplicable gadget troubles, experienced a magical spring that coincidentally brought about the March Twin Moon Night, which changed Noviya’s fur color and in turn brought her back to consciousness.

Following that, they learned about the Puppeteer Clan’s past secrets and witnessed the prototype integrated with [Flame Lord’s Core] and [Tear of the Moon Goddess]. Just when they managed to get out for a while, a monumental torrential rain hit again.

Thanks to a certain priestess miss’s deep reserves, she was capable of resolving one unexpected situation after another. Had it been someone else…

Sigh, I hope that when we get to the Moonshadow Clan, we can finally enjoy some peaceful days…

   

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