Chapter 59: Sub-Tower (5)
A Sub-Tower’s Mana Vein emerged at random spots across a 100km radius.
This was the first time Magic Stones had appeared as minerals in the real world, outside the Tower.
For the moment, the only practical method of exploration was to follow the bits jutting out from the surface and dig along their roots, pulling them up the way you’d pull a string of sweet potatoes.
Once the rough scale of the Mana Vein was mapped and the estimates were in, full-scale mining would begin.
Japan, too, had been throwing itself into Magic Stone exploration within the radius of the Sendai Sub-Tower.
“…Huh?”
The scholars and specialists running the survey froze in confusion when the Magic Stones in their test pit suddenly went dark.
The anomaly wasn’t confined to that one site.
Every Magic Stone at every spot Japan had discovered so far lost its glow at the same instant. As if they’d reverted to being plain old rocks.