Un-Solo Leveling

103. A Rune Mage

Indra finds out that this island is not a part of any country. It is located in the Indian Ocean, far to the south of Asia. Jin Woo found it by coincidence years ago before this regression.

"So, what do you want me to do on this island now?"

"Can you do something to prevent the ants from escaping this island? They are evolving fast and soon, the ones with wings will be born and fly out of the island. I don't want them to reach any human civilization and kill anyone, so we need to prevent them from leaving."

Indra crosses his arms while trying to find ideas. "Hmm, my barrier can surely block them, but it will disappear when I leave. Rune Magic seems to be the best answer, but I haven't found the spell that can isolate a single place."

Jin Woo lets Indra think and doesn't disturb him. This is not an easy task, but Jin Woo believes Indra can solve it. Solving this problem will also help Indra grow even stronger.

However, it's not easy to find a solution immediately, so they go home again for now. Indra needs to do some experiments and he can't do those on the island. Besides, it will take days, or weeks, or even months to finish, so they can't stay.

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Indra does his usual activities like taking care of his Guild, raiding dungeons, activating the runes on the magic guns and bombs, awakening or upgrading the power of people that have been scouted by shadow soldiers, relaxing with his family, etc while researching the way to isolate the island.

Then 3 weeks after visiting the island, he finally finds a method. He quickly calls Jin Woo and they go to the island immediately.

"So, what will you do?"

"Hehe, just watch."

Indra gathers his mana and then creates a barrier that covers the whole island.

"Barrier Magic? How will you maintain it?"

"You'll see it soon. Now take us out of this barrier using your Gate, to the top of this barrier."

As Indra asks, Jin Woo makes a Gate that connects to the top of the barrier. After moving there, Indra creates 10 clones and gives each of them a monster core before sending them to different locations.

"Those are A-Rank dungeon boss cores. I'll use them to maintain this barrier."

At each location where the clones are being sent to, there's a small container made out of barrier magic where they can put the monster core. The clones put the cores inside the container before dispelling themselves.

After all of the clones disappear, Indra crouches and puts his hands on the barrier. He gathers his mana again and closes his eyes to concentrate.

Then, black runes come out of his hands. The runes start moving on the barrier and soon they cover the whole barrier, including the monster cores' containers.

A moment later, the black runes glow blue. Then the runes and the barrier start disappearing from sight. But both Indra and Jin Woo still can stand on their spot, so they look like they are flying.

"You can't see it, but the barrier is still here. Those runes I draw have 2 main functions, to absorb mana from the cores to maintain the barrier and to conceal the barrier and the runes themselves. I think that concealing the barrier is important because this island might be found by satellite view because of the barrier and the barrier might affect the ants' evolutions."

Indra explains about the runes and his reason for concealing the barrier to Jin Woo who thinks it's a logical reason though it might not be necessary and it's not the most important part.