"The base's large-scale enchantments are kept deactivated to save energy. It's too expensive to maintain a large-scale spell active all the time just to prevent a bunch of young soldiers from snooping around," Ash explained to address her doubts but raised new questions.
"How do you know all this?"
"Just use mana vision and look around. Most facilities have runes scattered throughout the structure. After weeks here, only an idiot or complete rune illiterate wouldn't understand large-scale spells." Ash spoke arrogantly, as if it were common knowledge.
"Let's get going; we're just wasting my mana standing here and talking like this." Ash hurried Laura to prevent her from asking more questions.
The two began to climb the mountain, flying as close to the ground as possible to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
