Chapter 265 – #60_Drainage Tunnel
#263
One.
The vertical ball with its dark mouth open was much closer than I thought.
A construction site located less than 5km away from the location point Gwanghwamun branch.
The construction was suspended for some reason, and in the empty lot surrounded only by rusty screens, a hole was opening its mouth.
Next to it was a management vertical opening with an elevator installed, which was completely blocked with cement.
It must have been that the cowardly witch hid the entrance through various physical and magical procedures to use it as her workshop.
Perhaps that’s why there was no shadow of a person around, so it was a blank zone in Seoul, which is bustling with all kinds of floating population.
It’s midday, so even though it’s quite deep, you can see the bottom.
Height between 40 and 50 m.
When rainwater flowing from all over the area fills this vertical and ventilator, the water gate is opened and the rainwater is stored in a rainwater tunnel extending underground.
The collected rainwater flows through a 5km-long tunnel and is discharged into the Han River.
“… It is deep.”
Siu looked down the tunnel with her armor on.
I muttered very little, but the reverberant sound came back as an echo.
“I see.”
Eloa answered in a soulless voice.
Even after she had finished her decision to take Siu with her, a part of her heart remained as if a thorn had been stuck in it.
His will and courage are highly regarded and respected.
However, if everything was solved with a strong mind, there would not be so many absurdities left in the world.
Waiting for Mr. Sua’s signal, Elroa made up her mind to protect Siu no matter what.
-Shuuuuu!
And the expected signal came.
The operation is not that complicated.
Branch leader Sua spreads the barrier, prepares for the white knight’s counterattack, and protects the axis of the barrier.
Tiphareth and Siu become the main force and defeat the cowardly witch and red knight hiding in the workshop.
In the meantime, the Witch of Agriculture and the Witch of Glass divert attention and lure the White Knight at the same time.
End.
In fact, it is a simple and clear strategy that makes it embarrassing to attach the grandiose name of operation.
“Siwoo, be mindful. If you think it is dangerous, you must retreat without hesitation.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
Replaced with the vague expression of retreat instead of fleeing, Eloa looked up at the sky.
The huge barriers covering all of Seoul are slowly gathering into the sky.
The moment the barrier was completed was the timing for entry.
Siu also tilted his helmet and looked at the barrier that was formed on a large scale.
The moment the dome-shaped boundary that shone blue like the East Sea was completed, they jumped into the vertical sphere at the same time.
2.
Siwoo’s body has already surpassed human limits.
If you put your mind to it, you could concentrate your strength and achieve subsonic speed, and when you wield a weapon, the tip can easily exceed the speed of sound without any special effort.
Without going that far, if you add up his armament now, he easily exceeds the weight of a decent two-wheeled vehicle.
However, even though he can use the armor of shadow as an exoskeleton suit and strengthen his body with magical power, there are times when he gets caught up in ‘the days when he was a perfect human’.
For example, if you are lucky, you will be paralyzed, usually when you have to free-fall down a vertical ball at the height of the death penalty.
-Thud!
However, contrary to Siwoo’s concerns, his knees easily absorbed the shock from the jump and landed successfully.
Although the cement floor, which had been hit by a free-falling piece of metal, was dirty and cracked and raised dust.
Next to her, Elroa flutters her hair and steps down with an effortless body movement that doesn’t feel her weight.
“Stay close to me.”
“…….”
There was no trace of the enemy in the tunnel that stretched widely from east to west.
However, Siu soon noticed.
This is ‘different’.
Like two sides of a coin, I only came down from the height of the 13th floor of an apartment building, but the air clinging to my skin was different.
Would you feel like this if you stepped into the entrance of hell?
It seems that you can feel the fishy smell of blood in the sloppy atmosphere and the dry musty smell that fills the lungs.
“You must need some light.”
Originally, there were mercury lamps embedded in the walls, but they cannot function properly now, more than 20 years after they were closed.
Eloah snapped her fingers, and several decorative lights fired into the tunnel like flares.
Thanks to that, she was able to see in detail the depths of the tunnel where the light of the vertical sphere did not reach.
“It’s bigger than I thought.”
Diameter 10M.
It is wide and tall enough for two dump trucks to pass by.
The appearance of the passageway, which seemed to be a huge cylinder laid at a gentle angle, was almost the same as that of the tunnel, as expected.
The only difference is that, unlike general tunnels that take the shape of a semicircle to distribute the load, the passage of this drainage tunnel is almost a perfect circle.
That is why the height and width are almost identical.
“No, it is very narrow.”
Elroa surveyed her surroundings with the keen eyes already in her combat readiness.
At first glance, it seems wide, but Eloa, who shows jet-level output with her simple maneuvers, is very narrow for her rampage.
Perhaps the white knights will use this narrow tunnel to show their bouncing movements in all directions.
“Which way should I go?”
“This way.”
Eloa turned towards her eastern tunnel.
She is already familiar with the topography of her battlefield through Sua-sensei’s briefing.
Cylinder-shaped passages with a diameter of 5 to 10 meters extend all over Seoul underground like an ant’s nest.
There are vertical shafts at about 800M intervals, and the goal of Eloa is the engine room, which is about 2km to the east.
It is said that the cowardly witch occupies the cavity that was originally the engine room and pump room that oversees the system.
-Oh—— oh—- oh oh——-
Not long after the two of them moved, a strange sound was heard.
No, the sound source was too far away to be called sound, and it was refracted here and there on the complicated tunnel wall, so it was appropriate to describe it as a slight vibration.
The brow hardened.
Looking to the side of her, I see Eloah with an expression that is not very different.
“What do you mean?”
-Oh—- oh oh—— oh oh——-
When I stopped walking and listened carefully, I could hear the vibration more accurately.
Would it sound like this if you scooped out the pitiful soul that had been melted and suffered in the fires of hell with a big ladle?
It was a chorus of screams that gave me goosebumps and made me sick just to hear it.
As if the chorus were some kind of signal, a sound came from a distant winding tunnel.
-Clap! Clap! Clap!
The sound of iron boots kicking on the dry floor.
The sound of a weapon rattling.
“They are already coming to meet you. It’s better than dealing with them all at once.”
“I will prepare.”
Eloa counted the number of enemies with the echo of footsteps.
A total of 32 white knights.
In order to maintain a numerical superiority, it is wise to attack at once when reaching a slightly wider place such as a fork or a hollow, rather than a tunnel like this.
Perhaps it could be seen as a jab to measure Eloa’s fighting power.
“First of all, please step back for a while. I’ll have to gauge her strength.”
As Eloa stretched out her arms, the space was torn open and the contract sword that responded to the call revealed its brilliant appearance.
The remaining six characters on the sword surface glowed, and a magenta-colored magical light reflected at the corners of Elroa’s eyes.
“Contract.”
Elroa strengthened her leg strength, back muscle strength, and physical strength through a total of six contracts, two each.
This was the most Eloa could spend on strengthening her body.
The spiritual body would not be able to withstand it even if it was strengthened beyond this level.
There are still more than 1000 gigs left.
The most important thing in this subjugation is how efficiently you deal with the white knight and face the red knight and Xochitl.
Then, the white knight appeared.
-Clap clap clap clap clap clap
Holding a white spear in one hand, they kicked the ground rapidly as soon as they found Eloa.
Like a well-trained army, they jumped in all at once in perfect order, their white armor shining in the dim light.
“I’ll keep an eye on you.”
Eloah stood sideways and turned her waist until the tip of her sword touched the ground on her right.
She already looked more like she was about to swing a baseball bat in full swing than she was already ready for her sword strike.
“… Hueup… !”
Eloa caught her breath.
The tip of the spear of the white knight at the forefront narrowed the distance and shimmered in front of Elroa.
Even so, Eloa closed her eyes and did not make even the slightest movement.
She only stopped her breathing as she inhaled serenely as if meditating.
Finally, when the tip of the white knight’s spear was stuck between Eloah’s forehead, he was about to hear it.
When Siwoo, who was worse off, tried to stretch the ribbon.
Eloa opened her eyes.
She burrows into the cement floor as if pushing with her stilts…
——————!!!!
A roaring sound like hundreds of tons of dynamite exploding in a narrow tunnel explodes.
A torrent of energy that felt too alien to be created by swinging a sword.
Based on Eloah’s changed posture from before, he only guessed that ‘she swung the sword’, but what Siwoo could see was a flashbang-level light classification that bloomed and disappeared.
And…
-Koo-gu-gu-gu-gung!
Thirty-two white knights, some in the air, some running along the tunnel ceiling, and some even throwing javelins at Elroa.
It was the White Knight who took the lead, but Elroa’s attack, which was wielded much later, was much faster.
The classification of destruction that couldn’t keep up with the speed of the sword’s swing came belatedly like a storm.
A bell-shaped wave spread around Eloa, and all the white knights began to distort.
As if being pressed by an intangible press machine, the entire armor was shattered and pieces of metal fluttering like fish scales,
About 20 white knights overlapping the trajectory of the sword strike were neatly separated.
Remnants of the destruction tumbled forward, making the sound of empty cans being kicked.
Even so, there is no damage to the outer wall of the tunnel, probably because of fear of collapse.
The non-woven fabric that was clinging next to it had just fallen off in tatters.
This meant that she did not just wield her power indiscriminately, but wielded it with firm rein to the peak of her power.
“… Whoa….”
Elroa lowered her sword, guiding her breath through her glass.
Siu, standing behind her, watched the scene from beginning to end with her mouth half-open.
I guessed that Eloa, the 23rd tier witch, would be strong.
However, seeing her fight with all her heart for the first time, Siu felt a stark difference in class.
An overwhelming force capable of breaking through any difficulty single-handedly.
“This is to cut with all your might.”
Eloa looked at Siu.
Seeing the precious disciple she wanted to protect, she opened her mouth.
Siwoo forgot the serious situation and almost clapped.
“You are amazing… “
“Don’t do it. This is not the time to be careless.”
“All right.”
Elroa hurriedly dissuaded Siwoo.
It was not a realistic reason that the enemy could pinpoint the location by hearing this sound, or that a trap would be activated by activating a trigger installed in the workshop.
Whenhehears Siwoo’s praise, the corners of his mouth go up on his own.
It was because I didn’t want to disturb this tension and the atmosphere that had gone into battle in vain.
“Let’s go, we still have a long way to go.”
Looking at Eloah, who quickly turned his back and started leading, Siwoo wondered if he really had the right time to step out.
