Chapter 106 – 103 the Labyrinth Where Light Cannot Reach
The 4th and 5th floors were similar to the 3rd floor.
The floor was wide and there were many paths going downstairs. There were also many parties located inside the corner.
The party continued to descend downstairs, exploring the labyrinth where light did not reach.
Translucent minerals like moss, mushrooms, and crystals visible in the light bar’s light source.
A puddle of water dripping from the stalagmites on the ceiling.
The yellow light dimly shining from beyond the aisle and the voice of a person that can be heard if you listen carefully.
And the occasional heteromorphic species.
“Two mini-monster centipedes and one mini-monster spider 20m ahead.”
At Hwanin’s warning while stepping aside, Baeknyeogang immediately raised the phase power and sent it to the jewel of the staff.
=Lady.=
=Yes! Blowing and raging blade wind!=
At Lessim’s signal, he memorized a short spell and fired a compressed basketball-sized wind ball.
When the wind ball collides with a small crocodile-sized centipede with the sound of cutting through the wind, a crescent-shaped blade of wind pours in a 3m radius around it and hacks the two apart.
Let’s go!
The two miniature centipedes were literally cut to pieces without a chance to resist.
The little monster spider, which was slightly straddling the range of the blade wind, also began to run away with a limp, screaming, with three of its side legs cut off.
Jump!
Before walking even three steps, a Celtic stone ax cut through the stomach, and the monster spider, whose stomach was cut off, died as it were.
After recovering the stone axe, Hwanin tapped the chitinous shell of the monster centipede that had covered the surroundings with bodily fluids.
Not as hard as steel, but very hard.
‘I can see why there are so many chitinous skins in the by-products market in front of the labyrinth.’
If it’s as hard as this, I’ll process it and make anything.
Hwanin, who looked around where the wind magic had exploded, nodded slightly.
“The power of magic is considerable.”
= Hwanin? I hate it when you tease me like that. I’m also a level 3 wind sorcerer.=
When Baek Ryogang said that it made no sense that he could not do this well against a first-class opponent, Hwanin shut his mouth for a moment before explaining that it was a misunderstanding.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen a sorcerer use a skill. The skin was unexpectedly hard, but that was just the impression I felt when I saw it lightly cut…… I apologize if you felt offended.”
= Yes? Are you saying you’ve never seen the technique?=
How could that be? Hwanin gave a brief explanation to Leshim, who had a smile on his face, without hiding anything about how he had come here.
“So it is. Ah, come to think of it, I saw a species that looked like frogmen shooting green arrows.”
=A frog person who uses magic is a prog rock shaman…….=
In the meantime, Issilite, who had searched her corpse for her Aspect Stone, returned and shook her head.
=There was no topology stone.=
“Let’s go.”
When Hwanin started walking again, Resim followed him, drawing a question mark in his head.
Even if you only entered a level 3 labyrinth, it was not difficult to form a party with a magician. But doesn’t Hwanin-nim beat even the 5th grader? With skills like that, he’s never seen magic before?
A progrok shaman is a 4th-class heteromorph who uses blue magic.
Even though I’ve seen Hyungjong Lee use so many techniques, I’ve never seen a technique used by a human, can it be so?
This was all due to the fact that nothing was known about the lake labyrinth of the 7th grade Orzot, so there was a gap in knowledge.
Because the lake labyrinth was also open, the lake labyrinth’s progrok shaman ‘Yusaeng’ settled down in the river near the forest-type labyrinth, which was relatively safe.
No one here knew that.
Unlike Resim, who was worried, Baek Ryeo-gang had roughly guessed the identity of Hwan-in, so he put aside his curiosity, saying, ‘It could be that person.’
Instead, she pressed her beating heart and smiled a little.
Baekryeogang finally realized that he had entered the labyrinth.
To be honest, as soon as I entered the labyrinth, it was true that I was greatly disappointed when I ran into a human hunter.
The adventure of the labyrinth, the friendship with colleagues, and the love that sprouted from the tough journey, which he had cherished for over 10 years, were all destroyed at once.
If the young lady named Isili Te hadn’t clarified in a bright voice the resentment she felt while witnessing the murder right next to her, Baek Ryogang might have asked him to go back as it was.
=… That’s why I always came out wearing a hoodie. His clothes were also changed into plain leather clothes. =
= Yes. You did a good job. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. If she took off her hood and entered her labyrinth, she would…….=
=If you came?=
= All the people I’ve encountered so far are chasing after the lady, so a great thing must have happened. Really.=
= Whoops. Isilite is exaggerating.=
= Uh Really. Mr. Lesim, please say something.=
=I totally agree with Miss Isilite’s story. Her lady should be able to see her self and her appearance more objectively.
=Reshim is also really…….=
= She is objectively so. Objectively !=
If the atmosphere had not been relieved in this way, I would probably have given up on exploring the labyrinth.
And again, she would be confined to a stuffy castle, marry a man who doesn’t even know her face, conceive and give birth to a child, and wither away lonely for the rest of her life.
Baek Ryogang thanked Isili Te, who returned to her side and wiped her tongs and tools that had been soiled from digging through her corpse.
=Thank you, Isilite.=
= Yes? What?=
=Just thanks.=
=…… ?=
It was Isilite who suddenly looked at Baek Ryogang, who said she was grateful, with strange eyes, but it didn’t seem that such an innocent young lady meant her words with bad intentions, so she just smiled.
“Now we are on the 6th floor. Class 2 heteromorphs also appear here. Level 1 was a bit strong animal or insect, but from level 2, it is a monster that can definitely be called a heteromorphic species.”
Pararak – Open the atlas of the labyrinth where light does not reach and continue talking while looking at the 6th floor.
“Starting from this floor, the number of workers will be drastically reduced, so you will encounter heterogeneous species more often. Let’s make it tense.”
=Whoop.=
“What are you interested in?”
Her Hwanin turned to her at the sound of pure laughter in her white river, and when she asked, she wiggled with her hand holding her staff and answered.
=Hwanin-nim is a skilled thief who can take down five professional thieves in an instant. With that skill, you could easily defeat the 2nd-class Lee Hyung-jong, but he said let’s be nervous.
“I understand. If the young lady was an adventurer, she would have been greatly scolded, but she will let it go.”
= Ho, scolding me…… ?=
Slightly taken aback, Hwanin nodded her head calmly, and Resim shrugged her shoulders and sighed as if he couldn’t stop it.
Baek Ryeo-gang protested against the actions of the two men, puffing out his cheeks slightly.
= What is it, really? Reshim doesn’t even explain why.=
= Well. A little hard to explain it with my mouth.=
=…… ?=
“Then we will proceed.”
To the right of the stairs leading to the 6th floor were two stairs leading to the 7th floor.
If the purpose is to break through the labyrinth, it is better to go down immediately, but the purpose of this party is to let Baek Ryeo-gang enjoy the feeling of the labyrinth.
Hwanin, who handed the map book to Leshim asheheaded towards the passage leading to the inside to take a quick look at the atmosphere on the 6th floor, moved on.
You should tell me what you did wrong to fix it, but you don’t teach me…….
Isilite thought that Baekryeogang’s appearance was cute enough to call her foul play, and she replied instead.
=The lady just made a mistake.=
=…… Please tell me what the mistake was.=
=If you’re not careful, even a 7th grade warrior will die from a 2nd grade warrior. No matter how weak it is, it’s an enemy who wants your life, and it’s absolutely forbidden to look down on it. They say lions are careful when hunting rabbits, right?=
= Ah…….=
Only then did Baek Ryogang, who understood Hwanin and Resim’s reaction, covered his face with both hands in embarrassment. And Isilite couldn’t stand it and was happy hugging Baeknyeogang.
= The lady is so cute! It’s really against the law to be cute with such a pretty face.
= I’m sorry. This is Isilite. It’s too close…….=
Hwanin did not pay attention to the two women chatting behind him and opened his ears near the only passage leading into the cave to check for signs outside.
= Oh, the lady is so soft. You don’t have any muscles at all?=
= Ah. Isilite, where are you touching…… !=
No, I tried to look, but I couldn’t because of the small voice coming from behind.
Hwanin looked back at Baeknyeogang and Isilite and sent a signal to be quiet before hearing a faint noise from across the aisle.
Sounds like something with many legs wiggling and moving. Something like rough breathing.
Hwanin took one of his red soul orbs off his arm and gave the order.
‘Go back to the original.’
Hwaaak-
As if the scene where the soul changes into a marble is reversed, the marble changes into a human soul.
The target is a woman with cat ears. She is a very rebellious and rebellious character.
Returning to her naked spirit body, the cat-eared woman put on a foolish expression, but when she found Hwanin, she started glaring at her ferociously.
‘Look at the situation across the aisle.’
“…….”
No sound was heard at the ‘command’, but the cat-eared woman gnashed her teeth so clearly that the sound of her teeth grinding could be heard as an auditory hallucination and disappeared beyond her aisle.
And after a while, the cat-eared woman returned and just glared at Hwanin as if she wanted to kill her.
‘Tell me in detail what you saw.’
At her continued command, the cat-eared woman covered her mouth with her hands, as if she never wanted to speak, but her force forced her mouth to open on its own, and she stuttered what she saw. It started.
“Uh, extreme…… Main, one medium-sized monster centipede and a small… Two silver centipede monsters…… Scream, there was one monster…… All.”
Hwanin turns her head and gives a signal to her group and passes through the 12m long passage silently.
“I hear a monster on the other side of the aisle. There seem to be four of them, so be ready.”
“You are laughing. You scout me out and you’re bragging about it. This kid…….”
‘Shut up your snout.’
「What kind of young ho uh uh, uh uh…… ?!”
And when they reached the entrance of the passage, the party could see four heteromorphic species wandering around the wide cave several tens of meters high.
Kitit-
Kissish-
3 large and small centipede monsters approaching you, reacting to the light from the light stick. Behind him is a little ragged monster with three arms, five eyes, and two mouths. I screamed.
= I will deal with them. Lady, Wonho!=
Leshim sprints toward the medium-sized centipede monster that approaches in an instant, swinging his silver sword smoothly.
With a neat ∠-shaped sword strike, the medium-sized centipede monster’s body is cut in half, spraying bodily fluids, and then kicking the small centipede monster that has reached its feet with a loud bang.
=Piercing wind!=
In the meantime, Baek Ryeo-gang, who had completed the technique, held out his staff and shot a spear-like wind arrow at the shrieker, a screaming monster that continued to scream.
Eh ah ah…….
Pujik!
Shrieker, whose head had been blown off by an arrow, collapsed and fell silent in the same position she had screamed, and Resim also nimbly stabbed the head of a small monster centipede that had been crawling around.
“For arthropods, one-sided attacks are effective.”
=Um!=
Realizing her true condition at the advice of her phantom, Reshim stabbed her in the head and slit her torso with two consecutive cuts at the centipede, a miniature monster that twisted her body.
The last centipede monster that had been kicked away also exploded with a crackling sound from the wind beads shot by Baeknyeogang, and the battle ended.
“Thank you for your effort.”
Resim swung his sword to shake off his bodily fluids and smiled awkwardly at Hwanin’s greeting.
=This is why adults watch real-life, real-life. I studied a lot of heterogeneous species, but my body moved reflexively.=
“Is this your first labyrinth, Mr. Lesim?”
= It’s embarrassing. Since this year, the family has granted permission to enter the labyrinth……. However, I have experience participating in subjugating monsters that appear in the territory, so I am a little familiar with monsters.=
It was probably not a direct fight, but a field trip.
Hwanin nodded his head as if he understood roughly so that he would not be in trouble.
“That’s right. Baek Ryeo-gang also did a good job. It is great to change the technique appropriately depending on the target.”
=Thank you.=
Hwanin saw several monsters approaching from the far side of the cave where the light source couldn’t reach, and pulled out his black spear. Then Bai Lijiang took off his hood and narrowed his eyes as he looked into the darkness.
= Is the monster approaching? I don’t see it at all.=
“Fungus Romer and Gelatin Cubes.”
A mushroom man resembling a matsutake mushroom, about 120 cm tall, approaching limping as if he had no bones. And a square green jelly cube with a side length of about 50cm that hops, hops, and jumps.
‘Fungus Romer’s color system is light green. Is it safe to eat?’
By comparison, square gelatin cubes are green and very vivid blue. In addition, it is disgusting to see amoeba-like things floating around inside.
As he walks away with a black spear, Fungus Romer, who has been leisurely approaching, slowly pulls his elbow back.
At that action, he felt a slight tingle in his chest, where Fungus Romer was aiming. Looking at just that sense, it was similar to what I felt when I met the werewolf near Bardul and the Labyrinth.
‘Now’
Hwanin, who read that the movement of Fungus Romer, who was pulling his elbow, had stopped, grabbed the stone ax from his waist as a test and was about to throw it.
「Kyaaaaa!!」
The spirit of the cat-eared woman shrieked and struggled limbs, blocking the view.
Spark-
Phiyi.
Despite the obstruction of vision, Hwanin swung his spear in accordance with the previously read attack trajectory and cut off Fungus Romer’s arm, while at the same time swung the spear and cut off his waist.
Silently, Fungus Romer, who had been cut nearly 2/3 in the waist, collapsed with his upper body and lower body divided.
The cat-eared woman looked behind her, saw the mushroom split in two above and below her, and clicked her tongue.
Fungus Romer’s attack power is enough to break down cave walls. If I had interrupted well, I would have been hit by that fist, and then the spirit master would have died too.
The cat-eared woman soul looked back at her ghost with regret and felt her heart shrink in fear.
“…….”
How can human eyes do that?
The cat-eared woman belatedly began to tremble at the gaze that looked like something inorganic rather than a living person.
She got it wrong
The boss of the organization he belonged to is also evaluated as having fierce eyes, but compared to that man’s eyes, he is like a kitten.
At least the boss’s eyes contained human emotions.
But there was no emotion in the man’s eyes as he looked at him. It’s normal for people to have even small emotions, but that man’s eyes were shining like glass beads.
A person who can have eyes like that cannot be a good person.
Hwanin stared at the cat-eared woman’s soul and threw a dagger at a round bead presumably the nucleus of the gelatin cube.
Fuuk, the dagger penetrated the semi-solid gelatin cube and stabbed the marble, and the hardened gelatin cube began to melt while emitting smoke.
=Oh, the dagger is melting.=
=That jelly cube seems corrosive. Girl, don’t come close. Smoke can also be dangerous.=
Suddenly, the cat-eared woman, who came to her senses from the conversation between Baek Ryeo-gang and Le Sim, knelt down in front of Hwan-in and began to beg for forgiveness.
“Yeah, please forgive me. Wrong, wrong I will do everything you ask, so please…… !”
She was a woman who had lived her whole life without fear, biting everywhere like an angry cat. But she realized too late that it was all she could do because she hadn’t seen anything really scary.
Realizing that even though she herself was already dead, worse things could happen to her, the woman desperately rubbed her palms together and begged for her forgiveness…….
Hwanin lifted her finger out of sight from behind her, loaded 4 stacks of soul arrows, and shot it at the soul’s head.
Fit-
「———!!」
A small hole formed in her head where the soul arrow had passed through, and her head popped like a balloon bursting.
It was then that Isilite noticed her strangeness.
=…… Master?=
Isilite, who called out to Hwanin while singing Gingamin, saw Hwanin’s face as usual.
“Speak when called.”
= Oh. No. For some reason, the master seemed a little angry…….=
= I…… Did I make too much noise?=
At Isilite’s remark, Baek Ryogang asked, looking at her Hwanin’s eyes.
“No. The surroundings were strange, so I was paying attention.”
Reshim, who was holding a light stick, looked around the cave with the light stick at the words of Hwanin, but could not find anything strange.
= I don’t see anything strange with my eyes, but…… Rather, Miss Isilite? Ji, what are you doing now?=
=Because some mushrooms humans can eat. This is also a pine fungus, so it is a very rare and expensive planting material. It’s lunchtime after all, right? I’m going to try cooking with this.=
=Are you talking about eating heterogeneous species? … ?!=
=Yes.=
=…… !=
Eating heterogeneous species?! Baek Ryogang, who was so shocked that she couldn’t continue her words, was cute and seemed like Isilite.
That lady must be fed this Mushroom Man.
[6th floor map]
