Labyrinth Story 107

Chapter 107 – 104 the Labyrinth Where Light Cannot Reach

Isilite noticed Isilite’s small and cute scheming, but Hwanin did not intervene and entered the s-shaped passage in the middle of the map on the 6th floor contrary to plan.

Her original plan was to get down to the 10th floor as quickly as possible, clearing out all the xenomorphs she could see.

If it went according to plan, it would have been time to arrive on the 8th floor, and instead of Pine Fungus Romer, I would have had lunch with preserved food…….

‘In the first place, it was a lady’s tour, and it was scheduled for 10 days, so it shouldn’t matter.’

On the way there, he encountered human debris on the third floor, and it took more time to let Baek Ryogang and Resim deal with the heterogeneous species he encountered, but Hwanin didn’t mind. Leshim also notices that he doesn’t care.

“I will rest here.”

As she pulled in and took her seat inside the five o’clock corner, Issilite, who had put down her huge gym bag and fungus roamer, held out her hands to Leshim.

= Do you have a simple cooking tool? Please give me that.=

= Well, over there…… Miss Isilite? Even so, eating heterogeneous species is a bit…….=

Lesim, her face hardened, gulped at her and tried to restrain Isilite, but to no avail.

=Come on~.=

= Ms. Isilite. Please listen to me for a moment. No matter how edible it is, there are things that people are allowed to put in their mouths and not…….=

=Don’t worry. I’ll cook it for you. After all, I got a perfect score on the cooking test at the Maid Training Institute.=

= That, that is a story to look forward to. However…….=

=Quickly.=

=…….=

Resim, who had been educated since childhood, said that she did not refuse her lady’s request. She’s not a lady!’, But her body was honest.

She saw Isilite as a lady who looked more neat than any other ladies she knew (except Baek Ryogang), spoke kindly (except Baek Ryogang), and acted innocently.

In the end, Le Shim, who took out her simple hot plate heating tool from her child’s pocket, faced her crying face with her ears laid back like a dead puppy.

‘What if I give it to you!’
‘You saw it too. Laughing innocently at the request of a heat plate magic tool.’
‘But they say they’re going to cook the heterogeneous species…’ … !’

Isilite, unaware that Baekryeogang and Leshim are arguing with her eyes, sings her hum, manipulates the square hot plate to light a fire, and takes out a long cooking knife from her bag.

Then she skilfully peeled off the skin of the fungus roamer she was carrying and began to scrape through her flesh.

=Wow, the texture of the cut is completely fresh. The scent is also very fragrant.

Hwanin, who stood with his back against the wall in her corner and was wary of the outside world while contemplating how to use the souls of human scraps, heard Isilite’s words and turned around.

Her emergency rations are right next to Isilite, her eyes shining brightly.

If the reaction of emergency food is this much, it is safe for people to eat it. In addition, the spirit vision also has a vivid light green color.

Hwanin also came next to him and accepted the piece of human mushroom flesh that Issilite held out. Hwanin, who put it under her nose and sniffed her, gave a small admiration.

“I can’t believe that the fragrance is also a bunch of flowers. You really were a Matsutake Mushroom Man.”

‘Cluster?’
‘Matsutake? This?’

=Have you ever tried matsutake mushrooms?=

“Okay. If you eat matsutake mushrooms lightly grilled over high-quality hardwood charcoal with cold rice wine as an accompaniment, the refreshing scent of pine trees seems to linger in your nostrils. Matsutake is good for steaming or grilling. Needless to say, especially the freshly cooked rice with matsutake.”

Gulp, gulp.

It is said that the most familiar taste is the scariest.

I had never encountered rice made with pine mushrooms, but I had drunk Baekryeogang, as well as charcoal-grilled resimdo pine mushrooms and clear rice wine brewed at a prestigious brewery in the capital city, so I naturally remembered the taste and aroma. Ended up

Unlike Resim, who was embarrassed, Baek Ryeo-gang sat down next to Isilite and asked, with curiosity overcoming embarrassment.

=This is the Matsutake Mushroom Man. Miss Isilite, have you ever cooked this?=

= No. I only saw the teacher at the Yangseong Technological Center cooking Songi. Miss, have you ever seen the real thing?=

=I’ve seen pine mushrooms cooked before, but this is the first time I’ve seen fungus roamer. Wow, but the scent of pine needles is really strong. The matsutake that came out was only the smell of the sauce.=

=Is it right? It smells really goodhehe~.=

= Hmm…….=

Isilite, savoring the scent for a moment, took her cooking pan out of her gym bag and began to sear thin slices of matsutake mushroom human flesh.

Hwanin sniffed the scent of the flesh given to Isilite and put it in her mouth and chewed it.

The crunchy texture and aroma are the same as matsutake mushroom itself.

= Ah. Bird, is it okay to eat it raw?=

“Yes. The pine scent is very good. This seems to be about average. Would you like to try it?”

=…….=

He seemed to be worried, so Hwanin silently cut the flesh of the human matsutake mushroom at the length of his index finger and handed it to him.

=…… Mmm!=

The first bite was just difficult.

Baek Lukang made her eyes glow with lanterns and sent Hwanin a more wanting look, and Hwanin sighed not only at Baek Lukang, but also at the Inlang tribe warriors who were defeated by her appetite, and Isilite’s mouth grilling matsutake mushroom humans in her pan. Edo cut the flesh and passed it on.

=Uh, uhhhhh.=
= Eh~. This taste…….=

Quet!

Of course, don’t forget to feed emergency food.

After that, thanks to Isilite’s cooking skills, four people and plus one dog only filled their stomachs with various matsutake dishes.

While eating, I could hear Leshim talking about mushrooms, and mushrooms in this world belong to very expensive food regardless of the type.

Monsters exist in this world. In addition, it is difficult to obtain mushrooms or medicinal herbs because there are many people traveling around the outskirts of cities and villages as safety is secured.

You have to go far to save it, but the farther away you are from the city or town, the higher the chance of encountering the monster.

Likewise, there are not many people around the village, but there are many monsters or monster-like animals, so climbing the mountain to collect mushrooms or herbs is no different from risking one’s life.

Farming is difficult, and gathering is even more difficult.

Because of this, mushrooms formed a high price range, and Resim explained that pine mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms were more expensive than gold of the same weight.

“We ate dozens of kilograms of those mush.”

Fungus Romer of the pine mushroom had the body shape of a 13-year-old child. Weighs approximately 40 kg. She ate the entire upper body except for the skin, so she ate 23 kg.

Everyone’s eyes turned to Fungus Romer’s lower body.

Isilite silently arranged the cuts of the matsutake mushroom man and held them out to Leshim, who placed the lower half of his body in a subspace pouch.

=When you leave, let’s leave it to the hotel chef and eat it as a full meal. Who agrees?=

No one objected.

After having lunch and taking a short break, the party changed their ranks.

Leshim in the front row, Isilite and Baengnyeogang in the middle row, and Hwanin in the back row.

=Well done Rob, Miss Isilite.=

Reshim took off her robe, folded it up, and handed it to Isilite, then took out an oval shield lined with silver iron plates from her pocket.

Anyone can see that he is a perfect swordsman.

Hwanin said while receiving a light stick from Resim and a dagger belt and dagger from Isilite.

“Isilite. Lunch was delicious.”

=Go, thank you.=

At Hwanin’s praise, Isilite was scolded for suppressing her pouting lips.

The master is calm about other things, but he seems to like delicious food, so he focused on learning cooking at the technical center.

The process was not smooth. I had only wielded a greatsword all my life, but now I had to go through a lot of trouble learning to control my strength with a small cooking knife.

And today, Isilite felt like all of her hard work had been repaid.

‘…… You are pure. Is this the true face of Isilite?’

Even when she was first sent to the maid training center, Hwanin honestly thought how much she would change if she changed for 40 days.

Even if she had good manners, she thought that she would be lucky if she came out after learning some manners.

However, when I saw the results, the change was enormous. Adding to the exaggeration, it is at the level of washing jewelry that had been rolling around in the manure field with water.

It will smell a little, but that smell will disappear soon and it will become a beautiful jewel itself.

Hwanin stroked Isilite’s head, who was holding her mouth closed while suppressing the corner of her mouth, and was lost in her thoughts.

The look of Isilite where her crush on herself goes beyond material things and touches her heart.

Is it the difference in the environment in which she has lived, or is it the nature of her race itself that opens her heart too easily compared to modern women?

Ryuhi, Epnis, Huini, Ennel. Not only the girls, but also the many women who mingled on the way, the village chief of Etbruk, and the maids of Elkata and the Alts Hotel.

Most of the women I’ve seen so far have easily opened up and approached me with goodwill.

Of course, there were women who weren’t, but in many cases, when one side approached, the other side approached as much and showed sincerity.

‘Even so, I have no intention of embracing human debris.’

Wouldn’t I be able to trust Issilite now?

= Lord, master…….=

“…… ?”

= I need to prepare for departure…….=

“Well.”

She removed her hand from Isilite’s soft brown hair and stepped away, her blushing face as Isilite quickly straightened her hair and stood up from her seat with her large gym bag on her back.

Baek Ryogang, who was spying on her, felt her heart tickle for some reason.

‘Is that trust between master and servant? Or is it love between a man and a woman…….’

Even at first glance, the action of carrying the heavy saddle-stitched greatsword and luggage bag seemed light enough to fly away rather than heavy.

I don’t know about the man or Hwanin, but it is certain that Issilite loves Hwanin. If she sees what Hwanindo does to Isilite, she must be fond of it.

If you build trust and trust in each other like that, wouldn’t your feelings change with love between a man and a woman?

Baek Ryogang, who thought so, suddenly felt sad about his situation.

Since she was a child, she has lived a luxurious and comfortable life that is incomparable to others.

Life has something to gain and something to lose.

I’ve always taken it for granted to give up love and freedom in exchange for such a peaceful life…….

= Emergency food. Come here.=

Que~.

=Why again? Are you still hungry after eating that much?

Coot. Cuckoo.

= Ugh. Okay. Now.=

Why does Isilite, who takes out preserved food from her gym bag and puts it in her beak of emergency food, seems several times and dozens of times happier than herself?

= Big. Then we’ll set off. Lady, Hwanin-sama, Isilite-san. Thank you very much.=

“Leave the back to me.”

=Mr. Lesim, do your best.=

=…… Oh Resim, stay strong. I will support you.=

=Old!=

Let’s not think The more I think about it, the harder it gets for me.

Baek Ryeo-gang followed Lesim, who admonished himself like that and moved forward vigorously.

Reshim was put on the front line as a leader, but Hwanin didn’t care much.

Rather, there was nothing wrong with Reshim leading the party well in the battle line. Even if it wasn’t, I needed a red soul orb and some time to organize some thoughts.

Labyrinth experience? By coming down here, the ecology of the labyrinth and the curiosity about the rough river were almost solved.

What remains is the side effects that people experience in the labyrinth and the question of what lies at the end of the labyrinth.

This is something that will naturally resolve itself over time.

Hwanin unleashed one of her red soul beads, summoned her spirit that had been calling out to her mother, and instructed her to keep an eye on her back.

‘If I want to meet her mother again in the Garden of the Gods in the future, I’ll do well.’

“Hey, hey hey…….」

She didn’t have to be coercive like a cat-eared woman.

When I lightly frightened him thinking of his weak appearance, as expected, he was terrified and his eyes lit up to carry out the instructions.

‘It has been proven that reconnaissance and surveillance using the soul can be done with this, but…….’

Chick-kick-kick.
Awesome~

= Go! Lady, get ready for support fire!=

Lessim, encountering three little goblins lesser imp, raises her shield and charges.

Similar in appearance to Hob, but smaller and devil-like, he attacks by spitting yellow stones or red spittles, but Leshim deftly deflects spittles and stones with his shield.

While doing so, she swung her sword like a flash of light that reached the small goblins in an instant.

Cheers!
Quit~!

=Chit!=

A small goblin only hit her in the neck.

And the two remaining hurriedly run away to the left and right as their own people die.

=…… —Arrow of the wind!=

If you run away like that, it’s obvious that other monsters will come from all sides.

Hwanin saw Baeknyeogang shooting a wind arrow into the back of the little goblin that ran away to the right, and threw a dagger at the little goblin that ran away to the left.

Pak- Bang!

The left goblin had a dagger stuck in the back of its head and fell face down with a small scream, while the right goblin was pierced by a spear-like wind arrow and died without screaming.

=I’m sorry. Missing two of them, these guys are more agile than I thought.=

= It’s okay. Cheer up, Resim.=

=Mr. Lesim, there is no need to be discouraged.

=Yes. I’ll be more careful!=

After the battle, while Isilite was checking the small goblin’s corpse, Hwanin was lost in thought again.

It has become possible to reconnaissance and surveillance using the soul, but there are many regrets.

First of all, you must have a high intellect to entrust a reconnaissance mission. A soul that can communicate and carry out complex commands is definitely a human soul.

And the soul must be a soul that has just died.

It was learned by killing human debris that the soul immediately after death had a distinct intellect. Long-dead souls are not suitable for reconnaissance, as their intellect is blurred and their minds tend to flicker.

‘The spirits of the graveyard are lucid, but they can’t do something like this.’

And the biggest problem is that souls with little lingering attachment, whether human or animal souls, quickly attain Buddhahood, and the short duration of the soul beads.

In other words, in order to entrust a reconnaissance mission like this, it means that you have to periodically supply human souls…….

“…….”

I put aside the idea of ​​supplying souls through murder. Because you can’t become a criminal killer for the convenience of exploring the labyrinth.

A realistic solution would be to make a contract with a soul with a clear intellect.

A contract to follow him around for a while and help him with his work because he will relieve his lingering feelings.

Currently, the total number of Soul Orbs is 38. The number increased by 3 due to the small light drops collected while reviving the wandering soul.

Bead retention time is 38 hours.

Exploring a single labyrinth could take several months, but 38 hours.

It will take at least four days to be useful, but for that to happen, you need to be able to collect 96 soul orbs.

‘I don’t have any auras that I can absorb in Wayford anymore.’

Most of the high-class Changguan women in the main street embraced them. She absorbed all the spirituality of the service maids at the Olts Hotel.

If you go to the general area, there will be hundreds of prostitutes of middle and low-level prostitutes, but if you carelessly get syphilis or something like that, it will be a headache.

‘Is it something that can be solved by finding a temple and receiving treatment for the disease?’

He hugged 63 people for about 21 days and increased his soul orb possession by 9 more. If there are 630 people, it means that in theory, 90 more can be added.

But also reluctant

Absorbing this and that knowledge during her 40 days in Wayford has given her some idea of ​​her psychic powers.

So, I wondered if there would be a problem if the spirit energy was absorbed at random.

It wouldn’t be a problem if it was a simple bias of knowledge, but aura is a heterogeneous energy directly related to supernatural power.

The human body is indifferent yet sensitive, so it is common to catch a cold or body aches even if the condition is slightly broken. But to recklessly absorb an unknown energy like a spirit energy. Don’t you know what will happen

After thinking for a moment, Hwanin laughed inwardly.

It was because, compared to the choices that were forced in the forest labyrinth, there was no risk.

‘There’s no need to rush.’

Hayern = There was Joad’s advice, but currently there is no tracking by anyone and there are no time constraints. Let’s put our mind at ease and let it move.

At that moment, Isilite, who was dismantling her little goblin, raised her hand with a smile.

=The topology stone is out.=

A green stone the size of a pinky fingernail was wedged between her gloved thumb and index finger.

Seeing this, Hwanin’s eyes deepened.

‘A special effect stone?’