Chapter 158 – 154 Stupidity = Gottmogg’s Prison Labyrinth
[Prison labyrinth 1st floor]
=One skeleton wolf.=
Grrrrr.
Responding to Anne’s voice, the Skeleton Wolf sprayed red light from its eye sockets, lowered its stance, and gnashed its teeth in this direction.
What do we do? Instructions?
Anne, who did not expect to encounter the enemy right away in her first room, but she was not taken aback.
It’s not a mutant labyrinth, it’s only natural that the heterogeneous species you encounter on the first floor are at least level 1. It’s strange to be upset.
“Isilite. Face you.”
=Yes.=
Two seconds after encountering the Skeleton Wolf, Hwanin, who checked the Skeleton Wolf with his soul vision and drew an estimate, immediately put Isilite in.
The bone is thin and the size is small, about 1m in length. His movements are also slow, so even if he is strong, he must be at level 1.5.
At Hwanin’s instruction, Isilite immediately concentrated her strength on her thighs, and Isilite, who jumped out in an instant, swung her heavy iron greatsword like lightning.
Bung- Kwajajak!
Skeleton wolves placed in the path of the greatsword were shattered by the blow and scattered throughout the 8-pyeong prison cell.
The skull bounces off the ceiling and walls twice and rolls around.
Although it is a skeleton wolf that has been transformed into dozens of bone fragments, Issilite, who knew that the dead do not perish easily, stared at the skeleton wolf and did not relax.
=…… !=
And as soon as he noticed the subtle movement of several large bone fragments, Issilite immediately came up with a few solutions and trampled on all the bones, including the skeleton wolf’s skull, and shattered them.
It was thought that if it was shattered, it would not be able to regenerate, and it was actually an effective method.
The moment the Skeleton Wolf’s skull was shattered by Isilite’s kick, the Skeleton Wolf’s bones, which were colored in a dark gray color system, turned colorless.
Hwanin called Isilite quietly.
“If you looked closely at the skeletal wolf before and after it was smashed, you would have noticed the bones moving around the skull of the skeletal wolf. If only the skull had been smashed, it would not have been possible to reconstruct it.”
= Ah…… I wasn’t sure.=
“Okay. But it wasn’t bad to choose a certain method among them. In terms of judgment, I can give you a passing grade with the pull-up.”
Even if it’s a chin-up, it’s a pass. Because it was her labyrinth, Isilite, unable to reveal her joy and struggling subtly, turned to her at the sound of Anne calling her.
=Captain, Seul-ah. Isn’t this a treasure chest?=
In the dark, dismal corner of the room, where Anne pointed, there was a wooden structure that looked like an old storage cabinet.
“Is it a treasure chest?”
=Most of the boxes in the labyrinth are treasure chests. There are monsters that mimicked treasure chests, but…… It’s on the first floor, so there won’t be anything like that. Even if you do, you will be weak.=
Could there be a mimic box? Hwanin said while examining the lousy box that looked like it was going to break at any moment.
“Could it be a trap box?”
=Is there a trap in this old box?=
Anne, who tilted her head, told her phantom to step back and lightly tapped her storage cabinet with the tip of her giant tower shield.
Come on.
A wooden cabinet that splits lightly in half.
‘There are no traps.’
I kick over the remains of the split wooden box and look inside. Inside, there was a terribly rusty iron dagger and a thumb-thick chunk of precious metal that looked like silver.
When I picked it up, it weighed about 150g. This is roughly the value of 5 ounces or 12 copper coins.
If something like this came out of the box on the first floor, the box in the depths could be expected quite a bit.
Anne also smiled at her beside her and said,
= It’s a treasure chest from the start, isn’t it okay? =
=Is that so?=
=This is just a superstition, but if you do badly in the Labyrinth, you blame the party leader. It means that you are cursed by God, or you are not favored by God. Conversely, if the performance is good, people say they were chosen by God and like it. =
=That’s luck.=
= It’s human to rely on things like that. =
Listening to the conversation between Isilite and Anne, Hwanin took a rusty iron dagger and 5 ounces of silver and put them in her pocket on the back of her emergency coat.
“Luck is something that simply cannot be expressed in words. It is fortunate that philosophers can spend years and decades on the subject of speculation and consideration. It’s not strange for an ordinary person to think of it as a blessing and a curse from God.”
= Ah…….=
“So, how do I check the purification of 1,000 animals?”
=Yes, wait a minute.=
Anne, carrying a Giant Warhammer on her back, pulled an ocher-colored mark resembling an ankh from her waistband, and Isilite stepped on it and placed it near the shattered remains of her skull.
Seeing…….
With a slight chilling sound effect, something whitish escapes from the remains of her skull, and she is sucked into the mark.
Seeing that, Hwanin slightly tightened his forehead and looked at Isilite. Isilite is also curious as to whether she saw that whitish thing.
‘That means it’s not a soul.’
I waited for a while, but the spirit did not appear from the skeletal remains.
The dead rise up and move. He thought that the soul might not exist, but Hwanin felt a bit troubled when he saw that it didn’t come out.
‘I’ll have to save my skills.’
It’s not without spirits, but it’s not too many either. It seems that the spirits are not infinitely refilled, so when exploring the prison labyrinth, it seems that you should save your soul beads.
Hwanin saw Bisang turn her head in the direction of her entrance and said to Anne.
“Looks like someone is new. Anne, let’s go.”
=Yes.=
The door to the north was unlocked.
After opening the door and passing through a dark passage that turns twice at right angles, the second room was four times larger than the first one.
A dark and gloomy room with a high ceiling of about 5m and small pieces of wood, wood chips, stones and dust.
Walls with peeling paper and cobwebs in the corners. Hwanin looked around the gloomy and gloomy room that would have been suitable if there were instruments of torture, then looked back at the door he entered.
‘Does the square mark at the end of the passage on the map mean a door? Then, the two types of lines drawn inside are…… Trap?’
Hwanin pointed to the archway in the middle, the only one without a door among the three passages on the right wall.
“Go down to the first basement floor.”
= Go right down? Aren’t the labyrinth robbers a lot active on the first floor?=
“If I were the raider, I would wait in the basement. The first floor will be for timid or ill-equipped parties.”
In addition, if you miss the prey, you will immediately escape the labyrinth, and then angry soldiers will attack you. There are many risk factors.
On the other hand, the prey that descended to the first basement floor are likely to be confident in their own way and equipped with the same amount of equipment. In terms of profit and safety, the first floor is much better than the first floor.
Hwanin, who did not explain this and thought only to himself, narrowed his eyes the moment he passed through the passageway bent in the shape of the letter ” and passed into the next room.
Level 4, level 3, level 3, level 2, level 2.
Five people were seated here and there in the spacious, dark room. In the eyes of Hwanin, those five seemed absolutely unusual.
Among the five, the black-grey wolf-headed Inrang tribe looked at the Hwanin party in a relaxed voice and spoke.
=Oh, we are camping here. Please pass by or find another place.=
“…….”
It is a coined word that means camping, waiting in a room, and hunting heterogeneous species that respawn in the surrounding rooms.
But Hwan-in saw through that statement was a lie.
For Hwanin, who has a map in his head, the reason why he camped in this place was because it was unnatural.
In this type of labyrinth, the preferred camping site is a place with many rooms around it, or a place with only one passageway. Conversely, a room with a staircase at the corner of the street is avoided as a camping site.
This is because if the flow of people is high, the number of heterogeneous species that are regenerated is also reduced.
This rectangular room with a width of about 21m is the way to go downstairs. It makes no sense to camp here.
Not only that. Although the torch is turned on, a light green color scheme appears to be crouching in a dark corner where the light does not reach, in a place where no one is present.
‘Are they hiding in the shadows?’
How did you hide You’re not a warrior or a fighter, but you’re a shooter? Do magicians have special abilities like causing supernatural phenomena with phase power?
Is that the secret that Asen, a diner in Carton Village, talked about?
‘I haven’t adapted to this world yet either.’
At that time, she even thought that she should have asked Asen about hiding, but within seconds, Anne opened her mouth.
=The equipment looks good and the ability looks great, but are you camping on the first floor? I think you can hunt on the 2nd floor.=
The man with the hair of a dark gray wolf grinned at the question with a look of puzzlement, revealing his fangs.
=Don’t you say that the labyrinth might grow? It’s dangerous to run into such situations while operating in the depths. But I can’t take a break from my activities, so I’m just making a small amount of money here.
If you just let them go, they’re not the ones who block the road and hunt people.
‘Is it a net role?’
Hwanin took a look at the party that played the role of blocking the escape route, and then tapped the ground with a soul stick.
Anne, who noticed her meaning in the signal = Good job = She leaves a short greeting and goes to the southern room where the door is not attached.
Isilite followed her, and Hwanin sent her emergency first, and then passed through the arched door at the end.
=…….=
Looking back at her phantom, Anne was about to ask a question, but when she saw her phantom holding her finger up to her mouth, she shut her mouth. She then walks to the front door pointed to by Hwanin and opens it.
She looked inside and saw that the stairs leading downstairs were in darkness.
[Prison Labyrinth B1]
Anne, who came downstairs, saw that it was not a room but a passageway, raised her shield, and opened her mouth while guarding her front.
=Captain?=
“Keep going inside,” She says. There is a door on the right at the bend in front, so go there.”
=Yes.=
The sound of stepping on a piece of stone echoes through the wide aisle.
Hwanin, who was following Anne, suddenly saw her vine growing along the wall and gently removed her vine with a soul stick.
Strange-looking letters appear. It looks like it was dug with something sharp.
“…….”
I shot a soul arrow at the text.
Pak-
Some letters were damaged with a small sound, but nothing happened.
If it was a magical trap, there would have been some reaction, but seeing that it wasn’t there, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Coo?
What are you doing? He touched the wing of the flight attendant who tilted her head and followed behind Isilite, who was bending her aisle.
“Emergency. Can you feel the popularity?”
Quet.
No, Hwanin, who nodded her head to Bisang, who gave a small answer, said to Anne, who turned her second corner.
“Stop.”
=Yes.=
…… There should be a door here.
With no door marked on the map, Hwanin narrowed her eyes for a moment and looked at the left wall with her vines stretching all the way to the floor.
The wall seemingly had nothing unusual, but the map had a line drawn on it, and one of her initials was written on it.
Hwanin, who was walking along the wall made of various stones for a while, found a small stone the size of a palm protruding in particular.
Rattle.
When I pressed it, I heard the sound of something working.
= What is it trap?=
“It’s a secret door.”
Hwanin, who answered briefly, pushed the door with a little force, and the wall opened slowly like a single-closing door with the sound of a millstone.
=Oh.=
= And…….=
Hearing the exclamations of the two women from behind, Hwanin let go and confirmed that there was nothing in the inner room, entered first, and then said to the two women chasing after him.
“You two haven’t looked at the map.”
=Uh, huh?=
= I saw it…….=
She did see Isilite respond in small words, but it seemed that she couldn’t memorize it.
“I don’t ask you to memorize the gimmicks of all floors. At least try to keep an eye on where things are. Because that is the reason I buy maps.”
= Yes. Ok.=
=Yes, Master.=
“Isilite. Close the secret door.”
Upon being instructed, Isilite pushed the half-open secret door shut and returned without a word.
I said to Anne, who held Isilite and the Giant Warhammer like her cane.
“Five including the guy upstairs who said he was camping, and one guy hiding, all six of them are human butchers.”
=This is a human butcher?=
“Considering the inhuman atmosphere unique to those who kill for food, the probability must be 100%.”
= Also…… But one guy was hiding?=
“I felt a presence in the corner.”
The inhumane atmosphere was an expression they refined to make it easier for them to understand, and in reality, they were Hwanin who felt a similar temperament to themselves from the black-gray Rang tribe.
He felt that he had a congenital emotional deficiency like himself in the eyes of the Yin-Rang tribe, who were shining like glass beads to recognize them.
“Their role is to be a net that catches the prey that was lost while hunting downstairs when it escapes upstairs.”
Hwanin’s short explanation made Anne’s face hard.
=Are you going to leave them alone?=
“Leave it for now. I decided to take care of it on the way back, and move on to my original goal.”
=…… Ok.=
After a moment of hesitation, Anne nodded her head as if in agreement, and together with Anne, Hwanin started exploring her labyrinth again.
=Hey?=
Puck!
As soon as she opened the door, Anne, surprised to see a half-rotten canine humanoid zombie standing in front of the door, kicked it and smashed it to pieces with her log-like legs.
= Oh my god. The limbs were crushed by the kick…….=
=If you put phase power in your legs, dew can do it too.=
Skeleton horses appear from beyond the aisle devoured by the darkness and rush towards you with a crackling sound.
Kwakwang!!
=It’s nothing.=
=…… That’s a shield right? Isn’t it a shield blunt?=
=In a broad sense, this is also a striking weapon.=
A withered corpse standing tall in a room measuring 9m x 9m shouted “Ororororong!!” Overall, the labyrinth was explored without any major problems, such as jumping in like flying with the ear cry of pouring cold water into the ear hole and blowing away only the bone pain with the war hammer.
=The screaming of a foodie is the worst ever.=
=Is that a monster called a foodie?=
= Right. Usually, after the corpse has risen and dried up after a long time without being expelled, it says things that have been further strengthened as demons. But is it because this is a labyrinth? It just pops out.=
=…… It was a nasty monster.=
= All monsters that rose from the dead are like that. That’s why the catastrophe of confusion is feared by people.=
Arriving at the large room at 6 o’clock on the map, Hwanin crossed his arms behind him while listening to the conversation between Anne and Isilite, who had killed the food demon.
Are there any human debris active on the first basement floor?
It took 2 hours and 30 minutes to pass 9 rooms including duplicates. If you add the time it took to get down from the first floor, it’s now three hours since you entered.
In the meantime, there are 4 heterogeneous species, including skeleton wolves, skeleton horses, zombies called demons, and reinforced zombies called eating demons.
The number of heterogeneous species is not as high as expected. In the labyrinth where light doesn’t reach, if you meet a heterogeneous species, they come out in groups of three or four, but here there is only one in each room and occasionally in the aisle.
If this continues, he will have to spend 100 days in a prison labyrinth that is musty, full of the smell of rotting corpses, dark, and the air is not very good.
Currently, the emphasis is on stability and knowledge acquisition rather than joy, but spending more than three months in a place like this…….
‘If I go down to the lower level of the labyrinth, will there be more deformed species that come out?’
With her arms crossed, her head and body were separated and she died again. Looking at Isilite, who turned the phase stone detection tool against the corpse, the Hwanin who was thinking about adjusting the schedule after that, was Kut? I immediately looked towards the aisle where I entered the emergency room.
This room has only one entrance on the west side.
And in that one passageway, a small white ball hit the wall near the entrance and entered the room in a round bound, which caught Hwanin’s eyes in slow motion.
‘…….’
Hwanin’s thinking accelerates violently, while at the same time outputting a brief feeling of regret.
‘Even if it’s annoying, I should have brought a human soul.’
At the same time, lift the soul stick and calculate the predicted path and angle of the white ball. After that, I loaded the soul blast and fired it as soon as the calculation was finished.
‘Explode.’
Qua-… Shed!!
Accident acceleration ended with the explosion of the Soul Explosion orb at the designated place, and the white ball pushed by the shockwave of the explosion was thrown out of the road along the trajectory it entered.
[… Fuck?!]
Profanity was heard from beyond the wall. And then a small explosion sounded
Pop… !
Hwanin immediately pulled out a Celtic stone axe and jumped toward the entrance, switching with the soul stick in his right hand.
