Chapter 161 – 157 Stupidity = Gottmogg’s Prison Labyrinth
Hwan-in, who left the room with the corpses of the four robbers in the labyrinth, walked down the hallway leading back upstairs, remembering the map he had memorized in his head.
Passing through the dark, grayish-white passageway that is as dreary as a haunted house, you check some equipment and skills.
Is the hilt of the dagger in good condition, is the Celtic stone axe’s balance clamp intact, and is there any cracks or cracks in the soul stick?
The reason for this was simple.
Hwanin had never seen anyone like him before.
Those who go around claiming to be psychopaths, upon investigation, are pseudo-psychotics, and patients with emotional deficits similar to those of psychopaths, who are called anger control disorders, are actually good at anger control.
That’s why the first time I met my kind came to me as a considerable threat.
Knowing the threat that Hwan-in felt, it was at the level of ordinary people looking at a pet dog tied to a leash and thinking, “What if that dog bites me?”
What if the black-gray wolf head is of the same type as itself? What if you are the type of person who is scheming and scheming like yourself?
When she summoned the black spirit floating in the dark and musty aisle to replenish the consumed soul orbs and checked the soul arrows, soul explosions, and soul shields, Anne looked ahead and moved her steps, asking a question.
= By the way, Captain. I keep thinking about what I heard earlier. =
“What do you care about?”
=Is it true that the labyrinth may grow?=
After completing battle preparations, Hwanin replied while looking at Anne, who was slowly moving down the aisle beyond Isilite, at her reliable back.
“I think the possibility of that is high. It’s a story that is spreading without knowing it.”
= Hmm. Then wouldn’t it be better to stop exploring until growth happens?=
“Why?”
=…… Huh? Yes, it becomes dangerous when the labyrinth grows. =
“Something is dangerous.”
As the labyrinth grows, the interior of the labyrinth does not change significantly.
According to the information carefully obtained from Wayford, the labyrinth where the phase power necessary for growth is gathered increases from a minimum of 1 floor to a maximum of 5 floors.
There is little change in the existing layers. In the first place, since the existence of the layer itself is the result of the labyrinth deciding that this is enough, no significant change will occur.
The only threat is the mass occurrence of heterogeneous species…….
“In the case of a mass outbreak, the labyrinth grows and the surplus of the remaining phase power spreads through the labyrinth, and heterogeneous species occur like a runaway. But this is on the first basement floor. Most of the heterogeneous species that come out are first class.”
Even if the labyrinth grows, there are few changes to the existing floor. A level 4 labyrinth just becomes a level 5 labyrinth.
Assuming the worst situation, even if the labyrinth suddenly changes, it is enough to get out of the labyrinth quickly.
Anne was stunned by Hwanin’s answer.
=No, isn’t the fact that heterogeneous species occur in large numbers itself a problem?=
“If it happens in large numbers, the schedule will be finished a little earlier.”
Anne looked back at her phantom, slightly bewildered. She wondered if she was joking.
“…… ?”
But it doesn’t look like he’s joking. Isilite also seemed to be taking it for granted.
Am I weird? Am I weird?
It can’t be!
=No matter how weak you are, it’s only natural that you’re dangerous if you’re surrounded by dozens or hundreds of them!=
Seeing Anne’s frustrated appearance, Isilite made her smile small and helped Anne to understand her.
=Anne. Master once single-handedly killed a group of 30 level 3 deformed species that were released due to the labyrinth regurgitation. That too without a single wound.=
= What? Really?=
= Yes. So with common sense, I don’t think there’s any point in comparing you to others.=
=…….=
=It’s not long since I’ve been with the owner, so I’m not used to it, but I’ll help you get used to it.=
Seeing the figure of Hwanin not caring about her own gaze, Anne licked her lips with her complex face and then let out a sigh.
= I said this because I thought that the captain or dew would get hurt if bitten even in the first degree…… Well, if the captain you’re most worried about is fine…….=
I do not regret accepting Hwanin’s offer and joining his party. However, when I get a hunch that things that will confuse me like today will happen more often in the future, I feel a similar feeling of regret…… It would be unavoidable
It’s embarrassing to keep pushing emergency sense as if it were common sense.
Walking again along her long aisle, Anne reached her arched door and, as before, she tried to open it without thinking, but stopped just as she had put her hand out to stop her phantom.
“Wait. There may be a trap at the door.”
=Yes?=
“Looking at the marks on the map, you’d be right to think it’s a trap.”
There were four types of doors with symbols. One was a secret door with initials written on it, and the other was a closed door.
And there was a locked door, and the last thing left was…….
‘Is there more outside the trap door?’
Hwan-in immediately summoned the spirit of the woman of the fortune teller. And give orders by force.
‘Look for any traps on the door and report them without missing any.’
“…….”
The female spirit, who was mad with pain and anger until she became a soul orb, carries out her orders with the appearance of putting down her everything.
A woman’s soul stuck her head in the stone wall connected to the door, pushed her upper body in, and looked inside the wall.
“…….”
Hwanin looked at the peach-shaped buttocks and the valley between them for a moment, then turned his head.
And Hwanin also started looking at the door in his own way.
The inquiry form was simple. It is a thick wooden door reinforced with an iron plate that slides left and right to close and open.
I looked closely to find any oddities of my own, but there was no way for a non-expert to find out without knowledge.
‘It’s a level 4 labyrinth, so the level of the traps is also high. If not…….’
After thinking for a while, Hwanin thought that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to find a book about traps or learn skills from a professional hunter.
Detecting and dismantling these traps is also a knowledge skill, so it will cost a lot. However, he seems to be better off learning trap-related skills than finding a colleague for the hunting career.
After examining the door for a while, Hwanin, questioning whether there was a trap, let alone what kind of trap it was, took a step back from the door without reaping.
Even then, the woman’s soul was searched for by putting her head here and there in the wall, or by pushing her whole upper body.
Hwanin narrowed her eyes as she suspected that she was unprofessional.
She said, ‘She’s a trapper, so I thought she might have skills with traps. Was it an illusion?’
When he was forcibly summoned and asked what he found out, he pointed to the inside of the wall to the left of the door.
“Compression type… Trap……. Door, open it. Work.”
‘How to unlock? Explain in detail without omission.’
“There is a string in the groove at the top of the door…….”
A naked female spirit calmly explains the structure of the trap and how to disarm it with her hand.
As it turned out, the door trap was a very simple method.
A trap made by tying a thread to the upper sliding groove of the door and connecting it with a micro-miniature pulley.
If you open the door without thinking, the connected thread breaks, and the pocket inside the sliding door hung at the end of the thread is overturned by the center of gravity, and the chemicals contained in it mix with the chemicals on the floor to create an explosion.
The point is to hold the thread so that it does not break.
When I push it against the door with a little force, the gap is revealed and a small line is connected to the inside.
The problem is that the groove depth of the frame is about 15 cm, but the gap is only 1 cm.
The male Hwanin’s fingers cannot go inside. The same goes for Anne’s hand, which is twice as thick as his own.
“Isilite. Would you like to take off your gloves and put your fingers between your teeth?”
=Yes.=
Isilite’s fingers entered the mold about 1 cm.
“There will be a thread inside. The structure is like this…….”
After a short explanation, I told him to hold on to the string so it wouldn’t unravel, then opened the door slightly. Fortunately, there are no xenomorphs or human debris in the room.
“Anne. Pass first.”
= Oh. Is that the thread that triggers the trap?=
Passing by the door, Anne marvels when she sees her thread caught by Isilite.
Hwanin accepted the thread, sent Isilite and her flight into the room, closed the door, tied the thread to the rivet of the iron plate protruding from the door, and then fell out of the door.
Fortunately, no explosion occurred in the meantime.
=Is it over?=
“Not yet.”
After briefly answering Anne’s question, Hwanin took out her dagger and threw it, breaking her thread, and the response was immediate.
Puff!
The feast of sparks that would have occurred when kicking a bonfire spilled out through the cracks in the sliding door. Seeing that, Anne asked, “Hmm.”
=That’s a level 1 trap. I could have blocked it with a shield and just opened it.=
“It must be because of the trap on the first basement floor. If you go downstairs, you won’t be able to find the trap and dismantle it like you do now. The risk of traps will also increase.”
=As expected, these prison-type or building-type labyrinths are the most annoying.=
Hwanin looked around the long, rectangular room as he listened to Anne’s grumbling words.
From the outside, it’s a blocked room like the one before, but there is a hidden door in this room as well.
According to the map, the location…….
‘Behind that pile of skeletons.’
In the middle of the room, two or three people pouring out on the western wall approach the pile of skeletons piled high enough to be buried, followed by Isilite, Anne, and Bisang.
Isilite, who fixed her gaze on her phantom, asked Anne in a small voice.
=Anne has little experience in the lower classes?=
= Uh I started on the 4th floor of the underground type after I became 6th grade after only playing the open type. That’s why I’ve never seen a trap trigger on such a low level.=
=Then have you ever seen the sea or the sky in the labyrinth?=
=Are you talking about the sea and the sky of the underground labyrinth? I’ve seen the sea, but I haven’t seen the sky yet.=
=The labyrinth is near the sea, so the seawater didn’t flow into the labyrinth, is it the real sea?=
=It was in the middle of the desert without water, so it was definitely not the sea. I also squeezed water. Why do you want to see?=
= Yes. It’s amazing There is the sea and the sky in the labyrinth.=
= If we go around together with the captain, wouldn’t we be able to see each other someday? =
Hwanin, who was listening to the conversation between Isilite and Anne with one ear and examining the wall with the other, suddenly stared at the pile of skulls and fired a single soul explosion.
Quaang!
The shockwave of the explosion hit the pile of skeletons hard. Hwanin, who noticed the red light forming inside the eyes of the two animal skulls between the bone fragments flying dizzy in all directions, pierced the skulls with two daggers.
= Oh, what is it? Are you a heterogeneous species?=
“Okay. The two daggers are heteromorphic, so go and purify them.”
= My visual acuity is also crazy…….=
Anne muttered as she walked toward the dagger-studded skull.
Hwanin examines the wall that had been covered by a pile of bones piled up to the ceiling, but the wall towards the ceiling looks suspicious, so he tells Isilite to come here and instructs Bisang to watch the entrance.
“It would be nice if you could give me some support from underneath.”
=Yes. Climb on my shoulders.=
Hearing Isilite’s story of getting down on one knee and tapping her own knee, he stepped on her knee and stepped on her shoulder without hesitation. Then Isilite stood up as lightly as her feathers, about the weight of her phantom.
“One step to the right. Half a step more. Okay, stop.”
A slightly different colored wall behind it after blowing up a pile of skulls. When I put my hand on the part close to the ceiling and pressed it, it was pushed back with a gurgling sound, and then a part of the wall came down with a thump.
Anne, who saw this while purifying the two skeleton heterogeneous species, let out a blank laugh.
= It’s a real secret passage. But that aisle can’t be used by Byeonggi?=
“…….”
As Anne said, the aisle was 2m above the ground. The height is not a problem, but the width is.
The round passage is only about 1m wide.
Hwanin, who came down from Isilite’s shoulder, brushed off her dusty shoulders and said,
“It sure looks narrow for the emergency to pass through. Go back the way you came.”
Kywu…….
When Bisang realizes it’s because of her and makes a cute noise and sulks, Anne giggles and pats her head, saying it’s okay, and passes by.
“I don’t say anything about this. You are also a member of the party.”
…… Quet!
On the way to retracing the way he had come, he encountered more Lee Hyeong-jong.
Until I came down to the first basement floor and arrived at the room I entered for the first time, I encountered seven corpses and skeletons even though I walked only a few hundred meters of passages without visiting other rooms.
I wondered if it would be difficult to fight with a greatsword in a narrow aisle about 3m wide, but Isilite fought normally with a rusty pipe or something.
The skeleton’s attack deflects or deflects it with its hard iron gauntlets, then shatters the skull with force, and her corpse…….
Perbung-
Hwanin pierced her head with a soul arrow and disposed of it.
She wears a blessed mask, but fighting with her corpse increases her chances of contracting disease.
Kwajik! Bump, bang!
Udududuk-
Hwanin’s eyes deepened as she watched Isilite’s fight as her movements became systematic and smooth.
Anne and Isilite did not have much thought about this situation, but Hwanin was different.
‘Are the human scraps gone?’
It seems that the crumbs have been roaming around to hunt down their own kind, arranging heteromorphic species.
Hwanin looked at his left arm. A single red orb embedded between grayish-white soul orbs.
The postcard woman had said that her colleagues were three teams. Then, what hypothesis can be made now that the heterogeneity has increased?
That the crumbs are meeting and exchanging information at regular intervals.
There is a possibility that other debris that did not meet their colleagues at the designated place went up to the ground floor or went down to the second basement floor.
The possibility that those who went down or went up like that joined other colleagues.
If you call out a woman and ask her questions, the hypothesis will be easily proved, but for some reason, if you call her out this time, you feel like you’ll reach Buddhahood soon, so it’s a waste to call her out.
“…….”
After her transformation, Anne sighed and sprinkled her holy water on the war hammer while wiping it with her cloth.
=What are you so looking forward to?=
“…… Are you expecting me?”
=Didn’t you take a long breath out of anticipation?=
After thinking about it for a while, Hwanin couldn’t deny that and smiled. And he doesn’t answer the question, but heads for the secret door.
“Go up. Those who were in the room earlier, if there are other guys besides the five, consider them enemies too.”
= Hmm. They said it was three teams, and since we lost one team, the remaining team must have joined them.=
Isilite muttered to Anne’s story that a bleak energy began to flow in her eyes, with her face that had gained her realization.
= Ah……. So it seems that there are more heterogeneous species than before. The team must have been organizing Lee Hyeong-jong in advance.=
= Huh? Uh, is it?=
Hwanin, who grabbed the groove of the secret door and pulled it open, began slowly climbing the stairs leading to her ground floor, led by Anne and Isilite.
There is one convenient thing about gathering information in this world, and that is that if you have a job with an aura, you can see what kind of job the subject is with the naked eye.
Five of them, including the black-grey wolf head, were warriors, fighters, and shooters, and since the one hiding in the corner was also hiding, it is highly likely that they were on the shooter side.
If close combat is minded, Issilite is now trustworthy. Anne need not speak. The problem with her is that she uses poison and whether or not she has ranged attacks.
The upper floor is close to the exit. A general-purpose intermediate antidote is prepared, so if you feed the general-purpose antidote and run to the temple in the meantime, you’ll be fine.
Hwanin kept her emotions as well as her life deep inside her heart and fiddled with the dagger hidden under her hooded cloak.
As soon as she came up to the first floor, she summoned the female spirit of the Yeosu and sent her to scout. Because no matter how much she thought about it, it wasn’t something to be spared.
“There are 14 people gathered…… Yeah.」
‘Is this your colleague?’
“…… Yes….」
She thought about making Isilite a woman who shows sadness and little anger, but she gave up, thinking that it wasn’t the time yet.
Hwanin, who transformed her female soul into a soul marble again, spread the lowest-level doctrine to her colleagues and said,
“There are 14 people in the room. When you come up the stairs, move as I said. Please wait in the next room for emergencies.”
=Yes.=
=Yes.=
Quet.
After that, Hwanin, who had loaded all 4 of the 4 stacked soul arrows, the maximum number of them, entered the room where debris was gathered in a diamond shape with Anne at the front and emergency at the rear, with himself and Isilite standing in the center.
“…….”
=…….=
=…….=
Seeing that they were sticking to the wall in the form of besieging people entering the room, as if they were not human hunters, Anne pouted and said:
= What is it The appearance of everyone standing there looks like they are about to attack, is it my imagination?=
Thud!
When I hit the floor with the giant tower shield containing phase power, a loud sound and weak vibration covered the room.
The people between the 2nd and 4th grades who had gathered in the form of dust falling lightly from all over the ceiling looked at each other with slightly tired faces.
At that time, the man with the hair of a red fox smirked like a kangaroo.
= I don’t know what you mean. If you threaten like this, you will be in trouble, so what are you thinking?=
= That’s what this side will say. It looks like all parties are the same, but if there is no intention, gather at one wall according to the unwritten rules of the labyrinth. Pass.=
=Ah annoying.=
=What are you saying about not being a leader?=
Discontent broke out among human hunters who did not know that their identity was exposed.
The threatening atmosphere was formed enough to scare ordinary people, but Anne ate too many labyrinth rice to be frightened like this.
= I’m afraid that it’s not just mosquitoes. If you don’t want to be hit behind and dragged on, shut up and move quickly. =
=…… Fuck. They only believe in my size.=
= Ball sweet boy don’t shave her snout behind her girl. You look weak.=
=What?!=
=If you have something to say, come forward and say it, you asshole.=
= Because the fucking goblin wants to see you…… !=
= Ha! What are you going to believe in? I know it’s sweet when the water level is high. Fuck..=
The atmosphere gradually begins to heat up.
At first, they were human hunters who were a little afraid of Anne’s big body, excellent equipment, and water supply, but they gradually raised their voices in a stern voice, probably believing in their superiority in numbers.
While Anne took the lead in pulling her aggro, Hwanin stared at the black and gray wolf head watching Anne, finishing the level analysis of 14 people and 2 people hiding.
At that moment, our eyes met the glass-like eyes of the dark gray wolf’s head.
“…….”
=…….=
Hwanin felt a kind of premonition along with the sensation of electricity passing through the top of his head.
A premonition that if the author is not killed on the spot, there will be an enormous repercussion if missed.
The dark gray wolf head, Gilles = Bexle, also received a similar premonition.
A premonition that the man in the black hooded cloak would be a great stimulus to his boring and boring life. In addition, he has a hunch that he will die too if he continues to stay in this place.
The moment Gilles = Bexle’s face was covered with a smile that seemed to be made of inorganic matter, it flew out of the aisle without a sound.
Shii profit!
Hwanin also threw six daggers at the fighters and sorcerers in the room and at the same time chased after Gilles = Bexle and threw himself.
