Chapter 163 – 159 Stupidity = Gottmogg’s Prison Labyrinth
After descending to the first basement floor, Hwanin and his party moved the shortest distance toward the second basement floor.
In the meantime, the rooms and passages were full of Hyungjong Lee, as he put it.
I went back to the first floor for a while and annihilated the human hunters and came back, but in each room and aisle, at least three and at most seven were running around with the sound of bones and moaning.
Haha!=
Kwajajak-
The saddle-stitched greatsword, which is as fast as the wind but still retains the heaviness of the greatsword, shatters the skulls of two skeleton wolves.
=Suck!=
Kagagagak!
Using that rotational and centrifugal force, Isilite’s eyes, which had slapped the Skeleton Monkey diagonally up and smashed it, quickly scanned the bone fragments flying through the air.
‘That!’
Then, he found the skull of a skeleton monkey floating in the air and spinning around. It leaps forward and strikes, shattering it into pieces.
After defeating the three skeletons in an instant, Isilite turned her head and saw the motionless corpse collapsed with a hole in her head.
The figure of her lying quietly with only a hole in her head was so neat that she was compared to the cluttered traces of the skeletons she had slain.
‘Should I try to fight cleanly like my master…… ?’
Isilite remembered what her master had said earlier.
‘From now on, I will be in charge of zombies spraying bodily fluids. Isilite should take on all the skeletons that appear. Just watch Anne.’
So, the skeletons appear and they are fighting, but compared to the master who cleans up quickly and neatly, his fighting style seemed too messy and dirty.
After reading her thoughts, Anne came over and patted Isilite on the shoulder with a sob after she had finished purifying her heteromorphic species.
= All of the captain’s attacks maximized their efficiency. It is an attack that decapitates and pulverizes the enemy with short and simple actions. That means…….=
He explains that it is a harmonious attitude that can only be attempted by an expert in the act of combat, and that the master must be able to imitate the actions the captain is showing.
=Can’t you tell?=
=Now I’m just tiptoeing into the realm of an expert. It’s a long way to catch up to the level of the captain.=
Glancingly, I put my hand on my waist and peek at the owner who is looking elsewhere.
=…… How much am I?=
=You know that skill proficiency levels are usually classified into five, right? Unaffiliated, novice, expert, expert, master. You can say that you are somewhere between a beginner and an expert.=
She guessed it, but when her candid point came, Isilite was a little downcast.
When fighting the human hunters on the first floor, she allowed a few attacks against the three…… Her pride is hurt and she has no face to see her master.
Compared to Master, it was literally the difference between an adult and a newborn baby.
Perhaps it was because he had only seen the master’s attack and defense, the human hunters’ attack and defense were literally visible in the palm of his hand, but the reason for allowing the attack was that he didn’t want to make such a pitiful attack, and he was surrounded by three people and was embarrassed for a moment. Which was because
‘The owner even warned me to be careful in advance…….’
Still, he allowed himself to be attacked.
Isilite’s mind was constantly disturbed by the self-reproach that he hadn’t properly stopped the pincer attack of the second-class guys, even though he lightly blocked the attack of the stealth fighters.
[Labyrinth prison basement 2nd floor]
Hwanin, who came down to the second basement floor, led the party and moved from room to room and said.
“Anne, do you know how the labyrinth organizes the corpses?”
=It is known that they eat corpses similarly, just as they create heteromorphic species when people are not looking.=
“Right.”
Hwanin recalled the map of the second basement floor in his mind and searched for a suitable structure for dumping the body.
‘Are there two dead-end rooms? The north section and the west section…… West is right next door.’
The dead-end room in the west section was also directly connected to the optimal elements for camping.
It’s close to the stairs and the passageway is a single path, so if you put a body in a dead-end room and close the door, it’s literally sealed.
Compared to that, the north is not a very recommended camping spot.
“…….”
Having made a decision, Hwan-in led the party to the room marked with number 10 on the map, defeating the skeletons and corpse heteromorphs they encountered.
=…….=
=…….=
“There was a passenger. Excuse me.”
As if they had camped for over a day, they quickly apologized and retreated when they saw the four men and women surrounding the bonfire standing up nervously.
= Hmm. It seems that the spot was a good spot.=
“There is only one passage, there are stairs nearby, and there is one blocked room beyond. It is a classic camping point.”
The only thing left is room 6 in the north section, but the environment there is worse than the west.
Considering that a wandering deformed species that is not fixed in a room and can suddenly break in, the fewer the number of doors, the better.
However, room 6 has four doors, unlike room 10.
‘The third basement floor is an open type with no doors at all…….’
Shaking his head slightly, Hwanin started moving toward room 6 again.
There were two locked doors in the middle, but when I used the key obtained from the pocket of the walking corpse I encountered on the way, they opened without any problems.
The real problem was another trap door.
= Master. There’s something like a hole here on the left and right.=
=Something like arrows or needles will come out of here. Could it be a poison needle or a poison arrow?=
“One is the launch port, the other is the recovery port.”
In front of what was marked as a trap door on the map, Hwanin slightly tightened his forehead.
This is more of a trap than I thought. The risk of traps will increase as you go downstairs, so I think we need to come up with a countermeasure.
‘There must be a reason why there are so many fighters in the square in front of the prison labyrinth.’
This is probably the reason why there were many times more shooters than in front of Wayford’s Labyrinth.
=Captain, what do you do?=
“I can’t help it. Back off.”
Forcing the party back, Hwanin instructs Anne to cover her with her shield, and then unleashes a single blast of her soul, which bursts into her door.
Kukkoom!
The air pushed out by the impact hit the thick wooden door and the left and right walls.
The vibration seemed to have activated the trap switch, and along with the sound of the machine operating, something like a long needle came out from the hole in the wall on the left and right in front of the door.
But is it because the engine was damaged by the explosion? The saliva did not fire any more as it continued to fire and there was a rattling sound as if it was stuck somewhere.
Kwakwang!
I fired a soul blast again, but this time there was no response.
“Go in.”
=Wow, that’s a very ignorant method.=
Anne giggles and puts her shield in front of her as she enters the room, followed by Isilite with her wry smile.
Ororolong-!
= Captain. It’s a foodie.=
“Okay.”
Shishigwi tried to jump at Anne, who was like her iron wall, but her phantom pierced her head with a soul arrow faster than he did.
As soon as two consecutive shots in a straight line hit the same spot, her wrinkly head exploded like a watermelon and she collapsed.
=Wow, I can’t even see it, but according to the feeling, it’s faster than an arrow. That technique is a real scam.=
“Its power is inferior to that of an arrow.”
=But there is no cooldown. If the captain’s ability grows, the power will increase accordingly, so magicians will drool in envy when they see it.
Could it be because of the two consecutive explosions and the noise from the deaf ears?
Thump, thump- thump-
I felt the vibrations grow stronger through Isilite’s voice, then turned my gaze to the eastern archway. Right after, a humanoid skeleton bigger than Anne enters the room holding a log-like piece of wood.
A skull as massive as the head of Anne’s Giant Warhammer. Red eye light spilled out like an explosion. And a red aura wrapped around the white thick bone body.
Quagge play.
Anne cried out as her bony hands shriveled and tore away handfuls of the wall, her eyes wide open.
= Oh, boss! It’s the core of the labyrinth!=
“…… Core?”
The core of the core, in other words, the field of the labyrinth.
According to the knowledge obtained in Wayford, the core roams to protect the deep core called the heart of the labyrinth at the bottom of the labyrinth.
In order to break the labyrinth, you have to destroy the two cores and cores at the bottom of the labyrinth.
“Why is the core, which should be at the bottom, here?”
=…… So?=
“Is the core certain? I don’t know, I’ve never seen it.”
= I’m sure. Because the red aura is the biggest characteristic of the core that has accumulated while receiving the power of the core.
If so, the core is correct.
Hwanin’s eyes gurgle, and with the sound of bones grinding, he examines each skeleton giant slowly entering the room.
The shape of the skeleton. Shoulder width and leg and arm length. And key.
When flesh and leather were overlaid on that skeleton, the reverse object that he had fought once was naturally drawn in Hwanin’s head.
Undoubtedly. That skull is Urgur’s skull.
Didn’t I say that skeletons only appear in animal form?
Uhhhhh-!!
At that moment, the skeleton giant slams the log club on the floor and lets out a roar that shakes the atmosphere.
Anne reacted to that roar and tried to walk towards Skeleton Urger with her Giant Tower shield in front, but Hwanin grabbed Anne’s arm and called out to Isilite.
“Isilite. You fight.”
=Yes!=
Isilite immediately took out a saddle-stitched greatsword and ran forward. Seeing this, Anne is taken aback and shouts at Hwanin.
= What? Wait, that’s the core! How can Isilite fight alone! Since this is a 4th grade labyrinth, that must be 4th grade too!=
“If it’s Issilite now, it’s worth it.”
Hwanin replied briefly and gave Issilite the lowest level of command.
But just in case, she’s ready to step in at any moment, with spirit arrows and spirit shields loaded and a Celtic stone ax in hand.
Anne was stunned for a moment, but since it was a decision made by the party leader, she took out the sign of her land god from her bosom and concentrated her phase power, thinking that she would watch it.
Then, a glimpse of orange light spilled out of her grip and flew into Isilite’s saddle-stitched greatsword.
As Isilite squinted at the faint orange light emanating from the blade of her greatsword, Anne’s explanation flew into her ears.
=I gave the weapon a weak attribute! Better than nothing!=
=Thank you!=
Oooooh-!!
The Skeleton Giant roared again as if enraged at Isilite who blocked his way alone. Then, as if to make a porridge, he slowly raised the log stick with its roots exposed.
Isilite, too, widens her eyes and awakens a cold rage.
It is an opportunity to shake off the ugliness of the first floor.
Her phantom didn’t think so at all, but Isilite felt a great sense of remorse and embarrassment at her phantom’s gaze as she swept past the traces of her attack.
Her excitement is forbidden. Cold and sober. Isilite does not blink an eye at her skeletal giant in action.
The movement of the skeletal giant similar in size to Urger, a labyrinth reversal entity he had fought before, was much slower than that of Urger.
Master is several times faster than this attack. That’s about it!
Calculating the trajectory of the stick, thicker than her own, and the pattern that would follow after her first strike, Isilite leaped between her skeletal giant’s legs and swung her greatsword at her ankles.
Wheein!
=…… ?!=
While Isilite was startled by the skeleton giant’s jump to avoid the attack, she pulled her body out from under the skeleton giant as if bouncing.
Coo!!
Right after that, Isilite broke into a cold sweat at the sight of the skeletal giant sitting down with a loud noise like a jumping press.
If I had been stupid, I would have been crushed by those sharp, heavy bones and suffered great wounds.
‘Thank you, Master!’
She gets hit by a blow while sparring with Hwanin, or because she is attacked unexpectedly, she is dumbfounded and beaten severely. Because of that, she had a habit of constantly moving, and thanks to that, she was able to avoid that jump attack.
And with that attack, Issilite realized.
Although her movements are slow, her reaction speed is quick. In other words, it is not an opponent to fight in front of the master.
= Yaaaaa!!=
Her face was distorted fiercely, and she swung it thousands and tens of thousands of times with great spirits.
Thanks to the dome-shaped ceiling, the trajectory of the greatsword plunged like a beam of light without any resistance.
Isilite’s eyes kept a close eye on the Skeleton Giant’s right arm, and as she watched the Skeleton Giant swing a log club horizontally toward her at the counter, she slightly twisted the trajectory of the greatsword and struck the Skeleton Giant’s thick forearm bone as if asking for it to be cut. .
=Uhhhhh!!=
Kwagwawang!!
Anne’s greatsword with the holy attribute endowed with her master’s blessing and with all her strength, she struck down and slammed it into the ground, but surprisingly, instead of breaking it, only a small amount of cracks went to his forearm bone.
But she didn’t regret it.
‘Chance!’
The forearm was hit hard, and the skeleton giant whose body was out of balance attacked fiercely with all his might, aiming for the spine, shoulder blades, and skull.
Kwagwawak! Bang! Kwakwang!!
Ooh, uh, uh uh-!!
The skeleton giant didn’t just get hit. While protecting his skull with his arm bones, he wields his right arm with a log club at random.
However.
= Aaaaa!!=
Bang! Kwakwawang! Boom!!
Issilite slashes each of the log clubs being swung like that, madly swinging, slashing, and striking a saddle-iron greatsword weighing dozens of kilograms as if swinging a tree branch.
Seeing Isilite’s onslaught, which made it seem like countless silver rays of light were pouring down, Anne shed her exclamation.
= Wow. Issilite also hid Luke’s wild nature.=
He acted like a timid cat in front of the captain every day.
Glancingly, with her hand on her waist, Anne asked after seeing Hwanin watching the battle.
=How does the captain look?=
“You’re using what you’ve learned quite well.”
= Well…… ?=
In Anne’s eyes, Isilite now seemed to be showing off her inaction, which was out of step with her self.
In her appearance, her poor maiden wielding a greatsword that was well over her height like chopsticks, she was chasing down a skeletal giant nearly twice her size.
It’s a sight that even gives you a kind of impression, but it’s okay.
Anne stuck out her tongue at her Hwanin’s strictness, but it’s a fight that her Hwanin sees as a lot of regret.
If you look closely, you can see that the bones between the bones grow and shrink each time the Skeleton Giant attacks.
When attacking, the joints of the attacking arm and leg are tightly attached to increase stiffness, while the other side is relatively loose. That means there is something that connects bone to bone.
If you don’t try to break bones and aim for the joints with the destructive power of the greatsword that comes from the strength and weight of tens of kilograms, if you aim for the bones that have loosened due to not attacking while putting in fakes, you will be able to cut off your limbs and incapacitate them in an instant.
“That’s why I say it’s okay. When she battles, she tells her sister to analyze and figure out the target……. There are still many shortcomings.”
Upon hearing that, Anne’s face became as if she had chewed on astringent dates.
Because she herself did not realize what her Hwanin had pointed out.
‘That’s easy to say! …… No, if she was the captain, she might do what she said…….’
She didn’t have the confidence to put what Hwanin said into practice, so she was Anne whose head was complicated.
= Aaaaa!!=
Taking advantage of her superiority in her first attack, Isilite, who had been raging like a storm, slashed her greatsword diagonally with such force that blood vessels sprouted from her temples.
Kwajijik!
As a result, Isilite succeeded in breaking the skeleton giant’s right arm.
It was a result of relentlessly attacking only the cracked part in the first blow.
That wasn’t the end. Isilite beat the skeleton giant with all his might until his eyes were bloodshot from suffocation.
The weight of tens of kilograms and the shock created by the mighty strength of the blessing made the skeleton giant unable to control itself.
The loud banging sound that blew the eardrums continued for several minutes.
At the end of such a blow, the skeleton giant whose knees were smashed, Koo! With a roar, he knelt down on his other knee and propped up the floor with the bones of his hand. That moment…….
Cooooong-!!
As if releasing the accumulated energy, a strong red shockwave exploded around the Skeleton Giant.
= Haaa!!=
Isilite splits the shockwave with her sharp upward slash.
Anne, who witnessed the bloody shockwave split in two like a splitting wave, =wow.= Exclaimed. It was such a neat and beautiful cut.
‘Maybe it was done unconsciously.’
Isilite didn’t even know what she was doing, she continued to take a step…….
=Aaaaa!!=
With all her heart and all her might, she struck the bone of her head, which had come down to a decent height.
Kwak-gak, the greatsword pierced the skeleton giant’s skull about 1/4, then stopped. It looks like an ax stuck in hard wood.
Uhhhhh-!
The skeletal giant with only one arm left shouts and violently shakes her skull, trying to shake off Isilite, but Isilite resists with all her might.
Isilite, who entered the power struggle, began to press the greatsword with both arms so strong that her white face turned red.
A light went on in Isilite’s head.
Eyes quickly scan the surroundings. Then, after blinking his eyes once, he used the power of the Skeleton Giant’s push up.
= Aaaaa!!=
He stretched his left leg out wide toward the wall and made a picturesque swing motion as if dragging the skull of a skeletal giant toward the wall…….
Oooooh-!
Kwaaaaang!!
With the skeleton giant’s skull inserted into the blade, he hit the wall as it was.
=Oh.=
The skeleton giant’s hard skull could not overcome the power of the heavy iron greatsword that pierced the wall as if it were breaking through, and it split and bounced out of the wall.
The fact that it split without being smashed is the result of how hard the skull is.
Turn it off…… !
When the skull splits into two pieces, the skeleton giant’s body twists its entire body as if screaming and emits air waves that make the skin tingle.
Surprised by the sight she had never seen before, Isilite widened her eyes and hesitated.
After a while
A whirlwind of strange wavelengths spewed out from the skeleton giant’s body and then stopped.
A pale silence fills the room.
Wagrr.
It wasn’t until the bones of the skeletal giant that had been standing like a mannequin spilled out and turned into a pile of her bones that Isilite let out a small sigh and lowered her saddle-stitched greatsword.
I did it. She single-handedly defeated the boss of her labyrinth…….
Although she had her master’s blessing and Anne’s assistance, she was the leader of a group of insignificant thieves, and she defeated the boss of the 4th grade labyrinth alone.
With the clearing of Issilite’s mind, which had been shadowed ever since she came down from the first floor, something muddled in her burst out, and at the same time, a wave of feeling similar to her wave of tranquility surged across Ishilite’s body. Glowed out.
