Chapter 208 – 202 Stupidity = Gottmogg’s Prison Labyrinth
The dean of Acclamento looked at the stick-shaped magic weapon that he had compensated with an apology.
I wondered if there was spiritual contamination or abnormality by beating the spirit, but there was no problem. The likelihood of that happening in the first place was small.
“Branch.”
When Hwanin starts walking again, the group quietly follows.
Hwanin, who was walking carefully inspecting the floor, left and right, and even the ceiling of the aisle, asked Anne.
“What are the personalities of the mid-level and high-level spirits? Does it resemble or resemble a lower spirit?”
= The people I know or the middle and high level spirits I saw all had good personalities. That’s why, there is an attribute personality theory. Fire is hot or impatient, water is calm or calm, wind is mischievous, and soil is reticent.
‘Is it like blood type personality theory?’
=The spirits I saw were similar to the attribute personality theory.=
“How is your temper?”
=If you try to talk, you will listen. I still have to speak in the spirit language, but……. Are you worried about the hit kid bringing a medium or high level spirit?=
“Similar. But if you can communicate, you don’t have to worry so much.”
If a beaten lower spirit gets angry and drags his friends along, he’ll just turn them all into soul beads.
Even so, the number of lower spirits is small and difficult to find, so there are only 18 lower spirit marbles out of 53 (four more after absorbing Isilite and Anne’s aura for about a month).
If you come back on your own, that’s a good thing.
‘By the way…….’
There is no lowest level spirit in the labyrinth, but there is a low level spirit. Is it a phenomenon caused by the difference in power according to the grade?
I also wondered if it would be a good idea to try to talk to a lower spirit by force.
In the meantime, I hadn’t thought of forcibly giving orders to the lower spirits.
It was because he did not know what would happen if he tried to use the spirits in the face of not knowing what the rules between the world of spirits and spirits were.
Up until now, I didn’t do anything bad to maintain my reputation because everyone was happy to make soul beads, use them as skills, and do decrees.
‘If the spirits listen, there is no need to use human souls for tracking and searching.’
If they could communicate, they would find out what the spirits like and try to seduce them. No matter how much Hwanin talks to her, she acts as if asking where a dog barks, so communication is impossible, and when she asks Anne to talk to her in the spirit language, she quacks and disappears as if ‘someone who is not even a spirit person is talking carelessly!’.
It is no wonder that the sound of squealing causes headaches. It is understandable that Anne, who does not speak harsh words, expressed it as a little devil.
Then, Hwan-in, who noticed unnatural marks on the floor and walls, stopped walking and raised his left hand.
After recognizing a predetermined signal, the group stops.
After examining the floor, walls, and ceiling for a while, Hwanin understood the structure of the trap and how it was activated.
Right after that, with a rattling sound, a skeleton with the skeleton of a horse appears from the distance in the hallway, in the gray darkness of the soul’s vision.
= Doryeong. I hear skeletons.=
“Okay. Every skull.”
After answering Anne’s warning and picking up the stones rolling on her floor, the Skeleton Horse started charging towards her with the sound of bones grinding together.
Dag dag dag dag-
Watching this, Hwanin waited for a while and as soon as the Skeleton Horse reached a certain point, he threw a stone and hit the unnaturally protruding floor.
Kuwang!
=?!=
=… !=
Immediately, square stone pillars protruded from the left and right walls and smashed the Skeleton Horse.
The wall protruding like a swing door slowly turned over the bones of the Skeleton Horse that were pouring out.
‘It’s a basic swing block trap.’
After a while, as if nothing had happened, Isilite and Anne stammered toward the trap that had become a normal wall.
= Oh, this is…… Is it a trap?=
“Okay. Just don’t step on that floor.”
= With. If I just passed by, I would have been hit and bounced. =
=…… If you look closely, you can see cracks in the wall.=
Anne laughs and admires.
=The unnaturalness of the trap was hidden with darkness. To discover something like this, how good is your eyesight?
“The eye that sees the soul sees through darkness. Anyway, clean up the Skeleton Horse. Do not step on this one.”
As she stood near the trap, Anne nodded her head and headed for the cracked, rattling skeleton horse’s skull.
Could it be because the skull was damaged? Since it is a skeleton that appears on the 1st floor, its durability is weak, so it only trembles and shows no sign of being reassembled.
Anne, who had stomped on the Skeleton Horse’s skull with her foot and even purified her, passed by her phantom and asked:
=Are traps marked on the map?=
“Yes, but not exactly.”
Traps are marked with symbols on the doors, but there is no mention of which traps are present in the passageways. It only shows what kind of traps can appear on that floor.
=But I managed to find it.=
“It’s the result of trapping training.”
Anne and Isilite nodded at the thoughtful answer. It was because after the labyrinth was closed, I watched Hwanin study traps whenever he had time.
After passing the trap, the ranks returned to normal, and Isilite cautiously asked, following Hwanin.
=So, master, will you continue to study traps?=
“…….”
Common traps that are not assisted by spells and phase power are usually easy to spot if your attention is high.
It is also not difficult to unlock. It’s just a matter of deliberately activating it and destroying it, or letting the trap pass while it returns to its original form.
However, most of the dangerous traps classified as advanced are magical traps that operate with magical powers, and they are difficult to find, and when activated, they are dangerous enough to take lives because they swept the area.
Because of that, it takes a high-level trap expert to disarm a high-level trap, but the problem is…….
‘The ransom of a trap expert who has learned the skill is as expensive as that of a priestess.’
Advanced traps are equipped with high-level spells, so you need a lot of skill knowledge to disarm them. In addition, it is optimal for professional hunters to learn because it also requires the sensitivity of phase power, quickness and dexterity.
“I heard that there are very few professional hunters who want to learn trapping properly.”
=Why?=
“Because learning trap skills is expensive.”
= Ah…….=
=Hmm.=
Fighters are on a par with warriors and fighters in terms of fighting ability.
Their strength, stamina, and physical defense are lower than those of close combat classes, but their quickness and dexterity are just as high, so it can never be said that their combat abilities are inferior to those of warriors or fighters.
It’s just a fight, but it’s the scepter’s consciousness that it’s necessary to spend their own money to learn trapping.
The reason for the negligence of the trapping skills by the trappers is also valid. Learning the trapping skills costs a lot of money, but even if you learn the skills, there is no great merit in distribution.
First of all, it costs money that a normal worker must earn hard for about 10 years to learn trapping techniques to the advanced level.
If there was a reward like that for spending this much money to learn trapping, the hunters would try to learn trapping, but that’s not often the case.
This is because the use of entrapment techniques is limited.
= Yes. I heard it too. Labyrinths that require trap experts in earnest start from level 5, but they say that this requires someone who has learned intermediate trapping skills.=
= A labyrinth of a lower level may also require a trap expert. Can’t I go there?=
= A labyrinth like that usually doesn’t make money. In addition, intermediate level traps are also a problem. If you find a trap, you will disarm it yourself, but if you make a mistake, your life will be in danger. =
Hwanin and his party, who continued to move, sorted out the heterogeneous species they encountered, and unlocked the intermittent trap door, arrived at a suitable room and took a break.
The story of trap experts and trap techniques continues.
=The people who enter the labyrinth the most are workers. Most of the labyrinths that workers are looking for are low grade, have few traps, and are not bad for profit?=
Will the distribution rate be given merit just because a shooter with a trap skill joins such a party? Don’t give
However, labyrinths that can benefit from the distribution rate due to trap technology are generally in the 2nd layer of 5th grade or higher. If you don’t have the ability, it’s difficult to enter.
While learning the basics and the basic process, there are not many places to use entrapment techniques, and even if they do, there is no great merit.
You have to earn money while learning, but you spend expensive money to learn trapping, but there is no place to use it in the beginner and intermediate courses. Under these circumstances, who would want to spend expensive money to learn a skill?
At least, those who have learned trapping techniques gather in places where there is a (money-making) labyrinth that can use beginner and intermediate trapping techniques…….
=In that place, the manpower is overflowing with yeoseo who want to join the party again.=
It is said that this phenomenon is on the rise, and the number of hunters who have learned trapping techniques is steadily decreasing.
“They say that going through such a process and learning the advanced course isn’t the end.”
= There is another…… ?=
“High-level trap magic to dispel magic traps includes magic science.”
Hwanin recalled the conversation he had with Gallot, who was teaching him skills at the Falcons Guild.
‘If it is difficult to find a Holy Magician due to innate reasons, it is difficult to find a Trap Specialist due to the difficulty of acquiring acquired skills, expensive training costs, and poor treatment in the process.’
‘Hard to find is the story of people at the bottom of the party ecosystem.’
‘Right. Prestigious families find people with talent and educate them from a young age, so they supply their own supplies. Like a priestess.’
She, too, is studying sorcery to become her high-ranking trap expert, but she complains that the cost of it is astronomical and breaks her back.
The reason they teach trap skills at the Falcons Guild is because they are raising money for magic science education.
At least, Farhist had a graduate school in Acclamento, and there was a trap technique in the curriculum, so even though there was a fixed income, Gallott said that it was difficult to talk about it elsewhere.
Hwanin remembered the complaints of Asen, who had inherited the blood of a white fox, a diner he had met in Carton Village.
‘…… With my search ability, I can break through the labyrinth with many tricky and troublesome traps.’
Asen, who was a tracker and possessed the ability to disarm traps as well as the ability to search, fell into such a dilemma and was looking for her companions.
While learning the trap technique from Galot, Hwanin also had a lot of worries.
Will she recruit and raise companions with trap skills, or will she specialize in trap arts herself.
=It is common to recruit colleagues, but our party is not ordinary…….=
Receiving Anne’s murmur and gaze, Isilite gave her a small nod.
Even if it’s not that, if you start increasing her companions once, they will increase endlessly.
Is it just trap magic? It would be nice to have a reserve in case a friend gets hurt and leaves temporarily.
Not to mention the priestess who healed her colleagues. In preparation for an open labyrinth, it would be nice to have companions with search and tracking related functions.
The fact that there is a mountainous labyrinth means that battles can take place mainly in flight types. You will need colleagues who are skilled in long-distance combat, and you will also need a magician to protect and support you from sudden environmental changes.
Since there is no guarantee that Hwanin will be able to write the edict to his colleagues forever, sorcerers who can use various strengthening techniques and enchantment techniques for combat must also be recruited.
If you prepare for the situation and save it, the party will increase to the level of a platoon. No, a group of 20 to 55 people should already be considered a clan or guild.
I don’t know what will happen after I get the base, so I have a guild organization in mind, but I want a few elite people who can play multiple roles in the present wandering.
=My head is complicated.=
= Master. Shall I learn?=
Sensing her Hwanin’s troubles, Isilite put forward her opinion, but she shook her head as it was not worth considering.
“It’s enough for you to take care of the overall housework and battles of the party.”
Her answer was in consideration of her pride, but her true intentions were different. She is said to be Isilite because she is not good at entrapment at all.
=It’s okay to go looking for a labyrinth without traps, so let’s think about it slowly. Doryeong, since you’ve rested enough, why don’t we start now?=
“Well.”
The conclusion Anne had drawn made her think as she got up from her seat and started walking towards her downstairs again.
‘I’ll have to go down the labyrinth this time and look at the traps and make a decision.’
Just as she was making her decision, Anne, who was walking down her aisle, looked at her ceiling and said, What? She let out a small groan.
Issilite also looks up at her ceiling at Anne’s reaction.
There was written a faintly glowing letter that Hwanin had also discovered beforehand.
=That’s a Merianol character. Anne, can you read?=
= Yes. What about gold?!=
Hwan-in, who blocked Anne’s mouth while trying to read her text, pointed it out to Isilite and Anne.
“Even if you can read such shiny letters, it’s better not to say them.”
= Yes? Why?=
“Because just reading it correctly can trigger a curse. In this case, it is standard to read ‘gold-‘, ‘-silver’ and ‘cursed’. Even if it’s a high-level magic spell curse, it can be cursed or weakened the moment you see it…….”
Anne, who was about to say something with her phantom hand covering her mouth, realized that her phantom hand was still covering her mouth, so she grabbed her hand and pulled it away, she said.
= Since this is the 1st floor, I don’t think there will be such a curse. Even if there is, you can only see it in the labyrinth specialized in curses.=
= Then, what does that phrase refer to? All treasure chests on this floor are cursed?=
Anne laughed at Isilite’s display of her curiosity.
=Who carved a text on the wall of the labyrinth, and it is probably nine out of nine times that the labyrinth used it appropriately and pasted it anywhere?=
=…… So you’re saying there’s no reason?=
=That’s it.=
Hwanin also nodded at the story.
I’ve seen text messages like that on the 2nd basement floor.
Oh oh oh oh…….
As soon as she entered the room with passages in four directions, east, west, south, and north, Anne narrowed her eyebrows at the cry of a ghost whose gender was ambiguous.
= It’s an ear cry again. She heard that the prison labyrinth is a place where ghost heterogeneous species do not appear. =
“She heard that as the labyrinth grows, heteromorphic species may be added to it,” She said. That would be the case.”
In response to her Hwanin’s answer, Anne asked Isilite while fiddling with the handle of her war hammer.
= Has Dew ever fought a ghost with you? =
= No. No.=
Then, she brings out her introduction and Anne tells her what to watch out for when she fights ghosts.
= It can be said that ghosts generally have the ability to absorb vitality, but the stronger they are, the more effective they are in absorbing vitality. The effects are only those that are bad for people, so you should never come into contact with ghosts.=
=For example, what weakening effect does it have?=
= What is typical? If you come into contact with a ghost, your energy will be sucked out. The strong ones steal life force, make you hallucinate, give you chills, or paralyze you…… At the same time, the body is whitish, so it doesn’t taste like hitting, and anyway, it’s not fun.
=If it’s a ghost, physical attacks won’t work, so I’ll have to overwrite the phase power=
=If it’s a magical weapon, you can hit it with a normal attack. A high-ranking ghost heterogeneous species should be overlaid with phase power, but.=
At that time, Bisang, who had been quietly following her, hit Isilite’s back with her head.
= Huh? Why?=
Quet.
“The enemy.”
Hwanin turned to the emergency warning and pointed to the east and south aisles, and a whitish mist the size of a man flies into them.
Two ghosts and a giant rat skeleton in the east, only two ghosts in the south.
And that wasn’t all. Three corpses trudge through the northern aisle. They are wearing frayed and broken weapons and armor as if they were the corpses of people who entered the labyrinth and died.
=Ah, a real ghost appears.=
“I am in charge of the north. Isilite is south. Wait for the emergency, and take Anne’s east side. Let Anne leave one of her ghosts.”
=Yes.=
Quet!
=Yes.=
After inspecting the consecrated mask, Hwanin took out the black spear, grabbed the magic weapon – balance, and ran towards the corpse of the woman in chain armor who was about to enter the demon room and stabbed her in the neck.
That billion
In response to Hwanin’s attack, he raised the broken sword, but the tip of the longer stick accurately hit the neck bone first.
With a gurgling sound, the woman’s body, with her neck bent at an angle of more than 90 degrees, falls behind her.
‘Is it because of the strength increase feature? Pretty good.’
It is said that the durability restoration function is activated when the phase stone is inserted into the groove of the stick body, so handling it like a stick seems to be no problem.
In the meantime, while stepping on the body of a woman who had fallen and struggled, another woman’s body walked into the room and found Hwan-in and kyaaaaa screamed and ran away.
“…….”
Hwanin’s eyes deepened at the woman’s corpse’s attire.
The skin turned blue, the armor and clothes were all ruined and hung on the body like scrap metal and rags.
The half-rotten breasts revealing muscle tissue, the gap between the pubic area and the anus, and part of the internal organs spilling out, make it easy to guess what happened to her during her lifetime.
‘It must be a profession that became a plaything for the robbers of the labyrinth, then was killed and swallowed by the labyrinth.’
As she stretched out her arms and struck the knee of a female corpse approaching like a zombie with a scale, her knee-knee bent in reverse and thumped down.
Hwanin hit the temple as it was.
Perseok-
Her head is smashed like a watermelon, and the hardened gooey brain water splashes out like shrapnel, staining one wall.
With a thump, the woman’s corpse, with only her lower jaw and tongue, swayed and collapsed, she fell to the floor.
Aaah-
The third female corpse coming in from the aisle was similar in appearance to the second, but slightly different in that it had split from her pituitary to her pubic bone and spilled out her entrails.
Iron-
The female corpse, showing hostility towards Hwanin, tried to jump, but the spilled intestines fell first, caught on the struggling corpse, and fell forward.
Like the preceding corpse, her movement stops as her head is smashed.
Puck.
The first female corpse trying to raise her body with her neck bones broken also breaks her head, and her neck bones spring out like springs and then droop, and the body shakes like that and then falls apart and stops moving.
Hwanin, who returned three of her corpses to their original form, gave her colleagues a look.
She could see Anne pushing away the one remaining soul with a shield imbued with phasic power, and Isilite slashing her two souls with a single stroke.
What can’t be done with objects imbued with phase power? The whitish lump-like ghost is only making a sparse gesture towards Anne, and the ghost, which has been cut into two pieces by Isilite’s sword, turns into a liquid with an airy ear cry and falls to the floor. I fell down on my back.
= Doryeong. How do you do this?=
Instead of answering, Hwanin pointed his left hand at the ghost and gave a command imbued with compulsion in his head.
‘Come.’
Hee-
‘Come here.’
Hee hee hee-
When an order is given by force, a response comes out, but the order is not obeyed.
‘It’s probably because his power over the soul is low.’
He does soul orb control, meditation, and concentration training every day, but he hasn’t had a single misfortune since arriving in Farghist.
Now that the 70 days have passed, the power to control and control the soul is probably at a standstill.
=Why is this shaking so much?=
“I tested my strength. You can deal with it now.”
When Anne hit her ghost with her giant tower shield at the story of Hwanin, she disappeared with the sound of her squeaking and scraping metal.
Anne asked after shaking off her shield and wiping away the fluid from her.
= Well. Does it work if you see him flinch?=
“Okay. I don’t think I’m following orders because my level of soul art isn’t high yet.”
=Oh, then, if the spirit art of the spirit grows further, will it be possible to make a dead person like that other than a ghost become a Buddha?=
“Skeletons and corpses will not work. It has no soul at all.”
As she answered, she looked at the female corpse, and Anne, who immediately looked towards her, made a complicated expression.
Coup? Kuheung. Que~
Ppajik, Ppodeuk, Ododog-
When Bi-sang steps on the giant rat bone and starts playing with it, Isilite panics and stops.
= Oh, emergency. It’s dirty, so you can’t step on it. Support.=
Coo.
= Come here. I’ll clean your toenails.=
Quet!
While Isilite wiped her flying feet and Anne purged her defeated xenomorphs and wandered around looking for her phase stone with her detection tool, Hwan-in stared at the female corpse, but she did not see the soul coming out. There was no
= It’s done. There is also no phase stone.=
“Then let’s go.”
It’s been 5 hours since she entered the labyrinth. Hwanin and the others moved toward the fourth basement floor.
