Chapter 217 – 211 Stupidity = Gottmogg’s Prison Labyrinth
After taking the handcuffs and leg armor of the mummy fighter who had been defeated, the party fought several times while moving toward the stairs on the 18th floor.
A grade 4 heteromorphic shadow that wriggles as if the shadow has risen in the z-axis and makes an insubstantial attack.
A 4th grade+ heteromorphic Un= Dead Scorpion that grew a scorpion 200 times and added another tail.
A grade 4+ heteromorphic reverse-ghost demon that moves bizarrely fast with its limbs while lying face down, and attacks with sonic waves and numb nails.
If it was a normal party, Shadow, who could only deal damage with magical weapons or phase power, would have been the most difficult. Because normal weapons can’t even do damage.
However, all members of Hwanin’s party are armed with magical weapons, and Hwanin, the party leader, has a strong resistance to abnormal state attacks and phase power-only attacks due to his phase current nature.
Un=dead Scorpion and Shadow were no problem. The problem was that there were 2-4 of them in groups.
It often happened that his eardrums were damaged by sonic attacks close to the sound of his colleagues scratching a blackboard, and his actions became dull and he was scratched and fell into a mild paralysis.
If it was a normal party, there would have been five or six people, so the risk would have been small, but Hwanin and his party had only three people, excluding emergency.
Whenever the female friends fall into a state of mild paralysis, Hwan-in steps in and gets rid of all of them.
= Gently, gently pour it in… Whoops!=
=Hick, tea, it’s cold….=
Hwan-in, who poured a general-purpose advanced recovery potion drop by drop into the ears of the girls whose eardrums were damaged in the battle, stomped his feet, shrugged his shoulders, and laughed at his girlfriends who frowned.
Hwanin arrived at the stairs on the 18th floor and declared a break.
Anne crouched down on the rock structure that seemed comfortable for her to sit on, and put down only the shield of the castle wall, and she sighed heavily.
= Egogo. It is also a reinforcement layer. It’s been a while since I’ve been in the middle of a long time. Is Dew okay?=
= Yes. I think her regenerative powers have increased a bit since she reached level 4. She’s a bit exhausted now, but she’ll be fine after a break. =
= I wish……. My strength and stamina are so bad that my regenerative power is extremely low.=
Hwanin silently put her hand on the top of her head and poured her energy into her.
= Ah……. A man’s energy is precious….=
When Hwanin slightly furrowed his eyebrows at the drip that sounded strange, I couldn’t help but giggle like a mischievous person.
=By the way, I caught 10 heterogeneous species, but none of the phase stones came out. Actual price.=
=The higher the level of the phase stone, the less likely it is to come out.=
= That’s an ordinary heterogeneous story. Enhanced or special types give better phase stones.=
=How much?=
=…… 2… About 1 in 100?=
=Did you not mean to say 200 before?=
=Anyway, one level 5 phase stone is at least 30 gold coins. I’m looking forward to it a little because the phase stone seems to come out well this time.
Why do you do that when you have a lot of money? Isilite, who looked at Anne, who was sorry for her whining, as if not understanding, scolded Anne as she started to sing her top tier song.
=Stop the weird song. It wasn’t like that before, so why are you suddenly doing that?=
= It’s because you need to have pocket money to ask Yuri unnie to make good cosmetics. I’m running out of body lotion.=
=You have a lot of money. Do you want me to make it?=
Glancing at Hwanin, who was writing something in her notebook, Anne whispered softly into Isilite’s ear.
=I will also live on my pocket money now.=
=…… Suddenly?=
=Yeah, Doryeong and Yuri unnie and you live only with pocket money……. I don’t like it because I feel weird because I’m the only one who spends money.
=…….=
I do not know. Is this the imitation of the common people by the rich? Isilite decided not to tune in to Anne any more, and she decided to solve her curiosity from earlier.
Just in time, Hwanin folded her notebook and put it in her pocket, so she quickly opened her mouth.
=Me, Master.=
“Well.”
=The owner said that he got a future poem. So, can we easily defeat the hatchling zombies we fought earlier?=
“It won’t be easy.”
Although the visualization only lasts about 3 to 5 seconds, it is impossible to respond and attack flawlessly, but if you keep attacking only one spot, the visualization will show you that your bones will break someday.
So if you focus on the cracks in the scales and the exposed bones, you will be able to hunt alone.
But to do so, it is assumed that they will have to hunt in hours rather than minutes.
Of course, this is if you didn’t do the decree and didn’t use soul art. In the case of the undead, they are weak against light, so if you commandeer a lower spirit of light and add a light attribute attack, the hunting time will be shortened even more.
When I tell her that even a monster the size of a hatchling zombie can be defeated enough, she blinks her big, pretty eyes as if the two women are surprised.
=Then is the master invincible?=
= I don’t think so? Visualization…… No, future poetry seems to be a power whose meaning varies greatly depending on the owner’s basic combat ability.
In response to Anne’s answer, Issilite looked at Hwanin with a face that said, “Is that so?”
“Accurate.”
=Now that I can’t use soul magic, the upper limit that Doryeong can deal with is just like a hatchling zombie. If it’s harder or bigger than a hatchling zombie, there’s no way even if you can see the future. Once the weapon is embedded, I’ll do anything, whether it’s an attack or something.=
At Anne’s accurate analysis, her phantom nodded her head.
“Okay. In addition, it would be meaningless even with magical attacks beyond my control. If you look for it, it is an ability with many weaknesses.”
Are there many weaknesses? Anne looks at her Hwanin with a confused expression.
= No, that’s right now, fart. Just looking at the fact that I killed four mummy fighters at the same time…… That’s something a 7th grader should be able to do.=
“But it is true. If you had this ability, Isilite, you would be able to do more than me. Maybe I can even hunt a 7th degree heteromorph by myself.”
= That’s what if. Anyway, if I go out, I’ll think about selling the loot this time and using the party money I’ve saved to exchange the weapon for the sword.
In addition, if Yuri unnie is in the middle of making her automatic defense magic weapon…….
After looking at each other for a while, Hwanin was puzzled by the grinning female friends, then stood up and said,
“Shall we go down? There is a trap door in front of the stairs on the 18th floor, so just check that.”
=Yes.=
=Yes.=
Hwanin and his party went down to the 18th floor and witnessed bodies hanging in clusters like grapes at the intersection right in front of the stairs.
It was not a freshly murdered corpse, but a dried up corpse, as if it had been left in the desert for about a month, as if it had been created by a labyrinth.
=Uh.=
“Are you okay?”
As soon as she saw her corpse, Anne, who let out a breath close to her moan, looked at her ghost and nodded her head.
= Uh are you okay. It’s a bad taste labyrinth decoration.=
= It’s a decoration made by the labyrinth? =
= Uh Showing things like this weakens the spirits of the intruders in the labyrinth. Doryeong, I’m sorry, but can I make offerings to those corpses for a while?=
“Do it. There is a large room ahead, so be mindful of the deformed species approaching. I’ll check the north door.”
= Ong. =
Taking an orange-edged sword from her pocket, Anne cuts the string on which the corpse hangs and puts it together. Then, he took out a clear glass bottle, sprayed the liquid inside, and lit it.
Blue flames flare up and burn the corpse, but there is no smoke or unpleasant smell that should occur.
Hwanin, who was watching it, asked.
“What did you sow?”
=It’s consecrated jujube oil. It is a blue flame that burns and purifies the unclean.=
“…….”
Did you extract vegetable oil from jujube trees? Hwanin did not understand well, but he thought that there were several vegetable oil extraction methods on Earth, and some of them were spread to this world.
Isilite, who helped put the bodies together, looked at the pile of corpses engulfed in blue flames and asked.
=Anne. There’s no other reason, I’m just curious…… Are these corpses created by the Labyrinth?=
= Right. But you’re wondering if there’s any reason to burn it?=
=Yes.=
= Labyrinths are known to absorb corpses when they occur in their area. So this corpse is also the appearance of someone after death. That’s why I burn it and purify it.=
=…….=
Isilite frowned a little, probably reading something ominous about her in Anne’s answer.
Seeing that, Anne laughed ahaha and hugged Isilite by the shoulder and spoke.
The reason why the land around the place where the labyrinth appears is fertile and the reason why this labyrinth of the dead can create heterogeneous species without rest.
= A corpse buried in the ground flows into the labyrinth……. Does that mean buried corpses disappear?=
=It doesn’t disappear immediately, it goes back over several years.=
‘That must be the phenomenon of a corpse decomposing due to microbes.’
Hwanin, who was watching the offering from her side, slightly narrowed her eyebrows at Anne’s story, but she didn’t say anything.
=…… Then, isn’t the funeral of her third daughter that took place not too long ago meaningless?
=It’s okay because such people are buried under the blessing of priests or priests. The problem is just the dead bodies of people buried in the ground.=
It seems that the public ceremony is over. Hwanin turned his gaze to the north aisle of the intersection.
An iron gate not far away comes into view. As she moved toward it, Anne spoke from behind her.
=Can we not go together?=
“Beyond that trap door is solitary confinement. Since the area is not wide, there will be no large heterogeneous species.”
She did and she had to back off the emergency that was following her.
“Emergency. Stay with them too.”
Cue? Q.
“You don’t know what will happen if the trap is triggered. There he is.”
Quuet!
“I have a phase current, but you don’t.”
…… Kyup.
Hwan-in, looking down at Bi-sang’s droopy tail feather as she turns with her head lowered sullenly, approaches the trap door again.
The door is seemingly an iron door reinforced with rivets. The lock is a clasp type that might be attached to an old iron door.
I looked all over the top and bottom of the dark blue glistening iron door, but I didn’t see any signs of a normal physical trap.
‘The map is marked as a trap door. The reliability of traps installed on the floor and passageways is zero, but the location reliability of locked doors, trap doors, and secret doors has been 100% so far.’
That means that a spell trap has been set up at this gate. The problem is that it is difficult to find out whether it is a trap or not with one’s own knowledge.
How is the trap triggered? When you touch the door when you try to open the door? Or just approach?
After making the phase current tighter, I slowly stretch my hand to the door. Of course, I have no intention of touching it.
“…….”
Sure enough, the closer I got to the door, the more I began to feel the phasic flow being slightly stimulated.
‘This is how I can check whether or not there is a spell trap.’
That’s it. I looked closely at the door with my soul’s vision, and I checked the smell and shape again, but I couldn’t find any trace of the magic method installed.
Hwanin let out a small sigh and picked up a few pieces of stone that were rolling on the floor. Then, he approaches the place where his girlfriends are and drives them and Bi-sang into the passage toward the stairs.
=Why?=
“There may be an explosion. Hide yourself.”
Hwanin, who himself hid inside the corner, threw a stone and hit the iron door.
Bang-
The stone fragment that hit the top of the iron door fell to the floor, but there was no response. Hwanin threw the stone again, and this time it hit his handle, which had a latch on it.
Tang- Pajijijik!!
A bluish-white arc discharge occurs, pushing away the darkness for an instant and disappearing.
Anne and Isilite, who were sticking their heads out from under Hwanin’s head, let out a small exclamation when they witnessed the electrical discharge.
That’s a sorcery trap.
If you get hit, you’ll get seriously hurt.
Yes. If I touch it, I’ll become a full-roasted Fleur.
After the electrical discharge completely subsided, I threw a stone again to set the latch. Then, the arc discharge phenomenon occurs again, and the iron gate starts to glow red.
Feeling ominous, Hwanin quickly pulled his girlfriends shoulders and the back of their neck guards and hid themselves deep inside the corner, and at that moment…….
Kwagwagwang-!!
=Wow?!=
=Wow!=
An electrical explosion erupted from the door, and electrical dust covered the passageway.
Coo-gung, kwa-gwang, small vibrations, and explosions continue, it is judged that the iron door exploded and flew a piece of metal.
After a while, when the sound and vibration subsided, Hwanin called for an emergency.
“Blow the dust away with the wind.”
Couw!
As Bi-Jang spreads its green wings, a pale green light flows out and a strong wind blows dust into the room across the room.
After the dust had disappeared, Hwanin peeked his head out of the passage and could see the iron door open as if he had attached several kilograms of dynamite to it and exploded it.
When I left the aisle and approached what was supposed to be a door, Anne and Isilite followed suit and exclaimed.
= If it fails twice, is it a big explosion? It’s a very evil trap.=
“I think an instantaneous trap like this would be better. If you explode it from a distance, it will be canceled.”
= Uh… Is it?=
Hwanin looked back at the messy door as if a grenade had exploded and groaned softly at the situation in the room beyond the iron door.
Two of the three skeletons of one-eyed giants were lying down with pieces of metal and stones embedded in their skulls, and one with an intact skull was raising itself between them.
As he approached silently, the future vision showed him how to break the skull of the one-eyed giant.
As if fragments had brushed past, the balance struck the long scratched part, and the skull sank with a crack-sound, and the skeleton of the one-eyed giant also collapsed again.
=Doryeong, did you find out anything about the spell trap?=
When Anne, who had been following her, saw the phantom crushing the skeleton of the one-eyed giant, she asked.
“Have.”
=What is it?=
“Normally, it is impossible to know whether there is a magic trap or not. You can feel it if you harden the phase flow, but it has to be very close. It would be impossible to detect the spell traps installed on the floor.”
= Ah. Then you won’t be able to explore.=
If you proceed cautiously, you may be able to detect the presence of traps by using topological currents as an expedient. And what if a battle breaks out? What if there is a spell trap near the battle area?
“Okay. I have to go back…… ?”
Turning his head while speaking, Hwanin caught sight of a scorched wooden shield hanging on the wall in the northwest corner.
It wasn’t the shield that caught my eye, but the brick wall below it with fragments of an iron gate. Through cracks here and there, I could see a glimpse of the space on the other side.
=Why?=
“Anne. There seems to be space beyond that wall. Hit it lightly so that the bricks don’t tip over inside.”
=Uh.=
Approaching the cracked wall with the hammer of punishment raised, Anne examines the wall for a moment, then lowers her hammer and pushes her finger through the gap.
The gauntlet scratched the wall to make a spot, and when I pulled it with force in the gap, the wall shattered and the gap began to expand.
After a while, what appeared in front of Anne was a rusty iron box and a space big enough for two adult men.
=It’s a treasure chest.=
There is a box hidden inside the wall, and it is also an iron box. A treasure chest that is one level higher than a wooden treasure chest!
Showing some anticipation, what do we do now? Asking with her eyes goes to Anne’s side and examines the rusty iron box.
I made the topological flow hard and put my hand on the lid of the wide-shaped treasure chest, but I couldn’t feel anything from the trap door earlier.
After examining her floor and walls carefully, Hwanin said to Anne.
“Don’t take it out. A trap may be set, so listen carefully so as not to be shaken.”
I lifted the iron box with Anne and took it out. Is it made of solid steel? The weight is unbelievably heavy.
= Doryeong. There were a lot of decorations like this upstairs. Isn’t there a treasure chest hidden there as well?=
“Well. Might be worth checking on the way up.”
I set the rusty metal treasure chest down on a flat surface and inspect the chest again.
‘It’s a locked treasure chest.’
Box traps fall mainly into two categories.
One is to activate a trap by inducing the treasure chest to be opened without locking it for the purpose of killing.
The other is to set a trap inside for the purpose of protecting the treasure and then lock the box. In this case, if you forcibly open the trap without disarming it, there is a high probability that the contents will be destroyed.
The iron box was the latter.
Take a tiny light bar that looks like a penlight from a lockpicking set and shine it inside the key-inserted lock.
Hwanin confirmed the location of the very thin thread and nodded her head. It is a structure in which a trap is triggered if you try a lock pick without knowing it. Even if you shake it strongly or give it a shock, that thread will break and the trap will activate.
‘Is it an explosive type or an acid reflux type?’
Swoop-sniffing it lightly, a stinging yet tingling stimulus stimulated the mucous membranes in her nostrils. It is the characteristic smell of an acidic substance.
‘The box shook a little when I took it out, but it’s actually fine. It means that the tensile strength of the thread is the basis.’
Bite the tip of a microscopic light stick into your mouth, shine it inside, take out something like an endoscopic surgical tool, and connect a working thread to one end.
I put it in the lock hole and carefully moved it to tie the working thread to the trap room, when Isilite approached and asked in a low voice.
= Master. Can I help you?=
Anne left her room while she herself figured out the traps in her box, and as she took turns, Isilite entered and she scanned the remains of the one-eyed giant’s skeleton with a phasestone detection tool.
I thought she would go out again, but she stayed by the side to watch.
“Okay. Hold the end of this thread. Don’t pull, don’t push.”
After pulling lightly enough to keep her trap thread intact, she gives it to Isilite and pulls out her lockpick to unlock her lock.
Click, click-click click.
When I inserted a pencil-thick rod to press the core and inserted four tools to act as pins to align the grooves, the lock opened with a slight vibration.
After receiving the thread Isilite was holding, she slowly opened the lid of the treasure chest and pushed the thread she was holding at the same speed.
She grabbed the trap chamber and opened the lid, revealing the structure of the trap inside the box.
Glass flasks with green and silver liquid. When the two are mixed, a chemical reaction causes the inside to melt.
When he picked up the green reagent, the main ingredient, and threw it at the opposite wall, the stone wall melted a little with a bang.
Isilite, who was watching from her side, let out a small exclamation as she checked the contents of her treasure chest.
=Golden coins, Master.=
Inside were three gold coins, a copper ring, and three slightly processed pinky-nail-sized rubies, sapphires, and emeralds.
“This copper ring must also be a magic weapon. Maybe it’s because it’s a hidden treasure chest on the 4th floor, so the rewards are substantial.”
As she packs her contents and leaves the room with Isilite, Anne turns around as she spreads her maple oil back onto the pile of her corpses.
= Uh Did you get anything good from the treasure chest?=
=I got 3 gold coins, 3 jewels, and a copper ring.=
=The copper ring must be a magic weapon. I had a windfall.=
“When will the burning of the corpse end?”
= Now it’s almost done. She’s sprayed the third oil, so by the time the flames die out, they’ll all be ashes. =
In reality, the pile of corpses covered in blue flames had almost lost their shape and had turned black.
=If you’re going back, let’s go up.=
“Can I not watch it to the end?”
= Yes. ‘Cause I’ve done all I can Since it was burned with consecrated oil, the labyrinth won’t be able to recycle the ashes.=
Anne gazed at the blue flames with a little sorrowful eyes. Have you ever been hurt in your heart in the past?
Looking at Anne’s blue profile, Hwanin patted her on the shoulder and went back up the stairs.
