Chapter 291 – 285 Tyrant Dragon’s Labyrinth
Hwanin and his party were able to arrive at the entrance of the tyrant dragon’s labyrinth around the middle of the afternoon thanks to riding the Que and running non-stop while sharing energy.
The entrance was formed like a beast opening its mouth at the point where several hills converge.
There were several buildings scattered around the entrance, and there were stone buildings that were properly built, and wooden buildings that seemed to collapse at any moment stood out.
A deformed town with no houses at all, filled only with shops and amenities aimed at adventurers, explorers, mercenaries and workers entering and leaving the labyrinth.
Upon arriving at the entrance of the village surrounded by a 5m high stone wall, three people who are no more than vigilantes, wearing dirty white scarves on their right arms, ask for entrance fees.
= Three people for three, 90 fairy tales. It is a walking toll for maintenance of the facility, so please cooperate.=
“It doesn’t look like a formal village. Is there a separate organization that manages the village?”
=Yes. This kind of thing won’t be maintained unless someone takes the initiative.=
At first glance, it seemed that the organization was collecting various concessions other than the toll tax (vendor seat rent, building rental fee, etc.), But it was collecting toll tax not only for itself but also for others.
Give 1 silver coin to a second-class worker who speaks relatively politely and receive 10 coins in return.
=It seems like you are new to Lizard Village, so I will teach you the rules. I don’t care if you fight or kill inside, but don’t destroy the town buildings and don’t touch the merchants who accompany you with a white scarf on your right arm like us.=
“What if I touch you?”
= You might get a knife or poison needle while you sleep. Not only here in Lizard Village, but also elsewhere.=
“What if a member of that organization starts a fight?”
= Then do whatever you want. Because the right things will be covered behind it, and if there is a fault on that side, the friends who will give you eternal sleep will keep looking for you.
Hwanin nodded.
Is it like an outlaw town? It’s fun.
After entering the village, the party looked at the sight of various commercial facilities openly operating, ranging from a shabby wooden bar to an inn/tavern built with stone, a blacksmith’s shop, a general store, a gambling hall, a brothel, a public bath, and paid toilets. But
‘Is it.’
People with a bad mood, people with a criminal atmosphere, people who were drunk from daylight and stuck in alley buildings, and people who looked like ordinary parties.
The reason why Hellumen does not operate directly even though the daily flow is likely to be hundreds of people.
‘It’s probably because I’m vaguely standing on the border between the two cities of Anst and Helumen.’
As he was walking down the street, Hwanin could feel the unsettling gazes flying here and there.
6th and 4th grade parties, including people who all ride Que and look unemployed, stand out wherever they go.
Hwanin, looking at the number and behavior of people who care about this place, went straight to the labyrinth and saw the plaza in front of the labyrinth that looked like the floor of a dottegi market.
Professionals who are still entering and exiting the labyrinth.
Hundreds of people are buzzing with such professionals, including individual peddlers who are busy trading by-products, people who buy and sell by-products, and people who sell second-hand weapons, armor, and miscellaneous goods.
Nonetheless, the surroundings were very clean.
Normally in the Middle Ages, the ground would have been covered with dung and urine, creating a terrible situation.
There’s not much filth, but it’s probably the power of the cleaning sap monsters that are fixed everywhere.
People pass by and dump garbage there, and the sap monster lingers on and eats and disassembles the garbage.
‘Slim’s power is amazing.’
Perhaps it was Thrym who played the biggest role in Nionebreth’s population growth.
Even in the Middle Ages and modern history of the earth, it was said that five out of ten children died due to hygiene problems.
Without the cleaning sap monster, the city would have been limited to tens of thousands, let alone cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, due to the environment polluted by wastewater.
Anne, who covered the light of salvation with a suitable cloak, gave off ferocious speculation at the mercenary who sent her blatant gaze, turning her head and muttering.
= It is quite spacious and clean. There are a lot of people and there are decent buildings, so why doesn’t the city manage it?=
“It must be on the border of the two cities.”
= Indeed. To manage a level 7 labyrinth, you would have to pay a lot of attention and spend a lot of money, but besides spirit stones and phase stones, the only things that could make money were meat, skin, and bones, so it wouldn’t be profitable.
It is an ambiguous distance to use for other purposes. If you ride Que for almost half a day, the horse should run all day. It takes 2-3 days to walk.
“There may be other political issues, but none of us care. Go right in.”
Gazes filled with desire beyond unhappiness poured out on Bisang, but Hwanin ignored them and walked toward a hole in the hill covered with yellow grass, a passageway that looked like an animal’s jaw, and a grunt flew in.
= Oh, you have a lot of money. Are you crazy to just drag two Que into a green Que?=
= If you look at the unemployed as the leader, you might be a new type of suicide hoper. Kwk.=
= Kkk. If you’re going to search, pass the pretty girls and the green Que to us. Because we will make you look pretty. =
Anne furrowed her eyebrows. Things I couldn’t even pay attention to during my muscle pig days……. Do I look easy because I’m slim?
It feels really, really bad to see the eyes that scan the body that has changed beautifully thanks to Doryeong and the body that is being pampered for Doryeong.
If it was like before, it would have been beaten with the hammer of punishment and made a boner for several months.
However, Anne calmed her heart by reciting the scriptures of the Church of the Earth God in her mind at the behavior of Hwanin, who did not dismiss even the barking of her dog and ignored it.
The answer is to ignore the bastards. If a dog barks at you, you will become a dog too, and if a dog goes crazy and bites you, then you can use a stick to treat it.
But the time came earlier than expected.
As if their sarcasm was hurt by Hwanin’s ignorance, the 2nd to 5th class workers with various animal heads roamed around and mocked them.
= Huh? Are you ignoring me Do you feel bad?=
= What are you so busy with? Let’s talk~.=
= Hey, pretty girls. Do you want to look at this?=
=Fuck you for paying for your face.=
That number is nine.
Some run to block Hwanin’s way, while others surround the group as if besieging them. When Hwanin stopped walking, a man with black coyote hair came up to him and punched Hwanin on the back of the head as if mocking him.
= Hey, fuck the black head. I don’t listen to people…….=
Cuckoo, Kwajik!
No, the moment he tried to hit him, his knees were smashed and his lower jaw shattered and he fell down.
Hwanin, who took out a balance, smashed his lower jaw and crushed every bone, including the patella of his knee, and all the joints of the coyote man who collapsed without making a sound were ground into powder.
Puck! Kwadeuk, right! Quick!!
=…… ?=
The red fox head, the 5th-class warrior who muttered that he was in a bad mood at the sight of his colleague flinching every time he was hit with crab foam, only blinked in his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, the second strongest guy in the gang was smashed.
Even if you go to the temple, you will be injured for 20 weeks. Still a level 4 fighter? Couldn’t you lift a finger against the unemployed?
= Oh, what. What. What the fuck.=
Information is not input into the head, so it stutters. A cool feeling of uneasiness rears its head in his chest.
“Are you going to dump? If he attacks, lay down his life and come.”
With those words, as Hwanin spread the murderous intent, the gang members trembled and drew their weapons all at once. Hwanin also puts his scales in and takes out a black spear, muttering in a low voice.
“You want to fight.”
= This, this fucking bastard…… Fuck you know who we are…… Dog… Dog…….=
The red fox head roaring with the sword drawn out in his hands stuttered when he saw the six gray-white swords floating around Hwanin’s body.
What is that Weren’t you unemployed? Fuck, no glare? So, that bastard is also in 6th grade?
What I ate at lunch, the blood that I vomited up, and what kind of technology those gray-white swords were. If that guy is also in 6th grade…….
An emergency light turns on in the red fox-haired man’s head, belatedly making a loud warning sound.
“Count to three. One…….”
Count what? Three? Why?
“Two…….”
The red fox head’s eyes trembled at the sudden explosion of death, and the thoughts of being fucked and being fucked passed like lightning in the heads of the workers who surrounded the Hwanin party.
He should have thought he had something to do with the green Que openly dragging it around, but he moved too hastily when he saw that they were about to enter the labyrinth with his greed after seeing Que worth hundreds of gold coins.
The red fox-haired man squinted at the square.
Hundreds of adventurers, explorers, and mercenaries are gathering on the merchants residing in the plaza.
Can’t back off If you step away from here, of course you’ll lose the face you’ve barely built up over the years, shit…….
“Three.”
… Stuck in a barrel.
Fuhwahwa Chemical-
A black flash flashed once, and the head of a man with red fox hair floated into the sky. From the cross section of his severed neck, his blood gushes like a fountain.
Do Luke and the man have higher blood pressure than Earthlings? While Hwanin was thinking nonchalantly, Isilite took out Redrick and flew at the besiegers with the red blood as a signal, and Anne also set up the hammer of punishment and the shield of the castle wall and rushed at the people who were burning.
Chuwaak-! Kwakwang! Kkugugung-
What followed was a massacre.
Compared to the opponent Isilite and I didn’t know, the gang who started the fight couldn’t show less than 30% of their skills because they were in a hurry to live and panicked at the urgent situation change.
The shadow of the red greatsword drawn in the air. A huge hammer that shakes the earth’s axis by striking it down.
=Sah, save me!=
=What do you do with my place?=
=That was a joke…… !=
= It’s a good joke. Go to the other world and joke as much as you like.=
Kwakwang!
As a result, six fighters and warriors were turned into cut and minced meat by Isilite’s greatsword and Anne’s giant war hammer, and two magicians wearing scale armor had their hearts pierced by Hwanin’s spear before they had time to show off their skills.
Wei Ying-
While Hwanin attacks, the panel sword, which spreads widely and floats around as if guarding the surroundings, returns around Hwanin’s body and hovers around him as if escorting him.
=…….=
=…….=
In the blink of an eye, nine 4th and 5th grade workers turned into chunks of meat, and silence covered the empty lot wider than a soccer field.
Silence where not even the sound of breathing can be heard.
Hwanin made sure that there were no white scarves on the limbs of the people he had killed and looked around at the frozen people around him.
“It’s an absurdly interesting place to think that this kind of garbage is openly active.”
As he freely sprinkles the murderous spirit he has been suppressing, people avoid Hwanin’s gaze or withdraw with an expression as if he is going to have a heart attack.
Anne asked with her eyes, ‘Do you pack your pockets?’, So Hwanin gave her a small nod.
A trembling old man’s voice came out as Isilite and Anne took the money bag from the arms of the men they had killed.
=Ha, killing all the members of the Halcone Organized Action Corps. You too…… You won’t be safe. They are protected by both Helumen and Anst.=
Hwanin looked at him and asked the frightened old owl-haired man.
“So what do you mean? Are you going to go and kill them all?”
=…….=
This is the man who blew off the head of a 5th grade warrior as if he were cutting grass. He is a martial arts fanatic, but he is powerless that he thinks he will not exceed the 7th grade. The old owl-haired man couldn’t bear to answer and closed his beak.
Hwanin, who gave a cynical laugh at that appearance, threw down his horse and entered the tyrant dragon’s labyrinth.
“If a guy named Halcone is looking for me, send someone to Wirt Castle to ask him.”
The stairs to the labyrinth were smooth and hard stone steps, as if touched by a human hand.
The walls and ceiling were also a little bumpy, but made of solid stone, and the temperature was quite warm, unlike the mid-winter outside.
I don’t know what kind of effect it is, but it’s bright and it’s not difficult to move even though there is no light source.
As they descend the ten-floor-high stairs, a bluish aura begins to surround the three of them.
=The labyrinth seems to be starting. Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since 7th grade, but the feeling that tightens the soul is pretty. =
=…….=
= Emergency. Are you okay?=
Coo! Kyup. Beep beep!
=Doryeong, what is Bijangi saying?=
“Of course it is fine. When the enemy comes out, I will fight.”
= What? No no. You haven’t grown up yet.=
Que?
= Do-ryeong won’t allow it. So don’t even think about stepping out.=
Beep…….
Perhaps it was because of the fuss at the entrance of the labyrinth, no one followed and no one went ahead.
Hwanin, who arrived on the first floor quietly passing by people who came out from time to time, opened his eyesight to see where he could see the soul.
The thick fog on the floor and the bushes and trees that are revealed at first glance in it.
It is not an underground cave, but it feels like entering a forest with sparsely grown trees.
Darker than under the sun, but bright cavity with room stability with lights turned on. Colorful trees and bushes. Occasionally conspicuous flowers.
‘It’s wider than I thought.’
The ceiling height reaches 30m, and the area in front of you is the size of a baseball field.
The small room I first came across on the first floor was like this, I thought it would be 5 meters per tile on the map, but this feels like 10 meters per tile.
The overall width of the labyrinth is about 5 km.
At that time, Anne, who had finished searching around the entrance, asked.
=But Dolyeong, is it okay? I don’t have any remorse even if I killed people because they looked like pests that suck people’s blood, but like someone said at the end, if you’re protected by both cities, you’ll have problems.=
“They were massacred in vain, like the main action squad. If I hadn’t said anything there, Halcone’s ability to control this village would have been greatly damaged.”
Hwanin, who retrieved the souls of those he killed, interrogated them by force on the way down to the labyrinth.
The size of the organization, the number of employees, the location of the organization, the relationship of the surrounding organizations, the presence of a back ship, information on green saints, etc.
“No no. Wrong. Forgive me, please forgive me…….」
Even the dead knew about the green saint and cried out in despair after learning that Hwanin was the green saint, but Hwanin didn’t blink an eye.
It was just that he was satisfied that his intentions worked better than he thought.
The Green Saint’s party consists of four people, wears gray hooded capes, and rides on green Que. Thanks to this image, he did not recognize himself as a saint wearing the warm fur coat made by Yurpa.
Anyway, according to the information I found, the red fox head organization, the Halcone family, had only a maximum of 5 class workers, and there were three in total, but now there are two.
It has no background, is based in Helumen, and has about 200 members, including unemployed. He runs a small business, but his main business is human trafficking.
Anne frowned at the information Hwanin had dug up.
= Human trafficking is even dirty. =
Hwanin, who had been glancing at Isilite with a hard expression without saying anything from earlier, said.
“I told them to come to Wirt Castle to argue with them, but if you’re sane, you won’t be able to find the castle. I can’t even stay still. Isilite will attack us to retaliate, then you step in.”
=Yes. I’ll take care of all the chasing guys.=
Metaphorical or real, people usually wake up in extreme situations.
In front is the heterogeneous species of the labyrinth. Organizations following them behind them.
It was enough to show her skills by tapping moderately, but Hwanin, who deliberately used her hands excessively, nodded to Isilite, who answered with her stiff face.
If you kill all the guys who come to visit you for three weeks, go back to the city, go to the organization and destroy it, then nothing bothering you will happen.
If even that bothers her, you can secretly talk to Lord Siha after the entrance exam.
Hwanin felt someone coming down the stairs and said asheheaded west.
“Since the purpose of coming to the tyrannical dragon’s labyrinth is the purpose, Isilite will be in charge of all battles from now on. Leave the recovery of consumed energy to me. Anne healed her wounds with her sex art. I’ll watch Vizi, Kurti, and Kuffin from the back.”
=Yes, Master.=
=Okay.=
Since it was on the first floor, the only heterogeneous species that appeared were large dog-sized lizards.
Brown, green, ultramarine blue, and gray reptiles roam through the knee-length bushes, and when they find a person, they scream and attack recklessly.
There are short-eared rabbits with horns, squirrels with wide ears like elephants, small black-brown or green birds, and colorful flowers blooming, making it a fairytale landscape that feels like a forest in a cave rather than a labyrinth in many ways.
There was also an element that made such a landscape fade.
=…….=
“…….”
Hwanin, who was heading straight for the next floor, encountered people from time to time, but all of them avoided or distanced themselves with a visibly wary side.
The atmosphere of the labyrinth can be noticed even by those who are not aware of it.
=Ah, what kind of reaction is that?=
If he were a normal person, he would have reacted like Anne to his embarrassment, but Hwanin didn’t care at all and just found a way and moved forward.
Anne shook her head as if she couldn’t get used to her, and looked in front of her with her eyes shining sharply again.
A greenish-blue lizard the size of a medium-sized dog appeared breaking through the bushes.
Shhh-
The greenish-blue lizard made a wind noise from its snout and charged at the party with incredible speed for its size, but no one in the party couldn’t react to its speed.
Kwadeuk!
Isilite bounced off like a spring and swung Redrick only with brute strength, and the verdigris lizard was torn in half rather than cut in half, and died.
Anne, who had checked the presence of the phase stone with her detection tool, took her dagger and grunted as she almost dismembered her corpse.
=It’s too hard to find the spirit stone.=
Maybe it’s because it’s the spirit’s cave, so I can see quite a few spirits floating around. There are also lower level spirits.
Hwanin wondered if those spirits could tell whether the spirit stone was there or not…….
I shook my head while looking at the low-level land spirit who only did his job without paying attention to this direction.
Hwanin, who hunted heteromorphic species he encountered and advanced while avoiding people, was able to see fruit trees quite often.
Neither Isilite nor Anne knew what kind of fruit it was, but Hwanin figured out what was edible from the color system he could see through his soul vision, and then fed it to Que.
Maybe it was because she picked the fruit from the first fruit tree she found and fed it. From then on, whenever Bi-Sang looked at the fruit tree, her eyes twinkled and she looked at Hwan-in.
The fruit trees that appeared this time were the same.
Hwanin tilts his head back and looks up at the twinkling green eyes of flight.
“It ran too high. I can’t pick it up.”
Although it was different for each location, the ceiling of the labyrinth was generally over 20m.
Trees vary in height from 4m to 8m, but the height of the fruit tree that Bisang sends bright eyes saying that he wants to eat is unusually high, reaching 20m.
It would be easy to tell them to fly and eat them, but doing so would only end up informing others of their location.
It might be okay if it was on the first floor, but as you go downstairs, you might be discovered by the heterogeneous species.
Since the height was out of range of the barrier panel, Hwanin was thinking of just having Isilite cut down the tree, but Anne scratched her throat and said,
= Emergency. You use the wind Can’t we cut branches with the wind?=
Coo?
Can I? Hwan-in nodded to Bi-sang who asked, and she spread her wings wide and kook! The wind of the green blade poured down.
Let’s go to sleep~!
Dozens of crescent-shaped blades of wind pour down, leaving the trees naked.
Numerous twigs and fruits resembling apples fall.
Que~.
Quet.
Bisang, who was stunned by the captain Kurti and Kupin, who were crying in amazement, began to pick up fruits and eat them on good terms with his subordinates.
Anne, who watched it from behind her, stuck out her tongue.
= With. He’s getting more and more afraid of his wind skills. Looking at the power, precision, and number of attacks of Wind Slash just now, it seems to have surpassed the level of a 4th-class wind magician.=
=…….=
“Is that enough?”
It’s been a long time since I’ve been traveling, but it was a hwanin that I rarely saw a magician use magic. It just felt like the wind of emergency was getting stronger…….
‘Physical ability equivalent to a 4th class melee position and wind attribute attack power equivalent to a 4th class magician.’
Here, she and Isilite have accumulated a lot of combat experience, so she should be able to easily defeat a 4th-class alien.
=It’s been almost two months since Doryeong started cheating, right?=
“Okay. Seeing that you can fly around for several minutes with me on board, I think I will gradually grow to the final level, but that time is hardly approaching.”
Hwanin picked up three colorful fruits, wiped them on the hem of his clothes, and handed each to Isilite and Anne, before taking a bite of the fruit himself.
The acidity and sweetness unique to apricot spreads in your mouth. The taste is enough to blow away even the slight tension and discomfort of being inside the labyrinth.
Hwanin took another one with the intention of taking care of Yurpa, and said that he had eaten to his heart’s content, and began to advance towards the next floor with Kut, Cuckoo, the humming Bisang, Kurti, and Kuffin.
At the same time, she sees the back of Isilite, who is moving ahead.
=…….=
Ever since I arrived at the tyrannical dragon’s labyrinth, I’m worried because my expression has been hardened.
Worrying too much will only hinder your growth. Her Hwanin led her party to the next floor, hoping that she would get rid of her pressure and burden on her own.
[Tyrant Dragon’s Labyrinth 1st floor]
