Chapter 299 – 293 Tyrant Dragon’s Labyrinth
The place where Hwanin and the others hid was not too far from the place where they went down to the 6th floor underground.
A relatively narrow road with a width of about 7m continues for about 100m like a valley, and it is a space that is cut off from the outside by turning inward.
The area was about the size of a soccer field, so even if a heterogeneous species invaded, it was a place where space was secured to fight.
Arriving at a place that could be called a camping site rather than a hiding place, the group quickly started building a dugout.
“Enjoyment. Please.”
“Yes.”
The amount of snow is insufficient to build an igloo on the ground, and it is difficult to block the cold.
For this reason, the ground is first dug to a depth of 10m wide on the left and right.
It was a fantasy to use power at this time. After calling a nearby low-level land spirit, the image of a square pit was sent to the spirit, and the land spirit that received the image immediately moved the soil around to create a pit according to the image sent by Hwanyeon.
It is a bonus to flatten the ground by excluding stones and gravel.
And while the lower snow spirits were also called in to collect and harden the snow to make several snow plates, Isilite and Anne cut down several trees and weaved them together, then weaved together the cone-shaped roof frame in an instant.
= This is enough. Let’s raise.=
On top of the dug pit, the roof frame made by weaving is put up, and the stone boards made by Hwanyeon commanding the snow spirit are piled up one by one.
The snow hut that took less than 20 minutes looked pretty plausible.
Anne exclaims as she exhales white breath like her breath.
= Dew. Doesn’t it look plausible enough for people to live now?=
=I made it every break for a week, so it’s time to master it.=
If it was a normal cave rather than a labyrinth, it would have been maintained as long as it was not destroyed, but since it is a labyrinth, it returns to its original state after an hour of emptying.
Because of this, I had to make a small hut every time I took a break, so I got used to making it before I knew it.
“Anne even works with me. Isilite, please prepare lunch and dinner.”
=Yes, Master.=
= Dew. I want to drink hot soup.=
=Okay.=
While Hwanin and Anne filled the gaps in the snowboards and made small chimneys and vents, Isilite installed the warming plates provided by Yurupa on the dry land and made a resting place on them.
Then, taking her firewood and lighting it with a flint tool, Isilite felt a warming feeling inside her hut and took off her armor.
Jjaejaeng-
= Ah… The ring is broken again.=
It’s something the owner bought for me……. I’m a bit sullen, but this kind of feeling can only harm me in the labyrinth.
Having sorted out her feelings, Isilite takes out her holy water cloth from her subspace bag and thoroughly wipes her hands, arms and face, then puts on her bandana and apron.
= Um…….=
And Isilite, thinking for a moment about which meat she would use, took out a large chunk of ichthyosaur meat and about 30kg of the meat of a low dragon from her preservation bag.
Eating ichthyosaur meat warms the body, so I stir-fry it with pork and add the sauce I made earlier…….
‘Eating only meat makes my stomach feel heavy, so I’ll have to cook today.’
First, he chopped up a large amount of meat for Master, himself, Bisang, Kurti, and Kuffin, sprinkled salt on it, marinated it, washed it, took out a bag of finely divided rice, and went outside with a small pot to pour snow.
Put it on the bonfire, the snow melts and turns into water. Since the amount of water was insufficient, the snow was scooped out several times with the lid of the pot, then rice was added and rice was served.
Next, I thought about the vegetable dishes for Anne and Hwanyeon to eat.
‘I said I wanted to eat something hot, so shall I make noodles today?’
Thinking of the dish, Isilite takes out another pot, boils her eyes again, pours rice flour flat noodles into it, and puts in the prepared vegetable stock.
She added more shredded vegetables, seasoned with salt, seasonings and spices, and brought to a boil, while taking out a large wok, setting up a cooking tool, and began to stir-fry the meat that had been marinated in salt.
Isilite, who was making food, sighed at the protein-carbohydrate-centered menu, which lacked any nutritional balance.
She knows that eating this much in a labyrinth is a luxury, but she still wants to prepare a proper meal for her master. Anne also needs to take care of the trees.
When the special sweet and spicy sauce is poured over the moderately roasted meat, the delicious smell spreads out in no time.
Anne, who was finishing the ventilation outside her house, smelled it directly and coughed.
“Why?”
= Ugh. Swallowing in the delicious smell, I get goosebumps, Cough.=
How hungry are you?
Hwanin smiled and finished her work on the snowboard, then took out a broom made of thin and soft grass stems from her pocket.
Then, Bisang, Kurti, and Kuffin, who had been wandering around, rushed to him and stood in front of him in turn.
Kuheung, Kyubim.
Bisang proudly raises his head and spreads his wings wide, asking to shake off his body quickly.
As soon as he tickled the armpit, which was soft and warm like cotton on the inside of the wing, Bi-sang, which had been flapping its wings, attacked Hwan-in and knocked him down into the snow, and he laughed cupidly.
After brushing off the snow powder accumulated on her body with her broom and sending her into the igloo in turn, Anne opened her arms and laughed in front of her ghost.
Instead of brushing her off with her broom, Hwanin laughed again, took a handkerchief out of her pocket, wiped the snow off her silver hair that shimmered like sunlight, and patted the snow-covered body all over her body with the palm of her hand.
Then, after taking off her gloves, I thawed her long ears and cheeks, which were stained red from freezing, and a smile spread across her white face like a snow goddess.
=Ah, your hands are warm…….=
“Stop going in.”
Hwan-in, who had sent Anne in first, touched her breast pocket with a touch.
“Uh. It smells delicious.”
After sniffing and sniffing, Hwanyeon crawled out of her pocket with sparkling eyes and looked back at Hwanin and asked.
“Aren’t you going in?”
“I’m going to rob her clothes and go in. Go in first.”
“Yeahhehe. It’s cold.”
Hwan-yeon, who accepts the house (gloves) handed to her by Hwan-in, doesn’t ask further questions, and floats a ring of light behind her back, and quickly flies into the dugout.
Looking at Hwanyeon’s attire, whose fluttering shape has nothing to do with windproof or cold protection, she turned her gaze toward the passageway leading to the outside.
‘I’ll have to look for Hwanyeon’s clothes when I go back.’
Her body proportions are ideal like that of a Barbie doll, but since she is wearing clothes that are no different from a burlap sack, her unbalance is a level of concern.
At least it was Isilite who had some dexterity in sewing, so she made it to that extent, otherwise she would have had to wear leaves like a fairy in nature.
Hwanin took off his snow-covered coat and brushed it off, deep in thought.
‘It’s been more than 15 days since I came down…….’
It bothers me that there are no trackers.
Are the guys from the Halcone family unable to come down here because they don’t have enough talent, or are they camped at the entrance and waiting for them to come out?
「Kyahahaha~.」
「Ah~! There~!」
After staring at the lower snow spirits laughing and playing around, he sighed briefly and looked up at the far-high ceiling.
Probably both.
Class 6 heteromorphs are definitely strong.
Even Anne, who received the decree after wearing the best defensive magic tool called the Light of Salvation and poured phase power into her shield and armor to increase her defensive power, did not let go of her tension.
Isilite, who became her swordswoman, and Anne’s defense, which specialized in her defense, and here, if it were not for the phantom search ability in her own code, she wouldn’t have dared to hunt her.
There are a lot of monster-like deformed species, but ordinary, passable gangster-like guys from around the 5th grade come down?
As they said, it’s no different from wanting to commit suicide.
‘I guess I’ll have to be more careful when going out because of the latter.’
Waiting for this side to come out means to prepare all sorts of magic and curses of the mental system and status ailment system and dig traps and wait.
They’re like vile thugs, so there’s no way they’ll come face-to-face with them since they’ve got a rough idea of their strength.
Still, don’t worry too much. It’s enough if you ask Hwanyeon to command a spirit to look at the situation in front of the labyrinth and come back.
Since it is an entrance where many people come and go, there is no way to set a physical trap.
After figuring out the location of the enemy, I strongly raise the phase current, go out first and clean up the sorcerer first, then Isilite and Anne jump out and clean up the rest, and the situation will be over.
Anyway.
While hunting on the 6th floor for about a week, Hwanin gradually felt that what he was concerned about was happening.
No matter how much he reads the attack through his future poem, he will die at that moment when he attacks with no way to avoid it.
If it is a 6th grade heterogeneous species, it has enough strength to turn a target that does not have the ability to protect itself into a lump of meat in an instant.
What is the speed here? Some heterogeneous species are barely able to respond to girlfriends who have received the code.
What is the power to handle?
At least, there are objects that breathe fire, water, wind, and sand, and there are objects that wear an aura that constantly deals cold damage, such as the Snow Dragon, which is a dangerous type.
There are objects that inflict wide-area damage with a roar containing phase power, and there are objects that apply elemental attacks densely in a wide space like magic.
No matter how much phase flow you have, an attack from a 6th-class heteromorphic spell will be enough to break through the resistance of the phase current and inflict damage.
Lastly, defense.
It is impossible for her trivial attacks to work against those who gradually block the attacks of Isilite, whose attack power has increased dramatically as she awakens to her Sword Princess.
If it were a human, he would have the confidence to kill even a 7th or 8th grader through carelessness, but Hyungjong Lee…….
After all, if you want to participate in battle, is it just to collect and wear the five artifacts of Grimoam?
Afterwards, Hwanin let out a short sigh and quickly looked at the brown-eyed rabbit crossing the snowy field.
‘… By the way, there are really no people.’
He wandered around the 4th and 5th floors for over 10 days, but Hwanyeon only detected human presence twice.
In addition, even when they entered the labyrinth, no one with a level 5 or higher job was noticed. This alone shows how unpopular the lower 4th floor is.
Lee Hyung-jong’s by-product profits can’t be ignored, but is it because the focus is on spirit stones?
Merchants are less interested in by-products such as hides, bones, and organs.
Even if you look at the feathers of the 4th grade white wing heterogeneous species, if you process them into feather cloaks or coats, you will get useful armor, but it is treated relatively poorly.
When Hwanin entered the plaza in front of the labyrinth, he remembered a bargaining session between a peddler and a party member.
= Byproduct~? Emm. We came to buy spirit stones.=
=Don’t do that. The quality isn’t bad thanks to careful capture, right? Even if you buy it and sell it, you will make a decent profit.=
=But~ We are also famous jewelers~.=
= Oh shit. OK, I’ll only get 80% of the market price. Is that okay?=
=80%? Minus the manpower required for transportation, grooming, and disposal, we’re left with less than 10%! I would buy it if it was 50%.=
= Crazy. No matter what, you have to get 75%!=
= Hmm…… Not more than 60%.=
=Oh really.=
=Considering the time spent traveling to Anst or Helumen, wouldn’t it be better to cover repair costs and consumables?=
=The spirit stone and phase stone didn’t come out at all. If you pass that price, you won’t even get real labor costs! 70%! Never below this!=
= I don’t know what to do…….=
Compared to other labyrinths, fewer parties take by-products, fewer merchants buy them, and the market shrinks.
If you read the surroundings, you will understand.
If you were aiming for by-products, there were more good labyrinths around that didn’t necessarily have to be spirit caves.
There is no reason to hunt in an expandable reinforced labyrinth.
As a result, I naturally began to worry about the heterogeneous regurgitation of the labyrinth.
Since there are no parties that are active on the 4th floor or lower, I am concerned about the piling up of heterogeneous species.
No matter how many people try to catch heteromorphic species on the 1st to 3rd floors, they will use phase power in the labyrinth, and there will be people fighting each other and dying, and there will be parties that are killed for making mistakes in hunting.
What will happen if you fill the labyrinth with energy like that?
The heterogeneous species below the 4th floor will fight each other, eat and be eaten.
The labyrinth will make heterogeneous species again to fill the void created by being eaten, and then they will fight each other again, eat them, and eat them again.
Heterogeneous species that survive like loneliness are gradually trained and become stronger.
Then, when a boss is born, the number of heterogeneous species will continue to pile up as they seize the weak heterogeneous species.
“…….”
Of course, there was no way Anst and Helumen would let the labyrinth flow backwards.
If the deformed species in the tyrant dragon’s labyrinth flowed backwards, the two cities would suffer enormous damage, and above all, Helumen’s family is a city built with a reputation created by one hero breaking through all the labyrinths that flowed back.
Will a family with such a history allow the backwaters to rise in the labyrinth near the city?
Above all, because of the stairway from the 1st to the 4th floor, it is unlikely that a 5th grade or higher heterogeneous species could pass through it.
Still, why do you care as if you have a thorn stuck in your neck? Is it simple old age?
Hwanin, who was lost in thought, suddenly felt someone staring at him from the side of the dugout. When I turned around, I could see the green eyes of an emergency through the small hole in the air vent.
[Koo!]
“Okay. Go in.”
Hwanin brushed off the snow that had accumulated on his shoulders and head and went into the hut where the hunger-stimulating smell emanated.
Isilite served her meat bowl with her meticulously mediocre ingredients and rice noodle-style hot noodle dishes to settle between lunch and dinner.
Perhaps because she fought fierce battles and continued to fight in a frigid environment, her armor was becoming scrap metal.
Anne’s equipment, which received dozens of times more attacks than Isilite, was as good as new.
No, actually, the heavy plate armor, the light of the old world, was shining like new, and only the giant tower shield, which blocked almost all attacks and shed, and the shield of the castle wall remained, but even this was covered by the automatic durability recovery function of the shield. I’m going.
=You can really use that shield and armor for the rest of your life.=
= Huh? You can’t write indefinitely. Every time I receive an attack, it scratches and touches the inner magic circuit. If you use it for roughly 3-6 months, you have to go to the church and ask for repairs, or find a top-notch workshop and rebuild only the magic circuit. It’s all thanks to the hardness enhancement and automatic durability recovery function.=
“When fighting a high-ranking enemy, those two functions are essential.”
= Right. Dew’s overall physical ability is improving after becoming a swordsman, but the part covered by armor can never be ignored. Dewy armor should also have automatic durability recovery and hardness increase features. Since multiple sword skills are linked to physical abilities, the rest of the functions are geared toward increasing physical abilities.=
“Right.”
=As for the formula circuit, Yul’s sister can re-engrave it, so if you get one made with a general-purpose formula, I think it won’t cost much to maintain. Umm~ If the 6th grade deformed species gave out just one phase stone, he would be able to prepare the armor of the highest rank, even if it was impossible.
Oiling and tightening her tattered armor, Isilite stroked her distorted breasts with her face apologizing at the gaze of her phantom and Anne.
= When she put this armor together, she thought she would use it for several years, but she can’t use it for half a year. =
=That much dew means that you have become stronger. And it’s time for her to change. The people who fight against the 4th-class heterogeneous species have at least one piece of armor or armor with magic spells, even if they are low-class, but you are wearing ordinary iron plate armor while fighting the 6th-class heterogeneous species.=
= Yeah, that couldn’t be helped. You also watched from the side.=
= Indeed. In the last labyrinth, I fought with a 4th grade, but this time I am fighting a 6th grade…… Thinking about it makes me laugh at the nonsense. =
Anne, who had been pouring her phasic power little by little into the flaws in the shield of her castle wall to promote her durability recovery, smiled and giggled, and Hwan-yeon, who was sitting with both legs stretched out on top of her head in flight, asked.
“Isilite is in 5th grade right now, and Anne is in 6th grade, right?”
= Yes. Why?=
“I can tell that the two of you are incredibly strong just by looking at them, so why are you hanging out with Hwanin?”
Isilite and Anne looked at each other for a while and smiled.
=I know what you’re trying to say, but Doryung’s interpersonal combat skills are not up to the tip of me or Seulgi’s feet. Even if the two of us fight against Doryong at the same time, the odds of winning won’t be less than 1%.=
“Even if you’re a magician?”
= It doesn’t matter what type of job you are. It’s just that Doryeong is incredibly strong against people. The doryeong’s barrier also plays a role in its deceptiveness.=
「Huh.」
Hwanin, who was leaning on Bisang’s side, calculated the schedule while feeling Hwanyeon looking down from above his head.
First of all, it would be unreasonable for Isilite to fight more wearing scrap metal like that.
Although they work hard to oil and trim, the ring of the chain armor continues to break due to continuous battles in the cold region.
However, it takes too much time to go out of the labyrinth, prepare the armor, and then go back in.
Two days to return to the labyrinth from here, half a day to go to Hellumen, one day to equip the equipment, half a day to return to the labyrinth, and two days to go down to the fifth floor.
The round trip takes 7 days, but the remaining time currently given is 9 days. Almost all of today has passed, so even if I go back and come back, I only have two days left.
If it took a long time to equip armor, you might not be able to hunt for less than a day.
Chonggang-
= Oh! In addition…….=
Hwanin’s eyes are cut in places, and she lifts up the rusty hovercraft and heads to Isilite, who makes her cry.
‘I managed to accumulate practical experience on the 5th floor… If you see that the density and regularity of the aura have been reinforced, it can be said that the basics have been passed.’
When she had just awakened a week ago, the flow of Isilite’s aura was somewhat irregular, and it used to be interrupted.
But now it flows almost constantly around Isilite’s body, drawing an image of her battle dress.
Hwanin, who made a decision in his heart, opened his mouth.
“Attention everyone.”
Hwanin, who caught the attention of the party, announces a schedule change.
“Depending on the circumstances of Isilite’s armor, it was judged that further battles were impossible, and here she rested sufficiently before starting her comeback. When I go back to Wirt Castle, from then on, Issilite will have her actual battles with her Anne, and I will have a skill sparring with her.
= Agree. Helumen is called the city of heroes, so there will be a lot of high-quality armor.=
“By the way, you may encounter the Halcone organization on the way out, and there is a possibility that they are lined up at the entrance to the labyrinth, so keep that in mind.”
=Spirit or curse attacks can come flying.=
“Okay. Fantastic, while returning, your work is the same as before. Searching for spirit stones and detecting an approaching heteromorphic species or person.”
“Yes.”
“Then rest.”
