Chapter 347 – 341 3rd Entry to the Spawning Pond Labyrinth
After resting, Hwanin led the party and moved counterclockwise to the east, approaching the south side of the last huge lake-level spawning pond.
It was because there was a large open space there, so it would be convenient to fight the core of the labyrinth…….
Coo……. Wow…….
=… What do you mean?=
At some point, the regular sound of the ground shaking began to fly in faintly.
The sound of something very heavy hitting the ground.
Hwanin recalled memories from the past. A mountain turtle that Ryuhi and his sisters witnessed when they were escaping a forest-type labyrinth. When it moved, the sound was the same as it is now.
As the party raised their nerves and approached the huge lake-level spawning pond, Bi-bi, who had the best eyes, let out a small cry of admiration from behind.
Then, she said in a voice as if Anne had found it too.
=Wait…… Doryeong, over there, isn’t that the core that’s going over there?=
In the direction Anne pointed, in the fog and darkness, a very huge shadow was moving with a roar.
Hwanin silently gestured to Romdis, Rektal, Yurpa, and Bisang to stand by, and quickly moved toward the huge shadow that was moving with his back to the rest.
Then, the hazy fog in the darkness faded, and its true identity was soon revealed in front of Hwanin.
The height of the three-story house is visible. A red aura that subtly colors the surrounding fog. And the shape of a toad.
Surprised, Hwanyeon hides behind Hwanin’s head.
“It is incredibly large. Is that monster the core of the labyrinth?」
= Uh…. The red aura is a characteristic of the core. That must be what the forest guardian said.=
The size is large, but the reason I was certain that it was the core was because its size was covered with a distinctive red aura.
Isilite muttered as she quietly pulled out Redrick.
=Why is there a tree growing on your back?=
As Isilite said, a huge brown toad with a head height of 15 meters was covered with green moss from head to back to the tip of the buttocks, and trees grew like a forest on its back.
=I don’t know.=
Like Isilite, who grabbed Redrick with both hands, Anne raised her eyebrows and raised her hammer of punishment and shield of the castle wall.
=If it wasn’t for the red aura, he would be trusted as the owner of an old and spiritual forest and wetland.=
“So why don’t you look this way? Doesn’t the core have a habit of attacking first?”
= It can’t be. It is the core that brings together all the characteristics of the heterogeneous species…….=
If you look at the angle of view of the toad, this is a situation you would have already discovered. But that core continues to move, ignoring this side. Where the hell are you going, are you ignoring this?
Hwanin stared at the red aura of the core while listening to the conversation of his girlfriends.
That red aura, for some reason, feels similar to the haze of mixed ash……. Hwanin, who was examining the giant forest toad, asked Ciella, who was looking at him with eyes full of trust.
“Ciella, can you detect the victim’s vitality from that core?”
= No. I can’t feel it from the core, but strangely, a lot of life force is being detected in the forest where the core is going. The distance is quite far.=
“…… There might be a core spawning ground or core core there.”
The party, who were slightly taken aback by the presence of the building as if it were moving, was awakened by Hwanin’s story.
=It makes sense not to attack us if you are going to protect the heart of the labyrinth.=
“Then we must attack right away!”
At the cry of joy, the girlfriends turn their attention to him. It looked like he was waiting for an order, but Hwanin was tilting his balance inwardly.
If you fight now, there is a high possibility that henchmen will flock in the middle. However, if you go to the core after defeating all the henchmen, the core will be located near the core.
In the former, there is a risk of a massive group war, and in the latter, there is a risk that the core may become stronger by receiving some force from the core. The captives will become like hostages.
Hwanin’s choice was the former. In the latter case, the girlfriends will not be able to show their full potential even because of the hostages.
He spreads the middle-level spirit code to his girlfriends and Hwan-yeon, and after giving the code to himself, warns his girlfriends.
“If we fight like this, there is a possibility that the core will call in the henchmen during the fight. Even if I can’t, there will be more than a hundred of them. However, if you fight the core after organizing the surrounding spawning ponds, the core will settle near the core. If that happens, you might get some kind of buff from the core.”
= Ugh. It is said that the core gets its power from the core…….=
“So grab it now. The grade of the core is designated as an estimated level 6. To begin with, Hwanyeon and I will steal that bastard’s sight. In the middle, Hwan-yeon and I will take care of the henchmen under any circumstances, so Isilite and Anne kill the core.”
=Yes!=
=Yes!=
“Okay.”
“Believe.”
Hwanin, who patted the shoulders of the two girlfriends, blew a whistle. Kuut from beyond the rear fog! After hearing the sound of an emergency cry, a thuduk, patter-the sound of luggage falling to the ground follows.
“Miss Siela, please go back to the carriage. All the spawning ponds in the back have been sorted out, so there won’t be any enemies attacking you, but if there are, you can wait as long as possible. Please tell that to Yurpa and Romdis as well.”
=Yes!=
Ciela flew into the wagon, and from her wagon side a flight came rushing excitedly.
Hwan-in, riding on the back of Bi-sang, sends a signal to her girlfriends to start, gathers all the lower and lower level spirits around her, and loads 6 soul arrows with 6 stacks.
The girlfriends ran out at the signal, and with Hwan-in on the emergency road, they started to follow them without realizing it.
As the distance from the core decreases, its appearance becomes larger and more distinct.
When the distance was less than 200m, Hwanin stared at his horizontally elongated yellow eyes and said to his girlfriends and Hwanyeon.
“Enjoyment. If I attack the core’s right eye, you attack the left eye. Isilite and Anne start attacking when the toad loses its eye.”
“Hwanin, can I use my own means of attack?”
“Okay.”
When the words are over, the flight flutters, huuuuung— flapping its wings and flying vigorously.
Hwanin watched as the fog was pushed away by the wind that raged around Bishui’s body, took out a scale, and fired 6 soul arrows at the same time into the eyes that seemed to be looking this way.
A soul arrow that flew into an eyeball the size of a watermelon at the core, shortening the distance of 200m in an instant.
Flaw-!
Surprisingly, the moment the soul arrow landed, red sparks flew around the eye once, and three of the six soul arrows evaporated, and only the remaining three were embedded in the yellow eyeball of the core.
Fufufufu!
Kuuuuu ——!!!
A core with soul arrows stuck in it, closing its eyes and shaking its head. Hwanin admired the shaking of the atmosphere caused by the action and warned his girlfriends.
“There is a shield! Be careful!”
Big ——!!!
Right after the warning, with a roar that shook the air, the core turned to Hwanin and Bisang. Koo goong, thump—the atmosphere seemed extremely angry even at first glance.
The core that turned its body began to move its massive body. Every time the body weight, which easily exceeds one hundred tons, moves, the ground shakes and the distance rapidly approaches.
Hwanin, who wondered if he had lost his eyesight because he had only three feet stuck in it, saw a white and red liquid flowing around his closed right eye the moment he came face to face with the core toad that started glaring at him.
At least for now, it is certain that he has lost his sight.
Perbung!
Then, this time, the wind exploded from the core toad’s left eyeball.
While the green wind pours wildly like an erupting volcano, the red aura surrounding the core core’s huge body glows intensely.
Kouuu——— !!!
Even the healthy eyes are caught in the wind blast, and the core toad stops walking and struggles with its front legs. Isilite and Anne jumped out of the gap at the same time.
On the way, Anne shouted as if she was in trouble.
= Dew! That red light, that damage resistance aura! When you attack, you must attack with all your might!=
=Why?!=
=If you attack halfway and get blocked, the damage flows this way!=
Isilite, who wondered what it meant to say that the damage was flowing, understood it after witnessing that part of the wind blast that appeared to be her phantasmagoric attack caused a red aura and bounced back.
However, the wild gust of green has disappeared and the exposed left eye is intact. When Hwanyeon witnessed it, she let out a shriek of bewilderment.
“Uh!?”
Could it be that an attack with a level 5 power would shed most of the damage?
Seeing- Boom! Perbung! Bubbubuck!!
Subsequently, wind bombs and earth spears were rained down on the Core Toad, but most of the attacks failed to pierce the red aura and were crushed or flowed down.
‘Then!’
Jiing-
Summoning her multiple sword blades, Isilite slashed them with all her might toward her core’s bare chest. At the same time, Anne, who had reached her core toad’s hind legs, also struck down the flaming hammer of wrath with all her might with her phasic power.
—Suck, coo-kwang!
Her sword of light was crushed by the red aura, but it stopped at the level of lightly slicing her chest, and Anne’s attack also succeeded until the red aura was crushed, but her power was drastically reduced and did not deal any significant damage. Couldn’t
Rolling——!!!
Core Toad let out a furious roar and vigorously sprinted its battered hind legs.
Kukkoom!
=Ugh?!=
With her shield on her log-like hind legs, Anne was pushed back ten meters.
The core toad that had cut off her Anne swung her front paws as if slapping Isilite, who had cut her own chest after her, but Isilite lowered her thick front legs around her own height and held her back. Side step back to the right flank of her core.
If the sword of light didn’t show its power, she directly shocks it with Red Rick.
Crisp-
Redrick, who wielded full phase power, cut off the red aura and scratched the leather, leaving behind red and blue afterimages, but likewise did little damage and left only slight scars.
It seems that most of the attacks are reduced in the process of penetrating the red aura.
Bauung-
=Ugh!=
Seeing her thick forepaws rushing at her again, Isilite sensed that this was not the end for her and hurriedly jumped up to dodge, then kicked her light sword and quickly moved out of range of her core toad’s forepaws.
Did that upset Raising her head, her core toad glared at Issilite as she floated in the air…….
Kururu ——!!!
With a roar, she stomped the ground with her front paws.
At that action, Isilite felt the nape of her neck grow cold. Hwanin’s story that she never acted without reason during battle flashed through her mind.
Vibrations of weak phase power, as if shaking in the air.
Isilite spurred down the sword of light again, gnashing her teeth at her sense of danger, and was able to see her long spear-like spear of water pierce her like a skewer at the place where she stood.
Isilite sighs inwardly, inserts her Red Rick, and creates multiple sword blades, transforming them into a 3m long greatsword.
‘It’s not possible with Redrick, a mixture of striking and cutting properties!’
It will drain her stamina, but she has no choice but to attack with the light sword. As Isilite charged at her core toad again, clutching the Greatsword of Light in her hands, her eyes widened as her toad suddenly flinched and turned her body around.
She wondered what was going on, and Anne, with a very angry face, was hammering the back leg of her core toad with the spike on the opposite side of the head of her hammer of wrath.
Every time a pointy and sharp spike is stamped, a red aura pierces through the tough leather and creates a hole in the hind leg.
Compared to her size, she is only slightly stabbed with an awl, but
Wooooo ——!!!
It seemed perfectly effective at taking her aggro off. Because her core ignored Isilite and started unleashing her attacks on Anne.
The skewer that emerges from the air tears away the phase power by wielding a shield and hammer, destroys the elemental spears of water and earth that are trying to rise from under her feet with a short kick, and Anne pulls the core toad’s aggro with a fierce attack.
Cheering Anne inside of her, Isilite took advantage of the moment when her core toad’s attention was turned to Anne, returning to her bastard’s opposite hind leg and swinging her light sword.
The sword of light that touched the red aura was crushed like tofu that fell on a rock, but with a faint flash, part of the red aura was lifted, and the shortened sword of light passed between them and cut through the skin.
The red aura was quickly restored, but Isilite flashed her eyes.
First, erase the red aura with the multi-sword sword and hit it with the Redrick to take full damage!
Isilite moved away from her core toad’s kick as she tried to kick her, and began to rampage in earnest, holding Red Rick in her right hand and multiple swords in her left.
Hwanin, who was watching her girlfriends battle from the air on the back of an emergency, scanned the heavy body of her core toad again with deepened eyes.
Hwanin, who brushed her bangs past her eyes and down to her cheekbones, sang a dejected illusion.
“Enjoyment. I have something to test.”
“… Huh? The attacks of the spirits I use are almost ineffective against them…… Can I help you?」
Most of the attacks of the middle-level spirits, who faithfully followed her own instructions, did not work, so the depressed Hwan-yeon showed negative energy, but Hwan-in did not care.
“If you think about the specific properties of this labyrinth, water attacks will hardly work. Wind is also an attribute that focuses on wide-area attacks rather than focusing on one point, so it can’t pierce that red aura.”
Hwanin confirmed the core toad as a 6th grade.
It is said that the 6th grade is powerful, but the attack power of Isilite and Anne worked against the ghost dragon, the sub-dragon with the strongest defensive power among the 6th grade. Originally, they should have hunted enough of the core. But…….
“By the way?”
“Because of that red aura, which is said to be a damage resistance aura, their attacks are almost impervious. To get out of the situation, you have to remove that red aura first.”
Koo Goong, Kwang, Kwa Kwang.
As the core toad slams the ground with its two forepaws, as if it were chasing its girlfriends, spears of water pop out of the ground.
All the while, Isilite was wielding her two greatswords with both of her hands and a radiant cluster of energies, racking up small amounts of damage to her Core Toad.
Slime and red blood flowed from the cuts on the log-like forepaws of the core toad, and the right hind leg was in a tattered leather state as it was stamped dozens of times by the spikes of the hammer of punishment.
“…… Are you trying to reduce the concentration of the aura by pouring attacks? However, there are only intermediate level spirits of water, wind, and earth……. Should I tell the ground to stab it with an earthen spear?”
“Rather than instructing the earth spirit to attack, it would be better to restrict its actions by tying its feet or dropping its forepaw into a pit. Rather now…….”
Hwanin took out four low-class fire spirit marbles with less than 8 hours left. It’s a fire elemental spirit that I’ve been saving all along just in case.
The lesser fire spirits freed from the soul orb look around and try to leave, frowning as if they don’t like the dampness of the place.
Hwanyeon soothed and hugged the fire spirits and asked Hwanin.
“Attack with them? It must be weak because it is a low class.”
“No. I will use other means. Wait a minute. If Isilite and Anne look dangerous, they attack in front of the Core Toad’s eyes to create a gap.”
“Ok.”
At that time, Hwan-in, who witnessed the core toad’s chin widen and its mouth wide open, blew a 4-stacked soul explosion orb into his mouth and exploded it.
Guo-eok ——!!!
It seems that the mouth is not affected by the red aura, and it has suffered considerable damage from the soul explosion.
Did he just try to use his poison breath, or did he try to fire a water cannon like the Mexican Dorongnyeong?
Holding his snout with his front paws, Hwanin watched for a moment as his girlfriends attacked the core toad in agony.
Romdis and Rektal, who were guarding the pile of bags and the two wagons, run up and ask.
=Holy Son, is there anything we can do to help?=
“It’s still fine. Please continue to be vigilant and protect people.”
=Yes, leave it to us!=
The moment Hwanin, who nodded at Romdis’ energetic answer, rummaged through his bag and picked up a subspace bag containing 200 oil bottles.
Chur ——!!!
Kkuguung – Deed deed deed, Kwagwagwang!! Kukkoom!! Kwagwawang!! Kwaaaaang!!!
My face stiffened at the continuous roar coming from the direction of the core.
