Chapter 560 – 553 Giant’s Forest Labyrinth
Silhouette Mare’s lair was located about 2km away from where she met Gaya.
Si-Ik, Hee-Ik—the spirit of the silhouette mare that makes strange noises and runs like a prawn. After chasing after him and defeating the 21 silhouette mares, Hwanin and his party arrived at a hole exposed between the roots of a tree taller than a person.
After a brief reconnaissance, Isilite began to explain her insides, and next to her lay the corpse of a Silhouette Mare, split in half from her stomach to the top of her head.
= As soon as she entered, she encountered a monster. Looking at it, she seems to fit the silhouette mare’s lair. The height of the ceiling of the lair is about 2.2m, and the width is so wide that you can barely reach it if you stretch out your arms from side to side. Maybe he dug the ground himself, but the walls and ceiling feel a little rough…… If you fight inside, the ceiling will collapse and you may be buried.=
=If it’s that high, I won’t be able to get in?=
= Yes. I can’t even think about your fighting style. Because if you wield a hammer inside, you will thump and the ceiling will collapse.=
At the conversation between Isilite and Anne, Hwanin looked back at the party and opened his mouth.
“I will split the party in two.”
= Honey, first of all, me. If the ground collapses, you need to have a way to escape, but right now Yeoni can’t use her strength. I’ll do it for you.=
Yurpa goes first, and Isilite takes the next word.
= As I said before, Anne is not good at entering the group. But my sword skills are specialized in silent fighting, so I think I’m better.
=There must be someone outside to protect the children, so either you or I have no choice but to stay outside.=
Seeing Anne nodding her head, Hwanin turned to Gaya and gestured.
“She has been told by Anne that she deals with earth spirits,” She says.
=Yes. However, since the spirit’s power does not reach this place strongly, it is impossible to use it for a long time…….=
“A little while is fine. We also need to make sure that the power of the spirits doesn’t reach us even underground, so let’s go together.”
=Okay.=
“Baekryeogang and Bisang are waiting here, and when Silhouette Mare appears, help Anne and kill her.”
=Yes, Mr. Hwanin.=
I’m sorry~
= Then what about you? I’ll set the teleportation coordinates, so wait for 10 minutes.=
“Yes.”
While Yurpa was setting the coordinates of the teleportation point, Hwanin gave Anne, Baekryogang, and Bisang the spirits of mid-level monsters that boost their strength and stamina.
While the Intermediate Spirit Code increases overall physical abilities by about 3 times, the Soul of Bladewing Buffalo increases strength and stamina by about 2.6 times, and other quickness and reflexes by only 1.5 times.
I guess that the spirit code is more efficient than the spirit code because it is pure because it is a spirit, but what about the truth?
‘Come to think of it, the duration of the program also started to make a difference.’
I hadn’t captured the souls of beasts or monsters since I started turning spirits into soul beads.
So, I thought that the duration of the code = the number of soul beads (1/min), but looking at the girlfriends who received the Bladewing Buffalo Soul, the duration was 96 minutes, 103 minutes, and 111 minutes, respectively.
In the meantime, he has steadily absorbed spirits from his girlfriends and slept with Adnebilla in the middle, so the number of soul beads he has is 151, an increase of 19 from the time he left Eshnuur in Yeongdo.
The Spirit Code lasts for 151 minutes, but the average is about 100 minutes, so the difference in efficiency is too great.
“…….”
Hwanin began to wonder if he could turn the spirit into a soul prison.
If I could do that, I would be able to quickly fill the soul prison. With the exception of the wild dog warriors, none of them have yet been made into soul prisons, so it feels like they are paying attention.
= You know? There should be nothing around here. Otherwise, you may get seriously injured when moving instantly.=
=Don’t worry. Because I will protect it perfectly with Ryegang.
= Yes. Honey, I’m ready.=
“Yes. We go right in.”
A little damp, but with an earthy smell.
Normally, whether it be a bug or an animal, it smells, but I don’t feel it at all.
“Go. Do you have night vision abilities?”
=Yes. It’s not great night vision, but you can see the outline in this darkness.=
“Then I will go without turning on the lights. I will stand at the forefront.”
=But Master, I’m in the lead…….=
“It is better for me to take the lead in preparing for traps or attacks that come through walls.
Thanks to the collection of four artifacts, if it is a temporary one, he can demonstrate the physical ability of a 5th class professional, and he has eaten well in preparation for the use of a light spear, so there is no problem.
= Seongjae? So, wouldn’t it be nice to receive my strengthening spells? It’s not great, but I can do level 2 strength training.=
Gaya brought up the story to contribute to the party, but Isilite and Yurpa slightly opened their eyes and smiled, and slightly wrinkled their brows.
Did I do something wrong?
=Ah, sorry for laughing, Mr. Gaya. I didn’t laugh out of malice.=
=…… Then why are you laughing?=
= He is…….=
Glancing at Hwanin, Yurpa secretly revealed his abilities with his permission. He said he could use level 6 or 7 fortification that lasted for a certain amount of time, roughly 2 and a half hours.
= Yes, yes? 7th grade… Enhanced secrets?=
= Yes. It is not compatible with other esoterics.=
=…….=
Due to the nature of their abilities, users of enhanced secret arts are welcomed everywhere, even if they do not have other abilities.
Levels 1 and 2 allow a person who used to hit 3 to 300 to hit 3 to 400, but they are welcomed nonetheless, and if they go beyond level 3, the city gives them some preferential treatment (citizenship or tax-saving benefits) and tries to accept them as citizens.
When you reach 4th grade, the military will soon start courting you, and when you reach 5th grade, noble families will also pay attention, but 7th grade? 7th grade?
= Does Seongje-nim receive the blessings of many gods? ….=
Gaya thought that one person had so many abilities that he could only think like this.
He will also be able to represent a country in martial arts skills, strengthening secret techniques, enormous spiritual skills, the background of Yeongdo, the only job called Seongje, and even intelligence and wisdom with excellent political sense…….
‘…… In a few years, won’t Seongje-nim rise to the position of the strongest among mortals?’
“Go. Could you call the earth spirit and take a rough look at the shape inside the tunnel?”
=Ah, yes.=
Gaya, who had been staring blankly at the back of the walking Hwanin, quickly grasped the nearby underground environment by appeasing the whining earth spirit, not wanting to come out of the Phantom World.
In about 10 seconds, it was a land spirit that had gone back to the ghost realm after a quick glance, but it grasped the necessary information.
=The cave is shaped like an anthill and is not wide. The cave extends in the form of tree roots, so if you look at all the forked roads you see, you won’t get lost.=
“Did you not want the spirit to come out?”
=Yes. It’s underground, but I still didn’t like it.=
“All right.”
After Hwanin’s question was over, Yurupa asked Gaya who was walking in front as if she had been waiting.
= Mr. Gaya. What is the distance farthest from the entrance?=
=It’s a bit winding, but it’s 150m in a straight line.=
=Yeah, that’s enough for an emergency escape ticket. Even if something happens, you can rest assured.=
“I’m glad.”
After descending into the tunnel and walking a little more, 30m, the silhouette mare often looked out at what was going on.
But every silhouette mare her eyes met had her eyeballs pierced by her panel daggers, or her beam spears knocked her neck apart.
Hwanin kills the silhouette mare he encounters and continues to move forward, carefully examining the ceiling, floor, and walls.
The flow of the phase force and natural force of the walls, ceiling, and floor seen through the soul’s vision is smooth. If it’s a magical trap, there should be a distortion, but there’s no such thing at all.
However, ordinary traps created by Silhouette Mare can exist, so to be wary of such traces, she does not lose her concentration and continues to look into her tunnel to get a clue to attacking Silhouette Mare.
“…… ?!”
Kick?
It was when Hwanin got closer to the third corner that he flinched in surprise.
The silhouette of the woman who suddenly jumped out of the corner, her black haze wrapped around her body, was exactly the same as her naked Anne.
I flinched for a moment. Hwanin’s light spear cut through the neck of the silhouette mare in the shape of her Anne, and the silhouette mare’s head, which was attached only to her tip, fell behind her and dangled.
“…….”
Red blood rose like a fountain from the cut section and soaked the earthen ceiling, and Hwanin, who had retreated to avoid her blood, gazed at the fallen body of Silhouette Mare.
= Oh? This, this…….=
= Um…… !=
Yurpa, Gaya, and Isilite cannot hide their surprise when they see the corpse of a silhouette mare that looks just like Anne.
As the blood fountain subsided, Hwanin, who approached her corpse and bent her knees, lifted up the bloody head of the silhouette mare that was startled and glowed.
Soft cheeks and long ears. Lips that gave a playful smile. Even his eyes, which are sharp when expressionless, but curve softer than anyone else when he smiles.
Because it is underground where light does not reach, there is almost no color tone, so it really resembles Anne.
Tak, when you turn on the magic tool of the light rod, you can see something different.
Instead of immaculate white skin, the skin was as blue as a corpse. White hair with a dull color.
Putting her bloody head down, Hwanin stood up and said,hehe,” Capturing the spirit similar to Anne rising from her corpse with marbles.
“Thanks to the black acting and the color, there will be no misunderstanding with her colleagues.”
= Yes. But they look so similar that it’s really annoying. I guess this is the characteristic of being assimilated into the Labyrinth and becoming heteromorphic.
=If this is the case, a silhouette mare that resembles us must have appeared somewhere. By any chance, a deformed species resembling the owner appeared outside, and Anne hesitated and couldn’t use her hand…….=
“Even so, there is an emergency, so there is no need to worry. Keep going.”
=Yes.=
=Yeah.=
After that, Hwanin looked around the tunnel for an hour without missing a single hole, and he came to a not very good conclusion.
The Silhouette Mare has already been subordinated to the Labyrinth, and the Labyrinth has begun to create the Silhouette Mare.
And that these tunnels would be scattered all over the labyrinth.
Finally, that silhouette mares will continue to emerge from these tunnels.
Hwanin, who safely got out of the tunnel without collapsing, told everyone about his guess.
“Because they are low-intelligence monsters, there is no way to mobilize complex exchanges, strategies, or tactics, but if silhouette mares are still being created, the situation is more dangerous than expected.”
= I didn’t do this tunnel and caught 60 in the vicinity, so if there are hundreds of these, there are thousands of them…….=
Inside, she sees a silhouette mare that looks just like her, mutters Anne, who raised her eyebrows at the story.
Around her, there were 17 dead silhouette mare corpses with her body crushed somewhere.
“Since we have confirmed that the situation is not good, we will have to change our response. Go back to the village.”
= Huh? Can’t you just look around?=
“Yes. You may have hoped that the tunnels were connected on a large scale underground like a super-large anthill or 1.5 floors, or that they would work organically, but you can’t expect that kind of situation anymore. Of course, there might be a large tunnel somewhere…….”
It’s very likely that the giant tunnel has a core, but it may not. More than anything else, the constantly regenerating heteromorphic species would hinder the search.
He is a Hwanin who has no intention of throwing time to the ground.
=Then what are you going to do?=
“If it’s hard to go from this side, I’ll have to come from the other side.”
Answering Anne like that, Hwanin, who was about to get on the back of the flight attendant, found Gaya staring down at one of the silhouette mare’s corpses.
The corpse was also a Fleur, and although his expression was calm, the fact that he was looking at it all the time…….
‘Are they publicly known?’
Hwanin approached her and asked a question.
“Go. Is the appearance of the corpse a familiar figure?”
=Yes. If my memory is not wrong, he is a member of the Elwidris family. I remember it because it is the same reconnaissance skill as me.=
A visionary who goes close and sees a corpse in the shape of a Fleury.
It’s a blurry, but quite beautiful woman with hair that is blue like water.
“The situation just got more annoying.”
The fact that Silhouette Mare has this shape means that no matter what this woman’s end was, she entered the labyrinth for the time being.
Hwanin, who remembered the face of the female Fleur, climbed onto the back of the emergency room and gave instructions to everyone to return.
= I see……. In the meantime, she said that it was strange that the number did not decrease even after catching and killing her as she found it. Did it happen naturally…….=
After hearing the results of a brief reconnaissance from Hwanin, the chief rubs her face with a distraught expression.
Hwanin took out her map and showed it to him.
“Chief, can you see this?”
= It’s small, but it’s not unrecognizable. What is the red mark?=
“This is the place where the villagers encountered the intruder. It means that the radius of your activity is about 40 km from the village, and it means that you have encountered intruders all within it.”
=…….=
“Things have changed. And the chieftain has two options to choose from.”
=What is that?=
“One is when we spend months waiting endlessly for a game of hide-and-seek that may end, and build up our nerves.”
In this case, if the core of the labyrinth is taken away, the situation will go to the worst.
In addition, the chief’s expression worsens when he says that there are signs that other people have started to come in from outside.
=…… The other one?=
“From now on, slaughter all the animals you are raising and use them as emergency food. At the same time, go out of town and gather everything you can eat. In the meantime, we will go out with the heart and lure intruders.”
=You mean the core will come to you on its own.=
“Originally, the core is an existence that should be by the side of the core. You should see that the pride that was stolen 67 years ago has already been reborn as a core. If we go out with our hearts up, the core will not be able to ignore that instinct.”
= Big…….=
The chieftain let out a long sigh with his head bowed and pondered for about 30 seconds before bringing the still-naked shaman.
And after telling Hwanin everythingheheard, he asked for his opinion.
= What should I do? Anyway, leaving the labyrinth is a decision, and it’s not difficult to organize the housekeeping, but the heart…….=
= Chieftain. You are the leader of the village. These important matters are not to be intervened even if I act as an advisor.=
= Ugh. How to do that…….=
At the chief’s request, the elegant face of the shaman wearing an eyepatch frowned slightly.
= Are you going to do that pathetically as a man? Nothing looks uglier than asking a girl to push her back.=
=…….=
The shaman fires back and stands near the front door, crossing his arms as if to see what the chieftain will make.
The chief sighed again with a properly troubled expression on his face and nodded his head as if he had nothing to think about.
= Soul death. I’d choose the second one. Since you said that time is not infinite…… Finishing things quickly is what you want, isn’t it?=
“There is also a way to wait and negotiate with the person who will come later.”
=Okay. Looking at you and your colleagues, I wonder if there will be another person who is more sincere than you, and I also wonder if that person is as strong as you.
There will be very few people as strong as you around, and if you are as strong as you, you will have a big say in your race. So we stay with you.
At that explanation, Hwanin smiled slightly and nodded his head.
When the chieftain made his decision, the shaman, who had crossed his arms and emphasized his house-sized breasts, also smiled and stepped out.
= It was a good decision. Then, Mr. Soul, have you thought about what to do with your heart?=
“I hope some of the giants will join us. If we alone move with our hearts, we won’t pose much of a threat to the intruders, and we may stagnate in sporadic battles.”
=If we follow it, you are saying that there will be as many intruders coming to steal it. Okay. Chieftain?=
The shaman goes outside and asks the chieftain to attach two warriors and a gatherer to both gather and hunt.
=It’s for camouflage, but we’ll have to fight, so please attach someone you can trust.=
= What? Shaman, are you going out too?=
= Isn’t it natural? The job of keeping the heart in the body belongs to me. Even if it’s not that, it’s the law that the person in charge has to follow in important matters.=
= Turn it off……. Okay. I’ll attach the warrior chief and yoke.=
= Thank you. Chieftain, please lead the others and lead the migration preparations that the Spirit Master said.=
=Yes.=
As the story progressed, the leisurely giants began to move swiftly under the chief’s command.
Excluding the giant in charge of raising children and babies, all 50 people were busy with work.
Twenty-one of them went out of town in groups of three to hunt and gather, and the rest, both adults and children, caught and trimmed all the livestock as large as a whale, like a mixture of a cow and a hippopotamus.
While the giants are so busy.
“Then we will begin.”
In order to see Hwanindo’s reaction, he and the shaman and the three giants began walking slowly around the village.
Outside, he didn’t even know that the confusion caused by himself was accelerating.
