Chapter 643 – 636 Labyrinth of the Sea of Rising Clouds
Returning to his girlfriends, Hwanin explained what he had seen.
“Even though he was seriously injured, I don’t think there is any reason for Hyungjong Lee to push away the cloud and commit suicide by falling.”
“That’s right. There must be a passage hidden in the clouds. All that seems outwardly now is an island, but in reality it is a huge mountain range, right? It is not strange to think that there is another passage in the mountain range.”
Isilite, Yurpa, and Baekryegang, who had not much experience in the labyrinth, nodded their heads as if they were, but Anne and Ayeong, who did not, are amazed.
=Uh, is that a double labyrinth? I’m new to the double labyrinth.=
“Nine times out of ten it will.”
Some of the information about the labyrinth obtained from Yeongdo passes through Hwanin’s mind.
Double labyrinth. It is a labyrinth that can appear in any of the open, closed, and isolated types.
Scholars have been arguing for a while as to whether or not to include it in the variant labyrinth.
Its characteristic is that it boasts an exploration area that is several times larger than that of an ordinary labyrinth, and that hidden places often function completely different from those that are revealed on the surface.
= Come to think of it, isn’t the terrain perfect for a double labyrinth? It looks like an island because of the many clouds like the sea, but in reality it is a mountain peak and a ridge.
= Yes. Anyway. If there is another labyrinth in the mountain… Do-ryeong, are you thinking of going?=
“If the wounded deformed species entered, it would most likely be a place unrelated to the battle, but it would be nice to go there to gain experience.”
Isilite, who was listening to their conversation with the Hwanin, raised her hand slightly and asked her Hwanin.
=Can’t you ask Hwanyeon to dig the ground without going there?=
“It is not good to use such a method because it is said that if the existing form of the labyrinth is greatly disrupted, it will cause a large internal structural variation or flood heterogeneous species, just as the labyrinth is out of control.”
Hwanin, who explained to Isilite why she shouldn’t do such a thing, turned her attention towards the island where the grievously wounded angel had disappeared.
The thoughts that came to mind the moment I saw the wounded angel come back to me.
Missing the angel means that there is a problem with the knights on that island.
The most benign side is that you lost your angel in the middle of a fight. Missing Lee Hyeong-jong is a big mistake that could cause a crisis, so it will end to the extent of being scolded after returning. At worst, it could be a pay cut of several months.
The worst part was that the knights were defeated by the angels. It’s highly likely that it’s both sides, so the knights are either dead or seriously injured.
‘I don’t know.’
Whatever the situation of the defeated knights was, it was none of their business.
As the distance between islands increases, the airflow above the clouds becomes more violent and violent. And the distance between the island he is currently on and the island over there is well over 1km.
It is not only dangerous to go over the emergency, but the risk increases several times because Ayeong must be taken with him to take care of the injured.
After all, why break through that treacherous turbulence when there’s no proof that the knights who just fought that battle angel are dying from serious injuries?
It was the moment when Hwanin, as usual, did not care about the life and death of people who had nothing to do with him.
In front of his eyes, Elkata’s smile, which was pregnant, suddenly passed by.
“…”
Her belly harbors a budding life. The hot and hard weight of life. And the way she acted loving the life in her stomach.
The figure of her deceased mother floats above her like that, and the figure of her father smiling while holding her mother dearly is added.
‘Knights are also children loved by someone’s father or mother… Is it.’
Hwanin felt a strange feeling that he had never experienced before. No, it is similar to the extension of the mental shock received from Elkata.
His gaze went to the island over there again, but Hwanin’s decision was not overturned. Instead, he told her girlfriends what she had guessed and reasoned about.
=… !=
= Ah… !=
The expression of Anne and Baek Ryeo-gang belatedly becomes blurred at the story that there might be a knight who was seriously injured or died after being defeated in battle.
“If the road opens tomorrow, I’ll try to find them first.”
=If it wasn’t for the storm over the clouds, I could go over and help right away…=
They also knew that the wider the area covered by the clouds, the more turbulent the sky was, so they couldn’t bring themselves to help them.
“If you can save it, it’s good to save it, but I think it’s a decision to make within the limit of me and you guys’ safety being violated. There’s no reason to risk it for someone you don’t even know.”
= Yes…=
Seeing that Anne, who could be said to be the only conscience of her party, looked a bit sullen, Hwanin stroked her head.
“They are an important force of the state. Don’t worry too much, as Heathrond has prepared and sent in in his own way so that he doesn’t die helplessly.”
= Yes. I’ll be carrying some emergency recovery pills with me. They should be able to last about half a day. Or not… It’s just that what usually happens in a labyrinth happened.
In her labyrinth, she is responsible for everything she goes through.
Recalling her famous adage, Anne gazed at the island visible through the rolling clouds of smoke.
At noon the next day, Hwanin, who crossed over to the next island through the open road as the clouds receded, followed the traces of the knights first.
「There. It digs and hides behind a rock.”
Hwanyeon, who was exploring the surroundings with the spirits of earth and wind, pointed to an ordinary forest clearing.
Just looking at it, there is nothing unusual about it. It’s just a place where fallen leaves and humus, which fall to the ground and turn yellow, and rather large rocks compose the landscape.
=The labyrinth seems to have restored the battlefield thanks to the survivors hiding in the ground and blocking their view.=
After muttering that, Anne put her phasic power in her voice and gave a soft shout.
=These are the spirit knights who guard Hwanin Seongje, the green saint of Yeongdo. Can you hear the survivors of the Knights of Palatum hiding under the rocks there?=
A moment after she spoke her words, the ground trembled and a bloodstained female knight crawled out of the ground like a zombie.
= Cool! Coke… ! Ugh… Seo, Seongje-nim… ?=
A total of five people are hiding. Three of them were lightly injured to the extent that they could move, but the other two were seriously injured, unable to maintain consciousness.
Wings torn, limbs broken or cut off, heads broken.
Hwanin’s women take the knights out of the pit, lay them on the ground, and begin treatment.
= Close-up workers are relatively light. This one can be cured with my healing art, but for those who have lost wings or limbs, Ah-yeong, you will have to use recovery. Fan Yeon-ah, can you wash these people so that their wounds are not irritated?
=Yes.=
“Huh.”
= Go, thank you. Thank you… So, may the Heavenly God’s blessing and protection be upon you…=
Her sage, who was the only one holding her spirit, barely bowed her head and greeted her, and her phantom lay her down and said,
“Say hello later and receive treatment first.”
= Yes, yes…=
Ayeong, holding the sign of the earth god, began pouring phase power into her sign, examining the condition of the male knight, who had lost her left leg from the thigh and had all the wings on her back ripped off.
= Fortunately, recovery is still working. If she was just a little bit later, she would have had to use a healing drink. =
Recovery to return to the state before the injury does not necessarily work.
Depending on the proficiency of the spell and the grade of the job, the time to return to the spell is determined, but the knight in front of her seems to have only a few minutes left of that time.
A-Young’s restorative spells pour down on two seriously injured men, and her Anne’s healing spells also seep into her broken limbs or into the wounds of her knights, who slowly begin to pus.
The limbs of the disfigured knight began to grow as if rewinding time first.
Her head was severely broken to the extent that her cracked skull could be seen, and the wounds of the female knight, who was in a state where her peritoneum was torn to the ground, were quickly recovering.
Ah-yeong asked the 5th-payer knight, whose broken limbs were all attached to Anne’s healing magic and her complexion returned a bit.
= I guess it wasn’t the situation to spray the recovery medicine properly? The regenerated wound gets mixed with dirt and it’s a mess. It’s a tidbit that needs to be cut and pulled out one by one?=
= The recovery medicine that was broken and spilled on the ground… Because of that, yes, yes. Her stamina is the lowest… So… Otherwise, she would have died long ago…=
= Did you? It’s a good choice because surviving is important.
Hwanin looked at Ah-young, who was slitting the abdomen of a magician who had fainted, with a scalpel-like dagger, and looked at her knights again.
One 4th-class fighter, fighter, shooter, and sorcerer for each 5th-class warrior.
The fatal wounds that seemed to stop breathing at any moment were from a shooter and a sorcerer, but after the treatment of the girlfriends began, a little blood began to circulate in the complexion, and the warriors and fighters with relatively light wounds are already opening their eyes.
Hwanin sat there with a dazed face for a while, and then asked the knights who grasped her situation and thanked him.
“How did you become like this? Given your level, I don’t think the battle here would have been that difficult…”
In response to his question, a 5th-class warrior, a female heroine in charge of leading her juniors, opened her mouth with her blurred face.
=While fighting a group of battle angels, a reinforced entity attacked from behind. Nonsia was hit by that attack, and even an emergency flare was lost in the melee… I drank the emergency elixir and somehow managed to get rid of it, but as you can see, we were also fatally injured and waiting for death.=
“It seems that the first one suffered was the recovery station.”
=… Yes. If she hadn’t been beaten, things wouldn’t have gotten so bad.=
= It’s my fault. I had to protect the non-si somehow… Kuh.=
= No… Enemy’s approach… I didn’t notice, it was my fault…=
= Uh don’t tell I’m in treatment.=
While Ah-yeong scolds him for the story of the fallen soldier, the other knights’ faces show the sorrow and sadness of losing their comrades.
Hwan-in asked the question again after giving them time to gather their minds.
“Do you remember what the named entity that attacked looked like?”
The answer that came back was as Hwanin thought. Information about the appearance similar to the angel who disappeared into the sea of clouds with great wounds came from them.
Come to think of it, angels weren’t just created out of thin air.
It always flew straight to this side from a place out of sight, but if the angels are formed and come from the mountain, then that angel returns to the mountain is also explained.
‘Then…’
Like the giants in the Giant Forest Labyrinth, in the mountain labyrinth, should we say that heterogeneous species with some level of intellect are building their dens inside?
At that time, the 4th class warrior, who was frowning, showed signs of anger and spoke to the 5th class warrior in a strong tone.
= Manager. Didn’t I keep insisting that the labyrinth should be thoroughly investigated! It’s only been 5 years since they started appearing! The appearance of enhanced objects is a sign that the labyrinth is about to change!=
=…=
= This incident… !=
=Rabin. It is in front of Seongjenim. Be careful.=
= Manager…=
=When I go back, I will suggest it again. So… To be quiet.=
=… Yes.=
It was when a slightly heavy silence filled the vacant lot.
Gurgling-
A hunger sound resounded from the stomach of a certain knight, and several followed, making a growl, a growl, and a growl.
Around that time, the hero and the sorcerer also received recovery, and except for a little discomfort due to the aftereffects of the rapid healing, they were fine, so Hwanin took out food from the dry food bag and distributed it to the knights.
However, the knights blushed and declined.
= No. You saved us, but how can you even get food without shame…=
=Did you lose all your luggage? Please do not hesitate to eat it, as you need to be energized to join the other knights.=
= Go, thank you…=
The knights began to eat little by little of the food Isilite brought out, but as the food started to enter their mouths, they couldn’t stand their hunger, so they gulped down salty jerky, a little hard bread, cheese and low-alcohol alcohol, and gulped down the food. .
It took only an instant for 10 meals to disappear. And the knights, whose complexion got better in proportion, rose from their seats and greeted Hwanin and his women with their wings tightly gathered and their waists bowed deeply.
=We will never forget the grace of Seongjenim who saved our lives and even shared food.=
=Thank you!=
=Thank you!!=
“No. Rather, what would you do with your arms? If you run into enemies along the way, you’ll need some means to protect yourself. Would you like to use the equipment of the battle angels we captured?”
=Fortunately, we also have some captured equipment. It’s low tide, so the appearance of heteromorphs will be less frequent, so it’ll be fine if you join your teammates right now. And…=
The female knight, who was called the leader, respectfully offered the pouch she had tied around her waist with both hands to Hwanin.
= These are the phase stones and money that came in weakly and hunted the heterogeneous species. I would like to make a donation in the hope that it will be of some help to Seongje’s sexual misfortune. Would you accept?=
“Thank you. We will use it where necessary.”
It was a donation from knights who were no different from nobles. There was no reason to refuse, so when I received the bag, it was quite heavy.
Thinking that it was quite a lucrative business, Hwanin released a wave of tranquility (feat. Release of energy) to relieve Baeknyeogang’s mental fatigue, and the knights took flight toward the next island with a much more relaxed appearance.
=Anne’s expression is very proud.=
= Huh? You saved people from dying. Are you in a bad mood?=
= I like that they are well-mannered people. According to the sound I heard when I put the pouch on my brother’s hand, there are at least four 4th grade phase stones and a few gold coins, but that alone is about 30 gold coins.
Hwan-in, who opened the bag after Ah-yeong’s analysis, found that it actually contained 4th grade topological stones in yellow, light green, purple, and ultramarine blue and three sparkling gold coins.
It is a phase stone with an average market price of 7.5 gold coins, so 33 gold coins including gold coins.
Ah-yeong, who saw it from her side, counted it with her fingers.
= Well. The high-ranking healing techniques performed at the temple vary depending on the severity of the wound, but they usually donate about 5 gold coins per session. If you heal five and calculate the food for Seongjenim’s waves of tranquility… If you add the cost of recovering from a business trip, there is almost no profit.=
= Ahyoung, you really… If you do the sex art so calculatedly, the earth god might be angry with you?=
=Anne unnie sells holy water, uses diluted holy water as a gargle, and wipes her sweat with a towel soaked in holy water. Compared to that, wouldn’t it be very healthy to receive medical expenses in the name of donations?=
= That, that. It is a believer’s duty to keep one’s body clean.
= I clean my body to look good to my brother… Ouch!=
Her blushing Anne squeezed Ah-yeong’s head and hit her to shut her mouth, and she asked Hwan-in.
=Doryeong, are you going right away?=
“Okay. It moves right away.”
Originally, she even thought of guiding her knights to her fellow knights near her. Because she can’t do it while taking her knights with her to explore the hidden path she witnessed.
I did, but the knights left on their own, and according to the wind spirit reconnaissance of fantasy, there was no one within 2 km, so it was the best timing to investigate.
Hwanin and her girlfriends led the emergency and moved toward the target location.
As she goes, she never forgets to call her attention by telling her the inside situation she predicted.
If there is really a heterogeneous production facility inside the mountain, a fierce battle could break out.
Because there is a big difference between facing it in a prepared state and meeting it unexpectedly.
Arriving at the destination, Hwanin gave instructions to her girlfriends.
“Hwanyeon summons the spirit of the wind and pushes away the clouds. Baek Ryeo-gang carefully watched to see if the knights, let alone Lee Hyung-jong, were approaching.”
“Huh.”
=Yes, brother.=
Clouds aren’t common, so I even thought about cases where they weren’t affected by wind, but I watched the mid-level wind spirits laugh and push away the clouds to see if they weren’t that absurd.
「Hey~! Don’t play separately, push them out at once!”
Perhaps because the clouds have a lower specific gravity than water, they sway here and there and are seldom pushed out.
The organization of the wind spirits is low, so some spirits are pushed away quickly and some spirits are pushed back slowly, so white clouds flow through the gap like dry ice.
Some spirits, who don’t like touching the cloud, disregard Hwanyeon’s words and break away, or the cloud itself has some viscosity or shape memory function, so it’s hard to fall from the foot of the mountain.
Hwan-yeon shouted at Hwan-in while getting annoyed at the overall difficulty.
“Ah really. Hwanin! I’m going to bring a kid, so let’s give him a reiki so he can just push him away!”
“That shouldn’t be the case. If one is pushed away by a strong wind, it will rather scatter the clouds like a storm, unless it is enough to drive away all the clouds around here.”
Hwanin took out a notebook and taught Hwanyeon how to systematically push the clouds by arranging wind spirits in a net manner.
From the strength of the wind the wind spirits should blow, the distance they should blow, and the speed at which the spirits move from where they should stand.
Hwanyeon, who had roughly summoned five spirits and pushed them away at random, clapped her hands together with “Why didn’t I think of this method?”
Only that number is 60.
Anne and Ah-yeong covered their ears with pale complexions and backed away at the sound of dozens of spirits squealing, but Hwan-in watched as Hwan-yeon exerted a strong force on the spirits and successfully pushed away the clouds around them.
And a huge vertical passageway that begins to emerge.
It’s a success.
The image of fantasy plays the biggest role in giving instructions to the spirits. As the knowledge of fantasy is sufficient and the image is clear, the spirit is exerting its power properly.
“Then let’s go. You don’t know how deep to go down, so wait here. Emergency. Let’s go.”
Kwyut!
Hwanin took flight and began to descend to the cliff at the foot of the mountain that began to emerge.
As the depth deepened, Hwan-yeon, who was sitting on Hwan-in’s shoulder, applied what he taught and changed the ranks of the spirits from cylindrical to spherical, steadily pushing away the wind so as not to be buried in the clouds.
The windbreak created by Fanyan is about 30m in diameter. Thanks to one side of the windshield attached to the cliff, it was not difficult to follow the cliff as the grayish-white rock layer protruded and inspected each cliff.
“And. Haven’t you come down about 100m now? It’s pretty deep.”
However, no such thing as a passage was found.
Could it be that there is no passage in this cliff? Or should I go a little lower?
On the other side of the mountain, as well as above and below, there is a thick fog-like cloud, completely blocking the view. As a result, I feel a strange sense of pressure.
It feels like something huge will suddenly appear out of the dark gray clouds and attack you.
However, to the Hwanin, who have paralyzed senses of fear or fear, it is just an annoying natural phenomenon that obstructs their vision.
“Enjoyment. Is it difficult to look at it as an earth spirit?”
“… Huh. Unlike the upper surface, the inside of the mountain seems to suppress the interference of spirits like a labyrinth in the forest of giants. The spirits do not want to enter.”
When the search seemed to be getting longer, several raw fish jumped through the wall of wind created by the spirits.
Hwanin silently spreads his barrier dagger and stabs and kills the raw fish that falls on his head, while collecting it and storing it in Aspend, he searches the cliffs made of rugged gray rocks.
As time passed, the frequency of the raw fish jumping in increased, as if rumors had spread that there was prey on this side.
The depth got deeper and when it reached 200m, the entrance of the cave with a circumference of about 4m came into Hwanin’s field of view.
Sensing that this is where the injured angel entered, Hwan-in ordered Bi-sang to enter the hole immediately.
A cool wind blows in from inside, wrapping around his body and exiting through the cave entrance.
At that moment, Hwan-yeon, who had entered Hwan-in’s inner pocket, slightly stuck out his head and said,
「Hwanin. The wind keeps blowing from inside.”
“This wind seems to be the organ that prevents clouds from entering.”
Does that mean that angels are also affected by these clouds? Hwanin got off the back of the emergency room, took out the light spear, and instructed Hwanyeon to summon all the wind spirits.
You need a wind spirit when you go out. Wind spirits do not come in well in these mountains, so you must keep the spirits you brought from outside.
Seeing Hwanin turn all 60 wind spirits into soul beads, Hwanyeon sighed.
“The high-ranking wind spirits say that you, Hwanin, are gross and disgusting.”
“…”
It was only after being hated like this that the plan to make higher-level spirits into spirit beads and use them was abandoned.
Hwanin let out a small sigh and proceeded cautiously, thinking of reconnaissance even at the beginning before bringing his girlfriends.
“What’s this?”
And, after walking less than 20m, he frowned in a space only 40 pyeong with a ceiling height of 4m.
On the wall, there were 3m-sized capsule-shaped structures embedded side by side, and the number is well over 40, and all of the capsules were made of a transparent material on the front so that you could look inside from the outside.
And the seven male and female ordinary angels who roamed around the void, perhaps in a role to take care of such a capsule, rushed at the appearance of Hwanin with no expression.
As if they were reluctant to damage their capsules with light bullets, the angels charged with a physical bullet with both hands glowing.
Rather, Hwanin frowned and swung the light spear.
The sex ratio of the angels was two males and five females, but all five female angels had full stomachs like pregnant women.
Puck.
The female angel, whose body was split obliquely by the light spear wielded by Hwanin, spilled her internal organs and fell over. At the impact of the fall, an egg-like liquid spewed out from her vagina like a fountain with a gurgling sound.
Fluids pouring out of the vagina with a grunt. Eventually, it mixes with blood and drips down.
It looks like the shell of an egg broken inside the stomach stabbed and tore the uterus, causing blood to flow.
Hwanin looked over the traces of Elkata from that figure, but was unfazed and looked around the cavity again filled with the smell of blood after killing all the other ordinary angels.
The inside of the capsule was filled with an unidentified green liquid, and air bubbles were flowing from the inside through the connection to the top of the capsule.
Inside such capsules were floating eggs a little larger than ostrich eggs, or naked male and female angels of all ages.
Hwanin’s gaze turned to the dead and strewn female plain angels.
All of them had their stomachs distorted in strange shapes and spilled clear liquid and yellow liquid separated between their crotches.
Then, the soul’s eye scans the ceiling, the walls, and the floor in turn.
The meridian of the labyrinth connected to the capsule. Angels growing in capsules. Male and female angels who administer such capsules.
Hwanin understood the mechanism of this ‘cultivation room’ and the circulation of the labyrinth of the sea of clouds.
