Chapter 644 – 637 Rising Cloud Sea Labyrinth
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A moment after Hwanin disappeared into the clouds, Yurpa focused on things that had bothered her a little since yesterday.
I need to concentrate and organize my thoughts, so I throw a fishing line into the sea of clouds.
In response to that action, the women who were huddled near the sea of clouds, like cats watching carp in a pond, also take out their fishing rods and begin to insert pieces of fresh fish into the hooks.
Yurpa looked at those cute kitten-like ladies with warm eyes, then turned her heavy gaze to the sea of clouds and thought.
‘Are you sure. That little change that happened to you… It was after I went to Yeongdo.’
It sweeps her white hair behind her shoulders like a dreamy, swaying cloud.
What Yurpa was concerned about was that the boundary between Hwanin herself and others was blurring.
If it was the first time I met him, the knights from earlier? I would have just ignored it.
In a situation where people are interested in the mass of curiosity called the hidden passage, the survival of the knights must be annoying.
But he saved them by deliberately mentioning them.
Even if he rescued the knight, there was nothing to gain other than a small monetary reward (30 gold coins). He has already saved the king of Palatum and received strong support from the upper echelons, so even if he saved a few knights, the addition would be insignificant.
There is no harm to be done by ignoring it. It’s hiding in the ground like that, but how will anyone notice?
Didn’t she and the other ladies notice it until her Hwanin spoke?
‘There must have been some change of heart. It must be because of that young lady, right?’
Yurpa could easily guess who caused the change.
A ruthless man with an ice-cold heart. But a man who is more sincere than anyone in his own things. The reason why he changed such a man slightly.
‘A man changes when he has a woman carrying his child.’
If there was a change of heart after seeing the full-term Elkata lady, the image he showed yesterday and today makes sense.
Yurpa couldn’t easily decide whether that was a good thing or a bad thing, or what effect the change would have on him.
‘Even if he comes and his heart softens and affection grows in his hands… No problem.’
He is a saint For the deeper his benevolence and virtue, the greater his reputation, and he is respected by the people of the land.
Even if trashes aiming for his kindness gather around him, he, Ah-young, Lady Dew, and Hwan-yeon can take care of themselves and cut them appropriately.
A gentle and considerate figure to show to the public can be achieved by putting Lady Anne and Lady Li Kangi in front.
‘Um~.’
The important thing was that it seemed that his thoughts, which had been cold and solid as ice, seemed to be weakening.
The secret miniaturization technique studied in the forest of giants has been quite successful, and it has come to be called a complete miniaturization secret technique.
Yesterday, when the action was postponed due to the stormy wind, the party would have been able to cross Unhyeop with only a slight threat if they had performed a miniaturization secret technique.
If they had miniaturized themselves and hid under his clothes, and he had taken an emergency and carefully crossed over to this island, he would have saved 24 hours and could have saved the sex magician Nonsia.
But he didn’t.
‘Did he really not do that because he didn’t think of it?’
He didn’t step out then because he didn’t want him and the girls to risk anything that didn’t help at all…
=… You, Yul’s older sister!=
Snap!
= Oh!? What, what?=
Surprised by the hand grabbing her breast and the loud voice, Yurpa looked back at him. There, Anne was smiling like a mischievous young lady.
=The raw fish bit the bait. What are you so absorbed in that you don’t even notice?
After hearing her story, Yurpa also realized that the fishing rod was bouncing around belatedly and started winding the fishing line.
= Yes. Self thought.=
= Wh. It seems that her older sister was also worried about her daughter? =
Yu Lepa chuckled at the cat-like appearance of Anne, who was giggling while rubbing her own breasts, and her other siblings who sympathized with her.
Yeah, what do you do with complicated thoughts?
There is something he often says. It’s good to be prepared for something that never happened. But worrying too much will only lead to problems.
‘If he’s really emotionally vulnerable, then he can go and help.’
Two is better than one, three is better than two. If we all come together and put our heads together, good results will come out.
For now, focus on what you have to do.
= Right Miss Ryogang? How long has the Mental Invasion Protection Necklace been consumed?=
=This is it.=
=Um~ Thanks to the fact that he writes a wave of tranquility once a day, the decrease isn’t that great. It seems that the lady’s invasion resistance is gradually increasing.
Yurpa handed over the fish she had caught on the day she caught it to Isilite, then draped the fishing rod again and continued small talk with her younger siblings.
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Abruptly…
Hwanin cut the belly of a female angel with a dagger, and pulled out her eggshell from the womb covered in blood, egg white, and yolk.
“…”
The largest piece is an eggshell the size of your palm. The thickness is close to 1.5 times that of an egg, and the size is large enough for a newborn baby to enter.
After wiping the messy shell with blood on the female angel’s clothes and comparing it to the egg floating in the capsule, it’s clear.
All the eggs in the capsule are the offspring of angels.
Dan Hwan-yeon, who watched Hwan-in’s actions with only her head sticking out from her collar, opened her mouth in a puzzled tone.
“Is the labyrinth breeding heterogeneous species to produce monsters?”
“Rather than creating lifeforms, weapons, and armor from an empty place, raising eggs made by breeding heterogeneous species with the energy of the labyrinth would be superior in terms of saving core force.”
“…」
The green liquid inside the capsule, from which bubbles rise, must be a catalyst that replaces the core force sent by the labyrinth with nutrients.
Hwanin looked around and approached a place that looked like a drinking fountain. There are no faucets or valves, but a few meridian lines in the labyrinth converge into a small acupuncture point.
Hwanin, who analyzed with the eyes of the soul for a while, cut off the angel’s hand and held it against it.
Gurgling—
Sure enough, green transparent liquid pours down from places like acupuncture points.
“Hyungjong Lee must have lived on this…」
“That’s an efficient way.”
Are there individual differences between labyrinths?
Kwy, kwu~
Hearing the cry of emergency, Hwanin turned around and found a nearly grown female battle angel inside the capsule.
“Does that bother you?”
Kyw!
Hwanin, who was bitten by the story, swung the light spear and cut the capsule.
With a slightly hard yet soft feeling, the transparent part of the capsule was torn, and the green liquid inside and the female battle angel poured out with a crunching sound.
‘Is the material like chitin?’
Well, it doesn’t have an opening mechanism, so the only way to get out is to tear it apart.
The female battle angel was sprawled on the hard, liquid-filled floor, motionless.
Out of focus, blurry, not breathing. Even if you look with the eyes of the soul, you cannot see the color of the soul. It is only a white color system that is safe to eat.
“What… Are you dead?”
“No. It is an empty shell.”
Puck, as he kicked the female angel in the abdomen, her cool—green liquid spurted from her mouth and nose, and her chest quivered enough to cause her breasts to churn, but that was just a reflex through which the shock was delivered.
The female angel is still sprawled on her floor with her eyes blurred.
“You don’t have a soul? Then, will the labyrinth be completed by putting her soul into it for the last time?」
“I guess so.”
「Huh.」
Hwanin nodded her head at Bisang, and with his permission, Bisang began biting off the female angel’s raw breasts with his beak.
Even though her breasts are being ripped out alive, the female angel is still laying down like a doll with her unfocused body.
Then, a moment later, her chest opened wide, revealing her internal organs like her heart and lungs, and she quietly died.
She waits for a while, but again the spirit does not rise from her corpse.
Heung…
“Didn’t you want anything this time?”
Bi-sang flinches at his question, then exhales her snort. On his face, a look of doubt about his senses was revealed.
“Hey. What are you looking for?」
Kwyuh.
“Are you a birdhead too? I don’t know what you’re looking for.”
Kyw!
「Oh, hey! Do not be angry! Kyaa~!」
The flight that hits the place where Hwanyeon is hiding, like dusting off clothes with the feathers at the tip of a wing, and the Hwanyeon that screams and squeals while hiding.
Hwanin looked at the passage leading to the inside, then lifted the corners of his eyes and climbed on his back while stroking Bisang who was snorting.
“Once you go out and bring her girlfriends. Continue exploring this place and find out what you are looking for.”
Outside, there is nothing more to look at.
There wasn’t much left until the 6th floor, but according to the labyrinth booklet produced by the Knights, the only difference between the 6th floor was the difference in the number of angels that appeared and the narrower fighting area.
In that case, it would be better in many ways to explore this place that is not even recorded in the book.
Hwanin, who was going back in the reverse order he had come in, frowned at the gaze on his neck as he climbed halfway up the cliff in the clouds.
A gaze that scans every nook and cranny as if observing this side.
It was a sensation that passed by for a very short moment, but Hwanin did not doubt his own sense.
Even if you look back at the place where you felt the gaze, the only thing that catches your eye is the sight of the mid-level wind spirits having fun pushing the clouds away.
“Hwanyeon, can’t you still see through the clouds?”
“Huh. Why?”
“I just felt your gaze.”
“… Does something like Yamioko live in the clouds? Raw fish live there, so it wouldn’t be strange if there were other things.”
Hwan-yeon, who paused and then muttered, urged Bi-sang to go up a little faster.
If someone else had said something like that, it would have been considered nonsense, but since Hwan-in was like that, I couldn’t just ignore it.
Boo!
A few minutes after the emergency started to rise with a little more speed, until it came out of the sea of clouds, only a few raw fish came down through the wind wall, but no unknown attack took place.
Hwanin gazed intently at the rolling sea of clouds on the back of Bisang.
How did it happen? The cloud has a soundproofing function, so the noise it makes shouldn’t be transmitted.
Is it a monster with extremely developed sensory organs capable of beating clouds?
I put out the number of possible cases, but I can’t come up with a hypothesis that I want to be this.
‘It must be certain that there is some hostile life form.’
If they attack, just fight and defeat them. Or avoid
= Welcome to Doryong. Nothing happened here, how was it there?=
Hwanin, who looked back at Anne and her girlfriends who had come closer, got off the back of the emergency room and touched her black jade.
“Anne, do you remember the ant nest culture room in Linden Village?”
= It’s an experience that’s hard to forget, so I can’t forget it. Was there a space similar to that in the basement?=
“Okay. The angels mate and lay eggs, put the eggs in growth capsules, and the labyrinth supplies them with energy to grow them. It felt like pursuing efficiency smarter than I thought.”
Yurpa asked with a very interested face at Hwanin’s story.
= Do angels lay eggs? The base seems to be a Flavian tribe, but isn’t it safe to say that it’s not a heterogeneous species, but a single species?=
“It’s not like that. Heterogeneous species who grow up in that way do not have a soul. I saw it with my soul’s eyes.”
=The labyrinth injects only the energy necessary for the growth of an angel and a fake soul at the end to make it a heterogeneous species…=
Hwanin told his girlfriends who were preparing for fishing about Yureupa, who was lost in thought.
“There was a road leading inward, so the ground exploration stops here. Let’s explore the interior of the mountain from now on. After cleaning up, I’ll go down immediately.”
= Doryeong. How do you go down Even if Dew or Yul unnie rides down a broom, we have no choice… Shall we climb the cliff?=
“No. I use Yurpa’s miniaturization secret technique and go.”
= Ah. That’s it. =
As the women nodded, Yu Lepa slightly widened her eyes and looked at her phantom.
Did you remember the miniaturization secret? Then, was the image you showed yesterday and today just a way to show a bit of humanity back?
It didn’t seem like it was a clouded judgment or poor thinking. I’m glad~
Feeling Yurpa’s gaze, Hwanin asked Yurpa.
“Why are you like that? If miniaturization is impossible…”
= Huh? No no no For some reason, I looked at him because he seemed to have a little bit of humanity.
= Humanity? What kind of human beauty is it all of a sudden?
= There is something like that. I’ll tell you the details after exiting the labyrinth here. =
=Yes.=
= Humanity… ? Even though Doryeong is a bit of a cold man, he doesn’t lack humanity… ?=
Hwanin looked at his girlfriends, who were tilting their heads, and at Yurpa, who was putting fishing tackle in her bag, then looked away.
Apparently, some of the changes in her mind that she experienced after meeting Elkata were revealed on the surface, and it felt like Yurpa noticed it.
‘It doesn’t matter.’
If she notices, nothing will change in her relationship.
Hwanin didn’t care and started checking his equipment in preparation for an unexpected battle.
Charge the barrier magician with phase power, check the light window, and check the number of soul beads and the status of 11 sapphire and 8 black jade.
= Master. Ready.=
“Okay. Yurpa, please use the secret technique.”
=Now~ I will tell you about the precautions for miniaturization, so gather around. First of all, the size will be reduced to about 1/10. About the same size as Hwanyeon?=
“Then the shaman can also be shortened to about 2.5m? Now it’s your turn to study giant transformation, right?”
In response to her unexpected question, Yu Lepa gave her a slightly pitiful look and replied.
=Reducing people and reducing giants are not the same. The volume reduction ratio is the same, but the mass is a few hundred times different. If you miniaturize the shaman girl now, it should be about 3m, but the duration problem remains.=
“…」
Hwanyeon closes her mouth at Yurpa’s story and stares at Hwanin with eyes revealing a somewhat dark yet unstable emotional state.
‘Is waiting too soon a limit?’
Hwan-in, who knew well what her dreamy eyes meant, gently stroked her hair with his index finger.
“We will talk about that later. For now, just focus on the labyrinth.”
“Huh…」
=Then I’ll keep talking. If you get miniaturized, the first thing you’ll have problems with is the balance of your body’s muscle strength, but you’ll get used to it quickly because the secret arts will help. However, you have to get used to the feeling of combat by moving your body.
After briefly explaining her precautions, Yu Lepa applied the miniaturization secret technique in the order of Isilite, Anne, Baek Ryogang, and Ayeong.
The secret technique was applied smoothly, and the women, shrouded in light blue mist and reduced to the point of illusion, began to examine their bodies in amazement.
=Wow, it feels so strange.=
= Huh? Anne’s voice has become a little cute. Oh, and my voice too!=
= There is something like a black sword, but the size is reduced to the same. Phase power consumption has also decreased… The sensation of phase power entering the body has also changed.
=The size has decreased, but the characteristics of the technology won’t be much different. By the way, the durability of the body must have decreased as the body got smaller, so be careful with that too.
Phut!
= Kyaa! Ugh, if you exert your strength as usual, your body might explode.=
Anne, who jumped up from the ground with strength in her legs, lands on her ground and limps, then she casts a healing potion on her leg.
Beep? Beep.
And Shilu is amazed at seeing his girlfriends who have gotten smaller.
Hwanin lifted Silu and put it on the back of the emergency room and watched the smaller girlfriends move their bodies vigorously.
“Is the inspection over?”
=Yes.=
=Yes!=
“Then go. Come up.”
Before Hwanin even reaches out, Isilite and Anne climb up his body and stand on her shoulders.
And Yu Lepa, Baek Ryogang, and Ayoung chattered as if they were having fun as they rode Hwanin’s outstretched hand and went into her inner pocket.
= With. Is this the older brother that Hwanyeon feels like? The inside pocket is very cozy.=
=Where where?=
= Me too! I want to go in too!=
「Ugh. Narrow! Why are you all trying to come in!? This is for one person only!」
= I have good shoulders. This is the view from Doryong’s eye level~.=
= Me too…=
= Kick kick. Dew’s face turned red.=
=Joe, be quiet… !=
The bustle in his ears and the feeling of touching his body subtly increased fivefold, but Hwanin was satisfied with something.
Rather than being noisy and annoying, I would say it’s satisfying because it makes me feel closer to his girlfriends.
Hwanin looked at Isilite and Anne on his left and right shoulders, and his girlfriends spread out in his inner pockets and vest.
“Isilite and Anne, hold on to your clothes so they don’t fall. Are Baekryeogang and Yurpa together with Hwanyeon? Oh you…”
=I’ll stay here!=
Perhaps it was too small to have four in her inner pockets. Ah-young stepped on the inside of her vest and on Grimoam’s necklace like a swing, raising her hand and shouting.
The long ears of the Fleurs seem to have turned a little red…
Anyway, Hwan-in, who climbed onto the back of the emergency room with Silu after picking up his smaller girlfriends, thought it wouldn’t be bad for him to get downsized and have sex with Hwan-yeon.
From their reactions, I felt the feeling of experiencing miniaturization as a proxy, and that feeling came quite nicely.
Rather, the problem is that Hwanyeon grows into a giant.
He holds the semen he has ejaculated in his stomach, and when he returns to his original size, if only the semen remains the original size, then something ridiculous may happen.
While thinking about it for a while, Hwanyeon screamed at the women.
“Hey! I’m not going to play right now, so everyone is nervous! Monsters might come out of the clouds!”
= Monster… ? Are there other monsters besides raw fish?=
“Since Hwanin said that he felt an unidentified gaze when he came up, there must be!”
At the warning of Hwanyeon, the women naturally raise their tension.
Thanks to this, Hwanin, who did not need to give him attention, stroked Silu, who was nestled between his legs, and then lightly applied a spur to his side.
As Bi-sang heads toward the sea of clouds, Hwan-yeon summons the spirit of the wind to open the curtain. And as soon as the wind curtain was completed, Bi-sang jumped into the sea of clouds on its own.
Kwaaaaa-
Clouds are pushed away by strong winds, and Bi-sang, as if remembering its location, heads downward without hesitation.
As the surroundings were suddenly covered in gray and white, Anne and Isilite were quietly exchanging stories.
=Certainly, the sea of clouds is as wide as the sea, so it is strange to see that there are only raw fish.=
=There were a lot of birds in the beginning. Because there are not only angels.=
=But when you come inside the cloud, you can only hear the real wind. It’s scary because it’s full of clouds… ?!=
The moment Anne stopped talking and stiffened her shoulders and looked behind her, Hwanin also felt a small goose bump run down her spine and changed her sapphire into a soul arrow and shot it at her back.
At the same time as the arrows pass through the gaps of the wind spirits, the clouds pushed away by the wind spirits burp ferociously and try to knock on the wind screen.
A reaction as if a cloud was pushed in by the movement of something gigantic.
It would have been less disturbing if there had been a sound, but because of the soundproofing effect of the cloud, there is no sound and only the existence of a huge creature is transmitted indirectly.
Anne squealed, her face drawn.
= Emergency, get down quickly! =
뀨, ꀻ!
“I’ll keep pace with the wind spirit, so just go down!”
Queet!!
With a cry of phantasmagoria, Suuwook—a new type of emergency that almost crashes down.
At the same time, the feeling of a great shaking in the atmosphere came from directly above.
If a monster with a body length of several tens of meters crashes into a cliff, such vibrations in the atmosphere would be transmitted.
Hwanin naturally recalled a fact and shouted out loud.
“Emergency, left!”
Coo?!
Hwanin grabbed the reins of Bisang and turned it to the left, and as soon as Bisang twisted his body to the left as it was written in his instinct, a rock the size of a house passed right next to him in a whitish color.
Rock fragments started pouring down at random before the women had time to turn white.
… Kwyit!
“Emergency, never mind the stomach! Find the hole first!”
Hwanin, who commanded the intermediate spirits and drew out the powerful effects of Grimoam, slams the large rocks falling from above his head with a hammer-shaped light spear.
The width of the shield created by the wind spirits was about 10m in diameter, so there was no problem with swinging the weapon, and since simple physical force could not harm the spirits, there was no hesitation in Hwanin’s actions.
As he went downstairs again, Anne’s scream-like cry burst in his ears.
= In front of Doryeong! Front is front!!=
I also saw Hwanin. The shadow of a fish with a gigantic jaw that seems to be able to swallow an entire windshield with a diameter of 10m.
Yurpa screamed in disgust at the pale yellow hideous visual that looked exactly like a deep-sea fish, and at the same time, Hwanin’s sapphire soul arrow, Isilite’s little sword island, and Yurpa’s star-shaped sphere struck the monster’s face with its jaw wide open. It was spread.
———————!!!
The monster hit by the attack disappeared again beyond the clouds, but a soundless roar of vibrations attacked the party.
「Ah… !”
In the aftermath, some of the wind spirits who were in charge of the protective shield fled to the phantom realm, where white dry ice-like smoke began to chase Hwanin, who was rapidly descending.
If it was Hwanin who ruled over the spirits, he would have given the spirits precise instructions and filled the vacant spot right away, but since Hwanyeon was also half a spirit, he was just affected by the roar, so he was in no mood to do so.
The clouds of the sea of clouds that pursued every moment, and the mysterious monster beyond the clouds.
Up until this point, the spirits hated black jade, so I only shot sapphire so as not to interfere with the position.
But that’s when it’s safe.
It was when Hwan-in took out all the black jade of the wild dog warriors and loaded them with soul arrows, feeling that a deadly monster was following closely beyond the view obscured by thick clouds.
“Emergency! Excuse me!”
Kyung!!
Hwan-yeon’s cry for discovering a hole leading into the mountain, and Bi-sang rushes towards it.
As soon as Bi-Jang jumped into the hole, he ran into the aisle, and as if he was following him, aaaaang—!!! A roar and vibration that seemed like the mountain was collapsing hit the party.
= Whoops! The ceiling is collapsing!=
No, indeed, the ceiling made of stone walls began to collapse.
Bi-sang opened his eyes sharply, lowered his head, and sprinted against the pouring dust and gravel. Hwan-in also lowered his head to minimize wind resistance while striking out falling stones and small rocks with his light spear.
Whoops!
A road I’ve been to before. The emergency ran close to 70km/h through a slightly winding cave without hesitation, and soon arrived at the joint and the moment the space suddenly expanded…
Kwakwang, kwagwagwang-!
With a roar, the ceiling completely collapsed, blocking the passage through which they entered.
