Chapter 645 – 638 the Core of the Double Labyrinth
Along with vibrations that caused the body to shake violently up and down, dust from the collapse of the aisles hit the party.
Coo-goo, coo-goo-goo-goo-goo…
The other side of the aisle is collapsing, and I can hear the faint sound of rocks colliding with each other.
Kukkoom… Kwakwagua light…
‘Is the giant monster crashing into the cliff outside?’
In any case, Hwanin let out a small sigh at the sight of the passage completely blocked and dusty.
For some reason, it seems that he has a lot of connections with giant monsters. Aren’t all the monsters that give you a crisis are large?
Starting with the recent Yamioko, there is also an octopus monster like a large Martian who fought in Linden Village following the Giant Forest Giant, Relais, and Adnevila, and there was also a time when I almost got caught in a flood because of the Spiritual Bible and Spiritual Sky Whale.
Kurur…
As the noise and vibration subside and then stop, the girlfriends who were holding their breath half-hung from his clothes let out a sigh of relief or tremble.
= Whoops. Yes, I live…=
= Uh. I thought the child was falling.=
= Oh, that’s creepy. What was that monster just now? Just looking at the size and attack power, it feels like a core.=
=Is it core? It was to the point of crashing into a cliff with that ferocity and breaking it. More than that, is Seulgi okay?=
=What?=
= You just threw a sword. I can’t use my power because I feel like my phase power is stagnant, but isn’t the phase power circuit twisted?
=Me too, I couldn’t use my strength because I felt like my internal organs were twisted all over…=
= I’m fine. I wrote it because I thought I could. Actually nothing.=
= Wow. The swordswoman’s profession must have a great phase power affinity, sister.=
The girlfriends start talking in trembling voices, and every time they talk, their voices start to become lively.
Hearing the girls’ voices, which returned to their usual lively tone, he got off the back of the emergency room, and the women jumped off his body with their own skills.
= Coke. It’s very dusty.=
As the White Li River controlled the wind and collected the dust, the foggy vision became clear as if there was yellow dust.
= I’ll release the miniaturization secret, so gather around~.=
Her wand emits a purple light, and then the women grow up and regain their original form.
Averting his gaze from the women stretching or warming up with light gymnastics, Hwanin calmly scans the culture room.
‘There is no sign that someone came.’
Isn’t the labyrinth watching over all areas?
I thought that the will of the labyrinth might be some kind of high-performance AI, artificial intelligence that differs from labyrinth to labyrinth, but it might feel a little more sloppy than that.
In the meantime, Yurpa let out a complicated sigh in front of the capsule containing the eight-year-old battle angel.
Hearing the sound, Baekryeogang approached Yurupa and asked.
=Sister?=
=Huh?=
= He let out a sigh as if he was suddenly in a complicated state of mind…=
= Ah~. After seeing this, I realized how absurd it is.=
Yurpa, who read random knowledge from Hwanin’s laptop, gained some knowledge about biotechnology.
And I realized that the structure, nature, and laws of Nionebreth, with or without the phase force interfering, are very similar to Earth science.
In her eyes, this capsule is the very substance that directly defies science.
Phase force does not create and cause non-existent laws.
For example, fire can be explained as an oxidation reaction phenomenon accompanied by intense heat and light as heat is generated during the reaction of a certain substance with oxygen and the temperature rises.
Simply put, it is an act of setting fire to a combustible material and burning it, where the phase force ‘replaces’ the combustible material to cause fire in empty space.
But what about this capsule? How do you grow a creature when no phase power is detected? How are nutrients supplied?
He said he was a doll without a soul. Where does the drive for physical growth come from? Does Labyrinth understand all of life science and make this?
It’s not at the level of an expert, but it’s confusion because it’s a Yurpa who can understand how children are made and how they grow from a scientific perspective.
Hwanin, who was walking around the culture room and destroying the capsules, heard the question and expressed his own opinion.
“The meridian of the labyrinth is connected to the capsule. It is through this meridian that the nutrients necessary for growth are delivered. That, of course, would begin in infancy in the egg.”
=… If the purpose is not to be made from the fetus, but to supplement nutrition, a lot of it will be explained. Then what about the soul? Can labyrinths handle souls? I think that creating souls is in the realm of gods, but that means that the labyrinth is also one step closer to divinity?=
“Wouldn’t it be impossible for anyone in the world to figure that out?”
There are at least four powerful groups in this world who won’t even allow research on him. No, if it goes to zero, it’s five.
Anne, who had been quietly listening to the story behind her, opened her mouth.
= Doryong is right. Arbitrarily or involuntarily, it would be impossible to find out. It’s a taboo among taboos to the extent that priests and priests from all over the world come running with bloody maces and break their heads if you approach them carelessly.
= Yes… Oh? Miss Anne, I was just wondering how a labyrinth could do such a thing? I have no intention of putting everyone in danger by researching.=
=Don’t worry, I won’t misunderstand you. If you’re with Doryeong, that… There are many times when world-class confidential information on a very sensitive subject comes out of nowhere, doesn’t it? I know very well how complicated my head gets when that happens.
In Anne’s understanding, Yu Lepa smiled bitterly and nodded her head, and her Hwanin also destroyed her last remaining capsule with the Light Spear and told her girlfriends.
“Then let’s start exploring. Let me tell you a few things to keep in mind beforehand. First…”
In this mountain, it is impossible to explore using spirits like the giant forest labyrinth.
It is judged that ordinary angels are roaming around in the management of the cultivation room, but since the battle angels have fled here, there may be battle angels as well.
Considering that the wind escapes through the doorway, it must mean that the angels are also affected by the status effect of the clouds. However, there is no law that prevents clouds from forming inside.
“Be careful of that, and the spirit of the sapphire will send a preliminary reconnaissance, but it’s not as precise as the surveillance of Hwanyeon, so don’t let your guard down. In the ranks, Anne is at the head, followed by Yurpa, Baekryeogang, Bisang, Ayeong, and Isilite.”
The aisle is about 5m wide and has an arched ceiling.
The other side of her can only approach her first line because of her wings, so if she puts Anne in front with her shield of the castle wall and she supports herself behind her, she won’t be difficult in battle.
As we stand in line, Ah-yeong, who was in the back, lifts up her badge and says,
=Then I’ll do some magic.=
Each time a cluster of ocher-colored light, which is characteristic of the sacred art of the Land God Church, forms on the sign and sparkles, a pale cluster of light surrounds the body of the party and then disappears.
After the light flashed three times, I lowered the sign, and Isilite, who was standing behind me, asked.
=What kind of spell is this?=
= There are three types of resistance to light, physical damage reduction, and continuous energy recovery. Since the aisle is narrow, you may not be able to avoid it and have to block it with your body, right? I was preparing for that time.=
=Yes.=
Outside, I didn’t use this kind of seongsul.
Isilite and Anne rarely allow attacks with counterattacks, spills, and evasions to the extent that the enemy feels sorry for them. It would be a waste of holy power to cast such protective spells on such people.
If you are injured, pouring your holy energy into recovery is beneficial in terms of saving.
However, the aisle is so narrow that avoidance is impossible. Anne was also in a state where she raised her shield by endowing it with resistance to light with her holy art.
Since Yurpa made the same decision as Ayeong, she chanted a short spell to give the party resistance to fire.
= It feels strange to receive protection techniques like this after always fighting naked. Anyway, let’s go!=
“Okay.”
After all preparations were made, the group entered the aisle with tension raised.
=… Hmm. There are no traps or anything, and the resistance of the heterogeneous species is a bit weak… I feel like I’m losing my strength.=
Ah-young, who was making a map as she made her way through the rectangular passageway, scratched the back of her nose.
It was because she had no danger, no crisis, and overflowed with leeway than she thought.
It has already been 6 hours since we entered the mountain labyrinth. The party found a total of 5 culture rooms, and while protecting the culture rooms, they destroyed all of the normal angels and capsules that laid eggs to increase the population.
In the process, I met the battle angels a few times, but unlike the outside, the angels showed a foolish appearance as if something was missing.
There is no systematic battle formation or countermeasure like the outside, trying to attack each other first and then getting tangled up and falling, or standing at a distance as if they couldn’t accept the situation even after encountering the enemy.
There was no life in the attack, to the point where Anne showed slight embarrassment.
Besides, there are no pitfalls.
=Isn’t the countermeasure lax as if you didn’t assume the situation where the enemy invades inside?=
Ah-young was a little discouraged, so she said, “Yurufa isn’t good at all.”
=There are a lot of phase stones, and all the battle angels are holding are low-level magic tools. I like it because I am safe and my income is superior to other labyrinths?=
=Still, the 5th floor of the 6th grade labyrinth is a very dangerous place… I feel like I’m not even on the 3rd floor here. At first, I even thought that there was some kind of machinations in the labyrinth.=
While listening to their conversation, Hwanin compared the map of the mountain labyrinth drawn in his notebook with the map outside.
The location of the island and the location of the culture room are almost identical. If so, if you keep walking in the direction you are heading now, you will enter the 6th floor area.
The 6th floor area might be different, but for some reason, it doesn’t seem like that just by looking at the atmosphere.
The conversation between the girlfriends continues as they walk down the aisle.
=As Ayoung said, the reaction of the angels is more pitiful than that of the recruits. From the outside, we’ve been fighting aggressively while responding to our response. Where does the difference come from?=
At the words Anne said while looking ahead of her, her white hair murmured, and as she placed her hand on her chin, she spoke her mind.
= Could it have something to do with the clouds that surround the outside? For example, when passing through a cloud, an awakening reaction occurs.
=… Is it?=
=There is credibility.=
Despite the conversation, Ah-yeong scratched her head, her lavender-colored hair shaking wildly, as if she didn’t like the situation.
= What I really don’t understand is this atmosphere where the alert doesn’t go off even though the enemy has invaded. No, if an enemy raid took place, wouldn’t she have to come running with her weapons in hand, from the lower level angels to the battle angels… ?=
In the meantime, the passage broke and the culture room appeared again.
About 40 culture capsules and seven ordinary angels, male and female, who manage them.
It is a culture room that is no different from the culture rooms visited so far.
The ordinary angels, like the angels in the other incubation rooms, rushed at the party with expressionless expression, and were literally smashed by Isilite and Anne.
Hwanin, who was staring at the female angel flapping her limbs as if having a seizure, looked up at her ceiling and said,
“I think that this labyrinth may be in the process of changing.”
= Huh? Change?=
=Are you talking about the specialization of the labyrinth?=
The women who split the angel’s chest to retrieve the phase stone and break the culture capsule show curiosity at his words.
“Okay. Raw fish and unidentified monsters are swimming in the sea of clouds. From the 1st floor to the 3rd floor, birds appeared. But from the 4th floor, angels started appearing.”
Can’t you see it as meaning that the labyrinth changed its direction around the 4th floor?
Usually, labyrinths have one theme that penetrates all levels.
The labyrinth of the forgotten old city was the theme of a monster nestled in a ruined city.
= Although they have wings in common, it is difficult to see flying beasts and angels as the same creature…=
=There are also seas that are not like the sea.=
= Master. Are you saying that angels, like the silhouette mare of the giant forest labyrinth, are heterogeneous species that were created according to the will of the labyrinth?=
To Isilite’s question, Hwanin withheld an answer, looking at the flight that bit off the female angels’ breasts.
It’s a conclusion that I came up to here, but there is one thing I don’t understand.
What was the monster that attacked them when they entered the labyrinth in the mountains?
It would make sense to say that it was a core created by a labyrinth that reached the 6th floor, but is there a reason why a labyrinth that started to create angels made a core that only wanders in the sea of clouds?
=…=
=…=
=…=
The women were unable to answer the questions raised by Hwanin.
Because they have wings in common, I didn’t feel anything strange about the labyrinth of the sea of clouds rushing in, but after hearing his question, I felt uncomfortable as if a small thorn was stuck in my throat.
Anne crossed her arms and furrowed her eyebrows slightly.
= It was ridiculously big and strong to say that it was not the core… ?=
= Yes. You even survived the master’s soul arrow.=
=But if the fish monster is the core, then it doesn’t fit right now when angels are being created.=
=…=
=…=
= Sisters. Perhaps there is a monster you encountered in the sea of clouds earlier. Isn’t that why the Labyrinth created angels from the 4th floor?
The women paid attention to Baek Ryeo-gang, who came up with a different idea. The hypothesis was quite plausible.
If they were ordinary labyrinth explorers, they would have laughed at it, saying it was nonsense, but they could not refute it because they had experienced the special case of the giant forest labyrinth.
=Ah, Ryogang is also true. Heterogeneous species in the labyrinth are artificial lifeforms that are subject to the labyrinth. But you say you escape the labyrinth? That means that Ryegang, you’re different than your brother…=
Of course, Ah-young, who has not experienced the giant forest labyrinth, is excluded.
Ah-yeong, who was talking, hurriedly shut her mouth as the assassin’s intuition sounded the alarm at the expression of her sisters becoming more subtle. Then she glanced sideways at Hwanin, and with a look of disbelief, she asked Isilite.
= Isilite sister. Is it real… ?=
= Yes. It’s real.=
Ah-yeong, who has heard her roughly of the events in the giant forest, opens her mouth.
=What do you think of Doryong?=
“It’s not that I haven’t considered that possibility. However, if Baek Ryogang’s opinion is adopted, the answer to the lukewarm response of the angels will not come out.”
= Um…=
=Hmm.=
“I can’t really say no.”
= Yes? What do you mean?=
“I remember what one of the knights we saved said.”
=… ?=
=?=
“Oh, fools. You said it was five years ago that the reinforced objects started appearing.”
The women widen their eyes at Hwan-yeon’s sudden intrusion.
“Now that it has become a level 6 labyrinth, if the labyrinth is concentrating on creating a new core, it can be explained. If you’re working hard to kill that monster out there.”
=…=
=…=
It makes sense if you add Baek Ryo-gang’s opinion that he has accumulated experience by creating reinforced objects over the course of five years.
The women looked at each other and then nodded towards Hwanin.
= Yes. You can check that with focus.=
= According to him, there is a high possibility that there is a core underground. If you find the Core Chamber and tell it to Regent Teiamus, you might get a big reward.=
= Didn’t that regent not give you what he should have given you and dragged your time? Would you like more rewards?=
= Didn’t you wait because you didn’t want to give it to you? If not, would he have offered 10,000 gold galleries and 10 artifacts? =
A smile spreads across Ayeong’s face at Yurupa’s point.
= 10,000 gold coins… 10 Artifacts… If I were an older brother, I would have readily accepted it.
=That’s the difference between you who sees the present and Doryung who sees the future.=
=That’s part of the recognition.=
Hwanin said while wiping the emergency with a handkerchief with a lot of blood on his beak.
“If we go in the direction we are going now, sooner or later we will enter the 6th floor. It must be around 8:00 PM now, but given the circumstances, let’s postpone the break and move a bit more.”
=Yes!=
=Yes, Master.=
=Yes.=
Thanks to Hwanin, the party learned that the location of the incubation room in the basement coincided with the island on the ground, and while maintaining their concentration, they increased their speed and went faster.
As they entered the 6th floor, they encountered more battle angels with two pairs of wings, but the reaction was no different from that of the 5th floor, so they did not slow down their exploration.
=Whoop, whoop.=
“Baekryeogang. How are you?”
After destroying the 12th incubation room and annihilating the seven battle angels he encountered, Hwanin asked Baekryeogang, who was out of breath.
= Oops. My head feels a bit tight, brother.=
In response to her slightly pale complexion, a phantom that spreads a wave of calm to a minimal area and relieves her mental infringement phenomenon.
With only her head barely covered, it’s hard to see the rippling effect of her serenity fully flying.
“The labyrinth absorbs the wave energy of tranquility. If that happens, the current situation may change, so bear with it a little longer.”
=Four.=
Recalling the core of the 6th floor of the labyrinth of the forgotten old city, Hwanin signaled to Anne to depart, and the party roamed the aisle at a half-alert speed.
The purpose of the currently renewed Hwanin is threefold.
The location of the core chamber of the labyrinth here, the confirmation of the current core of the labyrinth and the battle angels that the labyrinth is working hard on, and the unknown elements that Bisang is still looking for.
It’s good to know the location of the double core chamber, but it’s okay if you don’t know. Anyway, this labyrinth is the most important asset of Palatum. Cannot be broken or studied.
You can also look for the elements of female angels that Bi-sang is looking for later.
The most important thing is the loot you can get from killing cores and…
‘If it’s my way of thinking, it’ll be of great help for the trip.’
… Hwanin draws up a map according to the speed of the group with cold eyes, while examining the map of the island on the ground.
“There is a particularly large island over there. Go that way this time.”
=Yes!=
Hwan-in enters the last aisle he never went to at the intersection he returned to for the third time.
With the eyes of the soul open, his gaze scans the ceiling and floor.
When he entered the passageway, there was no difference from other places.
Hwanin, who remembered what he had seen on the 6th floor of the labyrinth in the forgotten old city, opened his mouth.
“Anne, slow down. It seems that there is a labyrinthine deep core chamber ahead.”
= Huh? Really?=
“Okay. There’s a good chance there’s a core near the deep core chamber, so everyone pay attention.”
Slowing down to half the speed from before, Anne tightly gripped the hammer of punishment and the shield of the castle wall.
At Hwan-in’s warning, the other women each move on nervously for a while. Hwanin smiled coldly the moment the culture room, which was three times larger than the other culture rooms, appeared in front of the party.
‘It’s a jackpot.’
In his eyes, rather than the 100 or so capsules filling the left and right walls, he was staring at the round aquarium-like capsule in the center of the room and the three-winged battle angel floating in it.
A height of up to 2.5 m. Three pairs of blue wings, each as large as the body. A perfect and voluptuous body, as if injected with all the charms of the world.
=Wow, that’s the next-generation core that Labyrinth is making… ?=
Thirty ordinary angels who were wandering around the huge culture room at Ah-yeong’s self-talk witnessed the group and rushed with no expression to exclude the intruder.
This time, Hwanin, who commanded the spirits, stepped forward and killed all the ordinary angels in an instant, then gave instructions to his girlfriends.
“Anne guards her entrance, Isilite and Ahyeong break all the capsules. Yurupa, please follow me along with the white lily river.”
What is it? Kyw!
“Emergency, that can’t be done. Let’s look for another angel and if you don’t have one, aim for the next opportunity.”
Kwying…
Bi-sang, who strongly felt something from the large angel in the center of the culture room, put on a sullen expression when Hwan-in restrained him.
It must have what I was looking for in there…
Feeling something in Hwanin’s behavior, Yurpa asked him with a surprised face.
=Baby, is that what I’m thinking right now?=
“It will be right.”
= Oh my God. Is that really possible?=
Baek Ryogang blinked at Yurupa suddenly looking at her excitedly. Why is your sister so excited?
“If you do, you will know. Other than that, there is no significant difference from other capsules except for the size. How does Yurpa look?”
= Yes. Phase power is not separately detected, and there are no magical structures nearby. The reason why the liquid inside the capsule is blue is that it is supplying special nutrients to grow the next-generation core, right?=
“I guess so.”
Hwanin’s gaze returned to the creature floating in a capsule filled with blue liquid.
Its soul is invisible, but its vitality response is substantial and the phase power inside its body is enormous. It is twice as many as Anne, who has reawakened twice as a rare job following her double job.
When Hwanin’s light spear split the central capsule with light, blue liquid poured like a waterfall with a crackling sound, and the body floating inside also flowed out.
Hwanin, who did not care that his body was getting wet and held the body, said to Baek Ryeo-gang, who still did not understand the situation.
“Baekryeogang. This sounds like a good fit for your new body, what do you think?”
=… ?!=
