Academy Genius Craftsman

07. Eldoras (14)

There was a portal under the statue in the city square.

I was told it was a secret passageway, so I thought of something like a secret underground cave that runs through the city, but I was surprised to encounter a portal that glowed blue.

If you think about it, it would be a big deal if you recklessly built a secret passage here and there in the city, and the existence of the passage was discovered due to an unexpected accident. You can’t enter just by removing the statue, but the portal must be opened with the corresponding key.

“The person with the key has to go first. Otherwise, it may metastasize to a strange place.”

Wow, you opened the portal with the key and set another trap there? How meticulous is the design?

Did Manma-ryun know about this? If everyone got caught up in a transfer accident and scattered all over, there wouldn’t be a better development than that.

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Jisoo took the lead, followed by Seo Hee, and entered the portal last.

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Just like when we first entered the Eldoras Tower, our vision became dark and we felt like our feet were floating, and then we were moving to a place other than the plaza.

Paat-

The first thing I felt was the calm air and brighter lighting than I thought. It wasn’t a torch that was installed on the ceiling, but a brightly shining magic stone, and the aisle made of red bricks seemed cramped even for the two of them to walk side by side.

“Is this a secret passage?”

The voice Seohee threw in question became a reverberation and rang in the aisle. The reverberations that hit the walls here and there reached the end of the passageway and made it immeasurable.

And there was a strong explosion coming from somewhere.

Kwakwang… ! Kwakwagwang… !

Rather than the sound of something exploding, it sounds like a wall breaking down. Before reaching the top floor, I felt a strong vibration coming up from the floor below, worrying that the passage might collapse.

Is someone breaking through the wall and coming up?

The moment you try to move after the source of the sound.

“Wait. Look behind you.”

I looked back at Seo-hee’s wary voice and saw the portal we had just entered shimmering. Has someone been following us? Perhaps the remnants of tens of thousands of dollars?

The figure of someone slowly escaping from the portal. I opened my eyes wide in amazement.

“Why are you here… ?”

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“Damn it!”

Ryu Jae-hyun did not hide his annoyed expression and swung his beloved sword, the Levante. The greatsword, entwined with flames, blew the stone wall of the passage without hesitation, leaving a hollow hole.

After entering the tower, nothing was going right. Don’t you crawl at the bottom of the sewer when you enter that hidden field because you shouldn’t attract people’s attention?

The operation team failed due to lack of ability, and even the elites who were sent up – from Ryu Jae-hyeon’s point of view, the word “Elite” Only sneered – but at some point they lost contact.

At that point, even Ryu Jae-hyeon, whose body came first before his head, could notice that the strategy was not working properly.

No matter how life-and-death of the organization he was, he ate this much, so he had to consider retreating. That was until the ‘Seal of the Royal Family’, which Shuji Kato had revived with the recovered magic, was beaten in a fit of anger with the feeling that this was the last time.

I heard about why the maggots in beggar clothes crawling around the basement had the key to open the secret passage through which the royal family came and went, but I forgot it because it was not important to Ryu Jae-hyeon. What matters to him is not what kind of background this tower has, but whether it is useful or not, because there is only one.

I wouldn’t know if it didn’t come out, but since I found the ‘Seal of the Royal Family’, there was no reason not to use it. And as soon as Rachel opened the portal, Ryu Jae-hyun could not stand his impatient temper and entered the portal first, and fell alone in the middle of a trap room full of traps.

Of course, that trap was nothing to the master piece-level strongman ‘Hunter Hunter’ with the Levantine.

The real problem is that I’m separated from the rest of the group.

“Damn it!!”

Kwakwang—!!

I waited for a long time in the trap room, but no one came. I guessed that there must have been something wrong with the portal, but there was no way he, a mediocre warrior, could do anything on his own.

Kwaang-!!

That was the reason why he walked around breaking down walls as if showing off. If you deliberately make noise and move, the party will come looking for you. It also helps relieve irritating stress.

But there is a limit to that, and digging a wall without an answer like a coal miner has already reached the limit of my short patience. Where did the two weak wizards fall into a trap in close combat? By the time you’re thinking such silly thoughts-

Kwakwang—!!

Zeuong!

Breaking down the wall, he saw an ice barrier he had seen many times before. And two disgusting faces across the translucent ice barrier. The ice barrier blocked the stone fragments that poured down and then melted away.

“A little in moderation, right? Is there anything we can all die of?”

“What? Are you alive?”

“You said you really wanted to die?”

Rachel, the ‘Ice Witch’ with a chilly eye smile, walked with a clattering shoe that didn’t go well with the place. Shuji Kato, the “Necromancer” Whose face was not visible because of the large robe pulled over, was also with her.

“Enough of wasting time. I’ve seen the road, so now follow me.”

“Hmm.”

I didn’t like the commanding tone, but Jaehyun Ryu didn’t have the ability to find a way in a maze. For such things, Rachel, who was particularly good at the role of guide, was the right person for the preparation, so he followed Rachel without saying anything.

Three thousand-dollar executives continued to explore the maze. It was true that Rachel knew the way, but she only detected the magical power of the portal to the top floor. In other words, they only knew the direction but not the right path, so they faced traps and powerful guardians from time to time.

“Damn it!!”

The members of the Royal Guard, the guardians of the royal family who are irrationally affected by the plague even in their heads. A magical golem that moves only with magic and tries to repel intruders. Most of them ended on Ryu Jae-hyeon’s line without the need for Rachel and Kato Shuji to step out.

However, among them, there were exceptionally strong beings, and their number increased as they reached the top floor. Of course, it wasn’t enough to threaten their lives, but as they explored the maze, the stamina of the three steadily went down.

“They said it was a secret passage… Ah-oh! What secret passage is so tight? Wasn’t it a little bit easier? If it’s going to be like this, I don’t know what’s different from outside.”

“Stop being an idiot. Can we still go quietly here? And no matter how strong the guardians are, they won’t be much compared to the real level bosses, right?”

“Ha… annoying. How long do I have to wander around in the dark like a rat?”

Ryu Jae-hyeon, of course, knows that it is much safer here than outside. If they had climbed the tower normally, they would have had to face the public security hunters and elite raiding teams of large guilds that flocked like rats before the layer bosses.

But at the time of the terrorism at the fair, and now, crawling in the subway or in the sewer while avoiding people’s eyes didn’t suit Ryu Jae-hyeon’s personality. However, this mission was particularly important, so it could not be left out as one of the largest forces in Mann.

“After… be patient If we finish this job, we will see the light and live.”

“Please, I hope so.”

Rachel was also under stress, but she forcibly exercised patience and calmed Ryu Jae-hyeon. Ryu Jae-hyun kicked a stone rolling on the road with an annoyed expression, and his face was crumpled by the shady magic that he felt from behind.

“You bitch, can’t you do it in moderation?”

Shuji Kato, who was reviving the corpse, replied in a shaky, shaky voice.

“The corpse, supply and demand, could not be done. You’ll need my strength soon, won’t you?”

“Ah!”

Behind them, the once-alive guardians of the secret passage became moving corpses and turned into Kato Shuji’s necromantic army.

I know that’s a necromancer’s fighting method. And it was one of the reasons why Shuji Kato was reluctant even to the members of the Ten Thousand Rendezvous. Rotten corpse… It’s not really a rotten smell, it’s just a unique magic reverberation, but it was so disgusting.

Forcibly enduring the stench worse than the sewer, Ryu Jae-hyeon hurried on his way. Yeah, I’d rather get there sooner so I can smell less of that disgusting smell.

According to Rachel’s guidance, which serves as a direction indicator, the three 10,000-strong executives took the shortest distance toward the top-floor portal. As the guardians he encountered became stronger and stronger, Ryu Jae-hyeon’s stamina was further reduced, and his corpse was severely damaged because he could not touch it more and more, so sometimes there were corpses that could not be revived with necromantic magic. Even so, the necromantic army steadily increased.

And the portal I finally found.

According to the prior information, event quests do not last long. Therefore, there was no time to waste, so they took a minimum break and went straight through the portal.