Chapter 31
Episode 31 – Labyrinth (1)
“After… ….”
Talk with a sword. The gardenia core is split in half.
The color of her core turned gray as mana escaped through the cracks.
I was so happy that I once again raised both hands and shouted.
“Woke up!”
This time, I definitely broke it!
How many more times have you tried since you made a mistake on what you almost broke earlier?
Even if I can’t, I think I died five more times.
The surrounding environment melted away and returned to a white space.
Looking at the time, it’s almost 1 o’clock.
Honestly, I thought I could barely clear it if I invested all weekend.
‘I think I’m stronger than I thought?’
I thought I could clear it in just 2 hours.
‘Level 61… Shall we take a look?’
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Hearing a familiar voice from somewhere, he seems tired, but… Level 61 is a certain level, but it doesn’t matter because I intend to come out after seeing it.
I manipulated the art fact and set it to level 61 and pressed the start button.
Unlike before, I felt my body float slightly, and in an instant, the surroundings were covered in darkness.
At first glance, it looked like the labyrinth where you caught the golem earlier.
Much darker and thicker, the magic and mana are mixed and sticky.
First of all, I am holding the Shinam Sword and being wary of my surroundings, but I feel a creepy energy.
The [Sixth sense], Which has been activated more strongly than usual, is telling me.
Now this is absolutely not an illusion.
Unlike when dealing with fantasy, the [Sixth sense] Was screaming that it was really dangerous.
‘f*ck.’
There is nothing wrong with the [Sixth sense].
It means that I have been kidnapped into the labyrinth by someone.
‘When I’m tired like this.’
There was a time when something similar happened in [Oeyoungdoe].
An incident in which all the people who were training using illusion artifacts at the same time disappeared.
It was committed by ‘Eyes of Odin’, one of the giant villain organizations that appear throughout [Oeyeongdae].
‘If there is something that takes a little bit… ….’
It was only in [Oeyoung] That Dina knew everything, so she saved them all.
‘In [Akanak Castle], All the kidnapped people died except for one.’
The bigger problem than that is this.
Originally, the part to kidnap into the labyrinth is in the middle of the second semester, not now.
As long as the order of development from [Oeyeongdoe] Has changed, you might not be able to get Dina’s help, and even if you did, there was a high probability that you would be late.
Even the passage of time is different between the labyrinth and the outside, so I may have to endure much longer than I thought.
‘The fortunate thing is that all the kidnapped people are in the same labyrinth….’
What if it’s a completely new development that’s different from what I expected?
There is a possibility that I am alone in this labyrinth.
‘It’s better to throw away the idea that you can join someone.’
Fortunately, I packed a lot of food in the subspace bracelet.
At most, it’s enough to last for two or three days. It is a situation where you don’t know how long you will have to endure, so you have to save it as much as possible.
“Ha. f*ck.”
Cursing comes out of nowhere. Although it’s strange that he doesn’t swear in the yard where he might die right away.
My hands are wet with cold sweat at the fact that it is a real life-and-death battle.
The place I am standing now is a single aisle that is only long in front and back.
Since escaping on my own is next to impossible, I plan to find a safe place as much as possible, but this is not certain.
I rubbed the sweat from my hands on my clothes and roughly wiped them off before fixing my grip on the sword.
‘It’s f*cking scary.’
I activated [Super Concentration] And [Sixth Sense] So that I could react at any time, and moved forward slowly while being vigilant.
The speed was slow enough to make you think it would be faster for a bug to crawl, but you had to be careful as it was a labyrinth where you could step on a trap and die if you were distracted for a moment.
As soon as I thought that, the floor I stepped on sank like a lie.
Poop!
Arrows flew at high speed.
It was not difficult to avoid, but the level itself was definitely different from [Tomb of the Young Wizard].
Three more arrows flew with a time lag, as if it wasn’t the end with one arrow, but I swung the Sinam Sword and easily blocked it.
‘What I did during the fitness test is so helpful.’
At that time, if it wasn’t for the memory of hitting the flying arrows, I wouldn’t have been able to block them so easily.
I waited for a while to see if there was an arrow that hadn’t flown in yet, and then started moving my steps again.
A different level of silence came to me from the [Tomb of the Young Wizard].
In [The Tomb of the Young Wizard], You could even hear the sound of splashing water, but this place was completely different.
I suppressed my breathing as much as I could just in case I couldn’t hear the sound of the arrows, and I silenced my footsteps to make sure the monster noticed and approached.
All I hear is the sound of my heart.
‘The sound of the wind?’
I can feel the faint sound of the wind blowing. I feel it, and it feels like the wind is blowing…….
In the comics, when you are trapped in a labyrinth, it is often said that there is an exit if you go in the direction the wind blows in.
If this wind really came from the exit.
‘Let’s go.’
If the exit is correct, escape. If not, let’s just wait for rescue.
Having set my goal, I kept moving in the direction where I felt the wind.
It’s not called a labyrinth for nothing, it was filthy wide.
The first fork at the end of the passage.
Since the wind seemed to be blowing from the right side of the road, I entered the right side.
And the first thing that caught my eye was the sword rushing towards me.
As I reflexively swung my sword to block it, I felt a heavy sensation running down my arm.
It’s not impossible to stop, but it’s not an opponent to be taken lightly.
The old sword was retrieved and the enemy who retreated was wearing full plate armor.
It’s okay.
The sound of the armor moving is heard, and the sword swings again.
A sword that is swung in a skillful posture.
Using very little magic, he strengthened his arms and swung the Shinam Sword.
Could it be because he used magic this time? Unlike just before, the armored enemy was pushed back.
‘Die!’
Since other enemies could have come after speaking out of mouth, he shouted inwardly and drove the new cancer sword into the middle of his chest.
The sword imbued with magical power pierced the iron armor surprisingly smoothly.
But somehow…….
‘He’s not dead!’
As I stepped back in surprise, an old sword slashed past the spot where I had just stood.
‘I almost got lost.’
Even though it’s a sword that doesn’t contain magic, it’s dangerous if you’re careless.
The armored enemy snarls once again.
I quickly retrieved the Shinam Sword stuck in my chest and this time aimed at the neck and cut it off.
‘Somehow I feel… ….’
Rather than the feeling of cutting flesh, it felt like cutting something hard.
I took a peek at the completely severed head that was rolling around.
‘It must have been a skeleton.’
Only white bones with no flesh visible.
I put the old sword that the skeleton wielded into the subspace bracelet.
‘Because you don’t know.’
If there was a situation where Shinam Sword could not be used, he did not know if he would be able to use it.
‘It seems that the level of difficulty is much lower than the golems that have appeared at Illusion Level 60.’
Come to think of it, there were no class A students among the abducted students in [Akanak Castle].
Maybe a class A student might be able to clear it.
Of course, I’m not up to Class A’s ability, and I’m a little bit better than Class B, but I’m in the middle…….
Thinking like that made me feel a little more comfortable…….
‘The fact that it is a labyrinth where people die easily remains unchanged.’
Don’t relax. You don’t know what will happen suddenly.
Two skeletons appeared terribly before I thought that.
Unlike the guy from before, he wasn’t wearing armor.
‘I was annoyed at training and came along… ….’
To be honest, the amount of mana remaining in the body is not very large.
Magical power is precious in the labyrinth, where magical energy is thick and the speed of magical recovery is slow, so it should always be used minimally.
I attached the magical power that I pulled out as thin as a thread to the blade.
With this, the cutting power must have increased. Anything can be cut.
Now, I’m going to hold on to this state as much as possible.
The two skeletons rushing at me had a messed up posture to wield their swords, unlike the ones before.
I twisted my body lightly to avoid the attack of the first Skeleton and cut my spine.
Then, he pierced the second skeleton’s head with his sword, stepped on the first skeleton’s head, which only moved its upper body, and shattered it with added weight.
Fortunately, the difficulty wasn’t too high yet.
It would be nice if the entire labyrinth was at this level, but…….
Judging from this strong magic that I felt from the first time I entered the labyrinth, it seemed unlikely.
In order to conserve even a little more mana, I retrieved the mana thread attached to the blade and proceeded to come to three forks again.
I tried to head there because the wind was blowing in from the passageway going forward.
Mooooo!!
A huge roar echoed from somewhere and the labyrinth shook.
Next, Chang! Visor! I heard the sound of someone fighting.
The direction the sound is coming from is not the one I was going for, but the one on the right.
But…….
If you have one companion, you will have many advantages while enduring in the labyrinth.
After thinking, I turned and ran to the right.