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“Do you know why you are calling me?”
“He said he had something to show you.”
What will Cthullah show me? I can’t even guess
“Please tell me that you will visit soon.”
“All right. Enough”
Count Ctolari politely greeted Bastet, who was still turning her back before me, then bowed to me and disappeared again.
Count Ctulari was originally a strong person, but he didn’t have the ability to teleport to such a long distance like me.
When I looked at Count Ctolari’s house with my alter ego, Count Ctolari’s corpse was lying in Count Ctolari’s bedroom. I looked it up and it’s fake Most will be deceived, but the inside is empty and fake.
Count Ctolari had no successors, so naturally Count Ctolari would disappear into history. It was like burning firewood was thrown into the already hot Neos kingdom.
The territory of Count Ctolari was one of the richest and most powerful lands in the Neos kingdom. Of course, it was a story when I stopped the monsters descending from the Dragon Mountains well. Without Count Ctulari and Ctula, is there a nobleman who can defend it well?
I fell in love with Junon. The fact that Ctula is active in earnest and there is no intervention from Junon seems to indicate that Junon’s power has weakened.
As a result, Ctula’s Great Labyrinth revitalized the stagnant East Continent, so it may be that they are turning a blind eye to it, but in the end, they used or neglected the power of foreign media.
I didn’t intend to go straight to Ctula when he told me to come. Considering the case of the investigation team, it is a journey that may take several months once you enter.
Calmly prepared to enter the Great Labyrinth. He prepared in advance so that the Dwarves and Antariel of the New World could live well for several months, and the affairs of the territory could go well even if left alone, but as a lord, he had to designate the big direction.
As I was finishing my preparations, Bastet was looking at me with strange eyes.
[take me]
On the one hand, it’s reassuring, but a little scary. It’s really scary to think of what happened when God and God met.
[Take Howard with you]
Actually, I was thinking of going alone. I thought that no matter what the inside of the Great Labyrinth looked like, if I called it, there would be some device to meet Ctula, or Count Ctolari would come out to meet me.
[Shall we take the three of us?]
[They are not needed.]
The trio were still fairly strong warriors, but they were ignored.
I hurriedly called Howard, briefly explained the situation, and set off for the Great Labyrinth. Appearing near the place that was built around the Great Labyrinth and now has the appearance of a village, we slowly walked towards the entrance of the Great Labyrinth.
Most of the people living here were merchants or adventurers and mercenaries, so our clothes stood out. The combination of a handsome young man who was clearly an aristocrat, a black cat hanging over his shoulder, and a Honam-type middle-aged man following him was too foreign to be here.
If Howard was going alone, there wouldn’t be much of an oddity, but Bastet and I definitely stood out.
“It feels like a spectacle.”
“Then walk quickly”
As Howard complained, I accelerated my steps toward the entrance of the Great Labyrinth. If I had known this would happen, I would have just moved near the entrance and entered right away.
Soldiers dispatched from the two countries resided at the entrance, but they did not manage who came in and out. I passed through the crowd of people without hesitation and passed through the entrance.
At first glance, it was just a stone entrance, but the moment I passed the boundary that the alter egos could not pass through, I felt a tingling sensation going through my whole body.
I entered the Great Labyrinth, but there were quite a few people at the beginning. There were humans blocking our way as we tried to get out again quickly.
“Hey, are you thinking of going in here like that? die?”
A group of typical mercenary attire stood in our way.
“Okay. Thank you for caring.”
I spoke as softly as possible.
“Hey, I don’t know where the aristocratic boy came out to play, but why don’t you hire us instead?”
It didn’t look very good at all. Judging by the talent of the soul, it was a vessel that could not escape the low-level mercenary for the rest of its life. Looking at the poomsae he was talking about, it seemed like he was getting paid for giving tours to the Great Labyrinth to the immature youngsters who sometimes came in like this.
“Get out of the way”
As Howard stepped forward, the mercenaries flinched and retreated. I didn’t really want to kill myself or anything like that, but when I saw them step back, they were guys with weak spirits.
When I tried to get out of the entrance and look around, I realized. The connection with the alter ego was severed. In the meantime, I had been thinking about sharing the view of my alter ego for granted.
It was very frustrating when I tried to see the world through my own eyes.
“They are following you.”
Howard whispered quietly, as if feeling a sense of relief. In fact, I was also trying to look around as an alter ego to prepare for something like this.
If they were as skilled as the mercenaries earlier, it wouldn’t have been a problem even if they weren’t prepared.
“Leave it alone. Let’s speed it up a little later.”
I don’t know if those mercenaries are following us and trying to kill us, or if they’re waiting to save us until we’re in danger and get the money. So there would be no need to deliberately find and kill them.
The Great Labyrinth had numerous crossroads starting from the area a little beyond the entrance. But is there really no such thing as meeting someone or showing the way? You really don’t mean to come to the end of the Great Labyrinth like this, right?
By the time people who had been seen so occasionally were no longer visible, we slowly started to speed up. To be precise, Howard matches my speed.
After speeding up and running quite a bit, I glanced at Howard and Howard shook his head.
“Fall away.”
After all, the skills of the low-level mercenaries could not keep up with this speed. But this time I felt something all around me. It didn’t seem like a magic beast, and I thought it was the people who came in first.
It was a party of about 30 people resting on one side of the road of the great labyrinth, which was like a wide cave, but I thought I would just ignore it and run.
They saw us running from afar, but they seemed unwilling to move. And when I ran past them, arrows and other ranged weapons suddenly started flying from there.
“What are you doing?”
Of course, nothing hit. Without even opening a protective shield, he easily avoided them all. I stopped and went towards it.
Like the mercenaries who secretly followed them, they did not intend to go and kill people, but if they attacked without reason first, the story would be different.
“Oh, knights! It was a mistake. sorry.”
The guy who looked like the leader of the gathered guys came forward and apologized with a groan. First of all, if you want to see the liver, it seems to be a way to avoid it in that way. I have seen all the bad guys in the world.
“okay? Then I must make some mistakes.”
Putting a cat on my shoulder and talking like this doesn’t look good, but when I said it coldly, the captain’s eyes turned a little sharp.
“Isn’t that a good thing? Take this over there and solve it.”
While doing so, he handed me a bag full of time. At first glance, that might look like a money bag, but it’s not. That is a method that has been used among mercenaries since ancient times.
“Not required.”
I met their eyes once and backed away. They all have one or two grudges. There are many people like that because it is what mercenaries originally do, but these guys have crossed the line.
Howard asked as he moved a little further away from the mercenaries.
“Why did you forgive me?”
“Didn’t you forgive me?”
Howard seemed to concentrate for a moment, then nodded. You won’t catch anything alive in the wind.
“Right. But are you really a saint?”
“The heresy judges are worse than me.”
“That’s right”
Then I sped up and ran again. As the returnees of the Great Labyrinth said, this place was really filthy and wide. After running for such a long time, I finally met the Witchbeast in the Great Labyrinth for the first time.
They were like giant caterpillars. However, it is said that it has the mouth of a lamprey eel, and moves slowly and then bounces very quickly. They were known to be the weakest in the Great Labyrinth. About 20 of them were encamped in front of them.
I knew that their shells were very thin, so I was able to easily destroy them by giving them eggs with wind magic.
“These are strange guys.”
said Howard, turning over their corpses on his feet.
“Which part?”
“It doesn’t look like a beast at all. Witch Beasts have a unique feeling.”
It was the words of the king of demons, so it wouldn’t be wrong. Strictly speaking, these were not life forms. However, they were subtle things that were not undead.
All the explorers and mercenaries brought outside were corpses, so I couldn’t tell, but when I came in, I could tell. They have no soul.
And when I encountered a few more different types of beasts, I was sure I had seen these guys somewhere. They were the ones I saw in one of the many hells that were visible inside the red jewel I handed over to Cthula.
I don’t know if it’s the ability of the jewel or the ability of Ctula, but Ctula opened one of the many hells here.
Still, this hell was one of the most benign of all the hells I saw there. Of course, it is unknown whether it is a real hell or one of many other dimensions.
If they were all separate dimensions, the value of the red jewel was much higher than expected. So Ctula must have taken it while paying a lot of price.
The deeper you go, the stronger the guys start to come out. Even so, it wasn’t a threat to us, but at the level of ordinary soldiers or mercenaries, they started to appear.
“Rather than that, how long do I have to go in for this?”
Howard complained as he blew his aura from a distance at the gigantic beast that looked like a lump of fat walking around.
“Since the investigation team said it took about two months, considering our speed, should it take a month?”
It hasn’t even been a day since I came in. I anticipated that it would be a fairly long business trip and prepared considerably.
“By the way, I heard that there are many guys who got things like treasure here, but why can’t we see a single gold coin?”
That’s it. But even if he saw the treasure, he had no intention of taking it. It’s not that I don’t have enough money to covet simple gold and silver treasures, but this place was created by Ctula. Keep in mind that the more greed you reveal, the more you can fall into Ctullah’s trap.
[How long is it?]
Bastet, who was hanging over her shoulder, spoke for the first time after entering the Great Labyrinth. If so, isn’t it too short for that? It will either come to pick you up as expected, or a road will open up, or both.
“They say there isn’t much left.”
Considering the long stairs in Ctulari Mansion, making the doorway longer could be Ctula’s preference. It’s such a nasty taste.
After an hour or so of progress, a huge empty lot appeared so dark that the other side could not be seen. It was a place that looked similar to the basement of Count Ctolari, where Ctula had previously been.
As always, I thought that Ctullah would pop out from the other side of the darkness. However, it wasn’t Ctullah that actually appeared.
[It’s been a while, little soul. Should I call it a wandering recorder now?]
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