“Suddenly a joint search with another party. What are you thinking?”
I shrugged and smiled as I watched Kane stow Bido inside his robe.
“If we stick together too much, there is little meaning in coming here, right? It’s a party with no humans especially for you.”
Ruby was probably a sprite, and the rest of the men didn’t seem to be human either. right, what
I took out the potions from the subspace and put them one by one in my waist pocket.
Apparently, opening a sub-space in front of them is noticable, but in fact, there are other problems.
‘This is a sensory numbing potion. Deciphering the requirements, that’s a recovery potion.’
I looked around one by one by type, opened a bottle, put it in my mouth and swallowed it, then slipped the empty bottle into the subspace and finished organizing.
“Huh… Are you leaving?”
“uh. we will go to the labyrinth Aria protects the dorm. And are you still thinking about it?”
Before I left, I threw the fishing rod over Arya, who had just woken up, and shook the bait.
“Because the salary is generous. Someone in my hometown is helping out. If you stay here anyway, you won’t be able to enter the labyrinth right away.”
At my words, Aria bit her lip slightly as if pondering.
“Accommodation provided, meals provided. Salary is not delayed and monthly rent is given. You will need a lot of money to explore the labyrinth again, but the prices here are expensive.”
“eww… Can I really help you for a second?”
I raised the corner of my mouth kindly as I looked at Aria who seemed to have almost crossed over.
“Then, actually, you can use someone else, but Aria is kind, so she wants to help. Or is there any reason to make such an offer to you?”
Kane let out a slight sigh as Arya nodded and shook her head after grunting at my words, and Luna slightly looked away.
oh why what
“For now, let’s go and talk. I’ll order a meal and go.”
“yes!”
I smiled kindly until the moment I left, and only after closing the door did I give my facial muscles a break and stretch.
“Fine… will it?”
I tilted my head at Luna’s words and opened my mouth.
“what?”
“actually… nice house lady… I guess.”
oh, what would it be You can tell just by looking at your hands.
Hands that have never done anything tough.
This is because the hands that did labor are different from the hands that have become rough from sword training.
Look at the upright posture and manners that come out unconsciously, and the vigilance that can be released with a little friendly conversation.
‘I’ll teach you basic common sense unless you’re a very wealthy person, but that’s enough.’
It was grown like a flower in a greenhouse. A gentle sheep with no vigilance.
“You must have come out with a sense of adventure after reading a book somewhere, but you have to stay here longer to see only bad things. However, he doesn’t seem to want to go back, so I’m thinking of taking him back to his parents’ house to protect him.”
If there was a shadow attached, he would have taken it away before he cried and cried outside and clung to the guard.
That means he probably used the spirit in his trait to erase his traces and run away, so it’s obvious that a novice adventurer with no money and no knowledge of the world will suffer if left as it is.
‘Becoming a female Kane.’
Since it looks beautiful, there is a high chance that it will be sold at an auction house. Even if it’s not, you won’t face very good things.
Then, if you find her in her family later, in your rage, you might find the people you’ve encountered and annihilate them like a rat.
‘In that case, it’s best to move it to my home for some reason.’
Even later, if you use it as a stepping stone to build a fairly good relationship with her family, or if you don’t pretend, it’s not bad in many ways.
Oh, of course, it’s more than half the intention to use it as an assistant to Halon.
To reassure Luna, who was worried about sparks, I spilled a lie coated in sugar water.
Caw! clack!
As I slowly walk towards the central tower, a crow sitting on top of it cries loudly.
That’s loud enough to be called a real bark.
As if irritated, I saw the crow flying away somewhere, and then greeted Ruby, who waved in our direction.
“hello.”
“Come on. You’re right on time.”
After seeing her brightly smiling, she started a simple shouting with the men standing behind her and waving with her.
“This is Carl, Hals. Joby.”
A thin body wearing a dagger, and a sharp-looking sword. Hals is a muscular man wearing gauntlets. Every time I put on the hood and move, Joby makes the sound of a potion bottle like me.
After memorizing only the characteristics, I opened my mouth while looking at Kane and Luna.
“I am Adelian, that is Kane. Is this child Luna?”
“Okay, I made a statement, then shall we move?
I nodded to Ruby, who whispered that I had to sneak in, and slowly walked into the labyrinth dungeon.
“The location is somewhere between the lower and middle floors? It’s in a pretty remote place. In the early days, it seems that guards were also placed, but it was more noticeable, so there is no such thing these days.”
“ah… I see… … .”
“It’s my time. It was so hard because everyone was in a rush to live on their own and didn’t take care of beginners. So I don’t want to live like that. Shall I tell you a lot about this and that?”
“oh… yes. yes… … !”
Ruby was the type who likes to talk, so she was the type to talk well alone, but her party didn’t respond, so Luna was eagerly arguing.
Actually, half of the time I’m talking to Kane, but Kane is wearing a hood and walking silently, and it’s me.
‘bothered.’
To check this and that, I slightly twist my fingers or loosen my wrists to follow Ruby, but I don’t run into any monsters and go down well. Just like the word labyrinth, it went round and round for a long time.
There is not only one staircase that allows you to move up and down, so it comes out differently depending on where you go down and up. alley.
‘I don’t know if we’ll be able to do it here, right?’
But as Ruby gestures, Joby’s robe shakes as if he had no intention of doing so, and a pale hand creeps out of the robe holding a bottle full of red liquid.
“The way to get in is simple. You can sprinkle the blood of monsters.”
Ruby smiles as she explains, but Kane, of course, remains silent.
rumbling-
Jovi’s hand tilted, and thick blood dripped down.
A thick iron fishy smell. Soon, blood flowed down through the cracks in the floor, and a small groaning sound resounded, and the blocked wall creaked, opening a gap wide enough for one person to enter and exit.
“Let’s go in. So, is this a party in here?”
He opened his mouth as he saw Kane sneaking away from Ruby, who was trying to hold Kane’s arm while saying it playfully.
“No, two parties. They only listen to me.”
Ruby may have just thrown it out, but I smiled and drew a clear line, and Ruby nodded as if she had received my words without thinking, and moved forward first.
The door slammed shut as we all entered.
There was a long and narrow aisle ahead.
“Don’t worry, you can just spray blood when you leave. Oh, one pops out.”
After Ruby put on her gloves, she unleashed the whip with a gong attached to her waist, grabbed a melted goblin-like creature crawling out of the corner with the whip and threw it backwards, and the sword cut it with a knife.
In response, I also glanced at Luna and Kane, grabbed the codex like a normal magician, and slowly chanted an incantation while watching the situation.
“You can keep going. The monsters that appear here have a slightly different appearance. Don’t be too surprised.”
I guess so.
‘The general name given is the Dungeon of the Experimental Subject.’
It is a parasitic type of dungeon that an alchemist who was researching homunculus dug through the labyrinth dungeon to easily find materials.
I researched monsters that respawn infinitely in the labyrinth, made a homunculus, and used the failed work as a dog guarding the laboratory.
I looked at Ruby and Kane, pretending to concentrate like a wizard who used a normal magic book as an amplification tool, not a codex.
Kane, who was looking at Ruby with strange eyes as if he felt something, turned his head and met my eyes.
At that, I smiled with an innocent, so-called stupid expression on my face.
* * *
‘It’s strange.’
Kane looked at Adelian’s face full of gossip and slightly frowned and turned his head.
Adelian was always weird in a corner, but today it’s even worse.
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like… …
Glance.
As if possessed by something.
Kane looked at the whipping Ruby with slightly sunken eyes.
A woman who seems to be interested in herself, but who is not.
Her co-workers have a strange feeling.
and… … .
‘Suspicious.’
What is even more suspicious is this dungeon.
Another dungeon hidden inside the labyrinth dungeon?
it can be But that woman named Ruby visits such a dungeon every day?
As soon as Kane entered this hidden labyrinth, he smelled a strange reverberation along with the stuffy air in the labyrinth.
A scent that even makes you feel like it will disappear at any moment.
‘A woman named Ruby is caught in and out of this labyrinth enough to leave her own body odor.’
Not just once, but often enough to leave her reverberation in the air.
Perhaps Ruby herself didn’t know because her body odor was so strong, and it seemed like Adelian or Luna didn’t even know because it was such a faint reverberation.
‘Keep in mind… … .’
The moment Kane thought so, the moment the narrow aisle ended and a wide space appeared, Kane stopped for a moment without realizing it.
‘Warlock’s laboratory?’
The structure is quite similar to the place where I was before.
On one side, there were cages with iron bars to confine the test subjects, on the other side were rows of experimental tools, and at the farthest point, there was a byway leading deeper inside.
Then, reflexively, the moment Kane’s eyes turned to the bars, the door to the largest cage vibrated with a groan and slowly went up.
“Something is coming, everyone should join forces.”
“Turn it off… … .”
From the place where Ruby looked at it as if whispering, a ragged golem that seemed to have half melted people and clumped together arbitrarily moved its broken legs and crawled out.
‘For now, even if it’s embarrassing, I’ll have to get rid of that first.’
Carl and Hals draw a semicircle as if holding it back and go around the outside, and Ruby also moves inward, holding it in check with a whip.
Jovi and Adelian followed Ruby as if to protect her, and Cain strangely suppressed the feeling that it bothered him.
‘As soon as possible.’
I need to get rid of that to make this nasty feeling go away.
“Take root and redeem.”
The binding that Adelian activated pretending to be a normal wizard grabbed the foot of the unstable movement.
In response, Kane drew his sword and approached the ragged homunculus at high speed and swung it, and Luna also stuck close to Kane, probably to disturb his vision.
“now!”
When Ruby screamed and signaled, Jovi blocked Adelian’s mouth to prevent him from chanting magic, and instead of a whip, she spewed a thin gift from the tip of her glove and cut off one of Adelian’s legs from below the knee at once.
Blood spurted out and Adelian’s torso was thrown on the floor like garbage.
“Hold on until we return! If you’re alive, I’ll make you my puppet too.”
Using Adelian and Kane as bait, Ruby laughed loudly and ran to the back road to avoid the tattered homunculus.
“young master!”
“Turn it off… … !”
The moment Luna screamed and was about to run away, the bounds broke and the tattered homunculus, which had lost its movement, screamed and swung its deformedly stretched arm and attacked Kane.
Even at the moment when the homunculus attacked him, Kane shouted with disbelief in his eyes.
“Adelian!”