49 – Labyrinth of the Sun – 4
-Kkereureuk..Kireuk..!
“Oh, why are you so hard?”
Quagagang-!!
‘What is this crazy piece of scrap metal? No matter how much magic I cast, the blood is barely sweet!!’
It’s already been over 10 minutes since I started casting magic on Pisis.
I currently have about 5% of my mana remaining. However, Pysis’ remaining HP was still around 40%.
“How high is the durability?”
-Kirerek…Kirreuk…!
Of course, that’s not what I’m talking about.
Unlike Physis, which is hard but loses its stamina little by little, as soon as I reach my stamina, it heals naturally or uses [Purity] To turn it into full blood.
“Oh, this is tight…”
-Kkereureuk!!
The ice spears that Pysis continuously threw did little damage to me, but it was quite annoying. I turned on my smartphone in a dark room on a slightly midsummer night, and it felt like flying insects flew in and stuck to the phone screen. Well, anyway, the ice spear was annoying.
“Isn’t it hot? Shouldn’t it melt at this temperature before that?”
-Cheerreuk…
The appearance of Pysis looks like it was made by collecting lumps of scrap metal. At first, I tried to melt it with the flame of Suzaku, but instead of melting, only 1 HP per second was cut.
60 For 1 minute, 3,600 for 1 hour, 32,400 for 9 hours.
In other words, it is said that you can barely defeat it by throwing it into the flame of Suzaku for about 9 hours.
Of course, I had no intention of waiting for 9 hours, so I chanted various magics at random… In conclusion, it was faster for my mana to reach 0 than the speed at which his health reached.
‘What about this… It will take some time to recover mana…’
-Kiririk!!
“Stop shooting you trash b*tch.”
But come to think of it, is this guy a living creature? From the looks of it, it looks like a robot, but the name is also strange.
“Oh, I don’t know. Even if it takes some time, you’re going to lose. Okay?”
-Cheerreuk?
Don’t tilt your head on the subject of scrap metal.
‘This isn’t the time for me to deal with something like this…’
The reason I stepped into this filthy cold labyrinth was simply because of one of the three dolls.
So I tried to catch it quickly and go back quickly, but my current situation is that I am struggling because of some strange iron lump.
Kang-! Kkang-!
‘If I attack with a sword, the blood won’t be sweet at all… Do I have to kill it with magic?’
[You have acquired automatic mana recovery LV 3.]
The moment I was waiting for mana recovery, the level of the [Automatic Mana Recovery] Ability rose at the right timing.
Of course, there was no big difference between LV 2 and LV 3 recovery speed. Just a little bit faster?
Actually, even though I leveled up with [Mana Auto Recovery LV 3], I felt like I had to wait a day or so for it to automatically recover thanks to my needlessly high amount of mana.
-Kiruruk? Sigh? Kirik!
“…Are you kidding me? You bastard, you don’t seem to understand the current situation, but you’re the one in danger? Wait. Once mana is restored, I’ll just separate your limbs and play Jenga with it.”
At the time I was gnashing my teeth at Pisces’ ridicule, a black mist was flying toward me at great speed from afar.
As far as I know, no one else controls the Black Mist except Veronica, so I noticed that she was back.
Veronica looked back and forth between me and Pisces and giggled when she realized what was going on.
“King. Sounds like a pretty interesting situation.”
“What’s interesting is… That guy is filthy and hard, so I can’t go after him.”
“It’s because of the powerful magic. I remember that it had the effect of completely ignoring physical damage and reducing magical damage by 98%…”
No, where is that magic? [Those who fell into the void] Is also reduced by 80%, but that magic ignores physical damage and reduces magical damage by 98%? Are you kidding me?
“Don’t be too surprised. That magic is a half-penny magic that doesn’t work against high-level opponents.”
“…I can’t believe my level is low…”
“That’s correct. Still, the fact that you reduced your stamina by 60% is worthy of praise, so shouldn’t you be proud of it?”
f*ck, what a brag, you’ve worked hard for nothing.
As I let out a deep sigh, Veronica smiled and showed me three dolls as if to cheer me up.
“I found the doll seolsam. Please take it.”
“Ohh…This is a doll…? It’s more ordinary than I thought.”
The doll that Veronica gave me was a little different from what I imagined. She said that it was a
Doll seolsam, so I thought it was a real human-like hemp, but when I saw it in reality, it was a normal hemp that was just human in shape.
If you did not know that it was doll snow ginseng, you would have mistaken it for normal ginseng.
“[Item Research]”
[Doll’s Seolsam: When taken, mana doubles, all stats increase 1.2 Times]
As Veronica had said, the ginseng doll was an elixir with excellent efficacy of doubling mana and increasing all stats by 1.2 Times. If you take this, it will definitely help me a lot.
…..Stop shooting anyway!
There’s Veronica who openly exudes dangerous mana next to you. Are you fearless, scrap metal bastard?
“That… Looks like a Pisces key.”
“…What seat?”
“Don’t you know the zodiac? It must be a constellation in the king’s hometown.”
The 12 signs of the zodiac are the constellations in Greek and Roman mythology. But why is it here?
“The king’s hometown and this world are very closely connected. So it’s not strange to say that they have the same myth.”
“Wait, what do you mean?”
“The details are a secret. The important thing now is that that iron block is more important than you think.”
Veronica pointed his finger at Pisces, who was preparing to fire an ice spear.
That’s an important guy? Where are you looking?
From the looks of it, it looks like it was made by a geeky artist with an unusual taste, roughly collecting scrap metal.
“The treasured treasure of the first emperor, it seems to be related to that iron block.”
“…The first emperor’s treasure…? Come to think of it, I told you the other day that the first emperor’s treasure was hidden in the Labyrinth of the Sun, right? But it’s highly likely that’s not true.”
“I thought it was just a myth, but it seems to actually exist.”
So you really want to say that iron block is the treasure of the first emperor? No matter how much I think about it, it makes no sense.
“That iron block is not the Emperor’s treasured treasure. It is precisely one of the keys that open the way to the treasured treasure.”
Key?….. Come to think of it, that guy’s name was Physis ‘Key’, right? I thought it was just the name of a monster, but did it mean a real key?
“There is an item believed to be the treasure of the emperor. It will surely be of great help to the king. So why don’t you excuse me for a moment?”
“In a nutshell, do you mean stealing?”
“Similar.”
Similarly, if this isn’t stealing, what is it?
Common sense suggests that the treasures left by the first emperor should have been hidden for the descendants of the Hyperion family. What is this if not stealing?
What, stealing is bad?
Even if I look like this, the thief I saw in a certain detective anime when I was young looked cool, so I wrote Kaitoki X as my future hope. Thanks to that, my whole body itched because I thought it would be fun to steal the emperor’s treasure.
Besides, [Calebral Mind] Was always activated, so I didn’t have any objection to stealing.
“To open the treasure chest where the first emperor’s treasure is hidden, you’ll probably need a total of 12 keys.”
“Is this guy one of them?”
“That’s right. If you attack moderately, it turns into a key on its own, so keep that in mind.”
…If you attack moderately…? No matter how hard I hit it, it didn’t turn into a key…
“Isn’t it simply because the king’s level is too low? So, work hard to grow.”
After that, Veronica reached out her hand toward Pisces, who continued to fire her ice spear at me.
“Let’s get a key for now.”
At that moment, a black mist erupted from Veronica’s hand and enveloped Physis’ body.
Then he began to crush Pysis’ entire body as if he were squeezing an insect to death.
-Ki…Rerek…Ki…Rureuk…!
Kwajik-!
Then, the 40% HP that I had worked so hard for was reduced to 0 in an instant, and at the same time, Physis’ entire body began to shrivel.
Shortly thereafter, Pisces’ entire body turned to powder and a uniquely shaped key fell to the floor.
Veronica opened her mouth as she picked up the fallen key and handed it to me.
“This is for the king to have.”
“Me?”
“Anyway, the person who will get the emperor’s treasure is the king. So isn’t it right that the king has it?”
That’s true, but… I feel like I’m eating it raw this time, like when I was mixed salt?
Aren’t you getting an upset stomach?
“The king is still too weak. Now is the time to slowly build up his strength. And isn’t it natural for a servant to devote himself to the king?”
“Um…Is that so?…”
“But if you really want, the king can take care of it…”
“No, isn’t it more efficient to study with a teacher to teach you rather than studying alone? It’s a similar concept.”
What? If you eat raw, you’ll get a stomach ache?
Originally, sashimi of fish is expensive, and sashimi of beef is expensive, you bastards.
****
“Sir Hubert, are you sure?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. The flames of chaos are evident from the burnt traces of the Constellation Palace.”
“Heh heh…Was it really true…”
Hearing Hubert say that it was true that the seal of the conflagration was broken, Grace laughed.
‘Why…? When I checked it a month ago, it seemed like it would last for about 10 years…’
Hon-Yeom was a monster that was sealed in the Maze of the Sun when the first emperor was in power, but as time went by, the power of the sealing mouth weakened, and it was scheduled to be completely sealed in 10 years.
That’s why I wanted to deal with the mixed flame somehow, but if I touched it wrongly and broke the seal, it would be a joke, so I’ve been looking for a way to deal with the mixed flame.
I don’t know what the problem was, but the seal of the mixed flame was released sooner than expected, and the time when the seal of the mixed flame was released was the time when Grace and Hubert were away for a meeting.
Originally, the entire capital, Eos, would have been burned by the mixed flames… But for some reason, the mixed flames were destroyed by people from another world less than a month after it was transferred.
‘How did you knock it down? No matter how great the potential of the people of this world is, it is impossible to defeat the mixed flames at this point. What the hell happened…’
Grace calmed her aching head as much as possible and asked the chief chamberlain who was standing next to her.
“Chief Chamberlain, have you found the whereabouts of people from another world?”
“Yes, I heard from a lady-in-waiting that she went into a large hole at the entrance to the Constellation Palace early in the morning.”
“…To there? Why?”
One more question has increased.
There is no way a person from another world would know about the Maze of the Sun, the first-class secret of the imperial family, so why did they go down the hole?
‘…I don’t know at all….I’ll have to talk to that otherworlder myself…’
Grace eventually gave up on the idea.
Grace was much smarter than the average person, but no matter how much she thought about this incident, she couldn’t understand it.
“Sir Hubert.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Go directly into the labyrinth of the sun and find Gaon Park, who is from another world. Instead, you should treat him very politely. If you do something wrong, you may suffer.”
“Name.”
Hubert didn’t ask Grace why.
Hubert was the sword of Grace, the leader of the imperial knights, and a being who would die if the emperor died and live if he lived.
“…But, contrary to the reports of the ‘eyes’, if the level of force is lower than expected… I will allow you to exercise your skills a little.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
Hubert disappeared from the throne room in an instant after that.
As soon as Hubert disappeared, Grace sighed and muttered quietly.
“…I entrusted it to Sir Hubert, so you don’t have to worry…”
That’s how Hubert Petra, one of the four strongest swordsmen in the continent and the world’s strongest swordsman, began to move toward the labyrinth of the sun.