#4
It’s still too early to be sure. A hasty action inevitably leads to anger. I needed to be more calm.
Are you going to shout out to the sky and shout to get me out of here right now? In a situation where nothing turns out to be true?
What’s more, I have no idea whether the Overseer somewhere will actually grant my request. What will you do if you shout out loud and bring the monsters around you? I was the only one at a loss. So for now, it’s best to shut up as much as possible.
When you relax, your anxiety may go away. He put his hands on the wall, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.
Whoo… …
Whoa.
Then, my heart, which had been pounding as if it was about to explode, felt a little calm. great.
Ugh…
The torch was not taken out. Because it wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t see at all. Concentrating on his eyes, he opened his eyes and slowly moved forward.
Immediately after reaching the fork, I thought my heart stopped when I kicked a stone that was rolling on the floor without knowing it.
What makes the scene feel so bloody…
It’s like real practice. The obvious answer comes from within me, but if monsters and traps are added to this atmosphere, most of the students without courage will most likely tremble from the beginning.
There is no way that only winding passages and monsters were thrown into the labyrinth. These places usually require very special attention. You never know when or where something will pop out. The most important thing was to keep the string of tension tight. Because of that, I sharply raised the feeling of the whole body so as not to be vigilant.
A magic chant floats in my head in advance so that it is almost instantaneous, and as I touch the bracelet on my wrist, I recall the essence of this exercise.
‘The key is two things.’
You will succeed in surviving for two days.
And, reach the altar.
Survival though…
What is the alternative altar?
First of all, the ‘special task’ that Seira-senpai was talking about was probably closely related to the altar of courtesy.
And the sooner you complete a special task than others, the higher your chances of getting a high score. How should I interpret this word?
Are you saying that special tasks can’t be accomplished by just one person? You could be late, but does that mean you’ll get less points than the first one?
Whatever the case, select and collect only reliable information. ‘survival’. ‘First-come, first-served basis’. ‘Special Assignment’. This sets the future policy.
The conclusion was simple.
must survive,
Arrive at the altar faster than anyone else.
This required quick action.
Tub…
I took a step forward as I looked up at the two moons for a moment, earnestly praying in my heart that the anxiety I am feeling now would be in vain.
#5
It is impossible to understand the entire structure of the labyrinth.
“Uh… … ”
So, now I have to choose the path that splits left and right in front of me.
Which one is the right way? Which way can I go to reach the ‘Altar’?
The decision didn’t take long.
Judgment had to be swift.
go left
At first glance, I think I read a miscellaneous book with ‘How to break through the labyrinth easily’ when I was in middle school, but I can’t remember the details.
It wouldn’t have been of much help anyway. There must have been something written on the wall on one side of the wall to follow along.
The excellent method (右手法) is a simple maze consisting of one side, but it is a rather unreasonable method to use in a labyrinth like this.
Walk along the slightly darker path on the left.
Tub, thump…
footsteps are annoying Would it be better to take off your shoes? Nope. Injuries to the soles of the feet can cause problems with movement.
Are the other kids in the class currently in the same labyrinth as me? Maybe I was the only one left here. I felt a complete sense of loneliness to the extent that such thoughts were unintentional.
When I think that I have been thrown into this vast labyrinth by myself, I feel like my neck is trembling in the distant fear and my brain is turning white.
If it was in the past, it certainly would have been.
In other words, now… …
then-.
A gentle wind brushes the cheeks. A string of tension that had been taut from before. There is one thing that catches my sense of feeling spread out in all directions.
Slowly lower your head while completely stopping the movement. reaching the end of the line of sight. It was right at my feet.
… It was going to be a big deal.
You can feel a very small amount of magic underneath. It’s dark and it’s hard to see, but I intuitively knew that something bad was going to happen the moment I left my footprints on this place.
I carefully stepped back to make my uncertain assumptions a reality. At least the road I’ve been on is safe, so I took a step back.
… Whoops.
I went back to the passage where the forked road had just split, hid myself against the wall, and picked up a small stone lying under my feet.
As it is, with only his head outstretched, towards the point where he had just felt the magic power, tuk. and threw
The stone, which advanced in a parabolic shape, rolled down the floor without a hitch.
I quickly hid myself against the wall.
immediately.
──Pyung!
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Do rolling stones make that kind of noise?
Absolutely not.
A ray of light that left an afterimage flashed briefly in the darkness. The sound of an object being fired. A pounding sound that rips the air in an instant. I listened carefully and I saw clearly. My doubts were soon confirmed.
… driving me crazy.
Is it an arrow trap from the grass?
If you get hit with something like that, you’ll die instantly.
In my case, this bracelet would protect me at least once, but I couldn’t waste that precious opportunity on a trap.
The difficulty level of the labyrinth is quite insane. There’s no way I’d have placed something like a toy arrow. So you mean you were trying to shove a real arrow into the student’s heart? There really is no death, right? If one person gets caught in this wrong, I’m really going to be hooked on the spot.
It’s an exercise to test whether or not you can fight against demons, but what’s the use if you fail out of a trap like this? …
“… … ”
In Ma…
Ma (魔)…
yes-.
Was the feeling I was feeling the influence of demons?
If you think about it that way, you can roughly understand the context. If there were demons lurking in this labyrinth, it wasn’t unreasonable to feel the magical energy between them. is it. Was it? I felt that some of the anxiety I had been holding on to since I entered the labyrinth has been relieved a little.
Breaking through the labyrinth is a priority. As long as I focus on that goal without paying attention to anything else, there is no reason for me to be anxious anymore.
If you go deeper, you might come across the classmates someday, but if you run into Yuri, you’ll probably go back.
First, I drew a rough map in my head.
great.
Now go for real.
──Pyung!
Whenever something caught my breath, I carefully jumped over it without stepping on it, or sometimes threw a stone to trigger a trap, secured a safe route, and continued moving forward.
However, as it was sometimes triggered by a foot switch that was not like a magical thread, as soon as I felt my soles were turned off, I immediately flew away and managed to avoid the sharp arrowhead being stabbed in the head.
“ha… ha… ”
Since then, he has only gone through a few traps, but a feeling of exhaustion as if he had already consumed a third of his mental strength soaked his body.
If there is such a thing, give me a crude shield in advance. There are no frivolous weapons. What the hell did you throw us away for?
I can’t quite understand the intention. Damn, I’ve been so focused on excavating installed traps that my head is pounding and I’m starting to get nervous.
“Whew… Write.”
Leaning against the cool exterior wall to catch a breath for a while, wet the dry mouth with saliva, and step forward again.
There is no time to delay with the slightest irritation. It is beneficial to move even one step further during this time. As I grinded my teeth, I fixed the backpack that was hung on my back.
So exactly ten minutes later.
As I turned around the open road in the middle of the continuous passage, a presence that I had not clearly felt there suddenly appeared.
“… this shit.”
─Ahhh!
these crazy bastards.
If you’re going to be suddenly summoned from an empty wall, what have I been searching for like this?
#6
──Pyung!
The blonde girl with a backpack the size of my body on her back hardened like a stone without even thinking of moving her sluggish body.
“… … ”
It was inadvertently stepped on.
very thin thread.
The girl’s situation is not taken care of. The arrows fired from the dispenser buried in the outer wall cut through the air and smashed mercilessly.
Wedge love-!
Arrowheads are aimed at the girl’s head.
Among them, the center of the forehead is smooth.
The moment you pierce like this.
The crimson blood will spurt out, and the slender body will fall backwards helplessly.
All those futures flashed like lightning in the girl’s head as she faced the arrow.
with a bang.
The girl, who had stiffened and did not move even a single step from her seat at the end——realized that it was already too late and decided to give her hand instead of her head, quickly raised her hand to protect her forehead.
──, the audience outside the labyrinth thought so.
As a result, the girl succeeded in protecting her head. And, his palm too. There was not a single scratch left on the girl’s body.
woo woo woo…
Exactly one meter from the point where the girl reached out, the arrow that was supposed to be fired remained in the air.
As if time had stopped.
The arrow, which had been there for a while, soon fell to the floor without a pulse. ugh-. The girl also lowered the hand she was holding accordingly.
A truly fleeting moment.
Epic Class 1st year 2nd year, Yuri von Artina showed her wits and stopped arrows with her telekinesis.
──As a matter of fact, the audience outside the labyrinth must have admired it.
‘The Lord, the shareholder, the shareholder, the shareholder, was almost embarrassed, everything… … ah.’
It’s a coincidence.
Yuri was so terrified that she was about to faint.
I entered, but there was no one around, and I was alone, and I was afraid to die, but a cold death had just arrived.
He moved cheerfully to shake off his fear, but this was the result of not being able to look around properly.
It was just that he barely stood still, shaking his legs from his seat. It looked like he was going to lose his strength and sit like this. No, I’ve already half-folded my crotch. However, it never collapsed and remained strong.
It was. The glass was shattered. The eyes of King Artina and Queen Artina, who were looking at Yuri from the outside by now, may well have welled up with tears of arrogance.
I was moaning because my backpack was heavier than I thought, but I stepped on the trap while trying to fix my posture, hoping to just float it with my telekinesis.
The merciless arrow flew in immediately, and Yuri almost died without moving.
All of this was already a reality for Yuri. advice? main point? I don’t remember anything. what is that. how are you using that I don’t know, can’t you just save me… ?
A transparent feeling of fear was oozing out of his pale blue complexion. In addition, beads-like water droplets formed on the corners of the glass’s eyes.
As a body raised preciously in the royal greenhouse, there was no way he could properly adapt to the harsh environment in which a momentary mistake would lead to death.
‘Hey, do this for two days… … ?’
Now is the beginning. It hasn’t even been an hour since I came in. Yuri had to hold her backpack strap tightly and pull her lower lip up.
It’s terribly cold, dark, and lonely.
If there was someone by my side, I would have been relieved, but Yuri was completely alone now. It means that there is no one to trust and rely on.
Yuri thought that, as an adult, she had to go through any crisis on her own, but maybe that was the case. Survival, altar, whatever, Yuri wanted to find someone first.
─ Well… …
yes. tell me though
If possible, I want to meet a living person…
‘Oh, brother… … ‘
In a dark labyrinth where two moons have risen in the blue sky and the cries of the lost dead are heard here and there, Yuri barely swallows her chin-filled cry and instinctively seeks the existence of the person she can rely on the most… …