#9
─ Ugh… …
The sputum boils from the torn corner of the mouth.
After being hit by a fireball several times and completely burned, it shatters its tanned body into ashes to the ground.
“… Huh.”
When I read the flow of magic, I immediately expected that a monster would be summoned, but when an abomination that was far more disgusting than I expected appeared, I shredded the fireball.
In the end, the ghoul died in vain within three seconds of appearing. At most, it was just one lift of a crushed finger. However, that last gesture was clearly engraved on Rubia’s brain.
“eww… uh… … ”
From the monster’s point of view, Rubia, who grinds fireballs with question-and-answer dance, would be the target of fear, but Rubia seemed to shed tears in her unbearable fear.
Even though he is making his way through magic without needing to light a torch, the atmosphere is so frightening…
My shoulders are shaking. A chill or cold gently wrapped around Rubia’s whole body. I just wanted to cover my ears, squat down and close my eyes.
It’s scary to move forward, and scary to step back. Can’t we just stay in this place like this and hold out until the time limit runs out? Or maybe you want to find a safe place somewhere. I’m guessing there’s probably no such place.
“right… woo woo… … ”
Sitting down somewhere and cowardly killing time might be a way to do it, but it reminds me of the supervisor’s words that I don’t recommend it.
There must be a reason for saying that. Obviously, if you stay in one place for a long time, there will be some kind of penalty, or monsters will gather around it. Even Rubia knew that it wasn’t the right choice either way.
Then you have to keep moving forward.
That’s not as easy as it sounds… …
Ugh…
He placed his hand on the damp and cool exterior wall and read the flow of magic. By widening it to the maximum range it can detect, it understands the structure a little bit.
A round map came to mind in Rubia’s mind. This is an unfinished map. However, it was slowly filling up the space.
‘If you turn left here, the road is blocked. Right side… … The road is blocked too. what. What happened? Are they both blocked? So am I on the wrong track? Should I go back again… … ?’
weird. You can’t stop here. I couldn’t have misunderstood. Then, a serious error occurred in the map that was being created. That said, I had to tear it all down and fix it from scratch. Rubia’s complexion turned pale for a moment in a future she didn’t want to imagine so much.
Although Rubia was so scared right now, the speed of breaking through the labyrinth was actually very fast.
When a monster appeared, it screamed and burned quickly, and when caught in a trap, it was lightly deflected with the always active shield, so it was able to walk smoothly toward the center without a single wound.
So, it is true that we have already gone through quite a few roads. If the road gets blocked here, you don’t know where to turn.
Sniffing and inhaling her nose, Rubia firmly made up her mind. I can’t keep doing this. have to do anything like it has been so far.
Tub…
Carefully looking around, Rubia took another step forward.
Go to the middle path, neither left nor right.
A very high and solid exterior wall. Even if Rubia had exhausted all her magic power, it was so strong that it would not be able to sustain a scratch as much as this outer wall.
You can’t break the wall. You can’t climb the wall either. Of course, if you use wind-based magic, you can float high.
─ Grip support.
If you shoot a lump of magic into the sky like this, you can see that the magic disappears just at the end of the outer wall.
This is the so-called barrier.
After all, although the ceiling appears to be open, it is actually blocked. Therefore, it is of course impossible to practice the idea of climbing to a high place and grasping the structure of the labyrinth at once.
‘What do we do… … ‘
Rubia put one hand on her chest and touched the outside wall.
If both roads are blocked, here’s all that’s left. Assuming that the route that Rubia herself figured out was not wrong.
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Did I really make a mistake? Should I go back like this? I really hate that. what to do What do we do. Let’s think a little more. Slowly, calmly. There must be a way. Rubia closed her eyes and read the flow.
A myriad of information is overflowing and pouring out. location of the trap. number of summons. The amount of magical power contained in the summoning circle. Steps that should not be stepped on, etc. Rubia grasped all of them, and drew them closely on the map in her brain.
and analyze it at once. where is the right way to go What are you missing right now?
Truly, an unbelievable level of mana sensitivity shines. Among the first-year students, only Rubia was able to do so. In other words, if it wasn’t for Rubia, no one would have figured it out.
woo woo woo… …
I can feel the flow of heterogeneous magic.
something,
It is hidden.
‘found.’
In a certain corner of the outer wall on the right, there was a part with a different nature of the magical power that made up the outer wall by itself. Otherwise, I would have just missed it. It’s so well hidden. But in the end I managed to find it.
I see I was not wrong. You don’t have to walk in vain. Rubia was just happy about that fact.
‘Damn, that’s about it… ?’
The way to activate the hidden device is probably to press down on that foreign part. It’s kind of like a switch. Although it was in a slightly higher position, it seemed that I could barely reach it if I lifted my claws.
“Whew… ”
thank god. Now–
─ Kugugugu… …
‘what?’
uh? ‘ Rubia opened her mouth slightly.
He had only moved two steps, and the outer wall in front of him began to sink downward, forming a cloud of dust.
Now this… What’s up?
“uh? uh?”
Slowly even taking a step backwards.
What, I didn’t touch anything? Why is this open alone? Did I touch the device without my knowledge? Can’t you? what?
─ Kugugugugu… …
Rubia quickly escaped from the periphery of the passage, which began to appear at narrow intervals as if a heavy iron gate was landing.
I swear it wasn’t Rubia herself who started the device. Then who is it? There is no one here but you. For a moment, a chilling chill ran across Rubia’s spine. nope no way. It can’t be. Rubia swallowed her saliva and carefully raised her hand.
─ woo woo woo… !
Magical power begins to condense at your fingertips.
Because I don’t know what’s going to come out of me all of a sudden
“!”
Finally, the passage is fully opened.
─ Quaang!
Even before the dust cloud was completely lifted, a black new model was shot like a cannonball from the newly opened road and rushed towards Rubia.
“───?!!”
It was an invisible speed.
A being that appeared through the dust cloud struck Rubia’s shield. Whoo-! A terrifying shock wave spread out, and the whole area vibrated heavily. Due to the acceleration, even stronger superpowers attacked Rubia.
It’s a shame that I memorized Youngchang beforehand.
If only a little later… …
─ blah blah blah blah blah!
The shield is about to break.
Rubia swallowed in surprise.
‘Well, what kind of monsters are there-?!’
For some reason, I thought it was too easy to handle. All of a sudden, the difficulty level went up. Still, I wondered if this was going too far. If the shield breaks, you will temporarily lose concentration. In the meantime, if a monster suddenly attacked, it was a situation where he had to face it.
Can not help it. One magic is to use abbreviation and prepare a double chorale. Rubia was in a hurry to prepare the next magic—
‘uh?’
realizing one thing.
After keeping the shield as it is, he exclaimed quickly.
“Come on, sleep, sleep, wait-!”
“… … ?”
The cloud of dust that had covered his son-in-law to the point where it was impossible to tell the shape disappeared just then, and Rubia and the monster finally faced each other.
Pak-!
Rubia’s shield, which she had managed to maintain, was finally broken like glass. However, there was no follow-up hit from the monster.
“… … ”
“Gee, really, I was really surprised… … ”
Whoo, whoo… hib.
Rubia hiccuped and caught her breath.
“You, you, you meant to kill me… … ?”
Of course, I thought it was a monster,
was a person
“… … ttt.”
“Ttt?!”
For a moment, it was as if a look of regret passed by at first glance. There is a liquid that you don’t know whether it’s the blood of a monster or your own, all over the clothes.
She wiped her white, pale cheeks with the back of her hand, and looked down at Rubia, who was half-slumped with inorganic eyes.
A long spear was held in one hand. Old and corroded wooden window. He was using a weapon that was originally possessed by a monster. The tip of the spear was soaked with rotten flesh and the blood of a monster. It was a pretty stinky object, but the owner didn’t seem to have any complaints about it.
It was only after facing Mew who looked down at her without saying a word with the moonlight on her back, Rubia could finally understand the whole situation.
It was Mew, not Rubia, who opened up a new path. There was also a device on the other side, and Mu activated it. So the way was opened even though he had not touched it. That was the flow.
I don’t know how they opened it, but now it doesn’t really matter.
‘Something nice, but not nice… … ‘
Once I met a living person, I was very happy, but I wasn’t so happy that the subject was Mew. This is because the emotional gap between the two did not show any sign of being resolved. After the fight in the arena, the partnership temporarily ended, and the two went looking for Ezio in their own way.
“… Why are you here?”
It was the first word Mew spoke after being silent for a long time.
“… … is that what i want to ask? How did you find and open this road?”
“How did you happen?”
“How come… … ?”
It really was. I was just choking around and accidentally pressing the switch. Mu did not even mention that fact. Because I didn’t feel the need to speak at all.
“Well, okay. It was open, but I didn’t know you would be there. What did you find out behind it?”
“uh? uh… … Well, once I keep following the road I’ve been on, I’m bound to get stuck somewhere, so I think the road you came out on is the correct route… … ”
“Hmm.”
So, isn’t this the right way? Mew muttered softly, leaving Rubia behind and turning her back indifferently.
“… … !”
OK.
“Come on, wait!”
“… … ”
stand tall.
Mu suddenly stopped walking.
“Come on, wait a minute.”
“… … What.”
“Do you really know where to go now?”
“no.”
A knife-like answer came back.
As if you were aware of that, Mew turned her head slightly. without looking back completely.
Rubia swallowed her saliva and said.
“I… I know a little. It’s not very wide, but I can barely read the structure of walls and traps.”
“… … So what?”
These were words and actions that even he was reluctant to say, but what is the use of protecting one’s pride in a crisis situation?
“Uh, we have to be here for two days anyway… ? In the meantime, you have to stay up all night, and if you think about your physical condition, you have to sleep, but when you sleep, of course, you will be in a defenseless state. It’s a big deal if you get attacked by a monster while you’re sleeping. I don’t even know if there is a safe place yet… ”
“… … ”
“In the meantime, you never know where and what dangers may arise, and you may have been doing well on your own until now, but the more you go inside, the stronger the monsters will become. … did you feel it too The closer you get to the center, the more difficult it gets.”
“… … ”
Well. Mu didn’t know. Just because I saw it with my own eyes, I killed my sin. As Rubia said, looking back, it seems like it was. I didn’t get that much sympathy.
“So what.”
Because of that, he was just showing a sullen reaction.
Ugh…
After Rubia got up from her seat and stood on the floor, she fixed her backpack. Then, in a small voice, like an ant crawling, he licked his lips.
“So… go, go together… … ”
“… … ”
It was the moment when Mu’s face, which had always been expressionless, finally showed a sign of pity.