episode_0053

When Mongma returned, the castle was very different from before.

Even if you are walking on the floor, at some point you notice that the wall has become the floor and the floor you were walking on is in the place of the wall.

dizzy. Although it is definitely dizzy, it is moving straight forward.

The only thing that makes me dizzy is my vision, but my legs are actually doing their job without any problems. This is an amazing situation.

Unlike the floor, the walls have windows without glass, and there is a huge pillar in the middle, so it’s easy to get your feet caught, but it’s not in the way at all.

The only thing that can be felt on the soles of military boots is the texture of the floor.

Now, after walking up the ceiling and passing straight through the huge chandelier, I realized that it was all fake.

“The direction itself is moving forward, but it feels a little dizzy.”

“This is what it looks like when the space created by the illusion and the space actually created collide. It looks like the function hasn’t been restored properly, so if you just wait a little longer, you’ll be able to get there quickly, right?”

As Feria said, the castle must have suffered quite a bit of damage thanks to the longsword’s attack, and this time it definitely didn’t look like an endless hallway like last time.

When it comes to genjutsu, it is best to keep the person who has been subjected to it from being even slightly aware that it is an illusion.

But now, the magic of castles only serves to make us dizzy. It may deceive our eyes, but it doesn’t mean much unless our path is interrupted.

Hygenics continues to guide us to the center of the castle, saying that it is not much different from the interior of the old castle that he remembers.

If we keep going like this, we might soon reach the hall we arrived at last time.

“Wait.”

While we were walking around, keeping an eye on our surroundings, a senior adventurer stopped us.

“Why are you doing that? Winnet?”

A woman who simply introduced herself as Winnet when we met.

He takes his arms out from the cloak covering his body, places his palms on the ground, and closes his eyes.

“Is there something there?”

Is there something you can feel when you become a high-level adventurer?

It is said that no matter how hard ordinary people try, they end up spending their whole lives with a bit of upper-class status.

Top, middle, bottom. Above that is a special class that there are only a few in the kingdom.

It is said that most people who rise to the top early are those who have natural talents that are different from others.

Those whose blood is mixed with other races but have a close human appearance, or those who have instinctively played with magical powers since childhood.

This woman named Winnet may also have a special sense.

“Something is coming.”

‘When a line like that comes out, it doesn’t lead to a very good situation.’

This is a line that appears in a horror movie when the survivors start dying one by one. If it were a movie with B-level sensibilities, it might somehow win, but this is reality.

As Hygenic quietly raises his hand so as not to disturb Winnet, about 20 people stand guard in front.

An incredibly long corridor.

The tiles on the walls and floor on all sides are cracked, and the light of the setting sun comes in through the windows and illuminates the hallway.

Perhaps it was only the front part that had been deceived by the illusion, but before we knew it, we were standing in the middle of a long, long corridor, neither the entrance we had walked through nor the other end visible.

It is thankful that your vision is no longer dazzled by walking on walls or ceilings, but it is something that an enemy would be reluctant to do.

I have a rough intuition that the enemy is similar to the ones out there.

‘If it were the size of the mixture, it would have been visible right away.’

However, there is no feeling that something is coming either in front or behind.

It looks like Hygenics doesn’t want to waste too much time here, so he asks a senior adventurer to decide whether to advance once again or wait.

“Can you tell the direction?”

“No. The illusion is in the process of being restored and the magic power fluctuates, so I can’t tell the exact direction. But something is invading the space I can feel.”

‘Do you have your own search scope?’

“There is definitely something.”

Vincent, the knight, also seems to have started to feel something late and strengthens the hand holding his sword.

“Isn’t this an intention to tie us up here? There is no time to waste here.”

A soldier gives Hygenic an opinion, but I disagree.

If there was even the slightest bit of information on the battlefield, it often led to a sign of something.

If you see a lot of cracked floors here and there, it’s a sign that there’s something under the ground, and if you hear even the slightest sound, it means that you didn’t hear anything wrong, but that there’s someone around.

Be it a sign, a sound, or even a cool breeze blowing from somewhere that cools the sweat on your back, you must be alert.

Then Peria quietly whispers to me.

“Oppa. I think I heard something.”

“What is it? Tell me in detail.”

“Sound of something clicking and moving on the wall. But did you not hear me clearly?”

The sound was heard by Feria, who was close to the wall.

Peria told me not to pay attention to what was just a passing comment, but an ominous feeling from the experience came over me.

‘Inside the wall?’

Just in case, I hold Peria’s hand and take Master and Enin nearby and retreat to a place far away from the wall where the sound came from.

Thistle and Deshade also hear Peria’s voice and retreat to the opposite direction from us.

There is no sound other than the occasional sound of someone swallowing dry saliva.

There is a possibility that some noise will come in, but perhaps because the illusion is not completely broken, the light of the setting sun outside comes in, but not even the sound of fighting can be heard at all.

That moment when silence continued.

“This way!”

“This way!”

Winnet, a high-level adventurer, looked at the wall to his right,

Knight Vincent shouts while looking at the wall on the left.

‘Which one?’

The two people who were standing together quickly moved away from where they were standing and the wall suddenly opened.

Rumbling

Both walls.

It wasn’t that the two people couldn’t hear each other properly, but that they each felt something moving on the wall near them.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-

At the same time, a huge black figure emerges from the left wall and quickly moves to the right, sweeping away the soldiers who were unable to avoid it.

“Quaaah!”

The bodies of four soldiers were cut into pieces by the halberds held by the mixture that came out in an instant.

What happened so quickly made all the soldiers freeze.

I quickly ran towards the wall, but the wall immediately closed. I felt around to see if there was any device, but it was a wall made of ordinary stone.

A wall that was tightly closed with a clicking sound as if there was no connecting passage.

“I will come again.”

The Master speaks quietly but so that everyone can hear.

I don’t know how this guy will come out.

The floor may collapse or the walls may open.

“It looks like a centipede.”

The enemy was a mixture whose body length seemed to be two or three times that of the mixtures I saw passing by from the outside.

While the ones outside looked like chubby scorpions, this one looked like a rattlesnake writhing and running across the desert.

This is already his nest.

‘Right. Did it come out this way?’

For some reason, we couldn’t see any guards and we had already arrived at the optimal space for him to fight.

A wall created by an illusion is instantly activated and a surprise attack is made.

Someone controlling this thing is trying to annihilate us by unilaterally charging that huge cavalry at us.

“Would it be better to keep running like this?”

According to someone’s opinion, would it be a better decision to get out of this extended hallway?

“…No. It should be resolved here. If you move forward and another enemy appears, there is a possibility that you will be attacked and become dangerous.”

However, that thought was immediately extinguished by Hygenic’s rebuttal.

Well, if another guy that looks like this comes out, it might get a lot harder.

“I wish there were more numbers.”

Winnet, who can be detected, is located close to the right wall, and Vincent is located close to the left wall, but this leaves the floor empty.

Anyway, if you instantaneously change a closed area with an illusion, the floor can come out using the same principle.

“…so that the soul bottles are located in the center.”

Hygenic looked at us with an apologetic expression and placed us in three positions in the middle of a wide formation.

‘I guess it can’t be helped.’

In this situation, we who can be resurrected must become the bait.

We moved to the center of the formation. We stand on each wide tile, with Master in the front, me in the middle, and Noan in the back.

The battlefield has become quiet again.

“That way.”

“Yes?”

Suddenly Deshade points out to me.

“Center and its left.”

“That way!”

Belatedly, the advanced adventurer and Vincent pointed in my direction.

Dalkak-

Kwagwagwagwagwak-

“Such nonsense.”

The floor where I was standing and the wall to my left opened.

As soon as the floor disappears, the eyes meet the three heads embedded in the guy’s body.

Sooo-

I was pushed by the guy and dragged into the wall behind me.

‘Is this what it feels like to be hit by a truck and dragged away?’

The feeling of my ribs being broken upon impact, and the moment I was pushed by a huge object, pain engulfed my body.

‘I can’t just die!’

Now that things have come to this, we need to inflict as much damage as possible. He pulls out his magic sword and plunges it into the body that hits him at incredible speed.

Puff-puff-puff-puff-

Stabbing, cutting, and striking the glowing helmets of dead Demon Warriors.

Poke, pluck, prod, pluck, cut, stir,

Regardless of whether the body is broken or not, he does his best to plunge the magic sword into each and every weak point he thinks is visible.

Sigh!

Every time the sword is pulled out, a fountain of blood is created, soaking the entire body.

Even though the huge body is made up of corpses woven together, black blood splatters from the cut parts as if there is still blood left.

“Please buy it! I don’t want to die!”

They are dragged through an endless tunnel with no idea where they are, and black blood is painted everywhere, but it’s not enough.

Compared to the size of this very large centipede, the magic sword is at most the size of an awl.

The magic sword is so powerful that it tears through armor as if it were paper, but it is not enough to inflict fatal wounds.

Still, he didn’t like the idea of getting injured, so he suddenly threw me into the air.

And then,

Phuuk-

“Kwaaak!”

The halberd pierced my body.

The sensation of a huge cold weapon penetrating your body.

From the back of the neck to the stomach,

The other comes through the side,

Another spear blade pierces my right chest.

As he ran down the long passage, he thrust three halberds into my body at the same time.

Wow!

The arms holding the halberds were spread out to both sides.

‘It fucking hurts.’

I died feeling like my body was being torn apart in all directions.

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“Ugh! It’s a surprise!”

As soon as he is resurrected and thinks he has regained consciousness, he kicks the door of the narrow coffin and rolls out. So the soldier who was holding the coffin that I was in fell down in shock.

“Ahh… It’s been so long since I died so cruelly.”

I shiver at the still vivid feeling of my body being torn apart.

Since these bodies had already been touched by Deshade once before, it was fortunate that they were revived immediately without any stiffness this time.

I immediately reported the situation just now to Hygenic.

“The guy is running down an unknown passage. It’s quite long, but it seems like it’ll take some time for it to come out again.”

“I’m sorry. Thank you for your sacrifice. But it’s so fast that it’s hard to react and I don’t know what to do.”

Hygenic expresses his gratitude and begins to rack his brain as a conductor.

I also think about how I can get him out of the passage.

There is a clicking sound, but it is irregular, sometimes occurring a long time ago or several times in a row.

This sound itself may be a sound made intentionally to deceive us.

‘Or maybe the guy who controls the castle is struggling because he doesn’t know how to manipulate things properly.’

Just as we were getting nervous again, adventurer Winnet called Deshade. He speaks informally, as if he doesn’t know that Deshade is a god.

“There you are.”

“Did you call me? Oh human.”

“The way he speaks is a little strange. Anyway, you noticed where that strange guy was coming from, right? He was faster than me.”

Deshade certainly figured out the direction from which the mixture came out faster than the two people who manipulated magic.

“It was not determined by magical power, but by the energy of the devil. Even though it is dead blood, it has the energy of a small devil, with so much demon blood gathered together.”

“…I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you figured it out better than I did.”

The high-level adventurer said that and took off the robe covering his body.