episode_0089

We continued forward until we reached a fork in the road, but we never encountered the prince’s punitive force.

I wasn’t sure whether to call it a blessing or an ominous sign that the prince and his party were advancing so quickly.

And when the path forks.

“I’m in trouble because there’s no map here.”

We had to stop, unable to decide where to go.

It was really difficult not to have a map.

He seemed unsure of which way to go to find the piece of map for the remote island we were supposed to be looking for.

And the eyes of the group slowly gathered in one place.

“??”

Naturally, I thought the gazes would be directed towards the leader and Princess Rasiel.

“Priest.”

“Is something bothering you?”

“I think I should go that way… .”

“If you feel something, please don’t hesitate to tell me!”

“That’s right. Since no one here knows, I think it would be better for the priest to decide.”

It was I who wanted people to decide their path.

“Isn’t this something that guides do?”

Why are you doing this to me… .

But even the guides were asking me for favors.

“You can do various research and choose the one with the highest probability. But no one knows which way the road will go. We can’t do much in places where the structure itself has changed a lot.”

When I think about the stairs I saw when I got to the fourth floor and the height of the path I took to get there, the appearance of the castle from the outside is inexplicable.

So it was understandable that the guides had a hard time choosing the path.

Moreover.

“Actually… I’ve been seeing the left path for a while now.”

Even if you don’t feel like you’ve received it, you can’t back out of the situation you’re in.

“But I’m not sure if that’s the right length.”

“Oh my! Don’t worry. I’ll take care of the rest. Left path!”

The guide’s expression brightened at my words and he began to seriously investigate the left path.

Perhaps I was just trying to fill in the blanks while researching why I had to take the path I chose.

How much time has passed like that?

“Move to the left path!!!”

It seemed that the guide had somehow convinced everyone to take the left path I had chosen.

How can I not feel burdened when they tell me not to feel burdened?

Even as I was moving on the left path, I was worried if this was the right path.

But as soon as I got onto the left path, I realized that I had been worrying for nothing.

‘This seems to be the right place.’

Even though it’s a road I’ve never been on before, I feel like I naturally know where to go.

This strange feeling made me confident.

“I was worried because there was a trace at the entrance, but fortunately it was cut off in the middle. It looks like they checked up to here and went back.”

Everyone’s expressions brightened as they became certain that the prince and his entourage had not gone where we were headed.

I know from experience that encountering a hostile group in a labyrinth is never fun.

“Monsters may appear from now on, so everyone, be alert and move.”

The leader was usually polite to his teammates, but when he went into battle, he spoke briefly.

It seemed like he was worried that if he gave orders to be polite in an urgent situation and then got hurt because of the delay, it would be difficult.

And the fact that the leader started speaking so briefly also meant that there was a high probability that a monster would appear nearby.

I opened my eyes wide and looked around, preparing to turn on the buff.

We were so busy with everything that we forgot for a moment, but we had to remember.

“If it’s the thorns I saw on the 4th floor, there will be some tough guys coming out.”

This is where the monster that turned people into idiots comes from.

It was amazing that the corpses of our ancestors from 300 years ago were preserved intact, but I was curious about the identity of the monster that made that possible.

thud!

“Huh? Eww!”

The group that was ahead suddenly fell down in the middle of nowhere.

It wasn’t a mistake to fall, it was an attack by a monster.

As soon as he fell, he was pulled up to the ceiling by something invisible and transparent.

“Hang up!”

Chook!

One of the team members kicked the ground and jumped, slashing at something transparent that was dragging his ankle up.

“Oh my!”

A team member who was being dragged to the ceiling fell to the floor, and someone waiting below caught him.

“Oh my, that was a surprise. I almost died.”

“What did you fall for?”

“I don’t know. I just fell down out of nowhere. I felt like something tripped on my foot.”

“Look at the floor carefully!”

At the leader’s words, Sister Melody grabbed my shoulder and said.

“Don’t move.”

“Yes.”

Watching the floor meant that there was a trap laid out, and I needed to be careful because if I tripped and fell, I would be in big trouble.

“Is this real? I found it here!”

The guide, who had quickly discovered the trap, shouted to the leader.

“It’s an invisible, transparent thread. It’s very thin. If you touch it, a trap will be activated. The thread itself doesn’t seem to have much durability, but if you get dragged up by the trap, there’s probably another trap. Something that makes it impossible to escape.”

“There’s probably more than just thread on the floor.”

“Yes. I guess there are a lot of invisible threads around here.”

“How to solve it?”

“Um… Let’s burn it first.”

If you get burned, you can make a torch and swing it around while moving forward, the guide said, bringing a torch and holding it to the transparent thread.

“Yeah, this isn’t an ordinary thread, is it?”

Surprisingly, it actually withstood the fire from the torch for a while before melting away and turning into water.

“But I can’t move in front of the fire!”

“Everyone should hold a torch.”

It may be cumbersome, but it can’t be helped for safety reasons.

We each picked up a torch and swung it around, moving forward little by little.

“I found a trap here.”

“Here too!”

The deeper we went, the more traps we found.

“Isn’t this the level of threatening to tell them not to come in?”

“This is important, so they must have set a trap to keep you out.”

“I’m glad I asked the priest.”

“Everyone, let’s relax.”

“Yes.”

Although no one had spoken directly about it earlier, we could guess the existence of the monsters we had to deal with through the traps set up there.

“It’s out!”

Tsk tsk tsk! Tsk tsk tsk!

As we moved around clearing traps, it seemed like the monsters noticed our presence.

The sound of monsters’ footsteps approaching was unusual.

‘Is it as expected?’

A monster that does not eat its food directly, but ‘stores’ it and spins thread to make traps.

“Spider!”

“Wow~ A spider so big it comes up to your waist? Even if it’s a monster… .”

Tadadadadak-

Perhaps because there were so many legs, the sound of the monsters rushing in was eerie.

“It’s prettier than I thought?”

The monster’s murderous intent and malice were terrifying, but its pure white fur and its many ruby-shining eyes were prettier than expected.

So I muttered without realizing it, and Sister Melody answered me.

“The eyes are likely to be sold at a high price.”

“Fight carefully so as not to hurt your eyes!”

At Sister Melody’s words, the leader quickly shouted to his team members.

“That’s right, fighting is important, but you also have to earn money. Haha!”

Even though there are quite a few spiders, they all raise their weapons without fear.

“Watch out for the ceiling and walls!”

The spiders ran towards us, clinging to walls, ceilings, and other unusual places using the threads they had laid out in advance.

“From the bow!”

At the leader’s words, he created a fire arrow and shot it at the spider.

The oiled fire did not stop easily and spread to the surrounding areas.

A spider shot a thread from the ceiling.

“Oh my! It’s freezing!”

As the thread wrapped around my body, I could see my body freezing at a rapid rate.

“People with frostbite, come this way!”

Knowing by my own knowledge that it was not just a statue but poison, I quickly shouted as I saw someone hold a torch near its body to tear out the thread.

Can’t we just stand by and watch healthy flesh being burned?

That team member was hit all over his body by the threads that shot out from the ceiling, so he couldn’t help but end up like that, but thanks to the others fighting carefully, it wasn’t to the point where it would have been a big deal if they hadn’t been treated for their frostbite right away.

“This is the curse of the statue, so the thread is not the problem.”

The thread may be cold, but the real problem is the spider venom that is sprayed along with the thread.

“It’s because of the poison, so you’ll feel better after you detoxify it.”

“Ugh… .”

One look at the sapphire lips and you can tell that the poison has spread in an instant.

When I touched the skin, it was so cold that I thought I was touching ice.

He quickly began to detoxify it by pouring in his divine power.

“Haa~”

The effectiveness of the detoxification was evident from the man’s changed facial expression.

“Here’s a hot stone bag! Rub your body with it.”

A hot stone bag that someone brought me.

It wasn’t an unfamiliar object because we carried it in our pockets and moved it around like a hot pack inside our bodies.

I also took the hot stone bag out of my pocket and gave it to the man to hold in his arms.

Although the body temperature does not drop any further after being detoxified, the body temperature that has already dropped does not return immediately.

“Uuuu… Priest.”

“Are you okay? Your senses won’t return right away. Just hold on for a bit and you’ll be fine, so don’t panic and take a deep breath slowly.”

“Hoo… Haa… .”

“How are you?”

“Please tell your colleagues… to be careful… at the ceiling.”

“Yes.”

The man said this and closed his eyes tightly, perhaps worried that his colleague might experience something similar to him.

“Just rest. Other people are taking care of the monsters.”

It wasn’t that he was trying to put his mind at ease, but he was genuinely happy that everyone was doing a good job of catching spider monsters.

In particular, the performance of two magicians was remarkable.

It was burning the spider monster by spraying fist-sized fireballs around it, much smaller than the fireballs I had seen before.

The spiders were helpless against the fireballs the wizard threw.

“It’s nothing. I was worried for nothing.”