Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 114
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Above the sturdy fortress, a black gate 50 meters high and 100 meters wide is visible, and a long line of people are waiting to enter.
Allen and his party headed to the second row, where people were quickly disappearing. The explorers waiting in the first row looked at them with envy.
It was not easy to climb to the 20th floor. Few people were able to overcome the fear, stress, and threats to their lives.
The endlessly descending class was usually divided into three types: those with loose screws in their heads, those with strong mental powers thanks to magic power, and those who were too insensitive and had weak reactions.
Most explorers had both the first and second reasons, and Alan and Siva talked about the issue.
“Brother, when you say that, I somehow think you mean that we have a disability.”
“Is that something to worry about?”
“yes?”
“Everyone has some inconvenience, big or small. That person has a respiratory problem, that orc has poor eyesight, and that goblin’s skin is very sensitive to sunlight.”
“Can you tell when you see it?”
“As we indiscriminately collect data about people, our observational abilities are becoming stronger. The world is so complex that we have to be careful about statistical errors.”
If you decide to observe, the race, height, approximate weight, and the magic wear worn will be printed out in the field of vision seen with the left eye. Of course, it is an augmented reality that only Alan can see.
Every time I saw an explorer, a different result was revealed, so the waiting time to enter passed quickly.
Alan waited on the 9th floor and went down to find the gatekeeper. Normally, he would have just taken the valuable parts and gone down, but now that he could sell them on the 23rd floor, it was okay to take them all.
I searched the maze to find the goalkeeper, but unfortunately he was fighting with someone near the passage leading down to the 11th floor.
As I was passing by the road shaped like the letter ‘ㅓ’ and looked to the left, I saw a familiar figure there.
A clingy black outfit, a flowing black cloak, grey hair that reaches down to her shoulder blades, and a duffel bag full of swords.
Zion’s body stood still, but the arm holding the sword moved at lightning speed like a whip, leaving only a blurry afterimage. Only after the sword passed by did the wind realize that it had cut him, and he cried out in pain.
Zion, who had been absorbed in his work for a while, put his sword back into its scabbard.
Click!
With a small but clear sound, countless cracks appeared on the 3m tall metal body. Small, heavy pieces fell like corn, making quite a loud noise.
Zion’s eyelids went up, and his transparent gray eyes looked at Alan. He looked very tired.
“···?”
Her brow furrowed. Only when Alan waved did her expression soften and she responded.
As Zion slashed the chopped gatekeeper with his scabbard, Taylor spoke quietly.
“That’s strange. He doesn’t have any close friends.”
“There are agents.”
“Would you be close with a coworker? What about your religion?”
“We are family. Even if we just met for the first time, if we walk the same path, we treat each other like blood relatives.”
“Is that all true? To be honest.”
“There are brothers who are clever in deceiving others. People like that are unknowingly avoided.”
“The conversation went off the rails for a moment, but even though we work at the same company and are assigned to the same department, we’re not close. The agents are a bit eccentric, but Sion is a natural born nerd.”
If it were the old Allen, I would have asked what the word ‘assa’ meant, but since we’ve been together for a while, I knew.
“Why do you ostracize your capable colleagues?”
“Rather than rejecting, I just don’t like hanging out with Zion. When I said I was a genius prosecutor, I wasn’t joking. The world that criminals see and the world that he faces are different. It’s sad that there’s no one who understands.”
“Why? There’s no particular problem with living alone···.”
“You’re in a similar class to him.”
“The difference between a magic engineer and a swordsman is like heaven and earth. The flow of magical power is completely different, and the muscle formation structure is also completely different.”
“Not that. I’m talking about the accident structure.”
As Zion was also a labyrinth explorer, he dismantled the gatekeeper and took important parts. He stuffed a soccer ball-sized lump into his cloak.
“A dimensional backpack? I’d like to have one.”
“It’ll be hard to get. I could buy a small one with the money I earned last time, but you said no when I offered to pay for it.”
“Upgrading comes first. And if I’m going to buy one, I want to get a big one.”
“How big is it?”
“It’s about the same backpack that Breaker used last time.”
“100 billion won? I wonder if it would matter if a star fell from the sky… I’d have to work my bones off to buy that.”
Allen and his party sped up. It was inevitable that they had missed the goalkeeper, but the labyrinth was so large that there was no need to focus on just one. This time, they targeted the guards.
But the 20th floor palace hallway was empty. To be exact, there were neatly cut automatons scattered all over the place.
Alan’s cane stirred through the debris.
“They only took the magic stone and soul stone.”
A strong sense of foreboding welled up within me.
“It’s similar to when I met Mr. Lorenzo. Judging by his sword skills, it must be Senior Zion this time.”
She travels alone and moves very quickly, so it was perhaps an obvious guess.
When I arrived in Daejeon, it was quiet inside. I carefully opened the door and saw Zion sitting on top of the guard’s power suit.
Taylor was taken aback when she suddenly pulled out a knife.
“Why? How come?”
“Stalker.”
“we?”
“François said to punish the stalker.”
“It’s a misunderstanding. Where can you find good people like us….”
“A good man takes the ruins first? How did he get in there?”
“well?”
“I got in trouble with the chairman because of that···.”
As Zion slumped his shoulders, the tip of his sword scraped the floor. His sullen appearance was pitiful, but to those who knew Zion’s abilities, he looked like a tiger that had let go of a bird.
As Zion approached, Alan stepped forward.
“The ruins of the peak are regenerated, right? I think that’s why we’re coming down this time.”
“that’s right.”
He put the sword right away. Taylor shook his head at the discriminatory attitude, and Shiva patted his back instead of his shoulder because of the height difference.
“You can rest assured that you will not be able to enter now that the bypass key has been lost.”
“Really? Don’t follow me this time. I won’t forgive you either.”
Zion, who had focused on the torso of her power suit, disappeared through the throne room door. Taylor said, gathering the limbs she had left behind.
“The treatment is so different···.”
“I guess there were many things that were disappointing when you were an instructor.”
“How well I did.”
“Brother, that’s what perpetrators usually say. It was a joke. We’re close friends. It was a misunderstanding.”
“no···.”
Shiva chuckled as he watched Taylor grumble.
“Haha. Sister Zion is very generous to Brother Allen.”
“Do geniuses have something in common?”
“That could be the case.”
Alan couldn’t understand their conversation. In fact, they were just saying whatever came to their mind, trying to pass the time during their boring journey.
I slowly hunted through the primeval forest and reached the 23rd floor, but the beasts that would normally rush at me as if they were going to kill me were nowhere to be seen.
“There are no animals.”
“Look up.”
In the sky that Taylor pointed to, there was a bird of prey called Argentavis. It was a giant hunter of the sky, with wingspans of over 6 meters.
But there was a rope tied to the guy’s claws, and a person was hanging underneath it.
“You should be going crazy to be normal, but you’re so quiet.”
“I guess he was tamed by the cylinder I gave to Mr. Lorenzo.”
“Oh, right. Is this a new business idea? If it’s reconnaissance, it would be much better to fly a golem or drone…”
“You can’t calculate profit and loss in the experimental stage. If you drag out what you need to do in the business in advance, you won’t make any progress.”
Alan’s usual bland tone was gone, replaced by a strong determination. Taylor shrugged and continued.
“Or it could be a tourist attraction targeting the rich. They like unique experiences.”
“Well, looking at it again, you look pretty good for an explorer.”
Arriving at the Breaker Base on the 23rd floor, Alan went to the sales office to sort out his loot, while Taylor and Shiva went to find a place to sleep.
After finishing the transaction at the local price of the labyrinth, Alan gathered his pockets and left the building, where he encountered Zion. She was carrying a plain cane on her shoulder, which was the opposite of the item Alan had obtained, and had no letters on it.
As I watched the satisfied smile that seemed to indicate that I had won, Alan’s mouth twitched, but I held it back.
“Have you already solved it?”
“I am excellent.”
Zion, who had his face painted in gold without a trace of shame, followed Allen at an appropriate distance.
“This is not the direction of the inner self.”
“How many floors do you have to go down to?”
She ignored Alan’s words and asked the question.
“Should I tell you?”
“As a senior, I can give you some advice.”
“It’s the 26th floor.”
“A place with lots of mountains after passing the swamp?”
“yes.”
“The Roman Company expedition team rushed there. There are other expedition teams, but Roman’s team has the most.”
From Zion’s perspective, this may have been information that was passed around casually, but it was valuable to Allen, who preferred thorough preparation.
After saying goodbye, Alan went into one of the tents provided by Breaker. After finishing organizing the interior and arranging the magic tools, he told Taylor the story they had shared.
“Zion told you that information? What is his plan?”
“If you package your good intentions like that···.”
“Wait a minute, didn’t you say you told me the destination?”
“Just the floor.”
“Now that you’ve obtained the staff, are you planning to follow me to seek revenge for that time?”
“Would an agent be so childish as to do that?”
“I told you last time. You’re a genius only when it comes to swords. Everything else is just stupid.”
“It’s too extreme.”
“You know about Servant Syndrome? And the Life School frequently manipulates genes, and some of their training methods involve maximizing only one of the five senses and suppressing the rest. If you think about it, it’s not that strange.”
The Dongjagong in the Eastern Continent was also of that type. Losing one instead of gaining one was the most obvious way of the world. Alan himself was one of the proofs of this.
Alan, who had been well rested and had calmed his body, headed towards the next floor. Then he suddenly turned his head back.
It was full of dense trees and lush plants. The leopard walking beside its owner tilted its head and looked behind.
“Brother, why are you doing this?”
“I think the magic wave detector is malfunctioning.”
As he said that, Alan pretended to look straight ahead, then looked back again. A single gray thread fell into the place filled with green and brown.
I knew it. Alan trusted what he had built. He had confidence that it would work unless someone broke it or time broke it.
“Come out.”
Taylor and Shiva also stopped in their tracks.
“Senior, why are you following me?”
As Alan spoke, there was a sound of legs squeezing the grass. Suddenly, a flash of light appeared, and the branches fell down, revealing Zion.
“Let’s go together.”
“Why?”
“Instead, if someone bothers me, I’ll clean up after them.”
“it’s okay.”
“I thought about it carefully… You don’t like it? Why?”
Zion looked incomprehensible, and Taylor whispered in Alan’s ear.
“Why? If he’s here, even if the wizard from last time shows up again, I can easily wipe him out.”
“You said that the agent brings trouble.”
“Brother, in my limited knowledge, we are not so bad. For now, I agree.”
Certainly, most of the problems that would arise in the primeval forest could be easily dealt with if Zion accompanied them. Allen was also concerned about the information she had provided.
‘Did the rumor about the Essel Tower spread and the expedition parties flocked to it?’
If that was the case, there was a high probability that problems would arise. People who heard the rumor and were greedy gathered together, so how could they just let it go?
“Okay, but can I ask you a favor instead?”
“What favor?”
“Can I put a motion sensor on my clothes?”
“good.”
I thought Zion would readily agree to the physical strengthening since he had said he would just tell me.
She was the most skilled at handling the body among the people Alan knew. There was also Professor Oros, but his fighting style, which relied on brute force, did not suit Alan.
Taylor, unlike Allen, knew how much warriors treasured the secrets of body care, so he asked Zion indirectly.
“Is that okay?”
“Even if you tell me, no one can follow it!”
Although he had the confidence of a genius, Taylor’s thoughts were somewhat different.
End