Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 355



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Red Earth (1)

Alan looked out the window. The tall buildings blocked his view, but only for a moment. As soon as he had the will to look beyond, the scenery broke through the steel and concrete and came right before his eyes.

The blood of people spreads throughout the body of Maze City, and their warmth is transmitted to every corner. It means it is time to go to work.

Alan kept his work in the deep a secret. He was quick to share his knowledge with his colleagues when they asked, but this time he made an exception.

‘Hey, tell me what happened after I passed out. Remember up until the moment I resisted that horrible monster.’

‘Junior, tell me too.’

‘Resistance? Nicola fainted in surprise at the sight of the cockroach.’

‘Really? I can see the level of the Eselma Tower.’

‘Hey, Breaker. Say it again.’

Alan deliberately changed the subject. In fact, Nicola was not fainted by the appearance of the cockroach, but by the wave of information that the destroyed thing was leaking.

After that, Alan blocked questions in advance, and his colleagues noticed and stopped asking questions.

‘Kamai, Katan···.’

This incident involved two great people who received the title of ‘Ka’, and it wasn’t even a good thing.

Kamai’s whereabouts are unknown, and Katan’s upper body was stuck on the head of the Sea Serpent. The size difference between the two was so great that it looked like a pimple.

‘Did he do it on purpose? Or did someone force it on him?’

It was fortunate that Chairman Jake entered the labyrinth. Otherwise, I would have been in a terrible dilemma about whether to reveal the secret to him or keep it a secret.

‘Even in death, Katan found no peace.’

The whole world tore his body apart and divided it among themselves, and what was supposed to be his soul was possessed by the devil. It was a truly miserable end for such a famous man.

Alan looked down at the palm of his hand. What would he think if he were seen from the perspective of the company?

‘You’d think a patient lying there like a corpse would walk around fine.’

The reason Zion and Nicola were dispatched might have been to mark the spot in advance. If they died while exploring the labyrinth, they could quickly retrieve their bodies.

Alan suddenly realized that his right hand was moving on its own. Runes and circuits were being drawn on the frame where the Dragonheart fragment and the Ancient’s heart were inserted.

‘If the life signal is completely cut off, it will resonate with my mana heart and explode. The end will be truly spectacular.’

When the scale tilted towards leaving the runes, the hand moved away from the frame, and when it tilted towards erasing, it moved closer.

‘Wouldn’t it be okay to quietly donate and contribute to the development of magical engineering? Well, it would be more rewarding if I could do it with my own hands while I’m still alive…’

Alan deliberately directed his thoughts in a different direction, calming his wild curiosity.

‘Let’s keep the deep sea exploration a secret. That would be better.’

The Remnant of Catan advised not to trust anyone, and to beware of the Destroyer. It did not specifically mention anyone, so everyone was included in the category.

But if you suppress your thoughts, something else will pop up.

‘It’s frustrating. How long does it have to be like this?’

Ultimately, it was because I lacked strength. Since I didn’t have the strength to move as I pleased, I had to be aware of what was going on around me.

Alan’s brain searched for the fastest way to grow in the current situation. The result of the experience and knowledge he had accumulated so far was black magic.

Growth comes with its own set of burdens, but black magic places all the burden on the sacrifice or others. Since the user only needs to swallow the sweet fruit, it is perhaps natural that he would succumb to temptation.

One of the three warlock brothers that Alan had defeated extracted a sap from a person’s life that temporarily enhanced their talents.

‘There are a lot of people.’

Someone from the shack comes to mind.

‘There are a lot of useless people. In a high-crime area like Cave Town, dozens of people disappear every day.’

Someone who likes to meddle and someone who loves alcohol come to mind.

In the past, his thoughts would have stopped here, but now it was different. Alan felt thirsty. Growth was just a natural byproduct of pursuing the fun of magic engineering, but now it was becoming his goal.

The unchained mind took a step forward.

‘If the constraints of the law are the problem, what about conflict zones? Those people are going to die anyway.’

Around the time when, by my colleagues’ standards, a very bad plan began to creep into my mind.

“Whoa! What are you doing?”

Zion quietly approached her from behind and hugged her neck. Of course, Alan was looking around so he could see every movement.

Zion tightened his grip on the arm he was holding.

“I heard men like it like this. What about your juniors?”

“Senior, this is white chalk.”

“Then what should I do?”

“Senior, try holding the sword in your arms like you usually do.”

Only then did Zion’s arm soften. Shiva smiled at him, and Nicola covered his eyes like someone who had come to discuss the expedition plan and had just witnessed something unsightly.

As the surroundings became noisy, Alan’s plan to take concrete shape also gradually subsided.

As Taylor came out of the kitchen and dragged Nicola in, saying she had cooked a big breakfast, Alan was lost in thought. This time, instead of a dull plan, he thought of a resurrection ritual.

Honorary Inquisitor Jacob Marshall observed the runes Alan was using and said:

‘Knowledge that is too young to be revealed to the world, knowledge that should not be touched.’

How did Jacob figure out the runes, which were improved through research that has been passed down to the present day and discoveries made in the labyrinth?

‘Is there a secret organization that controls knowledge? That was before the discovery of the labyrinth, so how… There are many ruins other than the labyrinth.’

The hatchery of the little ones and the production facility of the decisive weapon of Atlantis were good examples. The level of knowledge there was similar to that of a labyrinth.

If a secret organization exists, what is its purpose?

Trying to maintain power through the power of knowledge?

For a cause that no one knows about?

Is your goal to quietly conquer the world?

It wasn’t a question that had an answer now.

“Alan, eat.”

Alan’s thoughts turned to the Marshall family. They have been around for 500 years, so they must know some great secrets.

‘The chairman answered every question I asked him smoothly. Could it be that Chairman Jake is also a member of a secret organization?’

However, the Breakers he led were at the forefront of breaking through the labyrinth. Breaking through the labyrinth was synonymous with the development of civilization, so it was the exact opposite of the intention to limit knowledge.

“Alan, what did I say?”

“···.”

“I said let’s eat together.”

“···.”

Taylor shook his head as he watched Alan lost in his thoughts. Then he picked up the entire chair Alan was sitting in and walked over to the table.

‘Is Katando a hyper-magician? Is his special body the result of overcoming his punishment?’

It is certain that it is there if you touch the pieces of Katan’s corpse, but it is hidden so well that it is impossible to find. It is also difficult to ask the tailor if it is possible to examine Katan’s head attached to the shoulder.

‘I retreated after seeing the runes left by Katan, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll do it again… Hmm?’

Alan’s sense of smell finally caught the delicious smell. He nodded slightly toward Taylor and picked up his utensil. The fork with the well-cooked shrimp stopped in front of his mouth.

‘Wait a minute, if Katando has excessive magic power, then two of the people who received the title···.’

Taylor tapped his plate with his fork. The clear, magical sound struck Alan’s eardrums.

“Alan?”

“yes.”

The shrimp were delicious.

*

The Twilight Path shortens travel time in the Labyrinth by 20%. A journey that takes 5 days is reduced to 1 day, so this is not an option, it is a necessity.

However, like the 27th floor space gate, the benefits were not distributed equally to everyone. To handle the twilight crystal, a space wizard of a certain level was needed, and there were only a few of them among wizards to begin with.

Nicola said with a smile.

“That’s why the scenery here is clean. The Space Gate Management Office accepts anyone with money, so the landscaping is terrible.”

“Can someone from the Eselma Tower say that?”

“It’s a place discovered under the leadership of Lorenzo. I wish it had been closed down because of an error.”

To become the true successor of the Matapju, you must defeat all the four brothers. The soft feelings of camaraderie and friendship have dried up in the past.

The Alan Party walked the twilight path connecting the 41st to the 50th floor. There was only one path made of branches of the World Tree, and it was structured so that they had to meet other exploration parties.

A campsite was visible on one side of the road. The branches were 20 meters wide, making them easy to use in any way possible.

Nicola recognized their sentences.

“Lockhart. We had friction before over the magic stone mine issue.”

In this world, secrets are nothing more than an illusion. No matter how hard you try to hide them, they will somehow be revealed.

There was an uproar in the campsite where the Alan party was discovered. The sloppy thought that he would just back off because he was famous was putting his life at risk.

Peyton, a relative of the executive who had been dismissed at that time, appeared outside the tent. He was openly growling when we first met, but after experiencing the remains of the ice, he became calm.

It was the same now. He just kept an indifferent expression on his face as if he was looking at someone he was meeting for the first time until Allen and his group moved away.

They parted ways without incident and continued on. As they reached the 50th floor, near the reptilian capital, the power suit stopped walking.

“Based on the concentration of crystals, this is the 50th floor. Let’s rest today and enter tomorrow.”

“I want to give the abomination peace as soon as possible.”

Shiva caressed the armor. It was not because of its disgusting appearance as its name suggests, but because it was intended to free him from pain.

The abominations and rampage spirits that appear on the 51st floor have powers up to depth 6, but since many of them act alone, they are easier to deal with than the palace reptilians that would rush in at the sound of a sound.

Of course, it was because Alan had reached depth 6. Otherwise, he would have been underweight and would have had to quietly stay on the 50th floor.

Zion gripped the sword handle tightly.

“Give me a chance to fight alone.”

“You’re talking big. If we fight one-on-one, I’ll die.”

Taylor was right. They could easily break through Zion’s defenses, but it would take a complex and arduous process for Zion to do so. There was no guarantee that they would survive before reaching them.

“The junior can just cut off the limbs and throw them at you. If you want to get stronger quickly, you have to go forward. Will Taylor continue to hide behind the junior?”

It was the most dangerous, but surest way. However, it was difficult to gain anything by simply surviving. It took talent to survive the attacks of enemies that were hard to look up to and still gain enlightenment.

“Dirty talent.”

“Taylor also has a talent for controlling magicware.”

While the average person’s Magic Wear assimilation rate is only 60-70%, Taylor’s basically exceeds 150%.

To those who ask why 100% is not the end, I can answer like this: Anything more than that means amplification.

“Are you laughing now? Are you feeling better?”

“Don’t bother me, and go away! You cheeky brat.”

It wasn’t a bad suggestion for Alan either. The increased battle time wasn’t a hindrance. It was an opportunity to extract data on various situations.

Especially Nicola. The longer his battles are, the more spells he can use, and the more the kid will learn.

‘I can’t use magic, so I have to teach it like this.’

The little one clung to him, wondering how he knew what he was thinking. And he was worried about the ‘disease’ because of the abomination’s appearance.

‘There was no need for that.’

The little one was covered in flesh from the egg and had a hard time with his already dead twin. Thanks to that, he had an immune factor.

Alan watched his companions preparing for camping while his spirit grew. Although the souls were not directly visible as in the deep sea, the waves coming out of the body were faintly visible.

At that moment, the door opened and a group of explorers entered the twilight road. Alan could see them without even turning his head.

It is common sense for expedition parties to maintain a certain distance from each other, but the leader leading that group broke the convention.

He walked over and stood in front of me. Even though he was in a normal posture, he gave off a captivating aura.

“Mr. Allen, it’s been a while.”

“hi···.”

“You, what are you doing? Get out of here quickly.”

Zion held out his sword. He only used the scabbard against Catherine, but against Larissa, he took out the sword first.

Larissa looked relaxed even when threatened, but her eyes were sinister and fierce.

‘The old man explained it as hatred of his own race.’

The waves observed by Young-an were also very similar.