Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 356



Only Noblemtl

Red Earth (2)

Larissa followed along as the Roman Company’s expedition schedule was almost over. Even though the travel time was shortened thanks to the Twilight Route, they still had ample supplies as before.

“away.”

“I refuse.”

Despite Zion’s restraint, Larissa hummed. As the pleasant rhythm spread, Zion’s eyebrows narrowed.

“Why are you following me?”

“Isn’t that too much? Breaker and Eselmatop are lucky enough to meet Mr. Allen and get a benefit. Especially Twilight Path. Who would have thought that you would break up with me and find me right away on your next expedition…”

“I’m lucky because you’re not here.”

“Who helped the person in front of you when he lost consciousness? Should we have just left him alone to become the princess of the assassins?”

“···.”

Zion’s lips were tightly shut by Larissa’s fatal blow.

“I’m weak-hearted, that’s why I’m a troublemaker.”

The brown long hair danced happily, and the gray medium hair trembled. As a magic user, is there any experience more humiliating than losing self-control? Even moving as the labyrinth controlled it.

The atmosphere has become tense, but there is always at least one person who ignores it. Nicola threw a stone into the quiet water.

“A labyrinth explorer would rather solve problems through arguments than using his powerful tool? Are you just scared and giving up?”

“We decided to go together, so we can’t use it.”

“Sir, if you do that while smiling, you will be less persuasive.”

Historically, watching fights has been a top form of entertainment. This was especially true for magic users, for whom violence was a daily occurrence.

To see if it was effective, Zion stroked his sword and Larissa shook her shoulders slightly. The magical power between them clashed, causing static electricity to fly.

The box was passed between the explorers with the ‘odds’ written on a board taken from a drawer, and Shiva took out the holy water bottle at his waist and prepared to open the lid.

Alan was studying the shortest route to break through the palace, and he threw in a word as the atmosphere heated up.

“Don’t give up now. You’ll have to do it on the 51st floor, even if you don’t want to.”

“Mr. Allen, the income is much better on the 50th floor.”

“All the equipment worn by reptilians is money, and even their corpses are a great resource.”

However, the monsters on the 51st floor were a bit different. The abomination’s body was full of contaminated magic power, making it difficult to utilize, and the rampage spirit had no part that could be called a body. Or, you could just hunt monsters at depth 6 to get magic stones, but was that easy?

As such, it was difficult to obtain the rewards, and compared to the Reptilians, they were also difficult to catch. All that remained for the Dungeon Explorers was an arduous battle.

Larissa was quick-witted.

“Is it a training course? Then I can’t miss it even more. Please take care of me.”

“eww···.”

“When I hear that growling sound, I feel like putting a gag in my mouth.”

“If you bite it, it will hurt.”

As Nicola watched the friction between Zion and Larissa, he approached Olga, a blue-haired elf.

“Hey, Twin Swordsman. Want to bet?”

“Chung? That damn orderie is talking nonsense. Get out.”

“I bet we’ll fight within a week.”

“You, weren’t you part of a crazy engineering party? You’ve only been a member for a short time.”

“that’s right.”

“He told me not to fight, so he should have just stayed quiet. How could he not know better than me? Or do you not have any sense?”

Olga once had a run-in with Alan, and was captured and beaten up for information gathering. Sometimes, I would see his eyes through the open visor.

‘It was hard to read emotions… No, there were no emotions at all.’

It was a gaze that seemed to be looking at water running in a sink, small stones rolling around, and small dust particles on a desk.

While Olga was shivering, Alan opened the sewer lid and climbed up to the ground. The leopard, its shadow trailing like smoke, quickly followed behind.

The place where he appeared was on the opposite side of the barracks. Even if the soldiers who sensed the commotion came rushing in, they would have already passed through the gate.

In fact, if you came down only for the money, you could have taken a corner of the castle and just dealt with the enemies that came rushing in. But you would have consumed supplies to an unmanageable extent.

As Alan threw the buffalo core upward, the parts lying on the ground gathered in the air. A thing twice as large as a tank landed. A reptilian appeared, sensing the heaviness that made a ‘Koo-Woong!’ sound.

Key… Whew!

But before he could utter a sound, his breath was cut off. The panther’s fangs, protruding from the shadow between his collar, tore through his artery and neck bone in an instant.

Meanwhile, the buffalo opened its side. From there, four humanoid automatons of similar build to Taylor walked out.

Alan looked at Taylor.

“You are the boss.”

“It means to make up for the lack of enlightenment with firepower. What are their names?”

“One, two, three···.”

“Stop! It’s obvious even without listening. They’re called Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.”

The automatons seemed to understand the words, their eyes glowing blue whenever Taylor called out their names and pointed them out.

“Their movements are very familiar.”

“Because it’s based on the old man’s fighting style. It will also act as a shield, so you can fight more roughly.”

“okay?”

Taylor pulled a shotgun from his back. After a lot of modifications, it was thicker and more reminiscent of a cannon than a gun.

He turned the corner with his sturdy men. A slug was fired from the gun barrel facing forward.

A fist-sized bullet struck the head of a passing reptilian. Its skull caved in, but as expected from a labyrinth monster, its mouth opened wide in a blazing hatred.

But before he could scream, another bullet hit his throat. Alpha picked up the falling shell and threw it backwards. Meanwhile, Beta grabbed the reptilian’s body from behind, and Gamma twisted its neck around.

“oh···.”

Taylor was amazed. It was a movement that he should have done, but the automatons did it instead and simultaneously. There were five of them, but they were one.

The box took the shells Alpha had thrown and merged with the buffalo. The raw materials in the drawer spilled out, and the side closed. When it opened again, blue lights flashed from inside.

All manner of machines sprang forth, and when they impeded the advancing reptilians in numbers, the superior beings, like leopards, took their breath away.

When a reptilian of depth 5 appears, Alan steps forward. He interferes with the soul waves with his spiritual eyes. It is enough to make him feel bad and slightly disrupt his concentration. Then he uses his magical eyes. He detects the magical circuits that spread out like blood vessels and messes up important parts.

Krrrr!

The reptilian jumping over the wall shuddered in discomfort. The spiders spurted out blue threads and forcibly dragged him down. The buffalo’s hooves were waiting for the reptilian stuck on the ground.

Kuung!

Even though I trampled it with such force that the surroundings shook, the thing held on. I grabbed its hooves with both hands and tried to push it away somehow.

“Excellent. It will be good raw material.”

A blue blade, like compressed starlight, protruded from Alan’s wrist and slashed across the reptilian’s neck. While Alan worked on the high-powered mana sword, Shiva threw the reptilian upward.

Olga asked Nikola.

“Why are you doing that···.”

Crap!

After the buffalo swallowed the reptilian, there was a noise that everyone could tell was happening. The red-stained snout was a bonus.

“Are you surprised? I felt the same way when I first saw you.”

There is no stranger to blood labyrinth explorers. There was a time when I frowned, but instead, I admired Alan who was making his way through alone.

“The crazy guy just got stronger.”

“Alan must have heard. Aren’t you afraid of the repercussions?”

“It’s okay to keep swearing as long as there is no direct harm.”

“Well, Alan is a bit generous in that regard.”

“It’s not generosity, it’s indifference.”

Materials are scattered everywhere, and magic is attached to Alan. The buffalo faithfully fulfilled its role as a production plant and cleared a path to the 51st floor. By the time the soldiers came running from the other side, Alan had already passed through the door.

As we continued on through the labyrinth, enduring a more intense noise than the upper floors, the 51st floor appeared. The sky was filled with dark clouds. Occasionally, sunlight would come down through the gaps and illuminate the red-tinted ground.

When dark clouds struck the ground with lightning, the ground responded by spewing lava. Earthquakes also occurred from time to time, making it difficult to relax. Not only monsters, but the environment itself refused to let humans set foot on the ground.

Alan recalled Oros’ words.

‘It is a land swept by destruction.’

Oros had also come down to study, of course. The scholars came to one conclusion.

[Similar to an environment where strategic weapons are poured out.]

There was clear evidence that a major fight had broken out, either between the two of them, or that they had split into dozens to fight.

Alan had no plans to use the Twilight Path. If he did, he would be surrounded by monsters from Depth 6, which would be very difficult, and he would also have to find the Third Research Institute.

‘Let’s take a slow look down.’

Starting from the 51st floor, the area of ​​each floor was similar to the average area of ​​Soldos, so it was a task that took a long time. It was as large as a country, and monsters were also interfering.

Alan first checked the flight limit height.

’50 meters from the ground.’

If you go any higher, the dark clouds will retaliate with lightning. I thought about using it for an attack, but it was impossible because the energy itself would disappear as soon as the target was destroyed.

As it happened, a hawk flying nearby spotted the rampage spirit. Originally a spirit of the earth, the monster had the appearance of a mole. As soon as it spotted the hawk, it curled up into a ball and chased after it.

“Shit, get ready. The enemy is in the late 5th level.”

“May I go first? My body was aching, so this is a good time.”

Alan held out his bio-armor. The green mass clung to Shiva’s body, forming a muscular armor.

Shiva used his divine power several times and was amazed.

“Brother, how on earth did you make the armor that amplifies divine power?”

“Well made.”

“Are you keeping it a secret from me too?”

Taylor, who had been listening, sensed something suspicious and tried to intervene, but Alan’s explanation was one step faster.

“It was made by grinding up a reptilian that uses divine power and appears on the 50th floor. It also contains the remains of a saint, so you will be familiar with it.”

“ah······.”

Sometimes ignorance is bliss, but Shiva happened to know. He gulped down the holy water that he usually avoided during battle, and then charged at a rampaging spirit the size of a hippopotamus that had come near him.

Taylor approached me quietly.

“From Shiva’s perspective, is it like having brothers and sisters in your body?”

“It’s a monster in a labyrinth anyway.”

“There’s something called human feelings.”

“Then I guess I’ll have to make it so they won’t notice later.”

“···If you don’t get caught, it’s a complete crime.”

Shiva pushed his shoulder into the rampaging spirit that was rolling towards him. With a loud noise, the rock armor the spirit was wearing shattered, and Shiva rolled away.

“Shoulder blade fracture.”

“You installed a sensor.”

“yes.”

Still, Shiva went forward. Although it seemed a bit reckless, this was the perfect time to pour all his energy into it.

The bio-armor stimulated by Shiva radiated divine power. The dwarf’s body, which was originally strong and had high self-healing powers, broke free from the fracture just before the collision.

Boom!

Shiva and the spirits clashed again. It was a very ignorant fight, with all their might clashing.

“Left arm bone crushed.”

But Shiva’s arm didn’t dangle. It was because the bio-armor was tightly wrapped around his injured arm like a cast. This time, the recovery was slow.

Shiva lifted his body and put both feet forward. He turned himself into a bullet and pierced the spirit’s armor.

The moment his feet touched the ground, he jumped up again. His target was the hole he had dug. He dug into the spirit’s body and destroyed it from the inside out.

He opened his palm and hit the rock. He rotated his body and struck the inside with his elbow. He raised his knee and also used a headbutt.

With each blow, the power of the entire body was infused and transformed into destructive power, turning all the rocks into dust. It was also the result of the innate keen eye of a dwarf who loved mining.

But it wasn’t over. In the place where the armor had disappeared, an amorphous spirit was floating, changing its shape every moment.

The spirit was angry. No, the guy already hated everything because of his surroundings.

Unfortunately, there was only one spirit and over twenty explorers. And since the spirit had materialized, it allowed magical attacks.

Alan looked through his spiritual eyes at the place where the blade and magic had passed. Something whitish could be seen around the falling magic stone.

‘I didn’t see any reptilians. Is it because they are originally spirits close to the soul?’

Something that was presumed to be the spirit of a spirit sank beneath the ground. No, it would be more accurate to say it was sucked in.

‘Shiva said that he would free us from the labyrinth by killing the monster.’

But the scene seen through the eyes of the spirit was different. If that was the soul, then even after death, it would be enslaved to the labyrinth. It was truly an eternal prison.

‘Is it the same for dead explorers?’

It was not something I could kill the people around me just because I was curious. There was also a chance that they wouldn’t look like reptilians. When I glanced around, the explorers shrank back for some reason.

Alan looked at the delighted explorer who was measuring the capacity of the magic stone and soul stone. He looked like a bug intoxicated by sweetness.