Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 381



Only Noblemtl

Yeongsan (2)

Beyond the city walls lie plains and farmland, and further out lies the forest, where trees grow taller and spread their leaves, casting darkness over the entire forest.

It was not the darkness that was repulsive just by looking at it, like the throat of an animal, but rather the darkness that was like the blanket that my parents had covered me with, gently caressing my body.

It’s funny how comfortable it is to be in a labyrinth, but it also means that exploring itself has become routine.

Even in the dark forest, I somehow managed to survive, stepping on the grass and moving forward. The refreshing air that I couldn’t experience in the city filled my lungs, and even my brain felt refreshed.

Even in peace, Zion looked around sharply.

“Did you call that woman too?”

“no.”

Larissa didn’t even go with us from the beginning because she had something to do.

“I like it. I’ll take care of it.”

Zion hummed and walked ahead with light steps. He seemed to be in a good mood, as his trajectory as he decapitated the dinosaur was very clean.

Alan said, watching Shiva’s equipment walk from a distance.

“Why was the necklace worn inside the equipment?”

“It doesn’t look like something I could drive around in…”

Shiva reached into his beard and fumbled around. A small, compressed reptilian skull appeared briefly, then disappeared again.

“You don’t like it?”

“If a priest wears a skull around his neck like a berserker, it will be a big problem. If he changes his appearance to look like Brother Nicola’s staff…”

“I’ll use all the good materials now and do it later. It’s a maze anyway, so no one will be watching.”

“I will believe you.”

As we passed through the forest surrounding the castle walls, a road with a dense stone pavement appeared. As I turned my head along the straight road, I could see a mountain that the reptilians considered sacred. Having been there with Nicola last time, I knew it was much farther away than it looked.

The little boy was running around excitedly.

Whew···.

I hit my head against the transparent wall. In fact, this is the end of the 50th floor. I should have fallen down, but the suit’s functions were so good that I was able to maintain my balance on my own.

Kkk!

The boy, who had come to his senses, was boasting about his superior sense of control. Taylor laughed as he watched him.

“She’s cute. If Shiva did that, it would be horribly disgusting.”

“If you mention me out of the blue, I will also distribute my brother’s injections, no, my collection of letters.”

“It’s because it’s holy water, so it’s not an injection but a reception? But when did you take the picture? A priest taking illegal pictures? This is the end of the world, the end of the world.”

“What do you know me as? I meant visualizing memories.”

“Memories are bound to fade. They can change without me even knowing. That can’t be used as evidence.”

“If I swear to my mother···.”

“You did the same thing last time, but you made a mistake and made excuses saying you agreed in a dream.”

Alan left the two noisy people behind and touched the transparent wall. Nicola, with her characteristic wizardly curiosity, ran up to him.

“Will the key open the way? If that happens, it will be a real revolution.”

“Now we need to check.”

“But why did you come here? Is there something special?”

“When Nicola was dealing with the soldiers, I felt something fishy coming from this side.”

“I don’t know… Yeah, that’s why you explore with a partner. You’re good at exploring, and I take care of the lack of firepower. It’s really good.”

Zion, who had been enjoying the view, turned around. Instead of his blurry eyes, he looked at Nicola with intelligent eyes.

“You’re taking charge of the firepower? How shameless.”

“The warrior’s hatred of wizards is a time-honored tradition. Why? Because they envy the wizard’s powerful firepower! While you sweat and struggle to defeat monsters, we destroy them with a single finger.”

“I’ve never been jealous. And you’re just my junior’s graduate student.”

“What?! Where did you learn to say that?”

Alan ignored the noise and knocked on every corner with his key. As he focused on the exploration, his comrades who had been bickering each other became thoroughly vigilant in their respective positions. If he let his guard down because the 50th floor was easy, he would be disqualified as an explorer.

Alan held the key in an elongated position and tapped the wall with only his wrist. The sound changed with each tap, and he wondered what it meant.

Then, old memories came to mind. When I was exploring the garbage dumps of Lanka and came across a safe, I used to play around with it by picking up a thin iron skewer and unlocking it.

‘Those were good times···.’

Thoughts are really annoying. When I try not to think of something, I end up thinking of it more. As soon as I pulled the word Lanka out of the sea of ​​memories, the shack next to the railroad tracks naturally came along.

container!

Finally, I had something to focus on. The part where I had struck the key rippled like waves and made a soft sound.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

As he knocked on the surroundings alternately, various sounds came out. Alan opened his eyes and observed the changes. The closer the sound was to ‘thud!’, the more room there was for magical power to penetrate.

Alan gave the key. Since he had been making equipment as a collector, he had become strangely obedient and the work was finished quickly.

I put the jingling key in the place I had left it. Every time I pulled it out, a crack appeared in the air, and finally it fell down with a thud like broken glass.

An arch-shaped hole was made in the transparent wall. It happened to be on the road leading to Yeongsan.

‘This is what makes exploration fun.’

Even on the upper floors, new discoveries continued to be made. The first floor, bustling with people, was no exception.

Nicola went in without a second thought.

“It was good that you followed me. Hmm…, wasn’t it?”

“Move to the side. The hole is blocked.”

“You have a quick temper.”

Starting with Taylor, they went in one after another. Finally, Alan passed and the hole was completely blocked.

“Brother, are you locked up or something…”

Alan used the key to drill another hole in the transparent wall. He could come and go easily without any special conditions.

Nicola stared at the key.

“It even penetrates the walls of the labyrinth… The name key really suits it.”

“Junior, the graduate student is being greedy.”

“I told you not to call me that.”

Alan swept the keys away.

“He’s a picky kid, so he’ll be okay.”

“You even think I’m a thief···.”

Alan threw the key. As soon as Nicola caught it in a panic, a high-pitched noise swept through the surroundings. The key’s pure white body also turned a murky color.

The key transformed into a normal wand, but regained its original color as soon as Alan picked it up again.

“Even objects discriminate against people. Hmm… I wonder if the walls on other floors will open as well?”

“I don’t know about that. Let’s go to the mountain for now.”

The pavement was so densely packed with stones that it resembled a road on the ground.

The box was judged to be arbitrary and the entire car was taken out. In the past, you would have had to take out the parts and assemble them, but now you can easily take out and put in the finished product.

It was thanks to Alan’s discovery of the soulstone combination. After that, the box and the leopard ate soulstones one by one, and the more they did, the stronger their abilities became.

Nicola hovered around the box.

“This one is turning into an Ooparts too. You didn’t even touch it.”

“I didn’t apply the runes separately. It’s thanks to the soulstone combination.”

“What is that? Tell me.”

Alan got into a vehicle that resembled an armored personnel carrier, and Nicola quickly followed behind. Taylor sat in the gunner’s seat and took charge of the missile launcher.

As expected of a horsepower engine, it was quiet, and the suspension absorbed the shock of the road surface to provide the best ride. There were no dinosaurs to disturb me, so I arrived at the foot of the mountain comfortably.

“Alan, there’s a fortress at the end of the road.”

“This is the immigration office in charge of the boundary and defense of Yeongsan.”

“Are you just going to take it?”

“yes.”

It was different from when I was possessed by the reptilians. Back then, I would sneak up and hide in a whisper, but now there was no need to do that.

“If you have enough strength, your brain is at ease.”

“What you just said sounded like Professor Oak.”

Armored vehicles were also found in the fortress. When one reptilian blew his bone horn, the mountaineers rushed out. The object that greeted them as they climbed the wall was.

Kwarrung!

It was a shot fired by Taylor. The flames spread along the walls, heating up the surrounding air.

The basic level of the mountaineers was high, so there were few deaths. Some individuals were even able to control fire and hang it on arrows.

The arrow was shot with a fiery tail. Its appearance resembled that of a snake. However, snakes are usually hunted.

Zion jumped from the armored vehicle and cut the snake’s body in half. The mountain man was surprised and aimed his bow, but the target had already disappeared. Zion jumped out of the mountain man’s shadow and slit his throat.

Living things live with shadows, so how can they escape when a reaper emerges from the shadows? The heads of the mountain guards rose one after another and fell in order.

Alan got out of the neatly armored vehicle. He left the remaining mountaineers with his colleagues and headed to the room where the barrier was maintained.

The large room in the basement was the same as before. A pure white pillar stood in the center, with three cylinders placed around it.

The reptilian wizards inside the barrel maintained the barrier despite the intruder. Alan put his hand into the barrel. He reached out through the blue liquid magic and reached for the reptilian’s neck.

Only then did the wizard open his eyes and start making a fuss, but after a thud, it became quiet.

Nicola, who followed me, said.

“It’s merciless.”

“It’s the same.”

The wizard in the barrel that Nicola was in charge of had a hole in his forehead. The blue liquid magic was dyed red.

“What a pity.”

“I made a mistake···.”

Allen cut the pillar that was the axis of the barrier with the space gate and took it with him. He couldn’t remove the barrier of the entire mountain, but he was able to remove the barrier around this area at least.

As we went outside, I saw a little boy staring at the top of Yeongsan Mountain. If the little boy who followed me around like a piece of gum forgot about it, it meant that there was something up there.

“Is there a cloud dragon?”

“That would be nice. Could we use clouds as material?”

“Are you thinking of hunting to make equipment instead of talking?”

“I forgot.”

Maybe it was because he had recently been making gear as a collector, but his thoughts had drifted in that direction. Alan calmed down and looked up at the summit.

“If it’s a real dragon, hunting is impossible.”

“It’s a bit different because it’s a labyrinth.”

“I guess so.”

The mountain was so high that there was no time to waste in reaching the top quickly. In fact, the monsters that popped out and got in the way were more of a problem than the height or distance.

After spending a day quickly passing through the deciduous and coniferous forest zones, a plateau covered with thickets of shrubs appeared.

Nicola touched the box.

“Do you remember?”

Beep?

“You were possessed by a pterosaur and breathed fire at us.”

Beep!

The box looked at Alan cautiously, startled. The camera, which resembled a crab’s eye, was completely shrunken. Fortunately, Alan didn’t care.

“What a pity.”

Beep!!

The box hit Nicola with a punch that was powerful enough to break the bones of a wild beast, but it was just a joke to them.

As we set foot on the plateau, pterosaur riders that we had not seen before appeared and tried to interfere with our journey, but were turned into spoils of war and put in a drawer.

They reached the vertical rock wall that marked the end of the plateau. Above that was the summit of Yeongsan. Alan looked up at the peak, covered with clouds like donuts.

‘It’s emitting a subtle aura that scares living things just like before.’

The little boy showed signs of slight discomfort. He refused to move, so Alan took him out of his dragon suit. He held him to his chest, and only then did he whine that it was good.

‘Are you sure you were aiming for this?’

Alan’s powersuit climbed the cliff faster than it had when he was a reptilian. He leaped straight up, breaking through the clouds and landing on the flat summit.

The summit, which resembled a flat, wide stone disc, was overflowing with magical power. The dense magical power naturally cooled my lungs.

Alan turned his eyes towards the source of the magic. He saw a huge bone.