Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 390
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Even though Alan said, “You’re late to wake me up,” it wasn’t their fault, it was just a line he said because he regretted turning away before hearing all of Dragon’s words.
Zion’s charming eyes curved gently.
“My junior is throwing a tantrum. It’s like I’m seeing him for the first time···.”
“Really? This is a precious scene.”
Zion and Larissa spoke in a soft tone. Alan stared at them. He wondered what had changed between them, who were worse than enemies.
“You two have become closer. Have you made up?”
“Junior, if you say such bad things, my young heart will be hurt.”
“Mr. Alan, you have no talent for jokes.”
Only then did we wrinkle our faces and distance ourselves from each other. For some reason, it felt like we had become a little more intimate than before we started dating. Even so, it was only a change from a strong dislike to a moderate dislike.
Alan checked the time and calculated. The flow of the dark space was much faster than the labyrinth, and the sphere containing Larissa and Zion was faster than the dark space.
More than ten hours had passed in the labyrinth, so those who had been waiting had decided to take night shift and were sleeping.
There was a matter to take care of before resting. I set up a tent near the altar that had turned to stone dust and called Larissa and Zion.
“Inviting a woman to your tent on a late night… Wow, I’m mentally prepared.”
“You, do you keep saying weird things?”
“You know what? People who pretend to be innocent are more sinister.”
Inside the tent, the two of them could chatter as loudly as they wanted. For a moment, Alan thought about what the dragon had said.
[Unauthorized knowledge leads to destruction.]
[They must have all died···.]
‘What do you mean everything is dead?’
The Purifier, who was overthrown by Chairman Jake, hunted down those with excessive magical powers. To be exact, those who were actively moving around despite being excessive magical powers.
And according to Alan’s guess, the secret group that inherited the will of the Assassin’s Cult was the Purifiers. Since there was also a labyrinth, the difference in eras was ignored.
‘Did the Assassin’s Cult kill all the reptilians born with excessive magical powers?’
It is clear that there is some secret hidden in the magic power disorder, but it is difficult to solve now, so I have turned my thoughts to knowledge and destruction.
Zion and Larissa looked at each other, bored with the argument. They linked arms and crossed legs, like a decal.
“Ms. Larissa.”
“You’re calling me too formally. I’ll drop my title, so please call me by my name. Alan, what’s wrong?”
“What do you think about knowledge and destruction, Ms. Larissa? That’s what the dragon I met in the dark space outside the sphere said.”
“···.”
Seeing her mouth shut right away, he knew something. Alan raised his visor and looked at her with his bare eyes.
“I helped you with the mystery, Ms. Larissa, so I would like you to reveal some of the secrets.”
Zion’s eyes rolled around. He stared at Larissa intently, his eyes filled with the question of whether it was true.
“I’ve never seen my junior before, so what do you mean I helped him?”
“Ask him to let you know after the conversation. Alan, I really appreciate that.”
“So please tell me.”
Larissa took off her exploration helmet. She grabbed the ends of her long wavy hair and twirled them around.
“The labyrinth first appeared a hundred years ago. It was a great discovery that raised the level of civilization by hundreds or thousands of years.”
“It’s as if someone arranged it in the same year and month. Are you trying to say that there were labyrinths in the Reptilian era as well?”
“As expected, you’re quick-witted. What if it existed in some other form, not necessarily a labyrinth?”
The Dragon of Dark Space said that knowledge that was not permitted would bring destruction. If destruction meant the end of an era, then it meant that the Reptilians had finally touched the taboo.
“If the reptilian civilization developed and was swallowed up by something like a labyrinth… then the modern labyrinth could be a signal of doom.”
“As Alan knows, the level of civilization in the modern and reptilian eras is….”
“It makes a huge difference.”
They went into space and used the moon as a resource base, and even mined moon crystals that had the magic of space flowing through them. Orbital resorts and factories were also examples of development.
“Judging by the level of development, it would have been destroyed and ended a long time ago.”
“What if knowledge is not the advancement of civilization?”
“Please tell me more.”
“The Dragon Cult, the Dragon Cult. They are still actively growing in power.”
“The knowledge the dragon spoke of must not belong to humans, but to the dragon race.”
From the clues I gathered while exploring, it was clear that there had been a war between the dragon species. The conflict between these near-omnipotent beings would inevitably lead to destruction.
If some of the awake people had created an ark or magic circle to prevent it, then a hypothesis was made.
“Is the role of the labyrinth the ark?”
“Nobody knows.”
“There are a lot of strange things about it being called an ark.”
Explorers have developed modern civilization by mining the resources of the labyrinth. Although monsters hinder the mining, can it be said that the role of the ark is properly fulfilled at the point where it is possible?
“What if there’s a problem with the ark?”
“I don’t know anything more than that. I’m serious.”
Larissa made an apologetic face. If that were acting, then all the awards given to actors would be hers.
The discussion reached a deadlock. Zion, who had been watching, approached, dragging a chair.
“Have you seen the dragon?”
“It was a tentacle dragon. It was completely black.”
“tentacle?”
“The snout resembles a horse’s mouth.”
Alan reconstructed the memory into a hologram. Zion and Larissa looked at the dragon, tightly bound in chains. The boy was extremely nervous as he saw the tentacles moving around.
“You’re cute.”
Kkk!
When Larissa tried to stroke him, he screamed fiercely and avoided her touch.
“Who are you trying to touch? I can see it···.”
Kkk!
Zion didn’t even make a gesture to touch him, but as soon as their eyes met, he ran away.
Larissa looked back and forth between Zion and the kid, smiling.
“You’re cute.”
“Be quiet.”
“Not you, but that guy. He’s big, but he sounds like a baby.”
Alan pondered whether the surroundings were noisy or not. The now-lost stone tablet he had seen in the ruins had the victory of the Assassin’s Cult written on it.
The dragon that ruled the Assassin’s Cult promised to prevent destruction, but in the end, the Reptilian era became part of the Labyrinth.
‘I don’t know what happened in the middle···.’
I would like to perform the ritual again and meet the dragon, but unfortunately the altar is broken.
‘Dragon?’
Alan’s eyes moved. He looked at the kid, and he tilted his head in this direction. He was a possessor of a pure brain, who knew nothing.
This time, I looked at Larissa’s legs. Since the visor was open, Larissa quickly noticed my gaze. She stretched out her legs as if to ask me to look at her more closely, but was blocked by Sion.
As Alan stared at her legs for a long time, Larissa flinched slightly instead.
“Can I touch it?”
“You’re so proactive. I’d be embarrassed if you did that too…”
“What are you talking about! Juniors aren’t the type of people who are tempted by base desires!”
Alan approached Larissa, took off his white boots, and returned to his original position, taking Zion’s sword with him along the way.
“Ah, it’s not a leg, it’s a boot···.”
“Are you wearing them on your bare feet and making them smell?”
“Keep it clean. You handed over the sword, which is the life of the inspector.”
“Yeah. That’s okay for your juniors.”
Alan looked at the two as he fiddled with his boots and sword. Zion and Larissa turned their heads in his direction at the same time. They looked just like sisters.
“Sword and boots···.”
“It’s the Dawn Armor and the Dawn Armor. If you’re going to use the Dawn Armor to destroy the Dawn Armor, I’ll help you.”
“No way!”
Alan clapped his hands vigorously to attract attention.
“Concentrate. What did you get out of it?”
“We share the same body, so I know everything. So, I can send him away.”
Even if you see and hear the same thing in one body, it can be different depending on who you are. Alan looked at Larissa.
“too bad···.”
Zion turned into a cat that had been hit by rain. However, if you judge it objectively, excluding the feelings of colleagues, Larissa’s explanation was better.
“It’s not that grand, but… I think it’s more like a performance enhancement.”
“The dragon’s energy has increased.”
“Uh… that’s right.”
“Are there any more?”
“My father said that the ego was created.”
“Is it possible to talk?”
“You didn’t say anything like that.”
It was really suspicious that the result of twisting the ritual to summon a dragon was the strengthening of the weapon and the creation of the ego.
“Is Alan trying to say that Ego is actually a dragon?”
“You’ll know if you check it out now.”
The tentacle dragon wanted to stop the spread of knowledge. If it was the knowledge of the dragon race, then one way to do that would be to lock up the dragon race itself.
“Come here.”
Before Alan could even wave, the little girl came over and rubbed her body against him. Of course, Zion and Larissa were still not allowed to approach.
If the ego of Dawn and Dawn Armor were dragons, and they wanted to escape the labyrinth, how would they react when they saw the hatchlings?
Alan placed the child between his legs and placed the Dawn Armor and Dawn on the left and right. When he examined them with his eyes, he caught a lively movement of energy. When he opened his eyes, he saw something whitish slowly slipping out from the surface of the weapon.
In a way, the spirit body, which resembled a long earthworm, seemed confused. Just as the ownership of the Dawn Armor and the Dawn was divided, the spirit body was also split in two.
The spirit shook its head wildly, then froze stiffly when it saw the child. Then it carefully pushed its head in.
Kyuururuk? Kkuuk!
The little boy instinctively felt something and clung to Alan more tightly. He curled his tail around his waist and pressed his head against his thigh.
‘I don’t know what the intention is.’
But he had no intention of letting them approach him gently. Allen held the spirit energy in his hand. Powersuit moved his arms like lightning and caught the two white worms.
“Alan, what are you talking about in the air….”
“Shh, I’m concentrating. Keep your voice down.”
Alan pulled hard on the two worms. Their tails dangled in the air as they were completely free of their weapons.
This was the advantage of the spirit world. It could intervene in the spirit world without any special measures and gained a powerful advantage.
Alan moved two worms, one to each ear.
[···.]
Although a weak will was felt, it was not enough to be concretized.
‘Is it because it’s divided into two?’
Alan fused the worms together. The Dawn Armor and Dawn emitted a strong pure white light and then became silent again. The worms became even bigger than before.
[···.]
Still haven’t said anything.
‘It’s not an ego, but a simple program. You can think of it as a driver that helps utilize the abilities of the Dawn Armor and Dawn.’
I know the ability. The earthworm was emitting an energy very similar to the sphere I had touched in the dark space.
Alan held the worm tightly and went out of the tent. He gave a quick greeting to Taylor, who was on night duty, and headed toward the ruined altar.
He watched the stone powder quietly. As he continued to watch, he saw threads dyed in indescribable colors. Alan grabbed the broken thread and forcibly connected it.
The stone dust moved like sand blowing in the wind. As if time was going backwards, the dust grew bigger and bigger until it turned into a rock, and eventually an altar, which then collapsed.
Alan looked down at the worm in his hand. It kept shaking its body, trying to get closer to the boy.
‘I can’t just leave it alone.’
He put strength into his grip. The energy of the spirit penetrated deep into the earthworm’s body and tore apart its roots. They mixed together and became one, and quietly returned to his right eye.
The evil spirits tried to take over the bodies of the holders of the spirit eyes, and the owners of the spirit eyes defeated them and absorbed their spiritual powers to grow. That’s what Alan did now.
I returned to the tent and returned the Dawn Armor and Dawn to their owner. Their abilities were still the same. However, with the assisting spirit gone, they were much harder to handle.
“Alan, what was that just now?”
“It’s nothing.”
“You know this is a ridiculous excuse, right? The labyrinth looked like it was rewinding time…”