Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 416



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Eldorado (8)

Goldberg’s beard vibrated madly, the blood vessels in his eyeballs burst and his eyes turned bright red. He jumped up and screamed.

“Gold Eye!”

[You dare speak your uncle’s name so carelessly. Your father has failed in raising his children. I’m sure you don’t have time for that anymore.]

I could guess with my eyes closed what the sound of the glass breaking meant.

[What happened to Tesca?]

Goldeye asked after Tesca’s well-being before leaving his child behind. Alan stepped in to replace Goldberg, who was speechless with anger.

“What is Tesca?”

[If you haven’t seen it, then the ritual is in progress. You should be trembling in fear, because the guy will come to take your life soon.]

Alan called the box, opened the drawer, and put his arm in. A large vacuum-packed eyeball popped out. Goldeye’s once relaxed expression immediately distorted.

“Oh, you mean this?”

[You!]

“Was it your precious pet? I will use it well.”

It’s time to start strengthening the leopard. I’m currently using the leopard skeleton I obtained from the Necropolis, so I expected it to go well with the jaguar, which is also a feline.

[How did you defeat the leader of El Dorado? It is absolutely impossible with your skills!]

“You took it down well.”

Interfering with the sacrificial ritual was the best choice. Even with a body with holes all over it, it was able to fight five Titans, so if it was normal, as Goldeye said, the jaguar would have been harvesting its life.

Beyond the screen, a crude golden crown glowed, but the people inside the mobile command center still glared at Goldeye. Alan checked their status and turned his gaze away.

“Have you tried mind control? It’s impossible through indirect contact like communication.”

Goldeye, who had only shown his base for nothing, narrowed his brows. Soon the screen went blank, and only the sound of noise filled the command center.

Mind control was a very tricky thing to deal with.

‘I don’t know how strong the output is or what it can do.’

Moreover, most of the blood relatives sided with Goldeye. In fact, it would not be wrong to say that Goldberg was the only one left.

Goldberg, who had reached the sky and suddenly fell into the deep sea, had his head bowed. The mood among his subordinates was also very bad.

“You have been defeated. If you beg for your life even now… bang!”

Goldhand, who had come to his senses, taunted his cousin, but was hit by Taylor and immediately passed out.

Goldberg continued to drool, then exhaled deeply. He rubbed his temples and looked at Alan.

“What do you plan to do?”

“The request is not over.”

“You still want to continue after seeing the scene you just saw?”

“Goldeye won’t leave us alone.”

Nikola, wearing a power suit and pretending to be an automaton, mutters, “I just need to go back to the tower,” and is then hit by Zion.

“The dwarves of El Dorado would chase anyone who stole their property to hell. That’s why Mr. Goldberg mobilized his fleet to chase after the South Star.”

“That’s true. In your case, since you’re a Titan, I’ll chase you more persistently.”

“Yes. I stirred up all sorts of things and extracted many of Goldeye’s secrets. A promise is a promise.”

“Did you send the enemy mercenaries for that reason too?”

“Because I promised to save you.”

“Ha, right···.”

Goldberg closed his eyes and stroked his golden beard, sometimes so hard that he pulled out a few strands, causing Shiva to make a strange noise.

I raised my eyelids again. It wasn’t the look in the eyes of someone who had given up.

“Just hit the head.”

“If we can break through the defenses, we’ll also need to come up with a defense against mind control.”

Having never experienced it, it was difficult to grasp how strong the domination was.

“I’ll prepare the magic tools somehow. I’ll show that I’ve given up for now, so that my uncle, no, Goldeye, lets his guard down before attacking.”

“Is your account okay?”

Goldberg shook his head from side to side in response to Alan’s question.

“Eldorado’s accounts are all frozen. Other bank accounts and safes are fine, so we can hold out for a while with those…”

“Crunch!”

One of the dwarves in the command center fell down, clutching his neck. Thanks to the golden eyes, he could tell that he had El Dorado dwarf blood mixed in. Goldberg was very surprised.

“What all of a sudden? Could it be the effects of mind control?”

“I stopped you because you were trying to leak the conversation. You betrayed me quickly.”

“Who can say anything if you say you’re trying to find a way to live? I agree with that too···.”

Goldberg pulled out his large-caliber pistol with a stern look on his face. He used the same pistol to finish off a traitor, and he finished off another traitor.

*

A dozen days had passed. Goldeye, believing in the golden crown, did not hide his location like before. And he had little interest in his son’s life or death.

Goldberg decided that an all-out war was impossible, so he ordered his entourage and elite soldiers to disperse, leaving the rest of his men behind.

Alan met Goldberg again at a safe house hidden in the darkness of the city.

“hello.”

“The report said that you took out two mercenary groups sent by Goldeye in the past few days, but you greeted me as if nothing had happened.”

“It was easy compared to the 50-story labyrinth.”

His colleagues nodded at Alan’s words. There, they continued to invite abominations in the name of training and constantly rotated them.

Food was reduced to an act of fueling the body for survival, and sleep was not a rest but merely a means of replenishing magic power for tomorrow’s training. Taylor and Shiva locked eyes and patted each other on the shoulder.

Goldberg looked up with a trembling expression.

“What on earth are you doing…, no, I won’t ask. Just take this.”

“It’s memory correction.”

Alan picked up the transparent, flat memory crystal with his fingers. The information contained within it in the form of magical power flowed out.

Goldeye was currently staying at a villa outside Los Cielo. He moved around like a king inspecting the provinces with his entourage, and now it was the Los Cielo regional headquarters’ turn.

“It’s a coastal area. It’s more like a fortress than a villa.”

“That’s basic.”

“What is Soldos’ reaction?”

“Just watching and being quiet as usual.”

Soldos was indifferent to the deaths and injuries within El Dorado. Large organizations and magic users are difficult to control, but they are left alone because they are eating their own flesh.

“In the Eastern Continent, they call it ‘inviolable government affairs.’”

“As long as you don’t cross the line, I’ll just watch whatever happens.”

“Magic Splitting Bomb···.”

“I told you not to. They’re impossible to obtain now, and even if they could, using fragmentation bombs would put a wanted list on us. Why are you so obsessed with explosions?”

“I’m curious. I’ve seen the effects of fragmentation bombs, but I haven’t seen fragmentation bombs yet.”

“···.”

While Goldberg was silent, Alan searched for the rest of the information. Details about the villa’s layout, the number of soldiers, and the type of security magic came pouring out.

“You have prepared thoroughly.”

“This is my first and last attempt. If you fail, I’ll just die.”

Goldberg fiddled with a large-caliber pistol. He looked like he wanted to join in, but he had to stay in the house because of the mind control. If he was controlled, it was all over.

“Let’s go.”

“I wish you good luck.”

“I want to see the golden crown soon.”

“Huh… Do whatever you want with that.”

As I left Anga, I saw a gloomy and dirty alley. Surrounded by buildings on all sides, the night sky I looked up at was very narrow.

Alan and his colleagues traveled in a regular van. The density of buildings gradually decreased, and the height of buildings gradually decreased. The distance between streetlights also gradually increased, and the area of ​​night expanded.

Taylor rested his chin on his hand and looked outside.

“There is no depth 7?”

“Yes. If I had, I would have chosen a different method.”

“The operation is as usual, bang! Next is the infiltration.”

“It’s a little different. This time, I’ll take the lead.”

“What? That kid is weak too…”

Taylor rolled his eyes as he habitually spoke. Come to think of it, the strongest person in the group was Alan.

“You’re a bit of a pain.”

Nicola mentioned the most important part.

“I am not the same as I used to be.”

Alan flatly denied it. The van was already passing through a winding road. He got out in the middle and went into the woods next to the road. He tried to hide his appearance and presence as much as possible and found a suitable location.

We stopped at a slightly higher elevation. In the distance, there was a villa where Goldeye was staying. A wall like a castle was visible.

Zion asked, watching Alan prepare his magic.

“Junior, you said you don’t use magic?”

“It’s hard to control and the results are random. But if your only goal is destruction, it’s useful.”

There were two types of magic that Alan had prepared. [Pyroblast], which causes crazy flames to burst through the ground, and [Fire Bomb], which focuses on explosions.

Even Allen, who had not trained in the world of spells, could easily use both spells, and as expected from fire magic, their destructive power was also decent.

“This wouldn’t have been possible if we were in the middle of the city, so we’re lucky.”

Alan sprinkled his own blood on the floor. He wasn’t a wizard, so he had to use various methods to fill in the missing parts.

Kyuurururur···.

As soon as the boy smelled the bloody scent that was so intensely magical, he flinched like a cat with a sack of catnip over his head.

The blood followed Alan’s will. It rearranged itself to form a magic circle, and continued to expand in size while swallowing up the magic power that Alan gave it.

The nature of the magical energy flowing around changed. It became as if this place was a volcanic zone, containing a lot of heat and raising the temperature.

The trees rustled. As the temperature soared, the wind flowed distorted. The accumulated magic power gave off a distinct presence.

Nicola shouted.

“Hey, I can’t hide it anymore!”

At the same time, the magic power inside was leaking out of the [Concealment] spell. No matter how hard Nicola tried to block it, it was like blocking a hole in a sack with her finger.

A siren blared from the villa. Security magic detected an aggressive and massive force and spread the alarm. A group of people in power suits flew through the sky with jetpacks.

“It’s over.”

But the magic was complete. Alan looked at the villa, feeling the mana heart he had emptied for the first time in a long time.

Blue spheres appeared in the sky. They fell towards the villa, forming long tails like meteors.

Boom!

The bluish hemispherical shield shook violently. However, there were still many [Heat Bombs] left. The blue meteor shower continued to knock on the shield, and a loud noise erupted that made you wish your eardrums were gone.

The aftershock of the continuous explosions sent jetpack pilots flying in a flurry, like birds struck by lightning.

As the barrier cracked, this time the garden began to stir. It twitched and twitched wildly, revealing its red insides. Red flames shot out from it.

The bright red tongue was unpredictable. It licked everywhere and expanded its body endlessly.

A bright red glow appeared on Nicola’s helmet visor.

“You’re saying those are [Flame Eruption] and [Heat Bomb]? I’d believe you even if you told me they were [Volcanic Summoning] and [Meteor Bombardment]. Hey, they fall into the ocean too.”

Half of the [heat wave] struck not the villa but the pitch-black sea. The rising water columns and steam engulfed the landscape.

“Control failed again this time.”

“If you use magic during a melee, all of our allies will be fried as well.”

“That’s why I don’t want to use it. Power that cannot be controlled is just unpleasant. Let’s go slowly.”

After the pre-bombing, the infantry advance was a time-honored tradition. The enemy Titans, having identified the intruder’s location, rushed towards us. As previously announced, Alan took the lead.