Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 422



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Excavation (4)

It was at least 20 meters long and thick enough to easily swallow a person. If it didn’t have a distorted human head like a mummy, it would have a sturdy appearance that would stimulate the rich people’s desire to collect it. Or maybe it’s more bizarre and therefore more desirable.

As soon as she saw Alan, she pursed her swollen lips and sucked hard. Her body was slightly dragged away, and her soul cloak was torn to pieces.

Whoop!

Ugh!

As the snake’s attacks continued, the soul cloak’s screams also became longer. However, there was something he overlooked.

A green mass leaped out from behind Alan, rushing forward at a terrifying speed and slamming into his shoulder. When a dump truck and a compact car collide head-on, the latter is horribly destroyed, but this time it was the opposite.

The snake, the big one, flew through the air. It was stopped by the densely packed pillars, but before it could react, Oros’ dropkick landed on it.

Wow!

The destructive force pierced through the snake’s body and reached the pillar, making a bell-like sound.

The snake swung its tail at its enemy, screaming in pain. Oros did not dodge but struck. The giant snake and the man faced each other in a tense standoff.

The snake, like Tesca, is the leader of El Dorado, and he has been carrying out his plan step by step to manifest. The guy’s mistake is that he has only materialized in front of two people who have transcended humanity.

Up to depth 5, there is still a lot of humanity left, but from depth 6 onwards, it is completely out of the same creature category. Everything needs to be timed well, but the snake was very unlucky.

In fact, snakes were indeed terrifying monsters. Their ability to simply extract a person’s spiritual power and destroy their soul was so dangerous that it reminded one of the Grim Reaper.

But there was a great necromancer on this side. He had learned the knowledge of Kamai, who had been given the title of Ka through necromancy.

‘One more cloak.’

Alan roughly tore the soul and flew it towards Oros. The soul flew like a paper airplane and wrapped itself around the green body, absorbing the snake’s attacks instead.

With Alan blocking the source of the most threatening and terrifying soul absorption, Oros, who was assisted, ran wild.

As the souls that were to be taken out of the small heavenly path began to fall, the snake’s head landed near Alan.

The snake opened its mouth and tried to bite Alan, but it couldn’t. Oros held its body tightly. The snake’s head, which was tightened in the middle like a magic balloon, was slammed into the pillar without thinking.

Hueeeek···.

The snake gasped and made a strange noise. The guy who had a moment of free time saw a metal shoe. The owner was, of course, Alan, wearing a power suit.

“Mr. Alan, I’ll hold on to you, so finish this quickly.”

“The technique of absorbing spiritual energy seems useful.”

“Do you mean you’re going to capture me?”

“yes.”

Alan placed his palm on the snake’s forehead. When he opened his eyes, he could clearly see the snake’s condition.

“They are undead with a physical form, but are basically ghosts. El Dorado is good at creating such monsters.”

The abyss is a way of looking at the observer. When Alan used his spiritual eyes and stepped deep into it, the snake flailed as if it was happy. Originally a spirit, it was also stronger in the spiritual field.

Kkaaaah!

The sharp sound was only heard by Alan. If a normal person had heard it, it would have been an attack that would have caused them immediate suicide from the agony, and would have made them lament their fate of not being able to commit suicide even after becoming a spirit.

Alan, who had heard it right in front of him, simply ignored it. The green light emitting from his right eye was so intense that it went through the visor.

To the snake, the body was just a shell that it put on for a while. It meant that it could be taken off easily, like a light hat. Alan grabbed the snake’s soul and pulled hard.

When Alan saw that the resistance was too strong, he placed his other hand on the bastard’s forehead. He held the blade upright and buried it deep into his soul, then slowly spread it left and right.

Kkaaa!

Alan’s vision was fully activated, so Oros could see it briefly. And he could even hear it.

A long, torn, gigantic soul entered the heavenly path the size of a human torso. The heavenly path, resembling an oil lamp, glowed brightly.

“I’ve never seen a scene so soul-rending.”

“It’s a basic technique for striking the spirit body. It does contain some high-level techniques.”

“The light is strong. Why is it like that?”

“It’s because the newbies are so big that the souls are surprised. There were a few souls who had been lax lately, but I like how they immediately became tense.”

“Will Hell hold up to his tantrums?”

“The Heaven Road is much more resistant to internal shocks than external ones. Don’t worry, we’ll keep tearing it apart and checking it frequently.”

“Mr. Alan, I don’t know much about necromancy, but I’ve heard many times that if you mess with the soul, it won’t be good for you after death.”

“I don’t believe that. And all the souls I treat roughly deserve it.”

Oros’ expression softened. He looked extremely relieved.

“Oh, you’ve set a standard.”

“It is a preemptive strike and self-defense.”

“Surely it wouldn’t be self-defense if a child was hit on the street?”

“I’m not the type of person who just goes out like that.”

A noise was heard beyond the still spreading darkness. Since the snake was trapped, the darkness density has gradually diminished, so the ruins will soon return to normal.

The character who appeared was Professor Henry. He was riding on the leopard’s back and then suddenly raised his head.

“Are you done?”

“yes.”

“Monsters···.”

Professor Henry was trembling. It was understandable that he would be scared, since even a touch of the magic wave generated in a depth 6 battle would kill someone at depth 2.

“What if you fight so recklessly and the ruins get destroyed! Hey! I don’t know about Alan, but Oros! You have to be gentle!”

I was angry, not in a fearful sense, but in a different sense. Professor Henry was not normal either.

If he were normal, he would never have entered the soul-sucking ruins and directly participated in the excavation. Even Henry was the leader of the investigation team who could stay in a safe place without anyone saying anything.

Henry jumped down from the leopard and quickly ran around on his short legs. He slumped his shoulders when he saw a broken pillar, and jumped up and down when he found a good pillar. He even wrapped his whip around the pillar and flew around.

Oros quickly followed Henry, worried that he was running around alone.

“Henry, you have to be careful even in places where you just killed a monster.”

“Just as you are an expert in mazes, I know the ancient civilizations better. There may be traps left in other places, but since we’ve defeated the Guardians, this place is fine. Stop worrying and come here.”

Henry placed the lantern on the floor where the snake had been coiled. The darkness was dissipating, so the light spread farther than before.

“Did he sit here because he was bored? No, he did it because he had something to guard.”

“Henry was waiting at the campsite, how did you know it was here?”

“A young friend shared the video with me. He learned a lot. He must be a good person with good conduct.”

While Oros paused for a moment, Henry took out a soft brush and carefully swept away the dust and rocks. The floor was full of tiny grooves, and they had clumped together to form strange shapes.

“Further action may be needed.”

“Then what happens?”

“Something will pop out from the floor. Is snake blood the key?”

Henry soaked a white cloth in the liquid that the snake’s skin had shed and rubbed it on the floor. When there was still no response, he put the flesh of the skin into the extractor, squeezed it out, and poured it along the grooves.

“Is it still quiet?”

“henry···.”

“Let me think about it for a moment. You can wait in the corner and do your favorite squats.”

Oros went to the real corner and did squats. He said he didn’t have enough weight so he took out a 500kg plate from his pocket.

Alan waited quietly beside Henry.

“Does it only work when all darkness has disappeared? Is there a separate time to wake up? Is it broken? Does it only respond if you are an El Dorado?”

Alan reacted to the last words. Thinking of the golden crown, he pulled Henry out of the sea of ​​thoughts.

“Are you from El Dorado?”

“Of course it wasn’t a facility made for us to use, so of course it would react to them. But they’re all dead, right? Anyway, since they’re not here right now, it’ll be hard to do anything right now.”

“Is there no other way?”

“There is a magical tool that the El Dorado people commonly wear. It is usually a headgear-shaped device, and it is believed to have a similar function to a brain expansion device. If you have it, can you react?”

“Do you have it now?”

“If that were the case, I would have taken them out and shaken them right away. I saw three of them while excavating the El Dorado ruins, and the Soldos pigs took them all. They are very bad.”

Henry complained, asking how he could investigate if he left the investigation to them and took everything away.

When Alan opened his palm, a golden crown appeared. It wasn’t a magic trick, but rather a folding space that had been unfolded. Henry’s eyes, which had been narrowed while cursing, opened wide.

“No, that?”

Henry jumped up like a frog and Alan threw his arms up in the air.

“Can I touch it?”

“Look with your eyes.”

“I’ll take back the compliment I gave you earlier. You’re a greedy friend.”

Henry grumbled, but his eyes followed the golden crown. Oros, who had increased the squat weight to 1 ton, also approached.

Henry’s eyes glowed blue, and a screen appeared in the air. It showed a picture of the coffin I had mentioned earlier. It was a plain, unadorned structure.

“Do you see? Two are copper, one is silver. And El Dorado loved gold as much as it valued gold. Should we say it was sacred? So your gold crown is….”

“So you’re saying it’s something that belongs to the ruling class?”

“Yes, that’s right! Put it on your head and stand in the center.”

As Henry grew red in the face and grew excited, Oros stepped forward.

“Henry, what do you know about what will happen when you order Alan to do it? Let’s check thoroughly first and then proceed.”

“To make a great discovery, you have to take risks. In fact, if you only consider the level of risk, isn’t a labyrinth one step ahead?”

“that···.”

Oros had no objection. All he could see was Alan walking towards the center, wearing a golden crown on his helmet.

As Alan stood in the center, a thud was heard.

Phew!

There was a sound of wind blowing hard. It was similar to the sound of something being sucked in like a snake, but the result was different. The darkness quickly disappeared, and instead of the stench, a faint fragrance lingered at the tip of my nose.

Now the light from the lantern reached far. And the floor moved. The stone rose up to his waist and wrapped around Alan in a ‘( )’ shape.

[welcome.]

The golden particles clumped together to form a text. It was a labyrinthine script. Henry was not one of the chosen ones, so he pulled at his beard in agony.

Alan called Henry. When he held out the golden crown, he came running towards him, his eyes sparkling.

“Is it possible to decipher the labyrinth text?”

I put the crown on my head with anticipation. As soon as I did, all the golden words disappeared and the ventilation system stopped working.

“no!”

Alan looked at the screaming Henry. Not all dwarves were part of El Dorado’s slave class, only the bloodlines of the bank seemed to be.

‘Was golden hair a sign of high class possession?’

Alan took Henry’s fingers off the golden crown. Oros held him at his side, squeezing him farther away. As he put on the crown, the labyrinthine script appeared again.

[Welcome to the shelter. Let me tell you about the hibernation capsules. There are 300 in total, 299 broken, and 1 normal.]