Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 65



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Two humans and two earth elves lead the expedition.

If their feelings were one of bewilderment mixed with bewilderment when they reached a dead end about thirty minutes ago,

The emotion I feel now is confusion mixed with serious concern.

“A living relic? It must be a pain to get caught.”

Sachette muttered in an embarrassed tone. Lilia tilted her head.

“Are you alive?”

“Tell me about the relics that have changed structure.”

Akanksha spoke instead.

“The reason why exploring ruins is difficult is usually because of monsters, but sometimes the structure itself is like a maze, making it difficult to even find your way around. The most difficult of these are mazes that change in real time.”

“It is even more so if it is so undetectable.”

Alon groaned and held the lantern close to the wall blocking his way. At first glance, it was just a mud wall with nothing special about it.

“Look at this. How can you tell if it’s new or if it was there before? We’ve been walking straight all along, so we just noticed something strange when we suddenly took a turn.”

“Is the terrain changing on its own without us even touching it or doing anything special?”

“If you really want to be specific, I did touch them. I destroyed hundreds of rock monsters.”

Satchet answered Galen’s question with his arms crossed.

“Anyway, rock monsters popping out, passages randomly blocking and opening up. It’s the same incomprehensible phenomenon, right? Since we don’t know much about it, we just call it ancient magic or forgotten technology.”

“That’s true.”

“There’s no need to try to understand what you don’t understand. Just assume that this is the ruins’ defense system, and use your experience to solve it.”

“Huh, that’s actually a good thing.”

Veron smiled bitterly.

“It’s much easier to follow a path that opens on its own than to dig through a passageway looking for a secret room that may or may not exist.”

“···Is it okay if I follow you?”

“Of course, it won’t be a smooth road. Monsters will keep appearing, and there may be traps. However, if you break them all and move forward, a deep place will appear at the end, which is a common feature of all ruins.”

The depth of the ruins literally means the deepest part of the ruins.

The treasures were usually kept there, along with particularly powerful monsters guarding them.

It is said that if you defeat that guy, the ruins will become a normal place. There will be no more earth golems popping out or paths changing.

In other words, what Veron meant was that you should just push through with force and reach the boss without overthinking things.

“I don’t want to agree with that human, but this time he was right.”

Akanksha pouted. Sachet added in agreement.

“It is known that the best way to attack a living relic is to kill the treasure guard.”

“Now that it’s come to this, what can I do?”

Once Alon agreed, opinions became unanimous.

Lilia, who had been listening quietly until then, suddenly asked a question.

“Hey, but.”

“Huh? Why?”

“If it is a relic that can keep changing lengths, isn’t there a case where it goes around and around in the same place forever, never being able to reach either the inside or the outside?”

“Well, well? I’ve never heard of such a vicious case. The maze is a pain in the ass, but there were cases where you couldn’t get out and were on the verge of death······.”

“If you couldn’t get out and died, of course you wouldn’t know!”

“···That’s true too.”

Akanksha stuttered at the pure but sharp remark. Alon clicked his tongue and spoke instead.

“There will be limits, I guess.”

“What’s the limit?”

“If we had complete freedom to change the terrain, we would have been crushed to death long ago. The passage was narrow.”

“oh.”

“At least so far, the ruins themselves have not been directly harmed.”

“aha······.”

“I guess the defense system of the ruins is more like it keeps pulling you inward until you’re killed by stronger monsters, rather than slowly drying you out.”

“So if you keep breaking things, you’ll end up in a deep hole?”

“That’s right. So don’t worry too much. We’ll guide you well.”

Lilia nodded in agreement. This was something Galen had also wanted to ask about, and now it was resolved.

Anyway, it’s not a situation where you can dig the ground and try to escape. For now, you have no choice but to follow the ruins.

The expedition turned left.

They entered a new path they had never been on before.

*

At first glance, it looked almost the same as the path I had walked before.

Wide passageways from left to right and up and down. Solidly packed floors, walls, and ceilings.

If anything, I’m not sure if other people feel the same way.

“Lilia.”

“yes?”

“Don’t you think it feels a little bit stronger?”

“That… feeling, right?”

“yes.”

“It seems stronger than before. It was one spoonful before, but now it’s like two spoonfuls?”

I asked Lilia a little bit and she agreed in a small voice.

It felt like the atmosphere unique to ancient ruins had become even stronger.

It was still faint even though it had gotten stronger because it was originally so faint, but it was still distinguishable. At least for the two people.

“You said that as you go deeper into the ruins, stronger monsters appear. So that passageway from before is stage one, and this passageway is stage two?”

“I think what you said is right, brother! Hmm, maybe those dirt monsters are coming out stronger?”

“It’s like the mud wall blocking the road, and the monsters too. I think the theme of the ruins itself is mud.”

“Just because I go up one level doesn’t mean I’ll become incredibly stronger, right?”

“Well, I guess we’ll find out soon enough—”

“Enemies appear ahead!”

Alon’s voice interrupted the conversation, as if the words had become seeds. The two stopped walking.

I looked back naturally and, as expected, dirt was slowly rising from the ground behind me.

“Oh, it’s definitely different.”

If the ones from before had a large upper body and weak lower body, and even though they walked on two legs, they felt like monsters,

These ones had a good balance between the top and bottom. You could call them fat mannequins.

He even had equipment. He was even carrying something that looked like a shield. I don’t know if it was a clay slab or a stone slab, but he was carrying something.

“It’s a different shape than before! It resembles a doll, so be careful!”

The monsters that appeared from the front also appear to be upgraded versions of the ones here.

Surely it’s not a downgrade, so it must be an upgrade.

Phew!

While Galen was admiring it, Lilia ran over and kicked the clay doll again, breaking it.

“Ouch······.”

Lilia wiggled her ankles, her face tearful.

“It seems a little harder than before!”

“It’s the same boulder. Does having a shield increase your defense?”

“But since I broke my back, I guess it’ll still break!”

“That’s good. Well, that’s all for now and you can come back. We just have to look around, don’t we?”

Galen said with a laugh.

The Red Rock Alliance also had the same stance of wanting the supervisor to only supervise as much as possible, so whenever there was an attack, the two sides would take turns running.

Human, Earth Elf, Human, now it’s the Earth Elf’s turn.

I was just thinking about it leisurely.

“Wow?!”

“What, what?!”

Suddenly a scream was heard from behind.

Galen’s eyes widened as he looked back in puzzlement.

“ok?”

At the head of the expedition were four gold men leading the party, a little further away in the middle were twenty silver men, and a little further back were four supervisors following them.

A fight broke out in the middle of the crowd where the Baeks were gathered.

It wasn’t a crazy situation where humans and earth nymphs who had been growling at each other because they didn’t get along finally started fighting.

They were fighting, entangled with earth golems.

‘It got pierced?’

There are only four gold diggers in front, and their defense line has been breached?

Even if two of them were moving towards the rear, would two of them get penetrated?

I just saw Lilia easily destroy one of them? Is it because it’s unfinished? Or is it because it’s finished and it’s incredibly strong?

All sorts of thoughts quickly raced through Galen’s mind, but he soon realized that he was mistaken.

Swish!

Not the floor, but the wall.

The sight of the wall bulging and forming into the shape of an earthen golem came into view.

Kwaaang!

The golem, which was almost finished, was shattered into pieces before it could even be lifted from the wall.

Sachette, who had run all the way to the middle ranks, gave the golem the upper hand.

“Don’t panic!”

Akanksha shouted as he destroyed the golem that was being created on the opposite wall.

“It’s not a new model, it’s an old monster! It’s slow, so you can dodge it easily! Use a blunt weapon instead of a sword! Aim for the waist and break it!”

In the midst of the two races mixed together, the earth elves naturally listened to Akanksha’s words.

Even the humans who looked down on the earth elves were not so narrow-minded as to ignore advice that could help them in battle.

That’s because he only played the role of an observer within the expedition team, but outside of Baek Eun’s warriors, he was treated as an elite.

“Watch out there!”

“Damn, you’re trying to get out of the floor!”

“Give me some space! Fight while retreating!”

Instead of a sword, he swings his mace as a secondary weapon and diligently destroys the earth golems. The earth elves with great strength originally enjoyed using blunt weapons.

Unlike before, when they would normally rush in from the front and back, they were suddenly startled when they suddenly appeared from the wall in the middle of the line or even from the floor.

As soon as the confusion cleared, they quickly demonstrated their skills. They were all very skilled and experienced.

Since the earthen golems were created by surprise, the number of those on the exploration team was actually greater.

Akanksha and Sachet came to the rear ranks, leaving the middle ranks behind, which had quickly regained their composure.

“Sorry! I’m a little late, huh?”

“It’s okay. Who would have guessed that Jung-yeol would suddenly be attacked?”

Galen replied calmly, pointing to Lilia behind him and adding:

“But please understand that we had no choice but to take action.”

The two earth elves came back as quickly as possible to stabilize the heat.

Meanwhile, Lilia had already split five clay dolls in half.

Galen also fired a grenade from his armored form, destroying five of them in the same manner.

It was a clay doll that was definitely stronger than an earthen golem, so I thought it could be worth giving it a silver rating.

Even so, it was just a snack for the two of them.

“Ugh, we’re late so we have nothing to say… but we shouldn’t keep asking for your help.”

“You can consider me a volunteer.”

“No, I said you can’t. We’re sorry, but humans are more likely to have seizures.”

Akanksha looked back at Sachette with a faint sigh.

“Would you rather stay behind?”

“Then the issue of fairness will come up again. It’s true that standing at the front is more difficult.”

“If you think about an emergency, it’s not good to have four people behind you······.”

“I just have to be more diligent and go back and forth.”

Sachet also let out a faint sigh and shook his head.

In places like this, things that would not have been a problem at all if it had been a single expedition were creaking.

Galen smiled faintly as he listened to their conversation.

[ Spirit Creation Lv.54 ]

[ 90% progress to next level ]

Earth golems were just numerous and annoying.

The clay dolls were giving somewhat meaningful experience points, perhaps because each individual had become stronger.

Of course, the difference in level is serious, so it’s not an absolute large amount, but compared to the small amount of experience gained through self-study or sparring, this is also appreciated.

‘We can still stop it somehow, but will it continue to be like that in the future?’

The expedition team’s power is certainly impressive.

But, since it was split in half and even had a supervisor to worry about, it couldn’t run smoothly.

How long can this kind of inefficient response continue?

The deeper you go, the more difficult it becomes.

‘At that time, the number of monsters will decrease and their level will become more elite.’

A strong minority, not a weak majority.

It’s the perfect environment for leveling up.

“Do whatever you want. If you have a hard time, you can always reach out to me.”

The compensation will be received in the form of experience points.

Oh, of course I’m not saying that I won’t accept anything else.