The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 401
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After the break, we moved around a bit and met the secret condition to head to the second floor. Everyone took a step towards the portal created in front of them. I also walked along.
As soon as I felt like I had passed something, my vision changed. It is a huge grassland with no end in sight. And at the center was a castle.
It is not a castle with a typical design that has been created by human hands, but an ominous castle boasting a gigantic size that clearly shows the monster’s crude dexterity and aggressiveness.
The area around the castle is full of all kinds of monsters and human corpses. All of the flesh was gone, as if the game had been prepared, and some were crushed or mixed together to form the bottom.
After staring blankly at the castle for a moment, he came to his senses, looked around, and said.
“Is everyone okay?”
“Nothing wrong.”
“are you okay.”
Thanks to the effect of the bracelet we received upon entering, we all gathered together instead of scattering. Along with the Golden King, the Golem was able to safely cross the portal.
Thanks to arriving at good terrain where I could see the grassland, I was able to look around the nearby area comfortably.
Fortunately, there were no scouts wandering around.
Raelan said while using magic to look into the distance.
“It looks like no one has escaped the maze yet. “It would be a good idea to get a good spot in advance.”
“Then what about that mountain? I think it would be convenient to take advantage of the terrain and block enemies coming from high places.”
What Conrad pointed to was a huge mountain covering one side of the grassland. In response to Konrad’s opinion, Raelan turned his head to ask if I was okay.
I thought for a moment and shook my head. Conrad’s eyes seemed to ask why, so I explained the reason for my refusal.
“Even though it looks fine on the outside, it is an active volcano. When a volcano erupts, everything near the mountain will be swept away. “You will have to move to the other side of the mountain to avoid the explosion.”
“… “I don’t see any signs of an explosion.”
“But the king of that castle has the ability to force volcanoes to erupt. “The volcano will definitely erupt.”
He is the king who erupted a volcano even when dealing with just one Roel. If a large number of intruders appear on the second floor, a volcano will definitely explode.
Conrad looked surprised at my words, scratched his chin and said.
“Huh… What an amazing ability. “Who on earth is the king of that castle?”
“It’s a goblin.”
There was silence for a moment. Conrad, who was scratching her head as if he had heard nonsense, asked with an awkward expression.
“… “Are you talking about that goblin I know?”
“you’re right. Although they look similar, they will be very different from the goblins you have experienced. This place… “It’s a labyrinth.”
At my words, everyone turned their heads and looked at the castle. A monster castle with a look that makes people instinctively hesitate to approach it.
In that castle lives the goblin king who rules the second floor of the labyrinth.
A goblin who was born in a labyrinth, became the ruler of the second floor, and took on the duty of stopping intruders.
“Then let’s move there. There is a river flowing nearby, so we can stop the fire system, and even if the volcano erupts, it will be far away and there will be no damage.”
Following Raelan’s opinion, we moved straight away.
***
When they arrived at a suitable place, Conrad and Ellie exchanged opinions and nodded.
“It would be a good idea to make a wooden fence using nearby trees.”
“If you set the framework, I will assist you.”
“Okay, then let’s start here.”
Conrad and Ellie swung their wands, and soon a huge wooden fence was created.
I was amazed that this was possible with magic, and then I belatedly remembered that the hideout beyond the closet was also made with Nelson’s magic.
While the club members were naturally thinking and sighing with worry, the Golden King, who had been sleeping on the golem’s shoulder, suddenly woke up.
Although he hadn’t opened his eyes yet, he seemed to have felt something and was turning his head to another direction.
In response, Raelan climbed up the fence and looked in the direction the Golden King was looking. Then he turned and smiled happily at us.
“I didn’t know you would come for us first.”
“… ?”
I realized that the monsters were not coming because of Raelan’s words. Raelan came down from the fence and motioned for us to follow him.
“Get ready to welcome guests.”
“Who is coming?”
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“It’s a religious order.”
“… !”
I never thought they would come to us first. As a condition of the deal, you can receive help from the Golden King for a day, but if the cult stays on the first floor or hides, the Golden King will have no help.
So Raelan also showed that the Golden King is with us in order to gain maximum benefit. No one in their right mind would attack us first with the Lily and the Golden King.
But the church came first… This was really unexpected.
I opened the door of the wooden fence, looked at the approaching church, and raised my magical power so that I could fight at any time.
The Golden King also half-opened his eyes and looked at the approaching church with drowsy eyes.
It stopped a short distance away and one person walked forward. He walked to a dangerous distance where he could be attacked at any time, and suddenly took off the mask he was wearing.
It was Belker, the vice-principal of the Chaos Cult, a man with blood-red eyes.
A soft smile formed on his lips and he spoke politely and politely.
“You can’t be rude by wearing a mask in the honor of facing the king who rules the West. It is an honor to meet the Golden King. “I am the deputy leader of the Chaos Church and the leader’s representative, Belker.”
“Did someone like the vice-principal leader come here on his own to foolishly throw away his life?”
Raelan joined the conversation, but Belker ignored him and focused his gaze on the Golden King.
“The reason I came to you so unceremoniously was because I thought we could make a good deal that would benefit both parties. “Because we have what the Golden King wants most, and he can easily get what we want.”
“… What do I want?”
Belker must have heard the Golden King muttering softly through magic, and answered in a more polite manner.
“The only thing that can bring the Golden King out of his old boredom.”
“Do you really think you can deceive the Golden King with lies?”
When Raelan intervened again, Belker, who had a soft smile on his face, looked up.
“Do not interfere in conversations unless you are a representative of the Golden King!”
“Then you are the agent.”
“… .”
Seeing Raelan answering immediately with a shameless face, Belker shook his head with an expression of bewilderment.
Still, when Belker looked at the Golden King just in case, she nodded slightly.
It seemed like he readily accepted it once he could pass on the annoying conversation to someone else.
Belker, who was looking at the Golden King and Raelan with a bewildered expression, changed his expression and continued speaking again.
“… Our proposal is this. “If you capture the lily over there alive and hand it over to us, we will hand over the Golden King’s precious lover who is safely in our care.”
I frowned unconsciously at Belquer’s words.
The Golden King clearly said that Eddie was his first and last lover… Seeing that he came so confidently and asked to make a deal, there was a high possibility that he had a lover with him, just as Estelle had warned him.
But I didn’t feel any particular sense of crisis. Even if a lover exists, as the church says, that person would not be the lover who endured laziness and boredom and waited for the Golden King to return.
The Golden King, who was sitting on the golem’s shoulder and slowly moving his feet, looked at Raelan silently.
Raelan, who received the Golden King’s gaze, shrugged his shoulders and took a step forward.
Raelan, who usually had no expression, was somehow acting as if he was embarrassed.
“… I understand the terms of the deal. “But isn’t the priority of the transaction to confirm whether the lover the church is said to be serving really exists?”
“The church does not tell lies. “Of course it’s true.”
“To my ears, it sounds like an excuse for not being able to prove whether that statement is true right now.”
When Raelan erased his embarrassed expression and twisted one corner of his mouth, Belker twitched his lip in the same way.
When the Golden King was in a situation where he would betray them, Raelan, who was embarrassed, thought he was trying to get out of the situation with words and laughed at him.
“Of course, the denomination can always prove it.”
After saying that, Belker pointed his staff into the air. A red flash like lightning shot out from the tip of the staff, creating a strangely designed character.
The text began to shake and leave an afterimage in the air. Konrad, who was watching, opened his mouth as if he realized something about her.
“This is… It is an immature but clear form of space magic. “Is this a unique magic created using the trick of cutting space?”
Finally, as numerous afterimages were created, the space itself became distorted, the text disappeared, and a box tightly bound with chains appeared in its place.
“Hehe, did you think we would have come without any preparation? “It is a vain hope.”
As Belker smiled a winner, Raelan looked awkwardly angry.
“There is a possibility that the contents are fake.”
“… “It’s ugly until the end.”
When Belker swung his staff, the chains surrounding the box melted like liquid.
Belquer waved his staff at the box again. Then the tightly closed box opened and we could see clearly.
Inside the box was a hatchling egg that looked exactly like the one I got as a reward for breaking through the room of trials.