Chapter 33 – 033. Archis Great Labyrinth (1)
“Um, that’s it.”
Eunhyun stopped walking and smiled at Eleanor.
“It’s a trade secret.”
“… Are you kidding me now?”
It was so nasty to make such a face while not telling the most important point.
“Stop! Please identify yourself!”
“I am Eleanor Armitas of the Duke of Armitas.”
Eleanor took the ducal insignia from her bosom and showed it to the guards guarding her city gates.
“T-Why is the duke’s daughter at this hour… ?”
“We are pursuing a criminal who has escaped in secret. Please keep this fact at bay.”
“Ah, I see! However… Is that man the only attendant?”
“Yes. Are there any problems?”
“No, that…”
The guard glanced at Eunhyun.
It was strange that he was not wearing any common armor and was carrying only a multipurpose backpack for travel on his shoulder.
Normally, a daughter of a duke’s family would have an escort knight accompanying her, but Eun-hyeon next to Eleanor did not look like her escort.
If Eleanor had a combat-related job like a swordsman, it might not matter, but the fact that she was a priest was a fact that even commoners in the capital knew.
However, the guards did not understand that a non-combatant priest would go out of the gate with only one porter.
“It’s okay.”
“Yes, I understand.”
But what can you say when you say that you are fine?
The guard nodded her head at Eleanor’s words, even with a confused look on her face.
The two people who left the capital after the checkpoints walked through the woods without talking to each other.
In the ensuing silence, it was Eleanor who spoke first.
“Are you really okay?”
“What?”
“You don’t have a single weapon.”
“No need to worry.”
“What… Oh!”
Eun-hyeon stretched out his hand into the air, and before he knew it, a sword was summoned and held in Eun-hyeon’s hand.
Eleanor made a surprised expression at the sudden appearance of a sword out of thin air.
“Mind… Is it a corporation?”
“Something like that.”
Come to think of it, when Eunhyeon was receiving death threats from Elvin in an abandoned warehouse, even when he saved Eleanor, she was suddenly holding a sword in her hand that she didn’t know where she had brought it from.
“What kind of magic is it?”
“It is a trade secret.”
“Isn’t that word used too often?”
Eleanor expressed her dissatisfaction, but Eun-hyeon did not answer with a wry smile.
In reality, this ability that Eun-hyeon displays is not magic, but because it was one of the powers her goddess bestowed on her.
How do you explain this to convince me?
“I’ve always wondered what the hell you really are.”
“So?”
“There are other people in foreign countries who are not citizens of the kingdom, but there are people with unusual names like yours.”
“…”
Eunhyeon stopped walking in the woods.
“Are you a descendant of the Ancients?”
The ancients referred to a minority people who contributed greatly to driving out the demons in the war between mankind and the demons before the history of Arcena began.
After the war called the Age of Void was over, the surviving ancients came to the continent and decided to settle down.
In particular, one of the great characteristics of the ancients was such a short name.
Among the ancient people, there were various differences such as different cultures and customs.
Just as there was a tribe in which a family name was given to the first letter and a combination of letters with multiple meanings at the end, some ancient traditions say that each letter had a different meaning when forming a name.
It is not impossible to meet the descendants of the Ancients on the continent, but it is one of the rarest, and Eleanor realized that the man walking with her was even rarer among the Ancients.
If you are still using the name ‘Eunhyeon’ following the ancient people’s naming method, doesn’t that mean that you are continuing the tradition and tradition for a long time after 400 years?
“You know about the Ancients.”
“Your name is so unique. It was not difficult to find out.”
Even so, she didn’t even think of the fact that Eun-hyeon was the last survivor of ‘Earth’ who had lived for over 400 years since the era before the earth was destroyed.
“I wanted to talk to you.”
“Is it a story?”
“Why did you save me and my family? What are you thinking what do you want to do I have so many questions for you.”
Was it because of this that he said that he would go with him with so much energy?
“I’m sorry, but I’m not sure what you mean…”
Suddenly, Eunhyun’s footsteps stopped.
“Why are you like that?”
“Princess. Tracking Artifact Right now, is this the right direction?”
“Yes.”
“You said that the artifact tracks the traces of Alex-sama’s magical power and tells you the way.”
“So what?”
“That means chasing after the remnants of the magic he left behind while moving…”
It’s almost like walking in his footsteps.
“You mean we don’t know Alex’s exact location right now.”
It means that we don’t know for certain whether he is alive or dead, or where he is now.
“Why are you asking that all of a sudden?”
“I was just walking in this direction, and a thought came to me.”
Eun-hyeon shook his head and started walking again.
Eleanor followed after Eun-hyeon, who suddenly narrowed her brows and looked at Eun-hyeon with a look that she didn’t like something.
[Hey? Is there something on your mind?]
‘That is… If you go in this direction, there’s a dungeon that hasn’t been discovered yet.’
[Why is that?]
‘Doesn’t something seem odd? Given the circumstances, if she took three knights and wizards as escorts, there is a possibility that the princess headed somewhere with the battle in mind from the beginning, perhaps heading for that ‘undiscovered dungeon’.’
[Mmm, sure…]
‘What’s even more strange is where the hell did you get the information about that ‘undiscovered’ dungeon? It’s a question…’
Belldandi sighed and nodded at Eunhyun’s point.
How on earth did Princess Yuria know about the existence of a dungeon that neither the kingdom nor the adventurer’s guild had yet discovered?
‘I really want to, but I hope I didn’t go in there for now.’
Eunhyeon sighed inwardly and prayed that Princess Yuria’s runaway had nothing to do with the dungeon.
“Pause for a moment.”
“Yes? What… Hey, hey!”
While walking through the forest, Eun-hyeon stopped and raised his hand to stop him.
He suddenly grabbed Eleanor’s hand and hid in the bushes.
Eleanor tried to protest against Eun-hyeon’s sudden behavior, but when she saw that she was staring in one direction with a serious expression, she held her breath without realizing it.
“I see a kobold. Nine in number. They seem to be moving in groups.”
“That… Can you see it?”
Eleanor gave a look of disbelief as she narrowed her eyes and saw the barely visible shapes.
Eun-hyeon, who was closely observing the two-legged wolf-type beasts and kobolds snooping in the woods looking for food, finished her thoughts and began to act.
“I will handle it.”
“All nine, just the two of us?”
“I will do it alone.”
“Nine kobolds by yourself?! That’s too… “
Eun-hyeon’s action was carried out in an instant before Eleanor could finish her words.
He quickly summoned his sword, clutched it in his hand, and charged at the kobolds.
Big?
As the footsteps approaching through the brush grew closer, the kobolds lifted their heads and began to look around, but it was too late.
This is because Eun-hyeon, who had already arrived at the place where the kobolds were, had cut off the head of the nearest kobold.
Kruck!
The kobolds, who saw the corpse of their fellow countryman with the head blown off and only the torso remaining, rushed at Eun-hyeon, bristling their fur in an instant.
The offensive of the kobolds was not that threatening to Eun-hyeon, who had already been ‘sensing’ from the moment the fight started.
Eun-hyeon put his arm out into the mouth of the kobold who took the lead and ran towards Eun-hyeon with his mouth open.
The kobold, who bit Eun-hyeon’s arm so easily, laughed at Eun-hyeon for giving up his arm out of pitiful judgment, and then planned to rip off the flesh from Eun-hyeon’s arm by tightening his jaw.
Kreung?
The kobold, who had been straining his jaw as hard as he could, sensed something was wrong.
It was because the kobold’s teeth did not fit into Eun-hyeon’s forearm.
It feels like you are holding steel in your mouth.
The kobold’s teeth couldn’t hurt Eun-hyeon’s arm at all because it was blocked by ‘something’ surrounding her arm.
The kobold’s teeth and dental power were too weak to pierce the defense of Eun-hyeon, who had already achieved ‘body strengthening’ through magical power.
There was no way Eunhyun would miss that kobold’s moment of embarrassment.
As Eun-hyeon swung his arm upward, the kobold that was biting Eun-hyeon’s arm was carried along and floated in the air.
As soon as I thrust my sword into the kobold’s abdomen, the kobold screamed and started a match.
After pulling out the sword from the abdomen of the kobold that had become his corpse and lying limp on the floor, Eun-hyeon kicked the other kobold who was charging at her leg.
Meowing!
The kobold kicked by Eun-hyeon’s leg screamed and flew through the sky. As it kicked him in the abdomen, he felt tremendous pain and passed out as it was.
The kobolds saw Eun-hyeon, who had killed two more of their own people in an instant, and at that moment, the kobolds stopped recklessly rushing at Eun-hyeon.
Kreureung
With ferocious cries, nine kobolds were confronting Eun-hyeon with fierce eyes, emitting energy to bite Eun-hyeon at any moment.
The kobolds, who felt an unknown threat from the silver-haired human who had killed three of their own kind in an instant, were not able to attack Eun-hyeon as easily as they did when they first saw it.
It was because the ‘wild persimmon’, both in name and reality, was warning the kobolds’ brains.
A warning that said, ‘If you attack now, you will die.’
“It feels better than I thought.”
She intended to kill at least one more, but Eunhyeon clicked her tongue inwardly as she saw the kobolds staring at her instead of rushing forward.
Contrary to the expectation that they would run wild on instinct, the kobolds began to be wary of Eun-hyeon after seeing the death of their own kind.
‘At this level, I don’t even need to use authority.’
Eunhyeon muttered calmly.
“If you don’t come, I will go from my side.”
Eun-hyeon rushed at the kobolds who were glaring at her as if she were bouncing off her body.
The kobolds couldn’t cope with Eun-hyeon’s rush, perhaps because Eun-hyeon’s rush was too fast, and one of the kobolds in the front was killed by Eun-hyeon’s sword.
When they failed to recognize Eun-hyeon’s actions and lost another of their kind again, the kobolds realized that their position was completely reversed.
That they were not hunting humans, but that they were in a position to be hunted.
Realizing the truth, the complexions of the kobolds gradually turned pale.
“There is a long way to go. We need to deal with it quickly.”
Big, big!
At first, fear began to dwell in the eyes of the kobolds, who were indignant at the death of their own people and glared at Eun-hyeon with the momentum to tear them to death.
Gradually, she took a backward step and gradually distanced herself from Eun-hyeon, but Eun-hyeon did not fail to notice that the kobolds’ momentum had shrunk.
As Eun-hyeon swung her sword again and slashed kobolds, her sense of crisis turned into a survival instinct, and the group of kobolds, with only three remaining, were trying to escape from Eun-hyeon in order to survive.
“Where?”
Noticing the escape, Eun-hyeon summoned a dagger and threw it at the legs of the kobolds who were fleeing.
Kreuk!
After confirming the hit, Eun-hyeon summoned the daggers again and threw them, hitting the legs of the other kobolds.
Eun-hyeon succeeded in annihilating a total of nine kobolds, including the kobolds that were on the run.
“Oh my god…”
Eleanor, who was watching the scene from afar, stared blankly at Eun-hyeon and couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
No matter how low-level kobolds were, it was an astounding ability that it took less than 5 minutes to clean up a group of nine of them.
“Krasir’s unit level or higher… Would it be? I think I’m stronger than my older brother, maybe…”
She came up to the level of a knight commander, but as she was unfamiliar with her swordsmanship, it was impossible for her to judge her Eunhyeon’s skills.
As Eleanor recalled the kingdom’s knights in her mind and compared them with Eun-hyeon, she gauged his skill.
It wasn’t impossible even for the knights of the kingdom, but considering his ability to send all the kobolds away with one blow, his quick movements, and his young age, it was an amazing ability in many ways.
In the previous battle with the warlock Elvin, I knew that his fighting ability was excellent.
At that time, right after he received a sudden death threat, he was confused and couldn’t make a proper decision, so he couldn’t afford to gauge Eun-hyeon’s skill.
That’s why Eleanor was able to feel the greatness of Eun-hyeon for herself only now when she carefully observed Eun-hyeon’s battle scene from a distance.
“You can come!”
Watching Eun-hyeon waving her hand at her while shouting her loudly, Eleanor cautiously moved her steps.
Eun-hyeon dragged the corpses of three kobolds who were on the run, piled up a mountain with the corpses of other kobolds, and dismembered the bodies of the kobolds with a dagger.
“What… Are you doing it?”
