Chapter 37 – 037. Archis Great Labyrinth (5)
“Ugh.”
“Senior! Wake up!”
Alex collapsed to the floor without being able to walk for long even with Aisha’s support.
Aisha put her hands on Alex’s body to support her fallen body, and felt the warm, wet feel of her own hands.
“Ah…”
“Suck!”
“This…”
Seeing the red blood-soaked armor and Alex’s face dripping with sweat like it was raining, the three of them were able to confirm the penetration wound on Alex’s abdomen.
How did you endure and walk in this state?
Aisha realized that Alex had lost too much blood.
“Papa, stop the bleeding quickly…”
“Move from your seat! In the middle of the labyrinth like this, it’s easy for everyone to be killed by dogs!”
“But where is the safe place in this labyrinth!”
Merdin calmed Aisha, who was startled and flustered, and looked around her to somehow secure her safe place.
She saw nothing but pitch-black darkness, except for the vision provided by the light of the torch.
In fact, they couldn’t find a safe place to rest in this labyrinth, and they couldn’t specify where they were in this labyrinth.
Grinding her teeth at the bleak reality, Merdin had no choice but to immediately prioritize Alex’s first aid.
“Princess. Could you use barrier magic?”
“Performance may not be very good, but it is possible.”
“Please.”
With Yuria nodding her head behind her, Merdin walked in front of Alex struggling, using her own greatsword as a walking stick in place of her broken leg, and sat down in her seat. Looked at the state of
His condition was serious.
Even his back had been pierced, and blood was still flowing from his punctured body.
Since I didn’t know the structure of the human body properly, I didn’t have time to figure out the condition of Alex’s organs, but I knew that he was already in a very dangerous state.
“This… Can you live with first aid… ?”
Unless you had a broken leg like he did, a large hole in your abdomen wasn’t an area that would normally be addressed with trained first aid techniques.
It was an area where doctors and priests had to step in.
The fact that there was no priest in the party had never touched him as much as today.
“Haha.”
“Alex…”
Looking at her own comrades, who were struggling to catch her breath, Merdin felt helpless that there was nothing she could do.
“Senior Merdin! Are you kidding me? Now?!”
But Aisha was different.
She was rummaging through her backpack with a determined expression on her face, pulling out her first-aid kit and bringing it in front of Alex, scolding Merdin.
“I am not dead yet! You have to do something first!”
Merdin burst out laughing at the sight of a fledgling newcomer who had joined for less than a year, arguing to save the senior she followed the most.
If it was her usual situation, she would have been angry and scolded her for being cocky, but she couldn’t do that all the more because she knew her heart.
“Senior, you can’t die. Never die Why did I join the Royal Guard…”
I poured her antiseptic and covered her wound with gauze.
I wrapped the bandage around his waist with as much pressure as I could, but it was impossible to hope that his condition would improve to this extent.
Alex didn’t hear Aisha’s answer and just inhaled and exhaled.
“Whoa.”
Aisha wiped the sweat from her brow, and again, carrying Alex on her shoulder to support her, she prepared to move on.
“Degrading the princess. I am okay. Somehow, I use my sword as a walking stick. Instead, I want you to help raise Alex.”
“But…”
Yuria immediately looked at Alex’s condition for a moment, and she nodded as if she couldn’t help it.
Rather, it was because he could tell with his own eyes that Alex’s condition was even more serious.
Aisha glared at the cause of this situation and the princess, who was no different from her, but it was tantamount to blasphemy, so she focused on walking through her labyrinth without revealing herself as much as possible.
“Crime… I’m sorry… Princess…”
Aisha frowned at the sight of the dutiful knight apologizing for her own incompetence as she let out her laboredly dry voice, but she didn’t have the courage to say it out of her mouth.
“I have to live. Alive… You must accept my apology.”
Yuria bit her lip and said to Alex with a guilty expression on her face.
If only she had prepared herself a bit more, developed her abilities, and came fully prepared.
No, if she hadn’t been here at all.
She thought that her life, dying so vainly for herself, would not have been born.
If he died here, it was as if he had killed himself.
That’s why Yuria was desperate.
It was like her desire to escape, not wanting to shoulder too much responsibility, so that no one would die because of her.
Kurr!
“This…”
Merdin, who was walking furthest behind her, stiffened her body at the sound of the beast behind him.
It was the voice of the demonic beast who had already heard it and made it this way.
She slowly looked behind her to confirm its identity, and Merdin’s wishes that she had hoped would not be missed in a good way.
Kurr
Bull Bore, who showed a terrifying rush by piercing Alex’s stomach, seemed angry for some reason.
Bulvore, snorting wildly and clearly excitable, spotted Merdin and the three walking ahead and glared at them.
“No way…”
Aisha and Yuria, who heard the blow borer’s snort, also hardened their bodies with shocked faces.
She thought the effect of the tear gas bottle thrown by Aisha would buy her some time, but she found herself in less than an hour.
Bull Bore knew that the culprits who blew the white smoke were YuRia’s group, and he couldn’t hold back his anger and followed their scent to get revenge.
Aisha, thinking that she was really afraid of tenacity, untied Alex’s arm from her shoulder.
They tried to step forward to deal with the bull bore, which was glaring at them and ready to rush at any time.
“No.”
“Senior Merdin?”
“Just look ahead and keep running. I will block that guy.”
Merdin gave up on all four surviving.
If so, it was necessary for one person to stay and tie the bull bore at least a little.
If he dies anyway, isn’t it the right choice for the person with the least hope to remain?
It didn’t take long for one of them to conclude that between himself, who couldn’t walk properly, and Alex, who was on the verge of dying, he was the one who could deal with any bull bore.
“You think that makes sense?! I’d rather the three of us work together somehow…”
“It’s too much. We can’t handle that guy. Make escape a priority. Princess, don’t be too resentful.”
Aisha shrugged her shoulders at the fact that she had been caught looking at Yuria with a disgruntled look from time to time.
But the bull bore didn’t even give Aisha time to decide between the two of them when she finished her troubles.
Oh oh oh!
The bull borer’s roar made the labyrinth tremble, and the huge body of the beast that kicked the floor began to move.
Thud! Thud!
With each step he took, the labyrinth resonated, and as he got closer, the sense of intimidation emitted by his huge body seemed to come closer to his skin.
‘Seo, senpai, face this monster head-on…’
Feeling Alex’s courage again, Aisha put her arrow on the string of her own bow and fired with her magical energy.
Aisha’s arrow, imbued with blue magic, drew a ray of light and hit the fire borer’s forehead accurately, but the fire borer didn’t pay attention to the arrow stuck between her forehead and continued to charge.
Aisha was shocked to see the bull bore rushing at her without hesitation.
‘Oh my god! I went in properly!’
Aisha’s arrows, filled with her magical power, had penetrating and destructive power enough to penetrate the target and even damage the wall behind it, but it pierced the bull bore’s tough hide, flesh, and skull, killing her. It was an insufficient power to go.
She hung an arrow on her bowstring again and prepared to shoot with her mana, but the giant bull bore was already close to Merdin and Aisha, less than 1m away.
The moment Merdin raised her sword and was about to slash her sword at Bull Bore, standing with only one leg supporting her body.
Kwaaang!
With a huge crushing sound, the bull bore’s huge body was pushed aside.
“What, what!”
As the walls of the labyrinth were broken, gray dust began to fill the interior of the labyrinth.
The Bull Bore, which was expected to collide, destroyed the wall from beyond the wall next to it and hit the opposite wall after being hit by a flying attack.
Merdin began to panic at the situation she could not understand.
She hurriedly shook her hand and brushed off the thick dust, unable to shut her mouth at the situation she understood.
Koo, Kurr!
A long spear stuck in the wall of the labyrinth while penetrating the body of a huge bull bore.
Bull Bore’s short legs struggled in the air and resisted fiercely, unable to even reach the ground, let alone remove the spear embedded in his body.
Bulbore’s desperate efforts to escape were useless.
The long spear, which pierced the gigantic body of the beast that was several hundred kilometers long and was pierced into the wall, showed no sign of breaking, not even shaking, despite the great body’s struggle.
The sight of the demonic beast, which seemed like it was about to drive them to death just before, was stuck in the air and trying to get out somehow, seemed futile and even ridiculous.
Merdin and Aisha were just staring blankly at the sight of such a bull bore.
“What am I looking at?”
“Who the hell is that window… ?”
That’s how Merdin put the question that popped into her head into her mouth.
A single wave of blue light passed their eyes again.
Quaang!
The blue ‘something’ struck Bulvore’s body again, and the moment the dust that had risen was cleared, Merdin could see that it was another spear.
When she saw the long spear stuck in the spot where the head of the bull bore, which had no shape left at all, she realized that the ‘javelin’ aimed precisely at the bull bore’s head had detonated the bull bore’s head.
It was a javelin attack in which someone accurately sensed the bull bore’s location from beyond the wall and aimed at the bull bore without a single error.
How the hell
How did he detect the location of the demon?
What is this overwhelming power?
Who did the attack?
Are they enemies, or are they allies who came to save us?
Merdin, feeling the overwhelming difference in power, turned his head to the side with 50,000 thoughts in his head, looking at the broken walls of the labyrinth, looking for the person who had carried out the javelin attack.
“Oh my god…”
Perhaps she was thinking the same thing, Aisha muttered with a stunned look on the wall of the labyrinth that had been shattered like Merdin.
The broken wall was not one.
The side of the side, the side of the side, the side of the side of the side.
From a distance beyond several layers of walls, ‘someone’ could accurately sense the position of the Bull Bore, destroy the wall, and generate enough power to penetrate the Bull Bore’s body.
“Is this something humans can do?”
It was not unreasonable to be suspicious.
Aisha was also thinking the same thing.
“Ah.”
Aisha let out a small exclamation.
It was because he found the figures of two people on the other side of a wall full of thick dust.
One tall, man-like figure, and one relatively obscure-looking woman, with her hair apparently long.
And as she got closer, Merdin, who recognized the woman, couldn’t hide her embarrassment.
Her bright blonde hair, luxurious-looking greaves, and the staff she held tightly in her hand were familiar to her because she had been on an expedition once before.
However, there was also a strong sense of heterogeneity.
Why? How?
“Eleanor? How are you here…”
And she naturally set her eyes on the man who accompanied her.
A typical porter carrying a travel backpack on his back without even wearing proper equipment.
Even as a man, he has a mysterious appearance with silvery-white hair and bright red eyes.
The man smiled and bowed briefly, then passed Merdin and Aisha naturally.
Alex was lying on the floor, breathing heavily, in a precarious state, but when he saw the man’s face, he smiled gladly.
“Delivery is here. Sir. I don’t know if the requested ‘help’ arrived on time.”
“It was really great timing… I might have to thank you for the rest of my life.”
“Then next time, I hope you don’t use it as if it’s exploiting ‘lack of delivery’ like this. No matter how cooperative it is, if you do this again, I will be really angry next time.”
Despite the difficult situation, Alex did not stop laughing at the warning tone.
“I am not sure about that. I don’t think there will ever be an end to the need for your help.”
“Well, then go and consult again. First of all, let’s try to do something with the dying body.”
“Whoa…”
Hearing those words, Alex was finally able to have the impression of ‘living’.