Chapter 79 – Labyrinth
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The holy sword’s slash like a storm swept through the interior of the aisle.
The shattered glass shards immediately turned into blue glass swords on the spot, following the command of Aruru’s graceful hands.
It became a series of blades, and the number exceeded 10, resulting in continuous attacks.
The next moment when the razor-sharp sword stops moving.
All members of the Enforcement Division standing around Aruru collapse on the spot.
Aruru swung once as if to wipe off the blood on her own sword and turned it around her waist.
All the duplicated holy swords floating in the air are scattered in blue light and disappear on the spot.
This is the 11th person. In a state where I haven’t joined anyone yet.
Seeing the students of the Enforcement Department clearly following someone’s will and heading towards him, Aruru thought for a moment.
`Ariadne’s controller can grasp the inside of the labyrinth. In other words, in that it can divide us and hinder us. That would be much more advantageous.’
And among those who are currently in the labyrinth, if the risk is the highest.
Aruru and Cleon, it must be these two.
Among them, in the case of Aruru, compared to Cleon who does not possess her magic sword.
The absolute power of the holy sword is the biggest obstacle and a target to be wary of.
‘But even if the students under her command are sent like this, they should be well aware that they can’t do anything about me.’
Even if the number of students attacking exceeds double digits, it does not mean much in such a small space.
Rather, you should induce yourself into a large space and pour all your energy into the Enforcement Department to have a little chance.
For Aruru, there is no such thing as carelessness, and when it comes to dealing with a large number of people, there is no gap.
That’s why it pierces the glass sword’s defense in an instant with overwhelming firepower.
In order to incapacitate herself, it was necessary to unleash high-powered magic while Aruru’s feet were tied.
Will there be such talent in the executive department? Of course, it is acknowledged that they have stronger armaments and higher skills compared to ordinary students.
However, when viewed as a whole, they are an organization that has been operating in the shadow of the school and has repeated many evil acts so far.
Things were going so easily, to the point where I had some doubts.
Is it a trap of some kind, or is it the miserable reality of an organization that has collapsed after losing one central point, the second seat?
Either way, if you keep targeting yourself like this, Aruru won’t endanger the other students, so I’m grateful.
My footsteps, which did not stop even with such thoughts, were stopped by the sound of footsteps coming from the other side of the corner ahead.
That buck that buck
What you hear is the footsteps of leather boots. He was walking forward with a regular, uniform stride.
A well-trained human step. Breathing was not disturbed, and there seemed to be some room.
Aruru didn’t think it was the Enforcement Division.
Because that step was something I had never heard of before.
Eventually, Aruru smiled as she saw the owner of the steps that appeared.
“You were close by. I’m glad you joined.”
Saying that, I tried to approach the other person for a moment.
Aruru drew her sword.
Because she saw her opponent’s hand move and sensed her surprise her.
Both swords bounced off.
Aruru became her bewildered face her, looking alternately at her opponent her and at her her own sword her, which moved before her mind her.
“What the hell is this- kuh!?”
And she is followed by an unexpected attack from the opponent.
Is it brainwashing? Or, from scratch? Aruru’s mind is filled with questions, but
The momentum of this attack was far different from the skill of the opponent she knew.
The power of her attacks her itself was so mediocre that she could n’t break Aruru’s sword, but the speed and number of attacks were hard to follow with her eyes her.
Conversely, it didn’t go well with Aruru, whose abilities grew stronger as her sword broke her.
If she tries to break herself by swinging her sword at a wall or floor-
Surprisingly, both the walls and the floor became soft, so the impact did not occur.
In other words, the opportunity to break the sword was not given.
“-Seol, don’t… You!?”
The next moment, she realizes the possibilities she has reached, though she puts on a look of astonishment.
She was already too late.
The next moment, the hard touch of her own back her.
At some point, the attack pushed her back, and as a result she came into contact with the wall.
And the wall holds Aruru as if alive.
“Kuu… Uh, cut it…”
With the feeling of her mana and stamina draining from her own body her, as if absorbing her powers her.
Aruru loses her mind on the spot.
She didn’t care.
She had no hesitation in slashing her opponents even when in doubt.
Even though she has been trained as a hero, it is a face she knows.
It also included a teaching that she did not know when and where her evil hand her might reach out.
But her opponent was only one step above.
At least when it came to dealing with Aruru.
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At the same time, Cleon was walking down the aisle following Tina’s words to her, with Tina behind her.
There were encounters with members of the Enforcement Division along the way, but most of them were killed by Cleon’s surprise attack.
She was moving forward safely without a down engagement taking place.
With common sense, who could have predicted that a person would leap, kick the ceiling, and lunge at himself.
Of course, it was far from the master’s sword that Cleon used to use.
Talchek’s swordsmanship is a swordsmanship that rips through the air and cuts ‘where it shouldn’t be cut’ of things that cannot be cut.
It is so exciting, heavy, and also exerts tremendous power.
But if you’re surrounded by walls like this, and you have allies behind you.
Rather than fighting head-on, Rubera’s assassination sword, which neutralizes the enemy by acting one step ahead, was more suitable.
Cleon thinks that having a relationship with her and learning her swordsmanship her from her her imprint was an unexpected harvest.
Come to think of it, he said that he went to the royal capital and destroyed the Changgwan, where the Black Demon clan was working, but what would have happened by now…
“Instructor Cleon.”
Ionawa had been in contact with her previous letters of her.
She said that it would take a little longer for her to join the institution because she had more work to do than she thought.
She is also a responsible person, and according to Tal Chek’s will her, she should be free to leave the institution.
He said that he could leave the place only after taking care of the takeover and handling all urgent matters.
“Instructor?”
How are Ruti and Ferdia doing by now?
Luti, who will once again be guarding the city as the guild master, and Per Dia, who will be healing people for the children of her organization.
Perhaps he is quite busy, he recalls that when Quon sent a letter the other day, there was no reply yet.
I feel a little lonely, but they are all connected to Cleon by imprints.
If something happens to you, you’ll know right away, so you don’t have to worry yet.
“S… Instructor!”
Cleon, who is awed by Tina who grabs her hand her, looks back at her.
Tina puffs her cheeks a little at Cleon, who doesn’t respond to how many times she calls him.
“Really, what are you thinking, so there is no response when I call you?”
“…I’m sorry, what happened?”
When Cleon apologizes, Tina looks around her and talks.
“No, I thought it was a destination. I wanted to tell you before I went in.”
“Are you already…? You seem to remember the road really well.”
“Hehe, I’m confident about my memory.”
You have to remember the recipe for cooking!
Said Tina, who raised her index finger and shrugged her shoulders.
But soon after, she abandons that attitude and becomes a worried face.
“The central part of the labyrinth – where we are going from now on, the execution department of the second seok faction has imprisoned the senior faction.”
“…I heard that the second and senior factions are at odds with each other. But confinement… Is it? Why didn’t they kill me?”
As for Cleon, the people of the Enforcement Department who have no resistance to killing and using outsiders.
It was hard to understand the story that the internal enemy, like a thorn in the eye, was not saved, but was just imprisoned.
Tina then speaks hesitantly.
“I heard that the humans of the Enforcement Division are supposed to make a ‘covenant (Gears)’ so that they cannot kill each other.”
Oath. It is a contract made in the soul unit that also hangs on Luti.
If this is violated, in the worst case, the soul will be destroyed, and even if it is a little better, magic power or life will be lost.
As much as it operates in the shadow of a large group, it must be a sensitive organization to betrayal.
However, it must have been that it couldn’t prevent factions from splitting because they valued strength and values internally.
The rule that colleagues shouldn’t hurt each other made it impossible to dominate by force, and caught their ankles.
If this were a group that could protect someone or unite everyone’s will for a noble purpose, the story would have been different.
However, what they saw in Layla’s memories, and the purpose of those who saw and felt what had happened so far.
Humans like pruning shears who can cut off everything else for their own benefit.
The one holding the scissors was probably the 12 elders.
“Ariadne’s ruling power, then, do the members of the second class hold?”
“The control of the labyrinth is done with the ‘control device’ in the central room. Only a part of it can be touched.”
Ariadne’s original owner is Beatrix, who is no longer there.
As Cleon thought, if there is some will in this labyrinth.
Humans other than Beatrix might need a control device to control this labyrinth.
“Then… Is the head of the Enforcement Division imprisoned as well?”
“Her her chief her, is it? Why, her her things her about her her about her her.”
Tina answers Cleon with a slightly trembling voice.
Cleon narrowed his eyes at her reaction for a moment, but soon she answered her question.
“They say they need something called Demiurge… I heard that the Chief of the Enforcement Division has it.”
Then Tina seems to hesitate to speak her words for a moment, then she speaks.
“The Chief of the Enforcement Division… Is not being held. They ran away. They abandoned those who believed in them.”
“…What?”
At Tina’s words her, Cleon turned to her a little surprised.
“She is the only person in this labyrinth who can understand the entire labyrinth even if she does n’t use a control device. She can go in and out of the labyrinth without being noticed by anyone.”
“…In other words, Ariadne’s current owner is ‘she’.”
Of course, Cleon said that Ariadne had already become someone’s owner.
From the fact that a device to control the labyrinth itself was prepared regardless of her will.
She could sense that the conflict between the chief and the second-in-command was more serious than she thought.
And if the chief is not in here, it is impossible to retrieve the thing called Demiurge.
And- one more thing.
As for the identity of this girl named Tina, doubts do not disappear.
She takes it for granted that she goes out in front of her and fights and slashes her enemies.
No matter how much she handles meat in cooking, she is familiar with blood and knives, but cooking and fighting are completely different.
When she sees people screaming and collapsing in front of her eyes her (even if they don’t scream).
It was natural to look surprised or nervous.
Above all, no matter how much I remember the road.
While guiding the way where to go without hesitation, he was also quick to understand the internal situation of the enforcement department.
“Tina, you can’t-“
The moment Cleon was about to say that.
“Oh, what’s over there… Instructor Cleon?”
When he turned around at the familiar voice calling him, he saw Riomes walking towards him with a relaxed expression from a little far away.
You can see blood splattered from her body.
In both of her hands her, negative and positive magical powers.
He must have already experienced a battle with someone.
“Riomes.”
Cleon looks at her for a moment, then takes her handkerchief her from her pocket and hands it to her.
“Your face is covered in blood.”
“Oh, is that so? I had no idea.”
Riomes smiles at her in appreciation, and with a gentle hand, she wipes the blood from her face with the handkerchief she received from Cleon.
“I wouldn’t have killed him…”
“I just pierced the blood to block movement and neutralize it. As the blood spurts through the narrow hole, it flies to me like this.”
She takes a moment to look at Cleon’s handkerchief of her, which is stained with her blood of her, and she says. Her face was slightly flushed and stained red.
“Can I wash it and return it?”
“Do whatever you feel like.”
“Kuhm…”
Then, a coughing sound came from behind Cleon.
When both Riomes and Cleon’s eyes turned to her, she appealed to Tina that she was there too.
“Oh, the girl over here is-“
“It’s Tina. She says she’s a culinary student herself.”
Cleon tries to continue what he was trying to say earlier.
OK-
“Of course I know! Miss Tina asked me to cook urang and ushin (cow genitalia) before!`
“…”
When Riomes spoke with her eyes shining, Cleon’s expression hardened in an instant.
“It was the first time I tried it, and it tasted really great! It was a fairly rare ingredient, so I couldn’t find it easily, but I ate it by chance. Urang isn’t as chewy as I thought-“
“Ah, ah… That’s it. Yes. Okay.”
Cleon blocks Riomes’ words and sighs.
Tina also let out a slightly hardened smile while watching Riomes like that.
“Come to think of it, instructor. You were trying to talk about something, right?”
Tina asks Cleon that.
His face His was always full of curiosity.
However, Cleon looks at her for a moment and then shakes her head.
“No, nothing.”
When I said that, I trudged. He was walking in the direction Tina had pointed out.
“…Whoa.”
Tina and Riomes’ eyes meet.
Riomes looked at her for a moment, smiled at her enchantingly, then turned her body around and followed her Cleon her.
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Even after that, Cleon and Riomes walked through the passage of the labyrinth with the momentum of an unstoppable force.
Riomes used a skill to incapacitate the enemy by injecting mana into vital points through taijutsu using his arms and legs, which were long and thin enough to look fragile.
Although the skill he had previously shown during interrogation was influencing the mind.
Looking at this, I feel like I can actually do 3000 times the sensitivity of my body without any problems.
“Haa~ Instructor Cleon. You’re as strong as I’ve heard.”
Next to Riomes, Cleon brushed off the blood on his sword her.
In order not to kill the other person, he also made a shallow cut in the direction of the blade and made a gap in his body her.
The mana shock released through the blade penetrates the body and steals the opponent’s consciousness.
If you slash an enemy with mana shock from the beginning, the mana will be scattered on the surface of the body and the effect will not work properly.
I had to let the magic flow through the blade at a very small distance from cutting with the sword.
It was a skill that required instant magic control.
Riomes’ technique is also based on her mana control her, so it must be that she also understands the difficulty of Cleon’s technique.
Tina looks around for a moment and then speaks quietly to the two of them.
“Now, if you go around here, you’ll find the heart of the labyrinth. Seeing that it’s not noisy, I don’t think anyone has arrived yet.”
“Then the two of us will clean up?”
When Riomes talked to Cleon, Cleon looked worried for a moment.
“Is Aruru still here?”
“Even if you’re the head of the swordsmanship department and the hero of the holy sword, finding your way through the labyrinth may not be your specialty.”
To Cleon’s words, Riomes replies as if not to worry.
Certainly, if the opponents they have met and defeated so far are of average skill in the Enforcement Division.
Aruru should be able to protect herself without any problems even alone.
“… Even if you try to escape through her control device her, there’s already a barrier outside her, so it’s okay to push her.”
If the labyrinth is closed with a person inside, she is automatically ejected outside.
Even in that case, students from the Enforcement Department who couldn’t pass through the barrier would be quietly restrained.
“That’s right. Those without our permission couldn’t get out of this barrier.
“Huh? Then what about me?”
Tina speaks in confusion at Riomes’ words in her.
Then, Cleon was to answer her.
“Since there is no reason to block your passage, you can pass through the barrier.”
“It’s fortunate ~ I’m so worried about the ingredients that I’ve been keeping for two months if I don’t go back to my room soon…”
Riomes pours cold water on her as Tina responds by sweeping her chest.
“Well, I might be asked to make a statement or testify before that.”
“Ugh, ugh… I guess so.”
Tina stretches her shoulders.
Cleon sends a gesture to the two as if to lower their voices.
In the state of being stuck in the corner, looking beyond through the mirror, one of the know-how acquired as an adventurer.
Check the condition of the heart of the labyrinth.
Then, there are four students from the executive department who appear to be executives, and less than 10 students trapped behind the bars in the corner.
Perhaps they are members of the senior faction.
And the one in the middle of the room didn’t match the shape of this labyrinth.
A device resembling a gigantic altar made of mechanical materials.
In the middle was what appeared to be a handle.
“Is that a control device?”
“Yes, use that to open the entrance. In case of emergency, it seems that the labyrinth itself can be demolished.”
“Then, if you use the control device to demolish it, you can send everyone out of the labyrinth.”
Riomes and Cleon look at each other for a moment and then nod.
By exchanging glances, it seemed that they had roughly decided what kind of strategy they would pursue.
“Joe, watch out!”
Tina cheers the two of them in a small voice.
“I take the two on the left.”
Rio Mess steps forward with graceful steps and frees his hands.
With each step, the hem of her long, side-opening skirt her, her combat garb her, sways, exposing her thighs properly.
“Then I’m on the right.”
Cleon also draws a sword and prepares magic in one hand.
This could put an end to the bad relationship with the Enforcement Division that had been going on since Elessia.
“Kuk! It’s an intruder! Ready to intercept!”
Eventually, Riomes and Cleon.
After confirming the appearance of the two monsters in the Sex Department, the officers of the Enforcement Department took up their own weapons.
All they possess are high-risk weapons that seem to have a risk rating attached to them, yet powerful enchantments.
Soon, without saying who said first, they jump toward each other.
Their weapons collided with each other, and large sparks flew.
