Chapter 367 – Farming, Farming, Farming Again (2)
Infinite Labyrinth, hard level 50.
By collecting what we had farmed from the 46th floor, we acquired various goods.
Items that would normally be found in a warehouse.
There were a lot more food warehouses than on the upper floors, but there were many undead trapped inside, so farming them was difficult, and the further down you went, the more daily necessities and miscellaneous goods came out.
While the 41st to 45th floors are mostly food products such as flour and wine, from the 46th floor onwards, it feels like we are moving towards a more developed civilized society.
‘Is this a natural composition?’
From the perspective of the ‘floor’ of the infinite labyrinth, from a gamer’s perspective, it can be said that farming items are different for each area.
However, the perspective of ‘modern people’ is different.
Seeing this lab infiniteyrinth with my own eyes, I felt a sense of deja vu due to the unique shape of this hard 40-story section.
The deeper you go into the infinite labyrinth, the more you go.
There are a lot of undead monsters.
The population is increasing.
Farming items change from groceries to daily necessities and miscellaneous goods.
There are more industrial products made through home craftsmanship than agricultural products.
Hypothesis.
Isn’t the 40th floor of Infinite Labyrinth Hardware a ‘territory’?
As you move further and further into the territory from the outermost area, you get closer to the castle, and in the process, as you go deeper, something like a ‘book’ appears.
This is why there are books that contain content that exposes the history of the empire and that, from the empire’s point of view, should be considered banned books.
Because it is common sense that the closer you are to a city center or Yeongju Castle rather than a slash-and-burn village, the more there are ‘intellectuals’ who can read and write, and who can even comment on the history of the empire and compile it like a history book.
‘If it becomes known that something like this exists here, there will be war.’
The embers of war were already burning.
But now, just because we ‘know’, a war can break out.
In a war between countries, what is the surest way to insult the other country?
It is a denial of legitimacy.
You are insulting your country, saying it is a lowly country founded by commoners with no roots, and if you say it is a dynasty era, you are denying the royal lineage.
For example, a person who was brought in as an illegitimate child because the king had no children turns out to be not of royal blood.
For example, the prince who the king wants to pass on the throne to, is actually the queen’s adulterer and fathered a son with a minister or minister.
If we say that the blood of the founding king is not passed down to descendants, can we really call a country where the royal family has been cut off?
Not at all.
It doesn’t mean much to me, but it seems to have a different meaning to people in this world.
“This is fatal.”
“If it’s true.”
“Hundreds of years ago, a slave who looked similar to the prince took the prince’s place and became the prince…”
The content contained in the history book was simple.
The prince died.
And in the prince’s place, a slave who acted like the prince’s shadow warrior took his place.
In the background was the crown princess, who fell in love with the shadow warrior who was a slave.
And it is said that the child they had together became emperor.
It was a completely different appearance from that typical of the imperial family, and the kingdom demands the truth from the empire.
If it is said that the current emperor is a fake, the person who will become the real emperor is the Northern Grand Duke’s daughter who married into the kingdom and has the right to succession to the throne.
Well, such a politically complicated story.
“Ah, Nero. Did you know this?”
“…Not at all.”
“What about Charlotte?”
“That can’t be possible. If there was such a thing, the empire hid it…”
“No one has known about it for hundreds of years.”
The empire must have made every effort to destroy this material for hundreds of years.
How embarrassing.
Aside from the fact that the emperor’s bloodline is that of a slave, the price of the imperial family changes due to the affair committed by the crown princess.
Honestly, it’s hard to get any great results from this.
However, the imperial family, which directly denies the legitimacy of the empire, is a perfect subject for so-called shit, even if others do not know.
-Neg’s ancestral slaves and Messalina.
What a neat and sophisticated political investigation.
Nero and other kingdom administrators will elaborate on the details, but in the end, what I want to say is direct denial of the imperial family.
“Of course, the empire would have had to hide this. If this is true, it means that the royal lineage is the legitimate successor to the empire.”
“Hmm… “
Nero scratched his cheek with a somewhat complicated expression.
“Then Charlotte… “
“It means he was a slave. Oh, ironically. I used to be a slave trader in Fermaten, but it turns out that this bloodline is that of a slave.”
Charlotte mocked herself and held onto her wrist tightly.
“It’s okay. Even if my ancestors were slaves, that doesn’t have a big impact on me as a person. Right, Count?”
“Ah, of course…”
“Why?”
“No, just.”
“If you are going to say to me, ‘I want to play slave,’ I will just do it regardless of blood, so please don’t get involved?”
How did you know?
“Ha, really. Anyway, whenever I get the chance, I have sex.”
“You have no choice but to do it. This is nothing more than a means to provoke the imperial family, and you can’t say ‘We can destroy the empire!!’ With this.”
The evidence is poor.
Even if you go out and say that you have discovered material from hundreds of years ago, people will not believe whether it is real or a fake elaborately created by Fermaten.
Therefore, this book is just one of many means of attacking the empire.
“Let’s leave the collection for now. And since there may be more than just this history book, let’s go a little further in. Anyway… We’ve reached the last floor now.”
At the end of our march, we came across a huge castle wall.
“Hey, where do you think it is?”
“Hmm… “
“It looks like a familiar castle wall, but shouldn’t we take into account that it’s hundreds of years ago?”
“I think the style is similar to that of Fermaten.”
Is it because the walls of the Permaten Fortress are what I see every day?
The style is very similar to the walls that were the outer walls of Permaten when the Infinite Labyrinth was created hundreds of years ago.
“Don’t you think so?”
“On the outside, it looks like something like that…”
“At least compared to the current Fermaton, it is definitely more introverted than extroverted.”
Which style is technically more classic?
Of course, it is resistant to the current Permaton.
“That’s a territory. It’s a castle at the center of the territory. There’s clearly a territory there, whether it’s a kingdom or an empire. The boss room on the 50th floor of the hard drive is a ‘castle’ from hundreds of years ago .”
Conclusion.
“Capturing the castle will soon become conquering the labyrinth.”
It will be a siege.
Was it like this in-game?
It seemed similar.
But what I don’t remember in detail is that in-game, undead monsters poured out in waves.
If you defeat one, the next undead appears, and if you defeat that undead, another undead appears.
On the 50th hard floor, as many as 50 regenerating undead had to be defeated.
So, most players chose to scrape off six creatures at a time with AoE attacks, and I also formed a party focused on AoE attacks and attacked the labyrinth.
In the process, who would take a close look at the ‘background’ of the battlefield?
‘If you turn on auto and skip the skin cutscene, there’s no way you can see the background.’
The Easter egg that the background is similar to the background of the Permaten Inner Castle will not be noticed unless you are someone like me who lives in this world every day and looks at the walls of the Permaten Inner Wall like a fence.
Maybe I should have looked at it more.
No, it has no meaning.
I can now decide how to use this labyrinth just based on the information I have found out.
“It will be a great help to our knights, no, to the Permaton.”
“In terms of farming?”
“Yes. It’s farming, but it’s not just farming.”
It doesn’t end with farming gold coins, magic stones, groceries, and daily necessities.
“Experience farming.”
“…Yes?”
“For us ‘Fermatton County’, there is no better place to gain experience than there. Hehe.”
There is a castle before your eyes.
“Celica. How would you rate the power of the 50th floor undead based on your standards?”
“He is a well-trained soldier with 10 years of experience.”
“I understand that they have the combat power of an elite soldier. Then, if we go in there against those undead, a street fight will break out.”
As soon as you enter the boss room, waves of undead will pour in.
“From now on, we are not conquering the labyrinth. We are conquering the ‘castle’. Rather than entering in a party of six, all knights enter with weapons.”
After defeating all the undead that come in waves, all that will remain is that ancient castle.
“It’s not just the Knights Templar. Contact above and call the Succubus Special Forces as well.”
“Even the special forces…? Are you planning to go to war?”
“Yes. It is war.”
War.
Everyone swallows with nervous expression at those heavy words.
“You may have to risk your life every time you farm, but there is no better environment than this to gain experience.”
What our Fermatons lack most is not food or women, but ‘combat experience.’
Although we won the victory of wisdom against the Alliance of Nobles, we won’t be able to win the game so easily against the Empire, which is prone to war.
So, we need to use that castle as practice and siege it.
“Notify the succubus army. Everyone gathers with weapons.”
From now on we will.
“Gather everyone’s strength and conquer the castle.”
