Chapter 276 – Guardian of the Dungeon
As a voodoo doll, Seong-il had a high level of proficiency in using this type of object. He feels that he has a sense of how to train the white knight with this tiara.
‘First of all, I’ll have to test whether it’s the same mechanism as a voodoo doll.’
Seong-il thinks so and touches the jewel again.
‘Hmm… Is it the same scene as before? Seeing this scene repeated, this flashback is probably a very important memory in the white knight’s life.’
‘But how do you manipulate memories…? There was no explanation…’
Whoa…!!
A familiar voice starts whispering in Seongil’s head.
『My great warrior. Don’t think hard, put your hand on your head and imagine what you want.
“…!!”
Seong-il flinched at the whisper of the moon god in his head. After that, the god of the moon doesn’t say anything, so instead of replying to the god, Seong-il places his hand on his head as he advised and quietly orders the white knight to do something.
‘Should I try something light first?’
『In the past, when the white knight practiced his sword in the gymnasium, he never wore training armor.』
In this way, he tries to induce the memory of the white knight in the direction he wants.
OK…
“Haha…”
Seong-il feels that he has returned to the first scene.
“Oh…”
Interestingly, it was the same scene as the previous time, but unlike before, the white knight was training swordsmanship without wearing training armor.
‘It’s like this!’
Seong-il understood roughly how to use the tiara. He decides to try a more drastic order this time.
『The white knight in the past enjoyed exposing himself naked during sword training at the gymnasium!』
“Heuk!!”
Then, suddenly, the white knight grabbed his head and was in pain. She holds her head for a while and starts muttering to herself.
“I… I’m not that lustful woman!!”
‘Hmm… Is it because I’m still sane? Unreasonable demands won’t work?’
For such a new experiment, Seong-il was about to issue an additional order. He sees the fantasy world collapse as before.
Waking up from the illusion, Seong-il realizes that his inner energy has been exhausted to the point where it is almost exhausted.
“Uh…?”
Although Seong-il’s internal energy was exhausted from a fierce battle in the morning, Seong-il recovered quite a lot with a short break and a potion. When he sees that his recovered internal energy has been greatly consumed again, he naturally realizes about Tiara’s penalty.
‘I guess the cost of memory manipulation is magical power? Otherwise, my inner strength…’
Seong-il continued to strongly try to manipulate the white knight’s mind, but he decided to put off the manipulation for a while because of the lack of inner strength and the white knight’s strong resistance.
‘By the way… It’s difficult to harm yourself while you’re locked up…’
To prepare for self-harm by her white knight, Seong-il puts a gag on her mouth and binds her to a pole in the corner of his room with a rope.
‘…Is this enough?’
Seong-il tied the white knight to a pillar in the corner of the room. He picks up the potion and heads out the door.
“Hi!”
“Oh, are you here already?”
Interestingly, Leah returned to the sanctuary less than half a day later. Seong-il makes a puzzled expression at her appearance.
“Whoops… I’m halfway to be exact. But…”
“But…?”
“Originally, I was going to report after identifying the Seven High and Eight Army…”
“…Did you?”
“Around the third time, a very good place appeared.”
“Huh…?”
“My sister continues to explore new places just in case, and I’m back to report on them to you.”
“Ah, then I’ll go check it out right away.”
Leah smiles at the words of her holy day and nods her head to show her agreement. Then she looks around for a moment and starts asking him questions.
“By the way… The white knight?”
“Hmm? You tied me up in my room?”
“…Leaving hostages so poorly?”
“Well… Since this sanctuary is temporary, there’s no such thing as a prison…”
“That’s true, but shouldn’t we manage it thoroughly? It would be difficult to escape then…?”
“Hmm…”
“A white knight is definitely a great warrior appointed by the god of light, right? Surely he can use divine spells even if his limbs are bound…?”
“Ah…”
I heard Leah’s explanation plausible. Seong-il hardens her expression and moves with her to her own room.
“…!!”
A sharp sense of crisis felt upon entering her own room. Seong-il moves her body and swings her fist as 『Emotion』 Tells her.
Awesome!!
Seong-il doesn’t even look at the white knight who jumps out from behind her door and surprises her, and strikes her in the stomach with her fist.
“Chehehe…!!”
“This damn bitch?!”
And seeing her like that, Leah is so enraged that she pulls out her kukri and tries to cut her down.
“No!”
“…”
Leah looks at him with an expression that doesn’t understand Seongil’s restraint. Seong-il reaches out her hand and tells her instead of her reasons.
“Catch it at once.”
“…?”
She doesn’t understand the sudden behavior of her holy day. However, Leah calmly holds Seongil’s hand.
‘Cast Inner Plane!’
Seong-il holds hands with the fainted white knight and Leah and casts an inner plane.
Intense light surrounds the party, and soon after, they rush into the grey-white space of the holy day.
“…!!”
Leah is astonished at the bizarre space she has never seen before. While he looks around with a shocked expression, Seong-il takes out a rope from his inventory and restrains the white knight’s body more firmly than before.
“…Where is this?”
“The world created by my authority.”
“I thought it was made with authority…?”
“Yes. I can’t tell you the details. Don’t tell others about it. It’ll be a headache if my ability flows into the Church of Light for no reason.”
“Um… I see. But if there is a space like this, can’t we just move the sanctuary here…?”
“No. There’s a limit on the number of people you can bring here, and there’s even a limit on the number of times you can come in and out per day.”
“Ah…”
“That’s why this place is nothing more or less than a temporary hideout completely cut off from the outside world. So don’t expect too much.”
“Hmm…”
“However, thanks to those restrictions, it can be used as a prison quite usefully.”
After saying that, Seong-il abandons the white knight there and returns to the dungeon.
“Hey… In this way, you won’t have to worry about the white knight escaping for a while.”
“…But why the hell are you trying to keep that white knight alive? I don’t think you know any particularly important information.”
If she wants to kill her white knight Eileen right away, Leah secretly recommends getting rid of her in the form of her question.
Seong-il smiles bitterly at her appearance and makes an excuse for being the god of the moon.
“Ah, the god of the moon ordered her to corrupt her disciple of light and make her his own disciple.”
“What?!”
“Why are you surprised? If the enemy’s first apostle is forcibly corrupted and made to kill the followers of the Church of Light, what insult is more insulting to the God of Light?”
“Ah…”
Leah nodded her head as if she finally understood.
“Then, how are you going to get her to fall to our side… No, to appease her?”
“Keuk… That’s why the god of the moon gave me these things…”
A holy day that explains the objects given by the moon god. Although he really hates revealing his ability to others, at least the Dark Elf sisters seem to be reliable in this world, so she honestly confides about his ability.
Leah, who heard the whole situation, proposes to her Seong-il with a fishy smile.
“Well… I think I can help with that…?”
“…You?”
“Yeah. Even if I look at it like this, I’m a ‘torture’ technician in many fields.”
“…”
“Why are you surprised? Isn’t that what thieves are like? Extortion, murder, and threats are commonplace.”
“…Not really.”
“My sister is quick to relate to you. Leave it to us? I’ll ‘soften’ her mind as you please.”
“Hmm…”
Leah’s attitude seems to have turned to torture when it seemed that she would not be able to kill the white knight. On her holy day, she knows that she will never harm the White Knight, as much as she believes in the Moon God.
However, since she can’t help but feel uncomfortable, Seong-il puts a proviso on her with her permission.
“Instead… It’s a condition for me to observe. Or record the interrogation scene with a magic tool.”
“Okay~ It’s not difficult~”
When Seong-il accepts his opinion, Leah seems to feel better. She guides him through her labyrinth with her lighter steps.
“Here!”
“Hmm…”
Leah confidently led herself into a strange sewer tunnel. Seong-il frowned at her and looked around her.
‘The second floor of the Great Labyrinth looks like a collapsed medieval city, but why is there a sewer like this instead of a collapsed castle…?’
Even though there was a half-collapsed and viciously built near her, there was a fairly large castle and mansion, but when she recommended this place, Seong-il entered her sewer with an incomprehensible look.
Seong-il frowned at her and followed Leah for a while. A huge hollow appears before his eyes.
“Oh…”
All sorts of structures centered around a huge vacant lot. Seong-il feels that this is a structure built for the purpose of secret residence.
“How are you? Are you okay?”
“Good…?”
“Yeah! Looking at the structure of the labyrinth city, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t there have been a secret base like the thieves’ guild in the city where we were active in the past?’ That’s what I thought.”
“Ohh…”
“I searched the underground water supply just in case, but there really is a place like this?”
“I need to move the sanctuary here.”
“Is it okay if I don’t look elsewhere?”
“Uh. This is enough for the time being.”
“…For now?”
When Seong-il said it was unlikely he would stay here for a long time, Leah asked back with a frown.
To her like that, her holy day shrugged her shoulders, continuing her in-game explanation.
“Someday I’m going to go out into the wider world, right?”
“Ah! That’s right. What did you mean?”
‘…Actually, I have to move to the next area automatically for each round.’
Thinking that good is good, Seongil and Leah move to the sanctuary on the first floor of the Great Labyrinth.
“I’m here?”
Lena greets them warmly. Concerning that they might not be her twins, she greets them with a tone that resembles her brother’s.
“How was your reply?”
“Ah! The place the two of us have seen beforehand is the best!”
“Hehe. Right? While you guys were exploring there, I figured out a few other places besides that place, but they were all bad.”
Although Lena said so, she handed over the map of the area she had been researching to her Seongil.
“Oh. And sister.”
“…?”
Lena makes a puzzled expression at Leah’s call. She explains to her what she was told by her seongil before her death.
“Ohhh… Does that mean we can harass that ‘white knight’ lady?”
To Leah’s words, Lena answers with a very fishy smile. Seong-il, who flinched at her chilly smile, quickly intervenes in the conversation and corrects her lines.
“… Don’t bully her recklessly, she should focus on weakening her sanity. If she normally succeeds in her plan, she too might become our ally, so she can’t be crippled. It’ll be troublesome if she becomes or her mind is broken.”
“Whoops… Don’t worry about that. We’re ‘professionals’.”
“…”
She seems to have seen the true nature of the two women who always smiled at her, and Seong-il felt goose bumps.
That’s how I read them, prepared to move the sanctuary, and tried to bring the white knight. Rassal pops out of nowhere and talks to Seong-il.
“Sungil-nim.”
“Hmm?”
“Something important has happened.”
“…More than before the sanctuary?”
“Of course, not as much as that. But, I don’t think there will be any problem with a little delay before the sanctuary, but I don’t think this is the case.”
“…What’s going on?”
“Following the light left by the sanctuary’s spirit beacon, a group of our followers are making their way to the sanctuary.”
“Oh, that’s right. Then wait for them and move slowly…”
“No. The reason I told you about them is that they are now being hunted by the Church of the Light’s pursuers.”
“!!”
“If I don’t rescue him quickly, it’ll be dangerous…”
“…Go now.”
Seong-il realizes that a new colleague has appeared as soon as the second round begins.
‘I’m going to go get him right now. Every time a new round starts, the random companions that first appear are all high-grade and have good stats…’
Thinking so, Seong-il immediately inspects his armament and leaves to find a new colleague.
