Chapter 312 – Spies
The fortress at the entrance was at the level of aegyo.
Isn’t that scale crossing the line…
Now I’m looking at the Labyrinth Fortress for the third time.
Among the labyrinth fortresses I’ve seen so far, it was by far the top in terms of scale and effort.
It’s absurd for me to see a huge fort built like you would see in a movie somewhere.
The back of the lord’s bone was the ground.
If it was my land, I would have immediately dragged the person in charge and started drinking.
“How many people have you changed?”
“I heard that the Guild Alliance buys a lot of slaves… I guess they were building something like this.”
Bernardo said as if he was puzzled that this was his first time seeing the fort.
Slave? Not just slaves.
I remembered my encounter with the Dark Blood Clan.
At that time, when they visited the fortress, they found out that me and my party had no affiliation, and they showed their greed.
Was it only for us?
The exit of the cave was quite wide, reaching two or three hundred meters, and the wide area was enclosed with a wall, and the gate was securely locked.
Soldiers holding bows can be seen loitering on top of the walls.
There were no signs of a battle.
It hadn’t been attacked yet.
Several large tents were built inside the cave, which was quite far from the wall, and adventurers could be seen sleeping or chatting and resting near the bonfire.
Maybe it’s the guys from the guild union.
It seemed to relieve the fatigue from the forced march.
Even if it’s not a big war, it feels like a Yeongji War.
‘Wouldn’t it be easier than I thought?’
Of course, this is the story of the guild union.
It is a siege war.
The castle walls were not only high, but also made of stone, so they looked quite solid, and the spirit of the guys on them was unusual.
This could be said to be good news for us… No, the lord.
We also decided to set up a campsite in a suitable place a little away from the guild union and rest.
The adventurers who had been chasing after our party also took notice of us and took a seat nearby and began to take a rest.
The number of adventurers who followed us increased.
It was because the adventurers who were in the resting place in the cave were also attached to it.
A fairly large group of people gathered.
I decided to scout the surrounding area and detect the black magician.
Inside the tent, I sat cross-legged and cast consciousness expansion.
First of all, I looked at the adventurers who followed us… Or the guild union bastards.
‘No way… It would have been a little easier if there was one on the side of the Guild Alliance…’
But… I felt a pretty strong presence on the side of the guild union.
‘Sword master?’
Unexpectedly, there was one sword master on the guild union side.
He was a dark-skinned man of Arab descent.
‘Are you the guild master?’
I’ve never heard of a sword master on the side of the guild union.
‘Well, the Dark Blood Clan master was also a sword master, so there’s no law saying that he isn’t in the guild…’
If you are a sword master, you can also receive the title of count.
…But I wondered if he was an adventurer’s guild master, but he said he would live his own life…
It was not my bar to meddle.
After looking at all the adventurers around me, I stretched my consciousness into the fortress.
“…?”
My consciousness did not expand as well as I thought.
Consciousness Expansion, Sage Time ability feels powerless.
I felt it on the 10th floor of the labyrinth, but I added it on the 11th floor.
The range of cognitive ability was shrunk absurdly.
Of course I don’t know why.
‘Is it because it’s a labyrinth?’
I can only anticipate that much.
Still, it was possible to keep the fort built by the Guild Alliance within the range of recognition.
The fort was much larger than it looked from inside the cave.
A fort was built around the walls to a considerable extent outside the cave.
Because of its size, there were many people inside.
Most of them were non-combat troops… Looking at their shabby attire, they looked like chores or slaves.
‘There is…One black magician? It’s smaller than I thought?’
It was too small compared to the size of the fort and the population.
Even though Terra came into her dream and caused a commotion, the warlocks were less visible than expected.
The warlock was in the fortress castle.
He was dressed as an ordinary wizard with a staff in his robe, and he looked young with pale skin.
He looked like he was only in his 30s.
‘Is Verna the one I missed?’
What was more surprising than the black magician was that the guy who looked like a sword master looked pretty good.
It was like that when I looked at the amount of magic they possessed.
‘Six people? Does this make sense?’
I’m a sword master from the Guild Alliance, but I can’t understand how…
The 6 people on the fortress side were a number that I couldn’t understand.
It’s not that I’m plotting a traitor for nothing.
I thought he was narrow rice… But it turned out to be Yongdamho blood.
Do the Guild Alliance guys know?
If he had known, he wouldn’t have looked so relaxed.
This is a power that seems clear to win or lose.
‘The guild union… Looks like it’s fucked up…’
The basement of the fort was also suspicious.
Even though it was within my cognitive range, I couldn’t detect it properly as if it was blocked by something.
‘Is it like the dark mage’s dungeon that Verna said?’
It was clear that it was a suspicious place, so that was enough. It seemed that once they entered the fortress, they would be able to send paladins there.
‘Sunny.’
I drew Sunni into my consciousness.
[You called. Master.]
‘Make a map of the fortress.’
[And! The size of the fort is considerable! No problem though! Just trust me master!]
In order to make the Paladins recognize the exact location, they needed a map that could accurately visualize and show it to the raid, and Suni was able to do that.
“His Holiness.”
After completing the light reconnaissance with such an expansion of consciousness, Judith called me from outside the tent.
“What’s going on?”
“The guild union wants to meet His Holiness.”
“Guild union?”
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“My name is Conrad, the Master of the Tri Guild.”
“This is Karim Guild’s Master Payaz…”
Two men greeted me.
Conrad was a man with a handsome mustache.
Fayaz was the Sword Master of the Guild Alliance that I found out during my reconnaissance.
As I expected, it must have been the guild master.
“…This is clearly our fault. If you wait a little while so we can sort things out, we’ll normalize the fortress.”
“…”
As expected, they hope that we will not interfere in the resolution of this situation.
And I could be sure of their attitude.
They said they had no idea of the existence of the Sword Masters inside the fortress.
After I was silent for a while, Conrad continued, probably feeling that he was worried.
“Of course, we will fully compensate the Paladins for delaying their schedule.”
He was drinking kimchi soup from a bowl.
These guys believe they can normalize the fortress.
“Okay. You know if I make you wait too long?”
Naturally, I knew that they would not succeed in suppressing the rebellion, so I decided to coolly allow it.
“No, of course. That’s not going to happen. Tomorrow, you should be able to explore the 11th floor without problems.”
Confidence was great.
Of course, I had no intention of talking about the situation inside the fortress.
Even if I told them that there were 6 sword masters in there, there was no way they would believe it.
Naturally, I decided to wait for my turn to come.
“Are you okay?”
After they left, Verna came up to me and asked.
I am asking because I know that I have decided to help the lord. If they succeed in suppressing the rebels in the fortress, what I have to do is because the justification will fade a little.
But that’s not going to happen.
“No problem. By the way, do you know about Karim’s guild master?”
“Karim’s guild? Did you also notice that he is a sword master? He is the son of the warchief of the southern desert.”
“A warchief, do you mean like a king?”
And if he is the son of the great chief, he can be called a prince.
“If you have to argue, that’s how it is there. However, the power is too weak to be called a kingdom, and since it is a barren land with no deserts, food is always scarce.”
“So… You came to get food?”
“Yes, you need gold coins to buy food… And if you have the skills, there’s no other place where you can earn gold coins as easily as here.”
It could simply be said that the warchief had sent his son to Angbeol to feed his tribe.
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Seeing Unho for the first time, Payaz felt his heart shrink.
He didn’t even feel this way when he confronted his father, his warchief.
In fact, I saw more.
A twinge of lust came out from within.
‘Jerome…You crazy bastard…That’s a 7th circle wizard?!’
Fayaz couldn’t help but lust for Jerome, who was the master of the Dark Blood Clan.
And I could see how great the shit he was putting in was.
I heard that Unho became Princess Cristina’s fiancé, but as soon as I saw him, I couldn’t help but understand it at once.
What kind of wizard is he with a body like that?
There was talk of a magic swordsman, but…
In any case, Payaz could instinctively know that Unho was at least as strong as a Grand Master.
“You gave permission easier than I thought.
Conrad, who had successfully completed his meeting with Unho, said worriedly.
“…That won’t happen. These are humans who don’t need to.”
“Is that enough?”
Is there a situation where the saying that unknown is medicine fits so well?
“A paladin has at least two sword masters.”
“Two, two?!”
“The human named Unho is worse than that.”
“That means…Grand…”
Conrad’s face turned pale.
Only then did he understand what it meant that Payaz didn’t have to worry about her back.
It was because it was no task to annihilate the guild union without having to attack them if they made up their mind.
