Chapter 320 – Conquest
《How about the sap from the Tree of Life?》
《Tree of Life》? What is that?”
《Immortality, improves the body and increases magic power. The taste is also very good.”
Simply put… It was an elixir.
Of course, I didn’t like it very much.
Do you need an elixir?
During that time, I raised my body strengthening skill and my body steadily improved.
And I instinctively felt it.
That I will live for a very long time.
What I need next is my girls…
If I hugged them hard, they could see the same effect as the elixir.
“…Well…》
Then, suddenly, the magic sword and armor that did not fit Christina’s fountain came to mind.
…I wasn’t envious of the kid.
Still, there was a problem with his name being the captain of the warlock subjugation party, but his equipment was worse than that of a kid.
Rob gave it to Eileen.
Except for the telekinesis ring I received from Liliana… There were no plausible magic items.
It’s a tolerable weapon, you can make it with magic, so I wonder if it’s really necessary…
Still, I always had a desire to have good magic equipment to work in a fantasy world.
Liliana’s psychokinesis ring was also useful, but I couldn’t help but feel that something was lacking because I couldn’t fully handle my power.
《Are there any good items?》
“…Item?”
《Yes, like good magic armor or weapons.》
His name is the ruler of this Pantera.
A being called a goddess.
Could there be anything better than Liliana?
If it was something like Ignis’s equipment, it would be perfect.
Is this too greedy?
According to a sneak peek, she said that her equipment was also given by God.
“Um…Then I’ll hand over the Armed Core.”
《Armed Core?》
《Think of it as the best armament worn only by the purifiers chosen in the heavens.》
Is it really worth the skill points I didn’t get?
I kept my eyes wide open to avoid getting hit in the eye, but… It was meaningless.
If Terra decides, this is a structure that can’t help but get caught in the eye.
It was because I had no information about the reward she was trying to give.
There is no one to advise.
In the end, she had no choice but to trust Terra.
《The armed core is a growth type.》
Seo, growth type?
I was attracted to the story of a growth type.
Even in the game, growth-type weapons are pretty good.
《It is a valuable item that no one can receive even in heaven. The armor I am wearing is also an armed core.”
When I first saw Tera, I remembered the splendid silver armor she was wearing.
She said she was fine if she was writing.
It’s a pity that she didn’t get skill points… But seeing her say that, it’s not that she doesn’t give, but it seems like she can’t.
‘No way, the goddess is Gao. She must not have been left behind.’
《The armed core also has an ego.》
Terra sensed my conflict and had her words driving the final wedge.
‘Eh, Ego?!’
It means that she has a personality like Suni.
It sounded pretty good to hear.
My mind was almost gone.
However, hasty judgment is prohibited.
“Uhm… I got it. Just look at the item and judge it.”
I wanted to know what it was because I saw it as an armed core, but… I have connections with two capable archmages.
I decided to mobilize all of them to judge the value.
“…I get it. Send someone to deliver it.”
Are you sending someone?
If Terra sends it… Will it send an angel?
“For a moment!”
I urgently called the terror to cut off contact.
《Again…What is it?》
I almost forgot the most important thing.
《Ego must be! It must be a woman.”
“…I get it.”
From Terra’s voice, I could feel that he was being treated as a very pitiful person, but she decided to endure this insult because it was a serious problem that she could not give up.
I couldn’t stand it if I heard a thick male voice from the equipment I was going to use.
Let’s finish the negotiations with Terra in moderation.
To capture the fortress, you can see the lord’s troops led by Lance entering the fortress.
After that, the warlock subjugation party followed.
…And what else do you not like?
Christina’s mouth was sticking out so much that you could see it from here.
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Lens led the troops of the lord and successfully occupied the fortress.
Due to the strange behavior of the black magician, all humans in the fortress were evaporated, literally empty.
Still, there weren’t that many buildings that were broken down because I was fighting the Daegal demon and paying attention.
It was an empty fortress, but soon it started to become crowded with adventurers who followed.
Due to the warlock’s barrier, all the management personnel in the fortress had evaporated, so Rance had no choice but to request additional reinforcements from the lord.
And there were also vicious rumors that all humans inside the fortress had evaporated.
There were rumors that the Paladins and I would have annihilated the humans inside.
Thanks to that, when the paladins passed through the streets, the adventurers showed themselves as if the Red Sea was parting.
The Paladins did not seem to care about such rumors.
There seemed to be no need to explain.
Rumors like this seemed familiar.
Judith and the Paladins were also sent to investigate the suspicious area underground of the fortress, which was undetectable.
“I found a suspicious stone chamber… But there was nothing there. It seems that he left beforehand. It seemed certain that it was a dungeon used by warlocks. Maybe… I’m guessing that some kind of ritual was performed.”
Wouldn’t that ritual be the summoning of the Daegal demon?
“…His Holiness, I suspect that a black magician named Isaac may have been involved.”
“Isaac? Who is that?”
“He is a black magician who has been marked as the most dangerous person in our church. He is a sneaky guy who usually acts as an ordinary wizard, accepting students and making many warlocks and humans his puppets.”
It sounded like a giant in the black magic world.
“I tracked it for a long time in Terragyo, but in the end I escaped like a mudfish and couldn’t catch it. But I didn’t think there was a conspiracy here…”
“Then the person I killed was also a puppet?”
“Yes, if it was Isaac who orchestrated this… Perhaps the warlock whom His Holiness dealt with was also his puppet.”
Somehow, I thought that I was trampled to death in vain for setting up a trap with a fairly large scale… Is there a black screen?
“Since even the Great Devil has been summoned, it is considered a serious situation and we have requested reinforcements from the Holy See.”
“Great job.”
“Thank you! His Holiness! I just did what I had to do.”
I also agreed to her request for reinforcements.
Now I was suffering from a shortage of manpower.
I didn’t know until I reached the 11th floor of the labyrinth.
Is this place this wide…
I flew alone and looked around, but I thought it might be bigger than North and South Korea combined.
Besides, the biggest problem is…
My sage time technique, which expands consciousness and increases the range of cognition, has shrunk so much that it barely covers the 11th-floor fortress.
It can be said that the raid navigation system, which sucked honey on the 10th floor, was broken.
Then you have to run and find the warlock yourself…
Even if they searched with the attack corps that could be operated at full capacity, finding a warlock who was unknown where they were hiding in this vast labyrinth was like finding a needle in a sandy beach.
And the ranks of the dimensional rifts and monsters in this place were so formidable that raids couldn’t walk around carelessly.
‘I might have already run away and not be on the 11th floor of this labyrinth…’
The 11th floor of the labyrinth was a mysterious place.
The 10th floor was also a strange place…
Added here.
It is also strange that it is a very fertile land where meadows and forests harmonize, but the terrain in the shape of a disk and the end of it were cliffs.
Should I say it feels like a world trapped by a cliff?
What was unusual was that, unlike the 10th floor of the labyrinth, the sky was wide open beyond the tens of kilometers of cliffs.
Even though there was no sun, there was day and night.
It was both fascinating and curious, so I flew and checked it myself, and the result was that there was nothing but emptiness beyond the cliff.
The outer void itself darkened and brightened repeatedly, creating a cycle of day and night.
I’ve seen something a little similar to this place.
No, I had it
It is the hero’s resting place.
It was a small white planet of my own, a void with nothing outside, and although there was no sun, it was bright.
‘What does it have to do with the hero’s resting place?’
If Judith recruits paladins… I don’t think he’ll recruit tens of thousands…
This… Will it work?
To be honest, it didn’t seem like we would be able to find the hidden warlock even if a few paladins were recruited from Terra Church.
‘Terra Chance?’
In the end, I decided to contact Tera with the power of the stigma and ask about the 11th floor of the labyrinth.
《The map of the 11th floor of the labyrinth? I’m sorry, but I don’t know much about the structure of the labyrinth.”
“…Wasn’t that something you made?”
《I made it, but… It’s not what you think. Yes…Close to installation.”
“Installation?”
《Do you know what a dimensional shop is?》
“…I know.”
Can’t know
Terra seems to have been aware of the existence of the dimensional shop.
I knew something like the right to summon a hero, so I roughly expected it, but…
《…If you know the dimension shop, the story will be easy. Labyrinth is one of the planetary management structures in the Dimension Shop.》
《So… You bought it at the Dimension Shop…》
“Yes. I just bought Labyrinth, one of Pantera’s Abyss erosion buffers, from the Dimension Shop and installed it on Pantera.》
“…Shit.”
In the end, Tera didn’t help much either.
