Almark – Northern Sword, Southern Wand

The first room was one that Almark had never seen before.

There were several buttons on the wall, each with a letter written on it.

As soon as she entered, Leila looked up at the ceiling.

There, two lizards were crawling against each other.

"Is that a statue?"

Almark looked up at the ceiling and murmured.

Leila draws a circle in the air with both hands.

A voice hunting technique.

Having eavesdropped on the conversation between the two lizard statues, Leila pressed the correct button from the information contained therein to reveal the next door.

"Wow."

In Almark's words,

I've been in this room so many times.

and Leila answers unexpectedly.

"I can't use the first layer of time. Let's get going."

The next room was the room of two little devils.

Almark looks happy.

"I know. This room."

When she was about to say that, Leila was blowing the wind down the statue of the demon by the wall with wind bending.

Come on, let's go.

Almark rushed after Leila, who walked early into the passage that appeared on the wall.

In this way, Leila dives through the trials of small rooms one after the other without creating anything.

Almark chased after him, just impressed.

And Leila stopped by surprise.

There is an iron door in front of me.

Slight magic drifting.

Almark raised his voice sharply.

"Leila, be careful. This one."

Shut up.

Leila ran lightning from her cane.

There was a dull sound, and the irregular mass that was simulated on the door disappeared so as to be sucked into the stone floor.

That's right.

Almark admires.

"Raidow was defeated by spring water. Your lightning spell would have been instantaneous."

"If you're just going home on the first floor, you can use spring water."

Leila said as she walked out the aisle.

"If we're going down any further, we need to preserve our magic. Spring surgery is too drained."

I see.

Almark nodded.

Unlike Almark and Raido, who were challenging the challenge with momentum alone, Leila seems to be challenging the challenge a lot strategically.

Shortly afterwards, I ran into a staircase that went down.

What do you think?

Leila looks back at Almark with a cold expression.

"That's all you got, right? I have enough power and you are of no use here. Why don't you stop pretending and go home?

Almark shrugs his shoulders.

"I admit it's going to be a tight leg."

Leila nodded small.

"But I'm not going home. I'm still dating."

In Almark's words, Leila sighed small.

"I don't know what's going on."

That's what I'm saying. I'm going down the stairs.

Almark followed.

The second layer seemed the same as the first layer when it went down.

Stone floors, stone walls. The passage leads to the back.

However, Leila said she saw how Almark was feeling.

"Unlike above, there are a lot of tricks in the aisle."

"Okay."

Almark nodded.

Even on the second floor, Leila's movements were familiar.

I pushed the fire-blowing monster statues placed on both sides of the hallway in handy and walked through a trap of randomly opened pitfalls.

Almark didn't know half of what magic Leila was using to test them.

In the puzzle of the occasional small room, Leila quickly solved it without explaining it to Almark, who waited in the corner of the room to avoid disturbing Leila as much as possible.

If you can't follow me, go home.

Leila told me, but Almark kicked over the wall with a monster statue and pitfalls anyway.

"The danger of a trap is rising."

Almark called out to Leila, who was going forward.

The first trap, including the trap of the last door, at most deprived the body of liberty, but the second trap included flames and pitfalls that could cause serious injury if mishandled.

"I see. Did you notice that scare?

Leila answers without looking back.

"No, I'm worried about you more and more."

Almark said that Leila glanced at Almark with an uncomfortable look.

When I went down to the third layer, the atmosphere clearly changed from the upper two layers.

Once again, it became a rough rock-skinned passage.

"From here on out, you'll be able to do it in no time."

The tone of Leila's voice has also changed, causing tension.

"Okay."

Almark nodded.

After walking for a while, I ran into a divide.

All the way to the second floor was one way.

This is the first time I've seen a dividing line.

The third floor is like a maze.

Leila says.

Plus, there's a lot of 'enemies' coming out.

"Enemy?"

Almark blames him.

"I heard no monsters come out."

"There are no monsters. The magical obstacles created by the teachers are coming out."

Leila pointed the other way as she said.

"Here."

From that path, something like a shadow of a faint light was slowly approaching.

"Commonly known as the Shadow of Magic. If you touch it, you'll suck off the magic, so you better stay away from it."

Leila calmly explains as she watches the approaching figure.

"They don't understand your sword. Only magic attacks work."

I see.

Almark nodded.

"Avoid wear and tear. This way."

Leila walks the shadowless path.

"Is he coming after us?"

"Sometimes they come after me. They don't usually come after me."

Hmm.

Almark glances at the shadow slowly approaching, then walks after Leila.

Since then, there have been a number of divisions.

The demon shadow appeared frequently afterwards, and Leila basically avoided fighting, but when the direction of travel was blocked and the demon shadow came after her at an unexpected speed, she had to shake her wand.

After Leila's lightning spell, the magic shadow seeped into the rock skin and disappeared.

They went down the aisle for quite a while, but they couldn't get to the stairs.

"I ran out of magic in this maze last time."

Leila said in disgust after crossing a divide that she didn't know how many times it would be.

"The maze can't be so vast. I think they're looping somewhere, but I don't know."

I see.

Almark stopped.

I've been worried about it for a while.

Almark's reason and wildness go around.

It is clearly different from the upper two layers.

The structure and workmanship of this third layer seemed to mesh with Almark's approach.

"Hey, Leila."

Speak to Leila as she goes ahead.

"What is it?"

The complexion of Leila, who looked back annoying, changed.

"Watch out!"

As he rushed over, he shook Al Mark with a powerful force.

The Shadow was sneaking right next to Almark as it seeped out of the wall.

"Ku"

Leila flashed her wand and defeated the Shadow, but at that moment the Shadow's hand stroked Leila's shoulder.

Ugh

Leila leaked a groan of pain.

"Leila"

Almark rushed over.

"I'm sorry. Are you okay?"

"They took my magic."

Leila rubbed her shoulders and frowned.

"I've been trying to save it."

"I'm sorry, for me. I didn't notice."

"Walk."

Leila walked out on her own, saying so.

"Here, if you stop at all, a magic shadow will spring out of the wall. Don't stop your feet."

In fact, the magic shadow glimpsed at the walls beside the two who stopped for a moment, but when they saw them walking out, they disappeared again into the walls.

"You got it."

Leila walks without hiding her frustration.

"My feet and hands are tight. Go home."

Point back without looking back.

"Turn back the aisle and you'll hit the door. Open it and we'll get to the first level entrance. Go home before you interrupt me any more."

"Yeah."

Almark nods as he walks behind Leila.

"I know how you feel. [M] I disturbed you. [M] I'm sorry."

Well then...

Leila looked back at her anger.

However, with a serious look, Almark told Leila.

"I understand the mystery here. It'll help you from here on out."