Arcadia’s Labyrinth

Shortly after, we arrived at the Starting Point of the Deceitful Cat.

Tie the horse to the pile and step into the labyrinth.

Inside, it was a woody mountain road-shaped field, and the scent of grass and twinkling beast odor irritated the nasal cavity as it entered.

... I feel my gaze. The monsters are all over the place asking about us.

I told Leriana to stay alert.

"'The Starting Point of the Deceitful Demon Cat' is that enemy levels and traps are on par with the other twelve labyrinths...... medium-sized labyrinth levels. Be careful."

"Okay."

To my words, Leriana nods with a serious look. The face is a little stiff.

By stepping into this labyrinth, you must have recognised the responsibility that carries the fate of your own homeland. From her now, she also seemed to be running out of room somewhere while her alarm and chronic mind disappeared.

Seeing her like that, I soothed my expression and laughed.

"I don't know. Whatever you say, it's me and Leriana, and we can afford this much labyrinth. It's an immobilized labyrinth, so we know more about traps and enemies."

The enemies of "The Starting Point of the Deceitful Demon Cat" are a struggling level even for mid-level adventurers, but Leriana, who has a high status of vegetables and unique skills, and we who boosted the title, were confident that even this small group could complete this labyrinth.

The internal map is also in my head. Through the shortest route, the distance between small labyrinths and treading is not so different.

... Well, it's the Oriole battle that failed with the same prospect as this, but there's no genuine anxiety element this time.

Oh, no, there was one. These are the two tongues of the twelve labyrinths.

This alone leaves a concern because of the opaque power of the war, but well, there's no other way than to proceed cautiously than to not clear this place in the end.

It seemed that Leriana had lightly regained her usual worries. [M]

"Oh my God! If Kane's here, he'll be fine!

That's what I said and saw Leriana laughing at Nico and I had a slight headache.

Um, this simplicity. Should I accept that honesty is a good thing, or should I worry that it seems easy to fall into a trap? Well, let's just say I'm happy that you have a high trust in me here.

"Shall we go then? He's got a star at the beginning, because I'm coming."

"Copy that!"

Proceed through the labyrinth with the saluting Reliana.

Then, accidentally, the side bush swayed slightly. It's not a wind move. As soon as consciousness went there for a moment, a black shadow popped out of the opposite direction.

Cats the size of medium-sized dogs...... Bobcats.

A quick reaction, Leriana taps her fist into the bobcat, which has been attacked by a flowing motion.

With that in mind, I waved my sword overhead. Because he was sensing assassins from the overhead with the bobcat he was attacking.

Watch the first shaky bush as the blood tide descends half a step back from the bobcat cut off from his torso.

The signs in the bushes were shaking as if to roam for a few moments, but soon disappeared somewhere.

The wax rocks the bush and raids from the opposite direction. An overhead bobcat of fate strikes an enemy distracted by it, and the first character out of consciousness stabs a stop.

It must have been such a two- or three-step strategy. Even just miscellaneous fish monsters work together like this. Sometimes it was just called the Wall of Adventurers.

"Hehe, it looks like even this level of labyrinth would be fine with Kane"

Leriana laughs in a relaxed way. In his hand was a drop item of bobcat fangs.

"The strength of the enemy is fine in itself, but this wild collaboration is going to be tricky one of these days. Let's not get alarmed."

"Copy that!"

Leriana saluted and returned my advice. [M]

As we proceeded through the haircut-hitting bobcats and pseudo-botanical monsters, we reached a fuzzy open space.

There was a lake about 100m in all directions, and it was just a space where I was told to take a rest here. At the centre of the lake was a small floating island, with stones at equal intervals between the banks and the floating islands, which seemed to be able to reach by flying away. And floating islands can also be seen with something in sight.

... this.

- It's a chest!

Leriana raised her voice to the excitement.

The identity of what was placed on the floating island was a silver chest.

Labyrinth chests exist in four ranks: wood, copper, silver, and gold, and more than silver chests are considered rare.

If it were a silver box in a medium-sized labyrinth, it would be a bit of a fortune...

"Nah, let's open it! Kane!"

I shook my head at Leriana pointing to the chest with her eyes sparkling like a boy.

"No matter what you think, it's a trap, alle"

In a space suddenly opened, a chest in the centre of the lake.

A familiar situation in RPG, many players will go to collect spinal cord reflexes, but the labyrinths in this world are not that sweet.

"Uh, how do you know if you haven't even seen it? You don't know how much Kane's had a trap on his chest before you saw it, do you?

"It's not the crate that's the trap, it's this situation."

With that said, I pointed to the stone that was the way to Floating Island.

"I have to scaffold that stone to get to the floating island, but just around the middle, the demons of the aquatic habitat attack me with rage. And as you can see, the stone only has enough space for one person at best. Dealing with enemies lurking in the water in a barren scaffold is suicidal."

The silver box on the lake is one of the most famous traps in this fixed labyrinth, and from the moment I saw it, I gave up that chest.

"So that means sprinklers?

"Well, if we had floating items, we'd be able to jump that far, and if we had the strength not to make enemies, we'd get there normally... because we don't have the level of unlocking skills to open silver boxes in the first place."

When it comes to silver boxes or so, it takes banditry skills there.

If my hero's class were any better, I'd remember, but I can't do it yet.

"Ugh... even though it's the first silver box I've found"

He seemed to agree with my explanation, but Leriana looks at the silver box with her fingers shamelessly.

"Yes, sir. If you get a magic key along the way, you can try it on your way home. Holla, I'm coming."

"Yes......"

Continue ahead with a soggy reliana.

Note that a magic key is a consumable item that unlocks a crate trap and key. Drop from some monsters, bosses, or crates.

It was Theory of Labyrinth Attack to put the bandit position in the party, as it also seemed like an item that would take away the role of bandit position at first glance, but as expensive as selling it would be if it were enough to be used for a treasure chest less than a silver box in a medium-sized labyrinth.

Blah, thus challenging a medium-sized labyrinth, albeit a fixed labyrinth, for just two without a bandit position, could also be described as a complete lick play from the perspective of a legitimate adventurer.

But banditry...

The option of getting out of the bandit position is absolutely impossible if you're going to be an adventurer ahead, and you have to do something about it.

When it comes to banditry in the game, ninja daughters with unique characters come to mind first. There are many players in the class of top ninjas in the banditry position who put them in the party as a must because they help the party's labyrinth strategy immensely.

The problem is that the bandit character, which is essential for the offense, but is slow to enter, the player can't help but use a custom slave character as a hole fill until then, but inevitably when the ninja daughter enters, the bandit slave will be spared.

Whether it's in the game or not, the slaves that have been used up can't be sold all the time, but this is the real world.

Why don't you just sell it because you've used the slaves you raised from scratch? become.

So you need to be prepared to take care of yourself for the rest of your life than you once bought as a slave.

As for me still pulling the shock of losing Elise, I still don't feel like buying that kind of slave or anything.

In that case, I have no choice but to combine banditry with a class of heroes, but that has the disadvantage of taking some time to learn the necessary skills, which really bothered me.

By the way, there can't be an option like buying a man's slave or putting someone who's not a slave in a party.

Slavery is mandatory considering stopping and I personally don't like male slavery any more than I will continue to use the title boost. Something feels so untitled about gold.

In the first place, the very fact that we're putting Leriana in the party, if you think about the title boost, is a grey zone.

Well, I don't mind if I say I don't mind because I'm not going to get a new title in front of her.

So far I have no intention of teaching Leriana about title boosts or tactical knowledge.

I have a crush on her for cheering me up where I'm depressed, and I want to help get the moonlight crystal of time flow to the fullest, but I wasn't willing to teach her the secrets of my powers or keep partying.

Only until this party obtains the moonlight crystal of time flow. After that I intend to take it to the flow of dissolution.

Is it because Elise and I were alone at the first party we had?

A party in me meant something like a family with no blood connection.

And Leriana doesn't have that much time, even if she's a friend.

That was my relationship with Leriana.

In the northern district of the labyrinth city, in a room in the castle where the administration was located, Chris-Marctia had quietly cleared the paperwork.

Chris, who is also the first prince, can't be as good as just a labyrinth offense as any other adventurer.

It was necessary to carry out various affairs on a daily basis as Governor General entrusted with this labyrinth city.

Sometimes I stayed up all night for a few days cleaning up the occasional paperwork, especially after an expedition for a massive labyrinth attack the other day.

Chris does a tough labor that would not be overworked without a high status, but with a cool face.

I don't even let that out for yawning, although I'm accumulating a lot of fatigue inside.

That was due to his mask as Prince Wang, which he continued to be forced to wear from an early age.

The office door was knocked on by the lid when the job went down and I thought I'd ask for some tea.

"Get in."

"Excuse me."

It was Lothar, Chris' SS chief and deputy chief of the Labyrinth Saints, who came in quietly.

It was time to go into epic age, his hair mixed with some gray hair, wrinkles engraved on his eyes, but his eyes were still stiff, and his body was so young that it was forged out that it didn't make him feel old.

She is her right-hand man, who has been substantiating the operation of the Labyrinth Saints on behalf of Chris, who is usually busy in his stewardship.

"Hey Grandpa, what's going on?

"This is a report about two tongues in the twelve labyrinths."

To Lothar's words, Chris did his gaze diagonally and nodded, "Oh, is that it?"

Here in the Twelve Labyrinths recently, the adventurer's non-returnee was a problem.

It was obvious that some anomaly was taking place, including many powerful men who were not supposed to lose their lives in that labyrinth, starting with those of a major clan.

Even the Labyrinth Saints had a private, twelve labyrinth diving members involved in the case and were embarking on an early response.

Because it was an event in the immobilized labyrinth where details of traps and enemies were found, the Labyrinth Saints were an external factor… two tongues were considered the cause and had just embarked on an electric blockade of the Twelve Labyrinths.

"So, what happened?

"Ha. I have succeeded in discovering and capturing some two tongues in the labyrinth of monkeys, but I have not yet succeeded in letting my mouth crack"

They were the two tongues captured in the twelve labyrinths of monkeys, but they could not consistently determine the relationship behind it, even in the stifling and harsh torture of "We Don't Know".

"Hmm..."

Having heard the report, Chris leans down quietly to conceive.

It is understandable not to break my mouth that way because there would be a connection between the two tongues to become villains, but it seemed somewhat puzzling that “gutless” like the two tongues continued to endure the torture that the kingdom continued to refine over the course of its long history.

"And..."

"Do you still have it?

"Ha. In the twelve labyrinths under blockade, the“ Labyrinth Publishing ”of a major clan has asked to come in for a rookie test, so I gave permission with a member of the team..."

Labyrinth Saints who are blocking the Twelve Labyrinths, but they are not inherently qualified to seal off the Labyrinth to them, who are just adventurers in front of the building.

Of course, adventurers understand that there is an administration behind them, so many of them follow suit, but the big clan couldn't back off because of Fujiko's relationship.

It was also difficult for the Labyrinth Saints to impose even on the major clans, and it was as a compromise that the members were accompanied.

"Hmm, so?

"… have become non-returnees, including those accompanying them"

"... what?

To Lothar's words, Chris was taken aback for a moment.

"... the labyrinth publishing examiner is naturally a twelve labyrinth trespasser, right?

"Yes, so are the accompanying ones"

"... for once I ask, that's not why the two tongues were based there... is it?

"We did the exploration from corner to corner except between the bosses, but there were no traces of the two tongues"

That means one thing.

"... there's been some change in the boss, and it's all gone, you mean?

"Probably..."

Chris meditated his eyes as he deposited himself deeply on his back.

(The case of the non-returnees of the Twelve Labyrinths wasn't the fault of the two tongues? You mean the boss's unusual enhancement......? In an immobilized labyrinth that hasn't changed forever? Is this possible?

"Sure, there was a labyrinth where even the Twelve Labyrinths didn't have a non-returnee problem, right?

"seems, as far as confirmation is concerned, that attacks are normally carried out in eagles, wolves and pigs"

"All right, unseal all labyrinths temporarily and put surveillance on those three labyrinths. And even then, if the non-returnees start happening, let them report it. Could be caused by the most recent entry in which the non-returnee incident occurs"

"Your Highness says this is artificial?

"I don't know. That's why we keep an eye on him."

"I see."

"And let me let the civilians look for past material to find out if there were any identical examples. from one end, including stories and myths."

Lothar moved his eyebrows around stories, myths, etc., but he nodded and left the room without saying anything.

Chris, who dropped it off, took the pendant out of his nose on the pretense.

Beautifully decorated knife-shaped accessories.

He referred to his name as the "heir's sword” and was treated as a testament to his heir to the throne.

When the sheath was removed, a beautiful sashimi appeared about 5 cm across the blade, small but golden.

Chris often looked at it, but eventually grumbled to pray that he would put it on his forehead.

"Demon...? It's Marcoutier the Brave. Thank you for your protection..."