Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

"The basement floor leads to the deepest point. Upstairs is my living room and living space."

"Well then... I guess I'll have to look upstairs first before I show you the basement"

"Okay. Well, I'm going to show you around, so why don't you follow me?"

Claudia nods a little fun and moves on down the corridor.

The castle at Endewills...... I guess that would mean home for Claudia, to say the least.

Further down the front corridor was the square. - There is a large door above the spacious staircase. Magnificent decorations, but when Claudia approached, the door opened independently.

First there is the refrain, and then there is the sight. You mean the structure around here is not so different from other castles? Visitors are made to meet castle owners without having to head to the back.

On the left and right between the sights, strangely small sized knights lined up.

The size is about my waist, comical at first glance with three heads, but each with a well made spear and a steel-winged decoration on his back. You mean fly and attack when something happens?

When I admitted Claudia's appearance, I gave her an undisturbed salute to show her. Unlike Beast Knight, the contents seem empty, but seem to move agile inside.

"I'm not afraid to look... but I look pretty strong"

And Sheila said when she saw it.

"Is the smaller body also to use space effectively to attack in numbers?

"Right. Little Soldier. Those kids just don't look intimidated, they just have the ability to serve as soldiers in the castle properly. As Theodore guessed, we're good at working together."

The size of a human being is about the same size as surrounding it from all sides, but as long as the body is small enough to fly, it means it can hit one person in larger numbers and in 3D.

If you look closely, it seems that each of them has a whistle on their hips, or if they can't deal with it individually, it's possible to call a buddy. If you're someone you can't handle in Little Soldier, is it a mechanism for Beast Night and other demons to handle it?

As Claudia stands by the side of the splendid throne and in front of the decorations carved on the back wall, the sculptures of the knights, which were carved on the wall as decorations, are graced by Claudia and avoided aside. Then the door that was engraved behind the knight opened in the back... and the passage appeared there.

"This is... interesting"

"Yes, sir."

Claudia laughs with pleasure as Grace and the others grin at the sight. The corridor ahead seems to be for the back of the royal castle. I mean, it's the castle owner's living space.

I wonder if Swordmaidens are cleaning floors and walls with rags, or if Little Soldiers are patrolling in line to fly... I also find it proportionately fun to watch the demons defend the castle's activities.

I'm doing something like training to see if the square you see from the corridor means a squad of soldiers, or if Little Soldier is waving a spear under the supervision of the Beast Knight I saw earlier.

I suppose the demons are defensive forces, but they only operate in a castle style and seem to serve to keep Claudia from feeling as bored or lonely as possible.

Still, I guess I'd get tired of looking at the same thing for years, but I guess if I had a visitor, I'd change the story. Claudia, who guides me, also looks somewhat fun.

"From the outside, the castle is huge, but it doesn't work for people, so there's no room for a break or equipment that should be normal. I don't have enough places to spend my actual life alone."

"So what's the door around it?

"There are a lot of rooms that soldiers use to ambush, to mislead and trap intruders. It looks like a castle room, though."

"Sure, it's dangerous to leave Claudia."

Ashley said, Mallane nodded with a strange face.

"There's something I'd like to show everyone freely, though. Well, if you're with me, the trap room's safe, so if you want to see anything, just tell me and I'll show you."

Claudia laughs bitterly. As we proceeded through the corridor, we eventually reached the vast large hall.

The passage continues in all directions...... Claudia stands in the middle of the Great Hall without hesitation. A light curtain descends from the ceiling to the surrounding area when you gently tap the floor with your nail tips.

"I'm going up from here. Although we are also able to travel on pumice stones a little longer so that security is easy to handle."

There was a unique floating sensation shortly afterwards. Oh. This was also in the Royal Castle Theorem, the pumice elevator? Though made slightly differently, it appears to be pointing upwards in the curtains of light.

"Upstairs is a space for residence, a library and a study. Kitchen, dining room, bathroom, living room and bedroom. Swordmaiden does a lot of chores."

"The library...... what?

Makes Rosemary look a little like she would expect.

"It was brought in from the Moon Capital, but it's not a big deal. I wonder if the letters of my time are of academic value."

"In short, it's not like a magic book."

"Yeah. Unfortunately,"

Claudia laughed when she said that to my words. Looks like it's gonna take a little longer for the elevator to get up there. Along the way, Claudia gets a serious look.

"- The ships that descended from the moon rescued the people of the earth who had survived everywhere, as well as the demons who had not become ferocious. That's how we put our roots down in this place where the veins gather, forming Endewills deep underground, unaffected by a magic storm."

Does that mean Endewills... the compartment created by the moon ship in the first period?

He said the moon ship sequentially created a castle to protect Claudia, an Endeavours to be the home of the people, a compartment to supply food and resources, and a compartment to train fighters with the demons they generated and empower them to go outside. That becomes the prototype of the border labyrinth.

It won't be hard to be self-sufficient inside the labyrinth. Still, people dreamed of the ground and admired going outside. In the meantime, the moon ship gathers magic and eventually also houses a magic storm.

Claudia told me about the old days.

"There were a lot more fierce demons then than there are now. There were still a lot of people who wanted to get out of the ground. I wanted to ask you that... so I was getting ready to build something that would be a prototype for Royal Castle Theorem and Termwilds. Because the original goal was to build an environment where people could get out on the ground."

That said, Claudia once separates words and closes her eyes.

"When I started forming Theorem. There was a massive raid of demons. The formation of Theorem and the evacuation of those who were out and working on the ground, and the repelling of demons. I used too much force at once to fall asleep in the back of my castle. It was only after that that they broke into the hub. In the end, you'll find out later that the demonic raid was using subpoena magic. In other words... you were targeted when Theorem was formed."

The betrayal of the people on earth who plotted to acquire the power of the moon's ships and the resultant runoff of the Last Guardian. The expansion of the labyrinth due to the disruption of the system, as well as the labyrinth demons for training, will also be able to walk freely and move to eliminate intruders.

That is how the people of the earth go out. The protected demons were to live in the back of the labyrinth.

- The pumice elevator. Eventually the end point comes to the curtain of light. Claudia's living quarters.

Claudia stopped on her feet as she tried to move on.

"... oh. Looks like she's coming. I thought I was still ahead of you."

Faster than asking who. A pillar of light rose in the corridor a little further away from us.

Right. I've already heard from Claudia before I got here. In addition to Claudia, there is only one willing man in this castle.

The figure that appeared out of the pillar of light - was a woman knight in armor with a spear. White bird wings grow on his back.

"- We're out of time, Princess."

A voice sounded uninterrupted, not making me feel emotional. Both eyes remain closed.

"Yeah. Long time no see, Hervorte"

Hervolte. Hervolte of Valkyrie, they say. He is the Guardian of Claudia's castle, who presides over the monsters in the castle.