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- Seventeenth floor underground of the Imperial Labyrinth.

When I came down from the sixteenth basement floor, there was a line of trees planted at regular intervals in front of me.

"It's the same as the 16th basement. It's like a forest field."

"Looks like it."

I was surprised when the view in front of me changed from meadow to forest the moment I walked through Meadow Field and reached the sixteenth basement floor.

Meadow fields on the eleventh to fifteenth floors underground were places to grow crops, but materials such as herbs and plants, which are only available in the woods, are grown from the sixteenth to twentieth floors underground, apparently. The equipment was also lightweight because the adventurer I saw while I was running through was also intended for picking in the woods.

Once it is confirmed that it is a field as shown on the map, it will proceed and exit.

"Wait a minute, please"

"What's up?

"The map I bought from the informer says there's a place on the seventeenth basement called the Forest of Fantasy."

"Forest of Fantasy?

"Yes. They say if you step into that place, your sense of direction will drive you crazy and you won't be able to get out of the woods"

That's kind of like a lost forest in front of an elf.

There was a divinity leaking out of the Divine Tree Yugdrasil, the purifying system of the world, drifting through the woods, freaking out the perception of those who had strayed by being affected by divinity. Only an elf transformed by the only unaffected person at the level of evolution from person to person under the influence of divinity for a long period of time.

If you're not an elf, you'll get lost in the woods - that's the lost woods.

"Are we gonna get lost, just like the Lost Forest?

"I don't know the details, but if you walk long enough, you can get out, but if you step in, you're lost."

"Then we have to avoid it."

I can't afford to be lost and consuming time in the woods.

"Given the pace so far, it is likely that it will be before evening by the time we finish exploring the sixteenth basement. Let's go back to the ground today when we're done exploring the 16th basement."

I make sure they snort and I go through the woods.

Even when it comes to forests, the sunlight has arrived properly, and we can see what is in the direction of progress.

Sylvia showed me the map, but as a precaution, the forest of fantasy was dimmed because the trees that could hang high were blocking the light of the sun, and it was depicted that if you were careful, there would be nothing to step in by mistake.

Still, it seems that the adventurer gets lost because there are precious herbs that can only be obtained in the forest of illusions, so the adventurer who took on the request has no choice but to go in.

In addition, some adventurers who visit the seventeenth basement floor for the first time step in without strategic information. It was depicted as caution because such a person sometimes starves to death by entering the forest of illusion without knowing anything and getting lost.

Fortunately, if you don't go into the forest of illusions, there's no danger on the seventeenth floor underground, apparently.

So I was careful not to get lost.

"... lost"

I realized that my attention was useless to Sylvia's words on the way down.

"Wait a minute. It's dangerous to get lost in a place called the Forest of Fantasy, so instead of leaving it to Sylvia, Melissa and I were going along with each other's attention. And how could you get lost?"

"Neither do I."

I was moving on trying to avoid the dim woods.

But I was in the dim woods at some point when I realized it.

"That's the cause."

He points to the blue-purple flower that was growing beside his chi, apparently noticing what caused Melissa to get lost.

"What's this?

"It was also in the ordinary woods along the way. I thought it was a regular flower too... I just tried using the appraisal..."

I try to use the appraisal myself because it seems difficult to say.

They have the effect of causing hallucinations with flowers named Pezn.

"It's a flower with a name I've heard when I was studying a lot about conditioning. They may be used as an ingredient for sedative medicines, but if they are used incorrectly or if they are growing in large quantities in the wild, inhaling pollen can only slightly drive people's senses crazy."

"Little?"

"If you think you were walking straight, it's just a little sloppy... slight compared to the effects of the lost forest, but no more flowers as a stoop"

"Wait a minute. Are you saying that stopping is a trap they've set up?

"Yes. I was also concerned during the run because it was a slightly different color flower. Nevertheless, I am sorry that I was unable to recall the effects until I was lost."

No need to apologize.

I couldn't believe I had suspicious flowers, but I was always attentive to the forest of illusions.

"Simply installing this flower in our direction of progress can lead us astray. Depending on your placement, you can lead them to the forest of delusion."

"And sometime I was lost in the woods of fantasy"

I looked at the map and was moving to avoid a place where there was a forest of illusions.

But the factors that actually got me lost were on the running side of the road.

"We have taken the shortest route from the entrance thanks to having a map. On the contrary, it seems to have taught them the way forward."

Melissa apologizes for sounding sorry.

"Let's think about what we're going to do than regret the past."

We just have to get out of the forest of fantasy somehow.

"Is the cause of getting lost in the Fantasy Forest in the first place the pollen that the blue-purple flowers are giving out earlier?

"It's not just blue and purple flowers. Other flowers with various hallucinogenic effects are native. It appears that forests are formed that are lost by the scent emitted by multiple flowers."

"Then if it's a place where pollen doesn't reach, isn't it possible that the hallucinogenic effect doesn't extend?

That's what Sylvia points up at.

"From the sky!

In the Lost Forest, the hallucinogenic effect emitted from the giant Divine Tree extended to the entire land, thus driving the senses crazy and lost at a height that allowed them to fly. I'm checking with the demon I sent out for reconnaissance.

But if there's a cause for people to get lost in flowers growing on the ground, it may not have affected them on the woods.

If you go out on the woods, you'll see the full woods. Until you get out of the woods, you may be driving your senses crazy, but if you know exactly where the exit is, it's not hard to get out.

"In that case..."

Kick the ground and jump up.

The trees that form the forest are nearly fifteen meters, and normally they cannot easily reach the top of the tree, but if they can fly through the sky they can easily leave.

"Ah..."

Melissa says something, but she gets to the top of the tree before she hears it.

When you pop your head out of the tree and about a meter,

"Stay!

My head hits something and the shock comes through to my body.

Melissa's outbreak of what falls straight to the ground cushions me to accept.

"Thanks. But what happened?

"Forgot? This is a labyrinth."

"Right, ceiling."

I didn't even realize that.

Sometimes the surroundings are woods, which I assume are usually in nature, but in a labyrinth with ceilings. I was prevented from being able to climb a tree and find an exit.

The surrounding environment is arranged so that there is no problem even if there is a ceiling for the forest.

I forgot that I was in the labyrinth when I said I was a labyrinth lord.

"But what do you do? I went in lost, so I don't even know where I am right now, even if I have a map. We don't even know which way to go. We can't get out of here."

There's not even something to mark around just the dim woods spreading.

Moving on to the dark clouds in situations where the direction to be taken is not known can lead to further distress.

"It's dangerous to move on. But if you're just going back, you know exactly where you're going."

Remove the pendulum from the storage ring.

Using a pendulum, the inlet becomes clear of the metastatic crystals that were in the inlet.

However, going back to the entrance needs to waste previous explorations. Be careful with that. But if you go the same way, you're likely to get lost again. We need to make a big detour and move around instead of avoiding the forest of fantasy to avoid getting lost.

"Absolutely… don't come next with a stumbling block"

Even though it's troublesome, I'll end up going back to the entrance.