How the Villain Lives

43. Endless labyrinth.

It is the same path that I have walked so far, unchanged. However, on arriving at the crossroads beyond the corridor, something else appeared. Instead of the familiar path, there was only one path where any decoration was excluded. Eli's magic certainly worked.

"Don't you see that road up ahead?"

"It's the road. I can see it, too. You want to go to the crossroads."

"I'm not saying that."

"Do you see anything different in my eyes?"

Sung-hoon began to walk quietly towards the front without saying anything. And I finally stopped in a situation where I left only one footprint.

"What do you see?"

"I still see a four-pronged path. What about you?"

"A straight passage without any decoration, not a crossroads."

Eli doesn't say a word, but looks forward. Sung-hoon has nothing to say in this situation. Then you're probably seeing something else clearly. Sixense is a kind of magic that keeps the senses perfectly normal, but only touches the senses. Then it makes sense that what Sung-hoon is looking at right now is true and what he is looking at is fake.

Once I thought about using magic on others, I couldn't use it too much. Perhaps a new monster will emerge with what is happening now. If that happens, it becomes impossible to deal properly with the Sixth Sense spell.

"I'm going to try to see if things are different, or if things actually change when we walk forward. Sung-hoon, can you walk to the hallway you're looking at?"

'This guy.'

Noticing that he was going to experiment with himself, Seonghun's eyes went up, drawing a line. Of course, it was relatively easier to stand in front of Eli and wear a mask, although that expression was not revealed. If you want to refuse, you can refuse. However, he nodded slightly without saying anything.

I don't like it a little bit, but if you think objectively, it's also a way to reduce the damage caused by an unexpected situation that comes before the most talented Seonghun. If the taste of the flesh is completely gone, you should have a battle that relies purely on sight or hearing, but you are the best fit for such a battle.

Chalpak!

The blood that was left on the sole of the shoe hit the floor, making a strange loud noise. It is a necessary footprint. I only took one step, but I felt that something had changed.

'Different.'

The air that touches the skin is different. It feels different in the body. I realized the moment I had just taken this one step. what he was like just now. It's like having translucent glasses, gloves, and earmuffs. I wondered how I hadn't noticed this until now. And the moment I took a breath, I heard a voice.

[Very interesting]

Slurp!

As soon as the voice of the third person was heard, Sung-hoon hesitated to pull out his sword and retreated. It is unclean to deal with an unknown enemy on your own in a situation where your senses are ruined. However, when I took a step back, I was forced to swallow the dried saliva rarely as a holy smoke.

Obviously, I only took one step. Behind him was Mirina, Eli, the clerk and a strong companion such as Wolf. However, what Sung-hoon was feeling right now was a solid wall. As I touched the real wall, not space travel or hallucinations, a small message window appeared in front of the eyes of Sung-hoon who was oblivious.

You have completed the Thousand Rifle mission.

Calculating clearance process.

You have satisfied the terms of the proposal.

Increases all stats by 20 Wisdom rises by 21. Magic Power rises by 31. Bonus stats are added by 40.

You earned the title of "One who knows how to govern oneself."

"What?!"

It was embarrassing to see an enemy that I didn't even think of suddenly, but I was forced to panic even further in the window of mission clearance that came to my mind. The voice continued to be heard, regardless of whether the weapon was harvested or not.

[Like this, I think I made a mistake by clearing the mission unexpectedly. That's all right. I fixed the error now.]

"You're not the enemy."

The NPCs in the mission, not the NPCs in the city, were able to relieve the tension with words that contained words that could never be spilled. There was a similar situation when you cleared the compulsory mission. Maybe the opponent was an NPC like Jerry.

'Or a god like Rocky.'

[Exactly. Well, if you wanted to go on this mission through another route, you could have been the enemy.]

If I had gone to the Gateway of Strength, I would have dealt with the protagonist of this voice that is heard now. After a brief silence, Sung-hoon opened his mouth to get out of this bitter situation.

"Anyway, I've cleared the mission, but what else is there after this? Where are my colleagues?"

[There's nothing left. And the others have paused for a while. I hate to bother talking to you.]

"Talk to me?"

[Yes, you. You've come up with a very novel way.]

Gulp.

When I came out with the trick I had come up with, I was forced to be nervous no matter how nervous I was. I was worried that I would not be penalized by hearing the injustice of the method. And that worry was forced to grow bigger as the voice continued.

[In the path you passed, there was a desperation called hallucinations. The person who came in constantly wandered around the place where the gin was installed, eventually exhausted by the grass and drowned. In a sense, it's a gateway that's hard enough to compare to fighting directly with me.]

"I see. Wow, that was really hard. I wonder why it was so difficult, but we made the wrong choice. Hahaha. Still, there were quite a few victims, but didn't you clear it like this?"

[Most of those victims you killed]

"Ha, ha, ha. Uh, I don't know how..."

[I'm not Alba, my real interest is in your head.]

I can't see my face, but somehow I think the owner of the voice is laughing.

[There are two ways to break through the affected labyrinth. The first is a person who has a strong will and spirit and has built a spirit that is not influenced by external forces. Among your group, a woman with a twin sword was more likely to pass this way.]

"You mean Mirina."

[Yes. That's him. If I had been alone, I would have been able to get out of this maze in less than three days. However, the reason I couldn't come out of being so grumpy was because I was acting like someone else. And the second way was to hold the labyrinth for about a hundred days.

The longer you stay in the hallucination labyrinth, the more ambiguous the boundaries between reality and illusion become, and the hallucinations become no longer effective when they peak. It takes about a hundred days to get there. In the end, it was the answer that lasted within a certain time, as Sung-hoon or Yoo Baek Woo said.

'Of course, it is extremely unlikely to be cleared this way..'

If you told me that you would last a hundred days from the start, I could say that it is impossible to fall into a labyrinth and hold it for a hundred days without knowing anything. Now Sung-hoon left first and killed most of them, but if more time had passed, he could have become Kim Lee Hyun and Yoo Bae-woo could have replaced Sung-hoon's role.

[But I was surprised to get out of here using a method you didn't even think of. I expected it, but I didn't know how to use it.]

"It's not that great. Anyone could think of anything."

[No. It looks easy after hearing it, but it's really hard to figure it out. Destroy all the murals, dig holes in the ground, pierce the ceiling, penetrate the walls, and use monsters as bait to test people's lives. All I could see was that it was amazing.]

"… Sorry."

[Gosh. I didn't mean to complain so much. Rather impressed. Everytime I worked hard to recover, I was looking forward to knowing what I was going to do. Well, at the end of the day, I got out of the way in a way I didn't even think of. I think if you had gone to the Gateway of Wisdom, you would have made it a lot easier than this.]

If it is a way of influencing the maze itself, you can use your hands somehow. However, they cannot interfere with their own direct influence. It was for this reason that the message window did not open at the moment of exiting the illusion.

It was a way of clearing only when you had the spirit to hold on to the hallucination labyrinth or lasted for a hundred days, but who would have guessed that you would clear the mission by putting on a stronger hallucination than you currently have?

[That's interesting. It seems like an accident is different from a normal person. He's not a good man, he's not a bad man. Hmm. What am I supposed to say about this? Should I say he's unstoppable?]

"……."

I didn't know how to react, so my voice continued to cough and talk as if I had noticed Seong Hoon late in closing my lips.

[Equally. Anyway, it was because I was personally interested in you and the other reason was because of the reward.]

"Ah, reward!"

I was satisfied with the stats that followed me as much as I completed a Class A mission. Above all, I got a new title. However, I have now remembered that there was no direct reward such as guild or item. Normally, I wouldn't miss this triviality, but I didn't think about it until the situation was over.

[The rewards here are divided depending on how you cleared each gateway. For example, if you win against me in the case of the Gateway of Strength, you get the best reward, but if you barely survive, you get the least reward? In the case of hallucinogenic labyrinths that you have harmed, the best reward for not being affected by hallucinogenic labyrinths or noticing strange things in a short time, on the contrary, the least reward for staying for a hundred days.]

"Big, so what kind of reward do I get?"

The thought of being so stubborn began to reveal his frustrated heart and urge the owner of the voice. I want you to stop making excuses and get to the point quickly. However, the owner of the voice had his own circumstances.

[Getting out in 35 days is neither good nor bad. Can I get a medium reward? But the problem is right now. There is a contribution to this mission. If the people who came in here in the normal way had completed the mission, they would have shared all the rewards equally.]

Rewards with certain limitations are not equally divisible for everyone. Depending on the contribution, it will have to be paid differentially. That was obvious, but now it wasn't natural.

[However, there were about a dozen people who first entered this mission. There are currently nine people alive. And of those nine, the one who left the affected labyrinth and completed the mission normally...]

The voice that came to the forefront for a moment was filled with the feeling that it was interesting.

[You.]

"That means…."

[If I had just survived a hundred days and cleared it together, the reward of this mission would have been nothing. However, you have now passed the mission of 'Alone'. Do you know what this means?]

Gulp.

If you swallowed a drool with tension at first, it was now the opposite. I swallowed dry water because of my yearning to boil in my body.

[As usual, 55 people will be compensated and you will receive them by yourself.]

'Ellie! Thank you!!!'

Seong-hoon, who gripped his fists, was forced to give overwhelming gratitude to Eli, who was not here at the moment. She may have put Sung-hoon first to reduce the risk, but it became a phone suit.

'No, I won't thank Eli. My lucky stats are unique, right? This has been done with my power everywhere!'

It wasn't even a slight act of conscience.

[Anyway, that's why I got into trouble. If the total amount of rewards you can give in this mission is 100, you need to combine all the rewards that other people will receive to get almost 120 rewards. In fact, it's not fair to give you the best things you can give me here. That doesn't mean I can't pay you back.]

"Can I put a few of the best and the least?"

[Combining the best and the least will bring you more than your original share. It's a very difficult situation. So you decide your reward.]

"Am I?"

[Yes. If you pass through the hallucinogenic labyrinth, you will get an effective body or accessory to protect your mind, but I don't think you will like it. So I'll show you all the rewards I can give you here, so choose one of them you like.]