ninety-nine

The Phantom Corridor exists ahead of us through the gates in the ruins of Rock Mountain. It has a structure where over a hundred corridors are layered and continue up and down, even wide, high, and deep. So to speak, it's a blowout like a straight vertical from the top of the mountain.

Mira on Pegasus was now even rising in the middle of that corridor. That's enough to cross the altitude of a rocky mountain from the outside.

(Is there no one here? On the contrary, you can't even see the demons)

While looking for a landmark, Mira observes her surroundings and realizes that there are no demons, not even shadows.

It was also thought that the demons alone had been annihilated by the executives of the earlier Chimera. But the problem is that we don't even see the remains.

(Processed disciplinarily or…. Hmm. Which way, the equivalent of hand smelling.)

From the impression that it was also with a group of Chimera Clozen inmates, Mira, who doesn't seem to have bothered to handle the demonic carcasses, comes to mind for another reason.

It's, like, overkill. That is, it was wiped out by a super excessive attack.

Mira retightens her mind that she should not be alarmed. Then that's when I discovered the landmark I was looking for. It is the pillar of a quadrangular column that exists in myriad rows of columns to be dispersed in a cylinder.

"See you then. Pegasus, proceed to the corridor beyond that pillar."

Mira clings herself out to the neck of Pegasus, pointing straight at the square pillar.

Pegasus hissed small with acknowledgement and gently ran through the universe and jumped into its passage.

The texture of the rocky mountains remains intact, and its passage, adorned entirely with stunning relief, continues for hundreds of metres. Not so wide, the wings widened only, but Pegasus showed exceptional ability to fly and walked without slowing down.

If we made it through the aisle, it was the same blow-out corridor as earlier.

No, it's a different place to be precisely. The way I was surprised by Mira, who knew how the Phantom Corridor worked, had no fine dust, naturally, and now instructed Pegasus to descend.

The Phantom Corridor, like the castle fortress of the balance, is also made that cannot reach the deepest depths without following the path with certain laws. But it was not as difficult as the fortress, and there were visible signs. That's the pillar.

Mira had carefully checked the surrounding columns again, as she had done earlier, gliding downward. There are still no shadows or demons in the sight.

Second corridor. It was the same place as the first. Rather, it is also looping here, and it is a mechanism to move forward only when the conditions are met.

"No?"

Mira, who finds some black stain along the way, gives instructions to Pegasus to get close there.

"Burning marks, like that."

Hundreds of meters to keep going down. I can tell that the black stain left in the middle of the corridor is a trace of coal that, if you look good, must have been burned at high temperatures.

And Mira knew what was causing it.

Huge spider-shaped demons may appear on the way down the corridor. It's called the middle boss, and he's a pretty strong enemy. Knowing its existence, Mira thought that this burning trail would be due to the battle with its demons.

"Hmm...... Apparently, you have a lot of firepower."

This means that there are people in Chimera Clozen who would have been able to do just this.

Looks like a lot of big guys are coming.

Mira stares at the black circle above the sky, far above the blowout, and thinks of the mighty enemy that would be there.

Mira, who then continued to descend further and carefully looked around the corridor pillars, finally discovered the next landmark.

"Pegasus or. Next time, back there."

That said, if Mira pointed to the pillar of the triangle pillar, Pegasus immediately accepted and jumped into the dim passage behind the pillar.

The passage also continues for a few hundred meters, and if you can pull it out, you'll reach the blowout corridor again.

Then now Mira, who directs the ascent. Even if the same view continues, Pegasus has no doubt or confusion, and immediately wings of obedience.

If Mira finds halfway out of the pillar in time, Pegasus quickly enters the aisle behind it.

The third passage was a long one. Still, moving forward, the passage was inadvertently wider, and the walls that had been prepared became coarser. It's like suddenly getting lost in a natural cave.

Still moving on. Then in front of it, I see a bright light. It's the light of day that plugs in from the exit.

Finally.

The presence there would be considerable strength. Mira, who is in front of the exit light, once descends from Pegasus, confirms his opponent's position with biosensing for a preemptive attack.

Alone?

Only one person had a response to biosensing. Imagining that the Chimera Clozen executives are crowded, Mira becomes even more alert.

One of them is capable of attacking the Phantom Corridor alone.

That's how Mira regained her attention, leaping through the cave with Pegasus into the light of the sun.

The deepest part of the phantom corridor. Called the Ancient Ring Gate, it was a place like the bottom of a crater, surrounded by small, high rocks and lined with pillars of stone along it.

Just across the street from the exit. In front of a stone staircase as if it had collapsed along the way. There were knights wearing viking-like helmets and flashy armor, and gray warriors beside them, wrapped in black mist.

Around it was a large coffin, and the guardians of the Spirit Palace, which the two of them would have put in their hands.

"What is this... I'll set you up!"

Maybe it's not Chimera Clozen who's deep. That possibility was also considered. But after confirming the situation, Mira immediately decides that she is the enemy and goes on offense.

"What!?"

You felt signs. The knight in front of the stone steps looks back. Its reaction rate was fast enough to give a definite sense of strength.

But it's still too late. If Mira, who dived into the knight's pocket, slammed the "smelt punch" at zero distance, the thunder of Pegasus would have pierced the warrior. The shock and roar tremble the air and wooden spirits on multiple occasions.

"Ho, that's tough enough."

In the drifting aftermath, Mira's voice rings like a bell. The voice was a mixture of admiration and interest.

The knight was only a few meters behind him, unharmed enough to withstand the blow Mira was good at. The strength of that armor would be more than the demon once was. There Mira showed interest and closely watched the man (...).

(Nuh...... Is that because of that helmet...?)

Ability for only former players to use, which is to examine the subject's simple status. But there was a condition to it, and Mira was listening to it in a chat with Solomon. In addition to the condition that the former player cannot be examined, the conversation also shows that the person who cannot confirm his face cannot be examined.

"Fifty Bells League... Some of them are cute. Besides, they arrive pretty early than expected. I'm surprised."

The knight's man says that in a wild voice and gives a glimpse of the burnt warrior, then makes a grin that even makes him spare. And the man, with light black skin, stared at Mira with an eye that emitted a sharp glance like a blade from the gap in the face of his helmet.

"That kind of lord is a chimeric dog, isn't it?

Under a pale sky. Mira stares straight back at the man, slightly hoisting the corner of her mouth.

"Don't tell me you're a dog. It's still one of three necks."

The man with an extra grin on his shoulder slowly pulls out his sword as he says.

"Is it because it's a chimera, three necks? Then the Lord is like a goat or something."

Chimeric closen bearing the name of a monster with a goat's torso on the lion's head and a viper's tail. Mira, who thus understood it as three necks, said so staring at the two corners of the man's helmet.

"I would be just saying impressions. If that's what you want me to do, I want you to at least be a viper."

"Well, snakes are already on time"

The next moment Mira returned the sword, a glimmer of light ran from the sky, roaring through the knight's man. It is a lightning strike unleashed by Pegasus.

"This is a little surprising."

The man, looking slightly up at the sky and confirming that there was no cloud, shifts his gaze straight to Pegasus. Even when struck by a lightning strike, the man was still flat and, on the contrary, did not have any scratches on the armor itself.

(I didn't know you couldn't even freak out after the thunder of Pegasus. The ability of the person, or of that protective equipment? It's more troublesome than I expected.)

"That's a very powerful defense. What if it's the power of the Spirit King that took it?

If Mira speaks the words as she explores, the man smiles at it.

"I hope so, but hatred and boredom are bad. Well, it's only a matter of time."

With that said, the man turns his gaze to the collapsed staircase behind him. And there, behold, was an inscription of a strange pattern.

(After all, is it still happening? But I didn't know it had already started)

Above the claw. If you looked up, there was a gate on the other side of the distant sky, from which particles of light, falling zero, gathered together in the sky as if it were snow, to make several chunks.

"I wonder how many more times"

That's how a man turns his hand to the sky. Then the levitating ball of light suddenly lowered its altitude and poured down, and some light sucked into it.

"Hmm, that's how it works..."

Seems the seizure of the Spirit King's power has already begun. The sketch of the pillars in the command room was not necessary to take away the power of the Spirit King. Nevertheless, the power of the Spirit King is immense. Therefore, it cannot be taken away at once, and it is not easy to control because it is even more powerful.

I haven't been able to collect them efficiently. Around here would be the factor that required sketching in the castle fortress of the balance.

Having judged that from the circumstances, Mira is convinced that she can still make it.

Let us stand in the way of the Lord's plan.

After a slight grin, if Mira says so and gives her a glimpse, Pegasus will roll and sizzle again so that she can synchronize.

"Try it!

The man laughs at it small and swings his sword out. Then the trajectory followed by its sword tip glowed red, and a tsunami-like aurora erupted as soon as possible.

of a man. It was the Spirit Sword of Fire. The flame created by its power strikes Mira with momentum as if it were a dragon's brace.

What a terrible power.

The flame strikes directly at the shield of the Summoned White Knight in an instant, scattering the remnants intensely around him. A strip of air was instantly heated and a burning breeze stroked Mira's cheek.

"This flame......, apparently, is not a shady spiritual sword. It's unusual. But I don't know. I remember seeing it lately."

The roar of flames that filled the surroundings was full of resentful voices. Upon hearing it, Mira attaches her finger to the tip of her jaw and walks out from behind the white knight, who is red-hot and melted out.

"There's one more thing I want to ask you."

Mira stares at the man's sword as she re-summons the White Knight.

Yin Spirit Martial Arts. It is even more rare among the rare spiritual weapons.

There was suspicion that Kairos, who had raided a few days ago, was in possession of a large number of them. And this time, there's no reason not to associate these I've seen twice in a short period of time.

"Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm not supposed to answer you."

"I guess so."

Mira says, signal it and the white knight next to her jumps. And instantly I stuffed my distance from the man and swung through that sword.

Just because you specialize in protection doesn't mean Holly Knight isn't good at attacking. It is even on par with dark knights in technical terms.

The slaughter unleashed by such a white knight is sharp, drawing a cloudless half-moon trajectory.

"Well, here's what's gonna happen."

The man who let it circulate easily with his sword laughs naturally and plays the sword of the white knight who slashes it back without letting his hair in. The man took his sword against the sword of the White Knight, which was still unstoppable and waved down.

A blow with the power of a white knight sounding high metal is pressed against both arms of the man.

"Is this weight in the lower grades? That's a pain in the ass. But..."

The power of subordinate summons. I mean, the man who figured out Mira's minimum offensive power, he says so and laughs bitterly. But shortly afterwards he lifted up the thin corner of his mouth, and let go of one hand that was with his sword, and turned aside.

The man's hands glow pale. Then the warrior, who was supposed to have been defeated by the thunder of Pegasus, rose up again, rushing out at once to pack an intermission, and with the sword in his hand let the White Knight break with each of its iconic tower shields.

No, that's more of a sight than a slaughter.

"This phenomenon, what if it's like the one from Sanctia?

The warrior had a black mist all over his body. A fog that emits the same signs as the skeleton we saw the other day in the chapel at the bottom of the lake. The fog I saw at that time was a curse that eroded the Spirit, and the warrior's fog was also thought to be homogeneous if judged by the circumstances.

(Groans)

The Armored Spirit is powerless against the fog, as the White Knight of Defense Specialization was easily erased. But that is the ability to see once and for all if you try to mirror it.

A fog warrior stands in the way of protecting a man. Having glimpsed it, Mira laughs invincibly without a shock.

"Are you still a Necromancer? But that's all I wear. I remember seeing a magician recently."

The fog warrior was a golem made of necromancy. And Mira already expected the man to be a necromancer. Not long before we came to this occasion, because we knew beforehand that there was only one person alive by biosensing.

Mira stares at the fog that creeps and gently strokes the hyena of Pegasus.

"I'll take care of that."

Yes. If Mira speaks, Pegasus hisses softly, kicking the earth forcefully and jumping out.

Reaching his highest speed from his first speed, Pegasus kicked up fleshly and vigorously to the fog warrior at an unusual rate, kicking him farther away. And Pegasus rushes straight to the chase through heaven.

The pegasus in battle was rough, and its rate of rushing through was, rightly, like that of a heavenly horse.

It is very different from a pleasure flight with Mira on her back.

"What is that? You're a beast."

The man, who sideways confirmed the fog knight who managed to rebuild, smiles at the seemingly unspoiled Pegasus rampage.

"Say what. She's lonely and sweet."

If Mira argues that way, the man laughs off saying, "There's about as much for the parent fool as there is".

"Well, this is one-on-one."

Mira stared sharply at the man to change.

"That's the least likeable word for a summoner."

The man leaves the end of his mouth suspended, standing with one hand to poke at the tip of the sword and staring straight back.

"Unaccommodating man."

Mira says so, pointing her lips like infidelity. But such a look was backwards, and his eyes were poured on the man with such sharpness as to set a goal.