Chapter 421
“Isn’t there much more to the inside than I thought?”
“It seems so.”
At the words of Lothar Dewin, the Archduke of Saint-Ouan said so in a spacious common.
There was no need to light a bonfire. Because all of these seats are wizards who can summon the light source on their own.
The search for the dungeon had gotten longer, and everyone had spent the day standing in rows looking for a place to rest.
“I wonder if the empty cart was noisy. It’s because I can’t see the magic book that makes the world buzz.”
“It feels like it was intentionally removed rather than invisible.”
“I feel that way too.”
Rossor Dewyn was talkative.
The Archduke tended to say only what was necessary.
And, the woman was speechless.
Luna’s actions were slow. She responded one beat late when Roro Dewyn or the Archduke called. She and she only nodded or shook her head slowly to most questions, and she rarely talked.
There were no pitfalls whatsoever. There was no labyrinth like the barrier spread outside.
However, since I couldn’t be vigilant, I was slowly exploring, so it only took a long time.
It was the Archduke who took the lead, as well as Lotwin.
The Archduke had no choice but to know that Lothar Dewyn was no ordinary wizard. He talks a lot, but his actions are cautious, and it’s because I feel like he’s always on the lookout for his back even though he’s leading the way.
But the woman who introduced herself as Luna.
She silently followed the group from the side a bit, neither leading nor lagging behind.
she didn’t do anything
With a slightly slow step, he just caught up with the party.
“Something about Luna-sama doesn’t seem like an ordinary person.”
“I agree.”
At the words of Lothar Dewin, the Archduke of Saint-Ouane nodded.
There could be no ordinary person in this place, but the most extraordinary among them was Luna, who hadn’t shown anything yet.
The Archduke’s wizards were also looking at Luna, who was dressed in ordinary clothes with a cape that was neither flashy nor very luxurious, with strange awe.
You don’t know your skills, you don’t know your intentions, you don’t know whether you’re an enemy or an ally.
Everyone was watching her slow steps, which somehow felt elegant.
It was not enchanted, but awe mixed with fear.
The inside was too cold, but in a space where you didn’t know what was in the depths, Luna quietly swept the walls and looked like someone out for a walk.
In fact, during the day, she stayed awake and walked quietly in the joint. Sometimes she stops and looks somewhere.
As if you were deep in thought.
“Let’s start slowly. Even if there is nothing special, there is nothing good about being there for a long time.”
“Maybe?”
At the Archduke’s signal, the wizards prepared for departure, and Luna saw them preparing to depart and joined the party with her slow steps.
It was strange.
It’s a slow walk, but she never lags behind.
“Luna-sama seems to be an unusual person.”
At Lotor Dewyn’s smiling words, Luna speaks calmly while looking at the direction to go forward.
“If you look at something out of the ordinary, is there anything out of the ordinary in the world?”
“Even if you try to look normal, isn’t there a way to be an extraordinary being?”
At Rosso Dewyn’s sarcastic question, Luna finally stared at Rosso Dewyn.
“Not even human. No, it would be less ordinary than an existence that abandoned humanity.”
It was an indifferent look, without hostility or favor.
“… … Haha, is that so?”
Rossor Dewin smiled, his lips widening.
‘This guy is not human.’
The Archduke looked at Dewyn’s cool smile and sighed.
The old teaching that we should not get close to the wicked has been revived.
It’s not that I tried to take power between each other, but in the end, the fact that I got close to it doesn’t change.
‘As expected, close relationships get tangled up.’
The Grand Duke walked, remembering that none of the words of his ancestors were wrong.
The Grand Duke came to the tomb.
Hoping that the other’s grave will not become your own grave.
“let’s go.”
“Yes, Archduke.”
“… … .”
The Grand Duke led the party.
* * *
Lich’s tomb was deep and huge.
However, the common impression between Lothar Dewynn and the Archduke was that although it was a very large space, most of it was empty. There were no traps or monsters.
“Originally, it seems that there was something rather than a space with nothing.”
“Looks like it.”
It was not something that requires great observation to discover. The dungeon had numerous rooms and facilities, most of which were empty. However, through the scratches on the walls, the areas where dust was not accumulated, and such traces, I couldn’t help but think that there was actually something in this space, but they had all been removed.
“It seems like everything was taken out and put away somewhere… … . I feel like that. Why?”
“That’s something I don’t know. It just doesn’t look like it was stolen.”
It was not at the level of looting, but it felt like the entire space had been completely cleaned.
“Many traces of traps have been found, but all have been dismantled.”
The Archduke’s wizards also did not neglect their surroundings, so they reported what they found out to the Archduke one after another.
Lich’s Tomb is a magic research facility. There are traps to kill or expel the rainbow worms that recklessly enter such research facilities.
However, there are no facilities and the traps are all dismantled.
“It may be that those who have broken through the labyrinth have put away all the trivial things so that they can come right away without being distracted by anything else.”
“… … Is there any reason for that?”
“I am not the owner of this place, so there is no way to know.”
It is nonsense to say that it was completely cleaned so as not to be distracted by anything else so that it could go directly to the heart.
But it was also difficult not to agree with Lothar Dewin.
The group advanced slowly. After reassuring the entrants in this way, there is a possibility that they will attack them in other ways. Considering the level of the labyrinth spread out in the first place, this was not someone to be taken lightly.
The scale was quite huge, and the search time was bound to be long because they were careful about their movements.
Waking up after a day and searching again, the Archduke realized that the time was nearing night.
After exploring the underground rooms, corridors, and cavities for a long time, the party had no choice but to stop at a certain space.
“… … That’s strange.”
Rossor Dewyn hesitated.
“It’s heterogeneous.”
“I don’t know if I can use this expression, but new construction? reconstruction? It looks like that happened, but… … .”
If all the spaces up until now had been giving the feeling of being old and covered with time, as if they were in place, this area was tidy but seemed like a newly added space.
Stairs going down endlessly.
“I will be careful.”
Convinced that they were entering the depths of the dungeon, everyone paid attention and went down, down.
how much did it go down
“It seems that this is the deepest part.”
The inner part of the dungeon was shabby.
But it was grand.
The light from the light source summoned by the wizards was unable to illuminate the entire cavity.
– Right!
When the Archduke snapped his fingers, a huge incandescent light appeared on the ceiling of the cavity, illuminating the entire pupil.
Just a huge space without any patterns, decorations, or anything.
A shabby and desolate place that doesn’t seem dangerous for luring people with a rare magic book, and just overwhelms people with the size of the space itself.
Among them.
There were three wooden chairs.
Three beings were sitting on three shabby small chairs made of wood and planks, not fancy wooden chairs similar to the throne.
A person wearing a black robe.
A skeleton wearing a gray robe.
An old man wearing a black suit and fedora hat, holding a cane.
They were staring at the group of people who were the first to enter the cavity.
“Are they the owners of this place?”
The Grand Duke said quietly.
“… … .”
Luna just stared at the scene without saying anything.
and.
– Pudeuk
“Antyrianus… … .”
Rossor Dewyn’s eyes widened to the point that the blood vessels in his eyes were about to burst, and he was stunned like a curse.
-Oh, you are a young man who recognizes me.
“also… … . Was it you!”
The young wizard, who had been calm and smirking until now, had disappeared, and Lothar Dewynn’s appearance began to exude a grotesque and ominous aura.
-Toduk! Took!
“Because of you… … !”
Rossor Dewyn screamed as tendons began to sprout in his eyes.
As the old gentleman gets up, he takes off his hat and greets them.
– Who are you to recognize this nogu?
Dewin, who had been calm until now, lost his composure at the old gentleman’s words and gritted his teeth.
“first.”
– Dig!
Leaping through space, Dewyn appears right in front of the smiling old man, just as he always did.
“Get lost!”
“Hoo.”
-Quarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
As Lotwin stretched out his hand, a torrent of magical energy released from it attacked the old gentleman.
-Kurrureurreung!
The torrent of magical power that swept over the old gentleman hit the cavity behind it and created a tremendous vibration.
but.
“Recognize me.”
The old gentleman, who poured out a magical storm with one of the barriers he spread out with one of his index fingers, looked into Loro Dewynn’s eyes, burning with rage, and spoke.
“Surely, Gero has a proper guest… … . You see.”
Antirianus looks at Dewyn as a .
“Lukren, is that you?”
Rossor Dewynn gritted his teeth and shouted.
“okay.”
Rossor Dewyn’s eyes began to turn bright red.
“The captain came personally, what about all the members of the organization?”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know, Antirianus.”
As Lotwin’s eyes began to glow red, his hair began to stand out in all directions.
“Are you pretending not to know that you killed half of them!”
“Uh huh, I didn’t kill them all.”
“Whoa… … . Whoa… … . Whoaaaaaagh!”
-Quad deed deed deed!
In a fit of rage, the storm raged on Dewynn’s body, cracking the ground and scouring the walls of the cavity.
The Archduke and the Wizards were blocking the magical storm with a barrier.
The torrent that poured out of Lotwin’s body soon revealed his true form.
“okay.”
Antirianus smiles at Dewyn from a distance.
“I thought the rumors about Acrich might draw you in, but it turned out to be true.”
It retains its human form, but it has grayish white skin and bright red flames in its eyes.
A jet-black aura that shimmers throughout the body.
The Grand Duke was quietly watching Dewyn’s appearance as he felt an indescribably powerful magical power.
There is no fixed form for something that only exists in legends.
However, the powerful and unholy magic I felt from that ominous existence.
-Oh, oh… … . this, this… … . Acrich?
Lich’s clumsy murmur, blown away by the magic storm.
“I didn’t visit Acrich’s grave, but I wonder if he’s been with Acrich so far.”
It is not at the level of being in a relationship with each other.
Rumors about Acrich brought the real Acrich.
Just as the Lord Vampire overcomes the sunlight, Acrich overcomes a body that only has bones.
“It was good that he slaughtered his comrades and fled, taking my place. Antirianus. But after an immeasurable long time, I finally found you.”
Just as there are vampires who overcome the sun, there are also liches who overcome their lost bodies.
An existence that embodies the flesh that has already been lost through magic.
“Now, it’s time to pay the price.”
Archrich reaches out to the old gentleman with a vast amount of magic power.
“Die, Antirianus. I will hear the story later.”
Acrich, who deserves to be called impure magical power itself, plunged his hand from top to bottom.
-Kooka kwang!
With that single gesture, enormous pressure was exerted from top to bottom, creating a crack in the ground.
“It will collapse.”
Luna, who had been silent for a long time, conveyed only one word to the Grand Duke.
-Deaf Deuk
The archduke was watching the cracks in the common ceiling.
The Grand Duke looked at Luna quietly.
Although he pretended to be calm to prevent the confusion of his subordinates, the Grand Duke could not contain his astonishment at the fact that the evil being that appeared in legends had been with him until now.
However, Luna acted as if she knew that in the first place, and she wasn’t even taken aback.
Is Acriche a problem?
Is the person who calmly accepts Acrich’s attack the problem?
Or is it the problem with this woman who still has the same attitude as she did the first time after seeing the scene?
The Archduke did not know.
-deeddeudeuk
However, the common ceiling was collapsing.
