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Chapter 38. Android (2)
4.
Magatia Underground Laboratory.
One of the reasons this place is called hell for adventurers is none other than the topography of the research lab.
The huge laboratory was different in many ways from places like a forest, a desert, or a grassland.
If I had to make a metaphor, it was similar to an ant hole.
Meaning a very closed environment.
Even in the case of the Magatia Underground Laboratory, the location and form of the laboratory changed periodically.
“When adventuring in the Magatia Underground Laboratory, you must hire a guide, no matter how much it costs.”
So, in the Magatia Underground Laboratory, there existed a special job called a Guide.
“You save money on hiring a guide? You’ll lose your life. I guarantee it. You won’t last a day.”
In other words, it means that survival is impossible without a guide.
It was no exaggeration.
“For an adventurer who was going on an ordinary adventure, the Magatia Research Institute is, well, this is a good analogy. It’s like a lion running across the plains and falling into the sea. No matter how strong the lion is, it’s meaningless.”
Countless adventurers who spared the money to hire a guide and went on adventures have proven this fact by their deaths.
It was the same now.
Entering the 4th floor of Mystic Gate, the El Palm Party was able to discover traces of another battle not far from the area where the first engagement took place.
“There are two.”
And there, a little less corpses were found than before.
“The number of broken Lloyds is probably close to a hundred.”
The remains of the destroyed Lloyd were twice as numerous as before.
The expressions of everyone who saw it hardened.
If we look at it simply from a mathematical perspective, it shows that the battle was much better than before.
But if you’re an adventurer, you know.
“You can’t escape from here.”
That this is not the result of victory, but rather a trace of desperate struggles that failed to achieve what was desired.
The problem was that additional corpses were found.
In this situation, the goal of all adventurers was to conserve power.
But the problem is that the power conservation failed.
In fact, environmental factors played a big role in this.
If it were a place like a forest or a desert, there would be many places where they could hide their presence, but the research lab was different.
No matter how vast the space, it was a confined space. There were bound to be limits to what could be done.
Especially the opponents, Lloyd, those robot monsters were different from animals. They had the ability to clearly capture their targets.
Kick kick!
“shit.”
And all of these facts were also valid for El Palm Party.
“This is Lloyd.”
A group of Lloyds began to approach the group of El Palm Party members who were examining the body.
The number is twenty.
The moment they saw it, everyone, including Devo, prepared for battle.
‘It is not easy.’
To be exact, I made a resolution.
‘I might die.’
death.
The group of Lloyds that appeared before my eyes were not easy opponents.
El Palm also said.
“With my magic, Lloyd is indestructible.”
Here, it would be impossible for El Palm to show the kind of outrageous performance he has shown so far.
Of course, no one’s expression turned despairing at those words.
“Then leave it to me. I will destroy it.”
“I’ll block it. In the meantime, attack.”
“Okay, just hold on. I’ll put a bullet through that plate.”
“Can you break through it?”
“If you aim for one spot three times, there’s no way you can’t get through it.”
In this worst moment, everyone was happy to smile.
“Don’t worry, everyone. I will fix you as long as you don’t die.”
Even Ralph.
El Palm didn’t tell them.
“Thunderbolt.”
El Palm, his short words were met with a thunderous roar.
Phage crackle!
Those lightning bolts hit Lloyd.
accurately.
Phage crackle!
All the Lloyds started getting struck by lightning.
Actually, that was quite surprising.
Even when using Thunderbolt in an area teeming with monsters, there were many cases where it only affected three or four monsters.
Because it was magic that was impossible to control in the first place.
So it was a surprising thing.
Because El Palm meant that he had perfect control over those lightning bolts.
Of course, no one was surprised by that fact.
Rather, it raised questions.
‘The magic won’t work very well, right?’
It is a well-known fact to any adventurer that robot monsters have exceptional magic resistance.
But why use magic?
Squeak!
The answer to that question soon appeared before my eyes.
Rattling!
‘uh?’
The Lloyds who had been coming with great momentum stopped in their tracks.
“It wasn’t destroyed.”
El Palm told his colleagues who were surprised by the fact.
“The Thunderbolt attack only caused a brief pause in the circuit. It will be moving soon.”
That he didn’t lie.
“Oh, no.”
Of course, not everyone could take those words at face value.
It was known that robot monsters were somewhat weak to lightning attribute magic.
However, this only means that it is at a relatively weak level.
In other words, to stop a robot monster the size of Lloyd, as El Palm said, at least 4 circles of magic were needed.
This means that you have to hit with a magic like Thunder Spear to get the stopping effect.
That was common sense.
And El Palm knew that common sense too.
However, the reason why the unexpected result occurred before my eyes was simple.
‘The piece of Astrape, amazing.’
The pieces of Astraphe he possessed each had the ability to strengthen lightning attribute magic.
Moreover, El Palm has now reached the 5th circle.
The power of the Thunder Bolt he used was on a different level from that used by 5th circle magicians.
Its power was comparable to that of Thunder Spear.
The results before my eyes were the proof.
“oh my god.”
El Palm’s colleagues were amazed by the result, and El Palm said to them:
“There is no time. It is just a pause. We will move soon.”
“yes!”
At those words, El Palm’s comrades finally came to their senses and moved towards Lloyd.
There was no hesitation.
There is no reason to hesitate against a monster that is already at a standstill.
Kwakwang!
So everyone, including Devo, started to crush Lloyd.
Kwajik!
“This is the last one!”
The moment when it was finally finished, the moment when it was time to take a breath, that was the moment.
Kkaaaak!
5.
Kkaaaak!
When a scream is heard, most adventurers either show interest or move in the direction from which the scream came.
Of course, most of those adventurers were beginners.
The experienced adventurer’s reaction was different.
Hold your breath and move in the opposite direction of the screaming sound.
Actually, that was common sense.
A scream means that a battle has broken out, and it is a very unfavorable battle for the adventurer.
But you go there right away?
It was tantamount to suicide, and there were quite a few adventurers who actually died after going to the place where the screams were heard.
El Palm Party naturally behaved like seasoned adventurers.
Swish!
The moment El Palm made the finger gesture, everyone nodded and held their breath, then carefully moved in the opposite direction of the scream.
That move wasn’t far away either.
The moment they found a place to hide, El Palm Party took its place there like an inanimate object.
I stayed like that for an hour.
It was a dizzying, if not downright crazy, incident, but no one at El Palm Party seemed even slightly shaken.
Squeak squeak!
Even the groups of Lloyds passing by were unable to confirm the existence of El Palm Party.
Swish!
After spending an hour in silence, El Palm Party finally went in the direction of the screams.
And I could see it.
“It’s Kimar.”
Kimar’s body.
The expressions of everyone who saw it were frozen.
That would be the case, as the corpse looked gruesome.
It felt like every bit of flesh on my body was melting away.
“What on earth could possibly cause this to happen?”
Even El Palm’s colleagues who saw all kinds of corpses turned pale at the sight of the horror.
In other words, no one could even guess the identity of the monster that made Kimar like this.
There is one exception.
“D.
Royda.”
“yes?”
El Palm, he knew.
“It’s D. Roy’s poison.”
What kind of monster is the boss monster here?
“D. Roy? What is that?”
But even with that explanation, El Palm’s colleagues could not understand the situation.
There was only one person who knew.
“This is a robot monster that appeared in the Magatia Underground Laboratory. It’s very special.”
“what?”
“Wait, you know what that is?”
“I know.”
Ralph, he explained it to me.
“There are two schools of Magatia alchemy. One is the Zenumist school of life alchemy, which creates new life forms. The other is the Alcadno school of machine alchemy, which seeks new evolution through combination with machines. The robot monsters we see are the direction pursued by the Alcadno school.”
“That aside, what is D. Roy?”
“It’s a robot monster.”
“How old are you, other than that?”
“It was 50 years ago. An alchemist from the Alcadno School discovered the method of making D. Roy in an underground laboratory, and began producing D. Roy. After that, the Magatia underground laboratory was designated as a restricted area for three years.”
One thing is clear from that explanation.
That D. Roy, the monster, was a monster that went beyond the realm of common sense they knew.
“I know this very well. At the time, the bounty on D. Roy was 100 million mesos.”
And why does Ralph clearly remember events from 50 years ago that even most adventurers don’t know about?
In other words, it was highly unusual and unique for El Palm to know D. Roy.
Do you know about the monster that appeared 50 years ago in the Magatia Underground Laboratory, a place that most adventurers have no interest in?
Of course, El Palm could not help but know.
‘D. Roy, he was a pain in the ass.’
Among the monsters that appeared when the Mystic Gate opened were robot monsters.
No, it wasn’t that bad.
‘Because an army of androids appeared in Magatia.’
Naturally, the more unconquered Mystic Gates there were, the more monsters would appear.
And Magatia’s underground laboratory was the place with the most unexplored Mystic Gates of any place.
The difficulty of conquering the Magatia Underground Laboratory and the characteristics of the monsters not only made it difficult to attempt to conquer the Mystic Gate, but the purpose of those who entered the Magatia Underground Laboratory was to conquer the monsters of the Magatia Underground Laboratory, not the Mystic Gate.
If you were going to attack the Mystic Gate, there were plenty in the Nihal Desert.
‘Robot monsters are more integrated than any other group of monsters.’
Moreover, there was no concept of competition among robot monsters and androids.
That’s why the Android Army was born.
D. Roy was also in that android army.
So I couldn’t help but know.
El Palm, no one but himself, was there with his comrades facing that army of androids.
‘He used poison without sparing any effort.’
Additionally, the android legions used poison more effectively than any other monster.
Because the robots were never affected by the poison.
Among them, D. Roy’s poison was very powerful.
“Its venom has corrosive properties.”
Not only is the poison itself powerful, but it also has the corrosive ability to melt the bodies of living things, as evidenced by Kimar’s corpse.
This was a very painful point.
“Corrosion ability?”
“It melts when touched.”
“oh my god.”
Usually, poison can be endured to some extent if you have an antidote, and battle plans are actually made based on that.
But what if your skin melts just by touching it?
It’s impossible to even try to do anything.
Of course, that wasn’t all.
In D. Roy’s case, his defensive power was so strong that it was on a different level from Lloyd’s.
“boss.”
It means a monster that is more than capable of turning this place into a grave.
“How do I do this?”
El Palm said to his colleagues, who were hardened by that fact.
“I hunt.”
Calmly.
But that was the right answer.
Hunt or die, there were only two choices at Mystic Gate.
Because if you don’t hunt, you’ll just die.
That’s why the colleagues’ tense expressions softened at El Palm’s words.
“Yes, I have to hunt. Then what should I do?”
El Palm answered Devo’s subsequent question.
“Step back.”
“yes?”
“Because I have to use Zeus’ lightning spear.”
fantasy,
