Chapter 177 – 177. Wandering the Cursed Maze

First of all, to say the conclusion… I am now separated from Cheshire, Ayla, and Aram.

I don’t know what kind of trap it was, but a wall that rose in an instant separated us, and we tried to break it down on both sides… We were discovered by the underground guards on the Cheshire side.

I couldn’t hear it in detail because it was from over the wall, but Cheshire will go looking for us, so he told me not to drink honey and wait a little bit.

Judging from the panicked appearance, it seemed that Chess had never expected that the team would be divided like this from the first floor. Above all, it was too wasteful to consume honey wine on the first floor, so he must have told them to wait and not drink it.

Anyway, Cheshire told us to wait quietly, but he really couldn’t sit back and wait, so I’m moving in the direction the couple’s necklace leads with Keshia and Keker.

Right now, A-ram must be wearing the necklace of the married couple over there. Before entering the basement, I gave one to Aram just in case. I gave it as insurance, but now, I never thought it would be so helpful.

Since we can know the direction where each other is, I wonder if we can meet at some point if we keep looking for each other. Of course, if nothing else happened…

“Kessia, don’t look at the floor. Don’t look at the fuck There is nothing on the floor.”

“Ah.. Yes..”

I warned Cathia, who kept glancing at the floor and lowering her head. She started talking strangely, saying that some strange worm-like text on the floor was following her.

But when I looked, there was nothing on the floor. At this time, I remembered Cheshire’s warning. It was a warning to pretend not to know as much as possible if you see something strange on the walls, ceiling, or floor of the first basement floor.

When she informed me, she said that countless curses were inscribed all over the first floor. These curses were created when several demons illegally occupied the basement level of the black market, and other demons who stopped by this place engraved curses like a guestbook.

I think that demons acted like evil foreign tourists who carve their names in famous tourist destinations or natural scenery as a group, and as a result, the names and characters they left behind became a curse and remained here to attack visitors. .

Anyway, from what I heard from Cheshire, the curses engraved here vary greatly in type and intensity. It is said that once caught, it spreads in a variety of ways, from a heinous curse where you are taken to a strange place without any help, or you die vomiting blood on the spot, to a relatively weak curse where you keep feeling someone’s gaze or your body trembles violently.

In short, you never know what kind of curse you’ll get. Perhaps the curse could have been invoked and another colleague next to him had to do something.

For example, this crazy bastard, believing in a beast, couldn’t resist the urge to see the curse, and eventually activated a curse… Like my arm turned into a strange piece of metal.

I thought it was really crazy. When his entire left arm went paralyzed and turned into red metal, he really wanted to jump and scream on the spot.

I couldn’t understand why it was that fucking toad that triggered the curse, but I had to deal with it. A truly vicious curse that feeds an unspecified number of people as soon as it is activated, as if it were not devils, was planted.

Well, in any case, thanks to the fact that it wasn’t a very strong curse, Keker performed all sorts of strange and strange rituals, and the arm returned to its original state… But still her shoulder felt a little sore.

“Hey, Kerr. Don’t look at the ceiling I think I’ve already told you not to look at the ceiling, but why do you keep raising your head? Did you turn? Did you go crazy because you wanted to curse the beast? Or are you just messing around with me at this point? Is the car also murder? Do you want to die Shall I just kill you?”

“I-I’m sorry that… It keeps getting far… It seems like I’m procrastinating…”

Keker glanced up again and tried to look up at her ceiling, so I slapped her on the back of the head. Then Keker croaked in a creeping voice as if he was very sorry.

Keker seems to have been cursed about 10 times by himself. Perhaps she couldn’t stand her intellectual desire at all, so she even disobeyed my order and tried to observe the curse.

Thanks to that, the slaughter beast has already been slaughtered once. When the eighth curse was accumulated, Keker vomited her slayer beast, cut her head, and slit her stomach open, bringing out the offspring of her slayer beast. It was quite shocking to see the toad do such a strange thing casually.

“Whew.. Again, there is nothing on the ceiling. There’s nothing on the ceiling It’s all just stupid devil bastards. I’d rather just close my eyes Even if you close your eyes, you can feel it through your skin.”

“Ah.. That’s.. There’s too much demonic energy in the air.. It’s a bit difficult to breathe through the skin.. If you can’t breathe through the skin.. You can’t properly grasp the surroundings…”

“Ah-oh. Why doesn’t Maggie eat the beast? Why? What the hell is the standard?”

“Even if you ask the original woman about that… It’s difficult to answer because she’s a beast that even the original woman doesn’t know well…”

If you look at our conversation right now, it might seem like a very relaxed and peaceful atmosphere, but this is all because the underground guard’s aggro was attracted to Cheshire and Ayla.

In fact, something like the sound of explosions and destruction from earlier and the screams of monsters have been heard from somewhere in the distance. We are gradually getting closer to the origin of the sound, following the direction indicated by the couple’s necklace.

“Suddenly… It will be near here. Be careful everyone. There… It’s the underground guard…”

“Frog…”

“Gulp…”

As they got closer and closer to Cheshire, the noise of the battle grew louder. It looks like they are fighting for their lives. He was probably under siege right away. So, you need to get to help quickly. I need to save him before he gets hurt…

Around that time, the underground guards slowly began to appear near us.

“Come..”

White hair and horrible, cruel wounds with yellow blood flowing down them. In addition, there are unclean and ominous patterns and various demonic marks all over the body.

Moreover, the black eyepatch covering the eyes and the large, dirty and filthy snout with torn lips that could not be closed evoked disgust, and the iron stakes that caused pain all over the body and the chain that had been loosened as if the bondage had failed showed how ferocious they were. Was showing

“Kiaaaaa!!!!”

Some of the undercover guys running towards Cheshire spotted us. They let out a scream and took a deep breath. Red smoke gushed out of the pipes attached to their backs.

Last time I saw it, I didn’t know what it was, but now that I see it, it was an act of emitting demonic energy. Every time they exhale deeply, the concentration of demonic energy in the air increases. They were the main culprits of environmental destruction.

“Whoa.. Let’s go..”

I’ve already been caught, so I’ll quickly break through those guys and join Cheshire’s group. If we hesitated even a little, they would attack us from all sides, and it was clear that we would be annihilated the moment we were surrounded.

“Aw!!!”

Kessiah, who had struck out at high speed, ran forward, hurling her spear. Due to the effect of the unending impulse, Kessiah’s spearmanship increased dramatically, and pierced the neck of one of the underground guards standing in front of her, flicking the spear to separate his head. The action was very simple, and it only took about 10 seconds for one of the underground guards to die.

It was great speed. Perhaps this is also the effect of the talent growth agent.

“Ohm..”

Keker also did not just watch. As the blood of the underground guards splashed and the curse on their bodies was activated, Keker immediately put his hands together and used magic to cover Kesia. She deciphered the blood of the underground guards in real time, destroyed the patterns engraved on their bodies, and applied the transferred curse.

I, on my own, caught and killed the hairless beasts the guards set free. Fortunately, it hasn’t been overcrowded yet. You have to hit faster now.

But gradually, as we ran toward Cheshire, the number of guards increased exponentially, to the point where the three of us alone couldn’t help it.

“Ahead!! There are so many!!!”

“I know!! This!! Cheshire!!! Here it is!!!! Aram!!! Ayla!!!!!”

The couple’s necklace shakes. Beyond those monsters are Cheshire, Ayla, and Aram. The monsters didn’t care about us. Fascinated by the light emanating from beyond, I was concentrating all my attention on it.

For some reason, I got the impression that I was hunting a sheepdog. If it’s Cheshire and Ayla’s capabilities, that’s probably as simple as that. But…

“Kiaaaaa!!!!”

“Keeeee!!!”

The problem is that we don’t have the ability to break through that many underground guards…

“Aiming!!!!!”

Then, from beyond the wall of monsters, Ayla’s voice, as if through a loudspeaker, was heard.

“I will open the way!!! Run over here!!! Here!!! There is a passage leading downstairs!!!! Cheshire what?! This!!! Get down for now!”

“Yes!? Poetry, fuck!!! Get down everyone!”

Soon, blue light began to emanate from the direction where her voice was heard.

I instinctively felt a threat to my life and fell flat on the floor. Keshia and Keker fell face down head first at my command, and that was the right decision.

-Fuuung!!!! Kwakwang!!!!!

Hundreds or thousands of underground guards were pulverized and fired with beams of firepower so great that even though they were lying flat on the floor, their backs felt hot.

“Kessia!! Keker!! Stand up!!! Run!!! It is now!!!!”

“Aaaaa!!!!!”

The road is open. The walls and ceiling of the maze were burning red and melting.

I have no idea what the heck he was shooting at. However, Cheshire was gasping for breath with an exhausted appearance, as if he had released all his strength from the previous attack.

And behind her stood Ayla, who was maintaining her barrier with her arms shaking, and Aram, who was leaning on her hammer in a bloody state.

“Done!! Jump right down!!!”

The moment we entered the barrier, Ayla shouted. She cried out and at the same time we threw ourselves into a large hole.

Then I saw

That something black was jumping after us.