Chapter 959 – A Happy Ending That Is Rejected

000

Pow! Quang! Pow! Kwaang!

Sasha closed her ears with her hands to keep her hearing from hearing the sound of her repeated explosions.

It was a sound that was difficult to imagine happening in the waiting area of ​​the training center, which had been a cozy space until a while ago.

As for what was the cause, it was not an enemy attack, but someone Sasha knew well.

＂Explode!!＂

Pow!

Before her eyes, every time Lila waved her hand, the wall in front of her was blown up repeatedly.

If you were to ask if they were suddenly furious and were breaking the wall to vent their anger, of course that wasn’t the case, but it could be said to be their struggle due to an unexpected situation.

The story about ‘Sijo’ as explained by Vivian.

And, if Cleon’s visit here causes the progenitor to wake up from his sleep, it could lead to the collapse of Fairy Village.

Likewise, as the various functions of this labyrinth, which had been maintained with power from the founder, began to stop, the magic of the Fairy King, which allowed him to move and observe freely throughout the labyrinth, also stopped working.

Rather than saying that the power of the Fairy King himself has weakened, it should be said that the connection between the scattered underground labyrinth spaces has been severed.

Something surrounds the rooms, cutting off the flow of magical energy to the outside.

It’s like a zone of expulsion.

In the end, they were unable to go outside even with transfer magic, so they had no choice but to physically create a way.

One of the ways is to dig out the wall using Lila’s explosion magic.

If you continue to chip away at the wall using Laila’s flame magic, which can be said to have outstanding destructive power, you will come to a passage somewhere.

At least, you will be able to move to another place through that passage.

The members of Cleon’s party, except for Lila, who were gathered a little far away, were watching Lila’s actions carefully.

＂How is it?

And, only Vivian was watching the scene next to Lila with various defensive magics wrapped around her body.

“Whew… I think it’s still a wall for a while longer?”

Lila answered Vivian by replenishing her lost magic power through her potions.

From earlier… I dug into the wall for about 10 minutes, about 200 m.

The speed was difficult to call slow compared to digging out a thick stone wall, but it was an urgent situation as understanding the situation was the priority.

＂Rather, is this the right one?＂

＂… It will be right.＂

Vivian speaks as if she is a bit reserved.

If the direction is wrong, it means that you have wasted all the magical energy you have consumed for the past 10 minutes.

＂… Really?＂

＂Oh, of course!＂

It was inevitable that Lila would be suspicious.

“Even if the direction is right, I don’t know how much to dig. Why on earth is this wall so thick? How is the air coming in?”

＂Should we say that each labyrinth room is like a kind of cornerstone… It is placed here and there throughout Fairy Village to efficiently channel the power of the progenitor… ＂

Vivian nodded and spoke with her arms crossed, and asked Lila, who was about to use the explosion magic again, to get out of the way for a moment.

“Anyway, you should get some rest. I will also help you dig out the wall.”

Using magic continuously is a burden on the body, even if the magic power is sufficient.

Vivian must have been worried about that, so he lifted her staff himself and took the baton from Lila.

Lila also obediently steps behind her.

Among the elements of nature, it is said that the one with the strongest direct destructive power is ‘fire’, but the one with an equally destructive power is ‘water’.

To cut hard metal, a method of spraying high-pressure water is also used.

‘… But if you spray water like that, isn’t it really suitable for digging walls?’

I don’t know how powerful the water pressure was to spray, but I was hoping that the entire room wouldn’t turn into a sea of ​​water.

And in a way, Lila’s thoughts were going astray in a good direction.

As Vivian raises her hand to the tip of her wand, the water elements gathered in her hand begin to coalesce and form a shape.

At first, it was in the shape of a small cone, but it gradually grew larger, until it reached a size similar to or slightly smaller than the tunnel that Lila was digging.

And, what ultimately appeared at the tip of her staff was not a cone, but an excavator.

When her magic power is applied, the tip of the staff begins to rotate, making a rumbling sound as it breaks through the stone wall.

＂My drill! It’s the drill that will break through the fairy’s labyrinth!!”

Vivian starts moving forward together, entrusting her body to the vibrating cane while making an inexplicable sound.

＂…＂

Seeing the sight, Lila alternately checks her own hand and her wand.

Certainly, rather than using magic to collect her elemental magic and instantly explode it, it might be possible to save more of her magic by creating and maintaining it in that way.

＇There are many things to learn about the use of magical power. Of course, it’s a difference in experience.’

Although Lilara has experienced a lot of danger, she still has a lot to learn from wizards who are her seniors.

She huffs and looks at her excavation with her arms crossed with an interested expression.

Just-

＂How long do I have to dig for… ＂

Cuon, who had not forgotten her original purpose, muttered that and folded her hands together, praying for Cleon’s safety.

001

“No way. I never thought there would be a place like this in the basement of the labyrinth…”

After going down beyond the darkness where Cleon disappeared, Melusine muttered as she looked around her.

Should I say it is a wide cavity?

In that place that seemed like an empty abyss, there was something huge that was invisible to the eye – perhaps something colorless, odorless, and intangible made of magical power.

Melusine didn’t know what it was, but she couldn’t let down her guard against the alien magic she felt there, so she couldn’t erase the frozen sword she was holding in one hand.

＇The magical power is conversely hindered. The magic power is so thick that I can’t see anything in front of me.’

Melusine habitually turns on her magic vision to see something invisible, but when she sees that her eyes are filled with gray, she immediately turns off her magic vision.

Although the underground space was large, no direct danger elements appeared, and Cleon was nowhere to be seen.

And, Melusine remembers the scene when Cleon disappeared.

His fall was by no means natural, and it seemed as if he was being dragged down by a force stronger than gravity.

Cleon was also making that kind of scream.

Perhaps the culprit is that gray thing you see when you turn on the magic power.

Her older sister – Vivian, the Fairy King, may know what it is, but Melusine herself has never heard of it or read anything about it.

‘Was it really the right decision for me to come here alone?’

Melusine suddenly became anxious and thought that, but she soon shook her head.

Right or wrong, it is not too late to think about it after the work is over.

If you think about the disaster that happened in Fairy Village in the past because you failed to make the first move.

Right now, I thought that if I reached out straight away to what happened right in front of me, I would have fewer regrets later.

Even if he was inside an unknown mass of magic, it was his job to spare no effort to find him.

＂Cleon-! Where are you! If you can hear me, please answer!”

Melusine raised her voice and called Cleon’s name.

Melusine’s voice, which echoed in a wide space, did not reflect somewhere, but spread out into the distance and disappeared.

… I didn’t want to imagine how far away the wall on the other side was.

＂… Walking around to find all of these places might be a little difficult…＂

Melusine sighs as she thinks so and puts her foot down.

However, she did not give up and continued to call Cleon’s name.

＂Cleon! Can you hear me!? “

That was the time when she was moving her steps while singing for a while.

Whirring, I felt something stretching through the gap in my magical power.

＂…!＂

Melusine turned her head on her intuition and felt something like a sharp blade grazing the surface of her cheek.

＂… Ugh…＂

Melusine wipes her cheek with the back of her hand and checks the blood flowing from it.

Something invisible attacked me.

If she had been even a little late in noticing, she would have pierced her own vital point-

＂No.＂

Melusin immediately changed her mind.

And, she held her frozen sword tightly and caught her breath.

Her attack just now was aimed at her cheek from the beginning.

When I sense the speed at which it extends and then the trajectory it returns to, its attack is not a ‘straight line’ but a ‘curve’.

It didn’t ‘punch’ but ‘swung’, and it changed its trajectory to match Melusine’s evasive movements and attacked exactly where it was originally aimed.

＇Strong. But there is no killing intent. Probably, the purpose is a warning.’

Melusine quickly made that decision and, without turning her gaze, continued to look at the direction from which her attack had originated.

“Bring back Cleon.”

And, even when she presses like that, there is no response.

Does he not respond to things I say quietly?

Then Melusine took a deep breath and then-

“Cleon!!! Please answer!!!”

Melusine shouts with a loud voice filled with magical power.

A volume so loud that if someone was standing nearby, their eardrums might rupture.

Yo- Yo- Yo-…

And, when I felt the echo return, I knew it had spread throughout this large space.

Next moment…

Coo-gu, coo-gu-gu…

And I feel a small tremor in the ground.

The feeling she felt a moment ago comes upon Melusine once again.

This time, it wasn’t just one side – it was from all directions.

Shaak-pak!

＂Pfft!＂

She succeeded in dodging the first few attacks, but as the number began to increase, the number of attacks reached a level where even Melusine’s high-speed movement could not dodge them all.

＂Ugh…!＂

And it restrains first the arms, then the legs, then the face-mouth area.

So that they cannot escape, cannot advance, and cannot call Cleon.

Melusine looked in front of her with a grim expression, but still couldn’t see anything there.

I didn’t know what was in front of me, but I knew very well that I didn’t want Cleon taken away.

＇Cleon…!＇

If he hears his call, he will definitely respond in some way.

Hoping that his hearing would be good, Melusine was indignant but remained silent.

002

[Leon- Because-…]

＂…?＂

Cleon turned his head as if he heard a voice calling him from somewhere.

However, that voice soon disappears like a ghost, and I look forward again.

“What. Are you sick of it already? Have you lost interest because you keep losing?”

And, as she spoke, the woman who had been serving her tea earlier looked down at her chessboard on the tea table.

2 wins, 2 losses.

It was a series of defeats for Cleon, but since chess wasn’t his specialty in the first place, he didn’t really care.

It was just that it was strange for her to be here and just drink tea, so she just thought she needed to pass the time.

Then it appeared suddenly. This chessboard.

“Then shall we do something else? There’s Trump, or there’s Janggi. Wouldn’t it be a bad idea for me to create an alter ego and have the four of us do it together? Don’t worry, the alter egos won’t cooperate with each other.”

＂… No, no more playing…＂

Cleon answered her and lowered his head, feeling that the fog in her mind was not clearing.

My body becomes increasingly drowsy.

It seemed like she was going to fall asleep like this.

“Ah. Are you sleepy? This is proof that the fairy tale is going well. … Then, shall we go to bed? It wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a nap.”

She smiled like that and walked behind Cleon and tried to lift him up by grabbing his arms.

It was that moment.

[Cleon!!! Please answer!!!]

＂!＂

It sounded clear. Melusine’s voice.

Cleon opened his eyes as he suddenly felt something as cold as ice digging into his dazed mind, and he moved forward to free himself from her grasp.

As a result, the table where the chessboard was placed fell over.

＂…＂

And as he looked down at her own hands, he lifted his head and looked at her.

“… Who are you? Why did you drag me into this space?”

＂… Ha.＂

When the girl saw that Cleon was conscious, she sighed and shook her head.

“Why is everyone like this? “Do you think you don’t know my intentions?”

She looked at Cleon with an incomprehensible look on her face and answered.

“Hold on a little, Cleon. Because that will make everyone happy.”

＂Reveal your purpose and name.＂

“That’s not important. What matters now is… You and me. Just being here.”

Without answering Cleon’s question, he smiled devilishly.

“Here, there is neither the magic sword nor the holy sword that you are proud of… Nor the dark red sword that looks a little unusual. What are you planning to do with me in that state?”

＂…＂

At her words, Cleon quietly takes up his fighting stance.

Then, she responded with an interesting ‘Hmph’ and stood upright as if to confront Cleon.

“They say they prefer fainting in pain rather than sleeping comfortably. Well, okay.”

Without taking any posture, she looks at Cleon and smiles.

＂This will be enough to kill time.＂