Drug-Eating Genius Mage – 353



Ascendant’s Cradle (3)

Lennok confirmed a few more pieces of information in the man’s memory and stood up.

He doesn’t even forget to put his hand on the forehead of a man who was lying down in a daze and stop him from breathing.

Considering that he was a troublesome opponent it was a clean death but time was not easy enough to keep paying attention to a place like this for long.

Why you should meet the Ascendant. The story about the answer tool he presented was interesting but I had to put my thoughts aside for a moment.

There really won’t be much time left until the gateway is completely opened.

We must move first before others discover Lennok and Evelyn.

At the same time that Lennok took the man’s breath the image of the balance beam where the two people were standing blurred revealing the appearance of a labyrinth.

In the blurry area Lennok felt someone’s gaze but instead of confronting him he stood up and touched his left eye.

“Whoa….”

“Are you finished?”

Evelyn who was standing next to him approached Lennok and asked.

“What about that woman from earlier?”

Instead of answering Evelyn raised her finger and pointed to the wall inside the gateway.

A new type of limp warrior. The cause of death was revealed by three arrows stuck in his chest.

Lennok looked at that understood the situation and nodded.

“You were waiting without touching the territory.”

“Just in case. “Maybe you should have just intervened first?”

“No your judgment is correct. It was a tougher opponent than I thought. “If I had wasted more effort the job would have become more complicated.”

“It’s all because you were observing this guy’s territory.”

Evelyn sighed and nudged Lennok’s shoulder.

Lennok was pushed and stumbled scratching his cheek.

“That… I have nothing to say. However this guy succeeded in directly realizing the new possibilities of the magnetic realm with only artifacts and a few geas. “I couldn’t let it go without checking that.”

An artifact that is used by renting someone else’s domain. And the efforts he made to use the artifact in the most perfect way left a considerable impression on Lennok.

Lennok concluded the possibility by killing him but perhaps the path he chose was a new possibility for moving up the hierarchy without completing it.

Lennok holding the intricately rotating crystal ball in the arms of the man who had stopped breathing raised his back.

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I looked for other reasonably useful items but couldn’t find any special items.

Did the man have a premonition that he might die in this labyrinth and had his valuables stolen in advance? It was something I couldn’t figure out now.

Evelyn watched the scene from behind Lennok’s back and slightly shook her head.

“I’ve just been lucky so far. “I know your inquisitiveness is quite high but… if you don’t want to die it would be better to restrain yourself a little.”

“….”

“Can you guarantee that in a battle where life is at stake you won’t go astray due to a moment’s curiosity?”

Lennok couldn’t answer Evelyn’s words and kept his mouth shut.

Although most of the battles were won and overcome without any waste or emotional exhaustion

On the other hand Lennok also knew that there were moments when he couldn’t control his desire for magic.

But how can I explain to Evelyn that I cannot ignore any possibility in order to reach the end one day?

Evelyn looked at Lennok’s expression and started walking smiling as if she couldn’t do anything.

“Well to make up for that we are organizing and moving like this.”

“Ibelin….”

“So even if something like that happens inside this labyrinth I will help you.”

Lennok said that and stared silently at the back of Evelyn walking ahead.

A considerable amount of time had passed since I had known her but Evelyn had not changed.

That same appearance actually made Lennok’s attitude towards her change little by little.

“Let’s move quickly. “I don’t think there’s really much left now.”

“…okay. “I have to go.”

Suddenly the gate behind Lennok and Evelyn was shaking faintly.

The battle that began over the key in the circular room is about to be decided.

‘Even so the time required at the gateway is too short.’

It took less than 20 minutes for Lennok and Evelyn to deal with the treasure hunter they encountered as soon as they passed the gate.

I went into battle thinking that the people I encountered inside the gate would fight for over an hour but in reality the speed at which the people entering the labyrinth were eliminated was quite fast.

‘Is it because the balance of power is relatively biased? If not…’

“Evan?”

At Evelyn’s words Lennok finally stopped thinking and started walking quickly.

The entrance to the deeper part of the labyrinth passing through the empty space beyond the gateway.

The two people who passed through the arched main gate opened their mouths slightly when they saw the scene unfolding before their eyes.

“This is…”

“Now it starts to look a bit like a labyrinth.”

The structure is very different from the long corridors immersed in darkness.

Not only has the width of the road widened significantly but the deeper parts have more twists and turns and branching paths.

Even all the visible roads that come into view are moving and changing in real time changing direction and remaking the road.

Coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo!!!

A large-scale structural reorganization that occurred periodically outside the labyrinth.

The phenomenon was constantly reappearing inside the labyrinth constantly changing its internal structure and path.

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“Now I understand why the explorers who died inside the labyrinth didn’t have a map of the inside…”

Lennok muttered as he looked through the explorer’s notebook he acquired in the labyrinth.

“Was it a way of not allowing the making of maps at all?”

“As the first gate looks like it seems to have been made so that it cannot be passed through without trial and error…”

As Evelin said that she tapped her palm as if she realized something.

“Isn’t it possible that going through trial and error like that was Jin Dun’s intention?”

“….”

“Evan according to what you said the intention expressed by the gateway to the labyrinth or the maze itself is closely related to Jindun’s image.”

“I don’t think it’s possible. but….”

In the midst of all this Evelyn calls Ban Evan out of concern for an unexpected situation so she is quite quick at pointing out the true nature of the labyrinth.

However Lennok thought that if Jindun had really intended to focus on trial and error itself it would have been difficult even to enter the labyrinth.

However if entering the labyrinth itself was relatively easy there might be another reason.

But instead of sharing his thoughts with Evelyn Lennoch took out a monoscope.

There is no point in trying to find answers to unresolved questions here.

The important thing is to move forward as quickly as possible one step ahead of others.

“Are you going to use it in the end?”

“If you want to find your way in a labyrinth where magic detection doesn’t work well you’ll have to go through trial and error like you said. “I can only hope that it helps me get to the next hurdle.”

Place your left eye on the lens of the monoscope and activate the magical eye again.

Immediately after that the scenery in one corner of the labyrinth became vaguely distorted revealing someone again.

The appearance of a young man who has grown older and more mature than a blonde boy.

The face which used to be somewhat innocent has become calmer making it difficult to read the emotions.

The young man glanced back at Lennok as if he knew he was watching and started walking towards one side of the labyrinth.

“…let’s go.”

Lennok silently put his eyes on the monoscope and began to walk after the young man.

I’m not immediately sure why something like this is possible in this labyrinth or what the young man’s appearance in Lennok’s eyes means.

I just accepted that whatever happened was not strange within the realm of the ascendant’s thoughts.

We are used to not being able to get a clear answer to a question.

The answer Lennok wanted always came at an unexpected moment and in a different form than expected.

Lennok knew that the important thing was not to obsess over questions that immediately came to mind but to estimate what could be done and set a direction.

If you walk without wavering eventually one day you will be able to check whether your answer is right or wrong.

I just hope that the time that Lenno has passed has not been so shaken and he just moves forward.

Evelyn was staring at Lennok’s back with a slightly sunken gaze.

* * *

[…]

“what’s the matter?”

[If things continue like this the plan will go a bit wrong…]

“A plan?”

[I’ll explain later. For now the priority is to pass the labyrinth.]

The furball that gave off the doctor’s voice floated up and followed Maiya.

Maiya looked at the hairball with a disapproving expression and then straightened up.

It’s been two days since they passed the first gate easily as if it were a given and entered the more complicated maze.

Although she often encountered dead ends surprisingly Maiya was able to find the direction without getting lost.

[It smells. Go in a different direction.]

“good.”

The existence of this ball of fur spewing out fur by Maiya’s side was helping her in the labyrinth so that she would not have to walk down the same path twice.

“I didn’t know that this old-fashioned method would work in the Hanghasa Labyrinth. “If I had known this would happen I would have tried the labyrinth at least once in the past.”

[It’s only natural considering why Jindun built this labyrinth.]

The furball answered in a calm tone.

[The pattern of the labyrinth itself has diversified beyond the 11-dimensional function and is so complex that even my computing device cannot predict the pattern but it does not hinder the attempt to find the way.]

“It has a different meaning. “For what?”

[Because that is the way Zygis Ethernor has lived.]

“….”

[This magnificent labyrinth is the boundary of thought that reproduces the time he lived and the mental scenes accumulated as a result. It contains the heart of a transcendent person who lived in an era so turbulent that it was difficult to predict what was ahead but who never stopped looking back on the past.]

Maiya twitched her eyebrows at the answer which was much more serious than expected.

“Doctor I didn’t know you respected Jin Dun so much. “Isn’t something like Zygis Ethernor the epitome of the old-fashionedness you hate?”

Even within Pandemonium doctors are one of the special species that occupy a somewhat special position along with spiders.

There are not many people who like the research direction that abandons the unique extreme way of thinking and ethics.

However he is a typical sociopath whose thoughts and perspectives are completely different from those of other powerful superhumans and whose results cannot be denied make people keep quiet.

This is nothing short of a very high evaluation considering that it comes from the mouth of someone who acknowledges and accepts his immediate superiority but never looks up at the other person.

[You must be completely mistaken. They deserve respect simply because they are qualified to challenge for ascension. That means that you are truly ready to come up with an answer that transcends the timeline of this world… It takes a lot of determination to achieve the status of encompassing both the past and the future.]

“…You speak as if you know a lot about Ascension.”

[Was it an uncomfortable conversation? Considering Machina’s Ascension Gate it makes sense. Wasn’t the whole reason you came here to fix that epic failure?]

“….”

The furball who saw that Maiya’s expression was stiff naturally changed the topic.

[Zygis Ethernor’s activities before becoming an ascendant are relatively well preserved and based on that we can roughly guess what kind of life he lived. And the more you learn about the Ascended the more you realize.]

“what?”

[What does it mean to be qualified to challenge fate?]

“….”

[Now there are less than ten people left in this world who have that qualification. Aren’t you curious about what decision a transcendent person who has lived for 100 years would have made?]

The ball of fur floating behind Maiya’s back spoke in a low soft tone.

[All the answers are waiting in front of me. All we have to do is cross the labyrinth that doesn’t reject anyone who approaches.]

* * *

A black flash of light crosses the dark maze.

bang!

With a soft explosion the stone statues blocking the hallway were split and the stone lions were crushed.

“It seems like the trap is getting more intense.”

Evelyn grumbled while turning her shoulders but Lennok shook his head even after hearing her words.

“There is no way to avoid it. Eventually you will have to deal with these obstacles one way or another.”

“Those who came in in groups will definitely be at a disadvantage. “Should we consider ourselves lucky that Lapis gave us the tickets in advance?”

As Evelyn said that she turned her gaze towards the countless spear blades protruding from the wall.

Not only the place where the two people are standing but also every corner of the road they passed is crushed and ruined.

A structure in which the walls or floor rise and the ceiling dips down.

The labyrinth itself structurally continues to narrow the space making it impossible for multiple people to move together.

If they had succeeded in maintaining their numbers by going deep into the labyrinth each individual would have been a highly skilled person but because of that they were subject to stronger space constraints.

Even if you can withstand this level of traps and reduced space you will eventually have to divide the number of people and reduce the number the further you go inside.

“The number of people following behind has increased. “It seems like there are forces that have finally come to an end through trial and error.”

Evelyn who was concentrating with her ears close to the floor said.

Detecting magic power does not work well inside a labyrinth filled with the magic power of the ascended but even so the vibrations that come from the superhumans using their power resonate through the labyrinth.

While Lennok was leading the way Evelyn was using her archer’s sharp senses to check the number of people following behind her.

“are you okay. “It seems like we’ve arrived close to the second gateway.”

“That’s a good thing.”

“And… I think the third will probably be the final gateway.”

Lennok’s eyes calmly sink as he looks through the monoscope.

The illusion that had passed the first hurdle and had become a young man had suddenly changed into the appearance of an adult man.

Considering the speed at which time passes for the man who appears to be an illusion he would have already taken the form of an old man by the time he approaches the third gate.

If this illusion was showing a person’s time intact there was a high possibility that the next gateway would be the last.

In other words Jindun Zygis Ethernor designed this labyrinth based on breaking through the gate three times.

The number nine which signifies the 9th level and the number three not the number ten which signifies true ascension.

WORLD 3.0. Third world.

The three gateways created by Jindun’s Hanghasa Labyrinth.

Would it be a mistake to think that those numbers contained a meaning that Lennok knew?

“…That can’t be possible.”

“Ban what?”

“We have arrived. “Get ready.”

Lennok said that and walked towards the middle of the maze that stretched out into three paths.

At that moment the gigantic image of the universe was revealed as if the space had changed.

In an emptiness so vast that one might mistake it for appearing in the night sky a small door rising so high is faintly shining.

A doorknob floating at the end of the sky and the ground where Lennok and Evelyn are located.

And in the meantime there are countless stones floating as if floating.

Various blocks are floating in the air ranging from a width that one person can barely step on to a vast size that is almost like the floating island of Lapis.

Hanghasa Labyrinth. It was the beginning of the second gateway.

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