NOVEL NEXT chapter 19
19 – Escape the Labyrinth – 1
“Have you calmed down?”
“Huh… Heh… Huh… I’m sorry…”
Ellie just cried for 30 minutes, then she whimpered to see if she stopped crying and I apologized.
“Suddenly… Can I find out where my older brother’s ashes are buried…?”
“I could tell you… But if you’re as good as you, you’ll die before you go?”
“Uhhh…”
Ellie was too weak to survive in the middle layer of the labyrinth. Wouldn’t she be roughly organized in the Abyss Wolf line?
“But the remains have been dead for quite some time. Is that your brother?”
“That’s right… It’s been over a year since my older brother disappeared…”
“Hmm…”
In a year, rotten flesh would have remained, but the corpse was bare bones.
It must have been eaten by hell worms and other monsters.
“Thank you, but…If you buried my brother, I’m satisfied with that. I wish I could personally bring the ashes and hold a funeral, but circumstances make it difficult…”
“So, are you going back now?”
“For that… My father must be very angry, so I have to go back quickly…”
Ellie stood up and dusted herself off and looked at me.
“Then let’s go.”
“?”
Why are you telling me that?
“What’s wrong?”
“No…Why do you say that while looking at me?”
“Huh? Didn’t you know the way?”
No, not at all? I have a map, but I don’t know exactly where this is because I’m running to your aid.
“You have no idea?”
“Eh…? Then how did you get to the middle floor…?”
“Is that so?”
First of all, I didn’t tell Elly that I was an Earthling. She wasn’t sure if there were other Earthlings, and above all because she didn’t know what the perception of Earthlings would be in this world.
“I thought, of course, Ellie, you knew the way?”
“Actually… I just came in with the thought of finding my older brother..”
“…………”
What is this stupid beastman? Aren’t you the first person to die in a horror movie?
“How do you know my name anyway?!”
Ellie cautioned me by pointing her finger at me.
“You! You knew who I was?!”
“No… I don’t know who it is?”
“But how do you know my name?!”
“…You don’t have appraisal skills?”
Emotion was the ability I had when I first came to this world.
So of course I thought everyone else had it too…
“Emotions? Why learn abilities that are the height of inefficiency?”
“Inefficiency? Aren’t emotions almost essential?”
Emotions were no different from an essential ability for me, who had been transferred to the abyssal labyrinth.
Because it was the only ability to know how strong the opponent was.
Actually, if I didn’t have emotions, I certainly wouldn’t have been able to survive in the middle layer of the labyrinth of the abyss.
“Are you an appraiser?”
“Appraiser? I have feelings, but…”
“It’s an appraiser, but if you’re that strong, how high is your level?! It’s amazing!”
Is there something wrong with your emotions? Why are you like that?
“Is something wrong with your emotions?”
“Yes, the ability effect itself is excellent, but the amount of points required to learn it once is beyond imagination.”
So you’re saying that the people here basically don’t have emotions?
But how expensive would you say that?
“How long?”
“It varies from person to person…Usually between 2000 and 3000 points, right?”
“…Is it…Expensive…?”
“It’s expensive! They usually give you 50~100 points every time you go up one level!”
Ah, that’s right.
Come to think of it, I had one ability to receive additional points.
That’s [Another World Transfer].
[Transfer to another world: All experience points and the amount of points gained are doubled. Your individual achievements do not affect your level. Automatically translate other world languages. ]
The ability to double all EXP and point gains.
Thanks to this ability, the points I get each time I level up were originally 100 points, but I was able to actually receive 200 points.
“But why do you ask that? Aren’t you trained as a professional appraiser?”
“Um… That… That’s right!”
I don’t know what a professional appraiser is, but I affirmed it. Because I can’t find out that I’m an earthling.
“Wow…But if it’s strong enough to overwhelm me, it must be really high level…”
“Uh…40…But…”
“Do you want to lie? Before that, even if you’re not an appraiser, level 40 isn’t as strong as you are?”
That’s right, but what can I do…
“Let’s think of a way to get out of here. It hasn’t been long since I entered the labyrinth, so there should be an exit not too far away.”
“Oh, that sounds hopeful, isn’t it?”
Actually, finding the exit is pretty simple if you use [Enagonios’ Guidance].
But seeing Ellie deep in thought alone, she found it quite amusing, so she decided to watch it for a while.
“Lion’s nose!”
At that time, Ellie shouted out the name of the skill that anyone could easily guess and concentrated her red mana into her nose and began to smell her. Wearing cat ears and acting like that was pretty ridiculous.
“…Sniff sniff…I can smell my body over here.”
“Uh…Isn’t it?”
She was a little dumbfounded that she could find her own scent, but she decided to follow Ellie first.
She did, but just in case she didn’t know, she followed Ellie while using [Enagonios’ Guidance]. In case she moves the wrong way, she will quickly notice it.
-Kihihi!!
“Ugh… They’re hell worms!”
So she followed Ellie for a while, and she was able to find a colony of hell worms.
Are there roughly 70 of them? I always feel it, but hell worms look very disgusting.
Actually, even during my military days, I really hated money bugs that looked similar to hell bugs. Originally, the number of legs of a bug and its grossness are proportional.
Seeing that there were 70 of them, it felt like the flesh of the monster I just ate would come out of my stomach.
“Ugh… Disgusting…”
Ellie was also frowning at her to see if she was of the same mind as I was, looking to see if there was another way.
“Is there no other way…?”
“I don’t think so?”
From the perspective of [Guidance by Enagonios], All other roads other than this one were not safe. Clearly, this road would be the only passage leading to the exit.
My goal was to get out of this disgusting place, so I decided to show off my skills a little bit.
Fire-!
“Wait.”
“Huh? Fire magic…?”
I used Suzaku’s flame to burn all the hellish worms blocking the passage.
Then Ellie looked at me with a slightly dumbfounded expression.
“It’s an appraiser, but it’s such a strong wizard…?”
Ellie saw the flames of Suzaku I spewed out and seemed to think it was fire magic.
Well, of course it fires sparks, so you’d think it was fire magic. If I were Ellie, I would have thought so.
“…….”
“Okay, it’s tidy now, shall we go?”
I smiled brightly at Ellie, who had a troubled expression on her face.
She paused for a while before asking me.
“Are you thinking of working in our prison department?”
“Huh?”
Suddenly?
“You are definitely a talented person. So why don’t you work for me? I’ll treat you well.”
“To work for you?”
Come to think of it, wasn’t it said that most people with long names in the fantasy world are nobles?
Ellie’s full name is Eli van Leonhardt.
It was a name that smelled of nobility.
But…
“I’m sorry, but I don’t want to.”
“…Yes…”
To come to another world and work? I absolutely hate it.
I just want to buy a house and live comfortably!
“Then may I… Ask for your name?”
“Name? Is that what…”
Won’t it matter if you don’t tell me the last name?
“Gaon. My name is Gaon. My last name is a secret.”
“Gaon…That’s a strange name…”
Of course not. It’s a name from another world.
“You gave me your name, so let me introduce myself.”
Ellie straightened her back with a confident expression on her face.
“My name is Eli van Leonhardt, and I am the second princess of Leonhardt’s Nation.”
Ah~ I see~ You are a princess~ A princess?
…Huh?
“Hee hee, isn’t that a funny expression?”
For the first time, a look of embarrassment came over my face.
Now that I think about it, the country’s name was ‘Leonhard’. Eli’s full name was Eli van ‘Leonhard’.
I thought he was just an ordinary aristocrat, but to say he was a princess…Isn’t this too far-fetched?
“Then should I use honorifics now?”
“No, I’m more comfortable with short words. All of my close friends talk short to me.”
“Are you easy-going for a princess?”
“You know I’m not talking about women, right?”
Ellie smiled brightly as if she liked my unchanging attitude.
Ellie looks at her smile and thinks, but to be honest, she was very beautiful.
Actually, she was so good that she was not inferior to Seoyoon, who had a celebrity-like appearance on Earth.
But even when such a pretty woman smiled at me, I didn’t really think about it. If she was on Earth, she would have been watching her grandson with all sorts of delusions…
The reason must be in the [Cool mind]. Among the abilities I have, the only ability related to the mind is [Cool Mind].
“Oh! I’m starting to remember. This is definitely the first passage I saw after entering the labyrinth!”
“Really?”
At that time, Ellie, who found the passage leading to the exit, smiled brightly and shouted at me as if she was excited.
Even to me, who was using [Enagonios’ Guidance], This road seemed connected to the exit.
‘Am I finally going outside?’
Once I went out, I thought I should start eating proper food.
I had to chew only the colorless and odorless monster meat for several days.
“Isn’t that a light?”
“Ohh!”
After about five more minutes of walking, I saw a light in the distance.
If my prediction is correct, that must have been sunlight.
“Is liberation at last?”
I calmed my pounding heart and walked outside with Ellie.
The moment you finally reach the exit of the labyrinth and go outside!
A macho beast with a large body blocked me.
“Father?!”
Ellie called her father to the huge beastman next to her.
Then… Is this beastman the king of a beastman country?
‘But is it strange? Why are you staring at me like this? What did I do wrong?’
I tried to hide my uneasiness and used my emotions on the Beast King.
[LV 91 Arnold Van Leonhardt]
Stamina:?/?
Mana:?/?
Status:?
…Yes? Level 91?
“Human.”
“Yes…Yes!”
The beastman king called me with a deep and low tone, and I reflexively took a posture of attention and answered the beastman king using honorific words.
‘Are you a f*cking human?! Even the fragments of the void are not over level 90, you crazy bastard!’
The moment I was lusting after each other in my heart, the figure of the Beast King disappeared and at the same time my vision reversed.
“Huh..?”
“Father?!”
-Quadang!
I don’t know what happened to me, but I fell to the floor with a funny sound and passed out in that state.