Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

22. Conflict (1)

Maybe it was because of a sudden pull on her hand.

Out of the window of the rattling carriage, the buildings around the plaza passed by.

Ye Rika’s eyes widened in her arms, like a squirrel finding an acorn.

Then, after covering her mouth with her hands, she let out an incomprehensible groan and trembled, worried that she might be hurt somewhere.

“Are you okay, Yerica?

“Hey, there, there!”

She might have bumped into a carriage threshold or a corner or something. She lifted up her robe to examine her ankles and shins, which could easily get hurt, and lifted her wrists to look around.

She wondered if something was swollen or red or something was wrong.

“…Ughhh!…Hehhhhh…”

Fortunately, I didn’t see anything that could be a problem.

It’s a magic spell that can instantly burn anyone, but that doesn’t guarantee safety.

The only thing that turned red was his face.

“Let’s go to an inn and do some acts of affection. Can you drop us off somewhere nearby?”

The coachman’s annoyed scolding was a bonus. Oh, not like that.

It must have left the plaza before I knew it, just as the speed of the carriage was slowly decreasing, suddenly, green hair slid down from outside the window.

It was Floren, staring this way, hanging upside down from the roof of the carriage, with a bared forehead and hair that hung down like a willow tree.

“…What are you doing there, Floren..?”

“Yerica, kidnapped, chased.”

“Uh-huh, it’s not kidnapping.”

Magic that attracts people. Magic.

When did I catch up with you? Floren, who was clinging to the roof, naturally opened the door and came in, and sat next to me.

“Question, our name, how?”

Ah, that was an obvious mistake on my part. Calling names when both of them are new to each other.

It must be that the two names are familiar enough to call them naturally without even realizing it.

“…I’ve met her before… Though Floren won’t remember.”

“Sphere? I don’t remember.”

She looked at Floren, who tilted her head, for a moment, but her gaze was taken away by the shimmering air approaching from far behind.

A sight as if a glass cup with a high refractive index had been brought to the sky. And- a wave began to spread out in all directions as if all the moisture in the air was sucked out.

I’ve seen it before. Even though it was fake video.

The Beirut Harbor explosion was the same phenomenon as the accident in which 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded.

“Oh, god damn it.”

Shockwave.

A disaster that no one noticed because it was faster than sound began to strike the city.

“Down!”

At the same time as shouting out the window, he hugged Yerica and Floren and bent down to the floor.

Kwaaguawang!

Windows and some of the flimsy buildings exploded in an instant along with people’s screams.

The shock wave that made the eardrums go blank, the horses panicking at the unexpected disaster rocked the carriage as if they were about to release their reins and run away at any moment.

-Floor boss, battle begins!

-Participants: 30

-The number of participants exceeded 5! The boss’s HP is calibrated. Compensation rate 400%

-Some attack patterns are added.

-Boss status ailment resistance is boosted by 40%.

-Boss magic resistance is boosted by 40%.

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-Time Remaining: 59:53… 52… 51

As I grabbed my shaky vision and looked outside, one side of the city turned black as if a map of hell had been drawn on it.

The smoke rising high into the sky and the intermittently bouncing flames taught us that this place was a fierce battleground.

Numerous alarms that could not be seen in previous games.

It was a very noisy start, as if it were not the world’s most powerful interest group.

Or maybe Legarette, who became a witch, is that amazing.

“Is everyone okay?”

Yerica and Floren were both looking at me with dazed expressions on their faces. And Floren’s expression was a bit closer to ‘how did you know in advance?’

“My name is Einheri, under the witch of Jan Estoria.”

“Hot! See you senior!”

At the Mage’s Tower, she caught Ye Rika as she tried to bow her head on a conditional reflex, knowing how she rolled him.

“Ah, you don’t have to go that far because you’re not a wizard. There are more urgent things than that.”

I looked at Yerika, who was nervous, still full of doubts about her fate. No, I’m not a wizard!

“Yerica, I will ask straight forward as the situation is the situation. Where did you hear about the monkey hand story?”

Yerica’s gaze swayed back and forth enough to hear the rolling eyes.

“No, I never told you…?”

She

I asked if she had heard, and the reply popped out that she never said.

To put it in a good way, I was naive, but on the contrary, I was really not good at lying.

Ha… She didn’t want to say anything bad, but she came out uncooperative so I couldn’t help it.

“…If you don’t say it right, I’ll feed you a real living slime, make her mana stone absorb until it’s about to explode, and then get rid of the rider.”

“Hey! Victory! 1157Th Yerica Myers! Sorry sir! Please only raw slime!”

“If you’re sorry, your life as a wizard is over… No, no… no.”

Looking at Ye Rika shaking like a cat whose whole body got wet from her sudden shower, she was speechless.

What kind of absurdity did she go through in the Mage Tower, so she could have such a conditioned reflex reaction?

“The bad, the worst, the devil”

Floren’s rating also fell the worst. No, even so, the brute is a little… Hurt.

“You can see where they are shining right now, right? It’s a very urgent story.”

“S, Master…”

“Yes?”

“I heard from Master! Master often told me about myths and tales… And among them, monkey hands are a field that Master has been researching all along…”

I heard the story that the magic tower found the monkey hand in the previous episode. However, it was the first time that Yerica’s teacher had studied it.

The touch has come, maybe you know it?

“Is Master in the city right now?”

“Yes…Probably, if all goes well, he’ll be at the Mage Tower branch… But now the branch is me, over there…”

Yerica’s voice trembled when she said that.

Because the place she raised her hand to point to… Was the starting point.

“Chew.”

The place where the shock wave erupted and the battle was happening was, of course, the place where the Mage Tower’s Labyrinth City branch was in contact, so I couldn’t continue.

The roaring sound and the flashing flames that made one’s saliva swallow itself were literally the devil’s realm.

I didn’t expect this at all.

Shouldn’t there have been a clause in the contract stating that they had to fight in an empty lot?

Judging from the distance, it was unreasonable to go on foot. If you ran clumsily, you would run out of energy. A carriage was the best choice.

Even if it’s twisted, it’s f*cking dirty.

As soon as I confirmed the position, I immediately put my upper body in front of the wagon.

Due to the structure of the wagon, the front seat where the coachman was located had no choice but to be hit directly by the shock wave. The face of the coachman who forcibly raised the body that was not moving properly was terrified.

“Uh… Uh…”

Are you okay?- His complexion looked too pale to say the same thing.

What he needed now was not words of concern. Rather, it only backfired, and another method was needed.

I pointed my finger in the direction everyone was running.

“I have to go over there right now. To the Magic Tower branch.”

“Why… Why do I have to go? I-I just came to give you a ride when I was in the mood, I-I don’t know things like this…!”

A pale face, trembling shoulders and shaking eyes. How many situations would a civilian who is not even an adventurer experience something like this?

“It doesn’t matter if you get off and run away.”

“….!”

He had a frightened expression on his face, a face ready to jump out of the wagon at any moment, just like the people around him screaming and running in the opposite direction.

“Do you mind if I go?”

“Yes. Well, what can I do? I just got a carriage and rode it.”

I turned my head and looked around.

People who are just busy running away, ignoring those who groan while sitting in place.

The coachman’s gaze slowly scanned them, and his body flinched as if he were about to follow them.

But-

“Help me here! People, people are crushed!”

Not everyone was like that.

There was someone who tried to lift a tree twice as tall as his body.

A child who lost consciousness and was crushed by a pile of wood. And the one who struggles alone to support the bottom and ask for help.

As soon as the screams and noise of people try to drown out the cry for help-

“Listen! Listen! Just one more person to come!”

One person stuck.

Those who hesitated and those who ran away flocked to the pile of wood, clenching their teeth as if possessed.

“One, two, three! Again, one, two, three!”

The coachman was speechless at the sight of strangers trying to help a child, forgetting that they were even running away.

“But if we can go there, we can save more people. So please help me.”

Even at that moment when the expression of hesitation to run away passed over his face dozens of times, he was still holding the reins in his hand tightly as if he would not let go.

The choice is yours to make. Not forced by others.

“…I don’t know what it is right now, I don’t know what it is all of a sudden, like a strange shock, and my body suddenly turns over… The other side of the city is on fire… Honestly, I want to turn around and run away right now… But if I really go over there… Can you save others?”

“Yes, I’m sure.”

The faster you go, the faster you’ll find the answer to stop Legarete.

“I’m crazy. Why don’t I know if I’ll get a lot of money if I say I’ll give you a ride for free… Ha.”

The coachman let out a big sigh and grabbed the gobi.

“Just… I’ll just drive you to the entrance of the magic tower and I’ll jump right away. Don’t tell me you won’t wait.”

The coachman made his own choice.

“Hold on tight, I won’t give you a ride just because you fall down.”

That choice was not wrong.

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The expressions of Yerica and Floren looking at me in the rattling wagon as they ran to avoid obstacles were very strange.

“It’s unexpected… Einheri ‘Senior'”

What did you look at with such a strange expression?

“It was just that things were good.”

It was impossible to run that long distance without a wagon anyway.

Because I was thinking that if things don’t go well, I’ll grab the reins and shake them, just like we see in movies.

It’s just relying on vague good intentions.

“No, I’m not your senior, so please stop with that strange tone. It was just a joke earlier.”

“No!”

“If you don’t speak comfortably, I will actually find slime and feed it.”

“Eh…Yes…”

It was only then that she was Ye Rika, who quietly noticed and lowered her horse’s tail.

The closer I got, the more the porosity got worse.

It wasn’t like the first shock wave burst out, but the giant speaker buzzing as if it was turned off stopped the horses in their tracks.

“This is the limit. I won’t even shake the reins anymore.”

She thanked her and got off, and the coachman quickly turned her carriage around and shouted as hard as he could around her.

“Tayo Ta! I’ll run to the plaza, so anyone who can get on can get on! I might get killed if I stay here!”

Then, one or two people who did not know where they were hiding came out and started to board the carriage. After a while, the carriage disappeared in the dust.

I was the first to say that I would save others, but he did.

“I can’t go back now.”

“To go back, you shouldn’t have gotten off the carriage when it stopped earlier. It’s okay if I didn’t follow you…”

Should I say that her role has already ended by the time I heard the story of Yerica’s teacher?

More than that, why did Floren follow such a dangerous place?

“Einheri, strangeness,”

I couldn’t understand even the incomprehensible words.

If you were like me, you would have said it was irrelevant right away.

“There is no way to find out where the magic tower is…”

In the dust, where the visibility was only 10m, it was difficult to breathe unless you covered your mouth with your sleeve.

“Hey there.”

Yerica raised her staff, which was in her hand, and she uttered an incantation. Then a ray of light jumped out from the tip of the staff, and she started to go straight ahead.

“Oh.”

When a person sees a magical magic for the first time that is not like being exploded, torn, or squeezed, an unknown emotion surged in my heart.

“Yes, this is magic! Heck…”

All I’ve seen so far is just a giant hydraulic press.

“Ji, I guess you’re not a real wizard…?”

Even as she said this, Yerica was glancing at her eyes. Did she live deceived?

“I definitely said it from the beginning. It’s under the Jan Estorian witch. Not everyone below is a wizard.”

As if everyone in the lab isn’t a graduate student…Ah, isn’t it?

“Then what do you do?”

“I work at a pawn shop. B&S&G pawn shop.”

“But why is the person who works at the pawnshop doing this…”

Paang!

I turned my head and heard an unknown sound from one side, and then a building collapsed. It’s good to be an object.

“I delivered one wrong item.”

If I had known that one wrongdoing would come back this big, I wouldn’t have stopped the thrush that I tried to open the box at that time..

“By the way, what kind of person is Yerica’s teacher?”

“Hmm, you look very impressive with a white beard. He withdrew from the front lines because of his age and only presents his opinions as an elder, but he sometimes accepts temporary disciples like me. It’s not about learning from start to finish, just a few simple tricks… But it’s a great honor to become his disciple.”

The elder of the white beard mage tower. The image of Gandalf came to mind.

“Because he is the one who produced witches among his disciples.”

My footsteps stopped.

The disciple, the witch, and the white beard. Why didn’t I think of it?

“…Yerica, what is your teacher’s name?”

It’s definitely an image that came out of Legarete’s memory.

I brought the holy sword in my left hand to my body.

[Holy sword Ascalon succeeded in resisting the status quo 1st wish – the false world!]

A wizard with a white beard, visible through the flood of memories.

[Legarete, I guarantee you, you can become a witch. You have that possibility.]

“…Hayden Walker.”

“This is Elder Hayden Walker.”

He was Legarete’s teacher in a world of lies.