The maze was built starting with the mother skeleton replenishing its magic.

"Why didn't you tell me! Why didn't you tell me! Why didn't you tell me!"

Lance enjoyed Angelica-like back massages while listening to her voice filled with grievance and regret.

The noisy maze routine is back.

Nearby, the monsters participating in this "Starfall Battle" surrounded the subterranean wolf.

Those underground wolves were either giving the middle finger or showing off in their own species' way.

Because they were the only ones who missed the battle.

As for the few underground wolves, they lay dejectedly on the ground, covering their ears with their two front paws and making pitiful "woof woof" sounds.

It's amazing how monsters can communicate with each other so accurately, even if they don't speak the same language, through body language.

The back massage service has stopped.

Lance, still somewhat unsatisfied, continued:

"And there are two witches, and another one is a knight from the Church of Frey, with golden hair, named Lilith. Do you know her?"

These are all things Lance saw from the system panel.

I thought that after hearing these words, Angelica would continue to complain and hit him.

The sheer volume of information overwhelmed her, causing her little brain to shut down completely.

He was held in place for a long time.

Then she covered her face with her hands and cried very sadly.

"Waaaaah! I'm breaking up with Mr. Lance!"

After saying that, she covered her face, cried, and ran away.

"Don't go too far," Lance said, putting his hands to his mouth as if to amplify his voice. "There are still adventurers in the labyrinth."

After dealing with Angelica, that little gossip, Lance beckoned Martin over.

"Martin, arrange the monsters in the maze, and distribute them evenly throughout the various areas."

"Um, isn't this job usually done by Miss Angelica?" Martin scratched his head.

"You're so clueless," Lance said, patting his shoulder. "She's crying her heart out."

Martin comforted himself, “Mr. Lance is actually a decent person when he’s not being a jerk.”

After making some arrangements and driving away all the monsters in the room, Lance sat on the throne made of pure stone and began to think deeply.

There are too many things to do; I need to plan them out one by one.

Let's start with the simplest thing: what exactly happened on the first level of the Starfall Maze?

Based on Lance's scan of the system panel, the general information was just as he and Angelica had described.

Two witches, a cult of Frey, a group of adventurers, and a horde of regenerating monsters.

We'll have to ask Harvey for more details when he gets back.

The second thing is the "King of the Labyrinth" persona that Lance created.

The "Master of the Maze" talent allows some talents that originally only applied to oneself to be expanded to affect the entire maze.

The talent 【Belzaha's Blessing】 allows Lance to transform his pain and despair into power.

The combined effect of these two talents is that any feelings of pain and despair experienced in the Kru Labyrinth can be transformed into Lance's experience.

This is Lance's current core upgrade strategy, which is far more efficient than killing monsters and humans.

As is known, the current Kru Labyrinth is considered by adventurers to be a standard "old and dilapidated" place (according to Martin), and it is located near a small town on the southern edge of the country, with very little fame and foot traffic.

To gain more experience, more people need to conquer the maze.

To get more people to conquer the maze, we need to find ways to attract more users.

Although Lance came up with the idea of ​​"King of the Labyrinth" on a whim, the logic is still consistent.

Imagine, during the battle with the witch, an ancient, mysterious, and talking skeleton appears, and with Harvey's exaggerated performance, the name "Labyrinth King and Undead King" spreads far and wide.

This will definitely spark a lot of discussion among adventurers in the coming period.

In fact, a talking skeleton alone is enough to generate a lot of discussion, let alone a skeleton that brings monsters to the rescue.

Once the character's persona has gained enough buzz, Harvey will then release the information that "the King of the Labyrinth has left behind a treasure in the Kru Labyrinth," or other related news.

The flow of traffic forms a closed loop.

At that time, many adventurers will come from far and wide, working in conjunction with Miyazaki Hidetaka's clever tricks in the labyrinth.

Enjoy the experience to the fullest!

Once Lance understood the simple things, he banished them all from his mind.

Now comes the main event.

First, the message that burrowed into his brain: "I should go see Glenn."

Judging from this situation, it seems that a similar message has appeared in the mind of the Lord of the Starfall Maze, prompting him to go all the way from the ninth floor to the first floor.

The content of the message remains unknown.

Lance rested his chin on his left fist in a thoughtful pose, while his right hand tapped his right leg rhythmically, his thoughts drifting far away.

He's making some assumptions.

Assumption 1: If Glenn sent this message, then his purpose must have been to ask for help.

There are three unreasonable aspects to this.

Firstly, since it was a cry for help, why not explicitly write words that mean "save me" in the message?

Secondly, while sending a message to Lance is somewhat reasonable, why would the White-Armored Knight also receive this message?

Thirdly, Lance had observed Glenn's skills, and none of them mentioned the ability to send messages remotely.

Therefore, Lance believes that this hypothesis is invalid.

Assumption 2: If Glenn did not send this message, then there must be an observer watching Glenn's actions at all times.

In that case, the observer must be subject to some kind of limitation, preventing "him" from appearing to save people, and also preventing Glenn from dying.

However, there is a logical flaw in this: if the person who received the message reads it but doesn't reply, then Glenn will definitely die.

This is unreasonable; at the very least, this level of risk should not occur in life-or-death situations.

Therefore, Lance believes that this assumption is most likely also invalid.

There is one remaining possibility.

Assumption 3: Glenn did send the message, but he did so unintentionally.

In fact, Lance had always noticed that there was a talent in Glenn's talents called "Hero's Wish".

The description of this talent is rather abstract: "To create miracles in times of despair."

Based on Lance's intuition, the scene at the time did meet the conditions for activation.

If we follow this line of reasoning, then the "miracle" is not a powerful force, but rather a message sent to Lance asking for help?

No, that's not right.

Rather than calling it a distress signal, it was more accurate to say that Lance inexplicably thought of him at a crucial moment.

Although the results are the same, the latter is far more terrifying than the former.

A cry for help is a precise act of personal will, and it is far from being a "miracle".

What Glenn did was more like disrupting cause and effect.

In other words, for Lance, it was "because I suddenly thought of going to see Glenn, so I went," and then he happened to encounter a crisis, which Lance happened to have the ability to solve.

Up to this point, this can be considered a logical closed loop.

But what's truly terrifying is that this cause and effect disregards time and space, and is imposed upon Lance.

By having someone who had no connection to the event forcefully intervene and make everything seem reasonable, the event was disrupted.

This is the concept that can truly be called a "miracle".

Lance even suspected that the idea of ​​creating the "King of the Labyrinth" persona in his head was also caused by interference with cause and effect.

Even more terrifying is that not only was Lance forcibly pulled into the incident, but the white-armored knight was also drawn in.

Furthermore, the roles of the two are very clearly defined.

Lance exists to suppress the smaller calamities, while the white-armored knight exists to defeat the boss.

It's like... it's like there's a hand controlling everything from the shadows.

Every detail is very reasonable.

But if every detail is reasonable, then this is the biggest irrationality.

It's terrifying to think about...

The last question is about the White Knight, the original Edmund.

Before leaving, he said to Lance, "I'll be waiting for you behind the door."

The literal meaning should be "C-you-after-door," meaning Edmund wants to talk to Lance.

It's most likely a topic related to "mental messages".

As for where the so-called "door" is, Lance deduced that it is the black door of the resurrection space.

There are two reasons.

1. What they have in common is that they are both masters of their respective labyrinths.

2. Edmund has never been to the Kru Labyrinth, so he doesn't know if there's a door here. Therefore, the door he's talking about must be visible to both sides. The only door that meets this condition is most likely the black door of the "Resurrection Space".

Then, we can deduce the answer based on this information.

In other words, the doors behind the resurrection spaces in different mazes actually lead to the same location.

Unlimited resurrections, monsters unable to leave the dungeon, and places accessible only to the dungeon's master.

Perhaps the secret of the labyrinth lies hidden behind that door.

......interesting.