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Hajin Kang took Baekho to the entrance of the labyrinth.

Still, Drak Liar stood tall at the entrance and was firmly guarding it.

“Baekho, do you see that guy over there? What do you think? Do you think you can win?”

Baekho tilted his head at Kang Ha-jin's question.

It wasn't clear how good the opponent was.

While eating the remains of Ash recently, the white tiger has grown a lot, but it is still not as good as a Drak Liar.

Baekho also crossed the third wall, but his level was still in the early 3,000s.

On the other hand, Drak Liar was in his late 3,000s.

The difference was huge. In addition, the Drak Liar will also be quite good in combat skills.

It's probably more than the Karnan I met in the Fake Dungeon before.

If so, it was still too much for Baekho to deal with.

“Is it still possible to run away without dying?”

Then the white tiger growled. It gave me confidence that I could do that enough.

"Good. Then let's jump a little. The purpose is to bring that guy out. First of all, shall we eat the monsters that live nearby?”

As soon as Ha-jin Kang finished speaking, Baek-ho ran to somewhere.

He'd run towards the monster from here he was a bit further away.

Kwagwagwagwagwang!

A very loud noise echoed in all directions. It's deliberately fussy fighting.

Baekho knew exactly what Kang Ha-jin wanted.

Hajin Kang looked at Drak Liar while hiding.

Knowing that he couldn't fool Drak Liar's eyes with mere [cloaking], this time he even wrote the book of Rapha Sid.

Fields of Concealment and Fields of Distortion in the Tome of Raphasid were especially effective compared to others due to increased proficiency.

Hajin Kang played a wide field of concealment and distortion.

Looking at it over time, it seems that even Drak Liar did not find it.

‘Well, it’s a bit far away.’

The distance was very far from the entrance to the labyrinth. So, even Drak Liar will think that Baekho is running wild on his own right now.

Kugugugung!

The fierce battle of the white tiger shook the mountain range.

Kang Ha-jin internally cheered for Baek-ho. He was doing really well.

Drak Liar's expression changed slightly.

His gaze turned toward the white tiger. And he stared at it with one distasteful eye.

Ha-jin Kang observed it carefully.

After the white tiger caught one of the monsters, he ran towards his second prey.

This time it was much more noisy than before.

The second prey was a monster that crossed the wall twice, and the level was in the late 2000s.

The rebellion was very intense because it was a monster with not much level difference from Baekho.

However, there was a wall that could not be crossed between the white tiger who had crossed the wall and the monster that did not.

However, the monster's power was so powerful that the mountain range shook much more than before.

It was like an earthquake.

Then something happened. Part of the mountain range collapsed, causing a landslide.

Curl rumble!

Kang Ha-jin saw this and clenched his fist.

The collapsed soil and rocks were pouring down exactly at the entrance of the labyrinth.

Anger arose in Drak Liar's face. And the magic that was equal to that anger erupted.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

The magical energy emanating from Drak Liar's body cut through the pouring vomit and stretched out.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

The vomit was split in half at the entrance of the labyrinth and poured down the sides.

When the landslide was over, all the vomit had gone down the mountain, and the entrance to the labyrinth was still there as it was at the beginning.

And Drak Liar, radiating anger energy from his body, looked up at the top of the mountain range.

There, the white tiger and the monster were still fighting.

The area near the battlefield became blurred. It all crumbled and crumbled. It was a fierce battle that changed the terrain.

Drak Liar narrowed his eyes and gauged the capabilities of the white tiger and the monster.

And without hesitation he pulled out his weapon from his back.

It was a huge battle axe.

Drak Liar escaped the entrance to the labyrinth and headed for the battlefield between the white tiger and the monster with an unusual, secret movement.

It was so secretive that it would not have been easy to notice if Ha-jin Kang had not been looking at it in person.

Drak Liar's magic and presence disappeared completely. The more he moved, the more secretive it became.

Kang Ha-jin used the string of his contract to inform Baek-ho of the situation.

Be careful.

That was enough. Baekho will find his way to live and run away.

It is clear that even Drak Liar will not pursue the white tiger far away. He has to keep his way.

Ha-jin Kang ran to the entrance of the labyrinth using [Concealment] when Drak Liar was half way to Baekho.

He was quite far from Drak Liar, and his nerves were all on Baekho and the monster, so he did not notice Kang Ha-jin entering the labyrinth.

Ha-jin Kang entered the labyrinth safely.

And at that moment, Drak Liar arrived at the battlefield between the white tiger and the monster.

The opponent he attacked first was a monster, not a white tiger.

Awkward!

Drak Liar's ax was stabbed in the monster's neck.

Drak Liar poured wild, sharp and insidious magical energy into the body of the writhing monster.

The monster trembled and collapsed.

And in the meantime, Baekho fell far away from that place.

Drak Liar stared at Baekho with an absurd expression.

To be honest, the moment he hit the monster, he thought a white tiger would attack him. So he made all the preparations for him.

But I'm going to run away like that.

“Come here. I'm not going to kill you."

At Drak Liar's words, Baekho made a mocking expression, then turned around and walked away.

Drak Liar roared and followed the white tiger.

It was great speed.

But Baekho wasn't that easy either. It's worse than Drag Liar, because it's a monster that has crossed the wall three times.

Drak Liar saw the white tiger running away at almost the same speed as himself, and he thought it would be difficult to catch him.

The moment he thought of that, his heart went cold.

After regaining his composure, Drak Liar returned to his labyrinth entrance. And he stood there.

He did not realize that Ha-jin Kang had entered the labyrinth until the very end.

* * *

Ha-jin Kang, who entered the labyrinth, was a little confused.

In fact, most of this labyrinth had been explored before returning.

The method the Guardians wrote back then was to use countless drones.

He used not only flying drones, but also spider-shaped drones.

Naturally, it was the result of magic engineering, and they all communicated with magic, transmitting everything they saw while moving to the main system.

In this way, the map of the labyrinth was first completed, and after that, a huge amount of manpower was used to explore the labyrinth step by step.

The scale of the labyrinth was great, but it was not to the extent that it could not be conquered.

Ha-jin Kang was the person who worked the hardest to create that map.

Even Kang Ha-jin was memorizing 20% ​​of the map at the time.

It was the main passageway leading to the center and the passageways leading to it.

And now, as I traced the memories of that time step by step, not only 20%, but the rest of the map came to mind.

The memories, which were faint at first, gradually became clearer.

But those memories were of little use. No, it was useless.

“Has the terrain changed? Could this be?”

Kang Ha-jin mumbled that without realizing it.

I didn't know this would happen.

This was definitely the labyrinth of Marvass. He thought so, at least until he saw it from the outside.

But when I got inside, I realized that maybe it wasn't.

To that extent, it was very different from the labyrinth of Marvass he had experienced before the return.

First, the size of the passage was different. And the shape of the aisle was also different.

It looked more like a natural cave.

However, the labyrinth of Marvass seen before the return was not so.

It was obviously a labyrinth that had been touched by human hands. As soon as I saw that the passage was well carved and leveled, I knew immediately.

On the other hand, it had stalactites hanging from the ceiling and stalagmites growing on the floor.

It was truly a natural cave.

And the road wasn't that complicated to be called a labyrinth.

Of course, it is true that there are several passages, but to Ha-jin Kang, who experienced the labyrinth, this seemed too simple.

Hajin Kang went a little further inside.

‘There is another difference.’

The magic was different.

The magic of this labyrinth was very stable. And it wasn't as heavy or dark as I thought.

Marvas' labyrinth, which he had experienced before returning, was heavy and harsh with magical power. Still, there was a dark side hidden.

In a word, it was an environment where if you were careless, you could be hit by the flow of magic.

But it was so peaceful.

It was hard to believe that Marbas was in a place like this.

There was nothing wrong with being careful though.

Originally, various kinds of monsters lived in the labyrinth of Marbas. There were also very powerful monsters hiding everywhere.

But now there was no sign of a monster appearing.

'There seems to be no trap...'

None of the original ones were left. Can this really be called the Labyrinth of Marbas?

‘Maybe…we haven’t made it up to there yet, right?’

I suddenly felt like that. But then he smiled and shook his head.

'No way. In that case, I would have used a different method.’

Hajin Kang was still not vigilant and went further inside, being careful.

No matter how vigilant he was, there was nothing too much going on, so he sped up.

As Ha-jin Kang moved, he checked the passages one by one.

Then he drew a map of this labyrinth in his head.

When the map was composed to some extent plausible, Ha-jin Kang's expression became slightly strange.

‘Is there something similar to this...?’

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The scale of the labyrinth here was very large.

It's great to memorize all the large-scale labyrinths and keep them in your head, but how many people can draw a map in their head while walking around a new labyrinth whose paths have almost changed and compare it to the original map.

It's not just a labyrinth, it's a three-dimensional labyrinth.

But Hajin Kang was able to do that. This was not only because of his high mental strength, but also because of his heightened level.

Anyway, when I compared the two labyrinths, I was able to find considerable similarities.

Although many parts are different, the core path, that is, the path that corresponds to 20% of the labyrinth that Ha-jin Kang had memorized before his return, and the labyrinth here overlapped more than 80%.

Naturally, the labyrinth before the return was much larger than here.

‘So… it looks like they made a labyrinth by cutting and drilling through here.’

So, it means that the labyrinth has not yet been built.

'Well, it came out too soon.'

Marbas' appearance was too early compared to before the return.

So, there was nothing strange about not being prepared.

Kang Ha-jin superimposed the map of the labyrinth he had experienced before returning to this labyrinth to figure out the way.

It was also easier to find as the road became much simpler.

Even if the road was complicated in the first place, I would have found it without getting lost.

How far did you go inside?

Suddenly, the atmosphere of the labyrinth began to change drastically.

The bumpy, stalactites and stalagmites everywhere disappeared, and a smoothed path appeared.

And the road became much more complicated.

Kang Ha-jin finally felt like she had come to the labyrinth in her memory.

The road became clearer.

This was the labyrinth.

Hajin Kang stood at the point where the labyrinth began to change and looked around.

The labyrinth was now changing in real time.

As the boundary between the new labyrinth and the existing labyrinth was blurred, the scope of the new labyrinth gradually expanded.

Kang Ha-jin's expression hardened when he saw it.

Hajin Kang hastily calmed his mind and concentrated. He focused all his senses on magical powers and other invisible forces.

It also contained the power of the source.

“Wow!”

Suddenly, I felt my stomach turn upside down. It felt like someone had put an iron skewer in his body and stirred it.

Hajin Kang hurriedly backed away.

After crossing the borders of change, the symptoms disappeared like a lie as if they had ever been.

As Ha-jin Kang slowly retreated, he concentrated his senses on the boundary between the labyrinth and the labyrinth.

Obviously something was going on here.

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