Cradle of the Ascendant (4)
The two of them nodded their heads almost simultaneously, realizing what the scenery of the gateway meant.
“You’re telling me to step on it.”
“Can you try the telescope?”
At Ibelin’s suggestion, Lennok held up a telescope and tried to rotate his demonic eyes, but slightly frowned.
“…I can’t. I think my eyes are overloaded.”
“what?”
Evelyn turned her head and strode towards Lennok, grabbing his cheek with both hands.
“Eyes? are you okay?”
“….”
Carefully flipping Lennok’s eyelids with his thin hands, he stared into his pupils with green eyes.
Lennok, who came to his senses in reverse at that unhesitating attitude, quietly grabbed her wrist and stood up.
“are you okay. It seems to be a side effect of using the Mystic Eye too often.”
“but….”
“I should have been aware of this limitation as soon as possible after obtaining the Mystic Eye, but this is my mistake. In the meantime, I didn’t pay much attention to the ability of the magic eye, so it seems like this.”
Evelyn said with a firm expression.
“I’d better refrain from using it for the time being. I’ve heard many rumors that the really powerful Mystic Eye steals the user’s eyesight in return.”
“…okay.”
An encounter with a high-ranking cartel executive, Blaver, who was enlightened by his experience at the West Continent Branch of the Magic Tower, still has a lot of room for growth and considerable potential.
Lennok had refrained from using the Mystic Eyes as much as possible, considering the possibility of problems with his optic nerves, but rather realized that he should have known the limitations of the Mystic Eyes earlier, and clicked his tongue low.
It’s important to take care of your body and health, but if you can’t use the power of the Mystic Eye to see the telescope at the moment you need it, it’ll be impossible to maintain the labyrinth breakthrough speed you’ve been up to now.
‘I’ll have to stop by the cartel once I get back.’
Lennok was lost in thought as he gently rubbed his throbbing eyes.
Among the superhumans Lenok knew, the number of magic eye holders was very rare, but among them, there was an authority who stood at the forefront when it came to eyes.
Oliveira Lone Maze, the president of the cartel and an 8th-level sorceress with the Mystic Eye of Chilchaebo.
Now that we are maintaining a cooperative relationship, even if Lennok throws a few questions about the Mystic Eye, he won’t just refuse.
Even if it wasn’t so, recently, as the frequency of using the Mystic Eye has increased, the number of things I can do with this eye is increasing.
When you want to catch the beginning of growth to some extent, you need to set the right direction in advance.
Evelyn, who had been looking at Lennok with concern, turned her gaze to Lennok.
“I will go first. You are looking at it from there.”
Does it make sense for her, who is relatively nimble and light, to take the lead in checking the traps?
In fact, after entering the labyrinth, Evelyn was concentrating on assisting Lennok, even taking on the role of a ranger.
Evelyn leaped cautiously and landed on a block floating in the air.
Tung!
The recoil causes the block to sink slightly.
In contrast to Lennok nodding his head, Evelyn turned her gaze to Lennok.
“I’ll tell you in advance, it’s not that heavy.”
“…Did you mean weight?”
Even Lennok took time to understand, leaving Evelyn behind her sudden protests and moving in quick succession.
Evelyn’s new model, which disappeared right in front of my eyes in an instant, lightly stepped on the floating blocks and leaped.
I soared hundreds of meters at once and headed for the door floating in the sky.
The moment Evelyn tried to reach out to the gate at the same speed she was accelerating.
Whoop!
“what?”
Her body faded away and then she appeared right next to Lennok.
Lennox looked at him and nodded slightly.
“I mean, it’s not just a trap or a trap….”
“Yes, I almost reached it…What was the problem?”
Lennok, who had been staring at Evelyn as she stood up from her seat while sweeping her hair, looked away.
“I wonder if there are separate rules for the order or direction of stepping on blocks.”
“rule…You mean?”
“Other than that, it’s hard to explain the force that forced you to move right in front of the gate.”
Lennok answered, looking up at the door floating in the sky.
“It is unlikely that Jindun is rejecting the intruder now. Then I can’t help but think it’s because I didn’t follow the order. Perhaps there is a special law operating inside this space.”
“Hmm…. Now it’s a bit like an ascendant’s labyrinth.”
A categorical command powerful enough to forcibly designate and move a 7th-level Aspect Ability.
If a skilled person like Evelyn couldn’t even recognize it, the technique was simply sophisticated and not natural.
In fact, it would be impossible without the ability to manipulate space according to the laws of physics.
Considering that the existence of this labyrinth was a kind of materialization created by barrier art, it was rather unbelievable even with Lennok’s knowledge.
If he mastered the art of conjugation to the limit, would he be able to create a new law that even those with Ascension abilities could not avoid under certain conditions?
Evelyn, who quickly warmed up, slightly lowered her stance and raised her magic power.
ugh!!
As soon as a light gust of wind blew under her feet, it instantly turned into a black flash and disappeared.
Run through the blocks one after another and run to the gateway.
Dig!
It appears next to Lennok without fail, but as if waiting, it turns around, grabs another block, and soars upward.
“Once you don’t match the order of crossing the blocks, it seems right that you have to start over from the moment you stop.”
ugh!!
Saying that, Eveline climbed onto the nearest block and stepped onto the next block.
After stopping for about 3 seconds in that state and waiting, her body moved through space and appeared next to Lennok.
“It is proof that this order is not the correct answer. If you cross over to the block to the back instead of the block next to it and wait… … .”
Doesn’t move on blocks even after 3 seconds.
Evelyn spread her hands and smiled awkwardly.
“This is what I found out right away. The number of blocks is so large that it will probably take a while to find the number of cases.”
“Um….”
Lennok’s gaze, lost in thought, twinkled as he turned to Evelyn’s feet.
“There is falling stone crumbs. It means that the block itself is not indestructible.”
“Oh, I know that too. I also did an experiment beforehand. but….”
As she poked the block with magical power over her fingers, the block split apart as if it were about to explode.
pop!!
Evelyn looked at Lennok and pursed her lips.
“Look at this. It’s being restored again. It won’t mean much.”
As she said, the smashed blocks gather in an instant and are restored to their original form.
It’s slightly different from what I expected, but common sense makes sense.
Wouldn’t it be much easier to restore all the blocks in the gateway so that they can maintain their original shape after being destroyed than to make them impossible to destroy even with the power of a superhuman?
But even after listening to Evelyn, Lennok shook his head and reached for his sleeve.
“The important thing is that the block itself is restored after being destroyed.”
Clap!!
Lennok pulled out his sniper rifle, loaded the bullet in an instant, and bent one knee to the floor.
Evelyn, who saw him raising her eyes to the scope, noticed Lennok’s intentions belatedly and muttered.
“…no way?”
Instead of answering, Lennok pulled the trigger.
bang!!
The bullet fired through the rifle hit the block next to Ibelin, crushed the inside of the block and stopped.
The impact caused the block debris to scatter in the air and then to be restored, burying even the shape of the bullet inside.
Lennok murmured as he reloaded his rifle again.
“This is number one.”
“Are you going to put a bullet in a block and use it as a mark? It’s a very creative idea… … .”
Evelyn stuck out her tongue and muttered as she stepped off the block and stood behind Lennok’s back.
“But it doesn’t make much of a difference if you differentiate and number the floating blocks.”
“It is important. Because these blocks seem to be responding not to life reactions, but to power such as magic power.”
“What do you mean?”
“It is to check the order of the blocks in advance by inserting bullets and using them as a medium to transfer magic power.”
Lennok replied, pulling the trigger incessantly.
“You don’t have to put bullets in every block. Enough to be able to transfer magic to nearby blocks via bullets.”
“Is it a frontal breakthrough after all….? But it’s the same that you have to calculate a lot of cases. The calculation itself will take quite some time.”
It is a self-evident fact that Lennok, Ibelin, and other superhumans have far superior judgment and memory.
It is not difficult in itself to transfer magic, remember the direction and trial and error, and exclude it from the candidates, but the problem is time.
In the end, if you can’t find an expedient or shortcut, you can only get the merit of starting to solve the puzzle of the gateway a little earlier than others.
But Lennok laughed despite Evelyn’s words.
“no…. It’s fine if it’s this way.”
[Master really can’t do anything without me.]
muttered Darby, who woke up rubbing his eyes in the court.
[To think that a brain spirit like me is just a calculator… … . Now, all of the Master’s cell phone batteries are removed.]
“If you finish the calculations in time, I will give them all.”
Lennok laughed and stroked Darby’s hair.
“So please take good care of me, partner.”
[…] … Heh.]
Darby snorted at Lennok’s words, but didn’t say anything more.
After that, Lennok focused on putting the bullets between the blocks.
You don’t have to put bullets in all of the thousands of blocks.
It is only necessary to satisfy the range enough to distinguish nearby blocks using bullets as a medium.
Lennok’s guess was that the job would end in a little less than 200 rounds.
Evelyn, who was watching from the sidelines, ripped out the magazine and threw bullets with her bare hands to help with the work, but it didn’t take long.
“Let’s begin.”
[It’s ready.]
At the same time as the wizard and the spirit hardened their resolve, floating blocks began to flicker in blue light throughout the huge cavity.
Beep beep beep!!
“This….”
Magical light that flickers hundreds of times per second, like electric signals going back and forth inside precise mechanical parts, brightly illuminates the cavity.
Even with Evelyn’s body vision, the magic light shines so dizzy that it is difficult to ascertain the rules or order, but soon after, the appearance begins to change little by little.
Pavat pod pod pod!!
Among the magical lights of the blocks that continued to light up and then go out, blocks that no longer go out and continue to maintain the light of magic began to appear one by one.
The figures of blocks revealing their existence one by one while maintaining their light among the flickering brilliance as if they were lighting the way in order.
Evelyn opened her eyes wide after checking the magical path that stretched from the block closest to the ground.
“Wait a minute, did you start counting now? What kind of computing device does it have, so the speed is so… … .”
[Quickly correct that archer’s misunderstanding.]
Darby protested, sticking her head out while wagging her three tails inside Lennok’s coat.
[You should tell me that the great brain spirit’s computational power is not comparable to that of a calculator.]
Instead of answering, Lennok held out his phone to Darby in his arms.
As soon as Darby saw it, he stopped talking and immediately started sucking on the bottom of the phone with both front paws.
[Omnyomnyom.]
Lennok glanced down at Darby and immediately turned his attention to the blocks floating overhead.
At some point, more than half of the blocks placed in this space stopped flickering and were shining brightly, maintaining their magic light.
Evelyn also checked the path created by the path of light created in that way and frowned.
“…It’s completely medium heating. It would have taken a really long time to find it by calculating each and every one.”
The sequence of roads from one block appears in a completely opposite block, appears in a block that sinks downward, and rises again.
Even though I wondered if the order would be aligned only in the blocks that were determined and far apart, it was connected to the block right next to it.
There are even cases where the order does not continue unless you return to the block you crossed over once.
Instead of going through all these trials and errors, it was possible to solve it at an unusually fast speed because of Darby’s strong artificial intelligence’s powerful computational ability.
Having received control of the magic light emitted by Lennok, he was trying to substitute the number of possible cases out of thousands of blocks one by one with his powerful calculation ability.
The crystallization of calculation that performs simple repetitive tasks that are possible for humans by proxy at an extremely fast speed.
For Darby, a brain spirit and specialized in learning and creating algorithms, it was relatively easy.
Lennok saw it and immediately stepped over to the nearest glowing block.
“Let’s move.”
“already? Wouldn’t it be better to cross once the calculations are done? What if I get confused in the middle?”
Even as Evelyn said that, she immediately started following Lennok back and forth between the blocks.
Although he had his own thoughts, he was following what Lennok said.
Lennok also responded by stepping on the blocks in order using the floating magic.
“You never know when other entrants will follow into this cavity. As the level of those gathered here is quite high, you will quickly understand what this light means.”
“Well, if you show me even for a moment, they’ll remember and follow you right away….”
“Instead, if we erase the traces of the blocks we passed through, there won’t be any chance of being caught up quickly by latecomers.”
Lennoc and Evelyn diligently began to cross between the blocks, erasing the traces and magic they had passed through.
[Progress 62%. 3 minutes until the calculation is completed.]
“Aww?!”
“It feels like 10 seconds. It seems to reset if you stay in the air longer than that. I have to be careful.”
On the way, Evelyn stumbled and Lenok rescued her, causing a small commotion, but it was not a big problem.
Until Dabi, who was in the middle of hitting the order of the magic maniac with repetition, suddenly stopped all calculations.
[Progress 96%. Operation stopped.]
“What?”
[There is an unverifiable variable. No matter how much you transfer from this block to any other block, the remaining magic power is impossible.]
“Did you check all the blocks you have already crossed?”
Darby nodded at Lennok’s words.
Evelyn, who was waiting for Lennok’s decision behind her back, asked.
“Is something wrong?”
“…It seems that there is something hidden in this cavity that we have not been able to figure out.”
When Lennok roughly explained the existence of variables, Evelyn’s slightly excited expression subsided.
“It doesn’t look like you’re going to let go easily.”
“…Darby
said that the progress calculated by setting all the floating blocks in the cavity as variables is 96%.
If so, the number of blocks left to reach the gateway must have been few.
Where the hell did the problem occur, so that a variable so important that the brain spirit’s calculation was interrupted occurred?
A situation where even if the mana sensor is spread around the cavity, a big problem cannot be detected except for a strange sense of incongruity coming from all sides.
There was only one way.
“I guess I’ll have to wait until I can use the Mystic Eye again.”
“…Aren’t you overdoing it?”
Evelyn bowed her head with a worried expression.
“At the very least, you should check and move on. It would be nice if I could find the variable before that, but-”
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Before he could finish his words, an intense explosion exploded beyond Lennok’s shield.
A raging heat wave envelops the two. It’s never the magical power of kindness.
Evelyn, who drove away the heat wave that raged on the block with a single gesture, jumped up from her seat.
“It’s down there.”
“okay. watching.”
Evelyn’s sharp voice made Lennok’s eyes sink deep.
Dozens of supermen who appeared through dozens of doors on the common ground the two had passed through were glaring at them.
“I finally found these X cubs.”
On the day the explosion was fired, the sorcerer with a standing expression spat out thick double curses at Lennok.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to hide in a snowy mountain and blow someone’s head off? Now I’m all over this dog… … !!”
Taaang!!
Before the magician’s words could reach the end, he collapsed, spraying blood on the flying bullets.
Lennok replied as he reloaded his rifle with a sullen face.
“If you want to say that, you should have just avoided it.”
“Urin!!”
“These motherfuckers!!”
“Catch me alive. You will not die gracefully!!”
The futile death of a colleague whose trace disappeared overhead.
There, other superhumans who were enraged screamed and jumped onto the block to catch Lennok.
Lennok stared down at them, but instead of aiming his loaded rifle again, he turned to Evelyn.
“Shall I give you three?”
“it’s okay.”
Kirik!!
Evelyn, who had an arrow attached to the shortbow tied to her left forearm, answered.
Her expression, which was full of worry about Lennok, had calmed down before she knew it.
“It’s the shooter’s job to get the timing right.”
Piying!!
An arrow shot by pulling a string is shot across hundreds of meters toward the bottom of the cavity.
The direction the arrow is heading is not the superhumans running over the blocks towards them now, but the bottom of the ground where they were just stepping on.
After 10 seconds of not being able to match the order of the blocks, the superhumans are forced to move to the ground.
“uh?”
Ibelin’s arrows shot in advance pierced the forehead in turn.
Bubbubuck!!
The latecomers who couldn’t even scream and stumbled.
There was no time to search their arms to obtain additional information.
“For arriving at the second gate first, the response was poor. It seems that military power was not good compared to search ability.”
“Or maybe I just got lucky.”
“Anyway, it seems clear that other entrants are slowly arriving inside the cavity.”
“that’s right. I can hear it.”
“…sound?”
There was no need for Evelyn to answer that.
Dada Dada Dada!!
A roar began to erupt through the open doors, accompanied by loud footsteps coming from outside the cavity.
Kwaaaaang!!
“Aaaaaaaa!!”
“It’s the Carbyne Knights!!”
“The Magic Tower of Enolas is here!!”
“These soldiers don’t even know how to speak. Where the hell did they come from!!”
“There is only one woman here. She is insanely strong…. We may all die!!”
The silent cavity suddenly becomes noisy, and shouts reverberate from all directions.
Even if the way to find the way is different, each person breaks through the real-time moving maze in their own way and approaches the second gateway.
Hey profit!!
The first to arrive were not large military organizations like the Knights or the Liberation Front.
A woman with a hard and cold impression walked out of the door in the middle of the joint with quiet steps.
In one hand, he is holding a lump of unidentified hair, and in the other hand, he is holding the collar of a dead body.
The moment Lennok stiffened his face at the strange magic emanating from her body,
Maya glanced around and quickly met their eyes at the two.
“found.”
Genius Magician Who Eats Medicine Chapter 359
