End of Labyrinth (1)
It’s been a long time since I’ve known Evelyn.
From the time he first entered this back alley and started taking on a proper request, he had learned to know each other, so it was almost four years, even if only counting the number of years.
It’s enough time to get to know each other without even trying.
That there is no information about Lennok’s past and that his status is unnaturally precarious compared to his abilities.
It must have been after we started working together in this snowfield that the doubts I harbored without saying anything turned into convictions.
It is natural to think that the name Evan may also be a pseudonym, seeing Lennok’s behavior in handling the pseudonym Evan too casually.
Worrying that the relationship that has been built up until now may disappear like a bubble.
“….”
If Lennok abandoned the name Van and went into hiding, the relationship between the two would be easily broken.
With Lennok’s magic manipulation ability and his ability to freely mimic magic patterns, it wouldn’t be that difficult to escape without anyone noticing.
I don’t want that kind of ending. I don’t like such a unilateral disconnection.
Without even telling Lennok directly, Evelyn swallowed her regret so quietly.
A lengthy silence on the speeding bike.
Only the heavy sound of engines echoes quietly through the vast void.
Lennok, who had been riding his bike without speaking, muttered quietly.
“I still often think of the factory that was almost killed by the Croken.”
“….”
“I have no intention of disappearing without saying goodbye to the person I owe my life to. What you worry about will not happen.”
“…Really?”
Lennox laughed at Evelyn’s words.
“From the beginning, I had no intention of giving up my status as a class. The foundation already laid under this name has grown too large… … .”
In a much lighter tone, Lennok replied as if he were admonishing.
He knew he didn’t have to explain his thoughts to Evelyn.
It might be much more efficient to gloss over her question and be prepared to run away at any moment you need it.
But even though Lennok knew that, he didn’t hesitate to give Evelyn a promise without a promise.
In a world full of confusion and mistrust, how important it is not to forsake those who approach you with good intentions.
This is because both intuition and rationality, created through considerable experience, were aware of it.
Eveline Marcia is a good person.
Lennok was not stupid or stupid enough to forsake this fierce archer who had followed him into the eyes of the blue and became a watcher.
“No, I don’t have to, but I just use your real name…Well, once you know Let’s talk later.”
Lennok laughed at the words of Evelyn, who spoke a little faster and muttered as if to make excuses.
I realized that even a seasoned agent of hard work is in some ways much more clumsy than Lennok.
* * *
Coo-goo-goo-goo…!!!
Vibrations resounding faintly in the depths of the snowfield.
However, the ground tremor was so grand and clear that it was transmitted to all the people waiting, scattered all over the snowy field.
Lapis, who sat at the edge of the floating island and looked up at the sky with his eyes closed, could also feel it.
“Lapis-sama…!!”
The look of the sun who jumped out with a surprised expression.
Lapis shook his head quietly at his behavior as he grabbed the spear pole.
Seon Seon, who was standing with a stiff expression, brushed his chest at her answer.
“yet…Aren’t you done?”
It’s already been a week since we succeeded in sending the core force of the watchers into the labyrinth.
Enough time for even the toughest of warriors to become exhausted and distracted.
That’s why Lapis was trying to keep the rotation of work and rest of the watchers waiting outside the snowfield as clean as possible.
Even if the watchers who entered the labyrinth successfully finished their work and came out, the power of the floating island should be ready to retrieve them right away.
However, it was not only the blue eyes that thought that way, but the fight for initiative near the gorge was being actively conducted to secure each entry and steal route.
In and out of the labyrinth, battles continue to take place for different reasons and motives.
“It’s not long.”
“That means…!”
Instead of answering, Lapis raised her eyes to the sky again.
With her eyes wide open, innumerable starlights in the endless void emerged, illuminating the darkness as vast as the universe.
“I can feel the power of looking down on this snowy field. The will of a transcendental being with a far-flung scope. It must belong to Jindun.”
“….”
It seemed that the name was not realized, but Lapis, who inherited the vocation of the lighthouse keeper, could understand.
The will of a transcendental being who goes beyond looking down at the entire snow field and rotates his consciousness beyond the time and space of the world.
It was clearly to see with both eyes the identity of the end approaching beyond the open sea.
Now, the Ascendant also has a hunch that time is truly running out.
Lapis does not know whether the ascendant’s will, which he realized belatedly, was left behind before and after his death.
The only thing that is certain is that he had it all on his mind from the beginning.
Lapis opened his mouth with an intuition close to certainty.
“I think we now have some idea why the Ascendant suddenly started moving.”
“no way…. Are you saying he succeeded in ascending?”
She shook her head at the nervous question.
“He is waiting.”
Lapis said blankly.
A vague certainty that has no basis or logic.
However, Lapis did not hesitate to tell Sunshine.
It was because she seemed to have read a little of Jindun’s intentions in the gaze looking at her.
“You mean you’re waiting? what the hell?”
“A person who can give himself an answer…Or someone to tell their answer.”
Lapis replied.
“In the end, only those who reach the end of the labyrinth will be able to confirm the truth.”
The end of the operation, which had been going on for nearly 50 days, was just around the corner.
The Hanghasasa Labyrinth did not reject those who entered it, and with the skills and hierarchy of those who entered it, they would be able to overcome the end.
However, Lapis’s expression showed more anxiety than joy.
“I hope everyone is safe….”
Even though she knows that it is an unrealistic and futile wish, she has no choice but to pray like that.
From the moment she decided to take over the lighthouse keeper’s calling and change the unreasonable ending, she had always been hoping for an impossible wish.
Lapis always had no choice but to wish for the people who gathered around her, driven by that absurd promise.
Not everything you wish for will come true, but nothing will come true if you do not wish for it.
To stop the opening of the sky and keep the world alive, Lapis was prepared to do anything he could.
* * *
Wheein!!
The sound of the wind gradually getting stronger. It’s hard to keep your eyes open as the wind blows past your face.
“I can see the end of the bridge.”
Along with Evelyn’s murmur, Lennok’s heart gradually became calmer.
Hundreds of illusory shapes through the telescope’s lens.
hundreds of bridges.
Even in each environment where time flows differently, the vision seen by Lennok walks forward at the same speed and pace.
“….”
A welcoming look to look back at oneself without change.
Even when he first entered this labyrinth, the figure that had been close to that of a young boy had now clearly changed to that of an old man with a crooked back.
It seems to show a person’s life from beginning to end.
Lennok seemed to know now what this vision meant, which he could only guess at.
“I tried to achieve the same status as the world alone by embodying all the past timelines and possibilities in the labyrinth.”
Lennok murmured.
“That is the answer given by the transcendent who challenges the ascension as a master of the barrier. But it must mean that even after putting such a miracle into reality, it still wasn’t enough… … .”
“…Have you come to a conclusion about the illusion?”
Evelyn grasped the context behind Lennok’s out of the blue and quickly arrived at the correct answer.
Lennok nodded as he glanced back at Evelyn’s expression, which had changed seriously at the same time.
“Before arriving at the final gateway, it is better to decide what to do with each other.”
“….”
“I don’t know who can reach the end of the labyrinth. Maybe the gateway itself only lets one of them in.”
“But in that case, you, who is a sorcerer after all, rather than me-”
“Listen to the end.”
Lennok interrupted Ibelin and tightened the throttle on his bike.
“Reaching the cradle doesn’t mean everything is over. We should also think about what happens after confirming whether the ascendant is alive or dead.”
“….”
“In the worst case, one person may block the road and the other person may have to go inside. It wouldn’t be strange if time was further warped inside the cradle.”
Lennok turned his head.
“If that’s the case, no matter how you think about it, it makes sense for me to block the road and buy time. It’s the sorcerer’s job to build defenses and add firepower. So, if that happens, don’t hesitate.”
Lennok’s cold eyes met Evelyn’s green eyes.
“We don’t know if Zaegis Ethernor is alive or dead, but we’ll have to figure out the underlying reason that made him move.”
“…okay.”
“It would have been nice if I could pass it on to other observers, but I don’t have the time to exchange information…. It is because the labyrinth is too wide than expected.”
As Lennok said that, he looked forward again.
“There must be a considerable number of people who are more interested in the heritage or artifacts than the Ascended. When things get complicated, you have no choice but to aim for the maximum benefit at that point… … .”
Evelyn put her hand on Lennok’s shoulder as she murmured. Her face turned cold.
“It’s half ahead.”
Lennok, who turned his head in the direction of her gaze, let out a sigh.
“okay…. It started slowly.”
beep… … !!
The dark red beam of light fired from the left oblique line was shooting precisely toward the bridge the two of them were running on.
If it wasn’t for the gloomy magic maniac, it wouldn’t be strange to think of it as Ibelin’s.
Competitors who passed through the second gateway discovered each other’s existence at the end of the bridge and began to check each other.
The gently curved red magic light twisted its head and aimed precisely at the upper part of the bridge where the two were running.
Deed Deuk!!
The legs, which had been hard enough to not even be scratched by Lennok’s revolver shot, were easily smashed to the point of futility.
The broken leg starts to recover quickly, but it is difficult to support a heavy bike with the speed and restoration.
Quickly recognizing this, Lennok immediately stretched out his magician and swung his bike toward the bridge right next to him.
Awesome!!
The bike floated upward with thick tire marks on the bridge.
The heavy bike fell onto the bridge right next to it, but the bridge, which was much stronger than before, withstood the impact without difficulty.
“It’s not over once. Keep coming!”
Dark red flashes flashed one after another from the other side of the dark void. If exactly the same magic light flashes consecutively, it is unlikely that the target is a coincidence.
At Lennok’s words, Evelyn stood up from the back of the bike she was sitting on.
“Keep on stepping. I will intercept.”
Clap!!
Reach your hands behind your back while balancing your toes on the edge of the bike.
The bow attached to the back of the shud opened wide to both sides, taking the form of a heavy longbow.
Evelyn also sensed that the power of the shortbow would not be able to counter the sniper shot from afar.
Even as she steps back all the way to the back of her bike to secure the distance to draw her bow, Evelyn’s complexion doesn’t show a shudder.
Kirik… … !!
As she attached the arrow shaft to the string and leaned her shoulders back, the green light from her fingertips moved to the arrowhead like a flame.
Aiming the arrow, relying solely on her eyesight and senses on the bike, which was running so fast that she couldn’t see her surroundings properly.
As soon as the bent fingers lost their strength, a three-pronged green flash soared through the void.
Piying!!
Immediately after, they aimed precisely at them in the air and collided with the pouring dark red magic light.
Green and black and red magic lights intertwined and exploded, bursting with dazzling light from above the void.
In the aftermath, magic rain rained down on all sides of the bridge without rest, creating fierce flames.
Doo doo doo!!!!
I trampled on the residual flames of magical power rising from all over the bridge with my bike and sprinted.
The heat melted the thick tires of the car body, and a burnt smell began to rise, but it was not the time to argue about such things.
“Can you pinpoint the location of the sniper?”
“no!”
Evelyn replied.
“Some of the magic sensors haven’t opened yet, but I can’t see anything from the front yet!”
Communication is also difficult in the wind that blows incessantly.
However, Lennok nodded his head as if he knew that, even after hearing Ibelin’s words.
‘I think I know roughly.’
Hundreds of bridges across a vast void. The speed of time that flows differently for each leg.
And if we think of the illusion of stepping on all those bridges, we can see what that means.
The bridges of this labyrinth leading to the third gateway represent all derived futures that a person could have lived through.
Warrior Carpenter Farmer Shaman Marshal Engineer Engineer Explorer… … . If we had lived with different possibilities, the experience time felt within them would have been completely different.
If you recognize that the timeline that runs differently for each bridge means that, you can understand why Lennok and Evelyn didn’t notice the gangsters’ existence earlier.
Only in the timeline that went ahead can we look back and recognize the existence of other possibilities.
It’s probably because you can’t actually perceive even the near future you could have in the same timeline.
The entirety of the thoughts of the ascendant who unraveled and embodied the myriad possibilities of human beings in one labyrinth.
The Hanghasa Labyrinth was a different world that was realized by overlaying the number of countless possibilities on the labyrinth.
‘The legs starting to come together and the road getting hard little by little must be part of that.’
As we get older and build up the hierarchy, the number of possibilities that exist for humans decreases, and instead, the future becomes more solid.
Does it mean the process of perfecting one’s ego and becoming stronger after going through a precarious and fragile childhood?
You can even feel faint awe at Jindun’s idea of completing a world by digging into a person’s inner world to the limit.
Unlike Lennok, who completed his image while drawing a future that did not come, Jindun was drawing a perspective of the past, looking back on the path he had already taken.
The direction of the two people who chose a future that does not exist and a past that has already passed.
Which one is closer to the answer can be confirmed at the end of this labyrinth.
damn… … !!
As he constantly looks around and observes all directions and absorbs new insights and know-how, the cracks in Lennok’s mind grow deeper.
However, Lennok was immersed in worry without even realizing it himself.
‘It would be nice if I could see and observe a little more… … The problem is time.’
If Lennok’s idea is correct, eventually all competitors who enter this labyrinth will reach their destination at the same time from the moment they arrive at this bridge, sooner or later.
In the end, the labyrinths of countless possibilities embodied in this labyrinth should lead to the existence of an ascendant named Jindun.
In other words, the advantage of the two people who passed the second barrier relatively quickly is overshadowed.
In the end, it was no different from saying that we had to run a race to compete for the vanguard over the last gateway.
“Evan!!”
Aaaaaaa!!
At that moment, Evelyn’s cry and Lennok, who woke up from his thoughts, suddenly looked down at his feet.
The angle between the fast-running legs narrows in an instant and merges into one huge road.
Boundaries disappeared, and all over the huge bridge that stretched endlessly, I began to see competitors riding on different vehicles like Lennok.
No words were needed.
Recognizing each other’s existence, the labyrinth entrants simultaneously raised their mana and reached out toward each other with all their might.
Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!
A wide wave of magical power collided with sharp thorns that rose like awl, creating a shockwave.
As if it had been affected by the shock wave, the void surrounding the bridge completely disappeared, revealing the scene of the labyrinth.
Even the superhumans, who were spraying water at each other in the astonishing scenery, burst into silence.
“Huh…!!”
“Mi crazy!!”
“This is ridiculous!!”
A huge vacant lot in a labyrinth full of far-off voids.
At the bottom, there were huge statues of demons that were likely to be ten meters tall, lined up tightly.
It has a human body, but its face is as vicious as that of a demon. The sight of them looking up at the bridge, each holding a weapon, is truly terrifying.
The stone statues, which looked like hundreds of bodies, filled the labyrinth with hideous and lively appearances and spirits, as if they would come alive at any moment.
And the end of that magnificent group of demons.
The appearance of a vastly huge gateway that leads from the dark hollow sky to the ground.
A golden pattern shines faintly between the white doors, dazzlingly illuminates the widening bridge.
Everyone who saw the beautiful gateway realized it.
The third and final gateway. The final road to the cradle.
The end of the labyrinth was right in front of us.
Genius Magician Who Takes Medicine Chapter 363
