354. Come after me if you twist me,
bang bang bang bang!
“Heh heh…”
“Aren’t you chasing me?”
“I’m not chasing you. I was going to beat you if you chased me.”
Kang Seung-hyun and his party were able to safely descend the stairs to the first floor, avoiding Alec, thanks to the sacrifices of the alchemists.
Duk Duk Duk ….
“Oh, why is this a sea of water? Did the water pipe burst?”
“This is why it smells fishy.”
As soon as I arrived on the first floor, the first thing that caught my eye was the water stream running down from the ceiling and the corridor filled with water up to my ankles.
“It’s time for [Air Work] to play.”
Lee Ji-ah climbed up one level as if climbing an invisible staircase.
Splash splash.
“It’s fortunate that these are slippers….”
“I should buy waterproof shoes or something.”
Of course, without [Air Walk], the two had no choice but to walk down the corridor that became a sea of water.
“But did these guys make a fuss to hide the broken water pipe?”
“It won’t be a normal thing. If there is a flood in the magic tower, it means that the water pipe inside is broken.”
“It’s probably because it’s a magic tower, so I’ll make water pipes with magic.”
As I was walking down the aisle while saying this,
“Ugh?”
“Dark magic….”
Thick black magic began to emanate from the front.
It was black magic so thick that even Kang Seung-hyun could understand it.
“Wait…”
Then someone’s voice came from behind.
Looking back, I saw Luten, the alchemist I met earlier on the second floor, coming down the stairs covered in blood.
“He managed to survive.”
“Ho, did Cheolhyun lose by any chance?”
“no. I left one of my alter ego behind and came to watch it, but Alec is happily cutting at the top.”
Apparently, the guy ran away while Alec was killing the other alchemists.
“Are you guys going to go to D-SW-11R4 too…”
“What are you saying? We’re going to a closed lab.”
“D-SW-11R4 is a closed lab.”
“Oh yeah? sorry!”
“….”
Ruten looked at Kim Ho-jung in a puzzled way and then pointed to the hallway and opened his mouth.
“I can’t hide it any longer. It is because of them that we put our energy and prevent outsiders from entering.”
“Those?”
Hearing that, I looked at the end of the corridor and saw several homunculi fighting over the black magic.
Half of them were normal homunculus, but the other half were homunculus that seemed to be corrupted by dark magic.
“Eh? Aren’t homunculus strong against dark magic?”
“There are also sacred homunculi that exude divine power, but there is no reason not to come out as a contaminated homunculus.”
“I heard and saw it.”
When there is light, there are also shadows.
If the alchemists succeeded in injecting divine power into the homunculus, conversely, a polluted homunculus emitting black magic could also be created.
“Alchemist, can you explain what happened?”
“…”
“I know you guys did a secret experiment, and I came to know that there is a secret passage in the room over there?”
Ruten was silent for a moment, then sighed and opened his mouth.
“I can’t tell you the details, but I’ll just answer that the contaminated magic power was accidentally leaked during the experiment.”
“Dark magic leak?”
The leaked black magic was very small.
The problem is that it was sprinkled near the secret passage leading to the magical center.
The alchemists drew a large amount of mana from the secret passage, so the black magic was sprayed there and spread like oil poured into a fire in an instant.
“I think the reason why the first floor became a sea of water was because the leaked dark magic destroyed the water pipe.”
“Actually, if it ended there, we could have solved it on our own line…” A
catastrophe occurred when the homunculus specially designed for the divine experiment were contaminated with dark magic.
It was because the contaminated homunculi escaped from the control of the alchemists and ran amok.
“I need to quickly close the secret passage to stop the spread of dark magic, but I can’t approach them because they’re camped out.”
The alchemists tried to break through by making homunculi, but the resistance of the contaminated homunculus was tough and they had been in a standoff for a month.
“So that’s why you closed the Southwest Building while making that fuss.”
“I just want to hide it. If the wizards knew, they would be able to pack up and run away right away.”
Fire is fake. The truth was a biohazard incident caused by black magic.
At this point, even if Doradel steps down from the Master position, he has nothing to say.
“It is unreasonable to enter further here. Didn’t you guys say you came here on Da-il’s orders?”
“For now?”
“I’ll give you 10 times the amount Dail offered, so I want you to keep your mouth shut on this matter.”
“With that money, I could hire a priest and a veteran adventurer to defeat them.”
No matter how strong the homunculi are, there is no business in front of them.
“The contents of the experiment could be leaked, so even if it takes time, we should solve it ourselves.”
“What kind of experiment were you doing?”
“…that can’t be said.”
After that, Ruten closed his mouth firmly.
No matter what he does, he seems unwilling to open his mouth.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t say anything. You’ll find out when you get into the lab.”
“You can just go in and close the secret passage, right? Pay for the trouble later.”
“Did you not hear me?”
Ruten shouted as if it was absurd.
“The dark magic thickly spread in the corridor is also a problem, but it is virtually impossible to break through there with human power because of the contaminated homunculus guarding the front…” It
was at that moment.
“That is your case.”
Splash!
Without hesitation, Kang Seung-hyun took out a knife and charged at the contaminated homunculus.
Whoa!
At that moment, a silver aura soared from the knife, and the surrounding dark magic began to disappear as if it were burning.
‘I never thought I’d use disbelief here.’
Disbelief is the power that inflicts damage in proportion to the target’s faith, divine power, and black magic.
Of course, it wouldn’t mean anything to the homunculus, who were far from being religious and were a minus.
‘No matter how homunculus you are, it’s a different story if you have divine power or dark magic!’
“uh?”
Luten’s face was dyed with surprise, and at the same time,
he was hooked!
shah!
“Kill one.”
The knife, embracing the power of disbelief, knocked down one contaminated homunculus while neatly slicing through it.
Wow!
“Oh oh! After all, Teacher Kang! It’s a one-shot cut!”
“what are you doing? Are you just going to watch it there?”
“Huh huh?”
“I need to get out of here quickly. Hurry up and bring your weapon.”
“Ah okay… I’ll help too.”
Hojeong Kim activated [Black Mist] while using Arrogance.
Swoouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh…
Black energy wrapped around Kim Ho-jung’s arm and changed into a gauntlet shape.
[Black Fog] is also a unique power that can break down divine power and black magic, so it can deal with contaminated homunculus.
The downside is that every time you use it for mental problems of the user, your mental power will be cut off.
“Then let’s go…”
Kim Ho-jung was about to walk away, half-crying with wobbly legs.
“Oh, Uncle Hojeong. Can’t we just take out the determination weapon?”
“huh? Determination weapon?”
“Determination weapons can also strike with dark magic, right?”
Lee Ji-ah, who was watching from behind, asked with a puzzled face.
Compared to disbelief or the black beast, it was inferior in rank, but it was because the determination weapon was a rare item that could inflict a fatal blow on faith.
“Of course, [Black Mist] has better damage, but is there a need to use it while sacrificing mental strength?”
“…”
“Looking at his expression, he must have forgotten. I also decided to bring out my weapon.”
“Uh huh…”
Kim Ho-jung disarmed the [Black Fog] with a shy face.
Because I was really eating.
“I completely forgot about the determination weapon because I thought it was only used when fighting priests.”
“Why do you learn one thing and forget the other?”
Kim Ho-jeong took out the [Determination Spade] and Lee Ji-ah’s [Determination Wrist Sword] from her inventory.
“thank you!”
Lee Ji-ah was delighted and received the [Determination Wrist Sword].
This is because I can’t use the inventory because I’m a clone, so I left the decision weapon to Kim Ho-jung in case of an unexpected situation.
“Then let’s go!”
“okay!”
Shaaaa!
The two swung their determination weapons at the darkly polluted homunculus towards the black magic flowing everywhere.
grasp!
Then, if not as much as disbelief, as if he had received quite a lot of damage, he staggered back and stepped back.
“What the hell…”
Luten was speechless as he saw the scene.
It was shocking for Kang Seung-hyun to jump into the black magic because he calmly used his skills inside and decisively defeated the polluted homunculos lightly and moved on.
‘Oh, no! When they enter the laboratory…’
Luten came to his senses belatedly and tried to stop Kang Seung-hyeon’s party,
but hey.
He didn’t have the confidence to break through the dark magic in the hallway.
“If you twist me, follow me.”
Kang Seung-hyun crossed the river as if to show off Luten and went into the lab.
-“Wow…”
“It really looks like a closed lab. It should have been fine until a month ago.”
The inside of the laboratory was a mess as if it had been bombed.
It was because not only traces of the alchemists ran away in a hurry were left here and there, but also the water pipes burst and became a sea of water because the building was contaminated with dark magic.
“Is that a secret passage?”
In the eastern corner of the lab, a warp portal and a half-shattered magic circle were emitting soft light.
“There are separate settings for when you go inside and when you come out.”
It was set to exit mode now, so the mana did not penetrate into the center of the mana, but the dark mana around it was getting thicker because the mana from inside continued to flow out.
“Should I lock this for now?”
“It doesn’t matter, does it? I can ignore the dark magic, Ms. Lee Ji-ah is an alter ego anyway, Ms. Alec will feel like coming home, and Ms. Kim Ho-jung can just die.”
An ordinary person would have had a change in magic long ago, but it had nothing to do with Kang Seung-hyun’s party, so I decided to close it after finishing the investigation.
It was then.
“Aww!”
Kim Ho-jung, who was looking inside alone, screamed.
“What is going on? Did you fall while walking alone?”
“Poetry corpse! There is a body!”
When I went to Kim Ho-jung for some reason, I could see that a lot of bodies were piled up on one side of the laboratory.
