Admission is for nothing (109)
Lesson 23. Even if it’s a lie – 4
There are two patterns in the trick room rules.
The first is that it applies to all the elements that make up the room.
Second, the scope of application is limited.
For example, the rule that you must not attack innocent people in Room 23 obviously did not apply to the group of killers.
However, the rule that anyone without a contract with the Constellation could not act inside the city at night applied to everyone.
If the taffy seller is going to do as he pleases, he may want to ask why there are rules.
After all, the rules of Trick Room are meant to make climbing difficult and worthwhile.
Above all, the fact that the subject of the rule is different could itself be a hint.
‘It’s an extreme example, but those who were able to break the rule of not attacking innocent people were all criminals. Maybe this room is like that too. You can’t attack first unless you’re attacked. If this condition applies to everyone, a truly peaceful world will come.’
Moreover, the second condition given in this room was in line with the first condition.
Whoever attacks them first is at least guilty of an assaulter.
i.e. sinners. It can be beaten without acknowledgment.
‘However, as soon as you find the criminal, you can’t attack and kill him first.’
Could it be that the rules of the trick room change according to their actions?
Light stamped his feet next to Ban Yu-won seriously thinking about that.
“Is that important now? It’s important that it’s connected up to room 24. What are you going to do? 4 connections.”
“I heard and saw it. If you do this, even considering the bullshit you did in room 23, you should be able to expect a reward from room 30, right?”
“Ah, that’s bothering me.”
Dok-go-yeon let out a melancholy voice and looked up at the city walls that were approaching.
The strictness of the border that cannot be compared to that of a small city with 23 rooms.
As soon as they saw the party, they did not shoot arrows, but everyone was preparing to attack them at any time.
There were two gates in the castle, but the large gate was locked and the small gate next to it was left open so that people could come and go.
“Come this way.”
A guard spotted them and waved his hand at them.
As if they had promised, the group approached the guard with Ban Yu-won at the forefront.
“Originally, we didn’t do any checkups, but these days cultists are rampaging, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Where are you from?”
“It’s from a small town.”
The guard’s complexion turned pale when Banyuwon said the name of the town.
“You mean the city where the gods descended? Pillars of light and darkness soared. It was said that it was after that that this situation started to get serious… how was the situation there?”
“It wasn’t too bad…how did the rumors get around?”
According to the guards, two weeks ago two pillars rose from the small town and became a hot topic.
Fearing divine punishment, humans stopped peeing toward the small town after that.
If something big happened, there should be someone who ran away from a small town, but there is no such person.
Therefore, it is said that the small town is officially treated as extinct.
“Surely you would think so. In reality, it was quite the opposite.”
“contrary?”
“of course. At that time, a group of cultists were hiding in a small town with the power of the Constellation, and I…” “
You?”
“That’s right.”
Ban Yu-Won nodded his head with a sincere expression on his face.
Then, I just did a goo without spitting in my mouth.
“That is what I punished. In the name of the Holy One.”
With those words, Ban Yu-Won floated an orb of light over his palm.
It was photon magic he had just learned, but it wasn’t that difficult to use magic itself, perhaps because the principle of activation was not so different from the elemental magic he was training hard for.
“what?! no it can’t be! Then that pillar of light?!”
After all, is magic that manipulates light extremely rare?
The guard’s eyes turned over in an instant.
Okay, first of all, it became clear that the people on the Wings of Justice weren’t openly active in this city.
And if that’s confirmed, it’s Banyuwon’s turn from now on!
“Exactly. Of course, due to borrowing his power too much, I have been recovering for a while due to the aftereffects… So I would like to hear more about the happenings these days.”
“Huh…! That doesn’t mean that you’ll help solve the case here too! It’s not like this here, come on inside! Even the companions!”
The guard hurriedly summoned a colleague from the inside to take over the task, and then, bending over, led them directly into the fortress wall.
Have you ever seen Ban Yu-Won look back at the party following him with a benevolent smile as if he were a saint? made a face.
“This man is so ridiculous…. A man who will act as the leader even if he enters the Murim Alliance as a ignorant…”
“My conscience is pricked. Why should I feel guilty when half of them are lying?”
“That’s probably Wright.”
“…Why didn’t you talk about it, Rachel? huh? Lucille?”
The group was treated extremely well.
Even a knight who appeared after receiving a report confirmed that Banyuwon’s light magic was not a fraud, and the already good lodging was upgraded even more!
“I think I can live here for a while.”
“No.”
in the knight’s mansion.
After being treated to a hearty meal, Dok-go-yeon cut back to Ban Yu-won, who patted his stomach and made a satisfied expression.
“Don’t forget that this is a part of the tower and a test space. It’s not a place where you can be complacent.”
“I know, I know. So you just ate the rice.”
“huh? rice?”
Wright, who was leaning back in his chair and making a languid expression because he ate quite a bit, probably because the meal here was more to his taste than the student cafeteria at the academy, blinked his eyes at those words.
“Why rice? Was it delicious?”
“Did you eat this Duntang-ah rice without knowing that it was poisoned?”
“poison?”
“That was deadly poison, too.”
Light became tearful.
In fact, because of his contract with the Holy Sword, he had the constitution to nullify most poisons at the source.
Thanks to that, he munched on the poisoned rice without even noticing.
“Wasn’t this place a place where you could relax comfortably?”
“There is no place like that in the world.”
“I can rest comfortably anywhere as long as I’m by Yoo-won’s side…♡”
“Beast, stop making clever appeals whenever you have a chance.”
Ban Yu-Won sighed and activated the language magic of Hae (解) to cleanly dissipate the poison that had entered the body of the party.
In fact, a strong person like Dokgoyeon or Ruchel has such strong resistance, so I don’t know if he didn’t even need to step out… but I didn’t know what kind of aftereffects he would leave, so I got rid of it.
“Did you all know?! Did I have fun eating like an idiot without knowing? why? Why did you just eat it?”
Of course, the anti-yuwon weakened it the moment they saw that the meal they had been given was poisoned.
To be precise, in the string of deadly poisons, only ‘Maeng’ was separately picked out and absorbed.
Then why didn’t all of the poison get rid of it, but left some?
It was…
“Because we had to strike first. Poison is an excellent means of attack.”
Ban Yu-won sighed and replied, then got up and looked outside.
In fact, it was extremely suspicious at the point of leaving the table to have a leisurely meal with only the party.
It seems that they were afraid that they would poison themselves.
The important thing now is to decide who is the enemy and who is the ally, but the knight was a definite enemy.
Because he looked black in Ban Yu-Won’s man-dog’s eyes.
“In other words, he’s the one who ordered the poison.”
“why?”
“I don’t know. It could be a cultist who follows the claws of the dark forest, or it could be someone who seeks to kill us under the command of the wings of justice. But that doesn’t really matter.”
“Isn’t it important?!”
“then. Anyway, I’m sure we were attacked by him.”
Again, Wright did not yet understand the nature of this trick room.
Fundamentally, there is nothing different from Room 23.
“Let’s say the light excitation incident occurred. So what’s the point?”
“Well. Why did the incident happen…?”
“The correct answer is the culprit. There’s no need for anything, just catch the culprit. And the next most important thing is who caught the culprit.”
“Don’t you often hear that your thoughts are twisted…?”
“Stay still. Grab the popcorn here. … Kuhak!”
Ban Yu-won took out popcorn from his inventory, handed it to the party, opened the door, and went out.
While the eyes of the soldiers standing guard in the mansion were focused on him, the half-yuwon, who had been fine, suddenly vomited red paint-like blood!
“Why are you doing that!”
“Poison Who poisoned the food! He must be a cultist…!”
“I can’t do this, get a treatment!”
“Who made the food today!”
“Ha ha ha ha… You are the cultist!”
“what?”
At the right moment, the knight stepped forward.
He was holding a thick sword good for cutting people’s throats and glaring at Banyuwon.
Surprisingly, his greatsword was emitting a brilliant light.
Enchantment of Light! He was a magic swordsman.
“I imitated it pretty well, but I couldn’t copy his true power. Also, what he said was right. You are an evil that must be eradicated right here!”
“How could this be the light?!”
“I hope our knight!”
The knight aimed a white-emitting greatsword at Ban Yu-Won.
All of a sudden, Ban Yu-Won, who staggered at that timing, was struck in the shoulder by the knight’s sword and fell to his knees.
“Kuk!”
“It will be difficult to stand still. In order to kill you, I mixed the deadly venom of a basilisk that can even kill an ogre with a single drop.”
“A coward, someone who follows the light is poisoned…!”
Ban Yu-won thought while screaming.
‘I tried it just in case, but the rules don’t seem to apply to those guys.’
―It’s as if I’ve already attacked you directly when I ordered the poisoning.
‘Still, I did. Anyway, if this is the case, then it can be said that the second rule does not apply to all contractors of [Wings] and [Claws].’
Watching the staggering half-yuwon, the soldiers seemed to be confused.
Could it be that the knight they trusted and followed attacked the person who signed the contract with the Constellation of Light?
Aren’t you even dealing with that light!
The not-so-intelligent soldiers have given up trying to decide who is good and who is bad.
Of course, I trusted the knight I had known for a long time, but the impact of the huge pillar of light that rose from a small town two weeks ago was also great, so I couldn’t judge and act rashly.
So the conclusion I came to is to wait until someone dies.
In this case, the winner is usually the law of justice.
“This is the judgment of light! die!”
“The true light is-!”
Okay, anyway, I got a rough idea of what I needed to know.
The time when the knight aiming for Ban Yu-won’s head with a raised greatsword and striking it down.
“It is like this!”
The half-yuwon, who had been kneeling, gained momentum, jumped, and stabbed his sword at the empty knight’s neck!
“Ka ha ha?!”
The knight who missed the greatsword made a sound of air escaping and stepped back.
There was a huge hole in his neck.
Ban Yu-won raised the longsword of the beheader covered in clear and beautiful light, stood tall and shouted.
“He healed me and gave me strength to punish the cultists who dare to pretend to be his light! I will purify this city with his light!”
“A social cult cultist…!”
The knight knelt down.
A black light that came from the wounded throat and gradually covered his whole body.
It was very similar to the deaths of cultists that have been discovered so far.
Ban Yu-Won was very fortunate that the magic he had obtained was photon magic.
“Ooooooooo!”
“I can’t believe the knight was a cult…!”
“The warrior of light has executed the cultist hiding in disguise!”
The soldiers who were deeply shocked by the death of the knight cheered with louder voices to erase the agitation.
And Ban Yu-won, who silently emits light and adds to the soldiers’ faith.
The Rebellion members, who were still in the room, widened their eyes as they watched the semi-yuwon from behind.
“So how long do we have to do this?”
“There is a saying that the light decides to end.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means to let the person who opened it take care of it.”
indeed.
Does Ban Yu-won have such a deep meaning in giving away the popcorn?
Light nodded and decided to quietly eat some popcorn.
I don’t know, but the Constellations looked down on Ban Yu-Won too much.
Ban Yu-Won, who poured oil on the flames lit by the Constellation, saying that he was a good man, and eventually the situation got out of control and ran amok under the rules of the Trick Room.
So, when the connection progressed to room 27, Ban Yu-won and his party were visiting the royal palace of the ancient kingdom.
