Chapter 113: Secret (5)
Almost there. I follow the presence and proceed cautiously.
It was a lot of work to advance through the gloomy labyrinth while avoiding the assailants. Even more so, when I had to do it while enduring the pain from Sable’s curse that’s been tormenting my whole body.
I somehow managed to keep my consciousness that was on the verge of disorganizing from the pain. The labyrinth was really vast, with many hidden traps. What makes this underground labyrinth actually kind of difficult is that it’s 3-dimensional instead of 2-dimensional. There are secret openings and narrow passages here and there on the high ceiling and the assailants are also attacking from there. On the contrary, there’s also a chance that at the end of those passages is what we’re looking for. If I didn’t have the ability to detect the Night Crystal, I wouldn’t be sure if there even was a goal.
The castle of the Mirage King was on top of a steep cliff. It would be hard to create a vast labyrinth in its basement unless you used the legendary space distorting magic. The multi-layered underground labyrinth must’ve been the solution for that. It’s not very convenient but Golems won’t complain and well, ordinary undead wouldn’t grumble about it either.
But, it’s the identity of this ‘enemy’ I’m curious about. There’s no way the defense mechanism from when Mirage King was alive would still be in place. As expected, too much time has passed and we should think that we fell for a trap.
If you think it about it logically, It’s the Mayor of Dessend, the person who hired Mister Lazar’s group and revealed the existence of this place to Senri, who’s the most suspicious. However, as I also felt earlier, this trap and the underground labyrinth aren’t something a human could make.
Senri was silent for a while after my question and said quietly.
“The undead created by Necromancers ―― generally can’t use magic.” “Eh…? But I can use it though? Besides, vampires do have mana.” I only learnt small magic that could be used in everyday life myself, but it’s still magic. Besides, if I remember right, vampires are strong against curses and combat magic because of the enormous amount of mana within them. Senri answered my question quietly.
“They only just have it. It might be the source of their resistance and powerful physical abilities, but it can’t be transformed into the phenomena of magic. You are ―― special.”