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Dark purple eyes glowed in the darkness like a goblin’s fire.

What was one grew in an instant, and before long it surrounded the camp where we had settled.

“What, what is that? A witch beast?”

“···I do not know.”

There was something strange about simply being a witch.

‘I didn’t notice until I got closer.’

The range to which the sandbar boundary mode is applied is about 1 km.

As soon as you come within the detection range, you can immediately know, and most of the time, the mental control I entered without waking up usually responds on its own.

This time, I didn’t catch it until it came this close.

‘Furthermore, I felt threatened enough to wake up my spirit.’

There is only one case where the saju vigilance mode wakes up the sleeping mind.

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Judging that it was difficult to handle the enemy, I decided that I had to respond directly.

“…I think we need to approach it carefully.”

“Yeah, yes. By the way…”

Skadi said in a hoarse voice.

“Hey, release this…”

She was wiggling in my arms with a red face.

When I released my arm, Skadi took a step away from me, wagging her tail.

“Whoa… Then, let’s calmly kill them one by one! Stay calm!”

“·······.”

I guess he’s not the most calm.

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Just looking at him shouting loudly with a reddened face, it is clear that he is embarrassed and excited.

I shook my head with a sigh and raised my revolver.

“Are those monsters? Something feels strange.”

“We should find out now.”

Roshua seemed to have noticed early on that they were different from normal monsters.

It must be because he was once a demon, so he has a keen sense of demonic energy.

“Wait a moment.”

He raised his revolver and fired at the nearest one.

The inscribed runes were [Search] and [Analysis], and it was intended to find out how they came to be.

The bullet that killed the flash flew silently and lodged itself in the monster’s body.

However, strangely, there was no information returned.

I could hear blood splashing and screams, so it was clear that I had been hit, but the runes engraved on the bullets had no effect and disappeared.

“There is some kind of power that blocks magic.”

The information I acquired spread to three people in an instant.

If magic is blocked but physical force works, the next response was decided.

While those who smelled the blood moved around busily, Skadi flew sparks around.

Then, iron dust was extracted from the soil on which she stood and gathered around her.

It is a magic called “Magnetic Control”, one of the 6 circle magics.

She instantly spun the extracted iron powder into a cannonball and fired it forward with blue sparks.

In line with the keyword ‘physical power’, it responded with shells instead of electric shocks.

puff-!

Fortunately, the defense wasn’t that high, so the guys shot bullets and died.

Skadi and I responded from a distance, and Roshua ran between Laflis’ assistants and threw out fists and feet.

It couldn’t have been a very exciting way to put heavy power on each shot.

“Before! Like this! wanted! Say!」

It seems like that’s how he relieves the stress he’s accumulated over the years.

I turned my gaze to the silently swarming monsters.

‘There is no system in movement.’

The link between actions is not precise.

It meant that they were not getting help from the command entity.

They jumped into Jung-gu Heating like wild animals, then broke their bodies and heads and died.

“…that’s strange.”

weaker than expected

If this was the case, I could have solved it with a vigilant mode, but why did you hand over the initiative to me?

The question just lingered in my head unanswered.

“It’s strange. There’s no structure in the behavior.”

Laflis’ thoughts did not seem to be very different.

As usual, R&D is her main job, and she seemed to notice that their behavior was different from that of conventional beasts.

“Just kill them all and think about it.”

Skadi cast the last cannonball and fired it at them.

We hurriedly inspected their corpses in a place where the last remaining eye lights disappeared and only the sound of rain echoed again.

“…that’s strange.”

It looks like a snake.

To be precise, they resembled ‘Lamia’, an upper-middle-class snake beast.

The reason why they are said to be similar is because they look strangely like they were just made.

“Oh… It’s really like that… I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before.”

“Let’s try it once.”

When Skadi glanced at Roshua, he nodded and applied magical power to the blades of his hands to slit Lamia’s stomach.

Let’s open the stomach correctly so that blood doesn’t splatter, and Skadi wearing surgical gloves checks the internal tissues and nerves.

Beside him, Lapless was recording information in real time.

Indeed, it was a no-nonsense distribution of roles.

‘…it’s comfortable.’

Maybe it’s because they’re all active players, so they do what they have to do without saying anything.

In addition, he is so good at research and analysis that he holds the position of professor, and even extracts even the smallest features in an instant.

Seeing only the children who had to be taught from one to ten, I couldn’t be so happy to see people doing their jobs normally.

“It blocks magic, and you can barely feel the magic. The concentration of magic inside is extremely high, but it shields everything.”

After checking, Skadi, who took off her gloves and burned them, said with a puzzled expression.

And that would be the same feeling for everyone here.

‘I mixed something with the magic beast.’

I don’t know what it is, but one thing’s for sure: these guys aren’t born normally.

And, I’ve seen examples similar to this in Balthazar’s inner world.

‘Monsters created by the singularity.’

At that time, it did not have the ability to block magic and block magic, but it looked very similar to the monsters of the singularity that we saw at the time.

The things he created back then resembled the ghosts, but there were only weirder ones.

‘Is the singularity intervening?’

I don’t know what purpose they were created for, but there could be a singularity in the cause of their creation.

Magi’s Expansion and Singularity’s Monster.

I didn’t know what happened inside, but I had a strong hunch that it wouldn’t be unusual.

“I think I can use this.”

When I saw the characteristics of the guy, I was torn.

As my eyes naturally gathered, I stabbed the revolver into the beast’s body.

As the chamber rotated, a dark blue circle was created, and the magic of time and space permeated his body.

One of my powers, ‘the magic of time and space’, is not affected by the external environment, so it is not scattered even by the monster’s magic blocking effect.

Using this feature, I was able to read the fragmentary memory of the guy.

“If you’re lucky, you might be able to go to ‘The Heart of Pandaemonium’.”

If the Singularity had intervened in their birth, their memories would surely start at the place where the Singularity existed.

And since the only place in Pandemonium where he could possibly be was the center of Pandaemonium, where the emperor is, he might be able to find out its location.

“If it’s in the center… you mean the ‘Heukcheon Corridor’?”

“Yes.”

“Uh…isn’t that a place no one can enter?”

Skadi reacted bewildered.

However, the reactions of Roshua and Laflis were not different.

I understand.

This is because the central part of Pandemonium, called the ‘Black Sky Corridor’, is an unknown territory that has never allowed humans to enter.

It is located in the deepest part of the dimensional abyss, and it is a place that has never been observed due to the concentration of demonic energy beyond imagination.

A theoretical place that exists only in literature.

It wasn’t strange that he was taken aback when he said he was going to a place where even the view of the constellations couldn’t be reached.

“Using the memory information of this Demonic Beast…, you should be able to find out the coordinates of the Black Sky Corridor. If you know the location, it won’t be impossible to move.”

“Isn’t it too dangerous?”

“It is, but it is also an opportunity.”

Originally, our plan was to go around the inner neighborhood of Pandaemonium.

Even if it went that far, it was possible to investigate, and if you go deeper, the risk is beyond imagination.

However, if you go in, you can catch the Singularity’s tail.

We know exactly who our main enemy is, and we get information to prepare for.

If you use the magic of time and space, you can use the warp without the interference of demons, so running away isn’t much of a problem.

It is an attempt worth trying in many ways.

“… True. Even a ridiculous plan sounds plausible when Professor Kang talks about it.”

“Yes. Nodding your head on its own makes me feel like I’m being multi-leveled.”

“·······.”

…Rosua’s Laflis seemed to understand.

The evaluation was a little uncomfortable, but it is a part that can go beyond the line of frowning.

“…That’s good. If you’re in danger, you’ll need someone to protect you.”

Skadi also agreed.

Although the reason was a little strange.

The other two seemed to have the same idea, but their round eyes turned to Skadi.

“Are you not protecting us?”

“Me?”

“Everyone, you guys are already strong!”

well

If purely based on magical abilities, it wouldn’t be much different from Roshua, Laflis, or me.

The two of them wouldn’t know that, but they just laughed at Skadi with sinister eyes.

“Why, why are you laughing so much?”

“It’s nothing~”

“Cute.”

“No, what are these guys!”

Even when Skadi got angry, their expressions didn’t change.

After such a brief happening, we changed our plan to head inside Pandaemonium without a break.

It was dangerous to camp in a place where these monsters roamed.

In this case, it would be better to find a safe place and make a hideout.

“It’s the same going through the Pandaemonium, right?”

“Yes. We have to catch more of these monsters anyway.”

One guy isn’t enough.

I’ll be able to read the exact coordinates if I catch more numbers, preferably a big one.

And there was no need to go all the way to the Black Sky Corridor anyway, and it was the same that Pandaemonium was untouched by people.

Normally, I didn’t even have to come this far, because I’ve been scanning the surroundings with the power of the Constellation.

‘Was the name of that constellation Libernstein?’

It is a constellation that can observe distant places like radio telescopes.

It is also the constellation that secretly created the route to send us here, but one drawback is that it literally only observes information and does not obtain visual information.

So, the inside of the Pandemonium surrounded by demons was the same that had not been observed until now.

“Then, I will go.”

This is the border area that touches the border of Pandaemonium.

Giving up on a night’s rest, we decided to cross the boundary we were trying to open the next day.

Saaa-

When I summoned the source of brilliance through the revolver, the platinum ring began to rotate around the chamber in a circle.

At the same time, Skadi blocked the leaking traces of holy power.

It was because in this place covered with demonic energy, the location could be exposed just by taking out the holy power.

I’m going to go to the middle of the day!!

When the circle was drawn down, the air shimmered like the surface of the water and began to tear left and right as if it had been cut with a saw blade.

The holy power rebelled against the demons and split the demonic curtain in Pandaemonium.

“···let’s go.”

Hurrying up the sacred power, we stepped into the crack.

The bottom of the abyss, where the Demonic Beast lurks, where no one has ever set foot.

We set foot towards the Demonic Realm, which is said to be the ‘Ecliptic Capital’ of the Witchbeast Empire, home of the Witchbeasts and where the emperor resides.

A dizzying sensation as if the ground had been cut off came over us, and our bodies began to fall towards the deep inside of Pandaemonium.

‘It’s a pity it’s not the first time.’

It is said that there are quite a few people dispatched to investigate Pandaemonium.

However, he did not come back and died inside.

While it is too dangerous, most of the information can be obtained through observation of the constellations, so I have not been able to explore the archipelago until now.

However, sending us now means that the central level is taking this situation seriously.

‘I’ll have to check the battlefield situation when I go back.’

In the midst of the tangled darkness and the feeling of falling into the abyss, I organized my future plans in my head.

Eventually, the dizzy feeling of falling subsided, and both legs landed on the solid ground.

And the moment we opened our closed eyes, we were at a loss for words.

“uh···.”

“This···?”

the sky is black

It was a dark world without even the sun, but the colors of everything were strangely clear.

It was as if I had stepped into the world of oil painting painting the sky black.

And.

“Why is this here?”

In the place where Skadi’s voice resonated softly, we looked at the ‘familiar’ space unfolding before our eyes.

“… Helios?”

The inside of Pandaemonium was very similar to that of Helios.