07. Eldoras (6)

I crawled along the long and winding drainage canal for a while.

Suddenly, the waist was at its limit, so I eagerly hoped that the end could be seen, and after moving hard, I finally came out with a cavity that was wide enough to raise my body.

The air around it was damp rather than damp and unpleasant.

Soon after, Yoon Seo-hee and Baek Ji-soo squeezed through the narrow drainage canal.

“Ugh, that’s terrible… In a bad mood… !”

“After….”

Seo-Hee brushed off the filth clinging to her body, frowning. Jisoo also had a tired expression, which was rare.

“Jisooemon~ Help me~!”

“… Come on.”

When Seohee tried to cling to Jisoo with a teary face, Jisoo quickly stepped back and raised his hand.

As a white enchantment wrapped around the three of us, the filth that clung to our bodies magically fell away and the terrible stench of the sewage system was no longer felt. Only then did Seo-hee smile brightly as her face seemed to live.

“As expected, Jisoo! Where did you learn this kind of magic?”

“Purification magic is essential for the future. Wherever I go, it’s just a place eroded by the devil’s miasma….”

“Ah, yes… I see?”

Seohee evades her words embarrassingly at the atmosphere that quickly became tense. In this case, it’s not Seohee’s fault, but Jisoo’s conversation is full of mines. Indeed, the white number. Doesn’t read the atmosphere at all.

It was so dark around me that I couldn’t see anything.

I pulled out the three-man sword and searched for demons. There was something going on, but at least not around here. I didn’t even feel the presence of the monster.

“For now, the surroundings are safe. Jisoo, can you turn on the light?”

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Jisoo nodded, and the white light soared almost to the ceiling. It’s convenient because magic is like this. In such an enclosed and polluted space, if you set a fire for no reason, you could end up in a big trouble.

In the bright light, the naked view of the sewer was clearly revealed.

“Ugh… !”

“No, that’s terrible… What is all this?”

The sewage flowing through the canal was not only filth, but also full of human corpses. The body was black and stiff, and it looked like a corpse like a stone. Occasionally, the corpse’s eyes were opened, and the eyes were all red.

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Jisoo looked down at the pile of corpses filling the canal with sunken eyes.

“It looks like people who died of the plague were dumped here.”

“What? Wouldn’t the water be polluted? Rather, I think it will be worse.”

“The situation could have already been so bad that I didn’t care about that… Be careful anyway. The poison here is not at the level of the lower floors.”

We were careful not to fall more than a certain distance around Baeksu. It was clearly visible to the naked eye that dark red gas was leaking from the rotting corpse.

That’s the special gimmick of the Eldoras Tower. The air is polluted by a terrible plague.

This air, which poisons people, even increases in concentration as you go up from the lower floors to the higher floors. Even an Awakener can work in the Eldoras Tower only if he has enough magic stats and eats a potion that increases his resistance in advance.

This is one of the reasons why Eldoras Tower has not been captured yet. Magical hunters are already rare in number, but melee hunters with high magic stats are even rarer. Yoon Seo-hee is a rare and exceptional case.

It was full of miasma everywhere, but the demonia sensed by the three swords was felt a little further inside. That meant there were 10,000 raiding parties deep in this sewer.

I asked while walking according to the index and pace.

“What do you think? Are they here too? That ‘secret passage’.”

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Jisoo looked at the corpse floating along the waterway and said.

“… Probably. This must be one of the fields of the Tower.”

“Did I know about it? Or is it just a coincidence?”

“You will find out soon.”

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Jisoo once told us about the secret passage to Eldoras Tower. The identity of this passage that can go directly from the lower floor to the top floor is an emergency evacuation passage made for the royal family.

According to future information, entrances to all fields and evacuation passages from the first floor to the top floor are connected to each other. And it is said that the future Eldoras Tower recapture team, including Baek Ji-soo, learned of the existence of the secret passage only later after reclaiming the tower. That too by accident.

I found this passage while chasing the remnants of escaping demon worshipers. Even if you break through the trap, the passage itself is very complicated, and you will go around and around the same path several times.

Even with Baek Ji-soo’s future knowledge, he doesn’t know the only way to go back and forth between the top floor and the first floor discovered by the recapture team.

What did Manma-ryun come here to do? With future knowledge in mind, it could be that you came to activate an event quest, or you came in looking for a secret passageway, or maybe both.

Whatever it was, it was best to stop it here and now.

“By the way, I feel sorry for teacher Songha… Because I walked all the way to suggestion.”

“It can’t be helped. Because I can’t take it with me.”

Before going around the tower in earnest, I used Jisoo’s suggestion to send teacher Songha out in advance. There’s no way you’ll believe me if I explain that today, 10,000 will attack the tower, and it’s much safer to get out before it happens.

By now, Teacher Songha must be thinking that I ended the field trip early because I was hospitalized in the emergency room due to acute abdominal pain.

“Wait. What is in front of you?”

Yoon Seo-hee, who was walking ahead, pulled out a golden egg and lifted it. Even in the dark basement, the pure white blade of the sword shimmered softly.

“Kiik….”

“Keuuugh….”

If it wasn’t for the light body floated by Baek Ji-soo, the whole body was wrapped in a black cloth that might have been overlooked, and it looked like a shadow in the dark.

Their clothes were familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere. If you look closely, there is a slight difference, but it was the same outfit the boss I fought during the gate incident was wearing.

When I estimated the amount of magical power felt through analysis, each one was at least a B-class monster. It was only that much when it came to estimating the amount of magic power, and being an assassin type wielding a dagger in such a dark and confined environment, it was clear that he would be a more difficult opponent than his stats.

But I wasn’t too worried. Considering how the two of them showed during the practical test, even if they attacked with a bunch of B-rank monsters, they couldn’t be a threat.

“Should I?”

“Jisoo, you should save your magic. Seo-hee, can you handle it quietly?”

“Of course not. It’s okay, so I’ll just watch it there.

I never thought that Yoon Seo-hee was dangerous. I was just worried that the noise of the battle might be noticed by the Mandaryans beyond here.

At my words, Seo-hee smiled confidently and held the sword with both hands.

“Aagh!!”

As if they were trying to pass the exam like assassins, they rushed towards Seo-hee one after another in a small space. A technique in which even if the first attack is parried, the second attack follows. However, Seo-hee did not block the assassin’s blade, much less counterattack.

Seureung – The trajectory of the golden orchid moved smoothly and shed their blades. It was a perfect shed, like flowing water, without sparks and without the sound of metal clashing with iron.

The assassins passed behind Seo-hee one by one, just as they were attacking, and just as they were about to turn their backs and aim for her back, they suddenly had a violent fit and collapsed.

“Kuuu… !”

“Kurrureup!”

The person who couldn’t even scream and shuddered and convulsed on the floor was that of a person who had been electrocuted. In an instant, all the monsters turned into limp corpses on the floor.

What did I just see?

“How did you just do that?”

At first glance, as if they had come together, the monster swiped past her and collapsed on its own, seemingly dead. The golden egg didn’t even reach them, so what the hell did you do to get such a result?

Yoon Seo-hee returned the golden orchid to her scabbard with an expression that was not a big deal.

“Oh, this? The moment the swords touched, I let go of my mana. If you apply your magic well, things like this will happen.”

“… ….”

So, in that brief moment when the swords briefly touched, an electric current flowed and electrocuted the opponent?

Although the speed of growth was different from the beginning… It seems that he has become stronger by going back and forth to the Mercury Guild recently.

We could have grabbed mana stones or equipment from the fallen monsters, but now wasn’t the time to do that, so we hurried on our way. I encountered the monster a few times, but each time Seo-hee quietly neutralized it in the same way, so I was able to reach my destination without any problems.

I signaled my arrival soon with a hand gesture. Baek Ji-soo, who confirmed the signal, turned off the light on the ceiling.

From here on, it was Jisoo’s turn to play an active part.

As she swung her wand lightly, a black veil covered the three of us. After confirming that the magic had been applied, Seo-hee opened her mouth in a pleasant voice.

“I know this magic. Is it the same as the one I wrote in front of the gate then?”

“Yes. Be careful not to step out of the shadows.”

The magic to eliminate presence and sound had a much narrower range than the purification magic, so we had no choice but to walk close together, almost hugging each other. Even more so, there was no light anymore, so we walked carefully in the dark, relying on each other’s shoulders.

Occasionally we could hear the breathing of something other than ours in the dark, but luckily we didn’t hear it.

After walking for a bit, my vision suddenly opened up and a wide space appeared. The wide cavity where numerous sewer passages were connected was dimly illuminated by self-luminous luminous stones embedded here and there.

At that moment, the handle of the three-person sword trembled.

Those who have been searching so much have gathered here.