How a Black-Haired Barbarian Survived the Labyrinth in Another World-Chapter 62: Ddripping
Floating for a moment.
Pitch-black darkness.
Hard floor.
And the moisture unique to caves touched my skin.
bang!
The moment I landed on the ground and quickly tried to take out the flint.
“Keeeek?”
Something made a sound right in front of me.
“Hobgoblin!”
Gallaheim screamed.
“Are you human?”
Jung Yu-shin asked. Gallaheim had confirmed the identity, but asked just in case.
“Keeeeeek!!!”
The hobgoblin screamed.
No.
Jung Yu-shin immediately pulled out his Arming Sword and swung it in the direction of the sound.
Swish!
“Kkeueeek!!!”
Blood splattered on his helmet first, followed by a scream.
Jung Yu-shin immediately took out the flint from his pocket and lit it.
Hwaruk.
The torch lit up the dark labyrinth.
Blood flowed out from the fallen hobgoblin’s neck, soaking the cave floor.
Jung Yu-shin looked around at the party members with the torch in his hand. Each of them was holding a weapon.
“It’s unlucky to meet a hobgoblin right where you teleported.”
Gallaheim muttered with a pale expression.
Is it some kind of explorer’s superstition?
It’s not a story I particularly believe. I’ve rolled around enough without even seeing this.
“Please stop talking nonsense as soon as you teleport.”
Jung Yu-shin took out a dagger from his bosom and cut off the hobgoblin’s ear.
He took out a leather pouch from the backpack he had on his back and put the hobgoblin’s ear in it.
“You’re really fast. You’ve done this before, haven’t you?”
Elf priest Pirion was impressed.
“Don’t mention it.”
Jung Yu-shin stood up and continued.
“So where are we?”
“Just wait a minute.”
The gnome, Gallaheim, took out the map from his bosom and looked at it.
Karin looked around and immediately figured out where they had been transferred, but Gallaheim seemed to be a bit sluggish.
Gallaheim scratched his head and opened his mouth.
“It’s completely on the outskirts. It’s far from the central area. It’ll take quite a while to get to the next level.”
“Understood.”
Not bad. We’ll have to go back a bit to complete the quest anyway. He decided to think positively.
Jung Yu-shin swung his sword, shook off the blood, and draped it over his shoulder.
“Let’s go.”
Gallaheim took the lead. Jung Yu-shin followed behind Gallaheim. Behind Jung Yu-shin, Elf Priest Pirion walked, and lastly, Paladin Soline followed behind.
Gallaheim. Jung Yu-shin. Pirion. Soline.
They walked through the dark cave in a certain formation.
The party members seemed nervous and didn't say anything.
They walked for about 2 hours.
"Huh!"
Suddenly, Gallaheim raised his crossbow. He looked quite surprised.
"What's going on?"
"Enemies behind!"
At Gallaheim's shout, Soline immediately turned around and took a stance.
Jung Yu-shin also grabbed his shield strap and stepped forward.
They waited for a moment while maintaining their formation.
Thump, thump.
Footsteps were heard.
They weren't the footsteps of a monster.
Jung Yu-shin grabbed Gallaheim's shoulder.
“Gallaheim, please put down your crossbow for a moment.”
Jung Yu-shin placed the elf priest and gnome behind him and raised the torch high.
After waiting for a while, the sound of footsteps became quieter.
“Don’t shoot.”
A voice was heard from beyond the darkness.
A human voice.
Jung Yu-shin did not let go of his tension.
A middle-aged human man approached slowly, holding a torch.
“Barbaroi?”
“That’s right.”
“I see. Judging from their attire, they must be low-level explorers who have shed their beginner’s appearance.”
“...”
Jung Yu-shin met the human man’s eyes without saying a word.
The man was wearing heavy armor and had a kite shield on his back.
“Don’t glare at me like that. We will pass first, so I came to ask for your understanding.”
The man said.
“Understood. Pass.”
After finishing his speech, Jung Yu-shin made eye contact with his party members.
The party members nodded silently and agreed.
The man’s party members approached him in the darkness.
Judging by the flashing weapons, they seemed to be at least a lieutenant.
“Huh!”
Suddenly, the elf priest let out a single scream.
The elf’s eyes were bulging out as if they were going to pop out. His gaze was directed at one of the middle-aged man’s party members.
Jung Yu-shin grabbed his sword.
What is it?
He quickly scanned the middle-aged man’s party members.
A lizard-man holding a spear.
A deer-man carrying a longbow on ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) his back.
A bald human with a longsword slung over his shoulder.
And.
There was an old human woman.
She had long white hair tied back and her entire body was covered in a robe.
It was a sad expression, as if it was aged gracefully.
Judging from the subtle elegance in his posture, he seemed to be of an ordinary status.
He didn’t seem to fit in with this dark labyrinth at all.
The grandmother-loving elf approached the elderly woman with a cold face.
“Over there.”
“Don’t come near.”
A middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader stood in front of the old man.
Jung Yu-shin held the elf’s body tightly.
“I’m sorry. My colleague likes old people.”
The man tilted his head for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“There are people like that. I understand, but don’t come near.”
“Understood. I’ll hold on to this elf, so you can quickly pass.”
Jung Yu-shin made way for the people to pass.
He also didn’t forget to hold on tightly to the elf who had fallen for the grandmother’s charm.
The man nodded once and looked back at the party members.
“Let’s go.”
The man’s party quickly walked into the darkness of the cave again.
An old woman often followed the party.
It was unclear whether she was healthy at her age or whether she was light because she didn’t have any luggage.
What was so urgent?
He was curious, but there was something he had to do first.
Jeong Yu-shin turned his head to watch the people disappear into the darkness.
“Pirion.”
“···I’m sorry. I think I went crazy for a moment.”
‘You can pursue the grandmother in the labyrinth.’
He understood, but it was wrong to approach the other person without asking for their understanding.
“I understand.”
He decided not to press the elf’s sincere reflection any further.
“Whew, this has happened a few times, but it really makes me nervous every time.”
The gnome muttered with a sigh of relief.
“Let’s go.”
Jung Yu-shin led the party through the darkness of the cave.
How many hours had they walked?
The party’s breathing had begun to become ragged.
“Would you like to rest?”
Jung Yu-shin asked.
“There’s a rest area just a little further from here.”
Gallaheim answered, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
“Understood.”
After walking for another hour, they arrived at the rest area.
They entered the common area on one wall of the cave and settled down.
They took out blankets to cover the wall and unpacked their backpacks.
They placed torches in the center and sat down.
“Barbaroi, you’ve got great stamina.”
The paladin Soline said as she looked at Jung Yu-shin.
Jung Yu-shin took off his helmet and brushed his sweaty hair back.
“It’s not that great. It just happened because we kept doing it.”
“Even when we ran into other parties, we acted calmly without panicking. In fact, everyone except you was flustered.”
Jung Yu-shin tilted his head at Soline’s words.
Hmm. Is that right?
I’ve been in and out of the labyrinth four or five times, so shouldn’t I act naturally?
After thinking about it for a while, he came to a conclusion.
It might be different for everyone.
“I guess my shoulders are heavy, so my actions are also heavy.”
Jung Yu-shin snickered and replied.
Soline shrugged and laughed.
“It’s just like Senior Gil Si-eon said. I’m glad I got a good leader.”
Is that so?
Jung Yu-shin nodded and drank from his water bottle.
After resting for about an hour, he left the resting place and continued on through the darkness.
After walking for several hours, he came across a group of hobgoblin corpses.
Jung Yu-shin approached.
I examined the hobgoblin corpse.
Straight scars, as if measured with a ruler.
It was a single blow that cut off only the vital points without any extras.
It seemed that the party that went ahead had taken care of it.
They didn’t take the ear.
I don’t know if they didn’t need the small change or if they were in a hurry.
I could get the ear for free without fighting, so I could say I was lucky.
The party members seemed to think the same, as they took out daggers from their bosoms.
‘Free corpse loot? Is the heavens pushing me?’
Jeong Yu-shin smiled broadly and took out the dagger.
Snap. Snap.
They sat down in a circle and cut off the hobgoblin’s ear.
Sitting like this, I thought of the abandoned party and laughed without thinking.
“Barbaroi, why are you laughing?”
Gallaheim’s face turned a little pale.
He had no idea where the laughter could come from.
“I laughed because I thought of my old friends.”
Only then did Gallaheim’s face brighten.
“I see. Are you all doing well?”
Jung Yu-shin smiled bitterly at Gallaheim’s question.
‘They all went their separate ways. One died by my hand.’
He repeated the truth to himself.
“Yes.”
Jung Yu-shin answered briefly and cut off the ear.
He opened his pocket and put all the hobgoblin ears in it.
Thanks to the party ahead of him unintentionally opening the way, he was able to take the ears from the hobgoblin corpse without fighting.
Still, it felt a little lacking.
‘I guess there’s not much to gain from the first floor.’
The black slime holding the magic stone was nowhere to be seen.
He stuffed his pocket into his backpack and got up from his seat.
“How about going to the second floor?”
“Sure.”
Gallaheim readily answered.
“Good.”
“Good.”
Priest Pirion and Paladin Soline agreed.
They walked for another few hours.
Jung Yu-shin turned his head and looked at the party members.
They looked sweaty and tired from walking for a long time.
“Let’s camp on the first floor today.”
The party members nodded to Jung Yu-shin’s words.
‘We should also think about stamina distribution.’
After organizing his thoughts, he asked Gallaheim.
“Is there a place to camp nearby?”
Gallaheim spread out the map and looked at it.
“There’s a rest area a little further from here.”
“Let’s go.”
They walked for about 2 more hours and found a rest area.
It was a communal space several times larger than the resting area we had rested in before.
At least three parties could fit in there.
There was no one there.
It was an outer area away from the central area and also on the first floor, so it was natural in a way.
As before, we unpacked and finished preparing for camping.
We decided to save on dry firewood and instead put the torch in the center.
Jung Yu-shin and the party members sat comfortably in their seats, each taking out dry food and water from their backpacks and eating and drinking.
The tension and awkwardness from when we first entered the labyrinth had greatly decreased.
Suddenly, a curiosity came to mind.
Jung Yu-shin swallowed the jerky and opened his mouth.
“Pirion, I have a question.”
“Tell me.”
“Pirion, aren’t you an elf? You’re a member of the longevity tribe, so how does the... grandmotherly lover’s seal activate? If we look at the age of the elves, aren’t they all young?”
Elf priest Pirion smiled and opened his mouth.
“Why are you asking? Are you interested?”
The sudden question shook Jung Yu-shin’s head. Why was he curious? It must have been a forbidden question.
“Come to think of it, I’m not really curious. Let’s just pretend it never happened.”
“This imprint detects the other person’s aging. Did you get an answer?”
Is that so?
Since we’ve already stepped into the darkness, he decided to ask just one more question.
“It seems a little ambiguous. Is there a special standard for the imprint to define aging?”
“The more wrinkles the other person has, the more saggy their flesh is, the more my ‘there’ reacts.”
That place?
That place.
The elf nodded and pointed to his chest once, then to his lower body again.
Ugh.
Jung Yu-shin hurriedly covered his mouth.
The elf continued.
“I’m 300 years old, but my heart is in my 20s. My heart is young, so what if they’re a little younger than me? The old lady was like that too. Huh, how could that be...”
“Let’s stop.”
Jung Yu-shin glared at the elf and said.
Gallaheim intervened.
“Barbaroi, is there a need to reject him like that? I think his tastes are worthy of respect. At least you shouldn’t interrupt people when they’re talking.”
Jung Yu-shin approached Gallaheim in a sitting position and extended his hand.
“Put your mask down.”
“Huh... Huh! Don’t do that!”
Gallaheim shouted as he stepped back in shock.
After bickering with the party members for a while, they finished eating and decided on the order of night watch.
Jung Yu-shin was third.
He put on his robe and leaned against the wall.
He briefly looked at the torch burning alone in the dark and damp room and closed his eyes.
“Barbaroi.”
Someone called his name.
When he opened his eyes, Soline was standing there.
“Barbaroi, you sleep well in a place like this.”
Soline said with a bitter smile.
“It’s the first floor. Go and get some sleep.”
Jeong Yu-shin replied and sat up straight.
His back and neck were sore from sleeping with his back against the wall.
He watched Soline go back to his seat and looked at the torch for a moment.
Beyond the burning torch, he saw a blanket placed at the entrance.
He listened to the party members tossing and turning with one ear and let it go.
He stared at the blanket for a long time.
It was clearly wrapped to prevent light from leaking out, but he felt like he was locking himself up.
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At that moment.
Sharak.
The mofo shook slightly.
Jung Yu-shin's body stiffened.
A chill ran down his spine.
There was no sound of footsteps or breathing, but the mofo fluttered slightly.
Something incomprehensible had happened. Miji became terrified and grabbed Jung Yu-shin's heart.
He gripped the Arming Sword tightly and glared at the mofo.
"Knock knock."
A playful voice was heard from beyond the mofo.
