Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 152
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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 152
Spear Ghost(15)
…To roughly summarize the story of the abandoned hospital, it goes like this.
1. Seo Ji-woo investigated the police box, then came to this abandoned hospital with her party members.
2. She was trapped in a camera by someone and attacked by the vengeful spirit inside the camera.
3. The vengeful spirit disguised itself as ‘Seo Ji-woo’ to escape from this camera.
4. The original Seo Ji-woo’s party was trapped by the souls of the missing filming crew.
5. Seo Ji-woo’s party’s bodies were stored in the corpse freezer.
The someone who trapped Seo Ji-woo in the camera is probably the culprit.
For now, I’m gradually getting a sense of who it might be.
Anyway.
The method to get Seo Ji-woo’s party out is the same – a camera.
Since the entrance was through a camera, the exit would also be through a camera.
I placed the ENG camera on the tripod.
This tripod is in the same position and same angle as inside the camera.
Get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out
The vengeful spirit had already torn off and thrown away Seo Ji-woo’s mask. It had become a grudge-filled and mad obsession.
If left alone, it would kill everyone inside.
I can get it out. However, the problem is how to wake up Seo Ji-woo and the explorers trapped in the filming crew’s souls.
Hehehehehe
Suddenly, the Dokkaebi Fire flew into the camera’s angle.
Flickering gently. It swayed like petals as if trying to say something.
“…You’ll do it?”
Hehehehehe
“…”
Suspicious. The Dokkaebi Fire is even more suspicious because there’s nothing suspicious about it.
If the opponent were human, I could capture subtle facial muscles or track habits-
Get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out!!!!!!
“Fine.”
There’s no time anyway. This time, let me trust my intuition once.
I took out the Doraji cigarette pack. There were exactly four cigarettes left.
My knee hurts a lot right now. If I were an ordinary person, I probably couldn’t bear it and would be taken to the hospital.
Hissss.
I preheated the magic power in my body and gripped my walking stick tightly. My knee ached much more.
Hehehehehe
“Here we go.”
I pressed the REC button.
Click.
The Dokkaebi Fire flowed into the camera, and conversely, the vengeful spirit came out of the camera.
Huuuuuu…
It stares at me while exhaling red breath. Creak. It twists its neck. Not left and right, but 360 degrees. Spinning round and round like a propeller.
The face with skin completely carved away, showing only muscles and blood vessels, is quite horrific.
I bit down on a cigarette. Sizzle. I lit it with magic power.
“Who trapped you?”
I asked while suppressing the pain in my knee as much as possible.
“Tell me.”
What I desire most in this world is I see ah I understand I wanted to capture pretty things I wanted to contain the world in my lens but ah haha I only came to see such horrific things but it’s not bad it’s always been like this if I keep shooting and shooting someday I’ll capture something pretty too right that’s right it will be like that but why does it keep getting darker the more I shoot the deeper I fall into darkness the deeper it gets the more it takes me somewhere unknown they are breathing but why must I see that it’s because I wanted to see it it’s my choice I called them in they wanted to be photographed no no no that’s not it they didn’t want me they hoped to come out through me so they crawled out through the camera that’s why they chose me I thought they chose me not others but it turns out they chose everyone I’m here I’m trapped here I want to get out I want to get out I want to get out I want to get out I wanted to get out.
Communication is impossible. Even if it were possible, it wouldn’t know.
The culprit is a coward who hides their face.
Thud.
I prepared for battle. I simply stood there, leaning on my walking stick.
No complicated process is needed. My stance is immobility – not moving a single step. Unwavering zero point adjustment.
A mage who has lost mobility can only stake their life on firepower.
Tssss.
The ghost stirred.
Suddenly, I become curious.
How would a vengeful spirit’s nature be displayed?
Is the vengeful spirit evil, or something else entirely?
“Haah…”
The moment I exhaled the smoke from my lungs, it moved.
It wasn’t evil.
Since she wasn’t evil to begin with, the vengeful spirit wasn’t evil either.
Just a soul consumed by resentment.
───-!
It reached me in a single step. A spirit’s charge that even Sequence would have trouble following. But I had already prepared for this.
I don’t overestimate myself. There’s probably no one who doubts me as much as I doubt myself.
────Crack!
The rumble of magic power detonating. Multiple curves shot up from the road surface and bound the vengeful spirit. It stopped right in front of my nose.
Sacred rope.
A variation of the anti-personnel directional shotgun pellets landmine – Claymore. A ghost-specific trap with compressed sacred rope instead of shotgun pellets.
Crackle──-!
The sacred rope gripped the vengeful spirit like a fist.
I looked at it while smoking my cigarette.
Its eyes are round.
Tears flow from eyes that cannot close.
It tries to reach out to me, but cannot reach.
It’s a sad thing.
Seol Ha-woon│■■■■■■□□□□│
My mental strength is rapidly decreasing. This is a ghost with strong resentment.
That much, he was a person with big dreams.
Chiiiiiik──-
The sound of the Vengeful Spirit’s soul burning away.
It tries to resist, but this Sacred Rope is also part of shamanic magic and formulas. It means I can strengthen it through Magic Power.
Passsssst!
I inject Mental Visualization to solidify the structure of the Sacred Rope and bind the spirit.
I incinerate it.
“Director Jin Yu-seon.”
I don’t know if these words will be any comfort to you.
“Don’t worry.”
Spitting out cigarette smoke as if chewing it, I muttered quietly.
“Soon, that bastard will follow too.”
Thud──!
I struck the Road Surface with my Walking Stick. Fire Cannon. Magic Power mixed with the resounding echo, and the Sacred Rope responded by pulling taut.
The Vengeful Spirit disappears without making any sound or resistance.
Basss….
It scatters into ash.
I’m also on the verge of shock.
Because of this damn knee pain.
“Ah… at this rate I’ll die first.”
I lit another cigarette.
I’ve secured enough screen time.
Now, if possible, let’s stay as Truck until the Labyrinth ends.
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Hihehehehehehe
A strange laughter. Warmth that seemed to grope the body.
“Ugh….”
Reporter Lee Tae-young groaned and opened her eyes. Some letters were burned into the wall of the Mortuary.
Move
Find a way
A way… what way?
She felt around her head. She caught a bone fragment. Her skull seemed slightly shattered.
Hihehehehehehe
“Startling….”
Purple Dokkaebi Fire. She looked at it and then fumbled around her chest. She caught her Employee ID.
Reporter Lee Tae-young.
“…Lee Tae-young.”
Lee Tae-young?
Who is Lee Tae-young.
Is it me?
No it’s not.
I am….
“Seo Ji-woo.”
Her memory returned.
She staggered and got up. Inside the Freezer was Seo Ji-woo, my body.
“How do I get back.”
Tap. She pressed her forehead against Seo Ji-woo in the Freezer.
It stayed the same.
Hihehehehehehe
“…Got it.”
Let’s stay calm.
There’s definitely a way back.
I’m a Mage. My head is injured and dizzy, but magical phenomena must be solved with Magic Power.
Seo Ji-woo took a deep breath.
Even if the body changes, the soul remains the same. Magic Power is the power of the soul.
Line.
She drew out the Line connected to herself and connected it to Seo Ji-woo’s body. When she blew Magic Power into it, her consciousness felt queasy as if flowing away.
Hihehehehehehe
Laughter.
After that, Lee Tae-young’s body tilted. Instead, Seo Ji-woo opened her eyes.
“Hup!”
She exhaled and got up.
“…Ah, it’s cold.”
Coming out of the Freezer, she opened the remaining doors. Five party members were inside.
“Who is who?”
Then the Dokkaebi Fire moved. As if telling her this one is this one, this one is this one, this one is this one.
“Wow… who are you? Thanks?”
Seo Ji-woo connected them all with Lines.
But one person remained.
The Film Crew is 5 people but the party members are 6.
“Don’t tell me you’re this one? Yong-seung?”
Hihehehehehehe
The Dokkaebi Fire laughed again. A small firefly rose from the air and settled in front of Lee Yong-seung.
“Ah~ this one was Lee Yong-seung?”
No wonder some firefly kept following us around.
“But… you’re quite a special one, aren’t you?”
Lee Yong-seung is only fingernail-sized, but this one is a bit bigger than a ping-pong ball.
Hihehehehehehe
“Ah, okay. I’ll go.”
Seo Ji-woo grasped the multiple Lines connected to her team members and gathered Magic Power. A bluish current rose up.
Tssssss─-!
Fierce energy surging from the line.
My grip feels like it’s burning, but it’s bearable.
Now.
“Hup!”
Seo Ji-woo pulled the team members trapped in another’s soul.
Creak──-!
Consciousness moved along the line.
From the fake body, to the original flesh.
Crack crack crack─-
Soon the line snapped.
The explorers’ complexions, fortunately, returned to normal.
It was a success.
“…Phew.”
Seo Ji-woo laid them down to fit the camera’s angle.
Flash!
I frowned at the sudden flash.
“Ugh.”
I slowly opened my eyes.
Seol Ha-woon was standing over there. Seo Ji-woo asked with a surprised face.
“…You startled me. Are you okay?”
“Nothing happened.”
Seol Ha-woon said that while biting down on a cigarette.
“No… you’re bleeding a lot though.”
Blood flowing from his head had soaked his entire right face.
He looks more ghostly than a ghost. Even a ghost would run away seeing him.
“Just a scratch.”
Actually, he wasn’t even scratched. The vengeful spirit’s ghostly energy had sharply protruded and grazed his face, and since his durability was so terrible, just that much had torn his scalp.
A perfect glass cannon.
“It’s more than just a scratch… well, thanks. I survived because of you.”
“No need for that.”
Seol Ha-woon pointed to Seo Ji-woo’s bag. It was evidence collected when Seo Ji-woo was Lee Tae-young.
“Thanks to you, I got evidence…”
Jeoldong Elementary School, So-yeon’s diary.
Abandoned Hospital experiment lab, someone’s picture diary.
Besides that, clues scattered here and there.
That alone is enough to narrow down the culprit.
However, it has to be 10 o’clock. Only then can I face that bastard at Imgak Mountain.
So before that…
“How many coins do you have.”
I need to do business first.
“Coins? Oh, this?”
Seo Ji-woo jingled as she pulled out a bundle of coins.
As expected. Of course.
She has such good fortune with money that she’d have a lot. It would be fake if she didn’t.
Seol Ha-woon reached out his hand.
“Emergency rescue service. The price is 3 nyang per person.”
It’s a service I just made up, but it can’t be helped.
“18 nyang. Just give me that.”
There are more things I want to buy at the night market than I thought.
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│Defense Labyrinth Preview│
Defense Labyrinth Episode 14 preview.
─Is the preview really at 70 million YouTube views lol
─Ratings went over 35% lol I can see why, daily life is fucking hard
─These days at work, whenever people gather they predict who’ll be eliminated
─Our 50-year-old manager carries a Kang Hyeon keychain lol his daughter bought it for him, so cute lol
─If it’s over 30%, you can consider it all ages. Mitamnan is already a social phenomenon.
└I saw a Jemallok staff on the subway too. An elderly person was using it as a walking stick.
└Actually, middle-aged people spend way more money. They have economic leeway, and that generation was when the explorer boom was at its peak, so they have romance left in their hearts.
└Agreed, my dad also wanted to be an explorer but gave up due to injury. That’s probably why he watches every week..
─Seol Ha-woon at the end of the preview was really fucking cool
─Why are Seol Ha-woon’s eyes always blue? Other mages look normal when using formulas
└Isn’t it CG?
└I heard that means he’s talented, but I don’t know for sure.
│Defense Labyrinth Attack Team List, Defense Team Position Summary│
Attack team list: Kang Hyeon, Lee Jun-ho…
─Now I see why Jemallok is getting eliminated, he’s the only one in the east lol
─But everyone says he’ll be eliminated, but I don’t think he will. The narrative is too obvious
└Because it’s so obvious, they’ll go straight for it.
└Mallok has clear weaknesses as much as strengths, so it’d be weirder if he never got eliminated once. Someone said he’s a stat-dumped battle axe type mage.
─Seol Ha-woon, judging by the preview, seems confirmed for protagonist-level activity
The above community represents ordinary people’s perspectives. Most share opinions only from the program’s content aspect.
On the other hand, explorer communities have many in-depth analytical discussions.
│Seol Ha-woon Mental Visualization Analysis│Mage Seol Ha-woon mostly uses modern warfare-related mental visualizations like bullets and shells, but their firepower seems far superior to actual modern firearms. Schools seem to be paying attention to Seol Ha-woon these days too. Since he’s a pure mage we haven’t seen in a while, my advisor professor also picks him as number one. Though we can’t vote.─Pure mage and glass cannon. Really old school that you’d only see in the 60s-70s. That’s why I like him.─If you have an address in Korea, you can vote LOL.─But the limitations seem clear. There’s ultimately a limit to the firearms he can manifest. That’s why I tell my students not to base their mental visualization in reality. I advise them to think of fantasy worlds instead.└If he manifested nuclear weapons or missiles, it would be way stronger than fantasy LOL. Mental visualization becomes much stronger when based on experience. Baseless delusions are just imagination, not mental visualization.└LOL that’s just your opinion. According to recent research results…
“They fight among themselves here too.”
The explorer community’s default language is usually English. There are country-specific tabs, but you have to check the general tab to see global reactions.
“There’s really a lot of talk about Mitamnan.”
Scrolling down, ‘MTN (Migung Tamheom NaN)’ appears quite frequently. It means reactions are coming in worldwide these days.
“…Ah. Still 5 days left.”
Ye-rin, a swordsman from the Korean Peninsula’s Taebaek faction, browsed the community while waiting for appraisal. Every time she scrolled, the Seol Ha-woon and Lee Jun-ho character keychains attached to her smartphone jingled.
Those are the two people she’s voting for.
Oh, who am I?
An adventurer who pulled ‘SSR─Snow Globe’ from Astroal Merchandise.
Ye-rin accessed the Korea tab again.
│Kang Hyeon’s movements are just different│
Fuck, every time I watch, I just feel the difference in talent. Lee Jun-ho is also fucking talented, but Kang Hyeon’s movements themselves are instinctual.. so smooth like his sword and body are one.
—Seems like he’d become first-rate in just 3-4 years.
—Watching him does make you gasp in admiration.
Much more readable than English, familiar speech patterns indeed.
│List of Formulas Used by Marol-jwa This Episode│
１. Simultaneous Fire
２. Wall Fortification
３. Wooden Arrow Enchanting
Even just watching the video, there seems to be a lot to learn.
─That synchronized attack was awesome lol. I’m studying the technique, and if we do it right, my teammates and I could probably use it too.
─Did he really create that reinforcement technique used on the castle wall on the spot? It was incredibly well-made;;
└I already wrote that down too. Currently doing deconstruction analysis
─Hey, Marol’s formulas could really be used as educational materials. They’re cleaner than most specialized formula textbooks.
└For real, way better than university professors who think difficult and complex means good.
The mage community is in the middle of ‘sneaky copying.’
Mages are sometimes like a group obsessed with knowledge.
They believe that how well and diversely they can handle formulas determines not only their salary but also their very reason for existence.
│Hey production team, please close up on Marol-jwa’s formulas, damn it│
Shit, let us see the formula structures in detail. That way we can write analysis posts for muggles and stuff.
─Agreed, Marol’s formula design was really good, show it in more detail.
└Seems like they’re hiding it on purpose. He seems to put a lot of effort into crafting formulas, it’d suck if other mages copied them.
└Not impressive enough to copy;; Just efficient, that’s all.
└Inferiority complex?
│Isn’t Seol Ha-woon’s formula work really clean?│
If you look closely at the formulas he uses, they’re really clean without any excess. They’re even very efficient.
I analyzed his formula structure and tried using it, and there really wasn’t a single bit of wasted magic power. Though it’s difficult to imitate… Is he just naturally gifted?
─There’s natural talent, but according to insider info from the production team, he basically lives in the library on his days off. They say he’s like a bound spirit.
└Ah… That makes sense. It’s impossible to achieve that formula quality without considerable knowledge.
└Oh. Marol lives in the library? That’s different from his image.
│I Tried Following Marol’s Formula│
Gamdol TV Link
This is Gamdol. Please watch and subscribe and like~
─Here comes the crybaby again lololol
─What’s the point of getting subscriptions from explorers? Didn’t your hyung tell you to post on muggle sites?
Mages love formulas. Even if they belong to a particular school, they endlessly crave to know what types of formulas other mages use.
Like students who peek at this instructor and that instructor if they’re top-tier lecturers.
But well, this is a 4th-tier community with no membership fees.
Mage networks are quite exclusive, so the membership fees for 2nd-3rd tier communities start at tens of millions of won.
“Ye-rin. They say the appraisal is finished.”
The appraiser’s secretary said.
Usually each sect has at least one dedicated appraiser, and they help with loot appraisal.
“Yes.”
Ye-rin entered the appraisal room.
“Oh~ Ye-rin.”
Park Yeon-seok, an A-rank appraiser in his 50s, looked at Ye-rin while washing his hands in running water.
“Is it true you won that emergency rescue shop that’s been talked about a lot lately?”
“Yes. Astroal Merchandise.”
“Did you personally experience any effects?”
“Of course. Ever since I put this by my bedside, I haven’t had trouble sleeping. I sleep soundly for 6-7 hours, and no matter how tired or physically exhausted I am, I recover mostly after sleeping.”
The appraiser put his monocle back on.
“Right. This item is quite premium. The effects are exactly as you described, and the magic power is incredibly pure. The quality of the work itself is hard to call master-level, but it has potential. If aged, it could become master-level.”
“Wow… How much would it be worth?”
She needs money for many things lately.
All the teeth on her sword blade have fallen out, and her leather armor feels like it’s reached the end of its lifespan.
“Well. We’d have to put it up for auction first to know… Right now it might finish around 5 million dollars.”
“And?”
“If there’s a tycoon who values good sleep, they might be willing to pay twice that amount.”
“But?”
“If the shop called Astroal gains word-of-mouth recognition and establishes itself as a universally acknowledged collection, this snow globe’s functions will also be amplified, making it too precious to even sell.”
“Then… holding onto it would be the answer.”
“That’s right. If you need money for something, try to solve it with a collateral loan if possible. First, it’ll be posted on our sect’s website, is that okay?”
Ye-rin’s eyes widened.
“Wow. It must be that good of an item?”
“It is that level. It’ll probably rank in the TOP 10-20 loot items of our sect this year.”
The sect website only introduces a very small portion of the loot acquired by sect members, and this was selected as one of them.
It’s quite an important matter. The domestic sect rankings change each year based on what kind of loot they acquire.
“Posting it on the sect website? Say no if you don’t want to.”
For Ye-rin, this was a first since joining the Taebaek Sect.
“Why would I not want it! Please post it, senior brother!”
She answered proudly.
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