Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 217

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 217

Child of Beginning (6)

Lee Si-ah is busy even while watching the live broadcast. She has many things to do like checking messages, searching, and writing posts on communities and SNS.

Whiiiiiiing───!

Strong wind and rain blow fiercely in the mountains. The camera angle slowly descends.

Kate’s party has left the haunted house and is moving again. Everyone has one remaining lunchbox clanking in their bags.

─Lee Sin-hye: Huh? Over there!

Suddenly Lee Sin-hye points her finger somewhere. It’s a CCTV hidden among the tree branches.

─Kate: I’ll retrieve it.

Kate pulls down the camera with telekinesis and checks the internal data.

─Lee Sin-hye: How is it?

─Kate: It’s spell preservation data. It might take some time though-

 Who’s there! 

A sudden shriek echoes.

Rustle rustle rustle rustle─

The sound of footsteps on grass rushes through the wind and rain.

 Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! Who’s there! 

A ghost comes running with disheveled hair. Its legs are arms, and its arms are legs. Two bloodshot eyes are half bulging out.

Kate quickly backs away and shouts.

─Kate: Run!

-Run away! What bullshit lol

-So cute lol

-Scary af look at that ghost screaming

-Is it a deer or what;;

─Kate: To the cave!

The party enters the cave together and hurriedly hangs a sacred rope from the ceiling.

 Who’s there! Who’s the…. 

─Lee Jong-soo: What’s with that crazy bastard.

─Lee Sin-hye: Phew. Kate. What about the CCTV?

─Kate: …I got the data.

Kate puts down the spell preservation data. It’s a bead-shaped recording device. When she infuses magic power, images slowly emerge.

─Kate: It’s CCTV from this area.

It’s CCTV footage of people coming and going in the mountain area. Kate quickly rewinds and examines them closely.

─Kate: Red clothes….

Among the people coming and going at different times, quite many are wearing red clothes. One, two, three, four….

-Red clothes. That’s the clue from the hospital.

-Oh Kate’s team also found a clue

-They’re doing well even without Je Mal-ol

–As expected of Kate

-This too is Hailford’s majesty..

─Lee Sin-hye: Is there something about red clothes…?

─Kate: ….

Kate silently glances at her companions. Everyone is wearing red accessories that boost mental strength. Even Kate herself.

Grumble.

-That’s Lee Jong-soo

-It’s Lee Jong-soo.

-Hahahaha everything’s always about Lee Jong-su, damn it

─Lee Jong-soo: I’m really glad I bought one more lunchbox.

Lee Jong-soo quickly takes out a lunchbox.

Second meal time. This time the menu is varied.

─Lee Jong-soo: Mal-ol-haem is good at cooking too…. Who would he marry….

─Kate: He probably can’t.

Kate’s expression stiffens with a start. It seems her inner thoughts came out without realizing.

-lololol fucking facts

-Hahahaha

-But seriously he probably can’t..

-His job is explorer so he’d go wow uwah wow, if he was a doctor he’d have killed dozens already

-If he were a doctor, he would’ve saved hundreds of people, what bullshit ㅋㅋ A doctor who never compromises or whatever

-Hahahaha I really can’t even imagine it, you’re so right about the wedding

─Kate: …He’s such a perfectionist.

─Lee Sin-hye: Ah that’s true. When I get close to Mal-ol, he smells really clean. It doesn’t seem like perfume though.

─Lee Jong-soo: Oh, Sin-hye noona too right? I asked about that before.

Lee Si-ah recalled the fan meeting again.

Seol Ha-woon was definitely mysterious. His skin was so good as if he had his own filter, and his long hair was much more neatly arranged than most female celebrities.

─Lee Sin-hye: What does Je Mal-ol say?

─Lee Jong-soo: He said he uses good skincare products.

─Lee Sin-hye: …He’s just naturally gifted. Naturally gifted people just apply skin lotion.

Lee Sin-hye glances at Kate.

─Lee Sin-hye: Ah, Kate. But when and how did you receive the destroyer aptitude assessment?

Lee Sin-hye seems curious about that. Actually, the viewers watching would be similarly curious.

They just keep saying destroyer destroyer, but how amazing that aptitude is might be a distant story for ordinary people.

-Isn’t a destroyer just someone who smashes everything?

-Called destroyer because they can only smash

-ㅋㅋ the kids are cute

-Deshk or that mage is also a destroyer. That’s why Kate is also a mage candidate.

─Kate: Think of it as the nature of magic power. Just as everyone has different fingerprints, each person’s magic power has fundamentally different characteristics. For example, even without perfectly understanding the concept of flame manifestation, Jong-soo can instinctively draw up magic power to enhance physical abilities, right?

─Lee Jong-soo: Yes, that’s right.

─Kate: That’s the characteristic of magic power. The same goes for spells achieved through flame manifestation. Even when creating the same flame, the color, temperature, form, and even the burning sound are subtly different for each person. This is because each person’s unique nature of magic power is reflected. And I….

Snap.

When she lightly flicks her finger, an unstable spark ignites at her fingertip. Like a small bomb.

─Kate: My magic power is inherently unstable and destructive in nature. The more it clusters, the more it amplifies and eventually explodes. Through training, I can condense magic power into forms like spears or arrows and throw them, but once they leave my hands, they can’t maintain that form for long and burst.

Hmm. Lee Si-ah also nodded.

─Kate: The type whose magic power nature is focused solely on destruction… that’s exactly what a destroyer is.

Whoooosh─

For a long moment, the scenery of Wolryeong Village with subsiding rainfall is shown.

The weather is fierce. It’s almost a typhoon.

Meanwhile, a popular post went up.

│Supplementary explanation of what Kate just said│

Classification of explorers’ magic power utilization methods

Generally, warrior or swordsman types often circulate magic power inside their bodies to use for momentary explosive power or physical enhancement.

Among current Mitamnan participants, Kang Hyeon, Lee Jun-ho, Kim Dong-ha, Lee Jong-soo, and Seol Ha-woon before injury can be considered to fall into this category.

On the other hand, mage or archer types focus on releasing magic power externally to implement specific phenomena or construct spells.

Archers mostly require mediums like bows or firearms as projectile weapons, which is why Kate is classified as an archer despite being a mage.

Kate’s flame manifestation is limited to destruction, so she’s not as versatile as a mage.

But Seol Ha-woon is the opposite.

Seol Ha-woon’s flame manifestation is the battlefield, and there’s no place that needs as much versatility as a battlefield.

This is why Seol Ha-woon is a hot topic in mage circles these days. Someone who shows that level of combat power and versatility simultaneously, yet has absolutely no abilities other than mage due to injury….

─But Seol Ha-woon’s character really transcends everything. He was originally a warrior but switched to mage due to injury.

└Author: ㅇㅇ That’s right. That’s why Seol Ha-un’s techniques are very stylish and unpredictable, unlike other orthodox sorcerers. His original creativity that isn’t bound by conventional frameworks really stands out.

─A guy who literally has everything except for legs lol

┗No, his legs are still perfectly fine, so why does he keep saying they’re gone; they’re just uncomfortable, not missing.

┗He can barely walk without his walking stick

─There’s a reason why mages are making Seol Ha-woon a research subject right now.

─A mage curious about how far he’ll go. Number one in unpredictability

Used Bookstore

Kuguuuuuuuu──

The used bookstore shakes tremendously in the raging storm.

─Kim Woo-hyeon: The building, the building looks like it’s going to collapse?

─Kang Hyeon: No. It’s an illusion. Look. Not even a speck of dust is falling.

Kang Hyeon extends his palm. It’s almost like an earthquake, yet not even dust is stirring.

─Kang Hyeon: As long as we’re inside here, it can’t touch us. That’s why it’s… struggling even more desperately.

-They really chose a good spot for base camp

-This is also Seol Ha-woon’s majesty..

Knock knock knock.

The sound of knocking on the used bookstore door. Everyone inside the bookstore turns to look that way.

─Kate: Could you please open the door?

It’s Kate.

-Huh? Looks like Kate came

-Right from there?

-I don’t think so?

-Weren’t they trapped in the cave too?

Someone approaches to open the door for her, but Lee Jun-ho stops them.

─Lee Jun-ho: …You can open it from there, can’t you.

─Kate: It won’t open. Look.

Rattle rattle. Rattle rattle. Rattle rattle.

She shakes it but it won’t open.

Is it that she can’t open it, or that she won’t open it.

─Kate: Hurry. There’s a vengeful spirit behind me.

She gestures behind her back. Not far away across the street, a pale vengeful spirit flickers.

─Kate: Please open it, hurry.

The ghost slowly approaches Kate. Cold sweat forms on her face. However, Lee Jun-ho and Kang Hyeon only stare at her.

Seol Ha-woon’s voice flickers like a sound effect.

‘Never open it for anyone unless it’s me.’

─Kate: I said open the door!

─Ryu Yeon-hwa: Wh, why isn’t everyone-

Kang Hyeon stops Ryu Yeon-hwa, who was about to open the door.

─Kang Hyeon: It’s not there. The mark that Ha-woon hyung carved.

He gestures toward Kate’s right forearm.

The ⓡ mark that Truck carved is missing!

─Kang Hyeon: It means she’s fake.

─Kate: ….

Then Kate, who had stopped still, has her face shown in close-up…

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