Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 81

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 081

 

New friends(1)

 

Bind Recent updates from our company Meltic Corporation · ijac012 Even though it’s usually a busy week, no overtime. We’re working our asses off to finish everything in the morning. Our team leader also told us to just go home because we need to watch Mi Tamnan lol He’s a guy whose hair has all fallen out lol Our department head also leaves early every Friday saying it’s time he can spend with his wife and kids. I was wondering what all the fuss was about, so I checked it out and it’s actually pretty entertaining. But wait, why the fuck are we getting spam texts encouraging us to vote? At this rate they’ll be doing opinion polls like it’s a general or presidential election. What the hell are these people doing.

 

Bind These days you really can’t make small talk if you don’t watch Heart Signal.. Kering Research · Wiyongwiyong123 The whole team only talks about Heart Signal, but I haven’t watched it so I can’t join in. I was going to watch it but the episodes are so long that honestly it feels overwhelming;; Should I just watch it anyway..─You absolutely have to watch it. You’re missing out on life if you don’t.─Just try watching up to episode 2. Seol Ha-un is so fucking hilarious that you’ll keep watching just because of that guy lol─Is there any reason not to watch? It’s not like season 2 where they randomly threw in some top-tier but totally unhinged people, it’s just full of people who make you feel good just by looking at them└For real, even Je Mal-ok is honestly getting recognition for being handsome. Imagine if he looked like Lee Taek from last season lmfao he would’ve already been getting elimination threats and death threats└Lee Taek was really too ugly though;; I heard he’s going to be a high ranker next year, but he has fewer followers than Seo Ji-woo lol

 

Bind. Lee Si-ah skimmed through the office workers’ community. There was so much talk about Mitamnan that a separate Mitamnan tab had been created.

 

Kainszxc

 

David Bookstore verification shot.

 

The bookstore where Seol Ha-un first learned magic techniques. The atmosphere is really nice and peaceful, but the owner is no joke. He’s apparently a former soldier and he’s incredibly big and impressive… They say he’s 7 feet tall, and when I looked it up that’s 213cm ㅎㄷㄷ

 

Instagram especially, if you don’t know Mitamnan you can’t understand the feeds and reels that come up.

 

JaehoonLee

 

There’s a lot of talk about Mitamnan these days. It brings back memories for me too. The current explorer friends must be having a hard time both physically and mentally. Too much attention might become a burden for them. So please everyone look at them with gentle eyes and give them warm support.

 

I won’t reveal my personal preferences. It seems like it would become quite a sensitive topic.

 

But… I’m right!

 

Haha just kidding.

 

#Mitamnan #MitamAAA

 

Season 2 winner Lee Je-hoon also picks Seol Ha-woon as number one!

 

Brandnewworld_official

 

The padding jacket that Seol Ha-woon praised as absolutely right! Goose down Rankco is currently sold out, but check out our other products!

 

The Snowy Field Maze itself had such great impact that the padding jackets and suitcases worn by Mitamnan cast members are all sold out even though it’s early summer.

 

Even Lee Si-ah, who thought “Why would you buy padding in summer?”, immediately bought Seol Ha-woon’s padding jacket and suitcase. Because she suddenly wanted to travel to polar regions.

 

This is a special effect that’s actually occurring.

 

[ Northern Europe flight reservations at peak… Mitamnan effect? ]

 

[ Cabin-style Airbnb reservations surge ]

 

That’s not all.

 

On the weekend variety show that Lee Si-ah often watches, which has been airing for nearly 20 years, this scene also appeared.

 

─A: She’s fallen for that Seol Ha-woon lately.

 

─B: Right, oppa. Did you see last week’s ending? Seol Ha-woon smiling? I saw that and really felt my heart flutter… A person who never smiled his whole life was smiling and it was so, so boyish.

 

─A: Hey, tone it down a bit… Didn’t you say Kang Hyeon was your pick before. Moving around like a migratory bird?

 

─B: Oh that, that stuff naturally changes~ When are those people going to appear as guests?

 

─A: Ugh… Know your place.

 

─B: What are you, oppa! I can like them!

 

Both A and B are famous celebrities.

 

Like this, Mitamnan-related material frequently appears on public broadcast variety shows.

 

Especially “Je Mal Ot, right?” is almost like a common expression in daily life these days. Even on observational variety shows, when celebrities push their opinions too hard or are stubborn, “Je Mal Ot, right?”

 

To that extent, it’s the joy of so many people. A program that helps them endure difficult work and bear with terrible workplaces.

 

The explorer audition variety show that makes you look forward to tomorrow, Labyrinth Exploration NaN.

 

Lee Si-ah sat in front of the TV.

 

“Whew…”

 

Taking a deep breath while waiting for the commercials to end.

 

┌──Labyrinth Exploration NaN──┐

 

Live broadcast, episode 7 begins.

 

─Yoo Ji-in : Those who have worked hard, depart~

 

The opening is Yoo Ji-in in midsummer clothes declaring vacation right after the Survival Labyrinth.

 

─Yoo Ji-in : This time it’s really a vacation. Instead, you have to film how you spend your vacation. Also, there are instructors who have opened special lectures for you all?

 

Instructor special lectures. The same thing that was in seasons 1 and 2.

 

─Yoo Ji-in : The instructors will give very small quizzes. You can only receive the special lecture if you get it right. Of course, it’s first come first served…

 

Vacation begins!

 

Each explorer’s self-camera footage is edited to about a minute and passes by. They each return home to rest for about a day, then head to the special lecture locations from the next day.

 

The first segment is Lee Jun-ho.

 

─DK : Oh. You came?

 

The instructor is the pretentious DK lying in a hammock between bamboo forests.

 

He says that to receive his instruction, you must be able to withstand a ‘single exchange’.

 

─Lee Jun-ho : Yes. I’m ready.

 

─DK : Good. I like your spirit.

 

DK swung his sword. A strike with CG-like effects plastered all over it.

 

Chaeaeaeng!

 

Lee Jun-ho staggered but successfully blocked it.

 

─DK : Hooo… As expected. Good. You pass.

 

After that, scenes of Seo Ji-woo and Yoon Hwa-rim going to mage Lee Min-ho, Kang Hyeon to Yoo Ji-in, and many other explorers visiting instructors appear, but Lee Si-ah’s interest is elsewhere.

 

Seol Ha-woon.

 

“He appeared.”

 

He arrived at Kim Se-jin’s pawn shop.

 

The place where quite a few mages had come before, but returned without even knowing what the quiz was.

 

-Seol Ha-woon also came here as expected

 

-Among mage instructors, Kim Se-jin had the highest name value, right?

 

-Yeah Kim Sejin is like the wizard gatekeeper type. Honestly don’t know why he’s not an official mentor. Yuyul is literally a nobody though.

 

─Old man : …Hmm?

 

One of the elderly people at the counter recognized Seol Ha-woon and greeted him.

 

Seol Ha-woon stared intently at him.

 

-But they didn’t even tell us what the quiz was here?

 

-It’s probably related to the pawn shop items.

 

-Seol Ha-woon will probably catch on, right?

 

-Scenes with Jemalhot are just somehow fun. That guy is just entertaining.

 

Then, Seol Ha-woon asks the old man.

 

─Seol Ha-woon : By any chance, are you Mage Kim Se-jin?

 

The old man’s movements stopped abruptly. He tilted his head without saying a word.

 

-What’s he saying now.

 

-Suddenly seems like he got dementia

 

-Don’t doubt Malhot.

 

Ahem. With a cough, his face melted away. The elderly man in his 80s instantly transformed into Kim Se-jin.

 

It was Polymorph.

 

─Kim Se-jin : You have quite good senses. That was my quiz. Nine people came and all left.

 

Kim Se-jin smiled while looking at Seol Ha-woon.

 

-?? Wow lol

 

-????

 

-What the lololol

 

-lololol

 

-lololol Everything he says is just right

 

-What, did this guy receive divine inspiration?

 

“Hehe.”

 

Lee Si-ah shrugged her shoulders for no reason. The other Snow Removal Team members probably felt the same way.

 

Ah, Snow Removal Team is a recently created fan term for Seol Ha-woon. It’s short for “Please Seol Ha-woon” and “Jemalhot Seol Ha-woon”… It was just casually made for easier searching, so I don’t really like it.

 

Anyway.

 

Kim Se-jin’s pawn shop. Seol Ha-woon, the only one who saw through the quiz, makes a request to Kim Se-jin.

 

─Seol Ha-woon : I want to grow as a mage.

 

─Kim Se-jin : Isn’t Ha-woon already growing well enough?

 

─Seol Ha-woon : I understand a mage’s Mental Visualization to some extent. But I think there’s more to the mysteries of being a mage.

 

Kim Se-jin looks at him and then stands up from his seat.

 

─Kim Se-jin : …Follow me.

 

The two people reunited for the first time since the final preliminaries. SilTalk is already getting excited.

 

-Didn’t Kim Se-jin rate Seol Ha-woon very highly?

 

-Yeah, Turtle Genius was also a nickname Kim Se-jin gave him

 

-It’s not Turtle Genius, it’s Slow Genius

 

-Kim Se-jin created about half of Seol Ha-woon’s narrative. The Seol Ha-woon=genius image all came from him.

 

─Kim Se-jin : Ha-woon’s left leg is too big a penalty as a mage. You have almost no mobility on the battlefield. You’d want a way to compensate for mobility as much as possible, right?

 

─Seol Ha-woon : Yes.

 

Kim Se-jin positioned Seol Ha-woon in what looked like a training hall.

 

─Kim Se-jin : Try using a formula on me.

 

Bang bang bang bang bang! Seol Ha-woon immediately unleashed a barrage of Mana Bullets.

 

Nothing happened. The Mana Bullets disappeared near Kim Se-jin.

 

─Kim Se-jin : More. Try with all your might. Pour out every method Ha-woon uses to harm people.

 

This time he fired bullets almost like a machine gun, but they all vanished in mid-air.

 

─Seol Ha-woon : Did you dispel them?

 

─Kim Se-jin : Calling it dispelling is a bit inaccurate. The moment Ha-woon fired the Mana Bullets, my Magic Power connected to my nervous system reacted first.

 

Kim Se-jin raised the back of his hand. A layer of Magic Power was faintly shimmering just above the back of his hand.

 

“Wow.”

 

Amazing.

 

─Kim Se-jin : Think of Magic Power as cells. I layer those cells outside my body like this. And I connect them to my nervous system. Simply put, it’s the work of linking Magic Power with the brain and spinal cord…

 

The special lecture content itself is heavily edited. Probably because it’s classified information.

 

Lee Si-ah’s eyes caught some SilTalk chat messages.

 

-If that’s what I think it is, it’s a really dangerous technique.

 

-What’s Kim Se-jin doing? Why is he teaching that. Ah, is it just similar but different?

 

Words from people presumed to be mages. It seems like a dangerous technique. But Seol Ha-woon is a genius, so it’s possible.

 

For Lee Si-ah, for the Snow Removal Team, such faith exists.

 

Meanwhile, it switched to another explorer’s perspective, and when it returned to Seol Ha-woon, he was lying on the ground soaked in sweat and blood.

 

─Seol Ha-woon : Haa… haa…

 

Seol Ha-woon gasping for breath. Kim Se-jin stares at him intently and asks.

 

─Kim Se-jin : Ha-woon. Why do you want to grow as a mage?

 

Seol Ha-woon, soaked in sweat, contemplates and then answers in a darkly subdued voice.

 

─Seol Ha-woon : …To survive.

 

─Kim Se-jin : But Ha-woon, you’re alive.

 

─Seol Ha-woon : No.

 

Seol Ha-woon’s voice trembled faintly. It was a breath close to exhaustion.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: I am dead.

 

The words “I am dead.”

 

─Seol Ha-woon: I was a soldier. For a long time. So I might still be mistaking myself for a soldier.

 

For the first time, a scene where Seol Ha-woon reveals his heart.

 

Lee Si-ah also ponders it carefully. Her head naturally nods.

 

These words right now might be the best expression to describe him.

 

-That’s true

 

-Come to think of it, Seol Ha-woon always had a Labyrinth-first mindset. He didn’t care whether he got criticized or not, as long as he cleared the Labyrinth, that was all that mattered.

 

-For real, only Seol Ha-woon was gloomy like that..

 

-They said he was deployed to an actual battlefield. There’s no way he wouldn’t have PTSD.

 

-Seol Ha-woon was in a coma with total paralysis. Looking at it, even his rehabilitation was a miracle.

 

After that, Kim Se-jin’s interview scene appears.

 

──Yes. Seol Ha-woon is a complicated person.

 

Kim Se-jin has a soft and stable tone. His face is quite cute for his age, making him look younger than even Seol Ha-woon at first glance.

 

──An elite soldier who was deployed to battlefields of kill or be killed. But not anymore. The body that used to roll over walls and between barriers like flying, the muscles that seemed like they could even stop bullets – he no longer has those.

 

Such a cold reality. An unavoidable fact.

 

What kind of despair must he have felt when he woke up from his coma?

 

How terrifying must his emaciated body and unmoving limbs have been?

 

──Instead, he found a new talent. When one thing broke, did another path open? He completely absorbed the Teaching Method I taught him. Techniques that even 10-year veteran Mages find difficult.

 

Kim Se-jin smiles slightly. He shakes his head as if in admiration.

 

Then, the PD asks him.

 

──Explorer Seol Ha-woon, what level of talent is he among the Mages you’ve seen, Ranker Kim Se-jin?

 

Kim Se-jin answered without hesitation.

 

──Seol Ha-woon has the highest potential among any Mage I’ve ever seen.

 

Praise given by a famous High Ranker to a Mage who hasn’t even been at it for a year.

 

──Really. It’s not a joke or lip service. He has everything. Everything a Mage needs….

 

He smiled with relief as he said this. His brown curls swayed like a puppy’s.

 

-Shit; If Kim Se-jin is saying that;;

 

-But what level is Kim Se-jin exactly?

 

-Kim Se-jin isn’t an attention seeker so many people don’t know, but you can think of him as similar level to Yoo Ji-in.

 

-If he’s the highest potential among Mages, doesn’t that mean he’ll become a Mage?

 

-Potential is relative. There are tons of kids who fall into ruin without reaching their potential. That’s how the Mage world originally is.

 

-Even in the Mage community, everyone says that. If Seol Ha-woon isn’t even 1st year and this is real, he’s just an unbelievable genius….

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