Serena and the Mysterious Labyrinth - Chapter 334

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334. How to Get Locked in the Same Cell

“There’s a limit to how much you can kill someone!”

Serena was executed on the guillotine she had feared so much.

If she had died because of a real revolution, at least she could console herself with ‘Well, honestly, royalty and nobles were annoying.’

“Throwing me in prison right after entering! I thought you were taking time to induce an escape, but execution after just one day? Why? Why not kill me right after entering the labyrinth?”

Serena was so furious her eyes rolled back. She was too angry to recognize even a deity. No. Even though she recognized the deity, she grabbed and shook them by the collar.

“This isn’t right! The difficulty is ridiculous! How am I supposed to conquer this kind of labyrinth!”

Rattle rattle rattle. The Minotaur God didn’t get angry or resist the Princess’s terrifying rudeness, and obediently let himself be shaken.

The deity’s upper body shook mercilessly back and forth, left and right, but his mysterious crimson eyes quietly watched the Princess.

After enthusiastically shaking the deity and her anger subsiding slightly, Serena belatedly looked around nervously.

‘They’re not going to strike me down for daring to blaspheme a deity, are they?’

Contrary to Serena’s expectations, the voice that came from under the hood was gentle and kind.

“The conquest seems arduous.”

The tone was soft, but the content was worth less than dog shit. Serena’s anger gauge broke through the critical point again.

“Of course it’s arduous! How could it not be?”

Heuji’s Labyrinth was a whopping Grade 10 labyrinth.

The Empire had been unable to clear the Grade 9 Messa Labyrinth for 200 years, making it a national aspiration, yet Serena was descending a Grade 10 labyrinth with external supplies cut off.

Even with the cheat ability of regression, there was only one save slot. Just one!

It was truly an impossible task.

‘If only it weren’t for the 100,000 people who came in with me!’

If Serena had fallen into the labyrinth alone, she would have ignored Richard’s threats about killing everyone and walked the golden path.

In fact, even now the golden path was shining brilliantly behind Serena.

When Serena frowned and looked back, the Minotaur God said something infuriating again.

“Will you give up?”

Serena put strength back into her weakened hands and shook the deity again. She might be able to give up her own life easily, but a full 100,000 lives were at stake.

“Would I give up!”

“Gasp! Lady Serena! Please calm down!”

Serena, who had been frantically shaking the deity, blinked her eyes when she heard surprised voices around her.

The private audience with the deity had ended, and Serena had returned to before conquering the 12th Floor.

Serena looked at what she had been grabbing and shaking.

An ugly statue that looked like two potatoes stuck together; a divine statue painted only in crimson. She had been roughly shaking that statue.

‘And everyone saw it.’

Serena lowered her head and gritted her teeth.

The Princess knew very well how someone who suddenly attacked a divine statue in the middle of prayer would look.

‘Mother.’

They would look at her like someone who suddenly attacked while singing a lullaby to their beloved child.

They would force smiles while their eyes and lips trembled with all kinds of negative emotions like shock, surprise, and fear ready to burst.

They would sneer or show contempt where her gaze couldn’t reach while bowing their heads to show courtesy.

Serena had been born as the daughter of such a woman and had lived her whole life worrying about how she would appear to others.

What might be an occasional eccentricity for others became ‘maybe’ and ‘as expected’ for Serena.

‘What excuse should I make?’

Whatever excuse she made, once an impression was formed in people’s minds, it wouldn’t come out like a deeply embedded thorn.

As Serena gritted her teeth and organized her thoughts, Philia chirped in a voice sweeter than a nightingale’s.

“Lady Serena. What terrible thing did the Minotaur God say to make you so angry?”

“That… Even if you’re favored, this time was a bit too much. Please show some restraint.”

Count Randy also soothed Serena from the side. The reaction was milder than expected. Especially Philia’s reaction was very different from when they first fell into the labyrinth.

‘Back then she was seriously worried about my sanity.’

Now she seemed to be worried about something else. It seemed she had adapted after seeing various eccentricities since falling into the labyrinth.

‘But not everyone is like that.’

Those two might think that way since they were Serena’s retainers, but then the Guide’s voice was heard.

“If the Princess is angry enough to act like this~ the next floor’s conquest method must be ridiculously difficult. Or are you meeting Orange Duke again?”

Olive’s voice seemed to only worry about the labyrinth’s difficulty and didn’t seem to care much about the Princess’s eccentricity.

“Did they give you a strange mission? You don’t have to unconditionally follow missions or orders just because the great ones from the Heavens give them. Not me, but even my father postponed or didn’t do difficult missions. Even if those from the Heavens look down on us on earth, ultimately they live in different places and see things differently. It’s dangerous to match Heaven’s standards.”

Grey said something quite helpful. Encouraged by the milder reaction than expected, Serena raised her head.

Everyone was worried about her. There were a few who seemed anxious, but their concern for Serena was greater.

Among them, the freckled boy who was particularly worried about the Princess had his head properly attached to his neck.

Serena relaxed and plopped down on the floor. Philia helped support her to sit in a chair. Lavenda ran over and massaged her hands.

“Was it a very serious revelation?”

“That’s… No. I was just surprised by the warning that the party would be scattered like on the 5th Floor.”

When she made up an excuse, the labyrinth adventurers and the old man frowned and understood the Princess’s reaction.

“Damn. Separating the party near the 50th floor? The difficulty is killer.”

“Among all the labyrinths I’ve been to, this one seems to have the highest difficulty.”

“Forced teleportation. Troublesome.”

“Seeing that the Minotaur God warned us in advance, the difficulty must be considerable.”

Hearing the labyrinth experts talking seriously, Philia quickly said.

“If it’s such a dangerous floor, it would be better for Lady Serena to stay out. The Minotaur God must have told us in advance so you would do that!”

‘Look at her twisting words.’

Heuji Jeolmi usually lived without awareness or thought, but her mind worked exceptionally fast in this direction.

Perhaps because Philia’s words sounded reasonable, Olive crossed her arms and tilted her head back and forth.

“It’s almost the deep layers, so it’s dangerous for the Princess to go alone. Maybe it’s better to take us to the 45th floor via teleportation room and have the Princess return to the lobby?”

Happiness and joy burst from Heuji Jeolmi’s face. Everyone in the lobby complained of breathing and heart problems.

“You heard, Lady Serena! Don’t go this time!”

“For the Princess’s empty spot~ Radish! I’ve decided on you!”

“Me?”

“You heard about forced teleportation, right? Pack your bags well.”

Low moved to pack supplies. Serena raised her right hand to stop the hunter.

“Wait. I didn’t say I wouldn’t go.”

“Huh? But it’s dangerous. The 5th Floor was unavoidable because we had no people, but now we have people, so why?”

“I agree with Olive, my lady. The Minotaur God giving a revelation right before the conquest must be for Lady Serena’s safety.”

‘Yeah, that wasn’t it. He doesn’t worry about me at all.’

Serena remembered the deity who rattled as he was shaken and gritted her teeth.

‘Would I give up? If I was going to, I would have done it long ago!’

“It’s fine. This is something I must do.”

‘How dare you execute an innocent person on the guillotine? I’ll thoroughly dissect the 12th Floor’s gimmick.’

Philia made a displeased expression but couldn’t oppose further, perhaps because she was assuming all this was a trial from the deity. Serena patted the maid’s hand to comfort her friend.

“If the Princess insists on going, it can’t be helped. But it’s still dangerous if the Princess falls alone.”

Olive wrinkled her forehead and rolled her round eyes left and right. Low relaxed and waved his hand.

“Are there handcuffs?”

“If there were, I would have already put them on.”

“What are handcuffs?”

The 12th Floor was a prison, so Low mentioning handcuffs was truly meaningful. Low politely answered the Princess’s question.

“They’re magical tools used for times like this. When connected to wrists, people wearing handcuffs teleport together.”

“It would have been nice if handcuffs had appeared instead of rings last time~”

Olive regretted that rings of connection had appeared instead of useful handcuffs. Then she looked at Grey with shining eyes.

“Labyrinth adventurers depend on magical tools, but maybe the Imperial army commanded by a genius Grand Mage is different? Don’t you have any secrets?”

Grey frowned and reluctantly spoke.

“If you’re in physical contact during teleportation, there’s a higher probability of teleporting together or to nearby locations.”

Olive openly made an expression of disappointment.

“What? That’s a superstition everyone in our industry knows. Don’t you have anything more special?”

Grey swung his staff. Olive took shelter in a corner of the lobby. Grey massaged his temples while pressing his shoulder with the unidentified skull attached to his staff.

“Actually, there’s something among what we can use now that comes to mind.”

“Tell me.”

“The magic magnets. They’re not just for weapons – I hypothesized that if all party members attach magic magnets, we might teleport together.”

‘Ooh.’

It was worth lending them since he took a pair to research.

“It’s just a hypothesis, not certain. But if we add a hypothesis to superstition, wouldn’t the probability increase?”

“Grey makes a good point, Lady Serena.”

In the mysterious labyrinth where anything could happen, superstition and desire had a greater impact on reality than one might think.

Whether the hypothesis was right or wrong, the magic magnets were sufficient to act as a medium for the party’s desire not to be separated.

Serena personally attached magic magnets to the party members. Like proper magical tools, they stuck well anywhere on the body.

“I’ll put mine here.”

Olive swept back her wavy black bangs and presented her forehead. Serena stuck the magic magnet right in the center of Olive’s forehead.

“Ah, the forehead looks good!”

Ralph, who had simply attached his magnet to the back of his hand and put on gauntlets, felt regret. Count Randy doubted his ears.

“That looks good?”

“Yes! Doesn’t it look cool, like an eye grew on her forehead?”

Ralph’s eyes sparkled brightly, but he didn’t act spoiled asking for a new placement.

‘Is it the 16-year-old sensibility that’s the problem, or Ralph’s sensibility?’

Serena inwardly chuckled and approached Ying, the last batter. Ying swept up her bangs and presented her neat forehead.

‘It’s both Ralph’s and Ying’s sensibilities that are the problem.’

Snap! Serena aimed well for the center and attached the magic magnet to the archer’s forehead too.

While stroking the magnet that wouldn’t fall off unless you tried to remove it, like a proper magical tool, the faithful servant of darkness advised.

“The closer you are, the more courtesy you should show.”

In the eyes of the High Priest of Darkness, the princess who committed blasphemy by shaking the divine statue was displeasing.

“Is that so? Isn’t it weak compared to Priest Muffin?”

Prince Willow mentioned the Priest of Corruption who had complained about the deity.

If the prince, who had only encountered Muffin in the lobby due to the curse, reacted this way, what about people who had been seeing Muffin elsewhere all along?

Everyone nodded in agreement with the prince’s words. Only then did Serena realize why people’s reactions had been more moderate than expected.

‘I should be grateful to Miss Muffin.’

Having a priest who insulted the deity he served as naturally as breathing had made perceptions of blasphemy more lenient.

Moreover, excluding High Priest Hazel who was a model priest, Knight Marin and the baldy from Nup were all extraordinary people.

‘The deity even imposed a seal to make him shut up, but chattering away is also blasphemy in some sense.’

Compared to that, how normal was an apostle who attacked a divine statue for receiving bad revelations!

The image of a pristine figure who had been an exemplary priest came to mind. Serena sighed and erased Priest Rihua from her thoughts.

“I’ve delayed us. Let’s go.”

The 1st attack team of Heuji’s Labyrinth headed to the 12th floor. If there was a difference from the previous attempt, it was that they all went down the stairs holding hands and the party’s formation.

‘Was I initially teleported with Count Ralph because he was close?’

Serena changed the party’s order, curious about the probability of the superstition.

The order was: guide, magic princess, imperial knight, alchemist, young knight, archer.

As Olive’s foot touched the 46th floor, Serena was automatically teleported. When she opened her eyes, she saw familiar stone walls. At least being moved into the cell was the same as before.

‘Then what about my companions? Don’t tell me I fell alone this time?’

Serena tensely turned around slowly.

Behind the princess.

“Princess! We teleported together! The superstition and magnets must have worked!”

The freckled boy smiled as brightly as sunshine.

Dark clouds gathered on the magic princess’s face.

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