The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 89

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 89

 

Episode 89: Guardian of the Labyrinth (1)

 

Just before the bullets were fired, Mincheol confirmed the positions of all the guardians.

 

Furthermore, he looked at the direction of the gun barrels and predicted the trajectory of the bullets.

 

The firing followed.

 

Mincheol swung his twin swords and deflected all the incoming bullets.

 

Along with sparks, all the round bullets were knocked away.

 

“This actually works?”

 

Mincheol muttered with a surprised expression.

 

He had tried it relying on instinct and intuition, but he hadn’t expected it to succeed.

 

However, there was no time to feel relieved.

 

Click.

 

The sound of metal clicking began to come from the guardians.

 

He couldn’t be certain, but they seemed to be reloading.

 

“What kind of firearms are in a fantasy setting!”

 

Mincheol shouted with resentment.

 

Fortunately, the speed and power of the bullets were far inferior compared to modern firearms.

 

Having fired guns directly in the military, he could be certain of this.

 

That didn’t mean it was safe though.

 

While they fell short of modern firearms, they were still sufficient to kill a person.

 

Moreover, the place where Mincheol was currently standing was on top of a narrow stone column.

 

If he lost his balance even slightly, he would fall to the ground covered with protruding spikes.

 

‘I need to escape for now.’

 

【You acquire all ‘Ancient Labyrinth Power Sources (5)’ within a 1km radius.】

 

【Magic power is detected from the target. Magic power is consumed to steal ownership.】

 

【1,000 magic power is consumed by Auto Looting.】

 

Mincheol quickly acquired the power sources.

 

However.

 

【Emergency alert is active!】

 

【You cannot escape the labyrinth until the alert is deactivated!】

 

“Ah, damn it.”

 

Mincheol unconsciously let out a curse.

 

Meanwhile, the guardians aimed at Mincheol again, apparently finished loading.

 

‘There’s no guarantee I can deflect the bullets again.’

 

‘I need to attack first before being attacked.’

 

‘I have to reduce their numbers as much as possible.’

 

The moment he decided, his body moved on its own.

 

Mincheol simultaneously threw the one-handed swords he was holding in both hands.

 

【’Sure Kill’ is activated.】

 

【40 magic power is consumed.】

 

The twin swords flew quickly and embedded themselves in the guardians’ bodies.

 

Two guardians fell down with small explosions.

 

Mincheol immediately took out two hand axes from his inventory.

 

Bang.

 

Right after that, the guardians’ gun barrels spewed flames.

 

However, Mincheol had already read all the directions of the gun barrels.

 

Mincheol kicked off the stone column and launched his body into the air. The bullets quickly grazed past below.

 

Landing stably on the stone column, Mincheol immediately activated his skill.

 

【’Kaella Marbenian’ is activated.】

 

【210 magic power is consumed.】

 

【Please designate an item from your inventory.】

 

At the same time as designating the item, he threw the hand axe.

 

Though he swung his arm only once, two hand axes flew out.

 

This time too, two guardians exploded and fell to the ground.

 

【’Kaella Marbenian’ is activated.】

 

【210 magic power is consumed.】

 

【Please designate an item from your inventory.】

 

Activating the skill for the second time, he swung his opposite arm.

 

This time too, two hand axes flew out and destroyed two guardians.

 

‘Now my magic power is depleted.’

 

He had consumed a large amount of magic power to acquire the power sources.

 

On top of that, using Kaella Marbenian twice in succession had completely drained his magic power.

 

But it wouldn’t be a problem.

 

Click.

 

The guardians had only been firing single shots so far.

 

During that time, Mincheol was free. In other words, he could focus on attacking.

 

Mincheol’s hands moved without rest.

 

He repeatedly took out hand axes from his inventory and threw them at the guardians.

 

The consecutively thrown hand axes hit the guardians.

 

All the guardians were destroyed before they could finish reloading.

 

“Phew.”

 

When all the guardians disappeared, Mincheol let out a sigh of relief.

 

“This is why I hate the Tower.”

 

Just when he thought he might climb easily, an emergency alert sounds because the trap activation rate increased?

 

And fighting guardians in such a confined space?

 

He almost lost his life.

 

“Still, I’m glad to be alive. Right, Kkwak?”

 

“Kkwak.”

 

Kkwaekkwi nodded from under Mincheol’s chin.

 

“But why isn’t the alert being deactivated?”

 

He thought the emergency alert would be deactivated once all the guardians were destroyed, but no message was appearing.

 

“Don’t tell me there are more guardians…”

 

Whirrrr-

 

Before he could finish speaking, the sound of an engine came from above his head.

 

New types of guardians began descending from the ceiling in droves.

 

They were flying guardians with oval egg-like shapes and propellers attached to their heads.

 

“What the hell is that!”

 

Gun barrels protruded once again from the bodies of the flying guardians.

 

“Another gun!”

 

But for a gun barrel, it was incredibly large.

 

In that moment, a bad feeling crossed Mincheol’s mind.

 

“…No way?”

 

The cylinder began to move.

 

It wasn’t aiming at Mincheol, but at the entrance where he had stood when starting the 20th Floor.

 

Pong-

 

With the sound of compressed air being released, something was fired from the cylinder.

 

The moment an adult fist-sized iron ball reached the entrance, an explosion occurred.

 

Kwaagwang.

 

The explosion wasn’t that large.

 

But when all the Guardians fired simultaneously, the entrance completely collapsed.

 

Next, the flying Guardians aimed at the stone columns.

 

“Hey, hey hey!”

 

Too flustered, Mincheol shouted at the Guardians.

 

But the Guardians didn’t stop and fired their shells.

 

Successive explosions began toppling the stone columns one by one.

 

It seemed they planned to drop Mincheol to his death.

 

‘What should I do? Should I jump to the other side?’

 

The other side.

 

Where the power source had been, there was a place to stand.

 

But it was narrow and couldn’t dodge the shells.

 

Most importantly, if hit by bombardment, it would obviously collapse quickly.

 

‘Go down below? But how? The ground is even full of spikes?’

 

There was nowhere to escape.

 

At that moment, something entered Mincheol’s field of vision.

 

It was the ceiling.

 

The ceiling that had been completely blocked was now wide open as the Guardians descended.

 

The problem was not knowing what was up there.

 

Contrary to Mincheol’s thoughts, there might be no footing, or stronger enemies might be waiting.

 

Kwaagwagwang.

 

But there was no time to ponder long. The bombardment had already reached the stone column where Mincheol stood.

 

“Kkwaekkwi, buff!”

 

Kkwaekkwi from his chest transformed into wind and flew up.

 

Then it dove toward Mincheol. A gust of wind wrapped around Mincheol’s body.

 

【’Kkwaekkwi’ uses ‘Warm Wind Wing Beat’!】

 

【All physical abilities increase by 10% for 10 minutes!】

 

【Movement speed increases by 20%!】

 

Mincheol kicked off the stone column and ran. Bombardment followed behind him.

 

As soon as he reached the opposite side, he leaped toward the wall.

 

【Using ‘Carve Out’.】

 

【Acquiring all objects within cubic range.】

 

Mincheol used Carve Out to drill consecutive holes in the wall.

 

Stepping on them, Mincheol shot upward.

 

Kwaagwang-

 

The Guardians chased Mincheol while firing shells.

 

But it wasn’t enough to catch up to Mincheol.

 

Mincheol reached the ceiling entrance in an instant.

 

Beyond the entrance, he could see a large passage carved into the wall.

 

“I’m alive!”

 

Mincheol rejoiced as he landed in the passage.

 

At that moment, he heard engine sounds from behind.

 

Flying Guardians that had somehow followed were aiming their gun barrels at Mincheol.

 

Mincheol grinned and pulled out a hand axe from his inventory.

 

The reason the Guardians had been troublesome was because Mincheol had been standing on stone columns.

 

Now that he’d reached such a spacious area, the Guardians were no longer Mincheol’s match.

 

“Come at me.”

 

Bombs were fired from the gun barrels.

 

Mincheol dodged the bombs while throwing his hand axe.

 

Having read the gun barrels’ direction in advance and receiving Kkwaekkwi’s buff, it wasn’t difficult.

 

The number of flying Guardians decreased rapidly.

 

Eventually, even the last remaining flying Guardian crashed with a hand axe embedded in it.

 

“Insignificant things acting up.”

 

Mincheol said this while taking out a mana candy from his inventory and putting it in his mouth.

 

His depleted mana began to slowly replenish.

 

“Kkwak.”

 

When the battle ended, Kkwaekkwi also returned to its original form.

 

Mincheol petted Kkwaekkwi’s head and said.

 

“I survived thanks to you again this time.”

 

“Kkwak, kkwak.”

 

“But where is this place?”

 

Mincheol looked around the passage as he spoke.

 

The passage was incredibly wide. Wide enough for about ten cars to drive side by side.

 

“It’s quite suspicious though…”

 

Though it felt ominous, there was nowhere else to go.

 

To escape the labyrinth, he had to disable the emergency alert.

 

Mincheol put Kkwaekkwi in his chest pocket, then moved along the passage.

 

After walking a short distance, a large stone gate appeared.

 

Mincheol examined the stone gate together with Kkwaekkwi. Something was drawn on its surface.

 

“That looks like writing, and this looks like a picture.”

 

Naturally, he couldn’t understand the text. It wasn’t from Earth.

 

But the pictures were very simple and easy to recognize.

 

“This seems to represent gems, and that… is it a person?”

 

A picture of gems piled high.

 

Next to it, a picture of a hunchback wearing a mask.

 

And beside that were drawn the Guardians that Mincheol had faced.

 

At the end was a human skull with a large X drawn over it.

 

No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like a picture drawn with some intention.

 

“The first picture seems to represent treasure, the next seems to represent the owner, the third is definitely the Guardians, and the last… means death?”

 

Come to think of it, he had heard that truly dangerous places mark warnings with pictures that anyone can easily understand.

 

Perhaps the owner of this labyrinth had also left such pictures as a warning.

 

“It seems to mean you’ll die if you enter.”

 

Mincheol reached out and touched the wall painting.

 

As if it had been waiting, a message appeared.

 

【You have discovered Hidden Stage ‘Chugoae’s Magitech Workshop’!】

 

Mincheol’s face lit up after checking the message.

 

“Kkwak, did you see that? It says Hidden Stage!”

 

“Kkwak! Kkwak!”

 

Was there any other word that could make a person’s heart race as much as “Hidden Stage”?

 

Hidden Stages had a high probability of yielding good rewards.

 

The Memory Stones that had become Mincheol’s foundation were also items obtained from a Hidden Stage.

 

“And it’s a Magitech Workshop too!”

 

Magitech usually referred to the technology for creating magical tools.

 

Most dimensions had magitech.

 

Of course, the names, principles, and methods were different for each dimension.

 

The common point was that items created through magitech were all useful things.

 

“A Magitech Workshop means it’s a place that professionally creates magical tools, right?”

 

Mincheol swelled with anticipation.

 

Perhaps he could make a real fortune here.

 

“But why does it have ‘ugly’ in front of it?”

 

Mincheol tilted his head in confusion.

 

The picture showed people, not monsters.

 

“Are they talking about the Guardians?”

 

But the Guardians weren’t ugly enough to be called that.

 

“Could there be some strange monsters?”

 

Thinking that made him suddenly afraid.

 

Come to think of it, hadn’t he almost died to the Phantom Knight in the first Hidden Stage?

 

There was no guarantee this place would be safe either.

 

No, considering the Tower’s nature, it was certain to be dangerous.

 

“Ugh, I don’t want to go in.”

 

But to get out of here, he had to disable the alarm.

 

And there was definitely something ahead that could disable the alarm with high probability.

 

“King Burger told me not to do things I don’t know about.”

 

While Mincheol was spinning in place and pondering,

 

“Huh?”

 

He saw a pair of leather shoes discarded in the corner.

 

Mincheol picked up the leather shoes.

 

【Antique Leather Boots.】

 

-Grade: Rare.

 

-Description: Leather shoes crafted by the Akan Family. When worn, they have the effect of purifying mana.

 

-Effect 1. Magic Power stat +20 increase.

 

-Effect 2. Maximum Mana +100 increase.

 

-Effect 3. Mana Recovery +20% increase.

 

The moment he read the effects, Mincheol’s face went blank.

 

“It has three effects attached?”

 

He had seen countless rare items while searching the Auction House, but this was the first time he’d seen one with three options.

 

And they were all mana-related options, which were considered the most important.

 

Without a doubt, if he put this up for auction, he could get tens of billions.

 

“An item this good was just discarded at the entrance?”

 

Mincheol looked at the message again.

 

【Ugly Magitech Workshop.】

 

The name “Magitech Workshop” seemed to shine particularly bright.

 

If an item this good was discarded outside, how amazing must the treasures inside be?

 

It was the moment when greed pushed away fear.

 

Kwagagwak-

 

Mincheol pushed the stone door with both hands with all his might.

 

With the sound of scraping against the ground, the stone door slowly slid away.

 

“Well then, shall we go in and take a look?”

 

“Kkwak!”

 

Mincheol stepped inside with a refreshing smile on his face.

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