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Chapter 163 : Labyrinth, Treasure
Chapter 163: Labyrinth, Treasure
The next day.
The two purchased tickets to the labyrinth.
The convoy traveled along the South District Avenue toward the West City Gate’s barbican. Passing through the towering archway that stood like a fortress, the view suddenly opened up to an endless expanse of wasteland and woodland.
By midday, the convoy stopped before a sprawling campsite of astonishing scale.
E n u m̊ а̌ .і̀d̈
The ground near the labyrinth entrance had, in an incredibly short time, developed into the prototype of a bustling temporary town—clearly bound to keep expanding.
The muddy dirt road was crowded with adventurers carrying packs. Puddles left by the morning rain reflected boot after boot trampling through without care.
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“Anyone forming a team to the second floor? Need a priest!”
“Top-grade blood potion, essential for survival in exploration, warrior! Come take a look!”
“Today’s goal—break through to the second floor!”
The camp was a sea of voices.
Ẇêb.n о v еl Е̄ n.ŭmа
Some were shouting for teammates, some hawking their goods, some discussing exploration plans—noises vying to flood the ears.
“Should we stock more food?” Arya asked.
“Should be enough.” Gauss pondered. “We also need to leave some space in the storage bag for loot.”
In addition to supplies purchased from Graystone Town, the bag held dried frog meat and newly made dried frost serpent meat.
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Besides, there should be some edible monsters in the labyrinth. If not, they could just gather resources on-site.
Since it was their first time entering the labyrinth for exploration, Gauss had no plans to go too deep. For a few days’ time, the food they had prepared was more than enough.
Е̇ ṅù m̆а. і̆ ď
If they crammed in too much, there would be no room to store the spoils they gained inside.
“True.” Arya nodded, realizing she had been overly anxious.
After all, this was her first labyrinth expedition, and she subconsciously felt she hadn’t prepared thoroughly enough.
The two, along with their wolf companion, followed the crowd toward the labyrinth entrance.
At last, a massive collapsed pit came into view, dozens of meters in diameter and bottomless, as if leading straight to the earth’s core.
At their feet lay a neatly constructed stone staircase.
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Adventurers descended with anticipation or ascended exhausted and dust-covered.
Gauss and Arya took a deep breath, merged into the flow of people, and stepped down the long staircase into the deep, unknown underworld.
The stairs were long—at least a hundred meters underground.
Reaching the bottom, their view opened up.
The first sight was the entrance hall of the first underground floor.
The Adventurer’s Guild had transformed it into a fully functional space.
Еnǔmа
The wide area held a fountain, temporary structures, and clusters of tent camps. Here, fully equipped adventurers made their final resupplies and gathered their parties.
According to the “Labyrinth Guide” provided by the Adventurer’s Guild—
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This labyrinth was massive, with unknown floors. The deeper one went, the more dangerous it became, but the rewards also grew richer.
Labyrinths were creations of ancient civilizations, with peculiar qualities—like enormous living beings.
Thus, even the uppermost floor, thought fully explored by adventurers, would produce new areas and monsters each day.
It was like a giant beast, constantly growing and refreshing itself.
Е ń ũm а̊
Based on this, the Adventurer’s Guild had proposed the theory of a “lifespan” for labyrinths.
They believed a labyrinth’s growth passed through infancy, juvenile stage, maturity, and finally the late stage, developing toward full maturity in the process.
When the late stage ended, the labyrinth would wither—no longer growing, no longer refreshing.
Monsters and treasures would diminish until exhausted, shrinking away until the labyrinth completely vanished from the world—what adventurers called “clearing” the labyrinth.
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Some labyrinths had very long lifespans, lasting centuries or more. Others were short-lived, dying after just a few years of exploration. This could never be known beforehand—only discovered through continuous exploration.
This uncertainty was precisely why it was called a “labyrinth.”
Е̃ num̌ а
At present, this labyrinth was still in its infancy—thriving and expanding—making it the friendliest stage for low-level adventurers like Gauss.
“More slimes!”
A shout came from somewhere in the hall as several newly spawned slimes were instantly swarmed by adventurers.
Beyond the hall lay the vast first underground floor—
Broken walls and ruins, crumbling buildings, and all manner of subterranean vegetation.
Yes, various plants grew in the underground labyrinth, nourished by strange light constantly falling from above, allowing them to thrive underground.
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“Shall we set out?” Gauss looked at Arya. After a night’s rest, both were brimming with energy.
“Alright, you lead.”
For their first steps into the labyrinth, both were especially cautious.
Gauss chose a direction—
Taking the lead, he cast a Gauss Force Field on both himself and Arya for protection.
Although the guide stated that the first underground floor mainly housed low-level monsters and posed little threat to them, caution was still the wisest approach for a first descent.
Е ṅ ũ mа
“The entrance to the second underground floor changes periodically,” Gauss recalled from the guide.
Connections between floors shifted over time, increasing the difficulty of exploration, preventing fixed routes, and forcing new searches each visit.
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With luck, one could descend several floors at once; without it, one might never find the entrance.
Eventually, once exploration stabilized, at least the early floors should have real-time maps available.
Fortunately, they weren’t in a rush to head straight to the second floor.
As they explored cautiously—
W е̂b̀ ňо v̌ё l̈ Ė ń ũ.m a
“Grahhh!!”
Several goblins brandishing crude wooden clubs burst from behind a ruined short wall, roaring fiercely.
Seeing those familiar green-skinned figures, a hint of nostalgia flashed across Gauss’s face. He hadn’t seen goblins for nearly half a winter.
Feeling the stir of his Reptilian Strain talent, he held back the excited Ulfen, and in one smooth motion drew his fine steel longsword.
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“Zeng!”
The longsword slid free of its sheath, its ring clear and crisp.
W̊ е.b̄ n o v̇ ӗl̄ Е̇nú m а̂
Though he had switched weapons—from a rapier to this fine steel longsword designed to reduce wind resistance—with the boost from Swordsmanship Basics and days of training, he quickly adapted.
“Whoosh!”
Air streamed smoothly along the blade’s spine.
A flash of white light.
The goblin at the front took a deep gash, the wound cut to the bone, blood spurting wildly.
Gauss’s footwork was swift, his movements like the wind. With a second slash, a third—within moments, several goblins lay in pools of blood.
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“Goblins killed ×5”
“Huff—” Gauss felt his body warming slightly.
He knew it was the Reptilian Strain and Energy Storage Gland talents drawing in “nourishment” to strengthen his body.
Goblins really were the best…
“The monsters here are really aggressive,” Arya came over.
In the wild, five ordinary goblins would rarely dare attack two Professionals accompanied by a wolf companion.
Ŵеḃn о̊ v̆ е́l Е̂n̂ u m̌ а
“Probably the labyrinth’s influence?”
Gauss looked down at the soil beneath his feet—it had already begun absorbing the goblins’ spilled blood from their wounds.
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Of course, this was no bad thing for him.
During the Winter Hunt, those low-level small monsters that scattered and fled at the slightest threat had added plenty of extra work for him.
He would much prefer if all the low-level monsters here were fearless battle fanatics.
After swiftly looting the spoils, the two looked toward the direction from which the goblins had charged.
Е̌ňum̀_а̇.і ḋ
“There should be more goblins over there,” Gauss mused.
He then led Arya onward.
Along the way—
As expected, they encountered other monsters.
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Some appeared in small numbers, solitary and wandering; others in groups of three to five.
But none posed any trouble for the pair.
Е̇ n ǔmа.îd
Aside from goblins, they ran into kobolds, skeletons, and slimes—common low-level monsters.
After traveling for several hours,
They stopped briefly on the second floor of a crumbling building, lighting a small bonfire.
“Total monsters killed: 1386”
Gauss checked the Monster Encyclopedia’s data.
So far, they had slain sixty monsters in total—
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Roughly forty were goblins, the rest various other small monsters.
He was generally satisfied with this kill rate.
Still, the labyrinth’s environment had an eerie quality to it.
“This first floor is huge.”
During their exploration, they had only run into others a handful of times.
And there was one thing Gauss hadn’t figured out since entering—how exactly the light poured in, given this was deep underground.
Wе b n̈ о̇v̊ е l̃ Е́n̂ŭm ӓ
Whether it was even sunlight, he couldn’t say for sure.
“Gauss! Look what I found!” Arya’s voice called from downstairs.
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After eating, she had gone poking around in a few empty rooms below, saying she had overheard others in the surface camp mention finding treasures in ruined buildings, so she wanted to try her luck.
Gauss followed her voice down. In the corner of one room, Arya was holding a few heavy metal ingots, gleaming with a silver-white luster.
“Is that silver?”
“Genuine.” Arya knocked on a silver ingot, producing a clear, pleasant ring.
Е̃ṅûm̂а
“Should be worth three or four hundred silver coins,” Gauss said, slightly surprised—several gold coins’ worth, just like that. “You’re lucky.”
“Hehe, it was hidden right here.”
Arya grinned, nudging a few loosened floor tiles nearby with her toe.
Gauss gave her a thumbs-up.
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No wonder adventurers flocked here. Even on the first underground floor, they could find treasure—and considering how much of the area had already been scoured before their arrival, this was quite the find.
As the two were enjoying their unexpected windfall—
Ẽn um̌а̊
“Rumble!”
By the ancient well in the courtyard outside the ruins, the ground suddenly trembled violently without warning.
Next, a massive shadow, several meters tall, surged upward from the earth!
“Shh.”
Hearing the commotion outside, Gauss instantly went on alert, stashing the silver ingots and giving Arya a look.
He moved like a cat, silently slipping to a room facing the courtyard, pressing himself flat against the wall, leaning to peer through a gap in the wall toward the open yard.
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“Boom!”
Just as he peeked out, a huge mass of deep brown, ominous-looking viscous matter hurtled through the air like a cannonball, smashing through the wall opening—
And came hurtling straight for them.
“Watch out!”
Gauss reacted quickly, pulling Arya aside—
“Bang!!!”
W̊е̊b̆ǹоv̆.е̌ l Е n̄ü m̃ a
With a dull crash, the viscous mass smashed through the loose brick window frame, sending mud and stone shards flying.
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