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Lesson eight, at the bottom.

"Ugh..."

When I raise my groan and open my eyes awakening to a grumpy consciousness, I see a gothic rock ceiling. Light overflowed from crystals that grew everywhere, and that was the source of light.

My whole body is worn out, and it hurts terribly. But feeling pain means being alive.

"Is this...?

Right behind you is a metastatic crystal that can travel to and from the labyrinth hierarchy.

Watching the light emitted by the metastatic crystals makes my mind feel calm.

Since then - I desperately remember what happened after I was attacked in a hidden room and slipped into a hole I drilled into the ground.

I thought I would soon reach the third basement floor below, but the end of the hole was a cavity that seemed to have struck through many floors, from which many layers fell, as a result of which it fell into a river flowing through the labyrinth. Though I desperately try to reach for something in my hazy consciousness, it never reaches me in the end, and I was finally able to grab it on the shore where it was bent when the river flow slowed.

There, the glowing crystal - the metastatic crystal - was right beside it, reaching out to be handed over to its light.

So, my consciousness broke.

"Where are we?

It makes me think again when I remember what happened to me.

If you were to say that you remained unconscious in front of the metastatic crystal that flowed down from the river, you would understand that you had passed out in front of the metastatic crystal. But there are no rivers nearby.

So you moved to another floor?

I think about it that way and look around, but the view was different on both the first and second floors where the transfer was possible.

More importantly, it is the soil of the caves that make up the ceilings and walls.

Sounds similar, but something is different. Shall I say that the materials are different? The labyrinth cave I saw was like using a natural cave as it was, but the dirt wall in front of me now was polished by a tsuru.

It's a completely different place.

I'm just wondering where this is, but there's a metastatic crystal in front of me. Touch this and the transferable destinations come naturally to mind.

In other words, it shows the hierarchy I've visited, including here.

Fulfilling...

"What, the 82nd floor underground?

A hierarchy that can go into your head is displayed

-First floor

- Upstairs.

- Sixth floor.

- 82nd floor

It's understandable that the first and second floors can be moved because I went directly down the labyrinth and touched the metastatic crystals. The sixth floor was probably the sixth basement where I arrived while being flushed into the river.

But the basement, 82nd floor?

"This is the place, is it?

Unexpectedly, I look around again with Kyoro Kyoro.

I was also listening to the boy about the labyrinth near the village. One of my favorite was the presence of the legendary Adventurer Party, which I was told challenged to the labyrinth nearly 200 years ago and reached to the bottom.

That party was one of the most powerful of the adventurers of the time, and after a long period of exploration they reached the lowest level, the underground 55th floor. The rare metal, the treasure that was at the bottom, was processed into weapons and greatly helped their adventurer activities thereafter.

But it was told that there was no more treasure at the bottom, and that there was no such thing as the nucleus of the labyrinth.

A number of adventurer parties then challenged the labyrinth to follow their feat, but in the end reaching the basement fiftieth floor was the limit.

Okay, here's a funny story.

The labyrinth is constantly expanding.

For that reason, it was 55 floors when we reached the bottom 200 years ago, so it was said that it would now possibly be over 60 floors.

But it shouldn't expand dozens of hierarchies in about 200 years.

But it's actually expanded to the 82nd floor underground.

Possible possibilities...

"They didn't get to the bottom!

My chest ached when I raised my voice.

I guess they did reach the 55th floor underground. But giving up any more offense and taking home the treasure gained there made it easier to convince him of the lie that the basement 55th floor was the bottom floor. In fact, the metal obtained became a powerful weapon.

Totally, I want the false hero Tan to give me back the feeling I was heartbeating.

Ma, I don't care about fake heroes.

What needs to be done more than that is why I have reached the lowest level.

"If this is the bottom floor, I knew it was..."

The basement 82nd floor was a terribly narrow place.

Next to the location where the metastatic crystals are located is a staircase for going to the upper floor. The entire hierarchy is also narrow enough to be seen through the entrance.

There was a bright white building like a large temple in such a narrow place.

Metastatic crystals can be used to return to the entrance of the labyrinth in an instant.

But take your hands off the metastatic crystals and I enter the temple to be invited.

"Hey, you've come a lot."

The moment I entered the temple, I heard voices from somewhere.

A voice like I've heard somewhere.

But I don't see anywhere the person who spoke out. This is the lowest level of the labyrinth in the first place. I don't think there's anyone in a place like that but myself.

"I'm in the back of the temple."

An unidentified voice heard in a place like this.

But I walk without wonder and vigilance.

The moment you step into a room that seems to be behind the temple, a bonfire is set on a column in the corner of the room, whether it is caused by magic or not.

Then a crystal placed on a pedestal like a pillar in the center of the room enters the eye.

'Well, shall I introduce myself? I'm the labyrinth nucleus of this labyrinth.

"What?"

I can hear myself calling myself the labyrinth nucleus from the crystal.

"I am the life of the labyrinth itself, and by destroying me, the labyrinth ceases to function completely. That's what it is."

"Really?"

'There is only one way to prove it. But for that, I need you to carry on the mission that you have. Will you accept that?

"You don't know what it's all about, but you can't accept it."

The conversation with the labyrinth nucleus had been concluded, but I don't know what you're talking about.

Again, I should have just left or my whole body hurts......

"Apparently, the body that was attacked hurts a lot."

"How do you know..."

The tone of the labyrinth nucleus was convincing as if it had been seen.

"I am the labyrinth itself. I can grasp everything that happened in the labyrinth. And your behavior, from the moment you came into the labyrinth - no, I let you observe it from the first basement floor. Well, shall I fix that wound first '

"What did you say...?

The labyrinth nucleus never answers my question, instead a magic formation appears on the floor right next to me. On top of it emerges a chest like the one you saw in the hidden room from nowhere.

"Open it."

When I opened it as they told me, there was a bottle inside.

The contents of the bottle are filled with red liquid. Besides, it's not just liquid. It's a liquid so permeated by magic that even I can tell it's completely unsuitable.

Potion - A magical liquid that heals your body's wounds and restores strength by taking it.

It was also in the village, but this potion is not comparable in quality to potions like the one in the village. It was just a substitute to be called superb.

"Drink."

I'll take a sip.

That alone healed the wounds in his body and his strength was back on track.

'Well, is this making it easier for us to talk?

"Thank you for healing my wounds. But how did you get me to a place like this?

The labyrinth nucleus is at its lowest level and it exists right in front of us.

I thought the reason I was at the bottom was because of the labyrinth nucleus.

But the labyrinth nucleus denies the idea.

"Hmm? I didn't do anything about you being at the bottom. You're qualified to move to the bottom, and you've come to the bottom on your own."

"No, I don't know what qualifications I can only transfer to the bottom..."

The only destinations I can transfer to are the metastatic crystals and the lowest layers I've touched myself.

I don't know what that means.