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Reincarnator – Chapter 177 : Maze (1)
“Hey friend! Wait up for a bit!”
Ekidu was dumbfounded at the sudden change in tone after climbing out from the Triple Fusion Beast’s body.
But Marun didn’t even take a glance at Ekidu as he walked towards Hansoo.
He had thought that Ekidu was the leader at the beginning.
But it wouldn’t last long.
And he had never seen someone as strong as Ekidu even after moving to another village.
The one who had killed the beast was Ekidu but if that guy wasn’t there to block that unstoppable beam, it wouldn’t even have been possible.
That was why he was trying to talk to Hansoo instead.
‘Yeah. Just stand still behind me.’
“Since it looks like there isn’t much time, let’s get to the point right away. I don’t know why you three are traveling as only three but let’s go together.”
Constant screams of the Triple Fusion Beasts were heard from all around.
Marun frowned as he heard the screams and roars that rang throughout the entire forest.
If he had tried to make the hole a bit larger then he might’ve even failed.
Even him, who had the unique item Snake’s Path, would have a hard time trying to create a hole like the one Karhal had made.
Marun looked calm on the outside but he was urgent on the inside.
Faster.
“As you can see, we have a lot of people and every one of us are veteran Hunters. We were ambushed just now but we can be quite a formidable force if we combine our strength. I don’t know what kind of goals or thoughts you have but i think it would be better to head towards a single direction together instead of being enemies.”
Though 30 had died, they still had around 470 people.
Maybe a hundred people more at most.
Hansoo chuckled at Marun’s words which contained a trace of a threat.
“…?”
He didn’t know what kind of thoughts Hansoo had but it shouldn’t be that much out of the box.
Survival.
“I’m now going to the nest of these things.”
Karhal was the one who had actually freaked out from Hansoo’s words.
Hansoo nodded at Karhal’s reaction.
The desperate Sages had combined the three Races and had created this but these large things couldn’t be kept under control and they couldn’t handle their own instincts as they prioritized the weak.
The beasts, after judging that the Sages were weaker than them, had gone on a rampage to rip apart the Sages and so the Sages could only trap them in the underground Maze.
And now it was the base of Mount Liang, the ones who were in charge of the funnel.
He needed to get in before the doors closed.
And he needed to get the item inside that place, the
The maze was a complex structure created to go up against the Higher Races that were invading them.
Nothing will be gained if a group tried to swarm through the narrow passages.
Swarming into such a narrow place would only hinder each other’s attacks. Hansoo then pointed behind Marun and started to pick people out.
“…”
‘…This bastard. He has some amazing sense or is it something else?’
They were the Guards of the village.
But Marun had purposely made their attires similar to the Hunter’s.
There shouldn’t be that many differences from a glance but for him to pick them out so meticulously.
Marun pondered.
‘Shall I threaten him a bit?’
There are always rewards that suited the crazy and risky things people do.
Hansoo wouldn’t try to fight their group or anything due to their numbers.
‘Fucking hell…’ There was a beast in the past which had similar eyes to Hansoo right now.
A 4m large beast which looked like a red lion and marked its territory by smashing trees down with its front leg.
If you don’t cross over to its territory then it wouldn’t do anything to you no matter what you do even if you were right in front of it.
That it’s a timid beast.
Nobody knew what happened to them.
The current situation felt just like that.
The moment he tried to work around it he would lose his head.
His group might be able to win if they fight but what would it matter if his head was cut off already. At that moment.
A desolate cry was heard.
“If you have nothing to say then we’ll head off first.”
The Triple Fusion Beasts would come here if they remained.
There was a time limit for how long the entrance to the Maze stayed open.
Since there was another reason to go into the maze other than the Defeated King’s Crown.
“Phew…”
And Mekill, one of the ex-guards, asked Marun while looking at him.
They would be able to catch them if they chased.
‘Mmm….’ Booooom!
The moment Hansoo shouted.
And then.
A beam of laser flew in from the distance and smashed into Hansoo.
A hot wave of heat radiated into all directions.
He was now ignoring the Triple Fusion Beasts and was just running.
‘Fucking hell…’
Just the heat itself was this much.
Karhal made a desperate expression from the situation which was much more dangerous than he had expected.
He had just stuck with him in case he would be able to find his long lost younger sibling if he followed him.
But for things to be like this. Booooom!
It might’ve been easy if they dealt with one at a time while advancing but due to them just continuing to run, another one had caught up to them.
Paaaaang!
Chiijijijik
A tremendous amount of pain.
‘Damnit. It’s just one beam!’
Ekidu shouted out urgently.
At that moment.
Karhal had condensed the Quintuple Beam while Hansoo and Ekidu bought him time and then shot it towards the Triple Fusion Beast.
Grrrrr! “Damnit man! Why are we hurrying so much! We can just deal with them one by one on the way! Or go in the next time!”
Even if those beasts called for help, they still had a lot of time until they reached the Maze.
It was the same for the one back there.
Why were they leaving those things behind?
Those things weren’t the issue right now.
“What?”
Hansoo blocked another beam of laser which had flown into him and then looked into the distance where he had self-destructed Dakidus’s Satellite Fortress.
But those Higher Races weren’t stupid.
That the current situation would be impossible without somebody else’s interference.
This was why they needed to hide within the Maze.
It was a very useful structure to buy time from the ones chasing them.
Hansoo continued to think as he saw the entrance of the Maze that had started to appear in the distance. “Let’s go and try to catch them.”
‘Taking that wouldn’t be bad either.’
Boooooooom!
And from this Mekill’s entire body had been smashed apart right next to Marun.
Marun freaked out as the person who he was talking to next to him had gotten smashed apart and then quickly shot out the Snake’s Path.
But Marun’s hope had been smashed apart.
The arrow which had flown away with a vicious red aura had turned into a pile of powder near the opponent’s body.
And Marun fell into despair after he saw this.
‘Why…Why is the Arukon here.’
This place wasn’t the ceasefire zone.
It was a full head taller than Dakidus whom he had seen in the past, a 5m tall wolf.
It was just a meter difference but the bulky muscles and the rough-looking furs radiated a fearsome aura which couldn’t even be compared to that of Dakidus. Sssssk
Humans whom he had found while tracking the traces from the village Dakidus was supposed to visit last.
“Tell me everything you know. Is there a special human who has gone past this place?”
Since someone like him shouldn’t be normal.
“Ahh….”
“Yes! There is! Yes! He said he was going to the Underground Maze!”
And then smashed an arm of Marun.
“Uaaaaaak!”
Akitrus erased the smile on his face and then mumbled coldly.
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Marun started to ponder after hearing Mekill’s words.
While Karhal was applying every skill he had onto Hansoo.
The Triple Fusion’s Beast swayed as a single beam stopped as Hansoo, Ekidu and Karhal started to run away from them.
Screams of despair rang throughout the Jungle.