How a Black-Haired Barbarian Survived the Labyrinth in Another World-Chapter 31: The human mind

The remaining woman was unrecognizable.

It was because her face was badly damaged.

“Let’s go.”

Karin urged the group.

“Are we going like this? What about the body?”

Karin answered Jeong Yu-shin’s question.

“She’s already dead. If she were alive, I’d take her, but the body is a burden. If you really care, go to the union and tell them. The dwarf you know is dead.”

“Understood.”

“Don’t forget. We’re an investigation team. We’re not a body collection team.”

“Yes.”

Gilsian looked at Karin.

“Karin, shouldn’t we look at the layers more carefully? There’s no need to rush through the layers like this.”

Karin shrugged.

“What would we do in such a shallow layer?”

“There are still many rookie explorers who haven’t returned yet. Shouldn’t we at least ‘investigate’ the reason?”

“The other investigation team will do it. We have more important work to do.”

“...”

Gilsian gave up on persuading and remained silent.

Roynel and Ahiman didn’t open their mouths as if they weren’t interested.

“Let’s go.”

With Karin’s urging, the party advanced through the dark cave.

They walked for a few more hours and fought two more battles.

The battle was an overwhelming massacre on Karin’s side.

Jeong Yu-shin had nothing else to do but stand in the rear and protect himself safely.

So he followed the trajectory of the swords Karin and Gilsian swung with his eyes and memorized their movements.

There were parts of Gilsian and Karin’s movements that he didn’t understand.

Gilsian’s greatsword moved strangely quickly, and sometimes he missed Karin’s movements for a moment.

Could it be the power of the imprint? Or was it the power of leveling up?

I was curious, but I didn't ask.

I was a porter, not a comrade.

The third battle had just ended.

I walked again, ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) stepping over the corpses and blood.

As time passed, Karin's party reached the end of the fourth floor.

A large cave with a transfer stone.

A commotion.

People were gathered in the cave and swarming.

Their faces were familiar. They were the investigation party I saw a few days ago before entering the labyrinth.

Most of them were high-ranking explorer parties.

I saw Barbaroi with black hair, but he was talking to his party members, so we didn't make eye contact.

"What's going on?"

As Karin entered the cave and opened her mouth, everyone's attention focused on her.

A blue-haired man pushed his way through the crowd.

"Karin, aren't you a lieutenant explorer? Why did you come so quickly?"

“Hans, you guys are slow. Why are you all gathered here instead of going to the next level?”

The blue-haired man, Hans, pointed to the tombstone.

“The color of the portal has changed.”

As Karin approached the tombstone, the crowd split and made way for her.

Karin walked naturally, as if the crowd splitting was natural, and arrived in front of the tombstone.

Jung Yu-shin peeked his head out curiously.

A black portal was rippling in front of the tombstone.

Hans spoke to Karin, who was standing close to the portal.

“Karin, don’t do anything rash.”

“I didn’t do anything.”

“Go back. This is not a place for a lieutenant explorer.”

“How can the world’s top explorers hesitate at the entrance to the fifth floor?”

Hans’s face hardened.

A tense atmosphere began to form between Karin and Hans.

Gilsian, Roynel, and Ahiman, who sensed something strange, slowly approached Karin.

At Gilsian’s nod, Jung Yu-shin also approached and stood next to Karin.

Hans said.

“This is the first time the portal color has changed. It is natural to approach cautiously. Don’t call the high-ranking explorers here cowards. Even if you are the daughter of the representative of the Suin Union...”

“What about the daughter of the Suin Union?”

Karin glared at Hans. Hans closed his mouth.

“I have never received any help from my family since I started as an explorer. Everything I enjoy now is something I have personally created with my own hands. Why is my status suddenly popping up? Answer me, Hans.”

Hans sighed.

Although there was such a law in the Labyrinth City, Karin’s status was high enough that it could not even compete with the prominent families of the Eastern Union.

Hans was a high-ranking explorer, but he knew his place well.

Even if he retired and got along well, being the city’s knight commander would be the best option. If he got a strange negative imprint, that knight commander position would also disappear.

The cost of erasing the negative imprint was also increasing exponentially, so he was slowly thinking about retirement.

He didn’t want to get in trouble by messing with the daughter of the representative of the Suin Union.

Hans took a step back and said.

“I’m sorry.”

“Huh.”

Karin laughed with her lips twisted.

At that moment, the floor began to shake.

Whoosh.

One of the high-ranking explorers shouted.

“An earthquake!!”

“Suddenly?!”

“Be prepared!”

However, the next thing happened right before the people had time to prepare.

All the torches in the hall began to flicker.

It was as if the candles on the altar were flickering in the sudden cold wind.

People started to look around and start to murmur.

“W...what’s happening?”

“The earthquake is getting worse.”

It was exactly as it was. The vibrations on the floor were getting worse and it was hard to keep my body still.

“The portal is weird!”

Someone shouted, pointing behind them.

“Get back!!”

The black portal was throbbing like a heart.

Karin flinched at the sight and stepped back, bumping into Jung Yu-shin who was standing close by.

“Karin!!”

Gil-seon and Hans shouted urgently and reached out their hands.

But it was too late.

The black portal swallowed Karin and Jung Yu-shin.

Everyone was speechless at the sight they had never seen or heard before.

The black portal returned to its original state. Karin and Jeong Yu-shin were not there.

“Crazy!!”

“The portal swallowed a person!!”

A voice full of shock echoed through the hall.

The high-ranking explorers stopped Gil-seon from entering the black portal.

“Let go of this!!”

Gil-seon shouted loudly and moved his body, but the high-ranking explorers did not move an inch.

“Captain, what should we do?”

Someone asked Hans.

Hans, the leader of this labyrinth investigation team, had a headache.

“Team 1 will go back and report. The other team will stay here, and all three teams, including me, will go in.”

“Is that okay?”

“We were going to go in anyway. And... no.”

Hans, the investigation team leader, swallowed dry saliva as he thought of a woman.

The current representative of the Suin Alliance and the leader of the Red Wolf Tribe.

One of the members of the Labyrinth City Council.

The Queen of Cold Blood.

Ingrid Redtail.

Even though Karin was a lieutenant explorer, she was the daughter of the leader of the Suin Alliance.

If we left her alone and she died, there was no guarantee that she wouldn't be retaliated against later.

"Tell me the end, Captain."

Urrrrrr.

The intensity of the earthquake was getting stronger.

"There's no time! Do as I say!"

Hans shouted.

People started to move busily.

Hans approached Gilsian. Silver eyes sparkled between their helmets.

Hans opened his mouth.

"We're going in too."

"We have to go in now!"

Gilsian said urgently.

“No. Go in after the earthquake. The portal is unstable. I don’t know where it will go.”

“Huh!”

A crack came from inside the helmet he was wearing.

Hans raised his head and glanced at the tombstone.

‘Will those two be able to survive? It would have been better if they had fallen to the fifth floor.’

It seemed like a long dream.

There was a convenience store, and family and friends.

A long-gone, abandoned factory with only grass growing.

There, he lit a bonfire and danced with the unholy and strange shadows, holding hands.

And then.

Jung Yu-shin opened his eyes.

Someone was looking down at him with a torch.

It was Karin.

Jung Yu-shin stared blankly at Karin’s ear.

“Are you awake?”

“Where are we?”

“Fifth floor.”

“I am here"

“Have you been here long?”

“Well? I don’t know. I think I wandered around for about three hours before I found you.”

You were in the dark for three hours.

“Thank goodness you didn’t go crazy.”

“That’s right. Thank goodness.”

Jeong Yu-shin got up from his seat.

The floor was damp and the surroundings were quiet. It was still a cave.

Karin said.

“Just a little more and you’ll be at the end of the cave.”

“I see. Should I take the torch?”

“No. I’ll take it. Let’s go.”

Karin took the lead and Jeong Yu-shin walked behind.

The two walked in silence for a long time until they reached the end of the cave.

They passed the exit and came out.

The outside of the cave was a wide basin.

When I looked up, the ceiling was so high that I couldn't tell where it was. It was like a starless night sky.

I lowered my gaze.

I saw a city in the distance, shrouded in darkness.

A city quietly sleeping in an enormous underground cave.

I learned this in the last class of the beginner explorer class.

A forgotten city.

Engrav.

Rumors and speculations were rife, but it was a city that had never been recorded in history. It was an unknown city that even the old elven historians who had lived for a long time had never heard of or seen.

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It was a wide area and I heard that it was swarming with high-ranking hobgoblins.

The last hurdle that beginner explorers encounter and the starting point for middle-ranking explorers.

I came as a porter, but I felt a small sense of accomplishment.

Karin approached me and said.

"The transfer stone is in the central area of ​​the city. We should move as far out as possible and then go in at once when we have a chance.”

“Are you going to use the teleportation stone?”

“If necessary. The more options the better, right?”

“Shouldn’t we wait for people?”

Karin snickered.

“Who will come to save us? Don’t trust the explorers too much.”

“Karin’s party might come to save us, right?”

“We can expect it. We can hope for it. The problem is that we can’t be sure they’ll definitely come.”

“Are you saying the party won’t come?”

“The party might ‘not’ come. There was an earthquake, right? And didn’t you see the black portal? We can’t be sure they’ll teleport this way.”

“But let’s just wait a little bit...”

Karin’s face hardened.

“Why do you keep relying on other people?”

‘Fuck?’

Jung Yu-shin’s expression also hardened.

It was clearly a common-sense suggestion.

I couldn’t figure out why he would take the risk and move forward. It felt like an obsession.

‘What on earth are you thinking?’

A few days ago, Darmon told me a story in a flowing manner at the inn.

Karin Redtail.

The daughter of the representative of the Suin Union.

I heard that Karin’s father died a violent death in a mysterious attack before Karin was even born.

The details of the attack have not yet been revealed. Darmon seemed to know something more, but he was tight-lipped.

Karin was the strongest rookie who had risen to the rank of lieutenant explorer in just three months.

Just three months.

Thinking back, Jung Yu-shin and Karin arrived in the Labyrinth City around the same time.

Jung Yu-shin was rolling around in the monster dismantling center.

Karin quickly struck out with the strength and wealth she had accumulated up until then.

The starting point was They were different, their statuses were different. Their perspectives on the world were also different. Their races were also different.

Jung Yu-shin could not understand this red wolf man. What was his purpose? What was his thoughts?

They say you can know the depth of ten feet of water, but you cannot know the heart of a person one foot away.

The human heart was also a labyrinth.

Jung Yu-shin realized a little.

Karin glared at Jung Yu-shin.

Karin also did not understand.

The seemingly normal Barbaroi was strangely timid.

When they first met, he was kneeling in the forest, surrounded by slave hunters.

When they met the second time, he bowed his head to her.

When they met the third time, he faced her with a confident look, so he thought he had changed, but he was mistaken.

This Barbaroi was the same. He was a man who hid behind others.

When Karin realized that fact, she felt annoyed for no reason.

The two men and women made eye contact with each other through the torch.

“Are you doing this because you want more money?”

Karin smiled with her lips curled up.

Jung Yu-shin glared at Karin.

“...”

“You came as a porter, but you’re dissatisfied because we ended up fighting? You want more money because the odds don’t add up?”

“...”

“Then that’s right. So you’re the same kind of person after all. A person who tries to suck honey from behind while I lead. Darmon made a mistake. Why did he help someone like you?”

Jung Yu-shin opened his mouth.

“Okay. Let’s go. Into the city.”

He spat it out as if chewing it.

“Can you not take money? What can you do if it’s unfair?”

Karin whined.

“Your mother raised her daughter well.”

Karin was speechless at Jung Yu-shin’s words and opened her mouth wide.

Karin’s forehead bulged with tendons.

It was the first time she had heard such words since she was born, and Karin’s eyes burned with anger.

“···What?”

“You even deafened her?”

Jung Yu-shin put down her luggage.

There was no way someone who made someone kneel, slam their head against hers, and lick her stomach could be normal.

Incomprehensible.

She didn’t even know she had to wield a knife.

The atmosphere became increasingly tense.

Karin put down the torch.

In the open space outside the cave, the two men and women stood a step away and glared at each other.

“The liver is out of the stomach.”

“It’s convenient. When it’s convenient, you can be an independent explorer, and when it’s not, you can be the daughter of the leader of the Suin Alliance. Just do one.”

“How dare you!!”

Karin ground her teeth.

Jung Yu-shin’s fingers tapped the scabbard.

Karin is a lieutenant explorer.

I saw the overwhelming power with my own eyes.

Even if I caught the player, there was a high chance of losing the fight.

But I couldn’t back down.

It was because Karin insulted Darmon’s good intentions.

That insult was even hitting Jung Yu-shin’s efforts to survive in the labyrinth city.

Karin growled.

“···If you leave here.”

“What if you leave? Will you be able to survive? How can a bitch who doesn’t even know what’s in front of her survive?”

Jung Yu-shin grumbled and took a stance.

A situation that was on the brink of disaster.

Karin gritted her teeth and grabbed her dagger.