The Marquis Is a Master of Martial Arts

“yes?”

Mochagun looked at me with a dumbfounded face as if asking what he was talking about.

“Shouldn’t we finish the last ascent of Sirion Co.?”

“What do you mean by that…”

At my words, Mocha Gun swallowed his saliva.

“Were you thinking of just going home? Shouldn’t we finish the last thing our colleagues left behind, the last ascension bearing the name of Sirion Firm?”

“ah!”

As if the mocha gun had come to its senses, it let out a cool exclamation sound. He patted his cheek vigorously.

“Yes. I, too, have to finish the ascension to the end. Merchants are people who live on trust.”

Life returned to the eyes of the dead Mokagan.

“Thank you for waking me up. Had I been wrong, I would have turned my colleagues into unreliable people. Anyway, I will finish the trip up.”

“I will help too. Let’s talk about it in detail once we get out of the labyrinth.”

“thank you!”

I showed a satisfied smile to Mokagun and entered the sunset-colored door.

flash

“uh?”

“hmm…”

The ninth room was a completely different place than I thought. A completely new place appeared, not a place I knew like before.

“handle?”

At the very front of the room, there were three controllers that looked like they had been removed from the steering wheel of a car and attached to a stone pillar.

There was a huge wall in front of the controller, and light was shooting towards it from the ceiling. The light was in the form of the sun, the shape of the moon, and the background.

“I know what.”

It seems that the door to the next room opens only when the picture is completed by adjusting the sun, moon, and background with that handle.

“Another puzzle.”

“A puzzle?”

“The problems that you have to solve using your brain like this are called puzzles.”

“Oh, I see.”

Knowing what I meant, Mokagun nodded.

“But this is no ordinary puzzle.”

“yes? If it’s not normal…”

“For now, don’t come out.”

I left my mocha gun in the safe zone and crossed the white line.

“Chur.”

As soon as he crossed the line, monsters popped out from the floor. Except for the middle, monsters were appearing from behind the right and left handlebars.

“Chur!”

An orc came out from behind the right steering wheel, and it had a darker red skin than a red orc, and had a huge upper body.

“Curr…”

From the back of the left steering wheel, a dust-free mummy wrapped in bandages protruded. The mummy’s bandages were limp as if they were alive.

“Lastly, it would be better if we made it a little easier with service.”

It seems that the way to clear this place is to solve the puzzle while dealing with those monsters.

Woo-wook Shu.

Using a howitzer, he fired daggers at the monsters one by one. The dagger moved like a bee and hit the crown of the orc and the belly of the mummy.

“Cre…”

“Chur…”

The orc approached me even though the dagger was stuck in the center of his head, and the poison turned and he fell down, and the mummy melted into the volcanic acid like an undead.

clap.

After dealing with the monsters, I moved the right handle. Then the sun reflected on the wall moved a little in the direction I turned the steering wheel.

“It was like that, too.”

“Kreur.”

As expected, the orc appeared again from behind the right handlebar.

“No way, does this come out every time you turn it?”

When I turned the steering wheel on the left, Mira was climbing up from behind. Fortunately, nothing came out in the middle when I turned the handle, only the background of the wall changed.

“Kreuk!”

“Crowd.”

More monsters appeared one by one. This time, it seems that it appeared because time has passed.

puck!

puck!

I threw a dagger at them and removed them before they fully formed. This isn’t a transformation manga, and I didn’t have to wait for it to come into its own.

“If the place to come out is fixed, it can be easily solved.”

I turned both handles again. Monsters were popping out from the same spot as before. I dealt with them and took out the magic pouch.

At the place where the monsters appear, I laid out the memorization of sharp iron cores that were connected to each other.

This memorization, which is shaped like a goblin grass, is poison that appears at least once in a martial arts novel.

“Mummy is, of course, a volcanic mountain, and orcs would prefer high-blooded ones.”

I applied poison to sting the weak points of them, and turned the steering wheel again.

“Chur…”

“Kiki…”

The mummy disappeared like dust before coming back to me after stepping on the poison, and the orc fell to the floor and couldn’t get up because the blood in his body had hardened.

Without me stepping out, the monsters were leaving work on their own.

“It’s comfortable to be poisoned.”

You can now turn the steering wheel with peace of mind.

“It must be dawn.”

The goal here is, of course, to create dawn by combining the sun and the moon. It was when I turned all three handles one turn at a time, testing this and that.

hug.

A yellow slime popped out from behind the steering wheel in the middle. The guy was wearing a transparent shield like a shield.

Kwak!

“It is the defense of the labyrinth itself.”

I tried to blow the dagger, but the membrane surrounding the slime was not even scratched. Absolutely not that slime’s ability.

“Does it seem like it’s getting bigger? no way…”

I wondered if it was the slime I knew, so I opened my eyes.

[Explosive Slime]

A slime born with explosive mana inside. By absorbing mana from the surroundings, it increases its own size and explosive mana. The size of the explosion also increases with the size of the slime.

The explosive slime I thought was right. The bigger he gets, the more dangerous the situation becomes, but I couldn’t take my eyes off the wall above the slime.

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“You see this?”

In the eyes of the Creator, everything was showing where the sun should be, what shape the moon should be, and what the background should be.

all over.

I left the growing explosive slime alone and turned the three handles.

Whoops.

When the light was matched as seen, the red light in the sun and the blue light in the moon were reflected, harmonizing with the background to create an enchanting dawn.

shaa.

Chi Ying.

When the light of dawn descended on the floor, the swelling slimes and monsters disappeared, and the door to the 10th room opened.

“I am so amazing…”

Mokagun, who was watching from behind with his hands together, opened his mouth.

“I only heard the words before Munmu and Gyeom. It’s the first time I’ve seen someone who can truly be called both literary and martial arts.”

“Combined literary and martial arts?”

“You can eliminate any monster in an instant, and you solve difficult problems quickly. That would be both literary and martial arts.”

“I was lucky this time.”

If this room wasn’t visible, it would have been a bit of a hassle to deal with the slime.

“Come in. This is the end.”

“yes.”

We stepped into the entrance of the 10th room.

Jiying.

The 10th room was very ordinary. It was to the point where you could think of it as an empty office or classroom. If it weren’t for the desert fox standing upright in front of me.

“Awesome. You are the first human to break through the ninth chamber of dawn.”

“Hey, the fox speaks!”

“This fox is the one we were talking about earlier.”

“Was that majestic voice this fox?”

Mokagen must have been astonished, as he opened his mouth wide at the sight of the desert fox. This desert fox is Mogurus, the spirit of the labyrinth.

“Don’t call me a fox. I am the spirit of the labyrinth, and I am Mogurus, the manager.”

“Mogurus?”

“Wait a minute.”

Mogurus looks like a cute desert fox, but his voice and manner of speaking are manly.

“Those who enter the road at night will arrive soon.”

“Oh, no.”

At Mogurus’ words, Mokagun waved both hands.

“We came first, so shouldn’t we be tested first?”

“You are right.”

Mogurus nodded.

“Then the test…”

“The final test is different from what you think. Instead of taking minutes or hours as it does now, the exam lasts for several days. To be honest, I don’t think any of you guys will pass. Waiting two minutes won’t make any difference.”

“but…”

“are you okay.”

I dried the mocha gun I was going to pick up again. I was holding back my laughter in anticipation of how that mogurus’ bewildered expression would change.

Jiying.

Just as Mogurus had said, two minutes later, an orbis covered in blood came in. It looked tough, but his eyes were still alive.

this guy is right

The cloak that covered his entire body was torn, revealing his outfit. What particularly caught my attention was the black knuckle Orbis was wearing on his hand.

This guy was the one wearing the black knuckles that Anin had been talking about in Pimera Mountain.

The guy who was supposed to be the king of the arena was already in Sephiroth.

now it’s clear

Not only the veil, but Sephiroth started to move faster than the original. I’ll have to do some research on him when I get out.

“What is this time? Is it okay if I kill him?”

thud.

Orbis looked at me and clashed his fists.

“no. You can’t fight among yourself here.”

“Sorry.”

Orbis glared at me with beastly eyes. I took his gaze casually.

“Now that everyone has gathered, we will begin the test.”

Mogurus rose into the air. His fox eyes started to glow yellow.

“The one who overcomes yourselves is the one who conquers this labyrinth!”

The yellow light from Mogurus’s fox eyes came out and flew to Moka Gun and Orbis’s head.

The eyes of the moka gun and Orvis that were struck by the light were released as if they had fainted. Those two would have been sucked into Mogurus’ mind by now.

But nothing happened to me.

Crack!

[Raktor’s steel walls block the Ego Proelium from trying to invade your mind.]

“uh?”

As I was making a nonchalant expression, Mogurus tilted his head, then emitted light again.

“I must have made a mistake. Please walk again.”

Crack!

[Raktor’s steel walls block the Ego Proelium from trying to invade your mind.]

“100 million!”

When it didn’t work this time, Mogurus’s fox eyes popped out like they were about to explode, and his tongue stuck out of his mouth.

“This, this…”

“Did you pass? open the door.”

“No, nonsense!”

The achievement level of my Mandokja telegraph machine is 5 stars, but the amount of internal energy has been piled up like crazy thanks to the recent absorption of poison.

Just by counting the amount, it was more than Master Furaken’s Aura.

The setting of Laktor’s Iron Wall is to block mental attacks with the amount of inner air. Mogurus’ Ego Proelium doesn’t work in front of overflowing internal energy.

“What are you doing? The test is over.”

“No, how…”

“Stop playing around, open the door to the reward room.”

“You, are you impervious to mental penetration?”

“Look at it and ask me what to do.”

“ah…”

Mogurus let out a groan as if his soul had been drained.

“I-I can’t accept this…”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

“what?”

“Your role ends with using mind penetration magic on the people who come here. It doesn’t matter if you block or withstand the attack. A passer-by is just a passer-by.”

“Uh, how did you…”

Mogurus, who was floating in the air, came down to the floor as if he had no strength to fly. I walked to the end of the room without looking back.

Chi Ying.

Upon reaching the end of the room, the door began to open on its own.

“Then go.”

“Now, hold on!”

“What?”

“Ha, let’s try one more test. I’ll do my best this time, so let’s try one more time.”

“You’ve already inflicted mental attacks on me twice, isn’t that a violation of the rules?”

“That, that’s…”

Mogurus’ eyes bubbling like boiling water. The spirit of the labyrinth, which lives for eons, was at a loss in front of me.

“If you don’t have anything to say, go in.”

“for a moment! Then, let’s make a bet.”

“bet?”

I made a questionable face, but I was smiling inside. It was going as expected.

“That, yes. If you accept my bet and win, I will inject additional abilities into the labyrinth’s reward.”

“hmm.”

When I was still, he looked at me with nervous eyes.