Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Watcher

“Huh?”

At the weight placed on her head, Aris raised her hands.

Aris fumbled around, touching the helmet.

“What is this?”

“A child-sized bulletproof helmet. It is equipment that protects your head.”

“!?”

Aris’s eyes trembled violently.

She had not expected this from him, but he had a surprisingly thoughtful side.

The fact that they were still in a Subordinate Relationship displeased her, but perhaps he was a better human than she had thought?!

Feeling a little more motivated, she turned her eyes toward the altar.

Then she analyzed the Goblins’ movements in detail.

“Boss! This does not look easy. I do not think we can pass through by ordinary means. No matter how I look at it, the routes do not connect. They are all moving separately too.”

“Right. We will only be able to pass if at least a few of them are cleared out.”

“That is right. If only about fifteen of them were gone, it would be plenty open!”

“Right?”

“Yes!”

“Let us draw the Goblins’ aggro and lead them to the opposite side. We can open a path that way.”

“That is a good method!”

Had thirty seconds passed since she answered so vigorously?

Aris tilted her head in confusion.

A strangely prolonged silence settled in.

For some reason, the side of her head also felt prickly.

She rubbed the side of her head and turned.

Then their eyes met.

With Boss Ryu Jin, who was staring straight through her.

“Huh? Me?”

“I gave you a helmet.”

Cold sweat ran down the back of Aris’s head.

She immediately retracted the thought that he was better than she had expected.

This human was no good. Absolutely no good.

“If I enter their field of vision, the clear fails immediately.”

A successful clear or a failed clear was the System’s domain.

He could not ignore it as an Unselected Individual.

“What about me?!”

“You are not a player. You should be fine. And look. You can see them because you have the Evil Eye. Those guys have really low combat power. They do not even have weapons.”

“Will they not hit me with their fists?!”

“You have a helmet.”

No matter what she said, he looked ready to counter with “I gave you a helmet” or “You have a helmet.”

Then she would refute him logically so he could not use the helmet as an excuse.

“They might avoid the helmet and hit my face!”

“It is fine.”

“Why?”

“You will not die just because you get punched a little.”

Ryu Jin waved his hand as if telling her to hurry up and go.

Aris clenched both fists.

Then she began trembling.

Even if they were in a Subordinate Relationship, this was too much!

[One of the Demon of the Evil Eye Aris di Carsia’s Dispositions, rebelliousness, begins to rear its head!]

“What if I say I cannot go?!”

“Then it cannot be helped.”

Ryu Jin leisurely rolled up his sleeves.

At that moment, the memory of his headbutt rose in her mind.

The rebelliousness that had been rising vanished in an instant.

“Uwaaah! Wait! I will go! I said I will go! Do not hit me!”

“People will misunderstand if they hear that. I was just rolling up my sleeves because I was about to get going.”

That was a lie.

Because of their Subordinate Relationship, she could not see through him with the Evil Eye, but he had definitely intended to hit her.

One hundred percent!

Aris squeezed her eyes shut.

Damn it. Let us go. No matter what I say, nothing gets through to him.

“Good luck.”

Ryu Jin pushed Aris’s back while she was taking deep breaths.

Aris stepped forward with the most solemn expression in the world.

It was filthy, but what could she do?

Until an opportunity came, she had to keep her head low and obey.

However, she would not forget.

She would pile up every grievance, one by one, and when that day came, she would repay him several times over.

By the way, as she looked at the Goblin growing closer, a question suddenly came to her.

Why am I cowering before a mere Goblin?

No matter how hard it struggles, it is still a Goblin in the end.

“Honestly.”

She shook her head.

It was probably because she had lost all her power.

Judging by the level of their existences, these creatures would not have dared to sit at the same table as her, let alone look at her. Yet she had shown such disgrace.

“Run quickly so you do not get caught!”

“Yes! Do not worry! Who do you think I am?”

Aris walked forward leisurely, even waving her hand.

Ryu Jin narrowed his eyes as he watched her.

The way that steamed bun Aris walked had somehow become arrogant. Was he imagining it?

Well, whatever. The bait had been deployed, so he prepared to move and stared at the altar.

Perhaps this was the first time in the history of the Labyrinth that Watch Goblins and a demon had met.

How they would react was completely unknown.

At times like this, even a Constellation appearing and chattering would become a small piece of information.

Perhaps they were sleeping in today, because they were unusually quiet.

Step.

Aris inhaled and stepped onto the altar.

Then she formed an arrogant smile.

“Hey, you lowly Goblins over there!”

“Grk?”

Aris crossed her arms gallantly and pointed at the ground with her finger.

“Kneel at once! Unless you want to be crushed to death by a level of existence you cannot withstand!”

A brief silence passed between the demon and the Monsters.

Ryu Jin, who was watching from afar, also narrowed his eyes.

It seemed Aris’s traits of bluffing and arrogance had activated properly.

Could it possibly work? That bottomless threat from that steamed bun?

“Kraaaak!!!”

Apparently not.

The Goblin unit let out a rough roar and rushed toward Aris.

At least she had drawn aggro properly.

Not just fifteen of them, but every single Goblin was pulled toward her.

“Uh, uh……”

Aris staggered backward.

Her bluffing and arrogance shriveled away in an instant.

“C-Calm down! You do not have to kneel! You may even make eye contact with me impudently!”

“Krararak!!”

Far from calming down, they looked even more enraged.

Nothing she said got through at all.

Aris whipped her head around and began sprinting.

“Uwaaaaaaah!! They are coming! They are coming!”

Ryu Jin, who was passing through the altar while taking advantage of that opening, looked back.

Perhaps because both Aris and the Goblins had short legs.

Judging by the sound alone, it felt extremely urgent, but their running speed was absurdly slow.

In any case, he had confirmed it clearly.

A demon was not recognized as a player.

The proof was that the System did not display a clear failure.

‘Good work, Aris.’

He expressed a modest gratitude for the steamed bun’s efforts and climbed the stairs.

He swept his surroundings with the Evil Eye.

If he kept going like this, he would clear it, but what he wanted was destruction.

He had to find the condition.

What if even the Evil Eye could not discover it? Then he would smash everything apart like he had on the sixth floor last time.

Something would happen then.

Just as he climbed the last remaining stair.

BEEEEEEEEEP!!

A sharp warning sound burst out.

FWOOSH!!

Purple flames rose from each corner of the altar.

[The Labyrinth has sensed a threat from the Destroyer! The second underground floor evolves into its final defensive form!]

An earthquake so violent that it was difficult to stand arrived.

After he lowered his body and braced himself against the ground for a moment.

RUMBLE!

A gigantic shadow fell over the entire altar.

‘Huh.’

What was that now?

[The Watchers of the second underground floor reveal themselves!!]

“Uwaaaaaaah, stop hitting me, you crazy Goblins!”

Every now and then, a Goblin’s fist flew into the back of her head.

Fortunately, thanks to the helmet, it did not hurt.

If there was a problem, it was that her stamina was gradually falling.

Since it did not particularly hurt, should she just lie down and let them hit her helmet……?

She turned her head toward the shadow that had fallen over her.

“Kuh-hurk!!”

Her mouth had no choice but to fall open.

It was disgustingly huge.

No, that word was not nearly enough to express how damn huge it was.

A Monster that resembled a giant centipede rose high into the sky.

Instead of a head, it had an absurdly large eyeball.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!

Uwaaaaaaah!! What is that?!

Is that not a centipede?! Is there no Constellation specializing in the second floor?! Explain what that is!

It is over. I do not know who that friend is, but he has really stepped in it.

Stop posing and explain!

Did you forget the name of the second underground floor? It is the Watcher’s Altar. That is the Watcher. The master of the altar.

I observe the second floor almost every day, but this is my first time seeing that thing. Was it always there?

Of course you have not seen it. It has never appeared even once since the Labyrinth was completed.

Then how did you see it?

I have not seen it. I read it in a book.

The way you were acting, I thought you had seen it yourself.

But what is that thing getting beaten up by Goblins down there? Is it a steamed bun?

Puhahaha! What is with that tacky helmet?!

Aris ground her molars.

She wanted to beat them to a pulp, but now was not the time to care about that sort of thing.

[The Gaze begins!]

SCREEEECH!!

Aris read the Monster’s ability with the Evil Eye and slammed on the brakes.

Holding her breath, Aris stopped like ice.

The eyes of the three Watchers stared at the Goblins behind her all at once.

And a moment later.

KABOOOOOM!!!!

A thick laser shot from each eyeball.

The lasers flew in three directions and erased the Goblin unit without leaving a trace.

The aftershock that erupted tousled Aris’s hair.

A single line of cold sweat ran down the side of her head.

If she were hit by something like that, demon or whatever, she would simply melt.

“Phew.”

She released the breath she had been holding.

For now, she could breathe for a moment.

As long as she did not move, she would not be gazed at…… Krrk!

At the ominous sound, she moved her eyes.

It seemed the range had narrowly missed it.

One Watch Goblin had survived.

Perhaps it still had not regained its senses, because the Goblin shook its head back and forth.

Then their eyes met.

It locked eyes with Aris, who was staring at it anxiously.

‘Shiiiiiit!!’

She tried to move even a little farther away, but.

[The Gaze begins!]

The next turn had already arrived.

“Krara……!”

It seemed the primitive Goblin’s eyes could not see the Watchers or anything of the sort.

The Goblin wavered, but it steadily drew closer to Aris.

“Do nod come.”

Aris glared at the Goblin through clenched teeth.

“I said, do nod cooome.”

She even warned it while trembling, but it seemed to provoke it instead.

“Kirarararak!!!”

With a shriek, the Watch Goblin sprang forward.

The Watchers did not miss that large movement.

The lasers’ collision boxes instantly covered Aris and the Watch Goblin.

Only then did a thought occur to Aris, and she turned her head.

Where was that human called Boss, the one who had used her as bait, and what was he doing……?!

When had he crawled all the way up there?

At the top of a pillar where falling would mean immediate death.

Boss Ryu Jin was standing there.

While holding something long and heavy.

“Phewwwww!”

Ryu Jin exhaled at length.

He was sweating like rain from climbing up there while carrying this absurd thing.

[Mad Scientist’s Railgun / Grade: S]

Heinri Kreutz was a scientist from Zenonia, where technology had developed brilliantly.

Scientist Kreutz, who was so intelligent that he possessed an entirely different thought system from other people!

He had devoted his entire life to developing a weapon that could delete everything!

And at last, a railgun capable of blowing away anything was completed!

Along with the railgun’s completion, Heinri Kreutz left these words!

Anything repeated is bound to be consumed. Life is beautiful because it happens only once. I poured my life into this gun. Therefore, I stake everything on this single shot.

When he had read this description, he had thought there was no way.

Available Uses: 1/1.

It truly had only one shot.

He felt as though he vaguely understood why Kreutz was called a madman.

There were three Watchers that had appeared.

To pierce them all in a single shot, he needed an angle, which was why he had gone through this hellish struggle to crawl up here.

After calming his breathing, he looked at the Watchers just before they fired their lasers.

It was the only moment when they stopped moving perfectly.

“Squeeeeeeeal!!! I am going to dieeeee!!!!!!”

Aris screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

Click!!

He aimed the railgun.

And then.

He pulled the trigger.