How a Black-Haired Barbarian Survived the Labyrinth in Another World

Tak.

He passed through the red portal and landed on the ground.

He quickly scanned the area with his torch.

‘Here.’

How should I put it?

It was like an old castle corridor.

Here and there, torn curtains hung like rags on both sides of the walls.

The carpets on the floor were so worn that it was difficult to tell the color or shape, looking like rags.

The stone walls, which should have been gray originally, were a dull black.

Was it because of the passage of time?

Or was it because of the influence of the labyrinth?

It was hard to tell for sure, but one thing was clear.

‘We’ve come to the right place.’

The Corridor District.

Just like the 5th-floor city, Ingrave, the origin of the Corridor District was unknown.

Even the elven scholars who lived long lives shook their heads and raised both hands, so even he, who lived a life close to mortality, did not bother to dig.

That’s all for my impressions.

The law of the corridor area is ‘fear’.

If the explorer feels fear, madness will rise.

If the explorer party does not have a priest, they take a psychotropic drug that makes them forget their fear.

However, if the party has a priest, it is a different story.

Jung Yu-shin stopped thinking.

Party members appeared one by one from the red portal.

Delia, the fallen princess and glutton.

Karin, the guide.

Barion, the empty armor priest.

The party members who exited the portal immediately grabbed their weapons and looked around cautiously.

Karin took out a map from her backpack and paused.

“Enemy. 11 monsters ahead.”

“Prepare for battle.”

As soon as Jung Yu-shin opened his mouth, Delia stepped forward.

Clang.

Delia took up her shield, placed her mace on her shoulder, and took a stance.

Ki-gi-gi-gik.

Karin took out her crossbow and sang a demonstration.

Baryon started to chant.

“...”

No sound was heard. All that could be felt was Baryon’s magic slowly flowing out.

Clink. Clink.

Humanoid monsters that were nothing but bones walked from the other side of the dark hallway.

Some had a little flesh left on them, and some were just skeletons.

Skeleton Soldiers.

The ones who made the corridor area infamous.

Undead.

Those who can’t die even after death.

The aura of death emanating from the undead made the living feel ‘fear.’

No matter how strong-minded a person was, there was something about the aura of death that made the living feel afraid.

Some scholars called this phenomenon ‘mental contamination.’

‘I heard it all.’

I was grateful for Teacher Mi-on’s thorough education.

Dalgrak. Dalgrak.

The skeleton soldier was getting closer and closer.

Jung Yu-shin was able to see the undead monster’s appearance in detail.

Green light shone from the skeleton’s empty eyeballs.

The skeleton that appeared in the darkness was holding various weapons.

From wooden clubs to daggers, axes, maces, and crossbows.

The quality was even worse because they were rusted.

If you cut yourself wrong, assuming there is no proper treatment, you will develop tetanus and even go straight to the underworld with complications such as sepsis.

The skeletons must have spotted Jung Yu-shin’s group because their eyes glowed and they ran straight toward him.

Dalgrak! Dalgrak!

Can’t they just leave the living alone?

There was no scream, but you could sense blind rage from their actions.

Jung Yu-shin slung his longsword over his shoulder and took a stance.

Just before the skeleton soldiers rushed in.

Baryon casted a spell.

[Mind Protection]

There was no sound. You could tell by the effect.

A sacred spell that prevented mental contamination from the undead.

That was why Jung Yu-shin chose the corridor area.

The sacred light scattered like fragments from the heads of the party members.

The skeleton soldiers who saw this stopped running.

“Haaaaap!!!”

Delia shouted and thrust her shield with her weight.

She firmly took a stance and pushed with a shield bash.

Kwaaaaang!!!

The kite shield destroyed the four skeletons that rushed in at once.

Overwhelming power. Is this really the Glutton Seal?

Ppagjak!!!

The bones of the skeleton soldier hit by the shield flew into the air like bowling pins.

Jeong Yu-shin also stood next to Delia and took a stance.

He held the sword on his shoulder with both hands and lifted it slightly.

Diagonal slash.

Ssaeeeeeeek!!!

The slash, honed through thousands of swings, shattered the skull of the skeleton soldier holding the mace.

Kwajik!!!

The light disappeared from the eyes of the skeleton whose head was cut in two.

He quickly snatched the mace that the skeleton had dropped and swung it at another guy with a dagger who was running towards him.

Hooooooowung!!!

Crack!!!

The heavy mace cut through the wind and shattered the skeleton soldier's chest bone.

The staggering skeleton soldier.

Without stopping, he struck his head with his mace.

Bam!!! Bam!!!

His head cracked in one blow and crumbled in the second.

He kicked the skeleton soldier who was slowly falling.

The skeleton soldier flew backwards and crashed into the others.

Clang!!!

Without stopping, he placed his sword in the middle and tried to charge forward.

Bam!

He heard the sound of the string snapping. And the sound of the wind cutting through.

Swish!!!

He aimed for his own head.

He raised his sword reflexively.

Taaang!!!

The bolt shot by the skeleton soldier hit the sword surface and bounced off.

Jeong Yu-shin's eyes glowed coldly above the raised sword.

I found a skeleton soldier with a crossbow, but he was falling backwards with a bolt stuck in his head.

I don't know when Karin shot the bolt, but it hit him right in the head. As expected, he has good eyes. He was also good at handling not only daggers but also shooting weapons.

Baryon rushed in and swung his warhammer.

Hoooooooong!!!

Kwaaaaang!!!

The three skeleton soldiers who were blocked by Delia and couldn't move forward were smashed to pieces and scattered on the ground.

The last one left rushed at Jeong Yu-shin.

He looked like he was wearing everything from a helmet to armor.

That was it.

He swung his sword horizontally.

Ssueeeeeeeeek!!!

Sseukkeu.

Jeong Yu-shin's sword cut the cervical vertebra between the skeleton's armor and helmet.

The skeleton's head flew into the sky. The poorly worn helmet had long since fallen off.

Thud.

The headless body knelt before Jeong Yu-shin.

He roughly kicked it away with his foot and walked towards the skeleton head.

The head that had fallen to the floor continued to rattle.

He lifted his foot.

The skeleton head opened its mouth.

Thud!!!

Crunch!!!

The iron plate attached to the sole shattered the head. The broken bone fragments scattered across the old hallway floor.

Subjugation complete.

It was so easy that he couldn't even yawn.

This is the second level of the labyrinth?

"It's too easy?"

Karin's face hardened.

"Scar, don't let your guard down."

It was hard to understand even after seeing Karin's stern warning face.

Not very strong defense.

The strength was also weaker than that of the forest mushroom man.

He didn’t even think about using the Sacred Weapon.

Delia opened the helmet cover.

“Scar, Karin is right. Don’t take it lightly. We haven’t even started yet. And this is not the time to just stand around and talk about this. We need to make money.”

“Collecting monster bone fragments?”

Delia nodded at Jung Yu-shin’s question.

“That’s right. Undead bone fragments.”

The party members each took out a thick leather pouch from their backpacks.

Jung Yu-shin bent down and picked up a bone fragment.

“This is for money?”

Delia shrugged.

“It seems to be used as a catalyst in magic research. I don’t know the details.”

The party members crouched down and picked up the bones one by one.

Jung Yu-shin couldn't just watch, so he crouched down on one side and opened his leather pouch.

A familiar scene.

Only the people had changed, but the work was the same.

'This is completely...’

It was similar to the request to cut off a hobgoblin’s ear and deliver it.

The only difference was that.

The former was the minimum welfare policy that the guild created for beginner explorers.

The latter was literally a request for materials that had demand and utility.

Jung Yu-shin searched the place thoroughly and picked up the bone fragments.

“Wow!”

Delia screamed in joy.

“What is it?”

“It’s a magic stone! It was embedded in the skull of a skeleton soldier!”

Delia lifted the magic stone. The red stone was as small as a finger.

“It’s a bit disappointing. It’s so small that it’ll be hard to get a high price for it.”

Karin said as she looked at the magic stone.

Jung Yu-shin crouched down on the floor and opened his mouth.

“We’re going to deliver it to the Explorers’ Guild anyway, so what’s the use of its size?”

“But wouldn’t it feel good to get something big?”

‘Is that so?’

Jung Yu-shin listened to Delia’s words and rummaged through the bone fragments.

Delia put the magic stone in her pocket. Seeing her cherishing gold and jade made me feel sad.

“How many slime breads would this one be? Hehehe.”

Delia swallowed her saliva and Karin snickered as she picked up the bone fragments.

Barion silently swept up the bones.

Jung Yu-shin shook his head and picked up the rest of the bone fragments as he looked at Delia with a dumbfounded look.

The party members worked hard to collect the bone fragments as if they were digging for clams in the tidal flats.

“If we just fight a few more times, we’ll be able to fill the request quota.”

Karin wiped her forehead as she put the leather pouch containing the bone fragments into her backpack.

Jung Yushin also got up from her seat and rubbed her thighs.

“Whew. This is work.”

As I always felt, moving and fighting weren’t the only things that were difficult.

Every action, from putting on and taking off the backpack, to crouching down to collect herbs and materials, was close to labor. I pretended not to, but my nerves were on edge, so I was even more tired.

“Should I take a break? There’s a shelter just a little further from here.”

Karin said without even looking at the map.

“Okay.”

The party members gathered their luggage, got up from their seats, and walked.

The hallway was dark, so they needed torches.

Guide Karin took the lead, followed by Delia, then Jung Yushin, and finally Barion.

The party members slowly walked through the hallway.

They had walked for about 3 hours?

On the right side of the hallway, a wooden door was visible.

Karin raised one hand.

Everyone stopped walking at the stop sign.

Karin handed the torch to Delia and carefully approached the doorknob.

An unknown pattern was engraved on the old, worn surface of the door.

Karin, who was examining the doorknob, sent a sign.

‘No trap.’

Karin put her ear to the doorknob and remained still, then sent a sign again to the party members.

‘No one in the room.’

Karin grabbed the doorknob and sent a signal.

‘Delia is in the lead. Next is Scar.’

At Karin’s gesture, Jung Yu-shin and Delia took their places by the door.

Karin opened the door.

Squeak.

Delia pushed her shield in and entered first. Jung Yu-shin immediately followed behind Delia.

“Nothing unusual...?”

Delia, who entered the room, mumbled her words.

Jeong Yu-shin realized why Delia was mumbling.

A gloomy room.

Something strangely shaped was sitting in the center of the room.

How should I explain it?

There was a large orb-like sphere that fortune tellers often carry around.

A wriggling mass of flesh rose up like a tree branch and supported the red orb.

This was the first time I saw such a bizarre sight.

The party members also stared blankly, not even making a sound, as if they had never seen such a orb before.

While admiring the orb, a rustling sound came from one side of their head.

An image of a tentacle crawling out of the darkness and wrapping itself around the brain unfolded.

Should I say it was a sensation as if my brain cells were bursting?

As I was enjoying the refreshing feeling, the red orb looked even more beautiful.

For some reason.

If I touched that bead, I felt like I would go back to my beloved hometown.

“What...what is it?”

Contrary to Jung Yu-shin, Delia let out a rare trembling voice.

“Everyone, back off!!!”

Karin quickly shouted and grabbed Jung Yu-shin and Delia’s shoulders.

Jung Yu-shin and Delia were led out of the room by Karin’s hand.

Jung Yu-shin lifted the helmet cover. Irritation surged.

“Karin, what’s the problem?”

Karin looked at Jung Yu-shin and took out a handkerchief from her bosom.

“Scar, your eyes are bleeding.”

Jung Yu-shin made a blank expression. Then he «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» realized that his eyes were wet.

He took off his gloves and wiped his eyes with his bare hands.

Black blood was stained.

And small larvae-like things wriggling in the blood came into view.

My heart sank for a moment.

Jung Yu-shin’s expression distorted fiercely.

“What the fuck. This fucking labyrinth.”