*Yulia's POV*
It's not easy to prepared for the labyrinth exploration because we will not enter using our consciousness like the last time. The previous stage is just a tutorial so only our consciousness was transferred in the labyrinth but we now have to enter using our real bodies.
I have to prepare foods, clothes, spices, soaps and other things that we need to use for days inside the labyrinth. Fortunately money is never a problem thanks to my family's enormous wealth. Hurray! For being a second generation young lady. It's also fortunate that Noir give me a permission to use the void ring. It's basically a cheat storage because the time inside never changed so the food inside will not spoiled or rot .
Days had passed and I'm finally readied everything and we will need to go to the hospital to enter the labyrinth through the human sized mirror. My mother was holding my hand nervously and smiled at her to reassure her.
"My Dear I know that you have to do this but I just can't help but to be anxious. I even hope that you're not this excellent to live like a normal girl at your age and not carrying this much responsibility. Am I a selfish mother?"
"No mom, you have never been a selfish mother and never will. You're a mother who is worried about her stubborn daughter."
I hugged her as I said those words. I need to become stronger not just for myself but for everyone who is worried about me. I need to be strong enough to stop them from worrying about me.
"Sister!" my sister looked at me with her teary eyes.
I smiled and patted her head. The car stopped and we all entered the hospital and headed to Noir's room directly.
(Noir are you ready?) I asked.
(Yes!)
We tied him on my back and stored the medical apparatus on the void ring and stand in front of the big mirror my a glowing snowflakes tattoo emerged in my hand and started chanting the chant that appeared on my mind.
"Realm beyond the reality and comprehension. A realm that connects all worlds. I have come to challenge the unknown. With the crest key on my hand I shall now open the path to the land of dreams and desires."
The mirror shone with dazzling light. I looked back at my family with a reassuring smile on my face.
"Mom, Dad, Elena and uncles we'll be back."
My dad nodded
"Just always be careful, alright?"
My mother said with some tears on her eyes and I nodded.
I looked at the mirror with determination. I took a deep breath and walked forward entered the labyrinth.
*SWOOOSH!*
I felt the breeze of wind and opened my eyes and saw the wide grass field and towering trees not so far away.
(Noir, were finally here.)
(Thank you, I don't know what I'm going to do without you.)
He said earnestly.
(Hehe! What are you talking about? We're friends isn't it natural to help each other?)
I walked towards to the forest cautiously.
(Is there no danger yet?)
I still asked Noir even though I have my own detection ability because two detection ability is better than one. His ability to sense danger is above mine because mine is an active ability and his is passive.
(No but we might have been spotted by something.)
(Where?)
(In front.)
(In the forest?)
(How could I know? I can't see, remember?)
(Oh, sorry)
We entered to the forest with towering trees and the surrounding went silent. I used my {Sound detection appraisal} again.
I see so they are blending their presence with the nature itself. They are hunters that's waiting for a perfect timing to attack their prey. The moved silently and quietly under the shadows of the towering trees.
The monsters in the shadow showed up and pounced on us like lightning but it's useless because Noir has make a move. Noir disappeared from my back and the image of the monster that attack us was no longer a silhouette but became clearer. The monster is full of injuries and bathing with it's own blood. It's looked like a wolf with six eyes, 4 ears and six limbs. It's long fingers has sharp claws and it can be used for climbing these giant trees. The monster from stage 6 of Eldritch tale, Yeux wolf.
Creature: Yeux wolf.
Strength: building level
Agility: mach 2
Endurance: building level
Intelligence: intelligent beast
Magic: camouflage
Proficiency: super natural
Weakness: weak alone
I looked at Noir who is taking off his own bandages. I have never noticed that Noir has refined figure. *Gulp!*
I shook my head 不不不(no) Yulia! Stop thinking about those things, You are better than this. I think he got taller though. I'm 5'7 so he's about 5'8 or 5'9 but he's above 6 feet tall now. He finally finished changing his clothes and laughed.
"HAHAHA! Yulia look, I'm fine now. I'm so happy."
Name: Noir Egas
Age: 17
Strength: CITY LEVEL
Agility: IMMEASURABLE
Endurance: IMMEASURABLE
Intelligence: Above Average
Luck: IMMEASURABLE
Psychic: Void black level Dream Escape, Daydream
Proficiency: IMMEASURABLE
Proficiency2: Locked(can't be used in dreams)
Magic: Black Lightning
Proficiency: Natural disaster
Named Item: void space ring
Weakness: Weaker in Real world than in Dream.
*Sigh! Unbelievable, He is very relaxed even though we are surrounded by a pack of Yeux wolf. I guess that's why it's reassuring to be with him.
*Noir's POV.*
We were attacked by these weird looking wolves but I used my {Dream Escape} to transfer all of my injuries to the monster and it fell to the ground bathing with it's own blood. I put on my clothes that was stored in the void ring. Huh? Did I grew taller? Well whatever, it's good to be taller.
I'm so happy that I'm back to normal now. Being bedridden for several days is really sucks. I finally understand why old men are grumpy because not being able to do anything is terrible. I swear that I won't grow old and stay young forever.
I looked at the monsters who's looking back at me cautiously. You're not allowed to escape buddy.
"{Black field}"
I whispered and we are covered by black electromagnetic field that's controlled by me by aligning positive and negative charge's. It might be hard if I'm using psychic powers but I used magic to create it. I got the inspiration from the cultist who uses telekinesis that attacked us.
I put my hands in the pockets of my pants and whispered.
"Kneel!"
The wolves was pushed down to the ground while whining and growling.
""""*GRRRR!!!*""""
Let me try another technique that I created.
"{Black Cell Death: Necrosis}"
I used the black electromagnetic field to create Ionizing radiation and directly attacked the cells which causes the cells to die.
*GROWLL!!*
*WOOO!!!!*
*HOWL!*
They are whimpering, growling and howling in pain as the necrosis spread to their bodies. The organs in their bodies started to fail and they lost their lives one after another. I erased the {Black field} and looked back at Yulia.
"How was it?"
"Terrible." She commented.
"WHY!?" I asked exaggeratedly
"I saw uncle Arnold's shadow in you. Using one of the four fundamental forces of the world is terrible."
"It's cool, isn't it?"
"yes, I think I need to study my powers more to create techniques that is compatible to my powers and not just using it as it is."
I nodded.
"That's right, that's why Uncle Davis and uncle George said that we have the power but lacked the technique. We just uses our powers in a straight forward way and brute force rather than knowing what can we do with it and using it with full potential. I really learned my lesson in a hard way."
Both of us agreed with my statement and we continued our journey.
"What to do now? Are we going to kill everything like we did in the past?"
(No, that would be useless and this place is really huge so it would probably take months to clear everything. To be honest I also don't have any Ideas on how to clear this stage so we should probably rely on luck to find the boss of this place.)
Yulia answered using Telepathy.
Since she doesn't know and I also have no idea what to do, we just followed her suggestion and rely on luck at least we will not be on the rushed to find monsters to kill and enjoy our time on this journey.
"Help! Help!"
We heard a voice of a woman asking for help We followed where the scream was coming from and saw a woman being chased by red monkeys. She has green hair and a flower on her head.
"Let me handle this."
Yulia seriously said as she took out her sword before I could respond. Her sword floats and she rode on it. She quickly reached the horde of red monkeys and ignored the "Woman". She immediately grabbed the face of one of the monkey and froze it. The others attacked her but she either dodges, blocked them with ice or attacked them with flying sword.
One of them opened its mouth and a red glowing magic circle and its mouth was frozen in the next second.
It's the first time I have seen a magical circle. I wonder what's the difference between using magic circle and without using it. Another red monkey tried to attack her with their sharp claws but it was cut off before it landed on her.
"Screeeech!"
"Screeeech!"
The other monkeys used their flexible bodies and their surrounding in their advantage.
*BOOM! BOOM!*
They blew up the giant trees to make it fall to Yulia. She rode on her sword again and dodged those trees. They tried to catch her using strong vines of the trees but they couldn't and those vines would be frozen before it could reach her.
Noticing that their none of their attacks work and some of them died everytime Yulia counter attacked so they choose to flee. Those monkeys are very agile and hard to chase.
"Yulia! Do you need help?" I asked in a loud voice.
(No need. Our mission is not to exterminate them anyway.)
She replied.
She landed on the ground in front of me still holding her sword.
The "Woman" approached us and introduce herself.
"Hello heroes! My name is Rafflesia and ------"
SWOOOSH!
THUD!
Yulia chopped off her head with her sword before she could finish speaking. She froze the head to the ground and shattered the flower on her head. The body deteriorated and became a rotten flesh.
*Yulia's POV.*
"Good work Yulia."
(You're not going to ask anything?)
(What kind of monster was that?)
(That's Rafflesia as she called herself. A parasitic monster plant.)
I answered.
Creature: Rafflesia
Strength: building level
Agility: sub-sonic
Endurance: building level
Intelligence: intelligent beast
Magic: illusion, poison , plant
Proficiency: super natural(×3)
Weakness: the flower on the head.
(You really know a lot.)
He praised and I nodded.
(But you don't seem to like this monster too much.)
(No, it's just your imagination.)
Of course I don't like this shit. This fraud make me lose my equipment in game. I thought she would give me a quest but she suddenly stabbed me in the back.
The worst part is I was mocked by the fish Catcher community for a long time because of it. I swore to myself to kill them that if I see them in real life. I even let those monkeys go because I feared this thing would go away. I finally got my revenge
Wahahahah!!