Episode 331 < Glass Palace. (1) >
One.
[You have entered the 63rd stage.]
[‘The eyes that dwell in the labyrinth’ detect your presence and become angry!]
The sandstorm enveloped me and then subsided.
It’s like a hand that holds you only once and then lets go.
Feeling the scent of sand grains dried by the sun and smoothed by the wind, I straightened my back proudly.
“There is no need to say it in a message now. Mr. Snake?”
The whole sound was not used.
The opponent is the constellation that governs all mysteries and secrets.
It would probably be easy to peek into places you can’t see and eavesdrop on things you can’t hear. In short, it means that he is an expert in wiretapping.
[‘The eyes that dwell in the labyrinth’ are shaking at your rudeness!]
hmm.
I gently closed one eye.
“Maybe negotiation is possible. I’m a guy you get along with surprisingly well when you talk to him. If you’re not going to spend eternity hiding like that, why don’t you at least have a little tea time and talk?”
[The ‘Eyes Dwelling in the Labyrinth’ criticizes them, asking where they are doing their tricks!]
indeed.
‘Even if I die, I don’t plan on making my voice heard.’
I looked around.
‘He’s being careful that his position might be revealed through that. I watched Mutia hit me… . You probably won’t have the courage to show yourself in front of me. Well, then… … . Should we start playing hide and seek from now on?’
labyrinth.
It was surrounded on all sides by high walls.
Actually, I wasn’t sure if I should refer to that as a ‘wall’.
At least among the walls I know, there is no ‘wall’ that seems to go far into the sky and easily touch the stratosphere.
Even the sky was closed in a dome shape. Eggshells covered the ground. Perhaps even if you climb up the wall, you will be blocked by the shell of the sky.
‘What about the ground?’
Wooden material.
There was a wooden floor with swirling patterns resembling snake scales.
I swung my sword as a test, but both the wall and the floor were fine. He suffered no damage. Perhaps it was set up to be very difficult to destroy.
“… … “Is the world itself a maze stage?”
I muttered.
“It’s difficult. Mr. Snake will keep changing his location. While I don’t know the geography of this place, I’m sure Mr. Snake is quick. Even if the opponent just runs away, there is no way for me to catch him… .”
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
A voice came from behind me.
The reason I didn’t reflexively raise my sword to attack was because I had already heard that voice.
“Primordial Staff?”
“Just simply call me a wizard. “He’s a wizard.”
[Ancient Staff] spoke with a face that looked like it had never smiled in its life. The wizard was yawning while maintaining a distance of about 6 meters from me.
“He’s not that great of a person. “He was simply the greatest wizard in the world.”
“No, I think it’s quite an achievement… ?”
“no. It’s not that great. Before becoming a pillar, he single-handedly killed thirteen dragon emperors, conquered seven dragon kingdoms, and was the first person in history to arrive at the Void Pole crack, the foundation and starting point of the world, and place his flag there, but that was all. “He’s just a wizard.”
“… … “Do you just want to brag to me?”
“Death King. Have you ever wondered why incredibly successful people are incredibly humble? When I reach that level, the more humble I become, the more humble the other person becomes. Even though I make others miserable, I am completely innocent myself. Only those in power can be truly honest and humble. In that sense, it’s not surprising that successful people are humble. how is it? Have I enlightened you?”
“The only thing I realized from what you just said is that the wizard’s personality is rotten… .”
“congratulations. “You’ve already realized a lot.”
match. match. match.
The wizard clapped his hands. Not with his hands, but with his mouth. So, I moved my mouth and pronounced ‘clap, clap, clap’. As I listened to the wizard’s mouth clapping, I realized that this pillar was also something out of the ordinary.
“Let’s get back to the point. “Why are you saying I don’t have to worry?”
The wizard took out a piece of paper from his pocket and wrote something down.
On the paper, it was written [Main text].
The wizard put the paper on the wall, walked three steps back, and then took three steps forward again.
“Voila.”
“…….”
“Back.”
I decided to calmly ignore the 15 seconds in which all of this happened. Since ancient times, in order to deal with idiots, I also need to be armed with intelligence.
“is it so. Crazy wizard. “Why don’t I worry?”
“Constellations are unfair beings. “It is so powerful that an ordinary human cannot possibly deal with it. Not only is it physically strong, but its existence itself is great.”
The wizard spoke as if he were a normal person.
“But even in unfairness, there is some fairness.”
“equity?”
“huh. A riddle is a riddle because no matter how difficult it is, there is an answer. No matter how difficult a maze is, it is still a maze because there is a way out. “A riddle without an answer is just a series of annoying sentences, and a maze without a door is just a series of boring places.”
The wizard muttered expressionlessly.
“That way, it is no different from the life of an ‘ordinary human’ that the Constellations look down on so much.”
“…….”
“Even if it’s a twisted answer. Even if it’s a twisted escape route. The role of the constellation is to provide answers to a world without answers and to open doors to a life without doors. no. “It can be said to be the very meaning of the constellation’s existence.”
in other words.
“Hishmit Kritz… Are you saying that [the eyes that dwell in the labyrinth] do not escape?”
“Every palace has a throne. A labyrinth is also a palace. “The moment a king runs away from the throne, he ceases to be a king.”
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is it.
I nodded and glared at the walls on all sides.
[‘The eyes that dwell in the labyrinth’ grind their teeth.]
[‘The eyes that dwell in the labyrinth’ unleash their power!]
And as if responding to my provocative gaze, the world changed completely.
2.
The world is still made of walls.
However, it was no longer an invisible wall blocking the line of sight.
[‘The eye that dwells in the labyrinth’ requests an oath from the tower.]
[Designation of sanctuary.]
[approval.]
The outer skin of the walls melted and flowed.
[As of the present time, this place is owned by the ‘Eye Dwelling in the Labyrinth.’]
The inside of the wall that had peeled off and flowed down was glass.
Transparent glass window.
My view was no longer blocked, so I was able to look inside freely. I looked into the glass, intentionally or unintentionally, and there.
“… … mannequin? Figure?”
Numerous dolls were displayed inside the glass wall.
The expression “innumerable” literally means “innumerable.”
The glass was so high that it reached all the way to the sky and so vast that it was impossible to know how far it continued. It was a glass labyrinth. The dolls were lined up tightly in each window, layer after layer, layer after layer.
[He is the one who conceals and reveals; worship him.]
Creak.
A mannequin hanging on the nearest window suddenly raised its head.
My mouth opened.
“He is the one who conceals and reveals. Worship him.”
Other dolls that were stationary on the left, right, and top of the mannequin opened their mouths.
“He is the one who conceals and reveals; worship him.”
Dolls surround them again.
“He is the one who conceals and reveals; worship him.”
There are mannequins on both sides of a straight passage, mannequins on a dead-end wall in an alley, mannequins at right angles on a winding road, tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of mannequins just in the places I can see, and in places I can’t see, it’s literally infinite. The mannequin of numbers squeaks! Through the glass window, it’s a joke. He opened his mouth with a squeak.
“If you are planning to look for me somewhere, look for me.”
A voice made up of tens of thousands of layers.
The voices of each doll playing separately gave off a discordant sound.
“In this is my true being.”
“…….”
Among these.
In this place where hundreds of millions or even more dolls are displayed, the [Eye that dwells in the labyrinth] is hidden.
I raised the corner of my mouth.
“It’s only too disadvantageous for a game of hide and seek.”
“It’s fair game anyway.”
The doll displayed on the glass wall just to the right moved its lips.
“If you can’t find it, just admit defeat and go down. Otherwise, it would be nice to wander around in my glass palace forever!”
Each doll had its own characteristics.
Some dolls were so elaborate that they were close to life-sized figures, or rather, could be considered real. There was a face. There were pupils. It seemed as if he could breathe at any moment, but his expression did not change, as if time had stopped.
Another doll was almost like a mannequin. Kokeshi doll. A marionette with no face, no expression, and fully exposed joints.
Each doll had a different level of sophistication. From perfectly finished products to unfinished products that didn’t even look like a carving knife had been used yet, numerous puppets were hanging on threads and posing in different poses.
Just one thing.
『I am a murderer who killed my neighbor’s child.』
Every doll is holding a piece of paper sign.
『I cheated on my best friend』
That was the one thing they had in common.
『I had an affair with the priest of the temple.』
『I am the one who planned to poison Grand Duke Mifu.』
『I killed my father.』
『I hate the nobleman who took me in.』
『I conspired with the monarch’s enemies and destroyed my family.』
The signs with the dolls all had different contents.
There was some serious content and some trivial content.
“… … “They are all secrets.”
It was not difficult for me to realize what the signs meant.
“Something you don’t want others to see. Confidentiality that you do not want known. It contains a secret that everyone has at least once. With that, we can infer that person’s identity.”
“This guy really has a quick mind.”
Gigigigigi-.
The puppet at the front opened his mouth. The noise made by the creaking joints was probably a mocking sound intended by the [Eyes Dwelling in the Labyrinth].
“These are all people who made a wish to me. They have leaned into my power at least once. “My domain is so vast that it cannot be compared to you, who has just entered the constellation!”
“I don’t really want to create a world this crazy… .”
A great library called Hamust. Mutia is a sand temple. And Hissimit Critz is a glass exhibition hall?
“What wishes do you usually grant?”
“[Please, tell me the weakness of that guy I hate.]”
“…….”
“[Please don’t let anyone know what I did.] [Please.] [Don’t let anyone find out even if I kill that guy.] [Don’t let them find out my secrets even if they dig into my past.] [What happened that summer.] [As if I were completely innocent.]”
Gigi-ik, kigi-gik.
Seven mannequins laughed at the same time.
“The wish that everyone has made deep in their hearts at least once is my domain. “You humans have many secrets you want to reveal, and even more secrets you want to hide!”
Hissmit Crits.
Eyes that dwell in the labyrinth.
Keywords are snake, egg, labyrinth, secret, riddle, contradiction, keeping secrets and security.
lock and key.
expose.
“Of course, I keep the secret as people want. Under my power, they enjoy the blessing of not being exposed to the things they least want to be discovered, but the secrets they hide are only openly displayed here!”
I nodded.
understood.
“So you were able to relate to the [trauma penalty] of my skill.”
Seven mannequins tilted their heads at the same time.
“Hmm?”
“A person’s past is a totality of secrets. “The past, which holds the deepest wounds, is the most exquisite key to understanding that person.”
I took a deep breath and continued speaking.
“The tower lord said that this power comes from [Mangaeng], and that if you trace it back, it reaches your ancestors who were apostles of Hamustra. At the same time, my skill in [peeping] is in line with your power.”
The mannequins burst into laughter.
“Aha, yes! That’s correct! Yes. A person’s past is a [memory] and a [story], but it is also a [secret]. You exposed it brilliantly.”
In the corner of my vision, a mannequin raised its hand.
“A wise exposer should be rewarded.”
A finger made of wood pointed somewhere.
“Rejoice! “I’ll give you my little gift.”
“Is this a hint as to where you are?”
“You’ll know when you see it.”
I followed.
There was another mannequin in the direction my finger pointed, and the mannequin raised its finger again and pointed somewhere, so I walked the same process 16 times.
and.
“…….”
Stop.
At the place I finally arrived at, I stopped for a moment.
“How about it?” “Young star.”
On the other side of the thin glass, a doll moved its lips.
The appearance of the marionette was elaborate.
It was a voice I knew well, and a face I knew well.
“Don’t you want to know this child’s secret?”
There.
A doll that looked exactly like a Holy Knight was on display.
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