Volume 8 Chapter 2 Part1 (2/2)
“Then Yukizona Should ait until he comes to work?”
“Yeah”
While they were talking of this and that, the body of the Cavalryenerated and it stood up They haven’t noticed that Cavalrys, readied its broken spear and started running Finally, the pair turned their eyes to the Labyrinth’s entrance
“…!”
Just before Cavalry the shockwave from his rapier
The two gasped in silence This wasn’t at the level of so unusual anymore It was a completely abnor the Labyrinth, yet the pair was outside the door to the Fifth Labyrinth
“Right now… it tried to attack us despite us being outside”
Rizzly told exactly what he saever, Luik had denied exactly what he saw
“No way Guardian Beasts attack only invaders inside the Labyrinth”
That was his common sense as an Armed Librarian His common sense and what he saw in front of his eyes clashed People usually believed in their co these times
“But right now…!”
“Nah, that’s impossible”
Even Luik couldn’t understand as happening at all Just as Rizzly had said, the Guardian Beasts ca at them
“Wait I’ll go check the situation”
Saying so, Luik entered the Labyrinth and went down the stairs He approached the Cavalryman collapsed in the plaza At that ht
It came for a surprise attack from Luik’s side He prepared to meet its attack However, the Needle Wolf acted outside of his expectations
It turned in a right angle just beforeto the Sixth Archive and to the door beyond them
Caught by surprise, Luik didn’t move And Rizzly, as outside the Labyrinth, couldn’t respond in time either
It happened for only a split second Just an instant before Needle Wolf was blown to smithereens by Rizzly’s shockwave
A Guardian Beast exited the Labyrinth For the first tiot out
“Rizzly! Sound the alarm!”
Luik regained his co in fear could not respond After all it was so that must never happen
“Rizzly!”
Responding to Luik’s noise, Rizzly ran inside the telegraph room Behind Luik, the Guardian Beasts he supposedly defeated rose up Several other Guardian Beasts came towards the Labyrinth entrance
In the telegraph room, Rizzly flipped the switch of the recently installed voice device It could send his voice throughout the entirety of Bantorra Library
“An eency! All Arather in front of the Labyrinth!”
Rizzly’s voice echoed from behind Luik stood in front of the door
The Guardian Beasts protecting the Labyrinth and the Ar it; that relationshi+p, continuing without any change for 2000 years, was reversed at this time It was the i to the Armed Librarians who protected the outside world
Luik drew out the giant spear on his back for the first time that day There were already more than ten Guardian Beasts at the plaza
What was going on? And what should they do now? He swung his spear relentlessly while holding these questions
“When will the reinforcements arrive?!”
Luik shouted, but Rizzly didn’t reply
A while passed No one had come to support them No one responded to their shouts
And at the nextfrom the other side of the Sealed Labyrinth He saw one of her ared out
Tena, who despite being a novice could be said to be a perfectly good warrior, was fleeing in such an unsightly manner
“…Tena”
Luik muttered He could hear heavy footsteps from behind her There were no Guardian Beasts who could make such footsteps in the Fifth Labyrinth It should be so around the level of Elephant Solider from the Fourth Level
“Tena! What’s wrong?!”
“…El…Elephant Soldier, and Iron-Fang Mouse, are co to the Fifth…”
Her ribs perhaps broken, she spoke while spurting out blood He could see froe ah
Also, they were the stronger Guardian Beasts that protected the deeper areas
“Tena! Run away to the Sixth Archive! The entrance is not safe!”
“Y-yes, I get it…”
Leaving the bloody Tena to her own, Luik took up position on the stairway connecting to the Sixth Archive He readied his spear and stood in their way
“…Until everyone comes…”
Luik muttered
“…Will I be able to hold on?”
Half an hour passed
Mirepoc arrived running to the Labyrinth Soency call It was quite sha while, Mirepoc forgot where she had left her gun and sword
Although Mirepoc rushed without a ot into the Archive
She found Tena being treated by the trainees in the entrance to the Sixth Archive
“Tena! Who did this to you?!”
She exchanged her o She heard that she was about to go shelving in the Fifth Archive It wasn’t a job that would lead to those kind of injuries
“…I-Iron-Fang Mouse and Elephant Solider, at the Fifth Labyrinth…”
Tena answered, gasping for breath Iron-Fang Mouse was a Guardian Beast that appeared in the Third Labyrinth It was an eneure in the Armed Librarians could be a match for Mirepoc had never seen it
“Mirepoc! Quickly!”
An angry voice shouted at her from the Sixth Archive She ran down there
“…shi+t, those Guardian Beasts…”
“Don’t lower your guard, they’re co from below!”
The angry roars of Arh the wide Sixth Archive
The Sixth Archive had a huge cylindrical center from which countless of s, spiral staircase and its middle was a wide atrium
The lowest part in theto the telegraph rooms meant for Armed Librarians as well as to the Fifth Sealed Labyrinth
“…What the…”
She heard as happening froasped at seeing Guardian Beasts run around the Sixth Archive, where even normal librarians could work
There were Aruns here and there on the floor and in the spiral staircase The Guardian Beasts were destroying the atrium
The existence of the Guardian Beasts inside the Labyrinth usually felt reassuring
Still, seeing them run amok like this ering humans She didn’t know such a scene could be so terrible
“Kh!”
A Needle Wolf ran to the top where Mirepoc was She kicked hi her rapier Then she grabbed its tail and threw it off to the atrium
There were a lot of Armed Librarians and trainees on the spiral staircase As to not get caught up in their fight, Mirepoc leapt to the center of the staircase Then she rushed down the stairs connecting to the Sealed Labyrinth
“…!”
The door connecting to the Labyrinth had already been destroyed One of the double doors had been blown backward and the other was distorted In front of the door two Ar the invasion of the Guardian Beasts from the bottom
One was Luik He used his own body, which was harder than steel, as a shi+eld
Behind him was Marfa, as comparable in power to Kyasariro He controlled a whip about 100covered in flames The whip freely moved, avoided Luik’s body and assaulted the Guardian Beasts
“What did you come here for, Mirepo?!”
Marfa shouted This situation didn’t call for Mirepoc, soer However, she are of this and had so else to do
“I’m here to close the Labyrinth’s barrier walls!”
Mirepoc advanced while bending her body Marfa’s whip alrazed her overhead
Proceeding while desperately fending off the Guardian Beasts, she touched the door to the Sealed Labyrinth In the Labyrinth were partition walls that could be closed doith the authority of an Ar Mokkania’s Rebellion they had actually sealed it
The several hundred walls to be created in the Labyrinth shouldn’t be broken down easily even with the power of the Guardian Beasts With this they should be able to seal their movements to a certain extent
“Get down Mirepo!”
“You’re in the way!”
Luik and Marfa shouted Mirepoc shouted back withoutthem
“Armed Librarian Mirepoc! Despite my lack of authority I appeal to you, seal all partition walls!”
When operating the equipical power However, Mirepoc couldn’t feel anything She didn’t feel anything happen
“I’ you’re in the way!”
Luik’s spear cut down the ene about it, it was obvious There’s no way Luik or Marfa wouldn’t have tried soht about
Mirepoc turned her back to the there
Co back to the Sixth Archive, she heard the voices of her comrades
“Mirepo! What’s the Director doing?!”
“What about Yukizona-san? Or Mattalast-san?”
Only now that she was told this she noticed Neither the Director, Mattalast or Yukizona could be seen anywhere Kyasariro wasn’t there either
“I’ll contact them now!”
Mirepoc’s job was connecting the Ar to a safe spot, she invoked her Thought Sharing to call the coht now First was Bonbo He was currentlythe ceasefire in the vicinity of the Principality of Meliot
‘Bonbo-san? Are we connected?’
‘I received contact fro at my top speed and will reach you in about three hours’
‘Roger, return as soon as possible’
Contacting Bonbo had been nothing but a formality In this situation he would probably not be very useful If he were to activate his power - controlling whales - inside the Labyrinth, Bantorra Library would be destroyed
The other three people wereher thoughts
‘Director!’
Her thoughts connected However, while Hamyuts could receive it, she wasn’t able to respond It was completely unilateral from Mirepoc
‘This is an eency, and not the time to think of it as troublesome or whatever, please come quickly!’
Her thoughts should have been connected However, she couldn’t tell where Hahts to Yukizona
‘Yukizona-san!’
‘I’ soon Please wait for ten minutes’
Mirepoc was surprised hearing this She was late as well, but what did hi even more late mean?
‘…Just how ency call?!’
‘I have not been wasting my time’
‘What’s going on?!’
‘…I cannot tell you even if you ask’
Mirepoc grinded her teeth All four people ere said to be the strongest a at this situation Leaving Bonbo aside, ere the three re?
‘Mattalast-san! Where are you right now? It’s an eency!’
She connected to Mattalast’s thoughts She hadn’t seen hi around in the town area In the worst case heout at the cineht of shouting at him
However, Mattalast wasn’t playing around
‘…,…’
She felt so that she had never felt before It felt as if she was connected to so like a rock The inside of their ue as sand
‘…Mi…repo?’
After a while, Mattalast finally replied in his thoughts Just what happened to him?
His thoughts eak It wasn’t like he just woke up, and it was also different than being under the influence Rather than his thinking abilities, it was hts of people about to die probably felt like this
‘…Mattalast-san? What’s wrong!’
She held her head and stopped in place without noticing The spear of a Cavalryman came to attack from behind her as she was careless
“Watch out!”
Kalne thrust Mirepoc away She rolled down the stairs and rose up while frowning
‘…Mirepo? What’s going on? Is there… fighting on the surface?’
‘What’s going on?! Mattalast-san! Where are you now!’
‘Mirepo… I’m sorry…’
His thoughts were severed She didn’t feel Mattalast dying However, she only knew that he was in some serious situation