Jayr POV - Reise Labyrinth - 2013

  After my Indiana Jones experience, I find myself in a rge regur room, on both sides of the walls, there are sets of two-meter-tall knight armor equipped with rge swords and shields.

  Furthest from the room there is a staircase, and before that, there is an altar and a door that gives out a solemn aura, moreover oar, I notice a strange diamond-shaped yellow crystal.

  Looking around, I mutter "This gives me the st boss room feel... Probable all those armors are Golems of some kind... I kinda remember about a simir se in the novel...", at the same time, I advaoward the ter of the room, and as I expected, the familiar clig sound that precedes the activation of a trap resounded.

  And I let out a sigh and pull out the Tactical Arms while looking around at my surroundings, and notice that the eye slits in the knight's helmets, lighting up as they shin in crimson light.

  Then the sounds of metal rubbing each other are heard when those knights start to move from their spot, meanwhile, I raise my guard and start to t them, 'There are 50 Golems... I 't use rge-scale spells, so I have to rely on the Body enha, my physical stats, and my on... Could be worse...'.

  The knights plete the encirclement, raise their shields while wielding their rge swords in a pierg stah their waist slightly lowered, and I also take my fighting stance, by resting my sword on my shoulders and with a grin on my face I think, 'I always wauts fighting style against a rge number of enemies...', then without waiting any lohe Golem Knights start to attack me all at once.

  I quickly notice that the Golem knights' movements are agile, despite their rge build as they rapidly approach, they give off an intense oppressive feeling along with their glinting ons, it is as if walls are closing in from all dires.

  But despite that, I quickly dash toward the Golems in front of me and take a horizontal swing with my 2 meters long and 350 kilograms heavy sword, and look in satisfa as I easily cut through 3 of them, severing them in half from their torso together with their shields, but I don't have the time to further admire my work as the set of knights draws near from the back, and so I lightly jump over bypassing the encirclement while thinking, '47 left...'.

  As I'm about to nd, I notice that there are already five golems waiting for me nearby, while the others are still turning around to chase after me, and once I'm hey attack me with their swords with a thrust, and I use the ft side of my bde as a shield to block their attack.

  The power behind their attack is strong enough to send me flying in the air with a screeg sound as my sword cshes against theirs, then I use the force of their attay advantage, and start to spin in mid-air, then as I fall, I bring down my sword on its ft side on one of the golem knights that attacked me, and with a tremendous impact sound the golem end up fttened, even thought the knight set up its shield beforehand, its defense was still crushed.

  There are cracks and a dent on the ground caused by the sword and the impact is strong enough to push back a little the olems, and as I look at the result of my attack I t, '46 left', but I do not have the time to rest, as the olems recover and take advantage of this moment to attack me from all sides, while also setting up their shields for defense.

  And after firmly firming their position with a side gnce, I hold firm on the handle and start to spin in pce, delivering a blow carrying great trifugal, and the knights that tried t down their rge swords are hit on their fnks, and cut in half, while I let out a shout full of vigor "Rhaaa!!", at the same time, I tinue my t, '42 left'.

  Then I turn my head to look at the remaining golems that are chasing after me, but quickly notice that one of them is already close enough to be a treat, so I tio spin my body, and twist the handle in my hands, and using the trifugal force I gathered, I hit the golem knight with the ft side of my sword, so fast that it is uo raise its shield to defend itself.

  The knight that received the direct hit had its body bent as if it was run over by a speeding truck, it magnifitly rolled to the bad hit the other approag knights, the knight's body, because it was uo stop itself, ends up squashed and did not give any sign of movement.

  Then the sound of wiered my ears, and searg for the in with my eyes, I see the rge sword of that golem knight had raised against me, as it rotating mid-air after having parted from the knight's hand, and so I jump and grab the rge sword, and then with all my might, I throw it at one of the nearby golem knights.

  The rge sword flies with great velocity, and when it collides with the shield that the golem knight had set, the shield is flipped, not missing that ce, I swing my sword from below, biseg the golem knight in half, then jump back to dodge the attack from the other knights, and mutter "40 left".

  Then some of the golem knights in the front row did something ued, they throw their shields at me, and as expected of golems, they fly with extraordinary power, although it wouldn't be fatal against my strengthened body, they have enough power to make me stumble, but with a grin, I think, 'Well, if they hit me that is... I'm not a great batter, but with a bat, this big and such a big target is difficult to miss...'.

  I take a cssic batting stand using the ft side of my bde, I take a swing, hitting all the shields at the same time and sending them back to the sender.

  The shields, just like the previous golem knight, are blown away like a onball and fly at the nearby golem knights, crushing them and some of the golems behind them, 'Homerun! And 35 left...'.

  Then once more, I point my sword at the approag golem knights holding the sword in a thrusting stahen I press the trigger, and the moment the bde splits open to reveal the Gatling gun ihat roar to life as it shoots tless 30mm bullets that mows down dozen of golem knights, '23 left...'.

  Then I again rush toward the golem knights, this time transf the Tactical Arms into its Sword Arm Form and using the two smaller bdes I start to rampage among the golems, cutting anything around me, while at the same time, defending against the golem knights' attacks who tried to take advantage of my blind spots, and one by ohey were destroyed as if being pyed with.

  I ward off a desding rge sword of a knight with one bde and split in half its helmet with the other in my right hand then I kick it away, and without looking at that knight flew backwards, I blo attack from behind with the sword on my left, and spin around to sli half the knight behihen I squat down while rotating to dodge rge swords that are swung horizontally, and while I tio spin, I slice off its legs and kick it helm away with a high kick.

  Then like a Beybde, I tio spin and throw a low kick at anolem knight that approached from behind hitting it at the knight's knee joint, destroying its bance, and slitting it in half with the bde on my right hand, while still ting '22... 21... 20... 19!'.

  And then I jump up and look at the situation around me ahat all the Golem are now gathered around me, I joiwo bdes back together and nd on a nearby Golem, impaling it with the huge sword, then I pull out the sword and with a wide horizontal swing I destroy two other nearby knights, '18... 17... 16...!!'.

  But then I notice that even if I have destroyed a lot of Golems, there is no ge in the density of the approag enemies, and realize what is going on, and yell "Shit there is some kind of replication going on? ...No matter how many knights I destroy, more knights with the same body are reproduced in no time and rejoin the ranks...".

  Then while still destroying the golems around me I mutter "These things are golems then there must be a core... However, these guys don't have a core at all... I have ripped many of them apart and they don't have anything that looks like a core... But I was able to find some suspiagic power from the golems… Maybe they are remote trolled, I remember that there is a main Golem trolled by Midi... It seems that I 't do this aloer all..."

  I also notice that these golem knights are actually rearranged by maniputing their pieces, they only o add to the insuffit parts, it's actually more like restrug rather than replig, in fact, the floor seems to also be made using the same material as the golems, as parts that appear to be cut away be seen, 'Those were probably used to replenish the parts of the golems... Without defeating the troller, it'd be truly endless... The key is that altar and the door... Shit, why I 't remember every detail of a novel I read more than 20 years ago...'.

  So I quickly get jump away from the golems, sm dowactical Arms to raise a cloud of dust, aer my S.T. to ask for Eri's help, and quickly find her sitting ohena's Bidoof's deck reading a book, I quickly get close and expin to her what is going on, and of course, she quickly agrees, and so I e out of the S.T. and rush toward the altar while Eri, that is hanging on my back, summons her puppets to dey the Golem even further.

  We quickly reach our target, and Eri quickly steps on the floor and starts to study the door, and says "Un... As you said, It is sealed... But I think I unlock it...", and while she moves to release the seal on the door, I move toward the golem and say "I'll leave the seal to Eri... I trust you!", Eri nods and says with a bright smile on her face "Un... leave it to me!".

  Eri POV - Reise Labyrinth - 2013

  I look at Jayr's wide back, and with a smile, I think 'I will finally be truly useful to him... Until now in this Labyrinth I was only a burden to him, he had to alrotect me even in the previous Labyrinth I wasn't of much help... That is why I choose to wait in his personal dimension while studying how to improve my magic even more so that I truly be beside him... But now I finally help him!'.

  After thinking that, I immediately take the yellow crystal from the altar, and start to study it, the crystal is in a square made of pyramids shape, and when I look at it carefully I notice that it is made from binations of solid blocks, 'It is like a Rubik cube...', then I look back at the door behind me ahat there are three iions there.

  I think about this for a few seds, then start to disassemble the square of pyramids, and reassemble those blocks to make new cubes that fit the iions, but while assembling those, I observe the iions in the door to further check that I assemble everything right, then, only by carefully it I notice the small characters that are carved there.

  They say, "I wonder if you solve it~, I wonder~", "You'll die if you don't do it fast, you know~", "Well, it 't be helped if you 't solve it! You're just an ordinary human unlike me after all!", "Don't worry! Even if your head is bad you liv-… … you 't live! Hre~ttable! Pugyaa—!", and with a smile, I think, 'I still like her style...', then I trate to solve the puzzle.

  After some time, with a little proud look of having done a great achievement I put the pieces of the puzzle in the iion and as the door opens, I decre "It's open!", and hear Jayr yell "How fast, just as expected of Eri!", which makes my heart flutter, making me feel a kind of sweet happihat I didn't feel for a long time.

  Jayr POV - Reise Labyrinth - 2013

  Hearing from Eri that she opehe door, I take a peak behind me ahat oher side of the once-sealed door, there is an apparently simple room, so I quickly withdraw, areat toward the room, as the golem knights wouldn't be able to chase after us if we close the sealed door.

  Eri is the first to retreat, and I quickly follow after her and then together, we close the door, keeping outside the chasing golem knights.

  Then I quickly check our surroundings, but I see that it is only an apparently empty room, ahat is also cautiously looking around says "This, isn't it that? Even though there was a spicuous seal, there is actually nothing inside, is it that kind of pune?", but as expected soon after, we suddenly heard the familiar unpleasant sound.

  Ahe sound of meisms beginning to operate is heard, and the room starts to tremble, and I, on instinct, stab the Tactical Arms into the floor ao Eri "Eri, quick! Hold on me!", and she quickly gs on my body, then, I feel a strong G foring from my side, and surprised Eri yells "Ahh! What is happening!?".

  At the same time, Eri said that this time I feel the G foring from above, and because of the radical ge, Eri may have bit her tongue as she cover her mouth with teary eyes while trembling.

  The room tio ge its dire several more times, but it suddenly stops after approximately 40 seds of ign the w of iia, but thanks to fixing my location by driving my sword into the ground, I was able to ehe impact of a sudden stop, then I say "Finally stopped... Eri, are you okay?", she nods a little shaken and says "...Un, no major problem".

  I pull out the sword and start to look around, but there is no ge at all, 'sidering the movement, the door we entered from should ect to a different pow...', and so we quickly move toward the door, and Eri asks "Well then, what shall we do? Is Miledi waiting oher side?", I nod and say "There is that possibility. Miledi's soul is the one in trol of the whole Labyrinth...".

  Then looking at the door I think 'Oher side of the door, will it be Miledi's dwelling, with the boss golem Miledi-, or just arap... Well whatever it is, I'll overe it!', and open the door with a fident smile on my face.

  But then the smile on my face freezes when I open the door ahe other side, ahead of the opened door there is another familiar room, and there is a lithograph and passage on the left side of the room.

  Seeing that, I remain stu silence for a few seds, and Eri who looks over from behind me says a little uainly "It looks like... the first roht?"

  Certainly, just as Eri said there is the lithograph with the same sentences carved, just like the first room, but there is a difference from that room, the proof is, after a few seds from the door opening, the characters float up from the inal room's floor and makes up new sentences, "Nee, right now, how do you feel? Even though you had advanced after many hardships, only to arrive at the starting point, how do you feel?", "Nee, nee, how do you feel? What kind of feeling do you have? Nee, nee"

  My eyebrow twitches a little while I regret my past decision 'Why did I skim over the Labyrinth passage of the novel? I should have read it over carefully, I could have avoided this if I remembered the story as well as Saint Seiya...', then, additional characters start to appear, "Ah, there is something I fot to say, this dungeon will be altered at regur intervals", "As usual, it was Miledi-'s thoughtfulo make you enjoy the dungeon with a fresh feeling.", "Are you happy? You are happy, right? There is o reward me! I only do it because I like it after all!", "By the way, because it always ges, mapping it was useless", "Don't tell me, did you make it? With so much hardship? But, sorry! Pugyaa—".

  Reading that Eri start to ugh a says "Hahaha... She is a troll... I hope she left behind a book with all her traps... I could use some of them on some particur people, with my own spin for sure...", then I let out a sigh, and start to once again move toward the passage expeg totally different traps to appears, and a totally new yout.

  And indeed, after getting through the first passage, it is just as Miledi said, the stairs are greatly altered along with the differing position of the corridor ahead.

  And so we once again try to quer the Labyrinth, this time the trap we triggered were more of the annoying type thahal ones, gold basin, bird lime, shots of liquids with a strange smell, etc., while going through these traps, I 't help but let out a sigh and say "Ahh... This is going to take awhile...".

  Jayr POV - Reise Labyrinth - 2013

  Ihe Athena's Bidoof's in my S.T., I'm ying on the bed with Eri embrag one of my arms and sleeping using my shoulder as a substitute for a pillow, at the same time, I think about everything we have gohrough in this Labyrinth, 'Today marks one week since we ehis Labyrinth... We met a lot of traps and tauntiehat tried to exhaust our bodies and minds... We had beeuro the starting point seven times, attacked by lethal traps 69 times, and other meaniraps over 169 times!'

  I gently stroke Eri's hair while tinuing my musings, 'But it wasn't meaningless, we uood the pattern of the structure alteration, using the "mark" and were able to firm where these blocks were repositioned...', looking at her I notice the slight smile on her face, at the same time, she muttered in her sleep "Munya... Au... Jayr, how bold~, to do it inside~, … Mark me so that everyone will be able to see it~, ... Knock me up~".

  Looking at the faux sky outside, I notice that Is m, so I gently shake Eri to wake her up, she lets out a lovely yawn while slowly opening her eyes, then, with a bnk expression she looks upward and firms that I'm here, she kisses me on my cheek and greets me "Good m, Jayr...", then as she gets up, I peck her on her lips and go to prepare the breakfast.

  After breakfast, we get out of the S.T., ready to once again face the Labyrinth, while hoping that this time, we won't be returo the starting point, and so we resume our Labyrinth quest, fag once again a lot of unpleasant traps aences.

  Then, we reach the room that we had only visited once before and were never able to reach this whole week, it is the room with golem knights, however, this time the sealed door is already open, and ihere isn't a room but a passage, seeing this, I say "This is it… It'll be troublesome if they encircle us again, climb on my back! We will rush to the open door at once!".

  A, we rush into the golem knights' room, and as roach the ter of the room, as expected, the sound of golem knights rushing out from the recesses on both sides of the walls resounds, but we mostly ighem and only deal with those that get close enough to be a problem, of course, Eri's puppets are the ones doing most of the job in deying and obstrug the golems.

  In the end, even if the golem knights rushes after us, they were uo catch up to us as we have already escaped past the door, but soon I notice that the golem also pass through the door, chasing after us and also they, as if ign gravity, are running on the walls and ceiling, giving off sounds of moving heavy armor, and realize 'Miledi is using her A Magic...'.

  Then without turning my head, I feel one of the golem knights that is running on the ceiling, jump, and like a onball, it, advances with tremendous momentum toward us, but I simply wait for the right moment, and once I feel it is close enough, I turn around and swinging my Tactical Arms Sword Form, It hit it with the ft side of the bde and blow it back toward the olems.

  And so we tio run as molem knights tio "fall" toward us, some of them approach while spinning their rge swords as if they were pinwheels but I'm able to easily dodge most of them, while the others are taken care by Eri and her puppets and so we advahout stopping.

  But, after a while, I feel a different presence from the knights behind us, I feel anroup of golems approa front of us, these knights are approag with shields raised and moving galntly as if they have bee a wall, the golem knights created a two-row formation, where the knight in the back supported the defending knight in front.

  But just as I'm about to make my move, I hear Eri says "Jayr, leave it to me... I have the right puppet for this occasion", and from her ring she summons a big seven-headed skeleton Hydra, who quickly moves toward the ptoon of golem knights and wreck through them thanks to its sheer size and power, destroying them to the point that they didn't even resemble their inal forms.

  Then Eri retrieved the puppet with a sigh and I jump over the wreckage and tio run through the passage for the five minutes.

  Finally, we see the end of the passage, in front of us is a huge and broad room, but the road itself is broken, and the only thing I see is a square scaffold 10 meters ahead.

  And so without aation, I jump to reach the square in front of me, but as expected by this Labyrinth, something happened before we could reach it, somehow, the square blo front of us starts drawing a parabolic ard begin to move.

  But this is something I already expected, and so I simply use the good old bo of rope and Tactical Arms t me on out of the square block, at the same time, I look bad see the golem knights e in flying approag us, and using the Tactical Arms Gatling Form, I quickly mow them down, then I hear Eri excims "Everything is floating...".

  And looking around, I notice that it is just as Eri said, everything in our viity is floating, the pce we have entered is a gigantic spherical room, the diameter itself is more than two kilometers.

  Ihe room, blocks of all kinds of shapes and sizes are floating and moving irregurly, 'It is a space that pletely ignravity... However, for some reasoill feel gravity... For sure it is Gravity Magic at its fi... Enough to be a treat, but not enough to instantly kill a challenger... Miledi Reisen sure thought it well!'.

  Odyin