Seoul Object Story
Chapter 214: The Labyrinth (8)

Standing on the cloud whale and looking up at the sky, I could see the warm sunlight and clear blue sky blessing me. The weather was lovely, as if it was celebrating the fantasy adventure I would have in the future ahead of time.

Then I raised my hand and held the armor in the sunlight, and the luxurious black armour shone beautifully in the sunlight. It was like the gauntlet of the black knight, so cool!

The armor covered my skin like clothes, so it felt very stuffy, but I was willing to endure it for the romance of fantasy. In addition, this armor had a function that was different from other clothes.

Give me a massage.

When I conveyed such a will to the armor, it began to squirm as if it was giving me a massage while shouting ‘Massage!’.

I enjoyed the massage from the Black Reaper and the warm sunlight.

In the sunlight that conveyed pleasant and comfortable heat, I spent some time lying on the fluffy Cloud Whale. And before I knew it, the Cloud Whale began to circle around a place as if it was telling me that we had arrived at the destination.

When I got up and looked down, I saw the ‘Red Lightning Island’ that I had chosen as my destination. The entire island was surrounded by clouds and I couldn’t see the surface at all, but my heart was still pounding when I thought about the fantasy world inside.

In the clouds surrounding the island, ominous red lightning occasionally flashed, but it didn’t look very threatening. So, with a joyful feeling, I jumped down toward the island.

I fell through the red lightning that was trying to burn up anyone who tried to invade the island, and arrived at a hill covered with green grass. Then, I moved my head around to see the surroundings of the hill that stood tall above the plain.

A wide meadow with trees growing here and there.

A lush forest in the distance.

And a huge fantasy city that filled one side of my field of vision.

Since there were no tall buildings, I could see the fantasy city easily from the hill.

This is fantasy!

I looked down at the city, threw both of my hands in the air like the Mini Reaper, and cheered.

Even from afar, it felt very fantasy-like.

I checked to see if there was anything strange by comparing the outfits that the Black Reapers had transformed into with the outfits of the people wandering around the city.

But not, It’s perfect.

The armor that the Black Reapers had transformed into was not much different from the armor that the people wandering around the city wore.

That’s fortunate.

With this much, I should be able to wander around as an adventurer without feeling awkward.

While I was excited about entering the fantasy world, I realized that there was a serious problem.

Skin color!

Unfortunately, no matter how much I looked around the city, I couldn’t find anyone with the same colour of hair and skin. Even the ‘Skin Color Change’ I got from destroying the Yellow Moon wasn’t very useful in this situation.

If I changed my skin color to a human’s skin colour, my hair color would also become the same color…

Moreover, my eyes were emitting an intense yellow light!

No! My fantasy life!

I had come this far, and now I wouldn’t be able to enjoy fantasy life!

I wanted to be an adventurer, not a monster.

I already played monsters often while wandering around as Objects.

It was really a hopeless situation.

I was so devastated that I knelt down on the hill and grabbed my head.

While I was thinking like that, a simple solution suddenly came to mind.

If skin color was the problem, then, I just had to make sure no one could see my skin!

All I had to do was put on a large helmet and walk around as a Gray Reaper in perfect full armor.

AS EXPECTED! I’M SMART!

Hihihihihi!

Even though it would make the stuffy level become 10 times worse,  I decided to endure it for the sake of my fantasy life.

After making the helmet and putting it on, I started filling in the other missing parts. I wore a pair of sharp swords on my waist, a stylish black cloak behind my back, And finally, I summoned the flower of a knight, a warhorse.

I felt a little bad about riding the Black Reaper, so I summoned the butler Hungry Ghost, who could shape its own body shape like making muscles and clothes. In fact, I thought I might not be able to summon it because the teleportation was blocked, but to my surprise, I was able to summon it just by overcoming a little resistance.

A neck that stretched out like a horse.

Legs that supported its torso firmly.

Saddles and equipment that were properly made according to my instructions.

The summoned butler Hungry Ghost followed my instructions properly.

However, I wasn’t very satisfied with the result.

No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t look like a horse.

No matter how I looked at it, wasn’t it closer to an alpaca than a horse?

In order to change the alpaca Hungry Ghost into a horse, I started tying it tightly with the thread made of Black Reaper.

‘If I tie it with thread and make it look like it has muscles, won’t that alpaca Hungry Ghost look a bit like a horse?’ It started with a simple thought.

After wrapping the alpaca around so tightly that it couldn’t move properly, I patted it to convey my intention.

Hey, cry like a horse.

Then the alpaca cried with a sad expression.

“Kyuhihihi.”

But it still didn’t look like a horse.

And now it wasn’t even an alpaca anymore, it had turned into a sausage tied with string.

Well, fantasy protagonists didn’t usually ride horses, so I guess i didn’t need it!

With those thoughts, I chased the useless alpaca to the Garden of the Mini Reaper.

Then, I started walking toward the fantasy city, wearing a cool armor and cape that didn’t feel out of place in the fantasy world at all.

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I walked around the fantasy city with my usual gait.

Inside the city, there were more people than I thought. In particular, there were more guards patrolling than I thought, and no matter where I went, there was always a guard in the corner of my vision. Of course, with so many people carrying weapons, it was natural to have so many guards around.

However, I realized two difficult points in exploring the fantasy world.

The first point was that the people here spoke Japanese.

The second was that I didn’t have gold coins, which were used as currency here.

What should I do?

There were many street vendors selling really delicious-looking food in the city, but I didn’t have any money, so I just looked around. It looked so delicious that I wanted to sneak a bite of it in Phantom Form, but that ability wasn’t  fantasy-like at all, so I held back.

Just as I was about to give up and head to the huge ruins in the center of the city, a street vendor handed me a chicken skewer while saying something I couldn’t understand.

“P-Please have this.”

It was in Japanese, so I couldn’t understand what the vendor said, but it must mean that I was getting free chicken skewers, right?

So, I smiled and accepted the chicken skewers. Then,  I happily tried to eat the chicken skewers, but I ran into a big problem.

I couldn’t eat them because of the helmet!

If I took the helmet off, my skin color would be revealed, what should I do?

I held the chicken skewers in my hands and thought about it for a long time, then gave an order to the Black Reaper.

Make it possible to eat the chicken skewers without anyone being able to see inside the helmet! Let’s eat together.

Then the surface of the helmet wiggled, and the Black Reaper’s small hands shot out and sucked the chicken skewers into the inside of the helmet.

In that way, I quickly devoured the delicious chicken skewers and arrived in front of the huge ruins in the center of the city.

This ruin seemed to be the core of the ‘ Red Lightning Island’.

There was a large stone monument in front of the ruins, and fortunately, there was a line of Korean written on it.

If you make it through the labyrinth to the end, your wish will come true.

Oh, that ruin is a labyrinth, huh?

So is this city a labyrinth city?

I looked up at the labyrinth, which was literally proof of fantasy, and laughed.

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Perhaps because the labyrinth was in the center of the city, the entrances of the city on the outskirts were always deserted.

One of the guards who was spending time in front of that entrance suddenly discovered an armor entering the labyrinth city.

Plop-! Plop-!

The sound of metal armor hitting the ground resonated in a precise interval, and a very suspicious-looking armor was walking into the labyrinth city.

A cloak that had not a single speck of dust on it, even though the user came from outside the city.

An armor with a complex structure that seemed difficult to wear alone.

There were more than one or two suspicious points about the individual, but the most suspicious thing was the size.

The individual was shorter than an average elementary school student, barely reaching the waist of an adult male. It was as tall as a preschooler, and yet it was wearing such heavy-looking armor.

It was truly an individual that radiated suspiciousness from its entire body.

The guard grabbed the spear tightly and slowly approached the armor, but he couldn’t bring himself to grab the armour.

The size isn’t the problem.

The moment he approached, he felt a unique presence of an Object.

An ominous yellow light occasionally shone from inside the helmet.

The moment he saw that light, the guard realized.

A powerful Object that ordinary people can’t do anything about!

The guard would probably be killed the instant he charged.

In the end, the guard called his comrades and left a message for the adventurers wandering the labyrinth to help.

Even the act of evacuating people could provoke the Object, so there was nothing he could do.

The guards were prepared to risk their lives and were secretly following the Object.

The Object had not shown any aggression toward people so far, but if it did, they were prepared to risk their lives to buy time for the adventurers to arrive.

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Why on earth is this happening to me!

The popular chicken skewer vendor in the labyrinth city was desperately smiling and looking at the armor Object in front of him.

Whenever the yellow light appeared from inside the helmet, the merchant trembled in fear.

However, the Object just stared blankly at the chicken skewer.

“P-Please have this.”

The merchant gave in to the Object, who was looking at him as if asking for a chicken skewer, and handed him one.

The Object that received the chicken skewer stared blankly at the chicken skewer, and without taking off its helmet, brought the chicken skewer over to its helmet. Then, countless hands stretched out from the mouth of the helmet like the feet of a civet, and began to tear the chicken skewer to pieces and drag it into the helmet.

Eww!

The shop owner almost screamed at the sight that reminded him of a disgusting scene of insect eating, but barely held it back by covering his mouth with both hands.

You shouldn’t scream. Don’t scream.

The shop owner felt like he was going to faint, but he gritted his teeth and held on.

And as the Object slowly moved toward the labyrinth, he let out a sigh and collapsed on the floor.

He barely survived.

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2nd floor of the Labyrinth.

Unlike the 1st floor, it was a space with cold air and a snowy landscape.

What was clearly different from the ordinary landscape was that the snow was falling from the ground to the sky, while the trees covered in snow were upside down.

The upside-down trees were floating in the air with their roots exposed, and snow was growing from the ground and rising into the sky.

“It’s really cold.”

The girl curled up and muttered in a faint voice.

She was talking nonsense as if she didn’t know what she was saying.

After passing the labyrinth 1st floor and arriving at the 2nd floor, the girl’s condition wasn’t very good.

There were many possible causes.

Lack of food.

The temperature suddenly became cold.

Clothing that was not prepared for the cold.

Tension due to the dangerous and unfamiliar environment of the labyrinth.

The girl felt feverish and dizzy as if she had a cold, and was unable to walk properly, so she just lay curled up on the ground.

The girl had difficulty opening her eyes, so she kept them tightly shut and trembled slightly.

Biii-!

The Black Reaper returned to its original form and patted the girl’s cheek with a worried expression.

Mom.

Then, the Black Reaper poured out its will in order to resolve the situation, but its will did not reach his mother.

Mom!

Still, the Black Reaper kept pouring out its will and called out to its mother desperately.

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