Chapter 511
[A bug? In the Labyrinth?]
“Strictly speaking, this isn’t a Labyrinth.”
If it were Solo Mode, bugs wouldn’t exist. The Magician and Balbamaba manage it directly. They’d fix any bugs they found.
But this place wasn’t like that. There was something like a manager here, but no one to fix bugs.
“Whether it’s because there’s a limit to imitation… there are quite a few minor bugs.”
Taesan said leisurely.
The bugs he’d discovered while clearing Easy Mode weren’t just one or two. Including the insignificant ones, they easily numbered in the dozens.
The bug on the 98th floor was one of them.
[What kind of bug lets you get Multiplication?]
“See for yourself. It’s no fun if I explain it beforehand.”
Taesan stepped into the void.
His body began to fall rapidly. Spores were fired, and Taesan swung his sword.
He eliminated the spores, landed on the ground, and climbed the cliff again.
He repeated that series of actions.
After repeating it for a while, Taesan’s mana was running low.
“My stats are too terrible.”
He had suffered a lot on Earth because of his chronic stat problems. But it wasn’t a big problem here.
Taesan went up the floor.
[You are in top condition.]
He drank from the Fountain of Life and descended the Labyrinth again. He began to fall again in top condition.
Clang!
He swung his sword, stabbed a spore, and landed on the ground. He didn’t eliminate the cannon. The spores fired by that cannon were part of the acquisition condition.
He used Great Leap to climb the cliff again.
And fell.
He repeated it, and repeated it. He didn’t need sleep. The Fountain of Life solved all physical and mental fatigue.
A week, two weeks passed like that.
Crack!
He cut, stabbed, and kicked spores. He used Acceleration to land on the ground.
The process was perfect, without anything to add or subtract.
At least from Bardray’s point of view, there wasn’t a single flaw to be found. It felt like watching a perfect work of art.
But Taesan had a dissatisfied look on his face.
“Still not enough.”
Sharper, cleaner. Taesan climbed the cliff again and fell.
A month passed like that.
[Uh…….]
Bardray was surprised. He had seen Taesan repeat and work hard to acquire Skills, but this was the first time he had invested this much time just in preparation.
Clang!
He imprinted the series of falling motions on his body like a machine. He repeated it to the point where his body moved automatically without thinking. Even so, Taesan still looked unsatisfied.
“Still a little short.”
[……Even in this state, you say it’s not enough?]
“I have to surpass perfection.”
Body and mind. He had to go beyond harmonizing the two and become one. To do that, he needed to invest more than a month.
“Still, I’ve met the baseline with this much.”
Taesan climbed back up the cliff.
He looked down at the ground from there.
His eyes were more sunken than ever.
This is the real deal from here. Taesan stepped forward.
[You have activated Landing.]
[You have activated Super Acceleration.]
[You have activated Body Time Acceleration.]
His body accelerated. Very quickly.
Becoming a flash of light, he began to fall towards the ground.
[Huh?]
Thud!
The cannon fired belatedly. Spores rushed towards Taesan. Taesan used Acceleration to strike down with his sword.
Crack.
[Dealt 124 damage to Spore.]
The spore was split in half.
The other spores couldn’t even approach Taesan. Taesan landed on the ground in an instant.
[……What. You could produce that much speed with those stats?]
Bardray was surprised. Taesan was very fast just now. Even he in his prime wouldn’t have been able to react easily.
It wasn’t a speed that could come from stats of only around a hundred.
“I survived to the end with these stats, you know.”
Taesan said calmly. In the first place, he couldn’t have won against an S-class monster if he wasn’t at this level. Bardray clicked his tongue.
[I knew you were crazy, but this is even more amazing.]
The more he saw, the more impressed he was.
A speed that couldn’t come out in Easy Mode, an extreme speed that even players in Solo Mode would have difficulty reacting to.
This was the top speed he had created.
‘But.’
This isn’t enough.
Faster, more accurately.
Taesan went up again and fell.
[You have activated Landing.]
[You have activated Super Acceleration.]
He fell again.
This time was different from before. He swung his sword even before the cannon fired. The cannon fired, and the spore couldn’t react to the swinging sword and was cut in half.
And he kicked the spore with his foot, accelerating even more. Taesan landed on the ground.
The process of dealing with the spores became cleaner. The speed was very slightly faster than just before, but definitely faster.
“Again.”
He went up, activated the Skills again, and fell.
Landing and Super Acceleration weren’t Skills that consumed a lot of mana, but the mana he had now was only about 50. His mana was emptied with just a few attempts. Taesan used a Potion of Mana to recover and repeated it again.
Crack.
His mind and body gradually began to adapt to the speed.
With those numerous repetitions, Bardray could now predict it as well.
[Multiplication’s conditions are similar to Addition’s.]
“You noticed.”
[If you’ve come this far, it’s strange not to notice.]
[I still don’t understand…….]
[Akasha. You’re not an adventurer in the first place, are you?]
From the perspective of Bardray, who was an adventurer, it was clear. Taesan was now focusing on making the speed faster and increasing accuracy. It was clearly an action to increase damage even further.
“Addition will double the damage without relying on any Skills other than persistence.”
[Multiplication is okay to use Skills, but it will square the damage.]
“Not all Skills. You can’t use Skills directly related to damage.”
If that were the case, he could have obtained it much more easily by using Addition or other Skills. But he couldn’t do it that way.
Bardray shook his head.
[It’s still confusing. Really.]
To have to draw out damage equal to the square of the attack power with pure speed and repetition.
[I see why it was impossible in your original world.]
The higher the attack power, the closer the condition itself becomes to impossible to fulfill. Taesan had an attack power of thirty thousand. Drawing out that square without attack power increasing Skills was impossible even for Taesan.
So he moved to the Easy Mode timeline with low attack power to acquire it.
He finally figured out the reason, but there were still questionable points.
[I don’t think you can fulfill those conditions here either.]
“I told you. It’s a bug.”
Taesan put strength into the hand holding the sword.
He was slowly getting used to the accelerated body. Then it was time for an infinite challenge.
“Shall we go?”
Taesan took out dozens of potions from his pocket.
[You have used a Potion of Speed Acceleration.]
[You have used a Potion of Void Leap.]
[You have activated Fairy Dust.]
[You have used a Potion of Mental Focus.]
He used numerous potions and items. The state of his body and mind was further enhanced.
Tap.
His body flew into the void.
He activated the Skill in a falling state.
[You have activated Landing.]
[You have activated Super Acceleration.]
The speed was clearly faster than ever before.
It was a speed that Bardray missed for a moment.
But this isn’t possible with this much.
A little more was needed for the bug to activate. And the things that could fulfill that condition began to operate.
Thud!
The cannons fired. Spores flew towards Taesan.
Taesan took a small breath and twisted his body.
He grabbed his sword and split one of the spores in half.
[Dealt 153 damage to Spore.]
And he kicked another spore to accelerate even more. His body reached a speed that it couldn’t reach momentarily.
The moment Taesan was about to reach the ground, the space around Taesan distorted.
[Huh?]
Squeak.
The noise of iron crumpling rang out. The distorted space grabbed Taesan as if judging an impurity.
The Labyrinth’s system began to twist.
“Got it.”
Taesan raised the corners of his lips.
Thud!
Beyond the distorted space, something looked at Taesan.
There was no emotion in that gaze. It felt nothing like a machine performing a given role.
Clang!
Taesan’s body began to distort and twist. That series of actions seemed like a screening test to determine whether what Taesan had done was appropriate or not.
……Click.
The sound of closing rang out. It judged and reviewed each and every one of Taesan’s actions.
……Click.
Click.
And the answer came out.
At the same time as the gaze disappeared, the distorted space disappeared.
And Taesan’s body moved.
It wasn’t the ground.
It moved to the location where he started falling.
Whoosh!
His body fell again as it was accelerated. Bardray was horrified.
[Wait. What?]
Taesan swung his sword again as he fell. The spore split.
[Dealt 167 damage to Spore.]
He arrived on the ground at a faster speed than before. And the moment he was about to land, the space distorted and twisted again.
Taesan moved back to when he started falling, when he just jumped off the cliff.
That body was still in an accelerated state. He fell towards the ground at an even faster speed.
“It’s a kind of infinite loop.”
[What the hell is going on…….]
“The Magician didn’t make Easy Mode.”
This place was a distorted space twisted and created by an Outer God.
“That’s why there are various bugs.”
Whether it was because things that didn’t exist in this world interfered with the laws, or whether something went wrong in the process of simply copying it, there were some bugs here.
It wasn’t just Taesan who knew. Anyone who remained in Easy Mode knew.
That there was a space that stretched infinitely in the cracks of the Labyrinth.
That you could break through the wall by rubbing your body against the wall on a specific floor.
That if you fetched water from the Fountain of Life on another floor, the effect of the fountain would be reversed.
There were many bugs. Some of them were helpful to them, such as item duplication.
But they had never used it in practice.
Because whenever a bug was activated, something distorted always appeared.
It’s not clear whether it’s the being that created the Labyrinth or part of the system. One thing that can be known is that it intervenes to prevent the use of bugs.
“And according to that guy’s judgment, producing a certain speed or higher in this place is also judged as a bug.”
If you produce a certain speed or higher that you can never produce in Easy Mode, the Labyrinth’s system detects an abnormality. And it returns that body to the position before it accelerated.
The funny thing is that the acceleration itself remains the same.
I don’t know what that is. Why it doesn’t fix the bug itself and only blocks access, why it loops back to before accelerating instead of resetting the speed. It was not a concept that he in Easy Mode could understand.
But the moment Taesan noticed that being, he immediately thought.
Could he use that twisted being to acquire Skills?
After numerous challenges, efforts, and attempts, Taesan realized that he could use the 98th floor.
At the end of that, he obtained Multiplication.
His body became even faster. He split the spore.
[Dealt 189 damage to Spore.]
One of the characteristics of Landing.
The longer the activation time, the more it accelerates.
And there was no limit to that acceleration.
One of the laws of this place. The faster the speed, the higher the damage.
Taesan focused his mind.