Jobless Reincarnation: The King with a Mental Problem

[The next morning]

[Before entering the maze]

[Luo Qixi's Perspective]

what......

Ha ha......

Why...?

How could I, this witch, have forgotten something like this?

I used to think that once he grew up, he wouldn't do such childish things anymore...

After getting up very early this morning, I arrived at the entrance of the maze with Xiao Fu.

This witch was just trying to bolster her spirits, but before she could even muster that courage, Little Fu suddenly, right in front of everyone at the entrance, touched the ground with both hands, and squatted down...

He even closed his eyes and remained motionless for a long time...

This witch didn't even have time to react at first, and by the time she came to her senses, it was too late.

After all, he's a bit taller than me now, so I can't just pick him up and run like I used to do in Buena village.

"Tsk... What a hassle..."

Every now and then, they'd say something strange, making everyone around us stare...

"Who is this?"

"I don't know, are you new here?"

"What are you doing?"

"Perhaps it's some kind of ceremony?"

"Come on, it's just a kid trying to get attention."

"That makes sense..."

I really want to pretend I don't know him...

But this witch is very gentle, it would be too pitiful to leave him alone...

So this witch stood next to him, blocking most of his gaze while pretending we weren't doing anything strange...

Even if it's embarrassing, it's not so embarrassing as long as someone is there for you.

Ugh......

Little Franz is really something...

How can someone be so shameless?

This witch simply cannot do that...

Let's think about something else for a bit and distract ourselves.

Um......

Where did the "eating less" and "no worries" go?

Last night, Little F had a lot of complaints about the little mice that I, the witch, bought.

This witch knows he hates rats, saying they're unlucky...

So this witch explained to him for a long time...

It's said that miners often keep small mice as a symbol of safety.

He stroked his chin, deep in thought, and finally named the two little ones...

One is called eating less, the other is called having no worries.

I thought he had finally accepted it, but when I woke up this morning, the mouse was gone...

Little Fu also said they eloped. I wish them happiness.

They also need to have lots and lots of little mice...

So they changed the death penalty to exile...

And how can two female mice give birth?

Time passed, so long that this witch had gotten used to it, before Little F finally stood up...

"Tch... So it still doesn't work..."

I almost stepped on it!

But this gentle witch doesn't!!!

They simply grabbed his wrist and pulled him towards the entrance.

Let's at least get to a secluded spot first...

If we keep being watched, everyone who enters the maze today will remember us...

[After a short period of time]

The first floor is indeed very safe.

There were only a few adventurers scattered throughout the wide passageway, and no trace of monsters.

The rock walls are covered with lichens that emit a faint glow, casting a pale blue hue over the entire passage.

In short, everyone went about their own business, and we finally had some time to be alone.

"What were you doing just now?"

"Hmm... Just now, I wanted to use magic to cover the entire labyrinth directly, and then activate the Earth Control Spell."

I almost choked on the air!

"You want to pull out the entire maze?"

But as soon as I said it, I felt it wasn't impossible...

"How is that possible...?"

really......

This is outrageous...

After Xiao Fu finished speaking, he even gave me a strange look, as if I, the witch, was the one talking nonsense...

"The maze is too big and too complicated, like an anthill. If we pull it out directly, we'll have to evacuate the entire city, and it might even collapse..."

That's too much trouble, and it's dangerous..."

That doesn't seem right.

Is this the difficult part?

"You? You can really pull this out?"

"It's not working. I just tried it briefly, and there's something blocking my magic from penetrating. If it weren't for that, I should be able to do it."

After all, even... who was it again...?

I can't remember the name...

Anyway, he's Chishilica's adoptive father.

If he can build craters using earth magic, there's no reason why I can't."

It seems that's really true...

Just recently, Little Fu built a super-long mass accelerator outside the crater in Ricaris...

The difference in magical power is just too great...

Is he really human?

"Just now, I wanted to use magic to envelop the entire underground of Lapong and then penetrate it, so that I could at least find out the structure of the labyrinth."

But this place is more like an anthill than a maze. It's full of messy holes, and something's interfering with the magic, so it failed..."

"That's how mazes are supposed to be."

"Shouldn't it have lots of strange and unusual mechanisms?"

Well, it seems that Little F doesn't know much about mazes.

Let this witch give you a short lesson.

"The labyrinth beneath this labyrinthine city was originally an anthill."

"What's this about the maze transfer?"

"Don't interrupt this witch's lecture!"

"Yes, Ms. Luo Qixi!"

"This labyrinthine city was originally just a small oasis."

Later, King Bodhi II defeated a colossal Behemoth in the desert.

After Behemoth died, its body was devoured by ant-like monsters, who dug out countless nests.

Meanwhile, Behemoth contained a large number of magic stones, so adventurers and merchants all gathered there.

Those nests later became a labyrinth.

The white skeleton surrounding the city is Behemoth's ribs.

"Oh~ I remember now! It was mentioned in the Legend of the Northern Heroes, but I couldn't remember the place name, so I forgot about it. I only remembered it now."

"You still read those kinds of books?"

"Just bored... But what's with this teleportation maze? Shouldn't the traps in the teleportation magic circle be man-made? Can they just generate naturally?"

"How could that be? Of course it's man-made."

"But the anthill we're walking on now doesn't show any signs of human intervention at all."

"Huh? You don't even know this?"

"I don't know everything. Useless knowledge goes in one ear and out the other. There's no room in my brain for such useless things."

"Isn't this useful now?"

"Isn't Ms. Luo Qixi here?"

Thinking about it carefully, it really is true.

Little Fu clearly knows the more difficult Demon God language, but after arriving here yesterday, I realized he can't even speak the Battle God language.

Moreover, he doesn't know much about the continent and labyrinth of Bekari.

Let this witch give him a good lesson.

"In that case, please listen to this witch's explanation slowly."

"Yes, Ms. Luo Qixi!"

"The continent of Becallit has many areas where magic gathers, so there are many monsters, and therefore many dungeons."

"Was it a cave dug out by monsters living underground?"

"That's right, Little Fu gets a point!"

As mentioned earlier, the caves dug by the monsters are called natural labyrinths.

Another type of maze is the man-made maze.

These are mostly places where powerful figures secretly lived in ancient times, and there are many man-made traces in them.

The teleportation maze is a man-made maze. It was originally well hidden, but it was discovered by monsters digging into its cave. People only found it when exploring natural mazes.

"I see, it was just a coincidence."

"That's right, the discovery of the shifting maze was just a coincidence."

It is said that the transfer maze has seven levels, each of which is independent and connected only by transfer magic circles.

In the first few levels, you'll find yourself mixed up with the monsters from the natural maze.

That being said, the further down you go, the more dangerous it becomes, and the more complex the mechanisms become.

After all, the person who built this maze certainly didn't want their secret to be discovered.

"Hmm, I suppose so."

After saying that, the witch stopped, turned around, and smiled at Little F.

"We're now moving from the natural maze to the transfer maze, so make sure you stick close to your teacher!"

"Yes, Teacher Luo Qixi!"

We hadn't even finished speaking...

Because I turned around without looking where I was going, my left foot tripped over a protruding stone brick on the ground, and my body lurched backward, causing the world to tilt in my vision—

I almost tripped and fell...

Falling down is one thing...

It just so happens to be at this time...

And then, of all times, Little F's hand grabbed me...

After spouting so much nonsense from a professional adventurer, I almost tripped and fell in front of Little F at the last second...

he......

He chuckled?

Are you making fun of me?

It's over...

How embarrassing...

My face is so hot...

Time...

Let it flow backwards!

"Speaking of which...aren't we tomb raiders?"

"Huh?"

Did you actively change the subject?

Little Fu... he's so gentle...

"That makes sense... but could you please not put it so harshly?"

The people who built the ruins are long gone, and the artifacts are just lying buried anyway, so we might as well dig them up and make a new contribution.

"Hmm...that's true..." Little Fu said, feigning deep thought. "Then I, the current king, am the Mountain Moving Taoist!"

So it turns out they were just giving tomb raiders a new name...

Then we continued walking forward.

This witch tried her best to get back into the guide's rhythm, and pondered how to safely lead him down from the first level to the second level.

But just as I was beginning to form a mental map of my plan, Little F suddenly stopped.

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

When I turned around, I saw him raise his hand and press it against a wall next to him.

Then the seemingly solid wall rapidly turned to sand around the center of his palm, flowing down like an earthen wall that had been blown by the wind for hundreds of years.

In just a few seconds, a hole about half a person's height appeared in front of us.

Such a wide-ranging earth manipulation technique...

Only he and Rudy could have done that, right?

"Are you trying to take a shortcut?"

"Hmm, I already have an idea."

"But it's easy to get lost in a maze where you can wander around everywhere."

"It's okay, if you get lost, just keep digging upwards, you'll eventually find your way out."

"There's desert sand above us, a landslide is possible..."

"Hmm...it seems that's really the case...I'll remember that."

While saying this, Xiao Fu never stopped using his earth manipulation technique.

They dug a new tunnel out of thin air...

"What exactly is your line of thinking?"

"Let me indulge myself a little; you'll see soon enough."

Not long after, he encountered something different in the cave he had just dug...

He pointed to the cave wall, where the exposed rocks were clearly different from the sand and soil they had just been exposed to.

It is a man-made brick wall with a matte, dark gray surface.

These are the walls of the man-made maze...

Once you pass through this wall, you've officially entered the teleportation maze...

"As expected... it's anti-magic bricks... and even more effective than the anti-magic bricks at the Magic University. These are the things that blocked my magic penetration."

"Of course, Sharia's anti-magic bricks were reverse engineered from the relics."

Moreover, much of the magical knowledge we have now is obtained through maze archaeology, so it's still quite troublesome to take a shortcut to destroy the anti-magic bricks using earth manipulation.

After all, how could someone capable of building a massive underground labyrinth not have considered this?

result......

No sooner had I finished speaking than Little F continued to pour magic into the brick wall.

Then......

Anti-magic bricks are like cheap stuff...

It turned into sand...

"This is so troublesome," he said.

trouble?

Is this considered troublesome?

Before I could even speak, he took half a step back and touched the hilt of his sword with his right hand.

A flash of sword light.

The entire wall was like sliced ​​butter, cleanly and neatly marked with several sword marks.

Then Little Ferguson kicked it, and the entire wall collapsed...

Compared to this...

Magic is indeed in a bit of a problem...

"Let's go."

Watching his retreating figure step over the broken wall, this witch felt inexplicably a little lost...

"So, are you going to scout ahead or am I going to scout ahead...?"

But once inside, Little Fu stopped moving forward...

"What's wrong?"

"Let's start digging down from here! A few dozen meters down, and we'll probably reach the second level."

"Huh?"

As soon as Little Fu finished speaking, he started digging another hole...

"When I was at the entrance, I actually thought of other ways."

For example, it's like mimicking a bat, using sound to indicate the location of underground cavities.

Explosions are too dangerous, and I can't distinguish what the sounds and electromagnetic waves reflected back are.

After all, this is the first time I've done this, and I'm not a professional.

But after hearing the witch's explanation, a new method emerged.

"I understand! So you want to use magic to find the magic-resistant brick?"

"That's right!"

"Since the materials of the natural maze are soil and rocks, ant nests."

The artificial maze uses anti-magic bricks and has these well-organized rooms.

Although the first few levels are somewhat complex, with the natural maze enclosing the man-made maze, the two types of mazes react differently to magic.

By injecting magic into the earth's crust, and depending on the degree of control, the location of the man-made maze can be roughly deduced.

Once you can confirm that there are traces of man-made remains under your feet, you can start digging!

"I am a Taoist priest! How could I possibly take the righteous path?"

this......

That's so unromantic!