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Chapter 69. Balrog Expedition (12)
34.
A secret passage has been discovered!
When they heard that story, everyone cheered.
“What a chance!”
Since the rescue situation is still uncertain, we might be able to rescue everyone by using the secret passage.
Furthermore, even if rescue was impossible, it was an opportunity to attack the Demon King Balrog once again in the future.
“We will send a rescue team immediately!”
Naturally, we immediately set about gathering a rescue team.
Up to this point, it was a natural progression.
“I’ll go too.”
“yes?”
But the moment he heard that Helena was included in the rescue team, things changed.
How can she be included when she’s already busy?
“Is it necessary for you to come all the way to Helena?”
“This is serious.”
“yes?”
Still, she was included because of the existence of the secret passage.
“That is the place where the Demon King Balrog is sealed. There is only one entrance. However, it is a big problem if there is a secret passage that I and the Maple Alliance do not know about.”
There may have been a problem with the seal of the Demon King Balrog.
Only then did the rescue team realize the severity of the problem.
Naturally, the rescue team was not made up of ordinary people, but of exceptionally talented people.
Only after all that was gathered did the rescue team move.
quietly.
More nervous than ever.
‘But it has a structure.’
At the same time, everyone assumed the worst.
‘There may be no one to rescue.’
If you actually get there and there are no survivors.
‘The Mystic Gate is also deactivated.’
And if the portal to the Mystic Gate they entered doesn’t activate at all.
So, in the case where everyone was annihilated.
It was a dire situation, but the possibility was there.
Not only had quite some time passed since the Demon King Balrog Expeditionary Force had been imprisoned, but their opponent was none other than the Demon King Balrog.
To be honest, most of the rescue team thought it was more likely that everyone was dead.
In the end, all they have to do is confirm death.
The rescue team, moving through the secret passage in such despair and desolation, were finally able to see.
“uh?”
Adventurers enjoying a delicious meal.
35.
It was a bizarre sight.
The sight of five people having a sumptuous meal in front of the activated Mystic Gate portal.
“uh?”
A sight that even the rescue team cannot help but be surprised at the moment they see it.
“uh?”
Meanwhile, the five adventurers who discovered the rescue team also reacted in surprise.
There was nothing strange.
It was impossible to imagine that a rescue team would arrive through another secret passage.
‘oh my god.’
Of course, the reason the five adventurers and El Palm Party were surprised was not because of the rescue team’s appearance.
‘It’s just like the boss said!’
El Palm, he said the moment he exited the Mystic Gate.
There must be a secret passage here.
And El Palm discovered the secret passage right away.
It wasn’t difficult for El Palm. If you didn’t know there was a secret passage, you wouldn’t even notice it, but once you knew it was there, finding it was just a joke.
What happened next was surprising.
I immediately told my colleagues who were about to go out through the secret passage not to do so.
‘I thought a real rescue team would come.’
The rescue team will come.
And if you encounter the rescue team, then you have to explain about the secret passage.
But even if an explanation was given, there was a high possibility that it would be met with suspicion.
So the answer is to stay still.
The situation unfolded just as El Palm had said, and his colleagues could not help but be surprised by the fact.
El Palm, on the other hand, was different.
The moment he learned of the existence of the secret passage, he thought that the secret passage would soon be known to the Maple Union outside.
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That way, the followers of the black magician who tried to kill him would not be suspected either.
Furthermore, El Palm knew.
‘Helena, you came as expected.’
There’s a very high chance that Helena is in that rescue team.
‘Because you know the seriousness of the situation.’
Helena, who saw the El Palm party, immediately approached El Palm and said.
“El Palm.”
Even though he was wearing a mask, she immediately recognized El Palm Party’s identity.
It wasn’t difficult.
Her keen eye was on a whole other level, even compared to veteran adventurers.
Enough to know the other person even just by looking at their faint shadow.
Of course, in normal circumstances, El Palm’s identity would not have been revealed right away. There is a reason he wears a mask.
In other words, these were not normal times.
“What happened?”
The Demon King Balrog expedition force, thought to be dead, is alive.
Even the El Palm Party.
Even though Helena had been an adventurer for many years, it was impossible for her to understand this situation.
About him, El Palm said:
“I caught the Demon King Balrog. And I found the exit and came out.”
At those words, Helena and the rescue team that came with her were all shocked.
“How on earth?”
Instead of answering that question, El Palm gestured to Divo, who nodded and showed it to him.
Huge horns.
The moment they saw that, everyone turned their heads and looked at Helena.
Because only one person could tell if this was real or fake.
Helena.
“It’s the horn of the Demon King Balrog.”
The moment she said those words, everyone was shocked.
Because it became clear that the owner of those horns was the being they imagined.
At the same time, I had a question.
“How did you catch it?”
El Palm answered that question.
“I had a hard time catching it.”
That was it.
El Palm did not elaborate further.
And there was no need to do it.
For adventurers, what’s important is the result, and there’s no need to talk about the process.
No, it was common to hide it rather than tell it.
Because that process was the adventurer’s skill, ability, and know-how.
Moreover, the sole purpose of this Demon King Balrog expedition was to capture Demon King Balrog.
With this clear outcome, there was no point in asking any more questions.
There is only one thing you can do.
“Thank you for your hard work. Thank you so much.”
Expressing gratitude.
“No, I just said what I had to say.”
“Where are the rest of the adventurers?”
“It will come out soon.”
That was the end of the story about the Demon King Balrog.
“The death toll won’t be that high.”
“That’s good. Then let’s go outside for now. The rest of the rescue team, please stay here and help the next adventurers.”
With those words, Helena took El Palm and left the secret passage.
There was no more talk of the Demon King Balrog.
At that point, El Palm noticed.
‘also.’
There is no time to even talk about Balok.
“What is your next goal?”
It was just as I thought.
“You knew that.”
From Helena’s perspective, it was good to see how the El Palm Party captured the Demon King Balrog.
The important thing is that there is an adventurer who can catch the Demon King Balrog now.
“There’s no way the only thing that’s dangerous is the Demon King Balrog.”
And that adventurers are needed more than ever.
“It’s been quite some time. In the meantime, some crazy things have happened in Maple World.”
Helena explained about it.
“More than you can imagine.”
With a warning.
Of course, from El Palm’s point of view, it was a meaningless warning.
Because I knew better than anyone else how dire the nightmare and despair that Maple World would face from now on would be.
“A large number of Blue-grade Mystic Gates have been discovered.”
So El Palm wasn’t surprised when he heard that.
“Indigo grade was also discovered.”
“crazy!”
El Palm’s colleagues were shocked by what he said, but El Palm wasn’t surprised either.
‘Violet will appear soon.’
Because I’ve experienced more than that.
‘With a horntail.’
That is the ultimate despair.
Here El Palm thought.
‘I have to take care of it before I come out.’
In order to catch those monsters, you have to enter the Mystic Gate.
It wasn’t because of the presence or absence of damage.
It was clear that if those monsters came out to Maple World, countless people would die.
But El Palm knew something more important.
‘Once they come out, they can’t be stopped.’
It’s much easier to catch them inside the Mystic Gate.
The Guardian Angel Slime and Demon King Balrog that El Palm caught right away were like that.
What if the Guardian Angel Slime came out of the Mystic Gate? All the slimes on Victoria Island would go crazy.
The same goes for Demon King Balrog. The moment he appears, the sealed Demon King Balrog will also appear. The sky of Maple World will be ruled by two Demon King Balrogs.
The same was true for Hontail.
The place where he is is none other than Minar Forest!
And at that time, Minar Forest was a place filled with monsters created by Hontail.
The fact that Horntail appeared there meant that many of the monsters in Minar Forest would become Horntail’s subordinates.
‘That guy was like that too.’
There was also the worst one, the Horntail.
‘Urs.’
Ursus, a giant mutant bear.
It was impossible to catch this guy in Maple World, who could be considered a moving disaster.
Because he was the kind of guy who could run from one end of the continent of Osiris to the other and still have time to spare.
It was impossible to stop it.
‘It was fortunate that the expedition team formed by the Maple Alliance caught the guy.’
In fact, Ursus was caught at the Mystic Gate.
The Maple Alliance led adventurers from the 7th and 6th Circles to attack the Indigo-grade Mystic Gate where the monster appeared.
And all the adventurers and Signus knights who conquered that place spoke in unison.
It’s a good thing we caught him before he left the Mystic Gate.
If that guy had appeared in Maple World, at least Victoria Island would have been turned into a wasteland.
‘Not yet.’
The only fortunate thing was that, if El Palm remembered correctly, Ursus had been conquered at least half a year later.
That means you don’t have to worry about him showing up right now.
Of course, it wasn’t certain.
Because so much has changed.
That was the moment.
“It’s the worst situation in many ways. But there is hope.”
In this desperate situation, Helena mentioned hope.
El Palm’s colleagues, as well as El Palm, were delighted by that fact.
Helena wasn’t such a foolish adventurer that she would use the word hope for anything.
“What is?”
“The alchemists of Magatia are conducting research.”
“Research?”
“How much time is left until the monsters come out of the Mystic Gate?”
El Palm’s eyes lit up at the explanation that followed.
‘Is that really possible?’
The scariest thing about the Mystic Gate is that it’s a time bomb, and you never know when it might explode!
But what if you knew the deadline?
It should be able to handle the Mystic Gate very efficiently.
‘how?’
But before El Palm returned to the past, such a method did not exist.
‘ah!’
At that point, El Palm came to mind.
“So you studied with the Resistance?”
Those who changed the future they knew.
“That’s right. I shared information about the Mystic Gate that the Resistance had been studying. And one of Magatia’s alchemists started producing surprising results.”
“That’s amazing.”
El Palm was truly impressed by the explanation that followed.
“Yes, he is amazing. Umar, the young alchemist, is amazing.”
And El Palm and his colleagues were surprised by the name that came out.
“Umar? No way?”
“Is that him?”
Because it was a name that I couldn’t help but know.
At that point, Helena asked a question.
“Do you know?”
From Helena’s perspective, there was no way she could have known the details of the deal between the Knights of Signus and El Palm.
“You know, I’ll stick a straw in the boss… … .”
At that point, Devo, who was about to explain, closed his mouth.
Isn’t it impossible to explain that he was originally the one who created the chimera, and that El Palm took advantage of its weakness to extract the plastic potion?
“I am receiving a great deal of help.”
So El Palm gave a brief explanation, and Helena tilted her head at the explanation.
That was it.
Because that wasn’t important anyway.
“The research results will be out soon. From then on, we will prioritize and attack the Mystic Gate. We will form a special expedition for that purpose. El Palm Party, we need your help.”
El Palm nods his head at the continued explanation.
It was around that time.
“It’s outside.”
Helena and El Palmar came out through the secret passage, and soon they were visible.
“Hey, Helena!”
An adventurer approaches urgently.
“Ouch, we’re in big trouble.”
The adventurer who approached said so.
“Magatia has been occupied!”