Chapter 100 100 A labyrinth history

[El's POV: ]

[The practical test will start in three minutes.]

[The objective of the test is to either survive in the <Labyrinth of Malacus> for six days or find the exit points from where you can get out of here.]

[There will be monsters spread out all around the labyrinth. Defeating them will grant you academic points.]

[You can use the item identification lense in your inventory to identify the elements in the surroundings.]

[You can engage in one-on-one battles with the other students if you come across them and the winner will take all the collected points of the loser or at least a hundred points.]

[You can also create a 'party' with the other students however, a party will be considered a single entity and their team score will be counted as their ultimate score.]

[The labyrinth is an ancient structure so there are many unique elements that not even the teachers and the headmaster himself have any idea about. Look out for the hidden pieces and treasures.]

"This last part was no joke. This place was really an ancient structure."

Actually, the <Labyrinth of Malacus> originally belonged to an evil elder lich named, obviously, Malacus, and many many years ago, the headmaster killed him.

'But the true story goes way beyond that, hehehe. And it's kinda fun.'

The place we were currently in was situated somewhere deep inside the high mountains of the northern continent, a place mostly untouched by the human population.

At the start, it was just a normal mountain, but then its first-ever inhabitants became the [Frost Orcs], a race of ancient times that has almost gone extinct in today's time.

They were powerful creatures, and in today's time, even a young one of their tribe would be considered a <B> rank monster, their elders and highest ranking worriers being stronger than <SS> ranks.

'They lived there for a few centuries, but then the planet went through an extreme tectonic change, and the mountain that was engulfed in ice, became burning volcanic plains, causing the end of those cute Orcs. And then came [Fire Ekikis], a race that's only found in the ends of the southern continent in current times.'

They were humanoid creatures like orcs, calling them fire orcs wouldn't be wrong too since they had evolved from the orcs and lesser fire demons, but these cuties were peace-loving and were nothing like demons.

'They lived there for a few centuries but then some wandering demon

Marquis stumbled upon this fine~ piece of land and opened the gate to hell in the middle of it, making the place that only looked like hell, into an actual part of hell.'

The angels didn't like this shit though, so they attacked the bastard in a bunch, fucked the shit out of him, and drove him back to his homeland, appointing a powerful holy beast as the guardian of this now-purified land.

'That cutie also guarded this place for a few millennia, but then the great tectonic shift happened again, and the plains were again turned into the high mountains.'

This planet has faced many of these tectonic shifts but six of them are called 'great tectonic shifts' or at least, that's what I call them.

This was the second one, and the place was turned into a mountain, but not covered by snow but by classic greeneries.

The mountain range became a forest area where diverse kinds and types of creatures resided and this was the time the world saw the most prosperity in terms of evolution and stuff.

It stayed like that for a long time after that and there were many great creatures who lived in this place, but, after a long ass time, the third and most catastrophic tectonic shifts happened and the world turned into what we see it today as, a planet of four continents shaped like a primogem, four kites shaped continent with a very dangerous landmass in the center of them all.

'And then shit started.'

Everything that lived here had already died and were either buried or had returned to their origin. So, the new beings of the new era started fighting over the remaining world.

'The very first Great War of this planet that's not written in history books started, and this land became a hot cheesecake.'

Some grand shits had happened on this piece of land so not only demons considered it theirs but even the holy faction considered it theirs.

And to make things worse, a dragon, a real one and not a draconic species, descended on this mountain range and started building its layer here.

'Which pissed everyone off.'

The demons attacked that dragon with their forces, and the angels, the advocates of Worldline, actually fucking joined forces with demons to take the dragons down, lol.

They all still failed though. Those shitty demons and dumb angels were no match for a true dragon, a divine existence above the godly beings they all worshiped.

'The dragon lived there for a long time, fended off whatever invaded her land mercilessly, hatched her three eggs and when they were mature enough, she took off with them to find a better place for their training, leaving the throne all alone.'

And the demons and angels were also bored with this land. It was mostly an ice mountain anyway, the one least in demand at that time.

It belonged to no one, so, creatures started living here again. Normal creatures, and creatures of higher intelligence.

'This time, the main natives became [Ice elves].'

They were strong, were creatures of nature, and they were intelligent.

Their kind was blessed by nature and mana and seeing from the evolutionary perspective, they were a separate kind that had mutated from a variant of demon-angel mixbloods.

But that's just the lore of this planet, other places have different lore so it's ultimately different everywhere.

The elves made these mountains their homes, but, they were surface dwellers. The insides of the mountains, especially, the dragon nest are still empty.

'So, now came the humans of ancient times, and were killed on the same day they set foot on this land.'

Hehehe. Total annihilation. Everyone died. Everyone except one person.

'The antagonist of this whole fucking history, lol.'

He was someone who survived the elve's attack, managed to preserve his life, and accidentally found a certain cave in the process.

He took refuge there, and mourned over the death of his beautiful wife and daughter..

He was a normal human man, a wounded normal human man who had lost everything at the hands of those wretched elves.

'Which obviously leads to a revenge plot.'

He was a normal man, but the cave he had ended up in belonged to the angel faction of the older times, and the things he found out among the countless ancient treasures there, was a certain book containing sinister powers.

'The grimoire of dark truths: Tairaz.'

That good shit still is somewhere inside this labyrinth but, we ain't nearly strong enough to get that kinda overpowered thing.

But the one who got his hands on it was a man with nothing. He cared about nothing and wanted his revenge alone. Still, he was no idiot.

He instinctively knew what he had obtained was not something he could handle in his current state.

'He knew it, so, he trained. Not like a shounon protagonist, but like a madman he was.'

He used the supplies of angels to heal and get stronger as a human.

He carved the cave he was in deeper and practiced the basic necromancy the grimoire taught him.

He was learning necromancy on the land that had been a dragon nest. A land that had seen countless sacrifices and bloodshed, so, he was inside a gold mine.

He trained, dug deeper inside the cave, and used his undead summons to further spread the cave...

'Yup, and no at the same time.'

This labyrinth was certainly a part of what he had dug in those times, but, it wasn't all.

As he dug deeper, he found many underground passageways that already existed there, and they were too big for any kind of creature he had come across.

'He went deeper, and after reaching a certain point, he hit the jackpot.'

He found himself in the center of the dragon nest, the chamber where the true dragon had resided and the place where he hatched, raised, and taught her three children.

He was in a place that could fulfill all he wanted, and he knew the strengths of those pointy-eared blue bastards, so, he didn't want to do things half-assedly.

He lived there, made that place into the center of this entire labyrinth, a place that contained the grimoire as well as his remaining army that the headmaster deliberately left alone, and started expanding his army and the labyrinth itself.

He accepted lichdom as he grew stronger, and later, he attained the rank of an elderlich.. and as soon as he did that, he knew it was the time.

'The lichdom stuff is complicated so putting it aside, what happened after that was the fun part.'

He had trained, trained, and trained. He had gathered a force that even the demons started envying. He had resources left behind by a dragon, he had a firm desire, and he was committed.

He wanted the destruction of the elves, so he attacked, and as soon as he did.. he knew he had become far more powerful than he ever knew.

The elves who were uncontrollably strong previously were now dying like goblins at the hands of his death knights. The strong archery they were so proud of, did nothing to his undead legions. The magic they possessed worked against them, sure, but how many can they even go up against? Hundreds? Thousands?

'Bro had prepared hundreds of thousands of high-grade undead beings, those dumb elves were obviously paperdoll~.'

He killed them, every one of them, and after killing every one of the elves, he ordered the remaining undead to clear out all of the living from the surrounding area, starting a kind of bloodbath that I really, dearly, heartily want to see~.

'And, and! After all this fun thing happened, the headmaster dropped by, looked at all the shit that was going on, and single-handedly started massacring the undead..'

"Fuck I want to see that stuff!" The initial posting of this chapter occurred via n(0))vel(b)(j)(n).

The death of elves, the death of skeletons, a bloody battle between an absolute like the headmaster and a being who had long surpassed the <SSS> rank danger rating.. I want to fucking see those things!

'Ughhhh..'

That kind of big battle was not happening anytime soon. The battle we will have with that bitch will be the biggest thing for this week. The dungeon run was scheduled for the next weekend.

'Right, the bitch.'

Apparently, she was just a wandering demon who stumbled upon this place one day, unbeknownst to who housed it. And instead of getting caught by their mothers, one of her children found her, grabbed her like she was some kind of a toy, and took her to her mama.

The dragon mother saw the filthy thing and absolutely didn't like how she was in the hands of her child.

She wanted to kill that bitch but, since her child had taken a kind of liking to her, she made a deal with her, spared her life, and sealed her in a corner of her house, only allowing her to get out at her permission.

In exchange for her life, she received the heaven-piercing chance to play around with the child of a true dragon.. but of course, as demon nature we know, she couldn't possibly just play around with a kid and miss the golden opportunity present before her.

It would be foolishness, she knew that, still, she tried doing that foolish thing, but the mother caught her right before that act, threw her back in that sealed place in a half-dead state, and just kept her there until the day she had left the nest.

'And then, that place became a dungeon sealed by a dragon's magic.'

It was in a random place so perhaps the headmaster didn't know of it yet, but he will know today.

He turned this fine labyrinth into a relatively safe testing ground and as the system panel said, there were many things in this labyrinth that even he did not know about.

'Perhaps there are things that even we don't know about, and that makes this place one of the most fun ones on this planet~!'

We might not be able to get the chance to come here anytime soon, so since we had six whole days here, I had to use that time in a productive manner.

'Yes~! Let's goooo~!'

I was excited about this labyrinth exploration..

-Bam!

-Swiiiiiiiiish.

"My, oh my. To think I would meet a sniper right off the bat hun?"

Someone shot a bullet at me from behind, which I dodged. But the one that had the fucking guts to aim their guns at me won't be as much fortunate as me.