The Mist Vol 5 Chapter 44

Vol 5 Chapter 44

With these thoughts in mind, Kapros decided to analyze the sentences Superior had interpreted.

First, the visible path and the invisible path.

Thinking about it literally, the visible path would be the one clearly visible right in front of him, and the invisible path might be a new path hidden somewhere that he couldn't see now.

It said that if he took the visible path, he would have the opportunity to challenge the legacy of the great iron race, and if he took the invisible path, he could meet the covenant waiting for the promised one... He still wasn't sure what this sentence meant.

Then, let's look at the next sentence: [ If you meet the name of the covenant, the master of the mountains, no one will be able to see the light, but if you are the promised one, do not hesitate at all. ]

Considering that this was the beginning of the fifth quest location, the "promised one" was likely to be the quest user, and it seemed to mean that if you were performing the quest, you should not hesitate to go meet "the name of the covenant, the master of the mountains."

So if we consider the twice-mentioned "promised one" and "covenant" to mean the same thing, the sentence he couldn't interpret earlier...

The "promised one," that is, if you were a quest user, you shouldn't hesitate to meet "the name of the covenant, the master of the mountains," which means... to see the "covenant waiting for the promised one," you need to take the invisible path.

Even though it was his own interpretation, it seemed pretty good.

At the same time, following this conclusion, the idea that he had to find another invisible path made his irritation rise.

It was the same when he had to find the second quest when he met Lucrecian before, and when he entered the cave to find Kran's quest in Zagreb. Then too, he had to find a hidden path that wasn't visible to the eye. It seemed that the MIST creators thought that taking a visible path wouldn't capture the essence of performing a secret quest.

Of course, from the perspective of someone performing the quest, it was just a useless aesthetic. This being the third time now, he felt like he was becoming an expert at finding hidden paths.

It would be better to try the method he used in Zagreb first.

Kapros retraced his steps back to just before entering the cavern, then slowly inhaled and exhaled while imagining hundreds of crackling electric images in his mind. Then he quietly raised his hands together and spread them wide to the sides as he opened his mouth.

"Lightning!"

Crackle crackle... Boom!

Following his image, the bright blue electricity that initially crackled very faintly in the air sparked like flint, then suddenly expanded into hundreds of bolts, brightly illuminating the dark cave. Wind suddenly blew where there shouldn't have been any, making his face and hair tingle from the electric energy. When he had used it before, he hadn't been able to see it clearly because he had struck immediately due to urgency, but seeing it like this, it was truly a spectacular sight.

With a satisfied smile, Kapros scanned every corner of the cavern. His clumsy, brute-force method of finding hidden paths was to thoroughly check every single spot without missing any.

"-Bolt!"

Boom boom boom boom boom!

The hundreds of gathered lightning bolts spread out in all directions, hitting the walls and exploding. Just like when he had used it before, dust flew as if a bomb had gone off inside, and vibrations like an earthquake occurred.

While trying to maintain his balance, Kapros listened carefully, expecting to hear the sound of a hidden door opening. The sound of lightning scraping against rocks seemed almost like human screams, but that wasn't the sound he was expecting.

"...Hm?"

But even until the explosion stopped, there was no sound. Even when he entered the cavern with disbelieving eyes after the dust had settled, nothing had changed from before.

He looked around in confusion, but that didn't make a non-existent path appear.

'This method doesn't work? Could my interpretation be wrong?'

After that, he continued pounding suspicious spots with Lightning Bolt for quite some time, unable to give up, until he finally stopped when he nearly got hit by falling rocks. It really seemed like there was no hidden path in this cavern.

It was a completely unexpected situation.

He returned to the magic text written on the wall and stared at it for a long time, but that didn't suddenly change the uninterpretable characters into Korean. Of course, there was a path right in front of him that he could take immediately, but having already decided that taking the invisible path was correct, he felt uneasy about taking that visible path.

After pondering for a long time, Kapros finally sat down cross-legged and began trying to recall if there had been anything even slightly strange since he had entered this place.

Something even slightly strange... even just a little...

He sat blankly for a long time, recalling everything that had happened from when he discovered this cave until the current situation.

'Damn it. There's nothing particularly strange...'

He rubbed his head irritably while sitting cross-legged, but that wouldn't make the invisible visible.

'No. Let's think about it one more time.'

Gritting his teeth, he tried to recall more details one more time.

No matter how much he thought about it, there didn't seem to be anything he had missed at the cave entrance. If there was something he might have overlooked, it would be after discovering the magic text...

So... when Superior interpreted the magic text in front of him after he discovered it. What exactly had Superior said then? It hadn't been that long since he heard it, but he only remembered the core parts of the interpretation, so he had to call Superior again.

"Superior."

[ ...What. ]

"Could you interpret that magic text properly one more time?"

[ Hmph, why should I. ]

"..."

Has this guy gone crazy?

Unable to hide his bewilderment at the sulky response, Kapros looked at the stick at his waist. Seemingly embarrassed himself, Superior soon cleared his throat.