THE EMPEROR OF TWO WORLDS

Heading into a dead end

Not far from the capital, there is a labyrinth known as 'LOST TEMPLE FROM PAST'. As the name suggests, this place is an ancient temple that was built before the kingdom of Westeria standing near here. Although it is close to the capital and often explored by mercenaries, but unfortunately no one has ever reached the main temple which became the midpoint of this labyrinth.

King Roman and the queens had once come here, but the moment they wanted to enter it, a magic barrier appeared and prevented them from entering the labyrinth area. After some testing, finally, it was discovered that the cause of the magic barrier was due to the King and the Queens who had reached the level 8 magicians and only magicians below level 5 could enter the labyrinth. 

Right now, in front of the entrance to the labyrinth.

"sister, I know we still lack people, but why should we take these three idiots?" veronica asked who saw the three people dressed in iron armor in front of her.

"princess, it's impolite to call us by such a designation."

"right, Princess!! We here also want to adventure together with our Boss, right, Brother Rei?"

"that's right."

Hearing the three start to babble, Veronica started to limp and not get excited in this labyrinth search.

The three people that were meant by Veronica, were none other than the three Ceberus brothers who were also classmates with Veronica in the magic academy. The reason they were called the three Ceberus brothers was because of their habit of always following the third prince.

Seeing her sibling limp, Jani approached her and said "you don't have to go so limp, Veronica. After all the three of them were the most suitable candidates in becoming protectors in the front line later."

"alright, if we are indeed looking for a shield user below tier six at best, then there is nothing suitable in my mind other than these three people."

After that, Jani gathered everyone together and held a small meeting before entering the labyrinth. "alright, listen to my words! This time we enter the labyrinth not to get to the middle but rather we will hunt for treasure and in every treasure there must be a magic monster guarding it. Therefore, I'll split up our starting duties."

"Rei, Rey and Rex, the three of you will be the receivers of the attack on the frontline as well as distracting the monsters from attacking the person on the back line. Then for Kuro and I will be his main assailant while Veronica will slow down the Monster with her Ice element magic and lastly Shiro will support everyone with healing magic and other help magic. Does everyone understand?"

they nodded their heads in order to understand Jani's explanation.

"alright, then we go straight inside."

….

The Lost Temple labyrinth was actually very simple and easy to pass, but it would be true if all the labyrinth guard monsters were eliminated. That can be proven when Jani and his group just entered the labyrinth, they have been welcomed by a B-level monster named Wolf Silver Fang. And just like wolves in general, they hunt their prey in groups.

Seeing the hungry Wolf Horde start to approach Jani and his group, Jani starts to order his group "Rei,Rey, Rex! Get ready for the raid and Veronica you set up a spell to lock in the movement as I signal.

"ready,Bos!" rex answered vigorously representing his other two brothers.

"okay, I'll prepare."

A pack of wolves started attacking and as they started to hit the shields of the three brothers, Jani immediately said "Veronica, now!"

"Ice Area!!" veronica shouted and then the floor where the wolf pack was located started emitting a temperature so cold that their feet froze.

It was unknown when Jani had taken out her Golden Wand and she gestured for Kuro to start attacking the wolf along with her.

A while later, the initial path of the Labyrinth was filled by the pile of monster corpses from the wolf pack they had previously killed. Jani looked at the group and said, "is everything okay?"

Veronica replied "me and Shiro are fine."

"we're fine too, boss!" answer Rei.

"right! This is all thanks to Shiro's healing magic!" said Rex who gave a thumbs up towards Sihro.

"all right, we rest first while the women fill up where they come back and we also have to collect all the bodies of these wolves."

They all follow Jani's instructions and begin to collect the corpses of wolves scattered everywhere. It should not take long, but because one wolf weighs up to 100 KG and Jani also ordered not to use magic to save Mana, it took them almost half an hour to collect all the bodies.

After collecting all the corpses, Jani stuffed them into her dimensional bracelet and they continued their journey again to walk through this labyrinth. Not long after they torched the labyrinth, the jani who was at the very front suddenly stopped.

Veronica who was behind him said "why are we stopping?"

"in front of a dead end." Answer Jani without looking at Veronica.

Veronica again asked while looking at the thing in her brother's hand "why is it a dead end? Didn't you bring a device that points the way?"

"it's not a direction indicator but a treasure indicator." After Jani answered him he immediately pulled out a golden scepter and said to everyone "you must still be tired after fighting with a pack of wolves earlier, So let me alone overcome the monsters in this dead end." And after that, he immediately ran towards a dead end.

As Jani gets closer to a dead end, suddenly from underground a crop tendril attacks Jani. Of course, Jani bsa dodged the attack and then an identity of the assailant emerged from underground.

From behind Rex acted in his surprised tone "Wow!! I didn't expect this rare monster to appear here!"

Veronica who was unaware of this type of monster then asked Rex "Rex, can you explain this type of monster?"

"of course princess, this monster is an ancient monster called 'Flower Man Eating'. This monster is commonly found in the forest with a thick mana density or a tomb of an ancient hero, and judging from the size of this monster is already at the intermediate stage and falls into the category of level B monsters."

"hmm, then are you also at his weakness?"

"of course.." before Rex finished his words the sound of gunfire rang out from where Jani was fighting. 

*DORS..DORS..DOR!!* after the sound of gunfire with a roar of pain from the monster then suddenly the monster fell and then withered after removing a green ball from his body.

Meanwhile, Jani who was still in the air, landed smoothly and took the green ball and thought long put it into his dimensional bracelet.

The moment the plant monster had died, from the corner of the dead end appeared a treasure box. Seeing that, Jani happily approached the box, but was stopped by Veronica who said "sister! Don't just open that treasure chest! It could be another monster!"

Jani immediately shook off his sister's hand and went back to the treasure box saying "calm down my sister, this is something you can call a reward after defeating a monster that is strong enough!"

And after Jani opened the box, he took two objects, a key and a special arrow.

After taking the two objects they return to the labyrinth led by Jani with the help of his compass.

As Jani said before, this compass does not show the way to the ancient temple in the middle of the labyrinth, but instead shows in the direction of another dead end. After three different dead ends and continuing to defeat the monsters there, Veronica said to Jani.

"sister! How many more times are we going to continue facing monsters in a dead end?"

"patience, the next one is the last one, okay!"

"All right, I'll keep your promise."

And they continued their journey to another dead end and this time, the last dead end was guarded by eleven knights who had different roles.

Looking at the statues, Jani immediately said to everyone "everything, protect your heads!"

Jani immediately took out his golden scepter and turned it around while saying "Ryu-Jin! Grow up!!"

And in an instant the enlarged golden stick that was still being turned by Jani and immediately hit the ten statues and smashed them. Until when he reached the eleventh statue, Jani's wand was suddenly reflected again by the statue.

Jani began to look at the statue, and it was seen that although the statue could beat him, but the entire body of the statue suffered cracks everywhere and began to show its true form.

The statue began to stand and all the stones that had previously lined the statue began to disappear and show a very good form of armor with a sword and shield that he held in his other hand.

Seeing the statue Jani exclaimed to everyone "BE CAREFUL!! This monster is different from the monster we previously fought."

"ready! Boss!"

Veronica directly attacked the armor with some ice spear magic of hers and Jani also took out her Double Blaster and fired continuously. Even so, the effect of the attack only scratches the outer part of the armor and unfortunately again the scratch disappeared with the healing ability of the armor.

Not only that, the result of their attack instead made the armor's attention towards the two of them quickly. Seeing that they were about to be attacked, Jani immediately shouted "TRIO CEBEREUS!!"

"""READY, BOSS!!""" The three brothers immediately stood in front of Jani and Veronica.

Feeling that the defense of three brothers is not enough, Jani again shouted "SHIRO!! USE YOUR DEFENSIVE MAGIC!!"

"BA..BAIK" Shiro answered stammeringly and instantly prepared to cast defense magic.

"DIVINE PROTECTION!!" With the time being very thin with the upcoming clash, Shiro managed to cast it and unleashed his magic on the three brothers.

*BANGGG*The sound of metal bangs clashing with each other and of course the live armor monster attack was successfully fielded by the three brothers who had been blessed with protective magic by Shiro.

Although his attack was successfully withheld, the Armor did not give up and continued to suppress the three brothers very strongly. Even the armor only used one hand while the others still held a large shield that satara with the body of the armor.