#70. Trap

Kim Jin-Woo appeared to be waiting for something, but he didn’t just sit around and wait. It had been a while since he left the labyrinth; now, he was heading toward the Deep Floors.

Krrrrrr.

He encountered the Moai that had roamed the 9th Floor for a brief while as if it were their own property, but the twisted monsters didn’t dare to attack him, and were only able to make otherworldly noises as they stared at him warily on his journey.

“In the past, I would’ve wiped every single one of you, but now, you’re like guard dogs protecting my Grand Labyrinth.” Kim Jin-Woo laughed with satisfaction as he plowed through the hordes of Moai. As he entered the narrow tunnel, the Moai screamed amid the chaos of trying to distance themselves from him.

“Keeeeeek!”

The very Moai that had caused so much trouble to him in the past were now trembling in fear with their heads bowed low. They were like rabbits thrown before their predators, and were unlike the ferocious monsters that had once dared to bare their fangs against the Deep Floor Counts.

But it wasn’t because Kim Jin-Woo had gotten physically stronger that he was incomparable to them. It was his sheer presence that was on a totally different level.

After ascending...