"It's been a frickin' eight hours and there is still a goddamn area that appeared like some wild darn bloody animal!!"
"Oh come on lassie, we can survive for more of a bit suffering, yes?"
Agitated, wander ourselves to uncover these mysterious dungeon ruins, we went straight exploring mode for an extended amount of time. Curious and merriment does get the best of us, but it's doesn't take long for our hunger and thirst exclaimed our joyous scouring
Like heck! There are too many unknown objects and aspect emerged with the annoyance of ridiculous lengthy puzzles and mazes popped up in every place with no sort of goddamn compensation, but instead of that; a further mystery to uncover with who knows when it will be comprehended. Though I had a couple of hunch about this place when I recalled the sub quest details
But seriously. This is the genuine fantasy-like and breathtaking experience I searched for these two days of turmoil after the whole dumpster fire. But this insensible brat doesn't understand it!! Is she's me or another person occupied the body with my memory there, cause there is no way I'm going to miss this opportunity of real engagement!!
When I knew it, she already a couple of step up to the third floor "Let's go back to the surface!! It's not worth it"
I immediately grabbed her waist, dragged "Come on! There might be only a couple of floors left to uncover!"
I too didn't understand it myself but something is enticing my backbone with a sensation I can't comprehend. It's like a slow impregnable radio wave, soothed my ears instructed me to go deep beyond these circling translucent staircases. This is different than the centipede mind invasion and it was more like a whisper of encouragement lubed my ears… isn't that kinda the same?
She rolled her eyes "fine then, I will stick with this bullshit. Going back to the surface means we will meet that nightmarish creature, and going back might take around four hours too. I will blame you if we died of hunger"
I let go of my tamed clone
"Hehe, I have a good hunch about this"
"You say that line for more than a hundred times already"
A reluctant sigh from her but at least I convinced her more than a hundred times, lets see how many times I can maintain this
Now, with me as the frontline. I resumed my lead of the exploration once again to the deep down of an unknown abyss. Step by step we descended to the fourth floor. Our skin met with water frosting air. A small blizzard with mint taste enveloped our heated torso. This time is not a passageway with many dimension doors or even a spherical hall, but a literal snowfield with a horizon as white as it can be. Stepped our foot sank through the piles of snow with brief deep. Our crystals cloak wasn't enough to resist the terrain condition and it left us stuttered in frigid, my condition is worse due to my ragged cloak
"T-this doesn't look very good, my dear stubborn apathetic mongrel!"
"I-it was only a cold wind!" gales tinges my goosebumps "This is nothing!"
Forced to smile in every situation. There is no such thing as going back from the beginning
Icicles began to form on the stale part of our body, our feet go numb with a little bit of effort to move. This is not a fine time. Don't worry, my excitement is still there
But my other self smiles faded. She took a deep breath in the closed blizzard of everlasting winter, opened her arms, and began to comfort the hoar, she spoke: "Want to shut your sense of nerve?" Without me in her vision
There is a new Art digital screen popped up in front of her
Tried to mock me huh?
I let out a visible breath "I know you want to bait me to do that. This is an only mere winter, who wants to do more than this?"
What she has done is not shutting her nerve, it was a little bit more different. Just like becoming one with the winter. I saw it with my own eyes and I'm not a coward who does not even make an effort to learn it
I inhaled the breath of the north, long and abundant. The first breath I took frozen my throat and lungs, a couple of blood flows stopped, it made my brain stiffen with minuscule ice. Then I moved my finger as which my heart became frost as jack. Even if I do such a thing as shutting down my nerve sensor or even the sensation of pain, I decided to never crave a small bliss. A numb mind is nothing more than a dead body
Likewise, I let out my breath, seamlessly covered by the tempests. I've become the doll I wanted to fully manipulate in this updating blizzard. I placed control on every part of my being, automated movement is no longer necessarily
[ New Art has been learned! _
With a heart solid as ice, the mind, and body frozen in time with one pure revenant whos reborn from pure snow _
Creator: Originity | Index number: 8291 | Rigid Frozen Heart [First Phase] ]|
So it was possible to learn them without being taught huh? … It might be also possible to learn a random one on the go. Though I've done that just now
Also, this new Art has different rules and ranking too. Looking at the index number, it might be an earlier Art generation. However, that was just a hunch
My smiles faded "Don't you play any mind games with me. I won't hesitate to inflict any harm, even to myself"
She emotionless replied "Don't say that I won't too. Now, lets the exploring begin, shall we?" Back to the game with invisible enthusiasm
Embarked our way with rigid movement, our mindless investigation on this fourth floor. With snow only covered the white grand stage, in a wider view. There is an untampered white flower garden in the corner of every direction from the middle of this eternal snow dome
Hollow dusk of white death piles surrounded by an uncanny yet pleasing garden. We circled through the garden with the translucent staircase in the middle of it. The garden is shaped in a circular pattern. Just like the third floor, how many of this circle structured puzzle in this ruins tomb? And what kind of mage made their tomb this grandeur with puzzles compensated with none!? I began to think more about the grand finale of these ruins that waited for us at the bottom. And how many floors left to be explored? Don't tell me this is a big and long raid kind of event with long preparation needed and times to be conquered!
At first, we didn't notice anything at all. Until we orbited the hollow circle-shaped garden for the third time. In the three directions splitting from the middle of the floor, there is a humanoid-shaped fallen rock statue of a grand knight at the size three times bigger than an average adult human, the head faced in the opposite direction from the staircase located in the middle of this floor. A bluish light appeared on their feet, all three of them have the same feature on their appearance. The imperial sharp joint of armored segments prism rock layers covered from head to toes. Besides all of them located some kind of weapons
A spear, a great sword, and a giant handheld cannon!? All of them have an energy line, it was supposed to be pumped up and down just like the intricate feature of these ruins. Don't tell me these statues will become alive... Heh, what a cliche. There is no way it would happen haha
We then met with each other for the fourth times exploring this floor