Alfreda ran ahead to catch up to them and after two right turns, she hit a dead end, that's when she knew it was definitely a maze.
"How did I lose those two? I'm pretty sure I went the same way as them. Whatever, I'll just retrace my steps and pick a different path"
Alfreda went back to the way she came from, purposefully leaving big footprints to retrace just in case, but after reaching the start, she realized the path didn't look the same. There was three other paths, each going in a different direction.
She looked behind her to see if anything had changed in the direction she came from, but after looking back, she was met with a wall, the path behind her had closed.
"What!?!? Are you serious?!?! How can this even be possible? Whose messing with me?" Said Alfreda with a frustrated expression.
Alfreda had lost her cool, she furiously pulled out her Grimoire with veins bulging out of her forehead from the rage. She hastily flipped through the pages, slightly tearing pages that got stuck together, until she found the spell she was looking for.
"HOLY OPPRESSION"
A scorching hot aura of holy magic was emitting from Alfreda, it usually melts anything in it's way, but nothing in this maze was being affected. The wall blocking everything without a scratch made her even more angry. She opened her Grimoire again and threw random spells at the wall.
"HOLY SPEAR" "RADIANT MAGMA" "HOLY SACRIFICE"
She attacked the wall with a storm of spells and ran out of magic after a while. She was breathing heavily from exhaustion and sweat was dripping off her forehead and nose, but the wall was still standing strong. She calmed down, because there was no way for her to attack the wall without spells. She took a few deep breaths and looked at the options. There was a path to the left, right and straight ahead. She picked the one straight ahead and made her way forward while controlling her fast breathing.
"Ha, this is embarrassing. If this was a real fight, I would have died the moment I lost control over my breath" said Alfreda jokingly.
At the end of the path was only a left turn so she went there. The left path lead to a dead end, so she decided to head back to the unbeatable wall. She turned around and the path back was nowhere to be found. She was now stuck in a small claustrophobic box. A shiver went down her spine and she got a bad feeling deep in her gut after she realized the situation she was in.
"This can't be it!!! There's got to be a way out, I just have to calm down and think of a plan"
She was trying to think about ideas on how to get out, but she couldn't think of s single thing. After what felt like hours of brainstorming, the silence was driving her crazy. Because of the silence, she could hear everything inside of her, not just her heartbeat, but also all the other organs as well. She tried removing the noise by making her own noise by speaking, but her efforts were futile. Just when she thought she should give up, she heard a familiar voice, the voice of Arlo.
"Did you see that, Alice?!?! Your brother is amazing, isn't he?!?! (Praise me)" said a muffled voice of Arlo.
After hearing his voice, she started pounding on the wall and screaming.
"Help!!! Please get me out if here, Carlos!!! I'll do anything in return. I'll apologize to you. Just please get me out of here!!" Said Alfreda while on the verge of tears.
"Alfreda??? Is that you Alfreda??? Crying doesn't suit you, so stop crying and be the tough Alfreda again. I'll get you out, that is if you give me five months of your salary instead of three" said Arlo with a joyful voice from the chance to make more money and the opportunity to increase Alfreda's affinity towards him.
Alfreda agreed without hesitation and the walls around her started to disappear. She was shocked and became curious on how Arlo managed to break the walls, so she asked him.
"What did you do just now? What kind of spell could manage to do this"
"Isn't brother the coolest!!! He absorbed everything with his hand" said Alice with a proud expression.
*Whack*
Arlo smacked the back of Alice's head as if he was keeping a secret, it made Alfreda slightly suspicious but she let it slide because she was too happy from escaping that box.
30 MINUTES AGO
"Brother, are we going to be stuck here forever???" Said Alice with a concerned expression.
They were in a similar situation as Alfreda. Everything Arlo tried didn't work, even with the constant use of the abyssal powers. The only thing he hadn't tried yet was eating the wall. He licked his lips and was ready to munch, but he got stopped by a voice.
"STOP!!!!!!! DON'T EAT THAT DIRTY WALL, YOU DISGUSTING PIG!!!!!"
"Well what else am i supposed to do??? I don't want to be stuck here forever"
"THAT'S WHY I CAME UP WITH A NEW METHOD OF SENDING ME STUFF, A METHOD WHERE I DON'T HAVE TO TASTE THE GROTESQUE THINGS YOU EAT. FROM NOW ON, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEND STUFF INTO THE ABYSS WITH YOUR HAND MUAHAHAHAHA (I NEED THOSE WALLS FOR MY HOUSE)"
PRESENT
"I call this the GRAVE BUSTER" said Arlo while having fun destroying the maze.
Arlo was running around, absorbing anything he could find, Alfreda was shocked at how childish Arlo could get. she knew Arlo was weird, but she thought he might have brain rot now.
"Wow that's awesome, brother!!!" Said Alice with a cheerful expression.
Alfreda thought she was the only normal one there and decided to not get involved in their conversation.
"Everyone, i think I found the way to the next room" shouted Arlo with excitement.