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"It's a rare but normal occurrence. Stop panicking."
Karate chopping on Aiden's head, Ann said as Aiden turned towards her.
"Normal?"
He muttered as he looked at her.
"It's called challenge reset." Ann replied as she nodded her head.
"…I see." Acting like he knew what that meant, Aiden nodded his head as he looked at the paper floating above them.
'Window?'
Ding
[Challenge reset: It is the occurrence where once the challenge is failed, it resets to the beginning. This type of challenge is rare and can only be conquered by completing the goal.]
'…What if one can't complete the challenge at all?' He asked.
Ding
[When that happens, the challengers look for
Heart stone: It is a stone found inside every dungeon that acts as an immediate exit for the challengers. One stone can only allow one challenger to exit the dungeon. You will have to search for them to get them.]
'I see.' Aiden thought as the paper that was floating above them flipped.
Flip
[Rob the key before the time limit reaches zero.]
[00:59:59]
Looking at the timer starting again, Ann spoke.
"Noi and Kate, you two focus on finding the key. Others will focus on disabling the dolls." She said as everyone nodded their heads.
Kate already disappeared while Noi walked in between the dolls looking for the key.
'Don't just stand there; you look for that doll.' Eden said as Aiden nodded his head and walked towards the direction where the doll had come from.
Click-click
Just as he reached the place, he saw a doll with its limbs twitching and making the noise.
'How do I disable it?'
Quickly picking up the doll, Aiden looked towards Ann, wondering if she knew how to.
Click-click
"Give it to me."
Ben walked towards the doll as he extended his hand, asking for the doll. Aiden quickly handed it over to him.
Bam
As soon as Ben got the doll, he crumpled its head to pieces as the doll stopped moving.
'…Is that it?' Aiden thought as he looked at the unmoving, headless doll.
Click-click
As he was looking at it, another clicking sound was heard.
'There's more.' Aiden thought as he quickly looked towards where the sound came from.
Whoosh
Bam
As soon as he turned around, he felt a soft sensation on his face as he took some steps back.
'What the?'
Looking at the cause of the sensation, Aiden frowned in confusion.
A big pink teddy bear, just as big as him, was looking at him with its long arms lowered.
Click-click
It made the clicking sound as it moved again.
Whoosh
'Its fast.'
Aiden thought as the teddy bear already appeared in front of him.
'Shit.' He thought as he quickly drew his sword.
Slash
'I cut it?' Aiden thought as he felt no resistance while cutting.
His sword had cut the teddy bear's right arm. The arm fell on the ground, but the teddy bear made no reaction as he swung his left arm.
Slash
Aiden cut them too.
The teddy bear, with both arms lost, stood there as it looked at Aiden.
Click-click
'…IT'S DISTRACTING YOU FROM THE SCREAM.' Eden, who was looking at this strange behavior, suddenly realized what it was doing after he heard the clicking sound.
'Shit.'
[Elemental sword coating]
Aiden quickly acted as he activated his skill.
In the next instant, the blades of the sword became red as it directly went through the teddy bear's head.
Cli-
Slash
The teddy bear's head became two, but it didn't stop at that, as the two parts were instantly engulfed in flames.
Swoosh
The fire acted violently as it ate the teddy bear's body and reduced them to ashes.
'Sigh. Thank you for that.' Aiden said as Eden nodded his head.
Aiden turned around as he wondered why no one helped him.
Click-click
'So, that's why.' Aiden thought as all, Ben, Ann, and Blake were fighting too.
Bam
Ben was fighting three brown teddy bears who were taller than him and looked more rough than the pink teddy bear.
Ann, on the other hand, was disabling several of those screaming dolls that were identical to the previous ones.
Zzzzz
Boom
It was a one-sided masaccar, as Ann was simply touching their heads with her fingers. The heads she touched flashed a little purple light and exploded to pieces in an instant.
But the numbers of the dolls were unending, as she had to be swift and quick to explode the heads that were nearly opening their mouths to scream.
Aiden felt exhausted just looking at the numbers of dolls as he observed Ann.
'How is she channeling her mana so fastly?' He thought as he looked at Ann's fingers.
A purple light was flickering on it as Aiden could sense the constant and frequent flow of mana. Currently, Aiden was in no way able to do that.
'Her focus must be very high.' Eden said as he looked at Ann's non-moving and fixed gaze.
Click-click
He again heard a sound of clicking as he looked towards the place where it came from.
Clang Clang
'What the?'
Aiden thought as he saw Blake fighting two small dolls.
These two dolls were identical, with orange hair and carrying a knife on their right hand. They were nimble and attacked in sync as they made it difficult for Blake.
Click-click
But that wasn't the main concern as a pink teddy bear was looking at Blake from behind the
the knife holding dolls.
'This annoying doll.'
Aiden thought as he quickly ran towards it.
Whoosh
Click-click
The pink doll, without realizing it, opened its mouth, making Blake panic.
Slash
Swoosh
But, just before it could scream, a red blade emerged through its mouth from behind, engulfing it in flames and turning it into ashes in an instant.
Ding
[The 4-minute duration of the skill [Elemental sword coating] is over. Please wait 10 minutes for cooldown.]
"Aron!"
Blake exclaimed in happiness as Aiden approached him to help.
"Is it alright to call you by your name? Guild master did so, I thought it would be alright."
Clang
Blake said as he came closer to one of the dolls and swung his knife to separate from the other doll.
Just when the other doll was about to stab him from behind, Aiden parried it with his sword as he started fighting.
"I don't care." Aiden replied as Blake smirked and nodded his head.
Click-click
Click-click
Both of the doll's limbs twitched as they opened their mouth, indicating they were about to scream.
'No.'
Whoosh
Aiden thought as he threw his sword.
Bam
The sword went through the doll's mouth, destroying it to pieces.
Bam
Blake had also successfully destroyed the doll.
Click-click
A new sound resounded as Blake and Aiden looked towards two brown teddy bears, who just appeared, that were standing there and looking at them.
'These are the same ones who were fighting Ben.' Aiden thought as he ran to grab the sword he had thrown.
Swoosh
'Huh?'
Unfortunately, before he could grab the sword, one of the brown teddy bears appeared in front of him and threw a punch at him.
'I-I have to take it.'
Finding himself unable to dodge, he braced himself for the punch.
BAM