Chapter 399 - Mysteries of Mysterious Maze (part-3)

Ryuu gave a dazzling smile to everyone present as shook they head at his antics.

He casually stepped away from the corpse of the creature that slowly turned into a puddle of goo, while he twirled his weapons disappeared from his hands.

He looked towards his group before he tilted his head slightly with a small barely noticeable frown on his face, 'Why are those three gawking at me like that?'

No sooner he approached them he was dragged by his group slightly to the side as Zywia spoke with an anxious tone in her voice, "When we got separated we came across a statue."

Hearing the word 'statue', a warning bell rang in his head as such he quickly spoke to run damage control, "Ah so you have seen the statue.", at that the trio nodded as Ryuu continued speaking, "The craftsmanship was noteworthy to the point it looked alive, the statue was so well made that for a moment I thought you three were turned to golden statues and placed there."

The trio was taken aback by that as Frost Flames spoke, "What nonsense are you saying? We are speaking about your statue."

Ryuu looked shocked upon hearing that before he snickered at that as he spoke, "That was a nice joke, but seriously why are your statues present here?"

"But Ryuu please believe us we saw your statue, it was incredibly accurate, not to mention that spear of yours I never saw it before but the statue had it and now you are carrying it as well."

Seeing the distressed look on Frozen Oceans face Ryuu scowled as he spoke, "The spear I did not use because I never needed to, I have yet to face someone that would make me go all out to fight until then sorry but I am not going to use my full strength to crush ants."

Zywia looked a bit annoyed as she spoke, "If you do not believe us, then we can transverse into the maze again."

Ryuu quickly raised his hand in surrender as he spoke, "Wah, wah please come down Zywia, it is not that I do not believe you I was taken aback after seeing your statues."

True-Spear frowned at that as he spoke, "It is disconcerting as none of us saw those statues, but I believe if we discuss our findings we might find the motive since all we did was transverse the maze, nothing more nothing less, and compared to other levels we have yet to find any danger."

As True-Spear spoke Ryuu plopped on the ground as he glared at him, seeing such a look on his face True-Spear could not help but as out loud, "What?"

Ryuu simply raised his finger as he pointed towards the black goo as he spoke, "You forgot about that."

True-Spear gained a sheepish look on his face as he spoke, "Well sorry, but as we have not faced any enemy I forgot."

Ryuu huffed at that as he stared on the ground.

Amnon cleared his throat as he spoke, "Well I believe we can discuss the statues later on as others are getting impatient wanting to know about your encounter with those creatures."

The array meant for their privacy went down as by then Ryuu was already lying on the floor with his eyes closed as he spoke, "If some of you are offended sorry but I am not getting up I am too tired to move, so sorry."

Severing Saber snorted at that as he spoke, "Well youngster I am not asking you to get up but can you please tell us how you came across the creature."

Ryuu gave him a tired smile as he spoke, "So where should I begin….. ah yes after I was separated from Zywia, Frost Flames and Frozen Ocean, I was alone moving through the maze, it was then that I came across a door, the only door inside the maze."

One of the cultivators whose name Ryuu had yet to remember spoke with a frown, "What are you talking about? There were so many doors in that maze."

Ryuu sends a pointed look towards him as he spoke, "I hope you are not speaking about the walls and ceilings of the maze that was separated us.", seeing that look he gave an uneasy smile as Ryuu began to speak as he rolled his eyes, "Well what I encounter was an honest to Good door with arrays on it, well opened and step inside it."

"What I found was an oval-shaped empty chamber and as soon as I stepped inside the door closed, and I was unable to reopen it, then all of a sudden many small doors opened as …."

A few hours ago, Ryuu could hear the chattering, howling and screeching of animals from the other side of the door, 'Damn I will have to fight some critter, well 'Genesis' let us how good the teamwork are between us.', with a savage grin came to his face as he dashed towards his enemy.

The creature that stepped inside the room was a six-legged, bluish creature with drooling snarling visage, and a single eye on its bulbous head that, while glowing veins surrounded its body.

It snarled and leapt towards Ryuu, 'Fast' was the only thing that ran through his mind as he saw the creature approach him.

'Ferocious Buddha's Mind' and 'Omniscient Eyes', were activated by him soon and normally he would have used 'Prancing Dragon Steps', but the 'Spear Sword Tactics', would be incompatible with it as such he decided to use a newly learned foot technique, 'Overlord's Waltz.'

He moved to the side as he raised his sword cutting the creature before lunging and skewering the second, be took a turn as he lowered to the ground and cut another and before he long he tripped and found himself stumbling and hitting headfirst the wall.

Ryuu winced in pain at that, 'Damn it, I know everything there is to know about the technique and not to mention I feel as if I had used it forever yet my body does not know, damn it, I feel like a world-renown dancer who had entered the competition after drinking a good few bottles of wine. I know everything but I cannot perform to my absolute best.'

He turned to look at the creatures as his eyes narrowed, 'Are those things snickering at me? Is my stumbling so amusing to them? These cretins will die, and I will use their death to create muscle memory.'

Ryuu's tyrannical aura surrounded them as he growled with anger as he spoke, "How dare make fun of me, I will kill you all."

The next few hours went passed as Ryuu killed the creatures while slipping and stumbling, trying to keep his balance, as time pass by it was getting difficult as they had opted to run away from him, from a rampaging Ryuu.

"How dare you run away from me you filthy cowardly cretin, come back and die", he bellowed at the top of his lungs as one of them lunged at him.

His fighting style as the name implied was rather simple just like the name of the style as Ryuu himself stated in a rather eloquent manner, 'a rather boorish and unimaginative', he would block with either of his weapons while the free one could deliver the hit, then he would switch, but the most beautiful part of it was it enabled him to use both sword and spear techniques seamlessly no matter how incompatible they seemed to be, just like how he blocked one of the creatures with his spear and then tore it apart using 'Joyous Rain.'

"Laugh at me will you, laugh at me for trying to learn a new technique, how amusing it is now when I slaughter you and your brethren."

And soon there was only one left standing and trembling as it stood supporting itself on the wall, and in a blink of eye Ryuu had pierced him, and then the wall behind the creature collapsed, he was barely able to control and turn his Divine Body off before he was noticed by others.

As the dust began to settle a familiar shiver went down his body as the urge to throw up increased, 'Damn it, not now not in front of so many people.'

"….Well that how it was having to deal with them, it made me sore all over, and I hope that I will not have to face similar creatures anymore."

"Damn, that is quite a tale."

Ryuu gave Severing Saber a small smile at that as Severing Saber continued to speak, "So what do we do now?"

Ryuu stifled a yawn as he spoke in a tired voice, "Well if all want to go ahead then please do so, I am too tired to move I want to sleep."

Frozen Ocean was kneeling by his side and as he spoke her hand brushed against Ryuu as her eyes widen momentarily, 'He is burning up from fever, he is shaking and his pulse is erratic, that idiot he pushed himself again, I do not know how his family put up with a troublesome child like him.'