Chapter 85: CHAPTER 84 - Chimera.

A whole city with an area of 300,000 square meters had turned into a maze.

Who would've thought it was even possible before the apocalypse?

Now, however, the maze appeared, and it materialized right in front of the humans' eyes.

If that was not enough, they had to survive and reach the final points—which were not enough to house even 10% of the total population—scattered around in the maze randomly.

But just as the humans thought that it was all, the system went ahead and dropped another bomb.

Creatures that looked like the worst of the nightmares started emerging from the greasy substance that fell off the walls of the maze.

The humans froze at the sight of those things.

*Plop**Thud*

'WTF IS THAT?!'

Even in their weirdest dream, they had not seen such creatures.

Soon, however, as they saw those monstrosities inching closer, their legs, as if attached with spring, moved with a jerk.

"RUN!!!"

The humans were separated by walls, but they could still hear each other, albeit very low.

That screaming, however, was heard by everyone.

It's not like they were not going to do that if they didn't hear it; they would've still done the same thing.

Alex was no different; he started to move away from those amalgamations of flesh and bones as well.

But unlike others, he didn't run away, as he could see things others couldn't.

The system, on the other hand, wasn't done yet...

[Oh, and one more thing... The longer you take, the more of those creatures you will have to face, so think fast, puny insects.]

As if that was all she wanted to say, her voice faded away with a chilling laugh. From the glee in her voice alone, one could tell that she was having the day of her life.

The panic and dread that humans felt were only elevated by those words, causing their legs to move faster, trying to scurry away from those monstrosities that seemed to want to devour them.

Alex, however, just squinted his eyes as he continued to stare at the deformed creatures in front of him.

[[Name: Unnamed.

Race: Chimera.

Title: --

Stats:

→ Strength – Level 20 (Tier 1)

→ Defense – Level 20 (Tier 1)

→ Agility – Level 1 (Tier 1)

→ Stamina – Level 20 (Tier 1)

→ Mana – Level 1 (Tier 1)

]]

This was all he could see about the creature, as it was more than 10 levels higher than him.

At first, when he saw the information of the creature, he was shell-shocked; how was he going to face a level 20 being?

But then, his eyes fell on its mana and agility stats...

'They are slow...'

Yes, those beasts were slow—so much so that Alex could just walk away from them.

Then again, the system wouldn't place a level 20 being without any weakness in this maze; that would mean killing all humans in the maze, and even the system shouldn't have permission to do it.

But soon, Alex started rushing as well.

He just had to avoid getting close to those abominations; other than that, this maze run didn't seem hard to him.

With that thought, he rushed into one of the paths that he could see in front of him. S~eaʀᴄh the NôᴠeFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

But just as he was about to dash away from those beasts...

[Congratulations, 'Dolly Rawat', for being the first to make it into the final point.]

The voice of the system, albeit mechanical and monotonous, reverberated throughout the maze, announcing the first participant to reach the final point.

This revelation froze many people in their spots.

'Someone already completed the scenario…?'

Such thoughts appeared in their minds.

But Alex just sharpened his eyes, as he had already expected this.

*Step**Step*...

He just zoomed into one particular path that he chose randomly.

The maze covered the whole city, and the final points were scattered around the city randomly. That must mean that some people—the lucky ones—had the final points quite close to them, right next to them even.

To those people, this scenario was as easy as it could be, but well, it was because of their luck that they won, and being lucky was a skill as well.

So, Alex just ignored the things he couldn't control and did the things he could control.

He just went on navigating through the identical paths of the maze.

Unlike some people who were trying to mark the path they followed, Alex didn't need to do it; even if he did it, it would've been useless...

"W-What? T-The marks are vanishing!"

This was what the people who were marking the wall found out; no matter how many times they tried to mark the walls of the maze, it would just absorb or dissolve those marks, adding more to their depression.

Alex, on the other hand, didn't need that...

*Woosh*

Alex dodged an arrow that was shot out from the wall of the maze.

The system did say that there would be a few obstacles, and she never said that those nightmarish creatures were the only obstacles.

Many people had already fallen for those traps without even realizing it.

The system's words were misleading, and although it did say there were few obstacles, it focused more on the creatures, causing the thought of other traps to leave the humans' minds.

A man triggers a trap by stepping on a misplaced tile, and as a result...

He fell right into the man-sized hole that appeared below his feet, falling on top of a series of iron spikes.

"Nooo–!"

That man couldn't even complete his scream before his head, along with his body, was impaled by the spikes, killing him on the spot.

The hole in the ground then closed, making the surroundings as quiet as they were before the man arrived; no one could tell that a guy had died right there.

But he was not the only one who fell for the traps, there were many more who faced the same fate.

"ARGHH—!"

"It hurts..."

"Shit–!"

Some were being rained upon by arrows, some were left on the ground with poison darts on their bodies, some had their feet fall into a pit filled with lava, and many more, but one thing was sure for those who fell for these traps...

*Gaooaoaoa...*

They would hear strange callings before the nightmarish creatures they were running away from would enter their line of sight.

"NOOOOO—!"

All they could do was scream in terror and fright as they would try to crawl away from those creatures, but alas...

Only the creatures, the system, and the ones who died knew what they had to face before they finally died.

Alex, however, was free of those worries.

He had mapping ability, making it easy for him to remember the path, along with the fact that he could tell where the traps were.

This A-ranked scenario, for some reason, seemed easy from Alex's perspective.

That fact, however, just made Alex more alert...

There was no way that he was the only one who would see that.

There were many beings other than him who must be able to tell that this scenario was very easy with his set of skills...