Chapter 86: CHAPTER 85 -

*Woosh**Thunk*

Alex tilted his head, dodging yet another one of the arrows shot from the traps, only for it to embed in the maze wall.

Alex, however, didn't leave it there.

*Khach*

With a simple tug on the arrow, he pulled it out before he kept it in his storage and continued on his path.

Why let a free weapon go to waste?

That's what Alex had thought.

He already had one compartment of his inventory designated for arrows, and no matter how many arrows he picked, they were all going to get stored in that same compartment.

So why not have as many as he could?

By now, Alex had already collected more than ten arrows like this.

'Sigh...'

But soon, he found himself standing in front of a closed-off pathway, causing him to sigh in frustration.

This was the fifth time he came to a dead end, all while trying to move away from the creatures of the maze.

*Gaooaoaoa...*

Just as he was about to turn back and start following another path, he heard the sound of strange callings, causing him to frown.

'Again?'

He turned back to look at the source of the voice, and as he had expected, it was another one of those creatures, crawling toward him with its body leaning on the walls.

While moving around, Alex came across some humans, but all they did was run, unlike him, who was not in much of a hurry, making it impossible for any contact to happen between him and other humans.

But the thing that felt weird to him was the fact that the number of these creatures around him was increasing at an alarming rate.

*Step**Step*...

He dashed toward the beast, making it seem like he was planning to body slam the creature, and the creature paused in its tracks.

*Goaoaoa!*

Its multiple eyes that were spread all over its body stared at Alex with focus, as if it were ready to take on Alex, but at the last moment...

*Skid*

Alex slid to the right, and even before the creature could respond, he dashed away from that spot.

Those abominations were slow, at least for Alex, who had his stats at level 5. Searᴄh the Nôvel(F)ire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

So, by using his maximum speed, it was easy for Alex to bolt away before those creatures could even come close to him.

The wide pathways of the maze only helped him more.

His head turned back to look at the creature, and the frown on his forehead deepened.

'Why is it not moving?'

Alex didn't feel good about this; it was as if something was going on, but he knew nothing about it.

But then the system's last words repeated inside his head.

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

'Is it because of that?'

Alex wondered.

[Duration: 03:28:55.]

Half an hour had already gone by and since Alex wasn't really hurrying it up, it was taking him time to reach the final point.

Well, it was also a matter of luck.

Some people were lucky enough to find it as soon as the scenario started, while some died without even knowing that they had stepped on a trap.

Alex was still better than the worst cases.

But maybe he should hurry it up now.

It was better to complete the scenario and start moving toward Delhi.

*Tap**Tap**Tap*...

With that thought, Alex started sprinting through the maze.

The nagging feeling that this was not all, however, didn't go away.

*Gaooaoaoa...*

He would find a new one of those beasts at every turn, but with masterful maneuvers, he would slide away from them.

But a frown was ever-present on his forehead.

This was not normal; Alex was sure of it, especially when he couldn't even find a single human in his surrounding area.

It was as if all the humans in the surroundings had disappeared.

*Tap**Tap**Tap*...

He continued on, but just as he was crossing another pathway with utmost caution, his steps paused as he heard something.

"H-Help..."

*Drag*

The sound was shallow, as if the owner was just a breath away from death, but Alex could hear it; there was this strange dragging sound that was heard along with it.

Alex's eyes squinted, a wary light shining in his eyes, but he still moved toward the voice with light and vigilant steps.

"I-It hurts...

P-Please, someone... Help me."

*Drag*

As Alex got closer, he could hear the voice clearer than before, and from the voice alone, he could tell that the owner was in extreme pain—so much so that even screaming was strenuous for him.

The AI, although aware that Alex knew it, still warned him about it, and Alex's body stiffened a bit as he heard something.

*Gaooaoaoa...*

"It's painful...

I-I can't go on anymore..."

*Drag*

The voice was just some meters away from him, just around the next corner, Alex was sure of it, but the thing that caused his eyes to widen in shock was the growl of the abomination that he heard between the words of the human.

He hurriedly jumped back in alarm, not wanting to go any closer, and just as he did...

*Boom*

A black greasy tentacle, covered with greasy substances, was slammed right where he was standing a second ago; it was as if that tentacle knew his location.

*Gaooaoaoa...*

"D-Don't leave me b-behind...

Please, help me."

*Drag*

The next second, the one to whom that tentacle belonged, came out of the corner of the wall.

'What..?'

Alex, with his body tensed, stared at the abomination in front of his eyes.

*Drag*

"D-Don't leave…"

It was a grotesque creature with a bloated, gelatinous body. It was black in color like any other nightmarish creature that had popped out of the wall, oozing mass constantly shifting and pulsating.

Half-absorbed human limbs, legs, and heads protrude at odd angles from the creature's fat, dripping form, twitching as they're slowly consumed.

There were faces frozen in agony that appeared and vanished in the gooey flesh, while the creature's deformed body gave out a sickening stench.

"P-Please, come closer...

Help m-me."

*Drag*

Its huge, 3-meter-high body dragged itself toward Alex, leaving a trail of slime in its wake as one of those faces on its body let out its pained groan.

Alex's eyes squinted, his gaze solemn as he scanned the beast using his analytic gaze.

[[Name: Unnamed Chimera Anomaly.

Race: Chimera-human hybrid.

Title: --

Stats:

→ Strength – Level 25 (Tier 1)

→ Defense – Level 25 (Tier 1)

→ Agility – Level 2 (Tier 1)

→ Stamina – Level 25 (Tier 1)

→ Mana – Level 10 (Tier 1)

]]

'Level 25...'

It was stronger than the others, and although it was still slow for Alex, it was higher than others, and it had mana as well.

Alex, however, didn't dwindle around; if the enemy was stronger, then all you had to do was run away.

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