Chapter 1674 Victor [1]

Chapter 1674 Victor [1]

Eris was immediately hostile.

August could tell that from the moment their eyes met, escaping back the way he came was impossible.

He had to find a way to distract her so he could run. Otherwise, this would simply be the end of his journey.

The power gap was too big, and August couldn't put up a convincing defense that would stop her from taking him out.

His eyes darted through the corridor on the other side of the moving wall for a single second.

He recognized several patterns and instantly came up with a plan.

Before the audience could even reach the edges of their seats in anticipation, he shot through the gap in the wall.

'One.'

Eris was already raising her hand to attack.

August stepped on the floor in one specific position that he'd calculated before jumping out of the way.

Swoosh!

There was a sound of wind as the floor dropped out. Eris was taken by surprise. Her attack was broken, and she was instead forced to correct her body with mana so she could float out of the pit.

August used the opportunity to scale the wall, slamming his hand down at a certain point before jumping away again.

Arrows.

They shot from one side of the corridor to the other, creating a wall of projectiles that kept Eris stuck floating in the pit.

One would believe that these traps weren't enough to stop Eris in the slightest, but that wasn't the case.

After all, the maze scaled itself to match those within. Because August was present, the traps were a bit weaker, but Eris' presence balanced them out.

Even if it was her, forcing a way through the two tricks August had implemented would take a decent amount of time.

And that was all August could hope for.

He'd gotten lucky in that there were arrows and a pitfall at this specific dead end, however, luck wasn't a factor in the third one.

In fact, even August's actions had nothing to do with it.

Every dead end would be accompanied by a closing wall. BANG!

The dead end closed once again, and suddenly, a new wall emerged on the other side, closing off the corridor.

August was already running across the wall. He jumped over it without a problem and landed on the other side. At that point, he was just fleeing for his life.

He was able to make it out because he was thoroughly prepared and had the space to act freely.

Eris, on the other hand, had to first make it out of the first two traps if she wanted a chance at dealing with the third.

The best-case scenario was her getting trapped and disqualified, but August knew not to hope for the best.

If he thought she was going to fall here, he wouldn't have run so desperately once he'd escaped her.

For the time being, he didn't think over his movements.

He took left turns, right turns, and ran as far as possible while keeping his movements as chaotic as possible.

BOOOOOOM!

Well, he was certain that he would be in the ground before he knew what was happening. Nothing more needed to be said.

If traps couldn't offer him anything, if other corridors couldn't offer him anything, then he needed to find something here that would help him.

In a single second, his eyes scanned the entire wall in front of him. By the time the second one arrived, he had already surveyed the floor as well.

"Ignoring me?" Eris Noct spoke again, but August was too busy investigating the last wall to hear her.

She flicked her hand forward. Two sharp blades of darkness appeared at her side and shot towards August.

Whoosh!

The sound of the wind as they barely brushed past his head was jolting.

It was clearly a warning shot.

August glanced at the genius at the end of the hall. He did hear her, and he knew that she was trying to talk to him. However, he didn't regret ignoring her at all.

Rather, he was going to keep doing it.

'I'm not losing here, lady!'

He didn't have the confidence to say it, but he definitely thought it as loud as possible.

He'd found a method.

...maybe.

August dashed towards the opposite wall and scaled it.

To Eris, it looked like a pathetic struggle.

She sighed as he scurried around like a rat.

There was clearly no escape path for him. What was the point of trying?

Someone with so much fear was just pathetic in her eyes, even if she understood what she represented to someone as weak as him.

'Perhaps he isn't the right one.'

She was interested at first because he'd managed to escape using clever means, but if it was just a one-off and not something he could do consistently...

Her thoughts didn't have time to reach the place they were going.

August reached the point he had been aiming for. He punched into the wall, wriggling his hand around until it found a switch.

He looked at Eris and smiled as he clicked it.

Before she could do anything to stop him, August was sucked into the rock. The hole he'd made, the switch he pressed, and he himself had all disappeared, leaving Eris alone.

'I change my mind.' Eris thought, a light gleaming in her eyes.

'He's the one.'

Nobody else she'd met had been worthy enough.

This one, however, had exactly what she was looking for.

So despite the ingenuity of his escape methods...

...he could give up any thoughts of getting away from her.