Evin picked the second door this ti, and it turned out that this door was dedicated to puzzles. The whole place was made of ketricite, so the student couldn't cheat; and he had to go around pulling levers which opened doors and stuff. At least Evin didn't have to fight any rats this ti, which was a nice change of pace, but he did spend a considerable amount of ti solving it.
For his troubles, he received another two cards:
[Privilege to ask two questions from the Ruler. Note: The Ruler can answer any question regarding the island, as long as it doesn't pertain to the knowledge of becoming Helm.]
[Show this at the shelter to obtain a more detailed map of the Island.]
Evin was definitely thrilled at these boons. Teouka said that she was allowed to answer only one question a day, and Evin could guess that she could only answer certain kinds of questions. The Ruler, on the other hand, was soone who knew everything about the island, so he should be knowledgeable about all sorts of things. But since he could only ask two questions, Evin needed to think carefully about them.
The more detailed map wasn't as exciting as the questions, but Evin was still happy about it. Perhaps he would finally learn what the two unknown places are. Satisfied with his boons, he entered the final door.
This one led him down the stairs again and turned out to a mix of the concepts of the previous three doors. Evin started inside a rectangular room and was t with four doors. Each door led to a corridor, which led to another room, and those rooms would always have 2-4 doors. The interesting part was that these various different rooms would always have one of three things. Loot, enemies, or puzzles.
The loot wasn't anything notable, most of them were just access to food or supplies, with the only notable exception being a card: [Show this at the Shelter to obtain information on The Cove.]
Evin tucked the card into his small bag and went on. Eventually, he found the room with the key, which was guarded by a tier-2 rat. Interestingly, this one's fur was infused with mana, giving it stronger defenses. Its size was also much bigger than the previous tier 2. But unfortunately for the rat, its new defenses didn't extent to its eyes, so it was two-shot by the Voice. Evin combined the two key pieces and obtained the key to the locked door.
Finished with the exploration, Evin ascended the stairs, wondering what he would find behind the locked door. But just as he opened the iron door, he briefly lost control of his body, and felt it ducking down with almost inhuman speed.
"Shit!" he heard a familiar voice cursing above him and looked up.
Kolin had just hit the wall with an awfully thick tree branch, and Evin could also see the rest of his entourage standing beside the other three doors, each holding so kind of blunt weapon in their hands.
'An ambush, then,' Evin thought and realized that the Voice was sharing its mind with him again.
It's been almost a month since Evin fell in this state, so he could almost imdiately tell the difference. But there was sothing wrong about it this ti. He didn't know if it was because it was a long ti since he accessed this state, or because of sothing else entirely, but his mind felt almost unfamiliar to him now. Usually, when the Voice shared its state of mind with him, Evin felt only calm and quick-witted, but this ti, there was a distinct coldness to it all.
Various thoughts flashed past Evin's brain, but he still had an ambush to worry about.
"How could you miss that?" one of the girls complained and rushed towards Evin.
"The fucker doesn't move normally!" Kolin complained as he tried to stabilize himself and hit Evin again.
the Voice ordered.
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