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Our group, including Han Se-ah, didnt pay much attention to the walls of the cave.
There weren't any worm or ghost-type monsters breaking through the cave walls, and it wasn't an underground dungeon filled with traps either.
However, the idle viewers tend to be curious about everything.
So intently watch the shadowy passages of the cave, while others are strangely fixated on things like Grace's swaying hair or the fluttering hem of Irenes nun robe.
"Theres a pattern on the wall? Why didnt I see it?"
"Hanna? Is sothing wrong?"
Hmm... Irene, did you notice anything odd on the cave walls?
Han Se-ah's steps began to falter at the sound of the loudly echoing donation notification.
Donations arent as imdiate as the chat, so by the ti she received the advice, we'd already moved past the ntioned wall with the pattern.
Out of curiosity and slight regret, she throws a glance back, slowing her pace, which makes Irene and Kaiden turn their attention to her.
No, I didnt see anything.
Neither did I. Do you sense sothing back there?
Of course these two wouldn't have noticed anything.
To begin with, in my decade as an adventurer, I've never heard of patterns carved onto cave walls.
But it can't be entirely dismissed as nonsense either.
From a side quest to gather moss for hair loss treatnt to sothing new possibly appearing on the cave walls, isn't this what gas are about?
"I think there might be sothing on the cave walls. It could be my imagination, but we should be on the look out.
The party looked surprised by Han Se-ah's unexpected comnt.
They must've been puzzled since I hadnt ntioned anything about the cave walls before.
But I too was clueless in this case, rely shrugging in response.
The group continued forward, keeping in mind the comnt about the cave walls.
From the looks of it, everyone seed to be carefully observing their surroundings.
The trust that Han Se-ah had built as a player was substantial, so instead of dismissing it as nonsense, everyone was genuinely curious.
Had any other adventurer made such a claim, they'd probably have been ridiculed for talking nonsense after having too much to drink the previous night.
But when Han Se-ah says it, it feels credible.
Hey, whoever ntioned the wall pattern before, speak up now. Give us a clearer explanation. We appreciate the donation, but the timing was off, and we passed that spot already. I can't just ask Roland to go back because of a donation. Hurry up.
-Bro I paid to give advice and got scolded for it.
-What explanation is needed? If sothings drawn on the cave wall, you'll know when you see it, lol.
-Blaming others so smoothly Is this the quality of a top-tier strear and of a world-ranked mage?
[HanSeAhsActualThoughts donated 10,000 won!]
Honestly, I'm just asking for more donations.
"It's not like that! ...Of course, I genuinely appreciate the 10,000 won."
While bickering with the viewers and searching the cave walls ticulously, Han Se-ah moves forward.
However, after encountering a group of kobolds and hunting vampire bats, we still hadn't found any cave walls engraved with peculiar patterns.
Because of this, the party mbers began to grow restless, and both Han Se-ah and the viewers started to believe that either the darkness had tricked their eyes into seeing the patterns on the cave wall, or soone had lied to troll them.
That was until Irene called out to .
"Uh, Roland?"
"What is it?"
"I think I saw sothing strange here. It seems you can only see it when the baton-shaped magic tool gets close to the wall..."
Irene, who had put unwavering faith in Han Se-ah's words, had tirelessly observed the cave walls and had now found sothing.
Han Se-ah, whipping her head around so fast that one might worry it'd snap off, and the rest of the curious group approached Irene.
We then pressed the magic tool against the cave wall like we were writing on it.
When the rugged wall caught the faint light, it transford as if it was an artificial surface, becoming completely smooth.
Instead of revealing patterns, certain parts of the wall beca sleek, and the surrounding stalactites and other cave wall irregularities cast shadows, making it seem as though patterns were appearing.
Even soone unfamiliar with adventuring would find this wall suspicious.
It looked as if tiles, each about 30cm in size, had been embedded into the uneven cave, forming a smooth square.
"What is this?"
"Roland, do you know anything?"
"No, this is the first ti I've seen anything like this while exploring the tower. I've never heard of sothing like this in the caves."
The space was limited, so I, clad in large, heavy armor, stepped back, making way for the smaller mbers of the group to huddle closer.
Their heads clustered together like puppies crowding around a food bowl.
Even Kaiden seed to forget she was in disguise and joined the huddle it was almost too adorable.
Holding the baton-shaped magic tool close and then pulling it away, knocking on the wall with a sword hilt, rubbing the smooth surface the group tried everything, looking like children conducting their first science experint.
-There's been a lot more things happening since entering the 21st floor
-I'm not interested in a cave wall, can you turn the cara 180 degrees?
-Lol, seriously, who wants to see the wall? Show us Grace and Irene
-So, what is that, nerds?
-It's certainly out of place, but I have no idea. It seems like a switch, but nothing happens when you press it.
Since it's a narrow passage and I'm blocking the front, and with Kaiden and Irene at the back, there's no worry of an ambush.
So, like people trying to solve a puzzle, the entire party remained focused on the cave wall.
However, even after gently caressing and tapping the unresponsive wall tiles, there was no reaction.
By appearance alone, they looked like a puzzle board from an escape or horror ga, but there was no reaction.
Then, an idea suddenly ca to mind.
Could it be so sort of switch or button?
And in this fantasy world, such switches or buttons would naturally move by consuming mana rather than electricity.
"Hanna, how about trying to infuse it with so mana?"
"Mana?"
"Instead of just touching it with your hand filled with mana, imagine activating a magic tool and directly channeling your mana into that wall."
I ant for her to treat it like a light switch, and to feed mana into it as if sending electricity through a wire.
I tried to phrase it in a way that would make sense to her, hoping she'd catch the drift.
Regardless of my vague instruction, Han Se-ah imdiately aid her staff at it.
The cluster of mana that floated above her staff seed to seep into the wall, like rainwater perating dry soil.
Due to frequently manipulating her mana through her staff to explain the mini-map, her mana control was exceptional.
As she continued to pour her mana in, a visible change occurred on the wall.
"It feels like... the mana is being drained."
"Reacting to a mage? Maybe another mage left sothing behind?"
Blue lines of mana began to etch onto the smooth surface of the wall.
Whether it was the mana stones of monsters or clusters of unford magic, this familiar blue color of the fantasy world began to travel over the smooth surface of the wall.
Rather than resembling a switch, it looked more like a circuit board as the blue lines of mana spread out erratically, even reaching the uneven parts of the cave walls.
The blue luminescence of mana stretched out, illuminating the dim cave.
"Ah, it's showing a path."
As the mana began to fade, the appearance of the cave changed, and Han Se-ah's expression turned rigid.
Because, undeniably, the path in front of them was less of a narrow cave path and more like a maze.
From the 21st to the 30th floor of the Tower was a cave terrain.
Well, it used to be.
The narrow, uneven passages housed cave spiders and vampire bats, and sudden expansive clearings were filled with stalactites and stalagmites, with goblins and creatures like kobolds appearing in large numbers.
The safe zones were at the end of dead-end paths, where the ground was flat enough to set up a tent village.
But that was then.
"How many forks have we passed?"
"That was already the eighth one."
Grace, with her darkening expression, scanned the surroundings with even more intensity.
It was because the cave hadn't originally had this many forks in its paths.
Before channeling mana into the wall, there would be a fork roughly every 30 minutes.
Now, there seed to be two or three forks appearing every 5 minutes.
If it weren't for Han Se-ah's mini-map function, they might have starved to death wandering in circles.
"We have the mini-map, so we're not just going around in circles, but I can't figure out what's going on. Do we need to find all the flat panels in the maze and pour mana into them? Like in those horror gas where you go around pressing multiple levers or switches."
It doesn't feel like monsters will suddenly appear, though.
-Left-left-right-right-center-center-left-right, this is driving crazy. LOL.
-After watching the stream, I don't want to climb to the 21st floor...
-Can they even finish this today? Might have to camp out a few tis.
-If they didnt pack enough food, theyd be seriously screwed.
The problem was that no quest window had appeared for Han Se-ah yet.
Turning a cave level into a maze level, what's up with that setting?
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