"I guess you are right. You wait here then. I will go and help the others get to this place," Jack said
"Wait! You won't be able to do that. They need to arrive here by themselves," Sunset inford.
"Eh? How do you know that?"
"Trust , I tried going out before. The layout of the maze changed from when I ca the first ti. It continued to lead
back here."
"Hm… All right, I will take your words for it," Jack said. He could imagine he saw a relieved glint in Sunset's eyes.
"It's better that we try to solve the endga here in this hall. Once we solve it, the dungeon will be considered complete, and everyone will return to the temple."
"Really? And again, how do you know that?"
"It's a hunch," Sunset said as he pointed to the floor on the stage. "Look, I have been examining this hall. There is a strange indentation here that is out of place. It almost looks like sothing is ant to be placed on it."
Jack squatted down in front of the indentation Sunset ntioned. It was the shape of a triangle. It was indeed peculiar, but considering it was so tiny, it was rather splendid for Sunset to have noticed it.
"Anything to be put onto it cos to mind?" Sunset asked.
"As a matter of fact, yes," Jack answered. He pulled out sothing from his bag. It was a triangular pyramid, mory of Elding, the alien entity as Peniel called it, that ca as a result of fusing the three Fragnts of Map. The shape and size of the base of this pyramid fit the indentation on the floor.
Jack went ahead and placed the pyramid onto the indentation. A click was heard. The pyramid glowed and shot a beam on the wall behind the stage. A similar liquid silvery portal appeared at the sa spot where they had gone into this dungeon when they were still at the actual Temple of Divine Squall.
A dungeon within a dungeon? Jack wondered as he stared at the portal.
When the silvery portal appeared, Sunset Walking who had been kneeling beside Jack abruptly stood up and lunged towards it. As he was about to touch the portal, he noticed sothing coming from his side. He had hoped his abrupt action to catch Jack off-guard, but he was still wary enough to pay attention. Thus, he managed to erect a Magic Shield just before he felt an impact. He was sent skidding sideways away from the portal.
Jack stood there in front of the portal as he watched Sunset with vigilance.
"You… you expected this?" Sunset said.
"I have my suspicion, but I honestly hope I was wrong," Jack replied. He bent down and picked up the mory of Elding, the silvery portal vanished. Sunset's face turned dark as the portal disappeared.
"You seed to know from the start what this does," Jack said. "So, what is behind that portal just now?"
Sunset didn't reply. Instead, he asked back, "why are you suspicious of ?"
"Too strong to call it suspicious, let's just say I felt sothing was wrong with you. Mostly just small stuff, the main one I guess was because you lied about your Detect and Disarm Trap level."
"How do you know I lied? Even though I had more success than that lass in disarming the traps, it's still…"
"From the ti gaps between you triggering the Disarm tools," Jack replied, copying Peniel's explanation.
Sunset creased his brows, he did not expect Jack to watch him till that detail.
"Why did you separate from us? From the speed you arrived in this main hall, I assud you knew the routes already and the answers to the chanism. The traps also didn't seem to faze you much."
Sunset was silent for a beat before answering, "I was hoping you get killed by the chanism."
"Oh? But if that happened, won't you lose this thing also?" Jack asked as he lifted the mory of Elding.
"That will drop when you die," Sunset replied, and before Jack said anything, he added, "even with your Immortal Soul, it will still drop."
Jack lifted his brow, "you know?"
"Of course I do!" Sunset exclaid, his pitch was close to yelling. "Considering you stole it from . How do I not know?"
"Stole?" Jack was getting confused.
Sunset Walking waved his hand and his appearance underwent a transformation. His look now appeared older. His na also changed to Sunrise Gazing.
He was using a disguise? Jack thought with surprise.
"Do you recognize
now?" Sunrise shouted.
There was a long silence between them, too long that it turned awkward. Jack scratched his head, "I'm sorry, who are you?"
Sunrise almost fell. He had gone through much trouble to get a one-ti-use disguise tool, now that he had revealed his real face, the tool is not usable anymore. If he had known that Jack did not recognize him, he would not have wasted his ti to get that tool.
"Do you forget already where you get that God-eye monocle at the side of your face?!" Sunrise scread.
Realization finally dawned on Jack, "oh! You are that zombie-chow!"
Zombie-chow, such a degrading nickna. Not only did Jack forget about his look, but he had even given him such an ugly title.
"I'm sorry, all that happened so fast," Jack said. "I still cannot make heads or tails of what had happened to the world when you suddenly appeared and then so equally abrupt getting chomped by those zombies. I simply didn't have the ti to take a good look at you."
Sunrise's mouth twitched, he did not know how to express his anger more, considering the person responsible had been so honest in expressing his sorry. Before he could say anything more, he saw sothing that attracted his attention.
Jack saw the change in his gaze as well. Sunrise's eyes which had been so heatedly concentrated on him all this ti had suddenly moved to focus on sothing behind him. His radar didn't show anything other than the two of them within this hall, but his instinct scread at him to not dismiss this visual cue.
He swiveled rapidly that instant as he put his sword in front of him. A clanging sound of tal against tal was heard. He jumped back urgently after feeling the impact.
In front of him was a young man, clad in black-colored light armor. The countenance on his face showed surprise. "You managed to block my Concealed Ghost Attack skill? Amazing!"
Jack's max-level parry allowed him to mitigate most of that ambush damage. The man in front of him now appeared on his radar after that attack, it was registered as a red dot now.
"Soundeffect?" Sunrise called out.
Jack made a scan and saw that this was indeed the man's na. He was a level 29 Rogue, he was also a part of a guild called World Maker. Quite an arrogant na for a guild, Jack thought. Other than his high level, the fact that another player was roaming around this far-side of the wilderness other than his team was already an astonishing matter.
Soundeffect looked at Sunrise as his na was called. He then expressed a look of disdain as he said, "so, you are that Sunrise Gazing, another useless fool who failed to carry out Master's command. We heard you have been hiding in Thereath, never imagine you to surface here."
"I'm not hiding!" Sunrise yelled. "I am still serving Master! I know the clue of one of the things that Master is searching for is at capital Thereath. I've been following it until here."
"Heh, you think you will get a pardon if you managed to get that thing?" Soundeffect gave him a mocking laugh.
"At least it's a start!" Sunrise said.
Looking at the glum expression when Sunrise uttered the words, Jack thought the guy himself did not believe his own words. Who was this Master? To have them acting so devotedly for him. Jack had been silent this entire ti letting them converse, he was hoping to glean a little bit of information from their conversation, since it was unlikely any of them would answer him if he asked directly.
Soundeffect seed to have lost interest to talk with Sunrise, he turned to Jack and said, "do you want to hand that willingly? Or do I have to pry it off your corpse? You heard the guy, it will drop if you died."
"You are pretty confident," Jack praised, playing with the triangular pyramid in his hand.
"Heh, that should have been my words. Don't think that you are strong already just because you have the attributes from two classes. Strength also cos from equipnt, skills, expertise, and tools. Currently, I am wearing all Rare grade equipnt at level 30, I also have a lot of non-standard skills. Don't think a backwater player like you can hope to match ."
"Wait, he…"
"Shut up, you failure!" Soundeffect interrupted Sunrise. "We will deal with you when we are done with him!"
'We?' Jack raised an eyebrow.
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