634 If and When You Waver
It looked like an entrance to somewhere.
The spot that was dug out is connected to a dungeon wall with an arched entrance.
I peeked inside, the interior got neatly lined up brick walls, like it was manmade.
You don't get a proper entrance like this digging rocks with pickles.
There's a mastermind behind this. My intuition is convinced that this was part of some scheme.
"So you're telling me, I've got to get to the bottom of this huh... I have absolutely nothing to do with all this though, surely."
Even if I'm not obliged to stick my neck in this, I can't help but worry about it.
Maybe things will turn real bad if I back off here. Or the opposite.
But I lost to my curiosity and stepped inside the dungeon.
The interior is about 3 meter tall and 2 meter wide. The corridor is endlessly straight ahead.
It's long enough I can't see the end from where I stand.
"There's... no trap is it? But man, I'm poking my nose somewhere I don't belong instead of unwillingly getting dragged in one for once."
That realization only came after I took a step inside. I kept walking deeper into the dungeon to forget about it.
There really is no trap, no wall spears or anything popping up.
But I still can't see the end. I turn around thinking this space must be made with mana.
"Geh! The exit's been blocked off!? ...Am I trapped here? It can't be... A trap for intruders?"
I could still barely see the exit from where I stood so I immediately noticed the change.
It's been transformed into a wall as if there was nothing from the start.
Just when I was about to go back and break the wall, the dungeon shook.
Think it's around 4 in seismic intensity? I stopped moving to figure out what was going on.
I kept hearing sounds of something colliding and rubbing off against each other.
A wall got projected in front of me to clinch it. I wondered if the path ahead has been blocked off as well to seal me off completely. But then I turned around and got greeted with a crossroad that popped up out of nowhere.
"Oy oy, you can't be serious."
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This place seems to have been turned into a maze.
"...This would have activated by anyone who entered, not just me right? Since I went in without consulting anybody, they won't send a rescue party... Of course. I mean they don't even know that I'm here."
The survey team would only find a blocked off entrance before opting to leave it alone. There's no way they'll proactively attempt to destroy the wall either.
Nobody outside knows I'm in here therefore, I shouldn't expect rescue.
"Aah, is this a checkmate? But I'm still alive. Maybe I might as well clear this maze? What do~."
In for an inch, in for a mile. I might as well see it through the end.
That was the idea before I got stumped at the first barrier, the crossroad. Which way should I go.
"Hmm? I should pick the straight path ahead and walk to the end."
The situation is nothing like before. Yet I couldn't shake off the impression I got from it and chose to go straight ahead.
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