645 Peering Inside
I groped the walls in this dungeon core room to see if I could find a hidden door.
But I found nothing. Or rather, it'd be way too plot convenient if there were one. Reality is a harsh mistress.
"What do I do? Go with yet another primitive method for the return trip? Like retracing my path here."
That's gonna involve shoving aside the pile of blocks I used to get up here somehow and go down.
I'm getting depressed. It took me so long just to get here. I don't wanna have another go.
I regained my composure and undid Acceleration for the first time since I reached this room.
The fatigue hit me all at once.
"So I really have no choice but to destroy the core here, and face the dungeon collapse. No other way out. It's no sweat with MAX Acceleration but if I want to go back, I'd have to, ugh...."
I can't think up of any other choice or tricks. Still holding on to hope, I ended up cutting up the entire room and found zero hidden passages. Same with the ceiling.
The ceiling is pretty low here, less than 170 centimeters. Inversely, it's got a lot of horizontal space, quite a badly balanced room.
Groping in the dark ended up taking more time.
"...That's enough. Let's just accept it."
I gave up and entered Acceleration. Then I sliced and diced the core into fine fragments. A way to vent my pent up stress.
What if I didn't ride on Griffon like I was taking a field trip to the dwarf kingdom?
My on-foot speed is way faster than Griffon. Wouldn't that small difference result in me avoiding this situation?
What if I delayed leaving the Coliseum City by a day?
The Dwarf Kingdom would have suffered more and I probably wouldn't be able to have my katana maintained.
Heck, what if I declined Makiru's request and left their workshop early?
I traced my way back while thinking all kinds of 'what ifs'. I threw the blocks I used as my foothold into another pile and sometimes cut some up before hurling them somewhere else to get back down.
Of course it's all done in Accelerated State. The Dungeon Core has been destroyed already. Undoing Acceleration would start the dungeon collapse and drag me in it. Who knows what fate await if I do that.
(At the end of the day, this is the price I have to pay in order to be burden free from carrying on avoidable regret in my future life.)
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If only I did that, if only I was faster, if only, if only.
I'm stuck in this situation to avoid that future of me.
This 'power' affords me to not overlook these situations.
Most problems can be solved if I just wield this power. Things that happen outside my awareness are one thing, but I can't just look away when it's right in front of my eyes.
The problem is solved if I meddle in. People are saved if I jump in. Grave issues are no biggie if I agree to help.
Apparently I can't just pretend to look the other way.
I don't need power, I just want to be 'ordinary'. That wish of mine will never be fulfilled no matter how hard I hope.
If I were ordinary, I could have just said 'it was inevitable', 'there's no helping it' no matter how sad or pitiful the conclusion is.
There's no doubt in my mind that's how most people live their life until their demise.
But I can't cut myself from this power which is precisely why I keep poking my nose in these businesses nothing to do with me.
(Most risks become risk-free with this power.)
My sense of crisis and alertness have certainly gone down the drain due to this power.
I was originally never the kind of person that'd put myself in danger. Me thinking all this is the proof that shows how much this power has changed me.
The power in me is abnormal enough it could easily alter someone's mindset. It's just that hugely influential.
I bet nobody can oppose the change.
Thus, I progressed through the way back as I was having a look back internally.
Then, I finally reached the room below.
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