642 Springing, Fluttering About
It's one thing if the core is hidden somewhere in this room. But I'd throw in the towel if it were located someplace else in this dungeon.
"Psychologically speaking, you'd rather keep something that important close to yourself. I have no idea how that guy's mindset works though so the possibility of it being hidden in another spot is not zero."
Finding the thing would be an ordeal if so.
I mulled it over for about five minutes. Then I noticed how dumb it is to even worry.
I might as well start working my way with this room.
"I'll dig up all the walls here first thing first. I'm not gonna leave it be anyway. Might as well look in every nooks and crannies till I find the thing."
The idea of asking for help never crossed my mind.
Normally, the more manpower helping the faster you'd find something.
But my head was full of that 'Happy Time' on my way here so that idea just never manifested.
I would have come up with it if I only I cleared my head, but I spent a long time in Accelerated State to defeat Dyulden as well. It's inevitable.
I never managed to collect my thoughts back.
And thus the theater of destruction begins. The walls in this room are gradually crumbling down. They're mostly five meter thick.
I went straight to digging after entering Acceleration.
(A hidden door should be pretty sturdy, it's gotta be camouflaged to look indestructible.)
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My effort would be for naught if it was the 'transport by a magic circle' type like you often see in fantasy work.
But I'm not stopping. Whenever I destroy a portion of wall and find there's no more, I move on to the section next to it. I got too much into this repetition.
Eventually the room became almost twice as large than it was initially. Yet, I couldn't find any hidden path.
(Could it be, like you know? Guy was hiding it in a blind spot... The ceiling perhaps?)
That line of thinking should naturally bring you to the ceiling.
People don't tend to focus their attention upward. Up or down, anything that's not in front of their vision easily gets ignored.
(Alright! Let's try the ceiling next! But how do I reach it, my jump won't be high enough.)
I undid Accelerated State for now. Which prompted the wreckage I had set aside to start shooting off randomly in all directions.
I shoved aside all the sections I dug out without thinking, so there is no order in their trajectories.
"Oh craaaaaaaap! Uoo! Uoo! Uoo! Oooooo!?"
I shoved the wall I dug backward when I was digging a straight path in the upper floor but the wreckage flying here kept hitting each other and changed trajectories which added to the chaos.
I really had to sweat until the chaos subsided.
"T-thought I was a goner there... I was about to get offed by my own doing, an incredibly stupid one at that...?"
My body may be monstrously strong but I never want to test how far can it take.
I don't want to get hurt. It's probably never happening all my life.
Luckily, none of the flying wreckage hit me. It wouldn't be a laughing matter if a random debris hit a vital spot and killed me. Like, seriously.
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