643 Ceiling
Well now that I inspected closely, I couldn't find a single suspicious spot on the ceiling.
Of course. It's supposed to be hidden after all, can't have it be out in the open.
Anything obvious must be either a fake or a trap.
And even if I find a path, I gotta make sure it's the real one.
(Now then, let's get this done. Here you go! There! Whoopsie! Hnng!)
I picked up handy looking debris and kept throwing them at the ceiling.
In Accelerated State of course. The moments those debris got off my hands, they stopped mid air. They should sink in the ceiling right after I undo Acceleration.
The spot that comes off should be the hidden corridor.
Then the core must be deeper inside.
(Alright, think that about covers all? Time to undo Acceleration... or maybe, not so fast.)
I'd likely get crushed under the falling ceiling if I did that.
As such, I retreated to the entrance of this room before undoing Acceleration.
I forgot to close my ears. The ceiling wreckage fell down the ground virtually all at the same time.
The loud booming sound assaulted my ears. I yelped 'Hie!' and crouched down reflexively.
It was over soon, and I timidly looked up. I saw a spot where the ceiling is holey.
"Oh, guess that means I was right on the money? But man, I'd hate it if it was a fake to lull me into a false sense of security and lead me to a sea of traps."
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I don't want to deal with that kind of attraction.
Also, looking again, the hole is going straight above endlessly. I'm not climbing that.
It's so tall I could barely make out the debris I threw stuck in the ceiling of the hidden room at the very end.
The only silver lining is the glimpse of blue glow which indicates the existence of the core there.
"Ah, how do I go about this? Scale it? How? The hole walls don't even look grab-able by hands."
I'm seriously stumped here. How do I even get up there without an elevator.
"...Ah, guess I gotta do that. But... Yeah, it'll work. Alright, guess I'll give it a try. But what if I failed? Don't think I'd... die. But man, it's gonna be a huge pain, a real huge pain."
I'm mulling over executing a certain plan I had in mind.
Leaving this place without doing that plan is a bit, then again the labor that plan demands is way too much.
"Eeei! I've come this far! Tough it up! Gotta tough it up! Why the heck do I even gotta tough up here!?"
I'm under no obligation to get this desperate. I might have poked my nose into this mess myself, but it's not like this duty falls squarely on me.
Yet, I've made the decision already. I'll never get over it if I don't see this through the end.
"Dammit! Have I always been like this? Saving people...? Nah, it's because I wanna. That's right, I'm not doing this for other. I do this because I don't want to have a lingering regret in the future."
I forcibly convinced myself as I made my way back to the maze above.
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