Chapter 19

Interlude 5 When the minotaur defeated the metal dragon for the hundredth time, a small entrance had appeared opposite the boss room on the outermost hallway of the one hundredth floor. However, the minotaur had never gone near it. Actually, it did pass by once, when the large mob of humans had attacked. It had approached the opening while raging around the floor, but it never noticed. Anyone without the proper qualifications was incapable of seeing it. The minotaur once again left the boss room of the one hundredth floor, killed three more hydras, and walked along the corridors. It did not have a destination in mind. It just wanted to move its body. It just wanted to struggle. The minotaur then passed in front of the small entrance. What is this? I should have passed this spot many times before. But if this was here, there is no way I would not have noticed. Which means it must have appeared after I secluded myself in the metal dragon’s room. Through the entrance was a long corridor that descended slightly as it went. The minotaur wondered if there was anything at the other end of that long hallway. There could even have been another staircase down, which it had given up on finding. It stepped through the entrance and entered a hallway it had never seen before. The passageway extended far into the distance. The minotaur pressed forward. It walked and walked, but the corridor never ended. The staircase down from the ninety-ninth to the one hundredth floor was also incredibly long, but this was much longer. The hallway was pitch-black, but that was not a problem for the minotaur thanks to its Night Vision skill and various other sensory skills. It tried expanding the range of its Perception skill but did not detect anything. That meant there were no living creatures nearby. The minotaur kept walking. It was unaware of how long it had been walking. It was likely an even longer distance than existed between the first and one hundredth floors of the Sazardon Labyrinth. As soon as it started to consider the journey fruitless, it saw a dim light ahead. When it drew closer to the light, it saw there was a small open space at the end of the hallway. It appeared to be a dead end. It felt slightly disappointed, but when it stepped into the open space, some flat stones arranged in a circle in the center of the room lit up with a blue glow. Illuminated by the blue light coming from the ground in the otherwise pitch-black room, the minotaur looked like a strange god of legend. The light must have been telling it to step onto the stones. That is what the minotaur decided, so it did just that. Then, the minotaur disappeared.