Big’s tone shifted so much it wouldn’t be stupid to think there was another person speaking. His face paled as he turned around and ran out the way he’d entered from. Bo was right behind him, and as he exited the room, more chains popped.

It wouldn’t be long before the creature was free. That thing had unimaginable strength, and it wanted nothing more than to kill Big at the moment. A part of Bo wanted to hit Big in the back of the head and leave him, but he knew that wasn’t going to save him. The creature would simply catch him and then torment them together.

Zion appeared with a headset on. Despite laying on the air as if it was a comfortable bed, he floated at the same speed as Bo as if attached. His tiny fluffy hands held the mic and he leaned towards Bo and whispered:

“My view count is at 30. Good job guys, you’re doing amazing.”

“Fuck your viewer count,” Bo said between breaths. “I’m going to die.”

Zion uncovered the mic. “Bo here managed to piss of a demon within an hour of being alive. Lmao, fucking loser. I see you in the chat Laughing Toast, this guy really is a moron. For one thousand crypts I’ll make him slip.”

“What… the… fuck,” Bo said.

There was a door slightly ahead of him, placed on a wooden wall.

“Thank you for the donation!,” Zion said, and Bo slipped. It was as if the floor beneath his shoe’s had become ice. He hunkered forward pushing as hard as he could to try to stay balanced and afloat.

Bo slammed into the door. It flew inwards revealing a basic room and two startled tiny white figures jumped backwards. I don’t have time for this. Bo rushed through the room, the goblin in tail, and slammed through another door, opening into a corridor.

“Generally,” Zion began, “in the upper strata you’ll find a lot of stupid and weak enemies. Occasionally you’ll stumble along something strong physically or something that has recently evolved. The mana density in the air here, just isn’t enough to sustain some of the other creatures, but due to the maze being an organic structure, there are of course power structures within it. This demon seems to have been banished by other creatures, and due to the low mana density, it seems to only cary about 10% of its real power.”

Bo felt the ground vibrate, and he was sure the demon was running behind them. That scared him enough to push him to run faster. The last thing he wanted was to die and that was certainly what would happen if Xathx’s claws touched him.

“This way, this way,” Big said, and dived for a hole the in wall. It looked like the entrance to some sort sewage system. Bo leaped in after Big and let the darkness cloak him. His face slammed into a some sort of rock and head spun around as Big grabbed and pulled at his arm to come further into the tunnel.

It seemed pitch black, and when Bo looked back through the hole he’d entered, he saw a slitted red eye staring back it him. Xathx didn’t try to break the stone and force his way into the little tunnel which confirmed one of Bo’s suspicious. The stone’s unbreakable.

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“You’ll have to come out eventually, and when you do I’ll be waiting, maybe tomorrow, or the day after that or the day after that. When you do come out I’ll slaughter you and your-”

“Shut the fuck up,” Big’s attitude returned the second he felt that he was safe from any harm. “You-.”

Bo’s hands wrapped around Big’s neck and started choking. He wasn’t going to tempt fate once again.

“Smart move. Perhaps I will let you live if you hand him over right now.”

You’re not going to do that right?

If you keep speaking I will!

“Do not disobey me.”

“Listen here Xathx. We got off on the wrong foot, I have no reason to pick a fight with you.”

“I will rip your spine from your chest.”

“Ahh fuck it. You want it to be like that? I’m sick and fucking tired of this shit. You want a fight? You’ll get a fucking fight. I’m going to make you my pet.”

“You have solidified your death.”

The eye disappeared without another sound, and Bo let go of Big.

“Now we’re stuck in some tunnels,” Bo said. “And we can’t go out cause then we’ll die.”

“It’s better than being dead,” Big said.

“Maybe if you hadn’t pissed him off. Pissed! Maybe we wouldn’t be in this position.”

“Yeah and maybe if I could fly we wouldn’t be in this position: Focus now. What are we going to do know.”

“And we’re swapping to another maze runner, cause nobody wants to see rat fights and shit. First we’ll take a small ad break though,” Zion said and floated towards Bo. He was glowing pink. “Listen dude, don’t you dare die. Also don’t forget to spend the five attributes points on the goblin.”

Zion disappeared before Bo could utter an insult, but he wasn’t going to do that. Between the deep breaths’ he was taking and the occasional wiping of the brows, his thoughts were stuck wondering about something Zion said. There’s rat’s here?

There’s one over there, Big said.

Where? Wait you can see in the dark?

Yeah. It’s one of my perks, because goblins are nocturnal creatures although it’s pretty weak only stretching three meters.

There’s a rat three meters away from me?

Yeah it’s staring at you.

Who cares about a tiny rat?

It’s not really tiny. It’s about my size.

A giant rat? Where the fuck is that thing?