Alexia

I end up spending entire hours, maybe even over a day in the stupid Hidden Area just going through doors forever. It’s hard to tell the exact amount of time due to there not being any sun here. And the clock I normally use is broken for some reason.

So, over and over again, I pass through the pattern I discovered previously, then try out a new door. If it’s correct, continue on to the next room. If not, I repeat the pattern again till that point and try another door. If it’s correct, I move on. If not, I repeat the process again.

In a fucking endless loop it feels like.

And some of the rooms are so bad that they even have the same setup as other rooms. In fact, a lot of the rooms have the exact same setup.

Then there are the rooms that look just like the first rooms of the place. Which confuse me as to whether I got the previous door correct or not. Leading to a bunch of wasted time if I guess wrong as to whether or not I entered the correct door.

Because there are no ways to tell if I entered the correct one.

I better fucking get a good reward from all of this.

But what do I get after this most-likely-a-day of trying?

A new type of room.

One with shinier wood.

And one that I quickly figure out after passing through two more rooms is a damned checkpoint that starts me out in this room instead of the original first room.

I can’t hold myself back anymore and slam my fist into the wall of the trunk. Only to feel tears build up in my eyes as I jump backwards while holding my fist, absolutely shocked to feel pain from it despite my physical damage immunity.

Is this fucking tree trunk made out of magical wood or something?!

I glare at the wall of the shiny-looking wood for several seconds. Then I glare back at where the door I had passed through vanished.

Starting to wonder if I’ll ever make it out of this place.

What sort of Hidden Area is this anyways? One meant to piss the users off or something?

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I let out a sigh at that thought before turning to the shinier wooden door and walking to it. And after passing through, I end up in that same three door room again. But this time I choose a different door.

Before teleporting to the side the moment I pass through said door when a vine tries to impale me in the face.

Seriously?

Inside of the shiny, albeit larger room this time around is a large tree thingy. One with a face. A creepy one at that.

And it’s waving around vines trying to hit me.

Out of curiosity, I move so that the vines hit just my hand. And just as expected, the vines pass right through.

So I just glare at the thing and begin walking towards it while it slaps me with vines. Vines that pass right on through without a hint of damage.

This is becoming way too much of a pain. Not like I can just leave this Hidden Area even if I wanted to though, since there’s no exit other than finding my way through.

When I reach the monster I quickly identify to be called a treant, I simply summon my polearm and stab it in the mouth. Killing the thing without much issue.

Guess it can’t use magic at least. So there’s an upside to this.

After dealing with mister tree, I go ahead and walk through the next door. Ending up back at the start again.

Ugh.

I walk back through the path I took, only to find that treant magically alive again and staring at me.

Seriously? Again.

The thing doesn’t wait for me to get over the stupidity of this situation and sends its vines to attack me again. And this time I just stand here letting it attack without moving an inch as I stare blankly at the thing.

Is this thing going to respawn every single time I come to this room?

More importantly, seeing as this thing clearly has no magic, am I going to be stuck fighting more monsters in other rooms too? And will some of those actually have magic?

The sound of whipping vines continue to fill the chamber as I stand here blankly staring at the treant while ignoring its attempts at attacks.

Well, there’s only one way to find that out.

I kill the treant, getting the EXP for it in the process before trying another door.

And finding it to be the wrong one again.

Okay, let me redo that.

I go back to that room again, slaughter the treant again, get its EXP again, and walk through the last door in the room. Before finding myself face to face with another vine going straight at my, well, face. And passing through again.

Right. Another treant.

I kill this one, once again getting EXP for it, and pass through the next door. Which happens to be the correct one on the first try.

Then I teleport away when one of those wolves from outside this place jumps at me.

So there are monsters with magic here too after all.

I teleport right up to the thing and stab it right through the head with my polearm. Getting EXP from it too. Then I flip my polearm and dismiss it in the process of doing so before turning to face the doors.

Alright, so the second wave of rooms is going to be filled with various different monsters. Monsters that respawn when I reenter their room.

At the very least I won’t be doing this for no reason.

These monsters are all around just a little lower level than me. So they’ll give me some EXP.

And endless amount of EXP. With a seemingly endless number of monsters to kill.

Guess this isn’t all bad now.

I begin humming again on instinct as I walk through the next door, only to reappear at the start again and narrow my eyes.

But I don’t stop humming as I proceed through the first door again.

Well, time for round two I guess.