Golden walked down the path that had opened after he had defeated the watching blitzer. He walked slowly, careful to not set off any traps, though there didn't seem to be any, at least not of the earlier burning green goop variety. Though whether that meant there weren't any traps in this section or they were of a different kind, he wasn't sure, and he was sad to say if the dungeon showed him which option was right, it would be the more dangerous option.

"Well, this is a fine situation to be in." Golden said before giving a sad sigh before continuing his journey forward to wherever the current stone hallway he was in was leading him to, though to be fair, unlike before, this hallway's walls were filled with the pictures of beetles, unlike the blank walls from before. Then a Golden heard a click signaling the dungeon was about to prove his earlier hypothesis right.

As all of a sudden, dozens of beetles shot out of the walls next to him. Golden barely managed to dodge out of the way in time, and then after he thought he had gotten clear, he felt a stinging pain in his leg and looked to see a beetle device clamped on his lick, its metal mandibles digging into his leg. Golden quickly tore it off and threw it down the hall, then realized something.

"Those aren't beetle pictures." Golden said in a sad voice as he came to the logical realization that the pictures of beetles were actually some kind of beetle trap that was going to be shot at him as he walked past. His main evidence for this was the missing beetles from the walls nearest him. "Well, it looks like if I'm getting through, I'm going to have to rush it." Golden said with determination before rushing down the beetle hallway.

So Golden found himself rushing down the hallway as hundreds of traps beetle shot through the air coming from both walls. He ran as fast as he could, ignoring the pain, as every few steps he would get a few of them stuck on him, digging into him with their metallic beetle mandibles. He knocked them off as he went, having to ignore a couple as he couldn't slow down for a moment, or he risked being buried in the beetle traps.

Eventually his run ended, and he found himself in another large chamber. He took a long moment to pull off all the beetle traps that had wrapped themselves around him and were digging into him with their mandibles. Once they were all gone, he lay down, taking a moment more to let the accelerated healing his body had in this game for his wounds to close.

Once his wounds were closed and his breathing was steady, he got back up and looked around the large chamber, noticing that a wall had come down behind him, closing him in the chamber, which seemed to be standard practice of the place. He looked around trying to find the statue as he figured there would be one as there had been in the earlier room but didn't find any.

Instead, the only thing he could see was the walls of the chamber were filled with the same beetle markings from where the beetle traps had come from in the previous hallway. "Well, this is going to be fun." Golden said sarcastically as he saw the trap but not the guardian that he figured was here somewhere and his only way out of this room.

As he figured, defeating was the only way the way out would open up for him. That's when a small beetle the size of his fist flew from out of nowhere into the center of the chamber. He looked at it wondering what exactly it was going to do, then it rushed at the wall above his head, slotting into an empty slot that he hadn't noticed.

Then suddenly the wall began letting out a barrage of beetle traps, and so Golden used his shield to take the brunt of it while he moved side to side to try and dodge some of them. He had some success; eventually, the wall stopped firing, and the beetle slotted out and began flying to another wall. Golden took this moment of reprieve to quickly remove the beetle traps from his limbs, then turned to the beetle and studied it for a moment, causing a purple stats screen to appear.

Key blitser - tier two- undead construct- sentinel zombie- Trait: key of the beetle wall- this beetle has the ability to slot in and take control of any beetle trap firing mechanism while it does this it's invulnerable-description- a small blitzer beetle statue made out of strange black stone and bone as well as being filled with the ashes of dead blitzer beetles.

"Well, great! Not only are you going to shoot at me, you're going to be invulnerable while you do it." Golden said he was filled with frustration as he came to realize he was in the beetle's firing range and he would have only a set time to defeat him as it traveled from wall to wall, as it would be invulnerable once it reached it's slotted position within the wall.

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So that was how it went with Golden holding behind his shield against rapid beetle trap fire before the beetle would go to another wall with Golden right behind them. Though sadly, the beetle was too fast, and even though it flew low to make it quickly to the wall slot. It was still too high for Golden's giant onion mace to reach. He could try to throw it, but the beetle was a small target, and it would be easy to miss it with his mace, which wasn't supposed to be thrown to begin with.

So that left something he had that was larger and could be thrown easier, as well as the fact it had a special just for undead insects to begin with. So this was the perfect time to use it; the bad part of this idea was it was shielded, and if he threw his shield miss and couldn't get to it in time, he would be at the mercy of the key blitzers beetle trap barrage, which expected would be none.

Sasily he had no other ideas, and as things currently stood, he would just be worn down. So no, it was time to roll the dice and bet it all. "Let's hope this works." Golden says to himself before throwing the shield once it had left its slotted position after firing its latest barrage. For a second it looked like the shield would miss as it went flying by, but then the end hit it, and that was enough for its ability to activate, and suddenly there was a burnt husk of a key blitzer next to his shield.

To confirm his victory, a new doorway was revealed as a wall suddenly pulled back, showing him the way forward. "Well forward we go. Hopefully the others are having a better time of it than I am." Golden said as he picked up his shield and made his way down the new doorway.

"Well, Robert, your lord Listex is really making a good showing of his security system." Simon said with a bit of awe in his voice, causing Robert to turn to where his voice was coming from, wondering what the awe was exactly about.

"Really, Robert, it's been getting beat so far." Robert said, a bit confused, that he figured the security being beat as bad as it was made it clearly show how bad it was. Though considering Simon was an interdimensional show host and had been around the block a few times, he could know something that made it impressive that Robert wasn't aware of.

"Well, my good Robert remembers Golden, our little dungeon explorer; there is a hero and an experienced one at that. Your average guy wouldn't have been able to get through what he did, especially if everything was moving in tandem." Simon said to which Robert felt he had a good point.

"Fair enough. I'm glad we are inspiring security systems across the multiverse. Though I would like to focus back on the dungeon run, I wish to see if we can find out any more clues about the possible brainwashing conspiracy." Robert said, his voice filled with clear concern over the subject.

"Of course, Robert, let's turn back to the dungeon raid. We can't miss any new clues about the conspiracy; these things are great for ratings, you know." Simon said, his voice filled with excitement, to which Robert rolled his eyes, then both he and Simon focused back on his workshop's TV screens to see how the dungeon raid would continue to unfold.