Hilda starts re-navigating the maze, using mana to help see through the illusions easier with the illusions getting stronger the closer she gets, straining her eye further, causing her to take longer and more frequent breaks.
“Come on Hilda, nearly there.”
“Your encouragement isn't helping at all.”
“Rude.”
Hilda keeps progressing, eventually reaching the end, dashing to it.
As she's about to reach it, her sixth sense skill activates as she dodges, feeling a gust of gust under her along with a swinging sound as she sighs, using more mana and finding a monster named mental pursuer, which is also the miniboss.
“Oh god… it's a monster that can use mental magic so it probably has resistance to it, so my sword, mental skills and conversion skill will all be affected…”
Hilda sends a weak wave of mana towards the monster, with the wave of mana passing through it, causing it to disappear, revealing itself as an illusion.
Hilda feels her sixth sense skill activating and sighs, ducking downwards as the monster swings at her from behind.
“This guy is supposed to use mental magic, why is it even attacking me with physical attacks…”
“Cus your mental resistance and trait combined neutralizes its mental attacks.”
“But the illusion works on it though?”
“Illusion magic is it's specialty, to fit in with the mazes specialty after all, this guy is also not as strong as it should be, it's around a level 150s strength, it's supposed to be in the 500s, though it being a miniboss makes it have the stats of a level 225.”
“A freebie doesn't hurt either, but it's honestly pretty annoying.”
Hilda swings her sword at where it she felt her sixth sense from, missing barely. She sees it in front of her as she swings with it dissipating as sha expected.
“Another illusion, maybe I should try this on others.”
“Won't work, only for people your stronger than or have a higher agility or movement skill”
“You do have spatial magic but anybody skilled enough can notice when you use spatial magic.”
“Also, this guy was born for illusions, it's his specialty, if he wasn't so weakened, he could make a normal person go crazy from messing with their sense of time with illusion. Which is something you are completely unable to do for the time being.”
Hilda gets more irritated as she sees it in front of her again, but not attacking since she knows it's just an illusion like the past few tens of times.
“So what am I supposed to do?”
Shila shrugs while opening up the shop without saying anything.
Hilda checks out the recommendations, and finds an object called “tracking arrow”.
“Oh, why didn't you tell me this existed?”
“Because it cost 1000 points.”
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“So? It's only a thousand.”
“Just try it out.”
Hilda throws the arrow, imagining the boss in front of her and using her homing skill as it hits the wall.
“Only works if you can see your opponent or know their general location.”
“Oh.”
Hilda goes to try to pick it up as her hand just passes through it.
“Only works once.”
“...”
Hilda buys another, waiting for her sixth sense to work, throwing her arrow in that direction.
She watches as it hits, revealing the monster for a while before the arrow disappears and the boss goes back to being invisible as Hilda looks at Shila again, this time somewhat annoyed.
“It's not guaranteed to work, the lower your level compared to it determines the chance.”
Hilda sighs, painfully buying more arrows, throwing them all as her sixth sense skill activates, with a few hitting and not disappearing.
As they officially stick to it, Hilda instinctively knows where it is despite it going invisible again, sending a strong wave of sword qi and mana at it, killing it due to its low endurance.
“Irritating guy.”
“Hey! Stop spending so many points, you still owe me!”
“Yea, sure, whatever.”
“Hilda, do you wanna go to the 21st floor after this or back to the 10th?”
“Is the 21st floor easy?”
“It requires time and a lot of willpower.”
“So there's no danger towards me or my points?”
“And me, but yea.”
“Then let's go.”
“Sure.”
Shila teleports them both into the 21st floor where Hilda reads the notification.
Notification.
Welcome to the 21st floor, everything is sealed temporarily.
Die.
Hilda feels her body becoming heavier as she opens her status.
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Level:0(temporary)
Stats:(0 S) (0 E) (0 A) (0 M)
Trait:sis con(max)
Personality:sis con
Inventory(locked:temporary)
Shop(locked:temporary)
“Ah…”
Hilda looks around as she realises the room she's in is very small, with spears sticking out from the walls.
“... I get it now, this is going to hurt.”
The spears all extend outwards immediately, piercing Hilda from every direction.
“What is even the point of this…”
Hilda looks up, the spears still in her as she sees one in front of her face.
“Fuck.”
The spear pierces her head, causing her to finally die before ending up in another room, one the size of a single bedroom as she starts looking around, confused and no longer in pain.
“Shila, what is even the point of this?”
“To get rid of your fear as much as possible, if you get scared a single time, you fail the floor and get sent back to the 10th floor, so you're pretty amazing for dealing with that first one.”
“So what's the current one?
Shila points upwards as Hilda's gaze follow where she's pointing, seeing a complete lack of a ceiling along with seemingly infinitely high walls.
She continues looking up, noticing a glowing light starting to appear as she squints her eyes, a small drop of the glowing substance falling down onto her leg, causing her to shout in pain as she looks down, noticing her legs completely burnt, the bones exposed along with a small bit of magma on the ground.
“A normal person should be dead!”
“yea, but this stage doesn't allow death till you're completely… gone? I think that's a fitting word.”
“This is going to feel like shit.”
Hilda closes her eye, looking down as the rest of it starts slowly crawling down the walls with a few random drops around the center as it finally reaches the bottom, burning Hilda to death.
She opens her eyes again, finding herself in a new room and a pool in front.
“How many more times?”
“No clue.”
“Great… well, I can guess what I've got to do here.”
Hilda starts walking into the seemingly adult sized pool, letting herself sink in.
As she starts sinking in, she prepares to let herself start drowning as she keeps sinking despite the pool not seeming deep enough to go that deep.
Eventually, she opens her mouth, letting herself drown as she reads a notification.
Notification.
Time before death is allowed.
(1:00:00)
Starting now
Hilda curses at the guide mentally, ignoring her drowning, knowing trying to struggle won't do anything despite how shitty it feels.
As she keeps sinking after an hour, the light still somehow gets to her depth as the counter reaches 0, she suddenly faints, ending up in a new room.
“That was the easiest but most time consuming and uncomfortable.”
“You could ignore it thanks to your will, even without the trait, others won't be able to speak easily do so, though that white guy probably could thanks to his trait, his trait seems related to water, so his water skills may have the drawback of making him feel like drowning sometimes or if he screws something up.”
“I'm just that good.”
“Shut it.”
Hilda looks around, finding a small vial filled with a dark green substance that looks ridiculously similar to floor 19s poison and sighing as she picks it up, preparing to open it.”
“This floor sucks.”