Rin was panting heavily after their harrowing escape. Kito quickly rushed to help him up, and as he dusted himself off, Rin urged, "We don't have time to waste. We need to find some food and rest for the night so we can tackle whatever comes next. "After a few hours, darkness enveloped the landscape, and they gathered around a makeshift campsite, leaf plates piled high with freshly foraged fruits. Sam grimaced at his plate. "Seriously? Fruits again? I could really go for some fast food right now, not this stuff. "Alex, ever the pragmatic one, chimed in, "How about we take a moment to analyse everyone's experiences in the maze? It might help us figure out our next move. "The group fell into a thoughtful silence, the glow of the campfire illuminating their faces as they prepared to share their tales.
Shina spoke, "I will start."
Shina continued, "when I and Yuri was in the Maze, I got two life according to my strength and Yuri got 1, our first challenge was to sacrifice one, so the other can go, it was intense fight but Yuri won that's when we found out about the life points, so I was revived again, we became best friends fought monsters and escaped traps and thrown into a underground dungeon and there were five waves of monster we faced and we fought the the monsters and the final boss to fight the final boss the maze offered us two solus weapons and we fought killed it that's all."
Sam spoke, "How did you use a solus weapon? Only hunters can use a weapon."
Yuri said, "We are confused too, but we didn't have the time to think about it."
Alex spoke, "Now it was my turn, when we entered the path me and Daniel was kind of confused because in front of us there riddle we solved it and awakened a unknown and undead being, it killed us in a instant after that we learned about the life point system, I had 5 lives and Daniel had 4, we had tough time escaping the monster it followed us got trapped in on of the trap and we played a game to reach the boss sooner and won suprisingly and moved faster killed more got in few traps and finally reached the boss, the boss was a Archerer and it's arrows are like bomb destroyed anything in a certain radius but its combat skill was not good we are closed our distance and beat it but took us a lot of time and our life points are drained to nothing."
Sam spoke, "It's my turn! My turn."
Sam exclaimed, "You won't believe what happened on that path! We stumbled upon this eerie mirror maze, where all our deepest regrets came to life. It was terrifying—the reflections almost engulfed me, but thankfully, Kito was there to pull me back from the edge. "Rin raised an eyebrow, intrigued. "Really? "As Rin glanced at Kito, a flicker of understanding passed between them. Sam continued, eager to share more. "After that, we faced off against a whole horde of monsters. It was intense! But then we encountered the boss—a massive beast that smashed us around like we were nothing. The scary part? Despite its size, it had so many vulnerabilities! Together, we systematically tore it apart, piece by piece!"
Everyone looked at Rin.
Rin spoke, "It's a long story."
Shina spoke, "Come on, tell us."
Rin sighed.
Rin spoke, "I had 0 lives, When I entered the path I was surrounded by many undead, i defeated them and ran forward, the maze was interest in my body, because it doesn't contain a soul and maze need a vessel for her soul, the name carved Infront Uldarok he was the man who built the maze, when it didn't work Uldarok used a little girl with level 4 core who is ability was "domain" which allow her control and do anything in a certain radius, that's how Shina and Yuri able to use solus weapon inside the domain, and maze used her original body to create a secondary system to control every thing after the maze left, that was my final boss I fought and it knocked me down and when I woke up I was in mid air tied up by chains, the maze tried to enter my body but I don't know what happen inside the body, suddenly the secondary system activated but it can't control the maze and started rampage toward us."
Daniel spoke, "You're telling us that there is a chance the maze is inside you."
Sam spoke, "In there is a chance we are speaking to the maze."
Kito laughed, "That gloomy look, that's definitely Rin."
Shina spoke, "It's rare to get above level 3."
Rin spoke, "ok let's go to sleep. One shall guard during the night every hour we can switch."
Everyone nodded.
As the night settled in, Rin took his position for the first watch while the others drifted off into a peaceful slumber. The silence was soon broken by his teasing voice, "I know you're awake. Don't even think about trying to fool me."Kito, caught off guard, slowly pushed himself up to meet Rin's gaze. The intensity in Rin's eyes was sharp and unwavering, a cold stare that seemed to pierce through the darkness. "Seriously? Don't give me that judgey look," Kito replied, a hint of frustration mingling with amusement. The air around them crackled with unspoken tension, their banter lighting up the stillness of the night.
Rin spoke, "So you chose to follow this path, you will devour your own soul after devouring yours, you start devouring the soul of your loved ones. This will end calamity, just stop before it gets worse."
Kito said in an angry voice, "You don't understand, this is the only way I can protect my friends, Rin, that includes you also, then why are you stopping me?"
Rin spoke, "If you went mad, what will do?"
Kito replied, smiling, "Then kill me with your own hand."
Rin smiled with a sad look on his face, said, "You know I can't do that."
Rin continued, "Take your turn, I'm going to take some rest."
Kito smiled.