Ethan looked down at the dark staircase below that seemed to have no end.
If he rushed down to save Harriet now, it would definitely be too late. Besides, he wasn't that selfless that he would risk himself for a strange woman.
The only reason he wanted to save Harriet was because she could still be useful.
If saving her required him to take a risk himself, Ethan would give up without hesitation.
Because...
That didn't fit his principles of self-interest.
It seemed he could only use that move now.
"The one hundredth step, right?"
Ethan carefully observed where the traps appeared on the stairs. He also recalled roughly where the mechanisms in the walls had appeared before. Then he focused his mental power and estimated the positions.
"Level 3 Space Gate."
Very quickly, a Space Gate opened on the wall at the position of the one hundredth step.
But Ethan felt that wasn't enough.
He quickly opened three more Space Gates, each corresponding to locations where traps might appear.
That way, once the traps were triggered, they would only shoot into Ethan's Space Gates instead of harming Harriet.
The next second, just as Ethan finished setting up the Space Gates,
Harriet's heavy breathing came from the darkness below. She calmly counted aloud, "Ninety-four... ninety-seven... one hundred!"
However, the instant Harriet landed—
Whoosh!
Countless arrows shot out from the walls.
And it wasn't just arrows.
A panel on each side wall was suddenly pulled away, revealing statues hidden behind them.
They were two stone snake statues with red eyes.
The moment the panels were removed, the stone snake statues seemed to come alive.
They immediately shot toward Harriet's position.
[System Notification: Guardian Snake Statue +1]
[System Notification: Guardian Snake Statue +1]
[System Notification: Broken Arrow +23]
[System Notification: Poison Needle +100]
Although Ethan couldn't see what was happening below from the platform, the moment he received the stream of system notifications, he immediately realized that the one hundredth step Harriet had gone to was indeed a trap.
And these Guardian Snake Statues... Ethan didn't even need to take them out of his backpack. He directly checked the information displayed in the backpack.
[Guardian Snake Statue: Hair cut from Medusa's head. Its eyes possess the ability to petrify those who meet its gaze. Used to protect the safety of the temple!]
"Tsk! Tsk!"
After reading the description, Ethan couldn't help feeling that this trap was truly vicious.
This trap could practically be called a triple movement.
The first movement used arrows to draw the victim's attention.
Then, while they were distracted defending themselves, it immediately fired a hundred poison needles as thin as hairs.
If the poison needles were the second movement, then the most dangerous part of this trap was actually the third movement.
The nearly unsolvable petrification magic attack.
If Ethan hadn't opened the Space Gates in time, Harriet would probably already be dead.
"Ah!"
After completing her second prediction, Charlie was so frightened that he fell to the ground and cried out, "How could this happen? How could it be a dead end? I clearly predicted a way out just now. How did it become..."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of weapons clashing came from deeper in the passage.
At the same time, Ethan received another system notification.
[System Notification: Broken Black Iron Sword +1]
"Uh!"
Harriet had shoved her sword into the Space Gate too?
Thinking about how reckless that crazy woman could be, Ethan figured the danger was probably over, so he simply closed all the Space Gates.
Only then did he shout down from above, "What's down there?"
"There's a black hole, but the moment I stuck my sword into it, it broke."
Harriet's confused voice came from below.
The moment Charlie heard that Harriet was unharmed, he immediately put away his crystal ball and rushed down the stairs, crying as he ran.
"Sister Harriet, it's great that you're okay."
"Waaah! Something went wrong with my prediction."
"It was a dead end! Don't move! Don't touch anything!"
Charlie wailed as he ran downward.
Since Kaleb was worried about Charlie's safety, he naturally hurried after him.
Ethan and the three birdmen followed as well.
Because all the traps along the way had already been destroyed by that violent woman, Harriet, everyone reached the one hundredth step without incident.
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