Chapter 34 (1/2)
“What’s this?”
Since it’s a product of system, Hinagiku can’t help but question what’s different from a normal compa.s.s beside the identical look.
“Can this thing help us find out way out of this labyrinth?”
Mikoto pointed at the compa.s.s with an amused face, she’s very curious about the items inside system even if she knows and could see the system menu. If not for the compa.s.s being in Wu Yan’s hand, she might have tried zapping it a bit.
Tilting the compa.s.s in his hand he looked Mikoto not knowing what to say.
“Are you kidding me? We’re trying to go further inside not exit this place…”
She jerked before awkwardly scratching her head.
“Well… what use it does it have then, just for finding the entrance?”
“You said it…”
Lifting the compa.s.s with a grin he explained.
“this is a special compa.s.s, a normal compa.s.s can only tell the directions but this compa.s.s uses the user’s concept of where to head to guide them, say, you’re trying to ‘enter’ somewhere it uses this concept to enter somewhere and guide you to that somewhere.” (Tl: simplified function: where you wanna go, it shows you where to go)
“That’s pretty neat…”
She felt interested in this compa.s.s before her, she heard from him before that there’s a lot of wonderful and fantastic items and gadgets inside the system, but this is the first time she has seen it working except for the time when she missed out on the summoning process.
“Hurry and use it…”
Mikoto’s also very curious about how this thing operates. There’s a lot of weird stuff in her Academy City as well but in that place almost everything could be explained by science, item using something like ‘concept’ as operating principle, that she has never seen before.
As a 14 year old girl, it’s normal to be inquisitive of new items. This basically says she’s still in her playful age…
“I’m already using it!”
Right after that the compa.s.s floated and went ‘guruguru’ turning for 2 turns and then finally flying towards one direction.
Astonished by its sudden movement the two looked on as the compa.s.s flew away.
“This compa.s.s carries with it automatic guiding effect?”
Her jaws dropped when she saw the compa.s.s soaring outwards, isn’t a compa.s.s supposed to just ‘point’ the way? Why the h.e.l.l is it guiding us by leading us directly, this really made Hinagiku who had been living as a normal human shocked beyond belief.
“That looks so fun, let’s hurry and catch up to it.”
Mikoto didn’t even wait for Wu Yan or Hinagiku and just charged straight with clenched fist.
“Wait up!”
Hinagiku chased after her. Looks like the fascinating new item managed to reduce somewhat the terror in their hearts, he only bitterly laughed before quickly pursuing them.
Fun my a.s.s, for this ‘fun’, I’ve used up 1,000 Item points…
In the dimly lit pa.s.sage, the three started picking up their pace and chased after the still flying compa.s.s while making chaotic footsteps echo in their wake.
This carried on until a while when suddenly the compa.s.s stopped and pointed at one direction, the trio stopped and Hinagiku surveyed the area with walls of floor made of stone.
“The compa.s.s can’t have erred yeah?”
Pointing at it.
“It’s pointing at a wall!”
He nodded to her albeit a bit confused. Thinking for a while he lifted his head to observe said wall and light flashed pa.s.s his eyes.
Wall: (level 20)
He went 囧.
Would a wall possess levels? How can that be, if even a wall have levels then my ancestor’s golden statue of amitabha buddha should go against the heaven! (Tl: read very op)
The only explanation, is that this ain’a wall and that it’s a monster, moreover it’s a monster that’s called a wall, looks like one and acts like one what with it blocking people…
This… isn’t this just plain trolling?! This jerk of a monster just ‘stood there’ and when one was walking through it went unnoticed, why didn’t the system pick this up.