338 Trap Room (2/2)
He said as he leaned backwards and dodged a projectile heading his way. He grabbed it mid-air and inspected it. It was an arrow with a steel head and a wooden body. He raised his brow and looked at the room he entered, a wry smile then formed on his lips.
”Maybe trusting my instincts was a bad idea.”
He could here the sharp sounds of gears. There were arrows flying without any specific targets. There are circular saw blades on the floor, on the ceiling and the walls. There's also some razor sharp implements periodically coming out of them. He could also see a massive blade swinging left and right across the room like a pendulum. There are hardly any gaps on the traps that he could use to evade them. He could also smell some kind of substance in the air. It only took him one whiff to know what's in there.
”Some kind of drug.” Raven murmured, ”A hallucinogenic. Not particularly dangerous on it's own, but extremely lethal for someone that's about to take on the traps, the doors are also sealed tight behind me so I can't escape this room even if I wanted to. A vicious tactic, sadly it doesn't work on me.”
He could safely take in air without worrying that the drug will take effect since Raven's immune from low level drugs like this.
His focus is on the traps around him. After observing their cycle for a bit, Raven smirked and said: ”Looks intimidating but it isn't really much. I've experienced worse.”
Unlike the one's he uses at the spatial abode to train his perception, these traps had a specific flaw and that flaw is 'pattern'.
Traps that has a specific pattern is doom to fail against him, solely because of his budding pre-cognitive abilities. Adding the fact that he's immune to the hallucinogenic in the air makes this room less lethal that it originally was.
A smirk blossomed on his face. He crouched down for a bit and waited for the perfect timing to go through the traps. Once the perfect timing arrived, his eyes widened and he fiercely kicked the ground, launching himself several meters up in the air.
His jump was measured, just high enough so that the sharp implements and arrows won't reach him, at the same time just high enough so that the saw blades at the ceiling won't injure him.
His body graciously arched. Due to his timing, he managed to grab onto the chains connected to the swinging blade pendulum, preventing himself from the hazards below him. He then waited once more for the perfect timing.
Once the other blade pendulum swung near him, he jumped and grabbed onto the chains of the next one. He kept doing this until he reached halfway into the room.
There are no blade pendulums from this point forward so he could no longer use the same tactic. What's left are some metal spikes popping out of the ground, poison puddles, volleys of arrows and saw blades.
But instead of jumping down, Raven did something different. He slowly lowered himself from the chains and kicked the blade pendulum to change it's trajectory. Before it was swinging left to right, not it was swinging back and forth.
He balanced himself on the blunt side of the blade and waited until the swing reached it's peak. As soon as it reached that point, he kicked the blade hard to receive a boost and launched himself from the blade, crossing the remaining distance of the room, precisely landing on the other side.
He turned around and saw that the blade pendulum he recently used, crashed onto other one causing a loud sound to occur. The crash caused the blades to destroy each other and fall onto the ground. Metallic sparks flew everywhere and the destruction of the swinging blades caused some traps to be deactivated.
Raven raised a brow and said: ”Huh. Didn't mean for that to happen. I might've kicked that blade a little too strong.”
He had to admit that he didn't pay attention to how much force he exerted on his kick because his focus is on getting to the other side of the room unscathed. It turns out that he did kick the blade too strong which caused the collision. When the blades fell, it also damaged the other traps on the floor. The metal shards flew across the room, while some of the traps became permanently disabled.
Looking at this scene, Raven shrugged and said: ”At least this room isn't going to be a problem anymore should I ever return here.”
He no longer paid attention to it and headed towards the door. But before he could do that, he felt some movements near him. He frowned and faced the direction where the movement was happening.
It turned out that a compartment opened on the ground nearby. It then revealed a staircase leading down, it was well lit as well and for some reason this piqued Raven's curiosity. He looked back and forth between the door and that staircase, somewhat undecided.
”Ah, whatever.” Raven groaned. ”What could go wrong?” He said before going down the staircase.