Chapter 65 (2/2)

Buying enough time for Lapis depended on how much longer Loren could run.

“There’s no one else, so if I could get my arms and legs moving, I could burn away the slimes with magic…”

“Wait Lapis.”

Loren interrupted Lapis.

As Lapis wondered what happened, she saw someone pop out of a side corridor, and understood why Loren stopped her.

“Klaus!?”

The person that popped up from a side corridor and started running beside Loren was Klaus, holding Ange in his arms.

Lapis realized that she was interrupted because it would’ve been bad if she had been overheard by them. She then looked back and saw that the number of slimes had increased and understood the circ.u.mstance that Klaus and Ange had been put under.

“You two have been chased as well!?”

“Hey! It’s you guys! What a coincidence!”

“Not a good one, I can tell you that.”

Apparently, Klaus and Ange were being chased just as Loren and Lapis had.

It seemed that when they reached the big corridor, they saw another wall of slimes coming towards them and started running in the same direction as Loren.

The wall of slimes had sped up due to merging with the slimes that had been chasing Klaus.

“What happened to the students?”

“We got separated while running away from that. One of them got engulfed by a slime head first, and I couldn’t save her.”

“I came across her a little while ago. Her body was filled with slime, and one of the students in my group got injured from it. Burn it next time and don’t leave behind trouble for me.”

“We couldn’t afford to!”

As he saw Ange, who was stiff in Klaus’ arms, nod at him, he realized that Klaus really couldn’t afford to.

If there were too many slimes that dropped onto the poor girl’s head, they might’ve had to run and not been able to burn her body.

But leaving trouble for other examinees was still out of the question.

“Anyways Klaus. Do you know where we are?”

“Unfortunately, I’m too busy running. On top of that, I’m carrying Ange, so do you think I could run while checking the map?”

“Not much of a difference as us, huh.”

Loren had guessed as much, but he was slightly disappointed when he heard the words come out of Klaus’ mouth.

But since there was the possibility of Klaus being disappointed in the same fashion, Loren decided that the feeling was mutual.

“So, I’m guessing you don’t have a destination in mind either?”

“Same for you, right!?”

“Unlucky…How are we going to lose that thing?”

The wall of slime chasing after them kept at a distance, not coming closer nor falling farther away.

Loren thought that having Lapis burn it away with her magic after regaining control of her limbs, but now that they had grouped up with Klaus and Ange, they couldn’t do anything reckless.

“The floors weren’t like this when I took the exam!”

“Then what happened?”

“How would I know!?”

“We should get to the ninth floor.”

Ange joined the conversation from in Klaus’ arms.

Ange, who had her arms around Klaus’ neck on top of being carried by him, said with a flushed face.

“If we can get to the keeper on the ninth floor, that’s a safe area where dungeon monsters won’t come into.”

“Even if you say so Ange, we don’t have the key to get in there. Only the examinees have the key, so even if we made it, we would be stuck there surrounded by slimes.”

“Wouldn’t it be the same even if we made it to the tenth floor?”

As Loren b.u.t.ted in, Klaus, who had experienced the exam, told him.

“The tenth floor is where Volf’s fortune is stored, but there’s a transport gate to the surface there.”

“Then won’t you be able to take anything you want once you reach it?”

All you would have to do is take as much treasure as you could and jump into the gate.

Loren thought that would be possible, even with a guardian around, but Klaus said otherwise.

“But the guardian is in front of the gate, and the gate isn’t open. If you don’t take anything, the gate with activate, but if you try to take something, you can’t use it until you defeat the guardian.”

“You would have to get to the tenth floor in the first place for either to happen, though.”

As Ange finished the explanation, this time Lapis, who was on Loren’s back, continued the conversation.

“If that’s the case, I’ve got an idea so let’s head to the tenth floor.”

“An Idea?”

“I can’t say right now. Only that there’s a chance for us to be saved. So, let’s look for the keeper on the ninth floor, and access the tenth floor.”

At Lapis’ proposal, Klaus and Ange looked at each other for a moment and immediately nodded.

They concluded that if they didn’t have a better idea, they should stick to Lapis’.

“Then let’s think about our current location and how to get to our destination.”

“Leave it to me. I’ve been down here quite a bit, so I’ll know in time.”

“I think we should focus on getting away from that before we think about anything else, though.”

At Loren’s words, the other three looked behind and saw the semi-transparent wall, sighed, and while Loren and Klaus sped up, Lapis and Ange clung onto their partners, trying not to get in their way.