Chapter 123 Long corridors. (2/2)

“Sir Wayland is that a door? Could it be the exit from this place?”

“We should be careful… It could be a trap…”

Roland replied while activating his debugging skill but there was nothing out of the ordinary on this door He couldn’t feel anything s with his ht corridor

“Agni, can you s?”

He asked his tamed monster as he was the only person with trap detection and tracking skills in this party Lucille regretfully also didn’t know any trap detection skills so she wouldn’t be ofwhilecloser to the door The three humans followed slowly after the Ruby Wolf but it didn’t see out of the ordinary

“Okay, I’ll open it, stay vigilant”

Robert and Lucille nodded while Roland grabbed the door handle He pushed the door open and just like hiswide corridor

“Why are there soover Roland’s shoulder The room was quite well lit with torches on the walls The peculiar thing about this corridor was the floor, it looked out of place as it was cons on them, some had pictures of monsters while others of people

“I can feel the round…”

Roland nodded at Lucille as he could feel it too The whole floor was erous to move forward This was probably soh If they stepped on the wrong square tile so deadly could occur

‘Letskill a little smirk crept onto his face He could see it, beneath those drawings there were runic structures After getting a good look at them he took out a small rock from the outside

“Step back for a moment…”

He threw it on one of the tiles and the round a burst of heated energy shot up Robert took a step back as he saw the colu It was clear that whoever stepped into that trap would be roasted alive

“Magical traps, fascinating… and so eon…”

The girl raised a good question as to how the traps in the dungeon appeared was unknown No one knew if the dungeon core somehow created these here or if they were created by so step ill activate the traps and die…”

“How is anyone supposed to reach the other side?”

Robert asked

“Probably in another section of the dungeon there is soh this place or so out of the ordinary To get past traps like these you souided you through it, or have someone versed in these contraptions in the party Luckily for the two, Roland could do this

Roland went down to his knees and looked at the first square tile On it was a drawing of a dragon along with soy as he touched it This task was not hard for a runesmith like him

He only needed to disable the runic structure tolike a pressure plate trap then he would be unable to do anything Luckily it was ical in nature

“Sir Wayland… how did you do that?”

“These runic traps, it's easy to disable the…”

He replied to the curious noble lady whileforward slowly

“I’ll disable the traps now”

This long and also wide corridor was covered in square tiles Even with his large h skill levels, it was hard to disable thesebut after about an hour they were through the corridor as he disabled the path in the middle

‘Hm… If I ever return here I could reactivate them…’

Roland wanted to return here later as he was leaving a lot of precious metals behind What better way to keep the secret stash hidden than leaving some traps behind He could custo this room a deathtrap for anyone that wasn’t a runesns of these runic traps were also different from the ones that he knew of They were also etched onto these strange stones, if he could he would take one to exa the scrolls for the y that was quite reusable

Alas for now they needed to et out of here and rejoin his original party After that he could think about the treasure, he also would need to soet these two to not talk about the mass of minerals

On the other side of the corridor was another door, after pushi+ng it open they caes and et past this small labyrinth once more only to end up at another exit One that was hidden behind some runes and impossible to access without Roland's skills

“I think we should take a break…”

Robert called out to Roland that was scanning the hidden door for runic traps He nodded as the time spent would amount to almost a day With the bad ventilation that this place had, the noble lady was not looking all too great They were in a smaller lit area that looked soe scene unfolded Three people were seated around a plate ofair This was not the strange part, as it was the Ruby Wolf that was sitting right next to it and acting as the rooht

Robert was used as a pillow as Lucille placed her head in his lap Roland could tell that his older brother cared for this young girl It was a bit funny to look at his blushi+ng face that was more aard than cute Robert was similar to his father and had a very masculine look to him, thus such scenes ca?”

Robert asked while glancing at Roland’s hands He had removed the scaly hide of the volcanic sala some runes on it, it could be of use in the next rooic ink with his remained with the porter Soood to prepare more firepower The lack of proper scroll paper could be countered with monster hide and a tier 2 monster would work

Robert looked in wonder at theinto the badly cut-out monster hide Roland inserted it on the other side as he could not place the runes on the scales After a few lanced up to Robert for a et some rest, you didn’t sleep yesterday either, the next chaerous…”

“What about you?”

“I’m fine, I have sleep resistance, I’ll be fine even if I don’t sleep for a few days”

Robert nodded at the answer and the aard silence between the two youngand Lucille was mostly the one that initiated the conversations with both of them Noith her fast asleep, these two introverts had to somehow cope with each other’s presence

“…Can I ask you a question?”

“Go ahead?”

Roland answered while putting the finishi+ng touches on the salamander pelt runic scroll

“Do you ever take that helmet off?”

His hand twitched at the question, alrade

“Uh… I have a rare skin condition… I need to keep it on at all tieon…”

“Rare skin condition? … is that so like that…”

Roland quickly evaded the question while Robert stared at his hel but he needed to keep his identity hidden If his father found him out it would just add to his proble, he would not be able to resist hi him back to the Arden estate He did not knohat his ‘dad’ would do, put him under house arrest? Force him to craft armor for the noble families? He did not know and he did not want to find out

“When the lady wakes up, we should contact Lord Percival, tell the fine… but it would be better to not tell the the lady into this labyrinth…”

“We shouldn’t?”

Roland was still hoping to keep this place hidden, if they reported about the long corridors the cave with the costlyRobert and the lady would be hard though but they also needed tooutside and when the rescue party would arrive

“I’ll have to consult with the lady…”

“Yes…”

The aard silence continued, how long they would be stuck here re Roland showed off so that ht have to use the these four would be stuck here remained unknown