54 Unexpected Traps (1/2)

The boys watched the girls hugging Wyba until they noticed that some of the other kids were starting to recuperate from the space-time tunnel effects.

”Serka, Nurvey, we should go now, the others would be recovered soon.”

They didn't want to be along with the cannon-fodder.

That was because they considered the cannon-fodder as ignorant kids who would activate traps around the realm while walking like fools; their elite group had a better way of moving and only use the others to decrease the chances of meeting traps in the long term.

Going with them was useless and would only increase the danger.

Of course, that strategy of letting the commoners walking around the realm always ended with some of them obtaining benefits due to being lucky, but most of them just die due to the traps.

After hearing, Kermu's voice, the two girls stopped fooling around.

Then, the five of them left the area. However, Nurvey refused to let go of Wyba.

”Safe.”

Yale didn't understand what Nurvey wanted to mean until Serka translated to him.

”She means that Wyba is safer with her. Don't be fooled by Nurvey's appearance; she had the best surviving skills of the group.Wyba will be safer if she stays in her arms.”

As Wyba seemed happy to be hugged by Nurvey, Yale didn't mind about that.

If Wyba was safer by being with Nurvey, Yale didn't mind let Wyba with her until they exit the realm.

Nurvey was after all from the imperial family; there was no way they sent her to such dangerous place if she didn't have excellent survival skills.

As they started to walk, they told Yale about the use of the cannon-fodder.

Yale became more relaxed after hearing that the so-called cannon-fodder would be merely walking around. If they were forced to act as meat shields their chances of survival would be even less.

Yale was worried about George and Aizu, both of them were strong in the Nacesai Academy, but in the Imperial City, their prowess was average at most. Yale had thought of helping them, but he never expected that they would be separated after entering in the special realm.

Yale could do nothing to help them, so he decided to avoid thinking about that and merely wished good luck for them.

The special realm seemed a collage of different areas joined without care; it looked completely unnatural. Yale though that the creator of the special realm didn't put a lot of effort into the realm's appearance.

The area where their group was seemed to be formed by human-made corridors.

There were a few traps in those ways, but the nobles came prepared with trap detecting artifacts that allowed them to walk safely.

The corridor was thin, so they needed to walk in line, even if the path were enough to fit three of them, they would be without space to move in case of danger.

Nurvey was walking at the front of the group.

Nurvey's trap detecting artifact was the best of all the artifacts the group had.

Furthermore, as she was the one with best measures in front of danger, her being at the front was the best decision.

Yale was in the second position just behind Nurvey, in the middle was Serka who as the healer had the most secure location and behind her was Kermu.

Hyrk was at the rear; the traps could be triggered from any direction, so the front and back were the most dangerous positions, and Hyrk's defense was outstanding even if it was still behind Nurvey's.

As they were walking Yale saw a huge pit in front of them with the passage turning left just before it.

That pit seemed an easy trap to discover which only those too careless would fall because it could be seen since far away.

However, to Yale's surprise, Nurvey advanced toward if like if the path continued ahead.

”Stop!”

Yale shouted as he grabbed her by the shoulder just before she stepped into the pit.

She stared at Yale displeased.

”Why were you about jumping into that pit in front of you? Can't you see it?”

Yale was paying attention to Nurvey as she was carrying Wyba, even if the others said that she was reliable, he was still cautious.

The other group members looked to Yale with strange expressions as they heard his words.

”Yale, there aren't any pit there, in front of us there is the passage like before.”

Yale was shocked by Serka's words; he could see clearly the pit in front of them.