116 TWO CHOICES (2/2)

Guide said, ” You will face the challenges which are far greater than you could ever imagine. The challenges from the third door will be very harder than the first two doors. If you could clear the third and fourth door, then I will appear again to give you the choices. You could continue to advance or you could exit after that. Like that I will appear for every 2 doors that you complete.”

Rick asked, ” What if we choose to exit?”

Guide said, ” Then you could leave The Maze Palace. I'll show you exit. But exit will be much more tough and horrible than you could expect. If you exit after the second gate, then you exit way will be filled with dangers. But if you exit after 4th door, then the danger level for exit will be little less. Just like that the danger level for all the exits will be lessened as you clear more doors. Do you understand?”

Arjun said to Rick, ” Now I understand how that person came out alive from the maze. He somehow cleared the second door. But he understood how dangerous this place is! So he choose to exit.”

Rick said, ” Even though the exit after second door is filled with nothing but dangers, he choose to exit. Because if he continued to go for the third door, then he would die. He knows that very clearly. So he choose to face the one time danger. If he could overcome this danger, then he could go home. So he choose to go back home.

Arjun replied, ” Yes!”

Guide asked, ” What will be your choice? Do you wish to continue or do you wish to exit?”

Arjun and Rick discussed for a moment.After some time Arjun said, ” We wish to continue our march towards the third door!”

Guide said, ” Alright! Then please enter the third door. I will come after you cleared the fourth door. We will meet then?”

”Yes.” , replied Arjun and Rick in unison.

The guide left.Arjun and Rick started to head towards the third door.

Rick said, ” Boss! Don't you think what that guide said is little strange? I mean she could come and give warning to all the adventurers before entering the first door! But she was ordered to appear only after the completion of the second door. Why she was asked to appear once every two doors? Why not before the first door?”

Arjun said, ” She said that the first two doors are for us to experience the toughness of the maze! After two doors we can choose to exit. But exit is totally filled with dangers. If the first two doors are for us to experience the toughness of future doors, then why not let them go from the maze safely? Why would they make the exit very tough? I don't understand.”

Rick said, ” That means that god doesn't want anyone to get out of this place that easily. That's why, first he let's us to experience the challenge of first two doors. Then he gives a hope by showing the exit. But that exit is much more dangerous than anyone could imagine. Later whoever chooses to leave this place will almost die.”

Arjun said, ” That person whom big sis said about, might have cleared the first and second door. Then he choose to exit. Because just like us, he faced the challenges in the first door and the second door. He knew how difficult it is to go for the third door. So he choose to exit. He might have faced all the dangers on his way out. That's why he was dying when he came out.”

Rick said, ” But I don't understand one thing? Both of us has the Divine Power. We have the Willpower. And yet we felt that first two doors very challenging. We cleared the second door using our clones. Our clones died once too. So how did a magician like him cleared the first two doors?”

Arjun thought for a moment and said, ” If my guess is right, then he might be a light element user. He might have fast reflexes and good judgement of the situation. He might be an excellent and very experienced fighter.He might have used all his experience and fought against all these constructs to clear the first and second doors. Later he choose to exit because he knew how tough the third door is going to be.”

Rick understood. He felt that, that was a logical explanation. Only an experienced fighter could do something like this.

Both of them walked and stopped in front of the third door. Both of them were nervous and at the same time they were very excited.

Arjun and Rick created one clone each. They took a long breath.