Chapter 334: The Box (2/2)

He raised his sword diagonal to the right and slashed.

A very green slash of energy flew towards the now bloody gorilla. It tried to move a little out of the way, but it was too wounded to do so.

The slash directly landed on its chest and cut in deep enough to damage its internals. Within seconds, the gorilla died.

”Hoooo,” Alex took a deep breath and walked towards the corpse. The robe around the gorilla's waist glowed a little and it fell off.

He went ahead and grabbed it. Suddenly, the feeling that had been with him since the foggy area increased a little. It wasn't enough to make him really think anything of it, but was just enough that he noticed the increase.

He didn't know what it was, so he decided to ignore what it was and keep going with the competition. He was about to fly when he noticed something.

The many beasts that were in a trance earlier suddenly got out of their trance and looked at him. ”Wh— What?” he tried to slowly back away, but their eyes never left him. They even started to move forward.

The further Alex moved, the more the beasts came closer to him. ”What's happening?” he shouted out loud. The beasts heard the shout and ran towards him in a rush.

Just then, an aura erupted from the sky and a few staff members in the True realm got down. Their aura suppressed the beasts and one of them said, ”You can leave to the other side.”

Alex nodded and flew up and away. He didn't want to do anything with these beasts so he stayed very high in the sky. ”What was that?” he wondered.

He suddenly looked at his hands and realized what he was holding. ”Oh right, I nearly forgot,” he said and dropped down near the maze walls.

-The Final Maze; Choose wisely-

That was all it said. 'The final maze, so if I cross it, the run is over, right?' Alex thought. The final maze was actually made up of solid wooden walls instead of the bushes like most of the other ones.

”Let's check what's inside here first,” he said as he pulled the box up along with the rope. The rope seemed to be attacked to the top of the box, while the box itself was totally without any design, aside from the single seam running across it that seemed to be where it opened from.

”Let's see what is inside of you,” Alex thought and pushed the lid open. It didn't open.

”Huh?” he put more force into it, but it wouldn't open at all. 'What is this box made up of?' he wondered and tried some more, but it didn't work.

He even used spiritual sense to check what was inside, but for some reason, there was a seal on the box itself that stopped him from seeing it.

He was extremely befuddled as what exactly to do next.