Chapter 30 - The Door (2/2)

Because...

After this wave, there would be less than 15 people remaining within the clearing...

After this wave, they would finally be teleported out of this cursing place...

So, everyone was doing their best to survive; they were ready to do anything to secure a place within that 15 vacant slots.

With that mindset within their dark mind, they chose to backstab their comrades, whom had fought side by side with them for the past five waves of monsters.

That's also where Jeremy had met his first crisis in his life. While he was fighting-cum-retreating slowly to the back because the two goblins were attacking him relentlessly. He suddenly felt a cold sensation appearing on his right waist.

When he turned his head to see what had happened to his waist, he saw that there was already a deep wound there.

But how was that even possible?

They had built quite a solid formation not to let monsters get in to stab them in the back.

Still... how could he even get that wound in the first place.

Soon after, a sudden realization came into his head because when Jeremy turned his head to see the current situation, he didn't see his supposed 'comrade' beside him.

That guy had intentionally let out an opening in the formation for an imp to stab him in the back.

That was... using a borrowed knife to reduce the number of people.

When Jeremy realized that fact, it was already too late. That 'comrade' of his had already retreated to the far back, followed closely by other people after they saw that the situations were not looking good for them.

Thus, they left behind Jeremy and three other people whom had realized the truth too late to fend off the monsters on their own.

Also, right then, the situations were getting worse because most people had already retreated back.

At that time, Jeremy felt raged, resentful, and regretful.

Raged because someone had actually betrayed their own kind for their own survival...

Resentful because someone was actually coward enough to use a borrowed knife method on him...

Regretful because he actually let it happen under his own two eyes...

Right when the feeling of pain started to kick in, and he was feeling a bit dizzy from the sudden blood loss. At that moment, someone suddenly grabbed him up by the waist and then threw him 5 meters away in the direction of the 3 doors.

Afterward, that person said something that Jeremy couldn't hear due to the chaotic mess of the situation. Just like that, the man was killed by dozens of monsters surrounding him.

He had died gruesomely and painfully by becoming the monsters' meal...

When Jeremy saw that he was pretty near to the doors, he stood up from the ground in a panic and then ran to the leftmost door, the easy-difficulty door, without thinking at all. He didn't even have time to think because the monsters were running in his direction rapidly.

Just like that, he entered the door...

When he successfully passed it and came out of the door alive. Everyone was already nowhere to be seen; they were already teleported into the next stage, leaving behind only blood trails, entrails, gruesome corpses, and... Jeremy.

Shaking his head lightly to discard those useless thoughts, Jeremy sauntered to the three doors situated at the front wall.

Slowly, the limping bodies of those sleeping people around the crystal were pushed away from his path...

Not long after, Jeremy reached in front of a door; he placed his right palm on the door's handle, then pushed it slightly.

*Creaks*

When the door was opened fully, Jeremy walked in until his back disappeared into the 'dark' room behind the door...

*Creaks*

*Bam!*

The easy-difficulty door shut tightly...