Chapter 56: Getting Past the Boss’ Door
"Congratulations! Heather Goldblum, Michelle Baker, Bart McKenzie, Elmo Garcia, Sonya Harris, Elin Davies, Kim O'Hare, Elwin and Leon Bell, Jonas McCain, and Owen Andrews have completed the secret challenge of getting past the minotaurs without fighting them! So far half of the starting contestants have completed a challenge and four have completed two! Let's see if any of them can survive this game to return to their own world."
The announcer's voice boomed shortly after they left the room with the minotaur. Kim estimated that they had just barely gotten out of sight of that room and she wondered what stupid turn of events this was. After all, if they didn't have Elmo's ability to view the stats of others, they likely wouldn't have known to offer them food in the first place.
Yet, there wasn't anything she could do about it. After all, all the evidence pointed to this whole thing being created by a patriarchal prick to begin with. Which begged the question why she'd felt any amount of surprise at learning about this development.
Though, that also didn't remove the corridor ahead of them. The one that no one had been down so far, and none of them really knew what to expect. Which actually gave Kim a sense of anticipation she hadn't felt in a really long time. Probably not since she first started testing out security systems and gotten rather good at bypassing them.
Then they turned a corner and what everyone saw before them was something that stopped everyone cold in their tracks. None of them had expected to see anything like this. Even seeing a room with the boss sitting in the middle of it, waiting for anyone to enter wouldn't have been as surprising to them as this was.
Before them were a pair of large double doors. These were the only doors any of them had seen since the room in which they all first saw each other, not counting the secret door. Kim couldn't help but feel surprised, not only at the doors, but also the fact that it hadn't even been five minutes since they had lost sight of the room in which the minotaurs had been in.
"You know, I think we're at the boss' room," Owen commented. "Now all we need is Patrick and Patricia to arrive and we'll be as strong as we can be."
"Should we wait?" Kim asked. "I know we talked about it, but we don't know how strong this boss is and we might need all the help we can get."
Owen nodded. "Alright, but I'd rather not wait too long. Who knows if the boss gets stronger the longer we take or if someone else might come here and take a crack at the boss first," he said.
"Hey, if someone like Stanley comes here, we can always enter ourselves so we don't miss out on the challenge completion," Jonas remarked. "After all, I'm pretty sure defeating the boss will get us another challenge completion."
"Then with that said, how long should we wait?" Michelle asked. "I mean, we could still wait all day and not have them show up. Although, I think we spent most of the day getting here anyway. So, who's to say if it won't be getting dark soon?"