Chapter 307: Seventy-Sixth Floor, Maze of Choices (2)
[Escape the maze. Time remaining: 4 hours 57 minutes.]
“Huh?” I grunted unconsciously, rather surprised.
This wasn’t anything like I had anticipated. I quickly reined in my reaction and began thinking things through.
My assumption had been rather presumptuous, and honestly, flawed. Based on my previous experiences with door-related trials, I had assumed every room after the first would lead me down a straightforward, linear path. The tower’s message hinted that there would be more rooms, but I hadn’t expected each to contain another pair of doors.
Moreover, I had assumed that I would have to spend the fifteen seconds fighting, a time meant for swift combat, before pressing on.
So the trial isn’t about advancing through continuous battles after all.
In hindsight, perhaps my memories had overly colored my perception.
Back on the eleventh floor, the tower had presented me with two doors—two options—for the boss room. I chose the black one over the red and ended up fighting in pitch darkness. That eventually led me to encounter a black dragon.
Unconsciously, I likened this floor to that experience. The doors may not have had any distinguishing traits this time, but still.
There had been one line from the tower’s message that had trapped my thought process.
[Select one of the two doors to proceed.]
It led me to misinterpret the structure of the trial, especially the phrase “to proceed,” which I took a bit too literally.