Chapter 51: The Plot
It was pissing me off. Someone had made a fool out of me. I was in a game orchestrated by someone else. If I find out who—
I had noticed some irregularities since coming to this world, but for the life of me, I couldn’t piece it together. It felt like I was missing an important part of the puzzle, but what was it?
Our mission here was simple: we were to close all the labyrinths that popped up during a five-month-long period in this world. But we arrived one month late, so we would only spend four months here.
What happened during the one month we weren’t here while labyrinths were popping up?
That was the only anomaly in this whole situation, the only thing I didn’t have information on. Everything seemed too convenient—a labyrinth being outside the kingdom but only opening up when the heroes who could close it arrived.
And the harpies that attacked the city—what did a harpy have to do with a labyrinth of a sea god? So far in the labyrinths we’ve encountered, the Thalassian Wraith—a creature that can only fight if it makes contact with water; otherwise, it turns to stone.
We’ve also met the Blood Moth, a creature that drinks from a river of blood and gains strength from it. Both of these creatures have some connection with the sea or some body of liquid.
But the harpy doesn’t fit into any of this. The only explanation was that the harpies didn’t come from this labyrinth—meaning there was never a labyrinth break.
The school didn’t finish the test they were running on the labyrinth to determine its rank. They assumed it was a C-ranked labyrinth the moment they saw the harpies. But if the harpies didn’t come from this labyrinth, then that assumption is false.