Chapter 5: Death Canopy
Finally, after going through a few rooms and halls, Vritra found just the perfect place where he could stay for a few hours.
It was a hall with some blood on the walls but the place was in much better shape than the other ones for some reason, after entering Vritra first examined it with his gaze and then decided to look around and make sure there wasn't any danger.
He sheathed his sword and began to walk around.
Just as he got close to a corner, his hand instinctively reached for his sword as suddenly his foot pressed on a barely visible stone embedded in the ground.
All of a sudden there was a slight rumble in the ground.
A hidden pit yawned open before him, an endless darkness filling the pit; promising a nasty fall. Vritra's eyes widened and all his senses tingled as he felt the land beneath his feet vanish and found himself falling down into the trap, it was so sudden he couldn't even understand what had happened.
With a surge of adrenaline, he twisted his body mid-air, barely managing to grab the edge of the pit. His fingers strained as he pulled himself up, his muscles screaming in protest.
He lay panting on the floor, his heart hammering against his ribs from the sudden jump scare he just got it was a thousand times more scary than any of the horror games he had played, no fight he had fought in the arena could be compared to such an environment.
This was just the first floor, the supposedly easiest and safest one yet he almost lost his life within mere moments.
'That was such a Close call.' he thought, his gaze sweeping over the large hole that still remained there, this trap had undoubtedly swallowed quite a lot of people, no wonder this hall was cleaner than the others.
He was becoming more and more wary of this place as the labyrinth was proving to be a treacherous environment, filled with all kinds of hidden dangers.