Chapter 269: The Target
The sixth room fell just as easily as the first five had. Lillia didn’t even have to do anything special for it. The Menagerie cleared out all the monsters within it in short order, then sat down for a few minutes to recover the magical energy they’d spent so far in the dungeon.
Arwin didn’t even need the rest. He hadn’t done anything thus far — much to both his and Verdant Inferno’s disappointment. The short break just served as a moment for him to take a look around the room they were waiting in, and it really wasn’t all that much different from the other ones in the dungeon.
Red brick made up the floor and walls. Thick brown vines crawled over the walls and across the ground, rough and jagged like the bark of an old tree. A few tiny shoots of greenery had poked out from the vines. None were fortunate enough to have made it far.
There was only a single pathway forward in the room. It was a doorway, carved from a solid brick of stone and hanging from invisible hinges, nestled among the vines on the far wall. It was lit from either side by a torch that crackled with purple flame.
Arwin was in the midst of wondering just how nothing had caught fire when the torches were in such close proximity to the dry vines when the rest of the Menagerie started to stand. He automatically pushed himself to his feet with the aid of Verdant Inferno, rising together with them.
“Is everyone ready?” Lillia asked.
“I’ve got all my magic back. I really haven’t used that much of it,” Anna confirmed.
“Same here. Just about all my energy has returned. I’m ready to go,” Rodrick said. “My equipment did a lot of the heavy lifting for me. I didn’t really have to expend that much effort or extra power.”
The others all voiced their readiness. There was no reason to delay any longer — much to Yonas’ discomfort. The Adept ranked adventurer had been steadily growing more nervous with their progress.