The System

CH- 33: Wonders of a death match.

    Both imps were shorter than Tetsu by a good margin and he wanted to avoid doing any measurements with those blades in their hands.

Those wonderful-wonderful blades, though. The childhood dream of every guy was to own blades like those. He wanted one.

The best way to describe them is as if they ripped their wings out, stretched them wide, waited for them to stiffen, and then transformed them into blades.

"Badass." Tetsu hisses.

They noticed Tetsu at first, but as soon as he stepped back and hid inside the pit with his skill, they seemed to have completely forgotten about the intruder.

Now they strolled around the five entrances with no care in the world. Tetsu assumed they were the guards who eagerly waited for their shift to end. Those kinds who would ignore a problem at their doorstep enough for the next shift to handle.

He slid out and retreated to come up with a better plan. All he had were skills to run, and he was sure running in an unknown dungeon wasn't wise.

A left and a right, and he found himself back in the cavern. At first glance, Tetsu thought he circled back somehow.

An identical cavern with the same creatures?

He could tell that they were the same imps based on the bloody wounds they had given themselves some time ago.

"This is a darn maze!" Exclaimed Tetsu. "And a shifting kind at that... Cool."

He checks to see if the exit remains.

[Do you want to exit the dungeon? Y/N. Warning! Once you exit, you can only return twice.]

Tetsu dismisses the screen. "Exit is ever present, so that's good. Now, how do I plan this?"

The general idea is to pass the dungeon before the third try, so he has two attempts to map and loot the dungeon. The biggest problem revolved around the ever-changing maze. If only he had his pants to mark a spot.

"Wait, will I lose my pants here?"

It is a risk and a risk he wasn't willing to take.

Two curious hunches within him wanted to test a few theories and to be honest, he encouraged the thought.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." He accepts the experiment and waits.

After a long time, the devils/Imps moved from their spot. Tetsu stalked them for a while. If they roamed inside this cave, they should know their way around. Or at least some kind of direction.

During his investigation over the imps, Tetsu finds out they are incredibly stupid. Even more so than RJ. Yet they somehow knew where they had to be. Which made no sense.

"Or maybe they are lost and stop by random entrances, acting as guards?"

Info over the spilled blood told Tetsu they were level one cave Imps with wind and earth affinities.

The cave aspect must've taken their fire affinity. They did have red skin, and it is a reasonable doubt. Tetsu ain't racist.

With a few detours, trusting the dungeon to always link him back to the cave imps, Tetsu stumbled into many other traps. Some had strangling vines, bell flowers, spank leaves, carrier flies, which carry acid, rock, and a slew of other things to drop over one's head.

Tetsu also found a room in which he shall never peep, as his life meant more than his curiosity. Only for this once.

"If I didn't know any better, I would say they built this place to kill the people that enter." This gets an enthusiastic nod from Saint. "And you couldn't have told me this in the beginning‽" Tetsu schools, exclaims and scolds the saint all at once.