Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 99

After resting some more in the safe area, I resume trying to find my way out of here. One hour went to several, as the cycle of me either retracing the path I came from, where there were no traps in it, triggering only one really unfair trap, or... triggering a goddamn chain of traps, followed by that boulder coming my way, forcing me to run into the two more safe areas I've managed to find.

That boulder is not normal; it definitely has a mind of its own. What else could explain it?

Bags under my eyes, I looked again at my phone to see what time it was. It was 2:12 am, meaning I had been trapped here for nearly a day now.

So far, what I have learned from this place is that this maze, for some reason, didn't have any dead ends. Fortunately or not, I also learned that the goddamn boulder keeps on finding and chasing me; it only happens each time I set off a chain of traps, not just the one trap I'd set off.

Clare must be really worried right now. I need to get back as fast as possible. The problem is, I have to be extremely careful—this place is packed with deadly traps, I need to conserve my resources like potions and mana, and honestly, it doesn't even feel like I'm getting any closer to where I started.

I'd complain in my mind about this, as it was the only thing that would stop me from blowing a gasket if I'd stopped myself from thinking about it, till I reached the third safe area I've found. There I sat in a corner and rested, taking out the rations I had bought the day before, which consisted of crackers, fruit, and dried meat, as it had been hours since I had eaten anything. I can deal with being tired and maybe having my patience run dry, but adding hunger to the mix dragged my already rock-bottom mood straight down to bedrock.

Snacking on them, and once I was no longer feeling my stomach was starving for food, I then focused on regaining my mana since the last couple of traps required me to spend a decent amount to get out of them or fight my way out of them.

I'd gotten lucky with the last few, where I'd found the passage I came from or entered into one with just a trap in it, instead of a trap chain, and then chose the correct one. The last one was a spike that came at me at both ends of the passage when I was at the midpoint, in which I had to use my mana nature to enhance my body for more strength, and my sword to be more sturdy and sharper to be able to cut apart the spikes.

Honestly, are the traps getting harder? Because that wasn't the only one that got harder, like the pitfall trap, where it had the whole floor in the passageway collapsing onto itself, or those swing axe and saw traps coming at me way too fast, like a speeding car.

Feeling not too tired, I continued my way through this godforsaken maze till it was the afternoon already. My eyelids, already feeling heavy, felt even more so, but I endured it because if I could go without sleep for days at a time whenever I played my games in my past life, I could do so here as well; this is nowhere near my limit. However, what was actually reaching my limit was my patience, long overdue for an outlet.

Gahh!!! Why the heck is it taking so long? I should be out by now, right? I am really going to lose it right about now.

If this were a game from my world, honestly, people would review bomb it because of how annoying and unfair this was. The whole gimmick of this place was really annoying.

I'd want to punch the guy who thought that was a good idea. No, I'm going to punch Athrun instead. No, scratch that, I'm going to castrate him when we freaking meet up for sending me to a place like this. Never done that before, but I'd attempted it several times for some of the male names of pilots that got way, and I mean way, too annoying to deal with, in which Norn and I were only stopped by either Scott running to stop us most of the time or by the other soldier around us, who had to dogpile on us to keep us from moving while covering their own family jewels in the process.