"What the heck? I'm having a déjà vu." Fein couldn't take it anymore and swore directly. "The one who designed this place has a hole in his brain!"
"This might be part of the challenge of the witch?" Sofia gave her thoughts.
"I don't know if we are in a loop or if it's just designed in a way that it would look like a loop. If it's the latter, then we are advancing and making progress by moving forward. It might be a strategy to confuse outsiders. But if it's the former, it's definitely troublesome. In that case, we have to find a way to break the loop." Fein didn't expect that the security would be something magical like this.
"It really complicated things. But let's confirm it first if it's really a loop or not."
Sofia immediately suggested. She hopped on Voli's head, then looked at Fein... Waiting for his answer.
Seeing this, Fein could only nod his head with a sigh. With that, the group continued their pace, but faster this time.
Fein ran using half-speed and his flashing dash footwork. Voli, on the other hand, carried Sofia and enhanced his speed with his lightning. As for Aoi, she just flew and follow behind the two.
Just like that, Fein saw a horrifying fact as he proceeded to run. He had already passed the place which has white orbs on ceilings, and small cracks on the ground that produce a faint yellow mist. Then the next scene was the one from before again... The cracks on the ground became a bit bigger, the yellow mist grew thicker, and the white orbs turned yellow.
'Please don't confirm my thoughts.' Fein had a bad feeling in his heart.
A few moments later, Fein, Aoi, and Voli stopped with a slugging expressions on their face. They kept going for hours, but it was as if they fell into an infinite loop. They kept moving forward, but it was always the same scene and the same place. It was so repetitive that Fein got sick of it.
Sofia jumped down from Voli's head. Unlike the three, he wasn't as exhausted as she just sat on top of Voli's head throughout the process. She witnessed how the three places kept repeating. They fell into a vicious cycle. Suddenly, Sofia unconsciously shifted her to the wall. Then she saw the same violet flower on the wall.
They are now on the narrow passageways that have hundreds, if not thousand o holes.
? "Fein, we are really in an infinite loop." Sofia pointed at the violet flower. "I saw it before. Even now, its place was still the same."
Fein took a deep breath, then went beside the violet flower. He took out a marker in his hand and drew a heart shape on the wall beside the position of the violet flower. "Last, let's try it again."
Fein wants to see if the heart he drew would remain in place. He had already used his perception, but it seems as if the place had suppressed his perception. Now, he could only spread his perception to twenty meters, which was a hundred times smaller than before.
"Don't follow me this time."
Just like that, Fein ran again, but at his maximum this time. Sofia and the others looked at Fein's leaving back.
A minute later, they saw Fein come back, but on the opposite side. Fein stopped on his feet and looked at Sofia and the drawing on the wall.
"Fuck! We're really in a loop! Should I turn my turn on my T-shirt on the opposite side?" Fein thought of an old superstition in his hometown.
There's a saying in the Philippines that you just have to turn your clothes when you lost your direction and you will find your way. Of course, Fein finds it bullshit even as Filipino.
"Yeah, you obviously go that way." Voli pointed in front of him. Then pointed his paws behind him. "But you appeared this way."
"We're absolutely fuck. Wait, I'm gonna think first of solutions. Don't interrupt me..." As Fein said this, he used his perception to perceive the surrounding space. 'Hmmm... The flow of space energy is normal. No spatial fluctuations. No Abnormalities.'
In the end, even with his level 18 space law understanding, he couldn't see any problem in the space element around them. So he determined that the infinite loop that was currently containing them didn't have anything to do with the space element.
'If space element isn't involved, how to solve this???'
Fein rubbed his temples as he felt that they encountered a difficult problem this time.
"Master, if you can't solve it by thinking. Just brute force, your way out of it. If violence can't solve it, there's not just enough violence!" Seeing his master's frowning expression, Voli suddenly had the urge to help.
"Damn Voli, you're too violent." Aoi looked at Voli. She didn't expect Voli to have a barbaric mindset.
Instead of being offended, a smug smile appeared on Voli's. "This is what the master taught me."
"What? When did I teach you this? Don't talk nonsense!" Fein knew that he really said something along those lines one time when he was with Voli. But he couldn't obviously admit it, or else Sofia would think that he was a brute.
'Huh? Did master forget it?' Voli became confused. Then he saw Fein and gave him a look. 'Oh...'
Voli immediately realized that he needed to shut up this time. Although he didn't know the reason, he understood the look his master was giving him.
"Well, I'll try your suggestion this time."
Fein took out his sword and threw it into the air. It multiplied to five hundred in an instant. "Don't ask. This is my new technique."
'T-this... How terrible is this!?' Sofia knew the quality of Fein's sword and how powerful it was. Seeing how it multiplied made her surprised. She understood that if Fein could really control all of them, then Fein's offensive power would literally become exaggerated.
'As expected of the master.' Voli, on the other hand, looked particularly casual. As if he believes that Fein could do anything.
"Synchronize with me. Use your strongest attack and let's try to destroy the ceiling."
Fein shouted as he began to control the swords and pointed each of them to the ceiling.
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