Chapter 220: Chapter 67 - Sudden Test Dungeon
Right before my eyes, an adult woman who was not wearing any clothes was standing in front of a sword stuck in a rock.
After exploring a mysterious small hallway and accepting an invitation from an unknown entity, I found myself in a space and time that was not tied to the original reality.
It felt like I was entering a Dungeon and seeing the figure of a mature woman from the past, a figure I knew as the Dungeon Master and a maid who was loyal until the end of her life.
Slowly, memories of my old life returned, and I recognized the adult woman standing completely naked before me. A revered warrior woman, revered by her people, ascended the throne to become a Great Queen before swearing allegiance to me as my maid and becoming a skeleton Dungeon Master.
Yes, I have remembered it now.
This naked adult woman is the Dungeon Master figure that I have already explored before and conquered her Dungeon to get the magic cane that seals the black hole.
"I see... you’ve regained your sexy and graceful human form, just like the one you had back in the Narzik World," I said, complimenting her elegant naked body.
Like a female knight who practices swordsmanship daily, her body is filled with slender muscles, adding to her sexual appeal. Even I had a hard time keeping up with her stamina during her nighttime service.
I wanted to pretend that she was someone I knew, but I still felt unsure about this because of the presence of an entity that had not yet revealed its form.
An unknown entity, who capable of controlling the flow of time to the point of freezing it.
I don’t want to guess who that entity is.
What is certain... it comes from a figure who is equal to the Goddess or is on a level below her.
Whatever it was, I could feel that the entity was going to be a troublesome figure to fight.
"Yes, Master Altair—"
"A-Aaahh!! I-I’m sorry, Master Weiss. I’m still not used to your new name in your new body."
"After being trapped in a near-eternal time loop and becoming the terrifying Skull Boss, I became foolish enough to remember my Master name, who had been on a reincarnation journey."
"On the other hand, I’m still trapped in a space and time I don’t know. Especially with the heirloom weapon still stuck in the stone," she said while smiling awkwardly at me and lowering her face slowly.
I looked at the heirloom weapon embedded in the rock and took a closer look at my surroundings. The space and time I was in were white, resembling a cube that held only objects and people in one place.
There are no other clues to be found other than the mirrored door and the stone holding the sword above it.
Even my limited understanding suggested that this was a test from the entity that controlled space and time in this place.
A simple test between a sacred weapon as her heirloom weapon, embedded in a rock and an adult woman I knew to be its owner.
"No need to talk to me like a maid."
"Basically, you are still not part of my maid and you are still a maid loyal to Master Altair," I replied in a gentle tone, paying attention to the patterns of space and time to look for clues to solving the test.
Swiirrrll...
Swwiirrll...
My hand, holding the magic cane, felt hot as the black hole within it attempted to communicate with me. Streams of magical energy leaked out of the magic cane, forming letters that spelled something out.
[ A Great Queen who returns to claim the throne that belongs to her. ]
[ Something that is lost and must be found again. ]
[ Letting go of old ties and forming new ones. ]
While holding back the increasingly fast and heavy vibrations of the magic cane, I read several letters that formed a series of words.
The black hole that was always with me seemed to understand the test of this unknown entity and gave me a hint.
I read every word written in front of me and tried to understand its meaning.
"A Great Queen returning to claim her throne?" I murmured in a low voice and glanced at the adult woman staring in wonder at the stone in front of her.
The Black Hole’s hints were still too vague and cryptic to decipher.
Rather, they sounded like a Queen who had lost her throne after the Kingdom she led suffered defeat or was destroyed.
The meaning of reclaiming the throne that she once owned also suggests that it may have multiple interpretations, such as her being overthrown in a coup and becoming an ordinary woman without the title of Great Queen.
Or something else...
"This is... a little bit complicated," I muttered as I stared at the second clue the Black Hole had given me.
"Something lost and must be found again?" I continued muttering as I closed my eyes and thought about the other meaning conveyed by the Black Hole.
The hints she gave seemed too vague to guess correctly.
Well, where did she get such specific hints from?
[ The figure who controls this space and time told me. ]
[ I only convey these instructions to my esteemed Master... ]
As if reading the thoughts and confusion in my head, the writing in front of me immediately changed before returning to the three clues.
"H-Haaahhh..." I just smiled wryly after the contents of my thoughts were guessed by the Black Hole.
"Logically... lost and valuable items should be found immediately."
"But... What is it that’s missing things and needs to be found again?" I continued muttering, glancing at the adult woman beside me.
Her completely naked body without wearing any clothes sounds like she should cover her naked body with clothes, though...
However, I feel that is not the answer.
Something was missing that was much more important than the clothes worn by a adult woman.
Yes, something as important as that must be found immediately to complete the test of the unknown entity figure.
"Letting go of old ties and forming new ones?"
"Somehow, this one sounds normal and ordinary."
"An old bond that has disappeared and a Great Queen who needs to claim her lost throne..."
With a murmur and a flurry of questions swirling around in my mind, there still wasn’t a coherent answer. All the clues the Black Hole had provided were just rough data in my head. They seemed plausible, but there were still some missing pieces of the puzzle.
It feels like a puzzle piece that disappeared under the sofa and was found three years later.
"Ugh, this test challenge is too much trouble with such a small clue," I said while sighing lightly and trying to put together the pieces of the clue that the Black Hole had given me.
Closing my eyes and emptying my mind to think deeper, I tried to find the common pattern from the three clues given by the Black Hole.
"A Great Queen, huh?" While muttering to myself, I opened my eyes and stared at the naked adult woman beside me.
This adult woman is indeed the Great Queen when she was in the Narzik World; perhaps that is the first clue, as well as an initial approach to understanding the pieces of the puzzle that will be arranged well.
"This adult woman is the Great Queen who is trying to claim her throne," I continued muttering while watching the adult woman who started to climb the rock and tried to pull out the sword that was her heirloom weapon.
"Hnngg!! Kuuhhh!! This sword is so heavy, seriously!" the adult woman screamed as she pulled the sword hilt upwards, but to no avail.
"A sword and claiming a lost throne, that’s quite reasonable..."
I muttered to myself and continued to pay attention to the figure of the adult woman who seemed to be the important key to completing the test from the entity that controlled the space and time of this place.
"Something that has disappeared and must be found again..."
"Does that mean... the sword?"
While guessing the answer based on the clues given, I began to understand the pattern of the answer I needed at this time.
The clues given by this unknown entity had already provided the answer before my eyes.
Met my old maid...
The sword that became an heirloom weapon and was stuck in a stone...
A fully naked adult woman trying to claim what had disappeared after previously being part of hers...
That was enough to answer the clue and complete the tests given by this unknown entity.
"This unknown entity..."
"It could have given my old maid back to me in a normal way, but it played around with the Dungeon test like this..."
"How interesting..."
Two answers to the clues given by the Black Hole have been found; there is only one answer left that is easy to guess...
"Letting go of old ties and forming new ones..."
"In other words, I have to break the Master-Maid bond with one of my old maids and form a new Master-Maid bond as Weiss Guderian..."
"Is that what you wanted?" I asked after getting the answer I wanted.
Cliinngg!!
Cliiinngg!!
Like a quiz show on television, when I answered correctly, I could see the sword embedded in the stone glowing brightly with golden light. The beautiful shimmer seemed to indicate that it was an unknown entity that had invited me to this time and space, only to meet my old maid, who needed a new Master-Maid contract.
The answer I got...
It turns out it’s this easy?
Why would I think too far ahead if the result is as simple as this?
"Okay, let’s do that..." I said as I walked closer to the rock that held the heirloom weapon.
