The dice soon stopped rolling around as they displayed a specific number. To Angela's misfortunate, she got six and four. It meant she would have to walk through the square boxes and reach the number ten. But that wasn't why she was worried.
She looked over at the snake slithering its tongue at her on the second box as she trembled. She didn't want to go there at all! Before she had time to think about it, the box she was standing on turned red as a blaring sound echoed in the background.
The man beside her also became frightened as he pushed the girl away.
Angela stumbled onto the board, and she started walking hurriedly. To her relief, she ended up bypassing the slithering snake in the second box. She walked past all the boxes and reached number ten before she sighed in relief.
Shane, who was observing everything, said nothing as he stayed back in Angela's mind and continued to observe the game. It was now the young man's turn to throw the dice. He held it in his hands as drops of sweat formed on his forehead.
After a while, he swiftly threw it to the ground and said, "What's the point of playing this game? Will we be able to get out of here?"
It looked like he was asking a question to his system.
Shane also frowned because he also wanted to know about it. Why were they sucked inside this array? And why wasn't there any mission or goal notification sent out to him? Normally, if there was a side quest that the host would stumble upon, it would first arrive in Shane's notification before anything else.
Only after that would he allow his host to finish the task, but now, the situation had turned into a strange scenario. Angela and this young man were trapped inside a game, and anyone would think that they could come out of the trap by passing this game.
So no one would even think that there might be something wrong with this entire situation.
As soon as Shane realized this, his eyes widened. He instantly messaged Jake, "Don't let your host throw the dice!"
But he was still too late. By the time he sent the message, the young man had already thrown the dice to the ground as it started rolling. When it finally stopped, it displayed two.
The man's face paled after seeing this. He looked over at the box that contained the snake that looked very much alive and trembled.
Would he have to go there? He made a gesture to move, but his feet were still fixed to the ground, making him frown. What was happening? Wasn't he supposed to step forward….?
Just when he was thinking, he heard the girl speaking in a mocking tone, "Idiot….. You can only move if six comes up."
The young man sighed in relief when he heard it, and after that, a flush of embarrassment burst onto his face. He coughed and said, "Roll your dice."
Angela wasn't even given a choice at this time as the dice automatically appeared in her arms. She was about to throw it when she heard Shane's voice, "Don't throw it yet. I want to check something."
"What? Why?"
"Just do as I say," Shane replied in a serious tone as he continued, "There's something wrong with this situation. This game shouldn't be included in the task list, otherwise, I would have gotten notification of a side quest."
Angela tilted her head as she thought for a while. Her system was right. She should have been given a notification to complete this game to get out of the array as a side quest, but nothing happened. Other than destroying this world, there was no other task at hand. This array itself seemed more like a trap than a clue.
Her brows furrowed deeper as she thought for a while, but she was a teenager. How could she think of something so complicated?
In the end, it was Shane who ended up purchasing control of the body as he opened his eyes through her body. He silently extended his aura around the place. If this was a demon's work, his aura was probably enough to scare people away.
After thinking about it for a while, he extended it further. Finally, he managed to get a fluctuation of dark energy. The entire board started shaking as if there was an Earthquake here.
Shane smiled. He knew it.
This snake and ladders game was nothing but a demon's trap. It meant that even if the hosts played this game, there was no guarantee that they would be able to get out of this place alive.
He sneered as he extended his aura further. The entire place shook even more. It almost seemed as if a crack was going to appear to split the entire space apart. The more he extended his aura, the more the ground shook. Even the young man whose feet were frozen a while ago ended up falling to the ground.
He stared at the scene in front of him in utter shock. He didn't even know what to do anymore as he stayed on the ground.
Shane didn't remove his aura as he fiercely stood there. At this time, the livestreams also fluctuated because of the fierceness of the dark aura. The audience was confused as to what was happening there inside the array.
But no one doubted Shane. They all thought that it must be Angela herself who was trying to act all hero in this critical situation. Shane also didn't bother clarifying that he was the one doing something.
Only Jake figured that something was strange. He quickly messaged Shane, "You're doing something, aren't you?"
"Don't ask," Shane quickly replied as he focused on his work. It seemed that he was playing the game of cat and mouse. The chase was nearly over at this moment as he continued to go after the small fluctuation of the demon's power through his aura. He wouldn't need to do anything extra at this moment like sucking away the demon's powers.
Scaring them away would do all the work.
The next second, the entire space shook as it split apart, literally. The entire board vanished and threw the bodies of two trapped people out in the dark room filled with snake corpses. As soon as they were thrown, Shane handed over the control back to Angela as he sighed.
He glanced at his account balance as he felt his heart bleed.
He just lost half of his money just to chase away that demon! What a waste!
Angela still didn't know what was happening. She blinked and got up on her feet and rubbed her head, "What just happened?"
"I scared the demon away."
"You can do that?" the innocent girl was surprised as she looked excited. "How?"
"You don't need to know that," Shane paused for a moment and added, "If someone asked, tell them you purchased a small spell from me. I'll handle the rest."
"Okay!"
After a while, a door automatically opened on the wall where the array was there previously. It was just that Angela and that young man weren't the only people who were thrown out like this. A few more corpses of humans were lying on the ground beside them. It looked like the demon who had sucked them away inside a game lived off by sucking away the life force of humans.
This was the first time Angela saw something so horrible in front of her eyes. The entire place was filled with corpses that smelled disgusting. A stench of dried and rotten fish spread in the air mixed with blood.
Angela's stomach churned as she vomited everything in one corner. She couldn't take it anymore. Even the corpses of humans looked horrible. Their cheekbones were visible through the skin that almost looked stuck to the bones. Their eyes opened as frightened expressions appeared on their faces.
Only the corpses knew what they had witnessed to die such horrible deaths.
After she calmed down, she wiped her face and said, "We should go. I don't want to stay here."
She was afraid that if she managed to stay here longer, she might end up vomiting her guts out. She stumbled on her way, but she managed to pass through the door without any issue. The young man also followed her after a while as he stabilized his emotions.
The thing just now was too stimulating. Even though he wanted to puke, he still suppressed it in front of a little girl.
What waited for the two of them was an endless corridor. It seemed endless because they couldn't find any way out of that situation. The two of them continued to walk like that for what felt like hours, without any sign of anyone.
The destroyers and the killers were also not visible. It almost felt as if Angela and the young man following her were the only two people here. Shane frowned as he stared at the scene through Angela's mind.
They still weren't inside the demon's array, were they? He glanced at his account balance as he gritted his teeth.
He couldn't afford another round of control. He would have to wait for a little before controlling the girl's body again to confirm his suspicion.
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