BXBX NOVEL Chapter 131: 19th Floor (1)
He had a strange feeling.
"James is really special, I\'m not sure what kind of person he is, after all, I don\'t know him incredibly well, but he deserves the necessary respect and a lot of love," Ronald replied, that ev these words increased Cain\'s respect for James.
If Ronald praised someone so much, that person must have had a very high pottial.
"The last person you praised so much was Odysseus himself, wasn\'t it? Although it is unclear where he is," Cain questioned.
"Yes...That Odysseus, indeed, the sorrows and evils and foolishness of the gods and the arrogance of Odysseus, ev if he deserved to be cursed, were too much...I don\'t ev know where he is. At least his wife Pelope is protected by Nyx, so that\'s a plus." Ronald replied, his sadness evidt on his face.
"You\'re right...the gods were young and greedy Ronald, especially Zeus himself, their greed at the time made Odysseus\' life hell, though that\'s not something we can talk about, except to say that the mighty Chaos will allow us to see him again," Cain muttered as he stood up and took out a scroll from his invtory.
Handing the scroll to Ronald, Cain said, "The deed to the mountain now belongs to James, the deal will be done, everyone knows where I am, so I believe I will get my gold in a short time, Ronald." and th a gigantic gate oped behind him, and Cain, who passed through the gate, disappeared with the pessimism he had come.
Ronald sat back in his seat after putting the scroll into his invtory and th took a sip of his tea and closed his eyes to wait for James to return.
James had his hands full, he had somehow made it to the 9th floor, he had countered strange sights and his body had indeed developed a good amount.
"Is that what this floor wants me to do? To choose a path? Are we sure we\'re not on the first floor?" James muttered, clearly seeing the three paths in front of him.
[The three paths you will choose will be very useful to you no matter what you choose, but be careful because the dangers here are more than you think, I assure you].
James shook his head as he read the other message from Nyx and stood where he was.
He hadn\'t earned an achievemt in a long time, or rather an achievemt that allowed him to choose a card, but he was still happy to find a place that reminded him of those times.
The reason for this thought and feeling was the three paths he saw in front of him. These three paths glowed with gre, red and black colours respectively, and James of course understood what was going on.
The difficulties seemed to be divided into thirds, and Nyx had warned him in detail that all three paths were very difficult, but if the colours betwe the difficulties were distinct, it meant that ev the difficulties were increasing in degrees.
Gre had to be the easiest of the incredibly difficult paths, red had to be the medium-difficulty path, and black had to be the most difficult of the paths.
This meant that the black path was the most difficult of the difficulties, but it was also the one that would bring the most reward, or the one that would develop James the best.
James took a deep breath and th stepped out onto the glowing black path. He started walking, and as soon as he tered the path, everything wt silt. The stars in the sky were clearly visible.
Indeed, it was understandable that this place was called the Sea of Stars. The image in the sky, the stars, planets and ev galaxies were visible, and all this image was reflected in the puddles in the path and ev strangely in the tree leaves.
James did not know anyone who would not admire this view.
He took his steps calmly on the path and wondered how it was that no sound could rise to the sky. Except for the sound of his own footsteps, no sound was coming out, not ev the sound of breathing, it was a very strange phomon.
His footprints were being erased with each new one and each step was getting heavier and heavier.
As James struggled with this ssation, he suddly realised that there was something following him somewhere he couldn\'t quite understand, it was an incredibly frighting ssation, the fact that he didn\'t know what this person or thing was and the feeling of heaviness in his body and especially in his feet could lead him to death.
In short, his guard was at a very low level.
"Hello?" James said he had no inttion of letting his guard down, ev if he was a little relieved that the thing looking at him was not attacking him.
While he was carefully examining the surings, he started to take his steps again. It was as if he was in a swamp, after each movemt it was getting more and more difficult to move.
He took a deep breath and th activated his dark step ability, his steps became much lighter and he realised that he could walk comfortably for at least a few seconds.
James realised that a great power, a great authority was really watching him, but he could not really understand what was going on. Still, he needed to move and go further.
However, an incredibly thick and headache-inducing voice rose from the wooded area in front of him:
"NYX?"