Every second that passed, those elite Crimson Guild adventurers were closing in the gap. If I could deduce where they were right now, those adventurers might have already faced the bridge or crossed it. Hina and I didn’t have much time, so we had to perfectly plan our actions before entering that cave. Probably we would have to face the scout of that elite party of the Crimson Guild before meeting the rest of the group. With that being said, I found a way that could slow down the party’s progress with the Earth Dragon in front of us.Now that I had realised it, this Earth Dragon had wings despite the name. From what I remembered, Earth Dragons were strongest on the ground and can never fly, so the winged dragons were far superior than them. However, this situation proved me otherwise as the Earth Dragon had wings on its back, which, I assumed, could fly just like any winged beasts. But that didn’t matter right now. All I cared about was the process of waking the dragon up and using th

Beside the girl wearing the heavy-duty armour was a… skinny man around his thirties wearing a white tuxedo in a battlefield. His slick hair was akin to a model and the man’s chiselled chin threw me off in the distance. The bloke looked charming as ever, as he fixed his glasses and tie from his suit. According to my system, he was a modernised ninja who was specialised in moving in the shadows. But with the choice of attire that the man wore, I doubted that could save him from concealing himself in the shadows, regardless if it was night time or day time.The last one was the guy in the middle. I thought Akai would be the leader of this elite group. But I had thought wrong, The man at the centre looked like a general from an army. Like the stereotypical old dog from a film, this man had a tobacco clipped in his mouth and filled his air with smoke. He was older than Vulcan and had scars covering his body. That man’s prominent mark was on his right eye. If I had to guess it right, the w

After dealing with the two of them, I rushed towards Hina, told her to create the wall like we had planned, and pulled her inside the cave. The last thing I saw was Will’s face looking at me while his team fought against the mighty Earth Dragon. I knew his team would remain alive, but Will knew that he lost this round and I kept the lead back to me. As soon as Hina created a barrier that prevented anyone from pursuing our tracks, we headed deeper inside the cave and sought for a safer place. Since the cavern had no lights, we couldn’t see anything besides our eyes glowing from the dark. Thankfully, Oculus had a built-in flamethrower, which we used as a torch to light our way. When the light shimmered, the cave brightened up and revealed our surroundings. There was nothing noteworthy about the cavern besides the wet ceiling and the moss growing everywhere. Every time we hummed or reacted with our voice, the sound echoed through the tunnel. So I told Hina to keep our reactions and con

“Can’t we just guess the tunnel?” Hina suggested. “We have a twenty percent chance of guessing it right. That will be more than enough for us to take!”Even though the system laid out the challenge’s instructions, there were still some things left unspoken. What the portal didn’t say was about taking a guess for an answer to the riddle and delaying one’s answer for it. If the party of adventurers had randomly guessed a wrong answer, the monster horde would appear. And there would be no other way to choose from but accept death from there. If the answer was delayed, the swarm of monsters would still appear. However, the group of adventurers could still choose an answer despite the delay or absence of an answer from the riddle. Whatever the portal didn’t mention will be accepted as true and plausible to happen.I may not understand the meaning behind riddles, but I could define the instructions given by the portal and find a hole from it. At least, I did something that could help us buy

All of a sudden, the monsters turned into ashes and the first tunnel illuminated before us. It meant that the road we chose was the correct answer, so Hina and I went straight ahead for the third riddle of the day. Thankfully, there were no insects or creatures that slowed us down. Only our crippling anxiety was the one that held us back.It didn’t take us long enough to reach the other side. As soon as we arrived, ten tunnels greeted us. The place also seemed larger than usual. I could only guess that the portal thought we needed more distance to choose a tunnel and fight against monsters just in case we screwed up. And all of those roads were dyed black as the colour of our hairs. But the only glaring difference between the ones we saw earlier and now was that this place was crawling with holes made by the insects we fought a while back. Luckily, no bugs popped out from those cracks. If they were creatures lurking in the area while we guessed for an answer, the two of us would have