Harem Reborn

Chapter 214: Too Easy

The giant arm rock flew past me and into the wall between me and Latisha. I didn't wait, I just kept pulling stones, but soon the gauntlet stopped working, and then disappeared from my hand.

'Don't over-use an item, you only get so many uses during dungeons. The guns you have will only have a single clip and weapons other than R-type will disappear after many uses, but you will get them back outside of the dungeons.' -Dansei.

'Why are R-type always usable?'

'Reaction-type weapons are special and bend the rules because of the way they constantly change. Every monster you kill with it causes it to change a little bit, sometimes even more, so the game thinks it's a new weapon each time. You have another R-type weapon you should be using.' -Dansei.

I reached in and grabbed the Living thread Shield. I hadn't used it since the fight with Grismald, and when I took it out the color hand changed from silver to Hyper purple. The threads almost looked like mini chains now, so I pulled it on over and past Hyde's bracelet. I could feel the little chains moving as I did, but the material still felt like stretchy cloth.

The monster wasn't as big, and Latisha was smashing the last of its stone so I decided to try this out. I dash forward to the now charging rock half-giant, and I swung at me so I blocked, wondering what would happen first Bhan's magic, or the Threads. Black and purple chains burst forth before the creature even got close to hitting me, and the chains shot around the arm. Then, more chains burst from my arms, covering the body of the rock elemental.

Then, something inside of me told me to squeeze, so I clenched my fist. The chains instantly tightened as I squeezed my fist, and then the monster exploded in black particles. The chains retracted, but they also drank in the black dots as they did. 

Latisha walked up to me and gave me a kiss, as the chains finally fully retracted. They were now more brown than purple, the chains looked rougher, but now what? I looked around, and sure enough, a blue circle was appearing on the ground.

"Well, that was easy enough."

"Yeah, almost too easy, don't you think?" Latisha said stepping back and looking around.

"You think there might be more that we are missing?"

"You're pretty far into the game aren't you? Dungeons at this level are never this easy."

She had a point, so I started to help her look around. The cave was huge, but there wasn't that much special about it. There were a couple of outcropping rocks near the walls, but there were no ponds or anything that looked out of place at first glance. Then I started to examine the rock groups sticking out of the walls.

There were four of them, but after looking at their shapes, I noticed that three of them looked almost exactly the same. I walked over to the fourth one, and Latisha, noticing me, followed me over. I explained my theory, and she started to help me look at the rock grouping over.

There were four rocks, one big one was about two meters tall, but the other three were only half the size. The big rock was half in the wall and the other three surrounded it, and after looking and touching the stones, Latisha finger it out. The center stone only had to be pushed in to get it to roll back to reveal a ladder going into the ground.

"What do you think will be down here?" Latisha asked as we crawled down the impossibly long ladder.

"I hope at the bottom, we have been climbing down for ten minutes already. We will have to climb back up after!"

"Why don't you just fall and tell me how far it is?"

"That isn't a bad idea, but what if there is no bottom?"

"You will think of something," Latisha told me from about.

I was sorely tempted to reach up and pinch her ass cheek, but she was right. The place was pitch black, so I couldn't even enjoy the view above me. Well, might as well get this over with.

"Okay, wish me luck!"

I tipped backward ready for the gut-lifting feeling of fall, but it was like falling over backward from standing up. I had the wind knocked out of me, but nothing was hurt, so I guess, Bhan's magic couldn't save me from everything.

"Are you okay?"

"*Cough* Yup, I am alright."

"Wow, you're so close! How far did you fall?"

"Half a step I think, I just needed to take one more step, and I would have been on the ground."

I thought, but maybe it was the game's idea of a bad joke. Who knew, but at least MainFrame wasn't breathing down my neck. I picked myself up and then torches lit all down a hallway in front of me. 

"Now can we guess what's down there?"

"What do you think it is?" I asked.

"A big monster."

"Wow, aren't they at the end of almost every dungeon?"

"Well then, what do you think will be in there?"

"No clue, but I hope it's your big monster."

"Why," Latisha asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Exactly, Neither one of us are that bright, so if it's a thinking game, we might be hooped!"

"Hey, don't lump you in with me! Plus, you figured out the door, so you're not completely useless."

"Oh, I do love my backhanded comments, but enough fun, let's go see if you're right."

The two of us walked to the big door at the end of the lit hall. They were a lot bigger when we got closer, and they really had the feel of a big boss room. The two of us started to push the doors open, but we were both surprised to find the room completely empty, except for the sphere in the center.

Both of us walked in and the doors closed and then disappeared without a trace, just leaving smooth walls like the rest of the room. I looked at Latisha, but she just shrugged and started to walk to the object in the center of the room. I turned and followed her to get a better look at the globe.

The thing was covered in four metal bands covered in strange markings cut clear through the bands. There was another ring made of glass that encircled it, but it ran vertical and over top of the other bands of metal. The globe in the middle looks to be made from smooth stone.

"What do you think this is?" Latisha asked.

"A headache," I said while walking up to it.

I touched the first band and it moved from side to side very easily. I tried each of the other four bands and they were all the same, so I tried moving one all the way around, but before I got to move it all the way, something happened. One of the symbols made the section light upon the glass that ran vertical, and the globe started to move slowly. 

With Latisha's help, I got all the rings into place, each one making the globe spin faster. Finally at last on the globe started to glow, and a hole in the wall opposite to where we had entered opened up. On the other side of the hole was another room with three globes this time.

So, we just have to keep lining up the bands? It doesn't seem like it's going to be that much trouble," Latisha remarked as we walked into the next room. 

The globes were identical, so we split up and both completed in short order and then completed the one in the center together. Once all three globes were spinning, the next hole opened, but there were six on the other side, and when we got through, we could tell that these ones were a bit different. The first two had six rings and each set had one more ring, except the last ones had two glass rings.

"Well, at least it's getting harder, I thought this was going to be a cakewalk," Latisha remarked as she moved over to her globe.

"I still think there is something more to this, even if it gets a bit harder, it's still pretty easy."

"No point in complaining...where did that...what the hell?!" 

What the hell was right, we were back in the first room. What just happened?

'The room seems to be on some kind of timer. You will have to speed up and to lounge around if you want to get out of this place!' -Dansei.

'How many rooms are there, and how long do we have to finish?'

'Five rooms and ten minutes to finish. Sounds easy, but I don't think you will get this one on your ten tries, but good luck!' -Dansei. 

Both Latisha and I let out sighs of defeat, the two of us were more of the smash smash types and now we were about to be put through the wringer. I turned and looked forlornly at Latisha, this was going to be the shits. We had both known that it was too easy! 

'How many chances do we get?'

'Oh, don't worry, this will be fine! You can try as many times as you want! Well, want is the wrong word, need is better, since you need to solve this to get out of the dungeon!' -Dansei.