VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

The place that he had ended up in for his fifth and sixth trial looked a little different from the places that he had been to until now.

Instead of a road, this seemed like a dead end.

There were no shelves on the sides, the floor was made of stones instead of the carpet one, and he was facing a being that had a unique air to them for the first time.

He cleared his two trials.

And now, the being that had asked him his last question, was vanishing into unique particles of colorful light.

It did not happen in the previous trials, so he was a little confused. And the look on the Sphinx was even more flattering to him.

[Ding.]

"Let's skip these for now."

He just said what he thought was right, so did not think much of the answer. There was nothing to think actually, all that he said was the truth that just came from his heart.

But, that answer opened a unique gate to him that was hidden behind the sphinx's large body.

"Looks like this will take me to the next place?"

He did not know yet, so he just crossed the simple wooden door, and was blinded by the light that fell on his eyes.

"Hmmm?"

When the light cleared up, he found himself in a new place.

"Didn't say I'd win?"

A voice greeted him the moment he looked around the open area that seemed to be somewhere inside a library.

There were walls filled with books on all sides below him, glass walls were filtering the evening sunlight while illuminating the attractive stories contained in them.

There was a different atmosphere on this bridge situated above all the bookshelves, and the scene before him was something he could only sigh at.

"You said nothing like that."

Alex was here already. And, she was sitting on a round table with someone everyone present around the library outside knew closely.

"You are a unique person as well, mister."

She was sipping on some tea along with the Librarian, the very person who had perhaps created this entire place and the event that they were holding.

"Come, sit."

He was a little amused by this scene, since seeing his girlfriend with an attractive looking man with that kind of pretty clothes was a new kind of scene for him.

She was oblivious to fashion, but right now she was wearing a pretty dress. Her hair looked nice, and though she seemed to have run around and did some things that she should not have in a dress like that, she still looked nice.

And the Librarian was already pretty looking.

"Don't click photos, idiot."

She knew when he had stopped like that and was just looking at them with those eyes, it meant he was setting a good angle for the screen shot.

She did not like this, but he was already done with his work by the time she said that.

"So, does this mean I passed?"

"Yup."

He did not understand how he was already out when it was only late afternoon, but now that he was not in the maze anymore, he knew the event had ended for him.

"Look there. That's the scoreboard." Alex placed her cup down, kissed his cheeks and shifted his head to the left of the room where his eyes fell on a unique magical window.

It was different from the status windows, that much he can tell with the color and the similar kind of energy around it that he had felt in the maze.

There were many scenes of various areas of the maze playing on this window, along with a certain section to a side that had a scoreboard.

"The last answer of yours was unexpected to us, just like your first answer to that simple simple question."

The librarian lifted his finger and a cup was lifted from the many that were placed on one corner of the table, then the kettle poured some tea in the cup, and the cup flew to Elio.

"Are those the stars?"

"Yup."

There were some stars beside the names of the various people, and he could see some familiar names in that list.

Many of them were from the contribution list of the town quest, however, what surprised them was the three distinct kinds of stars and the top two names on this list.

"The normal white stars represent the simple achievements that one makes through their natural actions and decisions, the golden ones are for the trials, while the unique tricolor stars you see there are from the Tests of the Forgotten enigmas."

Alex did not know all this stuff since this was also her first time participating in this event, but she had understood what these stars stand for when she crossed the Maze and reached this place just a few moments before Elio.

She did not do things the way they were conventionally supposed to be done.

Just like how she destroyed the first test's barrier, when she came across the other trials that were related to intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, and so on, she also just brute forced her way through all of them.

She did not stop and ignored the information chits that she received after clearing these trials so that she could clear as many obstacles in the path as she could.

"As you can see… I'm going to win by a landslide." She was proud of her achievements right now.

"I think you will, yes." and he was proud of her as well, so he patted her head.

He had obtained a total of fifteen normal white stars for the natural actions- which he had no idea about- then there were not six but nine golden ones from the trials, and there was a red-blue-yellow star with six pointed ends in front of the rest of them.

It was a very impressive number that put him on second place of this list, however, it was nothing compared to the thirty white ones, fifteen gold, and six tri-color stars that Alex had.

The third place on this list barely had three gold stars with not even ten normal ones so the two of them were certainly extraordinary.

"It isn't everyday that someone clears a trial of the– Forgotten enigma. Especially the trial of the sphinx. You not only satisfied them with the answer, you even received their blessing."

Elio knew what Forgotten enigmas were. But he did not know the magic replica sphinx that he met a while ago was a Spirit manifestation of the world's myths.

Meeting those being in the town or common places like a library was a very rare occurrence, but if what the librarian and Alex were saying was true then, he knew at this moment that skipping the messages that he got after the sphinx vanished, was not a good idea.