Cheat Awakening

Chapter 289: Chapter 289. Spiral of Despair

After scolding, Velvet, who was attempting to lighten Myne's mood with her childish behaviour suddenly fell silent. He felt a pang of guilt, wanting to apologize, but Velvet's reassurance that it was not a big deal and she was alright silenced him. 'You can never understand a woman,' Myne also get a taste of the truth behind this sentence.

The next three minutes of their journey were filled with deadly silence and the sound of breathing, nothing else. It was only when Myne crossed the monstrous mouth-shaped door and entered the world of endless stairs that Velvet opened her mouth again, making him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Fck! What kind of nonsense is this? Did the builders of this damn building leave their brains at home when they created these dangerous infinite spiral stairs? And why the f*ck didn't they think about making railings? Did they think that if someone got tired of living, it would be easy for him to jump down from here and end his life?"

Hearing Velvet's complaints, even Myne, who might in a normal situation try to calm her down quickly, followed suit and vented his anger as well.

"Yes, those damn bastards didn't even think of making some kind of automatic lifting devices or something. Do they really think everyone's legs are made of iron and have infinite stamina to climb all... all of those damn f*cking stairs? F*ck, just by watching them, my head starts spinning..."

Myne poked his head out from the edge of the two-arm-length-wide stair on which he was standing to look down, and the only thing that appeared before his eyes was an endless black hole ready to devour any kind of life in it, along with never-ending stairs in a spiral shape.

Looking up, he saw the mirrored image of the stairway stretching endlessly above, a monument to madness carved in polished stone.

"Now, this is called true despair. Just thinking about climbing those stairs my legs feel like jelly.

And whoever suggested the idea of using shiny marble to make those stairs, just don't fall into my hands, or I'll skin you alive," Cursing a poor ghost who was just doing his job, Myne, after taking a few deep breaths and receiving a deep kiss from Velvet to enhance his luck, started climbing upward.

"Myne, why are you climbing up? Shouldn't we go downstairs?" Velvet, seeing Myne's peculiar choice, asked confusedly and accidentally looked below. However, upon seeing the black hole and endless stairs, she started feeling dizzy, so she hurriedly closed her eyes.

Myne wiped the sweat from his brow, his crimson form shimmering faintly under the dim light filtering through the endless spiral, "Because falling from the stairs while climbing down is many times easier than climbing up. Believe me, if we really fell from here, we could surely enter the hall before reaching the end of those never-ending stairs. And I also wanted to see where we are.

To do this, we need to find a room with a window or something, which shouldn't be difficult since windows are the most common 'must-have' thing in any room, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense. What dark wizard? A laboratory is the first thing on any wizard's Must-Have list. After all, a wizard pursues knowledge, and without a proper lab, how could he conduct his various secret experiments? What if someone enters and messes up his entire year of research if he did that somewhere else?

Then he might not even have a place to cry," Myne corrected Velvet while slowly entering the lab, observing his surroundings to see if there was anything noteworthy he could bring with him, even though he was interested in everything there, but sadly had no idea what their use is.

"Have you ever met any wizard?" Velvet asked with a poker face.

"No..."

"Then stop your nonsense. You know nothing about wizards but are now giving me useless advice. Don't take me for a fool. I've seen a white wizard, and he didn't have any lab. I saw him conducting his experiments in the open air instead of this kind of gloomy and scary place," Velvet directly exposed Myne's nonsense, giving him a fatal emotional blow.

Next time, he would surely think a bit before boasting nonsense.

"Do you think those are the organs of a toddler? They look quite small. I wonder where the owner of this lab got them." Myne, who had been wandering aimlessly inside the lab, suddenly paused in front of a few glass containers on the table. Inside were various small body parts—legs, hands, eyeballs, hearts, and more.

"I think we should just get out of this creepy place before someone catches us. After all, I don't think the guy whose figure you are using has the authority to enter such an important place. If we get found, even if we don't expose our identity, we'll still surely get punished," Velvet spoke with concern in a low voice.

But as if her words carried some kind of jinx, as soon as she said that, suddenly, with a thud sound as if a jelly-like thing fell from the ceiling, something landed behind Myne, sending ceil in his entire body.

This is what happens when you don't shut up your damn crow mouth in serious situations and speak nonsense without thinking, Myne thought with an angry expression, which he quickly hid and turned around like a robot in slow motion and saw the familiar slug-like creature carrying a human on its back, who now digested beyond recognition.

The creature that had entered the chamber when he got out of the pod was currently standing in front of him in an aggressive manner, its beady eyes burning with unadulterated rage, looking quite pissed off and staring at him.

Panic gnawed at his insides, but Myne swallowed it down, he first looked at the slug monster in front of him, then at the ceiling from which it had fallen, which still showed traces of its ugly green thing. He couldn't help but twist the corner of his mouth. Now, he only hoped that the other party didn't understand his language and hadn't called for reinforcement already.

Otherwise, no one could save him and Velvet from occupying a place on this creature's back as well.