Magical Love: Learn To Love In Another World

Sure enough, as soon as I clicked the next tile in place a single monster spawned. It was a kobold. It was hairy with a dog snout and shabby leather armor covering its body. It wielded a sword and shield. As a monster, they had some intelligence and knew how to fight pretty well. Sady for it though, as soon as Sam saw it, he had already shot multiple fireballs at it burning it to ash. To be honest it was not a pretty sight. Unlike how you would see it in games when a kobold was hit by a fireball it would be singed slightly before turning into particles of light and dying. No, this was pretty gruesome in so many ways. I mean the agonizing screams it released from its mouth as it died and the look of unwillingness it had in its eyes, was all too real. But if it was the other way around it would have been one of us in the same situation. 

This was just a small reminder of how real this world is. Although, I understood all of this after bloodying my hands for the first time. But still seeing things like this just sets it in even more. I wondered if there will be a day where I take everything as the norm. Then again. I now do not even think when killing a human. Well, my stomach still turns when thinking about it, so I guess I am not one hundred percent used to it yet.

But with only one monster spawning on my first mistake, I wondered if my second mistake would spawn two. I soon learned that this was not true. My second mistake spawned three kobolds, the third time was nine, and when we got to the fifth time, twenty monsters spawned. I was starting to get nervous because the last fight was a little tough for us all, with such a confined space. If we continued like this, we would end up with this room being filled with hundreds maybe even thousands of monsters.

"Rei, don't move any more blocks for now." Able suddenly spoke up. He was also tired. Even with my higher stats, I was starting to feel it as well. Defending and attacking while trying to keep both Marsil and Sam safe was not easy. Like just now after twenty kobolds spawned we had spears and swords coming at us from all sides. Both Sam and Marsil did not come out unscathed this time. Sam was slashed in the arm with a sword and Marsil took a spear to the leg. It was a very difficult battle. But if you cast the wrong spell you could end up hurting more than just the enemy. I was starting to think I should have practiced my magic much more. with my current control, I was scared of harming Able and the rest, in such an enclosed space.

"I know… we got to figure out a better way of dealing with this..." I said as I laid on the floor.

"From what I know, puzzle rooms normally have only one way to solve things but some had two. We could see if there is another way to escape." Able explained.

"What happens if you solve the puzzle?" I asked. I mean I was curious, was there some kind of prize for completing the puzzle? Or do you just regain your freedom?

"As far as I know a chest will appear after the puzzle is completed and sometimes a decent artifact will drop." Able replied. I suddenly felt like I was living in an RPG! (Role Playing Game) This was the only thing I could think of when I heard you get an item from completing the puzzle.

"So, I'm guessing if we escape the room without completing the puzzle we get nothing right?" I felt a little reluctant to give up the prize but if we continued trying to fight all the monsters that spawned we would end up dead eventually. And to be honest I did not want to start over again from the kidnapping incident. I mean it is lucky that I am able to die and be resurrected but… I do not want to watch those close to me die either… The system did say that when I die I will remember everything that happened. 

"Yes, in order to successfully get the item at the end, one must solve the puzzle. " Able confirmed my question. I looked at both Sam and Marsil who were wounded and fell into thought. "Let's see if there is a second way out of the room. If we continue as we are someone will end up seriously injured or dead. If all else fails, I can always try to kill everything at the same time." 

Everyone nodded at my suggestion but unfortunately, our luck was not good. There was no second easier puzzle. The room was completely empty except for the chest. The door itself was sealed off with neganite so we could not use magic to open it. I ever tried using my sword to cut it open but since it was made with magic it did nothing. We all fell to the floor to our butts and let out a long sigh.

"Looks like our only choice is to continue with the puzzle..." Marsil looked very unwilling but I could tell she also knew that we had no other choice. 

"For now, let's just study the puzzle and figure out how it should look in the end. Because if we keep doing it blindly we may end up with a block stuck on the opposite side of where it should go." I suggested. I wanted to reduce the number of battles as much as possible.

"This is a good idea. Then we can arrange which tiles should be moved next and reduce our battles by a great amount. Rei and I will work on this while you two heal up."

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