Grand Lust Sovereign-Chapter 78: Clearing Floors (3)

After struggling for five minutes, Julien was able to get out of the mimic’s hold.

These were still the lowest levels of the Tower and the mimics weren’t as life threatening.

Julien learnt the lesson to use the coin as control.

He wasn’t going to have his whole life be dictated by it, but only during times of absolute peril when there did not seem to be any way out, he would toss it and see what he should be doing.

’I have to first see whether the coin is affected by my luck or not. If it is, then there’s no point tossing it.’

If the coin was affected by his luck, then it would always give unfavorable outcomes. It thus had to be checked whether the coin toss was independent of luck or not.

Julien walked out of the treasure room, covered in sticky slime and randomly continued to walk deeper into the labyrinth.

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A bath would be really nice, he wondered.

Walking for a while, he arrived at a three-way intersection. There was a wall in front and the only way to move was either left or right.

On the wall in front though, there were strange arcane symbols. He couldn’t read or understand them.

He shook his head and decided to move on.

He randomly began walking on the left path and after a while, heard strange humming sounds along with the sound of running water.

’Oh, that’s not good.’

Julien decisively gave up walking in this direction and went back.

As he reached the intersection again, he took the left path this time.

He heard a buzzing sound here and crisp notes of something being crushed.

The passage was starting to get drier as he walked and so was the buzzing sound.

Both places led to dangers, and since it had come to this, Julien kept walking and decided to face the dangers.

A few minutes later.

He reached a dead end.

Well, almost a dead end.

The wall in front had few broken bricks in it and through that, Julien could see what was beyond.

As he peeked through the opening, his hair stood on their ends.

Wasps!

There were a lot of human-sized wasps in a huge chamber, hovering above a sea of eggs.

This was definitely their nest and judging from how things were, Julien wouldn’t survive if they chose to attack him.

He quietly went backwards and did not disturb the wasps.

As he reached the intersection again, he went to the right and closer to the humming sound and water source.

Soon, he reached an end.

There was a metallic door in front and to proceed further, he would need to open it.

There were similar arcane symbols etched on it and the sound of running water and humming had also been intensified.

Danger lurked here, this he knew.

[The constellations are watching.]

[The constellation ’Eternal Flame of the Sky’ has reconnected.]

[The constellation ’Rebel Sage of Heaven’ is rubbing his eyebrows and watching with interest.]

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[The constellation ’Sovereign of Shadows’ is sipping tea and watching.]

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His predicament was a matter of great interest to the bored constellations.

He could tell that they wanted him to open this door and look what was beyond.

His cautious personality was warning him to not do it, but if he did not open the door and went back, the constellations would totally lose interest and he wouldn’t have any viewerships, which will only end up hurting him.

Taking a deep breath, Julien decided to go with the flow.

He slowly opened the door and found himself in a well lit cave with a stream of water.

Glowing blue-colored crystals were everywhere and the cave was quite big.

The loud humming sound got louder and pierced Julien’s ears. As he turned to the source, he saw a whale-like monster sleeping in a corner.

It had four webbed feet like a lizard and was curled around some red crystal that gave off heat. On the crystal, there were black arcane symbols like those present on the wall and door.

’There’s also a wooden dinghy by the stream of water…’

There indeed was, but to get there, Julien would need to go past the monster. This might end up alerting it, and that would be a big problem.

’I certainly can’t back away from this situation, and I certainly won’t be alive if I go through this situation.’

There just was no winning.

’When in doubt, toss a coin.’ Julien reminded himself.

Since the situation was unfavorable in all ways, why not see what the coin would say?

If it was heads, he would go back and search for another route to the core. This would result in the constellations losing interest and leaving, and that would affect his future quite a lot.

If it was tails, he would face his current situation.

Julien tossed the coin.

This time, it was tails.

’Fine then…’

There was no running and he had to face the situation.

He racked his brains for a bit, and devised a rough plan to get away.

The monster looked like it could swim, so even if Julien was to quietly go past it and get on the wooden dinghy, it might end up following him.

Fighting on water would mean immediate death as Julien did not know how to swim.

’This means, I need to divert its attention…’

Julien knew exactly the thing he could do to distract the monster, but he did not know whether or not he had the courage in him to do it.

’It’s not whether I can or cannot do it. It’s that I need to do it. And I need to do it now!’

He scrapped out his useless thoughts and clutched his sword as a rough plan formulated in his mind.

He ran a simulation of the same plan in his mind, and it looked like he had a chance to come out unscathed.

Julien carefully observed the cave, then went back and closed the door.

He then made his way towards the wasps’ side and took a deep breath.

’Okay, let’s do it.’

He picked up a loose brick and threw it at one of the eggs, rupturing it, and alerting the wasps.

The buzzing stopped for a second, then with their compound eyes, they detected Julien through his body heat.

"Time to run!" Julien did not waste any time and began running.

The wasps changed after him, breaking the wall through their stingers.

As the passage was quite narrow, the wasps had trouble chasing Julien, giving him just enough time to reach the other end.

He opened the metal door and quietly tried to sneak past the sleeping monster.

The wasps entered the scene and with their buzzing sounds, woke the monster up.

The wasps were too many in number and Julien went undetected by the monster.

It began attacking the wasps that had invaded through the door and left the glowing crystal alone.

Watching the scene from afar, Julien knew he did not have much time.

He had to hurry, but the glowing red crystal seemed tempting.

It was half his size and glowing really brightly.

If he were to grab this, it might make the monster chase him instead.

Getting indecisive again, he decided to flip a coin.

Heads, he would quietly leave.

Tails, he would grab the crystal.

Julien flipped a coin.

It was heads.

’No, fuck it. I’ll take the crystal!’

The monster shouldn’t be strong like the floor boss. Thinking along these lines, he quickly grabbed the crystal and got onto the dinghy.

As expected, the monster stopped fighting the wasps and turned to Julien.

It let out a deep hum and ran towards Julien, disregarding the wasps stinging its body.

"Faster! I gotta row faster!"

Julien began rowing faster as his life quite literally depended on it.

The monster could swim, but thankfully the downstream current was strong and took Julien away from it in no time.

He passed through many caves and soon arrived at a bright opening.

He was now on a lake, inside a gigantic cave illuminated by many blue crystals.

This place looked similar to the cave he took the dinghy from.

He rowed the wooden boat to the shore and got off.

There wasn’t time to rejoice or think of his next move as he heard loud splashing sounds of water and a deep humming as well as distant buzzing sounds.

’Not good.’ Julien thought and ran to the nearest passage he could find.