The exam content of Morning Sun Academy…
Labyrinth Adventure…
In the Forest between the Entia Kingdom and the Demon World, there were many labyrinths.
Special Magic Barriers existed inside the labyrinths, and Lesser Demon Beasts would undergo Regeneration every twenty-four hours.
Because of the different levels of Lesser Demon Beasts hidden within, Humans who had adventured there categorized the labyrinths into different levels.
The Labyrinth Adventure exam required a four-person Party.
The typical configuration was…
Shield Bearer, Warrior, Archer, Mage, Sage, plus a Priest.
Shield Bearers, Sages, and Archers were usually unpopular classes, and enrollment each year was very low.
Therefore, Morning Sun Academy changed the Labyrinth Adventure to a four-person Party, reducing the reliance on unpopular classes.
The members of Joey’s Party were…
Anya, Joey, Aiki from the Mage Academy, and a Priest girl he didn’t know.
Because Shield Bearers were scarce, two Students from the popular Warrior Academy were usually assigned to make up for the lack of a Shield Bearer.
Unfortunately, Chiyang did not make it into Joey’s Party this time.
After all, it was a random assignment, so there was nothing that could be done.
So…
For the exam, Joey and the other three girls took the Steam Carriage arranged by the Academy to the entrance of the labyrinth…
The labyrinth was located in a Cave deep in the Forest, and a stone monument strikingly carved with the words “Bronze-level Labyrinth” by the Entia Kingdom stood beside the entrance…
“So this… is the labyrinth…”
Anya looked at the labyrinth before her and said, “It looks exactly as described in the books…”
Joey stood to the side, feigning a pure and innocent look as he stared into the pitch-black Cave.
“It looks… a bit scary…”
However…
The Protagonist knew exactly who had designed this labyrinth…
The Priest girl also noticed something…
“Eh? At the very top, there’s a line of Demon Race writing I don’t recognize!”
The Priest girl pointed to the top of the Cave entrance.
It wasn’t Demon Race writing…
Joey broke out in a cold sweat internally…
Those four characters were…
Veiweiya…
That’s right…
The labyrinth was designed by the Demon Race themselves…
The Demon Race had always had a habit of designing labyrinths, but they were usually used as traps to lure Human adventurers inside, where higher-tier Lesser Demon Beasts would then kill them to claim their spoils.
It was just that there had been too many Wars between Humans and Demons in the past, plus the previous Demon Kings weren’t very bright…
They still preferred to design labyrinths inside large, long-looking Caves.
Humans weren’t stupid upon seeing these pitch-black Caves; naturally, they knew there was danger inside, but it ended up becoming a training ground for Humans to train new recruits.
Originally, after Joey took over as the Demon King, he wanted to scrap these useless labyrinths.
However, since Veiweiya always liked to pester him, Joey saw that she had nothing to do and let her design labyrinths for fun…
As a result, Joey didn’t expect this girl to design thousands more…
Because the labyrinths she designed were extremely devious and clever…
Joey gave her a nickname: Gong Qi Yin Gao…
For example, now…
As the group approached the pitch-black Cave with their Torches…
“Why won’t the door to this labyrinth open…”
Anya asked, tugging at the labyrinth door.
On the surface, Joey pretended to be puzzled…
Why won’t it open…
So hard to guess…
Naturally, it was because “the door cannot be opened from this side”…
“Yeah… It’s so strange…”
Joey said, offering stiff praise.
“But if that’s the case… how are we supposed to take the exam?”
The Priest girl beside them asked, looking a bit at a loss.
“Perhaps the exam begins at this very moment…”
Anya’s gaze was firm.
“Finding the way in might be part of the exam content…”
“Wow… Anya, you’re so smart…”
Joey clapped his hands and said, “Then let’s look for the entrance together!!!”
“Pfft… Wow…”
Aiki mimicked the Protagonist’s tone and let out a laugh.
She was immediately glared back at by the Protagonist.
Aiki and Joey’s eyes met…
“Hmph!”
Then both of them turned their heads away, pretending they hadn’t seen each other.
Even after half a month, the relationship between the two had not improved; on the contrary, it seemed the misunderstanding was deepening…
Joey had started ordering Aiki not to interfere in his life.
Whether it was dressing or eating, Aiki was not allowed to take care of him.
Because of Joey’s cold attitude, Aiki was also very sad in her heart…
The Young Master…
Doesn’t like me anymore…
Feeling sad, Aiki would always find opportunities.
Seeing that Joey was very clumsy at dressing himself since he hadn’t taken care of himself for so long, she often used sharp-tongued sarcasm to get Joey’s attention.
However, such attention only made their relationship colder and colder…
***
While Aiki and Joey were still secretly competing, the Priest girl and Anya had been looking for the entrance for an hour and still hadn’t found it…
“This is really strange…”
Anya scratched her head.
Looking at the door in front of her, she said tiredly:
“Is there… something wrong with the way it’s opened…”
“Should we ask the Teacher for instructions? There’s something wrong with this labyrinth…”
The Priest girl also asked…
Are these two idiots…
The Protagonist looked at Anya and the Priest girl helplessly…
At a time like this, of course you should use a Magic Wave…
Joey complained in his heart…
The Priest girl had Wind Magic.
As long as she used her Magic to fill the entire Cave with her wind, she would naturally hear where the gaps were…
Even if the Priest girl didn’t understand, that bookworm Anya had read so many books.
If she used a small amount of Water Magic to pour some Recovery Magic Potion rich in fluorescent agents, she would also see where the water flowed…
What a pair of fools, making this King step in personally…
However, as for Joey…
He didn’t even need those useless methods.
He had seen Veiweiya’s blueprints and knew that this scoundrel loved to design doors as: “The door cannot be opened from this side.”
So, Joey stood by a cave wall twenty meters away from the labyrinth door.
Then, pretending to investigate, he kicked a small hole into the wall with his leg.
“Eh! This place seems to be hollow!!!”
The Protagonist pretended to have found a clue.
He pressed his ear against the wall and tapped it.
“Is it?!”
Anya and the Priest girl rushed to the Protagonist’s side.
Hearing the hollow sound, they said:
“It really is!”
Once Anya confirmed it, she took her Enchanted Longsword, used Water Magic to cover the blade, and then slammed it hard against the cave wall.
“Bang!”
With a “Bang!”, a hole large enough for one person was carved into the cave wall.
Anya held her Torch and looked inside…
The interior was built with stone bricks, and the path inside was narrow and winding, with no indication of where it led.
“Great! We finally found the entrance!!!”
The Priest girl said happily. Just as she was about to walk into the hole…
“Watch out!!!”
Anya hurriedly pulled the Priest girl back.
“What are you doing!!!”
The Priest girl looked at Anya with some annoyance. In the next second…
An Undead Skeleton Soldier was hiding in the shadows.
It swung downward fiercely toward where the Priest girl was about to walk.
Fortunately, Anya had pulled her back; otherwise, the Priest girl would have definitely been split in half by the skeleton…
“Wuaaah!!!”
Then Anya stabbed her sword into the skeleton’s head, splitting the Undead Skeleton Soldier in two.
“Who designed this labyrinth!! Why would they put a skeleton in the corner! Did a dog bite them at a street corner on their way to school when they were little!!!”
Joey smiled helplessly, while agreeing in his heart:
Actually, yes…