Breaking Rules - A LitRPG Adventure (New Game Minus Book 3) by Sarah Lin

Author:Sarah Lin [Lin, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Bloodwraith woke up early and began preparing for their journey, finding that Meara was already awake because she hadn't slept. She did reveal that they had discovered the second key, which left only one remaining. While most were still getting ready and Danniah was eating a breakfast from Meara, Bloodwraith approached Gharavi and gestured for her to follow.

"Would you be willing to help me with something?"

"Certainly, but what is it?" Gharavi gave him a curious look as they proceeded through the maze and he tried to shrug off the matter.

"One of the rooms we ignored proved rather irritating. I need someone else to help work through the Outsiders' insane logic."

As they headed through the maze, he noticed that Izzy was wandering along after them, nibbling on a final undead skull. Since it did no harm to have her along, Bloodwraith gestured for her to come walk beside him and patted her on the head. She grinned up at him and trotted along after them.

Since she was along, Bloodwraith examined her box and to his surprise found that she had 169 Necromancy Points to spend - all of those undead had rapidly increased the available quantity even if their value had deteriorated to almost nothing by the end. That meant she had over 600 points total, which was truly rapid growth...

[Quest Advanced!

Sub-Quest III: Earn Necromancy Points for Undead Companion Izilthor.

EXP +5000]

Another small step forward for him as well. He resolved to help her invest her points soon, but by that point they had reached the chamber with the strange puzzle.

Bloodwraith demonstrated how the fundamental mechanic worked and Gharavi understood immediately. She examined the layout of chests while Izzy curiously experimented, closing one chest and then leaping to try to hold one of the nearby ones closed. Though they could split up to try to accomplish the same thing, Bloodwraith was fairly certain that would prove ineffective. The box gods wanted players to go through the random meaningless exercise.

"What's the final objective?" Gharavi asked. He could only shrug.

"We have no way of knowing and there are no indications anywhere in the chamber."

"Hmm... since you usually want to open chests, let's try to get them all open."

"A reasonable enough place to start, but easier said than done."

Yet to his surprise, Gharavi began to methodically open and close chests. Though it seemed arbitrary at first and without a goal, Bloodwraith realized that such a pattern was necessary to reach a real solution. There was no point trying to steadily reduce the number of closed chests, because they would just be flipped back in the end. Instead she was obviously setting up for a final switch that would close them all.

When she finally came close, Bloodwraith had to shake his head. He was irritated that he hadn't been able to do it, and more frustrated that she had managed it so easily. But most importantly, it seemed that he wouldn't have to waste any more time on the stupid puzzle.

As the last set of chests opened together, a clear tone rang throughout the room.

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