THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

The blood walls were over twenty meters high, with the blood mist hovering above like a red curtain; growls of monsters could be heard deep within the labyrinth.

From time to time, a chunk of solidified blood would break from the walls of the labyrinth and smash into the ground like jelly.

The scene was just as disturbing as its stench.

Ivan and his group sat on the only rocky part of the cavern that was just two meters away from the entrance of the labyrinth, as for why they were sitting here…

They were measuring the time intervals that the labyrinth used to shift so that they could make preparations.

After waiting for three hours, they realized that they were wasting their time because the labyrinth had shifted six good times within the three hours that they had spent waiting outside.

The first one was just thirty minutes after they came down, the second shift occurred a few minutes later, the third shift only happened after a full hour, the fourth and fifth were just two minutes apart after the third one, the sixth shift happened at the end of the second hour; there had not been any more shifts within the last one hour.

All six shifts had occurred during the first two hours that they spent waiting and not a single shift had happened during the third hour.

The shifting period was just unpredictable, and it seemed that whatever was causing it to shift simply did it on a whim.

"Guess there\'s no point waiting here then, let\'s just go in and stick together," Glen suggested, but Ivan didn\'t move; they continued waiting.

After nine hours of waiting and doing nothing but hearing the troubling sound of the labyrinth shifting, they finally found a rhythm to it!

Every two hours, the shift of the labyrinth would occur randomly without warning, but for the following one hour, it wouldn\'t shift even once.

This meant they would have to be very cautious during the first two hours and could move however they liked during the third hour.

"All right, let\'s rest here. We move in the morning" Ivan ordered.

(Although they were unable to see the sky since they were inside of a tunnel, they had time measuring devices with them)

No one gave a complaint, and they all found a spot to rest; Glen was asked to watch and would switch with Ivan later.

...

Hours flew by while Glen was still keeping watch; the red mist above the labyrinth suddenly began to let out a strange scent that could easily be ignored because of the stench of the blood.

Glen suddenly found himself getting very sleepy and his eyelids became incredibly difficult to hold up.

"What\'s…happening?" Glen voiced out amidst a yawn as he tried to keep his consciousness awake; he soon realized that it was as simple as falling asleep.

He immediately thought of waking the others, but before he could even get up, his head tilted over, and he fell to the ground; his breathing was calm and silent; he had fallen asleep!

He wasn\'t the only one, Ivan and the others were also fast asleep.

Wooowoooowooo!

Like the howling of the night wind, a low sound spread through the cavern as a large shadow drifted over the five like a blanket.

The shadow was wide like a cloud and its edges wriggled like countless worms.

After covering the five, it suddenly stopped all movements before slowly retreating into the labyrinth; the place returned to normal as time ticked by.

A few hours later it was already morning.

Glen\'s eyelids twitched, and his consciousness was slowly waking up.

His eyes slowly opened after twitching for a few seconds, his sight was blurry but Glen could see that something was in front of him.

He blinked several times, and his sight slowly recovered; Glen could not see what was in front of him. It was a face, a face with two large white eyes, and these eyes were staring at him.

The face seemed a bit transparent, and Glen could vaguely see through it; it had the texture of water trapped in a plastic bag but was murkier than dirty water.

On the face were bloody lines and a wide mouth that had a creepy smile on it.

The eyes blinked as if it was able to tell that Glen could now see it clearly.

"Good morning"

The mouth opened and the voice of a man rang out in a formal tone as if greeting a coworker.

Glen "...."

He paused, staring at the face, his mind stopped working.

"Eh? Can you not understand me? Is my speech weird?" The voice said once more seeing as Glen didn\'t respond.

Now Glen was one hundred percent sure that he wasn\'t dreaming or seeing things; there was really a strange face talking to him; he instantly freaked out; the distance between this face and his was not even up to five inches!

Slowly opening his mouth, Glen quietly sucked in air before…

"Aaaaahhh!!!!"

He let out a scream at the top of his lungs, even a woman who was in labor would stop mid-push just to look at Glen at this point.

The body of the face immediately reacted to Glen\'s scream and turned jagged like the fur of a startled kitten; it was definitely stunned by Glen\'s scream.

Glen suddenly saw it fly into the air before dashing in the direction of the labyrinth and disappearing into it. Its flying speed was very impressive, and it was already gone within a second.

Still, Glen didn\'t stop screaming. He only stopped when Ivan and the others woke up and rushed to his side.

"What? Why are you screaming?!" Ralph grabbed Glen\'s shoulders and asked.

Glen tried to speak, but his lips kept shaking, and he wasn\'t able to make out anything meaningful.

"Calm down, something strange must have happened last night," Ivan said from the side. He didn\'t know what happened, but he was certain that something happened; he was supposed to switch with Glen last night to keep watch but had only woken up this morning!

Twenty minutes later, Glen had managed to calm down and told them why he was screaming earlier.

"That must have been terrifying; I would get a trauma if I saw such a thing." Karin shivered as she sympathized with Glenn.

Imagine experiencing such a thing immediately after waking up. The first thing you see is not the face of a pretty girl or handsome dude, but the face of a strange monster, and it even dared to greet you good morning; some people would simply die from the shock alone.

But that wasn\'t the bigger issue here, the most disturbing thing they realized was that…they had all slept without anyone keeping watch!

"Geeze, thank goodness no monster came to eat us; we would have died in our sleep" Karin shivered again.

The five of them had slept like dead fishes inside the dreamscape without any protective measures! What could be crazier than that?

(Maybe waking up to see a big face blinking at you)

"Everyone check if there\'s anything strange with your body"