Continuing straight past many more intersections, the compass growing more and more accurate, Roy was about to take another step forward when he suddenly felt a force on his shoulder.

In an instant, he was yanked backward forcibly, as Vector looked down at him and whispered while pointing at the upcoming intersection.

"Do you hear that?"

*STEP*

*STEP*

Throughout the silent labyrinth, the sound of shoes crashing against the stone-brick ground echoed.

Instantly, Roy placed his hand on his sword, his eyebrows raising; however, Vector remained calm, even a smile appearing on his face.

Showing no concern, Vector crept forward, his footsteps unheard, and muttered to Roy behind him.

"What are you worried about? This person is clearly a low rank; they're not even trying to hide their footsteps. Clearly, they're stupid."

However, Roy paused and answered back.

"What if...they're just super confident, to the point where they don't even care if they're heard."

Clicking his tongue, Vector simply smirked and halted right before the intersection, and peeked into the path to their left, where sound was approaching from.

"Don't be stupid. Would a high-ranked person be on the outskirts of the labyrinth, like us? All of them are probably already nearing the middle."

Tucking his bow under his shoulder, Vector stepped into the intersection, followed by Roy, and glanced toward the sound.

There, just a few steps away, was a figure with messy black hair and blue eyes, illuminated by a single torch.

Instantly, a flash of recognition appeared in Roy's eyes as he whispered.

"I know him! He's the rank 1900 who ratted out Aizo before he left!"

"You know what to do."

Grinning, Vector simply raised his hand and waved at the blue-eyed figure, gesturing for him to come forward.

Reaching out his hand, Vector kindly said.

"Ah, another wanderer? We've made a group, and we're trying to get to the middle; would you like to join us?"

As Vector reached into his quiver for an arrow, his arm hidden behind his back, Roy continued.

"We have a much higher chance if we work together!"

After a few silent moments, the boy finally answered, not a hint of gratitude in his voice.

"Sure...I guess."

Narrowing his eyes, Vector bit his lip and muttered.

"Ungrateful bastard; he should be on his knees begging to join us."

Roy instantly nodded his head and added.

"Let's take care of him."

With his hand on the hilt of his sword, ready to surge upward, Roy waited as the boy finally joined them at the intersection.

However, just as Vector was about to nock the arrow behind his back, the boy suddenly said while confusedly looking up.

"Wait...what's that up there? A secret chest!?"

Roy and Vector's heads instantly flicked upward to the ceiling...however, there was nothing; just the same pitch-black abyss of nothingness.

Pissed, Roy immediatly unsheathed his sword and jabbed it forward... at nothing?

Similarly, Vector shot an arrow straight ahead, where the boy had been...but the arrow simply flew forward into the left path.

"Where is th-"

Before Vector could finish his sentence, he instantly felt a surging pain in his two legs as his vision turned upside down, the ceiling now below him, and the stone-brick ground above him.

Within an instant, he forcefully did a flip into the air, his head crashing against the ground.

Unable to even retract his sword, Roy felt a striking pain on the back of his forehead as he fell forward and collided with the ground as well, as if rammed by a car.

However, that wasn't it.

"AHHHH!"

With their stomachs pinned against the ground, by some unknown force, both Roy and Vector, only able to see the ground below them, felt a surging pain assault them, as if a stampede of bulls was trampling them.

Temporarily catching their attention from the intense pain, a voice suddenly sounded, plain and emotionless.

"Touch Ruby again, and you die."

"Understand?"

The pain paused for a brief moment, Vector panted heavily, like a dehydrated dog, and managed to ask.

"w-who do y-"

A surging pain instantly overwhelmed his head as the bottom of a shoe crashed against it at full force, dispersing his thoughts entirely.

"Understand?"

Roy was the first to speak, a whisper barely escaping his mouth in between pained screams.

"y-yes, I-I S-SURRENDER!"

Instantly, his body vanished, as if it had never been there in the first place.

The yells of his teammates still echoing through the labyrinth, Vector also screamed out a moment later.

"I SURRENDER!"

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...

...

Glancing at my two feet, which had been on top of their bodies, one on each, a moment ago, I sighed and wiped my hands.

I couldn't do anything drastic in the maze, like torturing them, with teachers watching on cameras, so they had managed to escape.

Magnus will probably kill them, anyway, after learning they caused him to lose to Leo again.

Sighing, I played with my new sword while suddenly taking a left from my original path.

The key to this labyrinth was simple.

Always go left.

With my main goal of the practical completed, I headed toward the center, yet, expectantly, I soon ran into another group of students.

"HEY!"

As I stepped into an intersection, a yell instantly sounded from the path to my right, and as I glanced, a group of four students was heading toward me, their hands on their weapons.

Before I could react, the students quickened into a sprint as they charged at me with their swords, already charging forward.

"GET HIM!"

Instantly, eight lines, two from each sword, appeared, ending all around me.

They were uncoordinated and clearly racing to be the one to eliminate me and earn the points, thereby preventing any sort of teamwork.

Thus, easily finding a safe spot, I side-stepped to the right, watching four swords jab at my previous position.

Kicking the leg of the student closest to me, watching him topple like a tower and collapse, I then horizontally slashed my Dao, its blunt edge slamming against the backs of two other students and sending them flying forward.

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