Chapter 49: Accomplishing All Tasks in The Maze Mansion

The battle started and with a fast movement from the Octo-bot or so Jayven calls it, the attacks of weapons and mana energy charged in his direction.

Although fast, it was not enough thanks to the medium his senses enhanced and the overall improvement was beyond what Jayven expected.

So, without much difficulty, Jayven was able to dodge the Octo-bot's movement with ease.

Seeing its attack doesn't work the Octo-bot changed tactics and later it wailed its tentacles and made the space more confined and contract lessening Jayven's area.

"I thought it would read me before doing something scary like this but this is too much!"

Seeing how the battle is unfavorable for him, Jayven rapidly attacked Octo-bot, ripping its tentacles one after the other.

But this didn't stop it and a new one popped out from it.

"I think I know what Master wants to convey on this. If it was a monster then it has regeneration ability."

Thinking so he moved fast and forcefully pushed him through the octo-bot and when he was close, he closed in on him and attacked till its circuits went beyond repair.

"Great, take this!"

His flurry of punches continued to hit the octo-bot and not long after it stopped moving. Signaling his win.

"Good, I finally did it."

But as he was glad from winning the battle something interrupted his situation.

[10… 9… 8...]

Hearing that, a sudden memory was revived in his mind, making him run fast and far away.

[.. 2… 1… 0.]

Then an explosion resounded, destroying everything in the room where both Jayven and the Octo-bot fought.

A few seconds after the explosion happened the place turned into rubble except for the walls everything was a mess. A few minutes later a rubble resounded and using his full-strength Jayven pushed the rubbles away and took a deep breath.

"Puah, Kohoh kohoh. Damn it that bastard wants to kill me. Or does he already know I can escape that?"

[Negative master's plan is for you to receive heavy damage and use a supreme grade solution to heal you completely and possibly give you a self-healing trait.]

"That's Brutal! What the heck does he think a human body is?"

[From my knowledge, it is not since having a self-healing ability is important for every hunter. But this is not okay since master wants you to have that trait. Not many know about this but there are possibilities to achieve traits as long as one is crazy enough to bet their life on it.]

"Crazy you say. That means Master is crazy huh?"

[I don't think he will appreciate that. After all, being a hunter is already a crazy profession that bet's their own life.]

"I understand. Also don't worry I already have that trait."

[You do?]

"Yes, I have. I can let you see if you want."

[No worries I will wait for the master's call for this.]

"Okay. But I am quite confused. Are you master's AI? You are more like Miss Chris."

[That is normal, we AI are made to balance the personalities we have with our master. So, if you think your own AI is acting weirdly different from what you expect it is because it needs to balance your psyche.]

"That makes me wonder who your programmer is. That person thought about this carefully huh?"

[I don't know about that, but we have one purpose and that is to serve our master and guide them.]

"I see." 'That's something else I wonder if Orb will be the same, well I'll know about it in the long run. Also, can Orb be produced in the real world as well as Miz?'

'I'll think of that once I can talk to Orb and consult him about it. After saying that he stood up as he rested well already.'

"Well, the Miz, where is my reward?"

[The basement holds all the reward sir Jayven.]

"Eh?"

[The dungeon control room is also below.]

"What?!"

Later Miz explained everything to Jayven. There are two choices I can take in raiding the mansion. First is to raid to the top and second is to look closely for clues to enter the basement. But even if he chooses the second one a challenge still awaits him.

Understanding this Jayven asked in full detail as they rode an elevator to the basement.

"I can do that?"

[Yes, it is basically to test your knowledge, luck, and will. If you can accomplish finding the lower basement though you still have to face the octo-bot. Although it is weaker, so are its explosive properties.]

'So, it is called the Octo-bot or more like that bastard doesn't care if I die. I need to rethink this master-disciple relationship of ours. If not, I might die without even knowing the reason in the future.'

These thoughts started to form in Jayven's mind afraid of his future but moments later he started to think of it positively.

'Wait I am going to be a hunter in the future exploring the unknown is part of my daily life. So facing this problem in a safe environment might be better since I can prepare mentally.'

With a ding sound, they arrived at the basement of the mansion. And noticing that Jayven was still in a daze, Miz called out to him.

[We are here sir Jayven.]

"Oh. Sorry about that, I was just thinking of something."

[It is alright right now a message from Master will help explain everything and if there is anything you didn't know please ask me.]

"Alright, thanks Miz."

Standing in front of the control room Jayven felt gratified

[Hello Jayven activating this meant that I am still held up by work. Anyway, congratulations on successfully conquering the Maze mansion. Heh, I bet you are still healing from the explosion. Hahahaha.]

'Seeing that laugh would make me mad before, But this time is different since it didn't go your way.' Jayven said in his thoughts toward Klein's Message.

[I don't know if you have chosen to go above or below either way you might already be healing right now. If you conquer the top, you might already have a medium, but if it is below, I guess I will forcefully give one.]

"I see I wonder what he will forcefully make me use as a medium heart or mind?"

[Anyway, the tasks given to you have little to no purpose, it is just to assess what you can do at the moment. And yes I was monitoring you during that time.]

"That's unexpected I guess he still has a bit of a heart left in him."

[But that doesn't mean it is useless, those objects you have contain certain properties. And to make use of it you need to mix the ingredients well.  Well since you are healing right now Miz will take care of your things.]

He said that images of a potion and description flew throughout the room, explaining the properties of the potion and how it could benefit the user.

[As you can see this is a type of potion that nourishes the body to adapt easily to ether. But to tell you the truth, hiring an alchemist to do this is much better than using machine production due to certain effects given by them.]

That sentence made Jayven's face drop.

[But don't worry since the potion we are making is common to low-ranking hunters in the college institute and regard this as trash. Except for those who haven't had ether in their body before though, this potion can slightly increase their familiarity with Ether.]

"Even so, what use is this to my Ether gem?" But as he asked this question another example was shown.

[Next, I would like you to get used to the ether flowing through you and possibly avoid using it. You can use it during meditation but limit yourself to 1 to 3 points of ether since one point of ether equals one hundred mana points.]

Hearing this made Jayven realize how important an ether is and how dangerous it is. Just one point is already equivalent to a hundred points.

No wonder everyone calls it a highly concentrated form of mana.

[Well then that's all for me good luck. Hopefully, when I return you have achieved a self-recovery trait and your strength is ready to take on the college entrance exam. Also, hopefully, you are done here fast Since the application may end good luck. ]

"After a month and a half of challenging this maze, I have finally fully ingrained the neck as my medium. But this is efficient in a way since I can easily access my mana fast and my ether count is already at 30 points considering that it has only been a month since I practiced my mana meditation technique."

Satisfied by what he achieved he entered the control room ready to take his prize. Following that he also trained to be more familiarized with ether.

After a week of using the solution made by the machine that his master instructed him to do. Jayven became even more familiar with using ether.