First Floor [4]

The massive corridors all looked the same, creating the unsettling feeling of being trapped in a maze, with identical statues, walls, and floors repeating endlessly.

Yet, despite the uncanny similarity, they knew they weren't running in circles.

The first floor of the Void Dungeon was, after all, a maze—the Imperion Maze.

As they ventured deeper, they occasionally encountered prowlers, but the numbers were far fewer than those they faced at the void dungeon's entrance.

In fact, no one but Lumine had to lift a finger—he effortlessly decimated the creatures, his calm demeanor eerily reminiscent of Azriel's.

The cadets felt a sense of comfort knowing the instructors and two of the academy's top students—the apex of the first year and the apex of the second—were right behind them.

Also Vergil.

But what they didn't realize was that this comfort was a false sense of security.