novelonline Chapter 3480 3nd Floor
Chapter 3480 3nd Floor
Chapter 3480 Third Floor
He didn't linger on the first floor. After politely bidding farewell to the friendly deity and returning to the platform between the first and second floors, Shad presented his thoughts to Miss Noire.
"The mummified corpse that took the key knew the third floor best, so I guess the key was most likely obtained on the third floor. Since the key is on the third floor, the elevator might also be on the third floor. We can try to find the elevator on the third floor first. We got some matches from the mummified corpse, which is enough for us."
The vampire girl, having recovered slightly, asked in surprise:
"Why do you speak as if we just encountered an ordinary innkeeper, not a god? That's a god. Shouldn't we be marveling at the immense power of a god, discussing the relationship between this inn and that god, expressing gratitude on behalf of mortals for the god's protection of the material world, and finally speculating about the whereabouts of the chosen ones who once managed this inn?"
It seems that although she was scared, she was still thinking.
Xia De then pointed out:
"Didn't I say? I've encountered many ancient gods and even had quite deep connections with some of them. This Lord of the Walls is a benevolent god and is willing to help us conditionally, isn't that wonderful? As for the things you mentioned, we can reminisce about them when we have time."
In fact, He even offered advice on our respective purposes. I think God was warning us not to be too greedy, because the blood of evil is not so easy to absorb.
The red-haired vampire lady neither confirmed nor denied this, then asked:
“I overheard your conversation with that deity. It sounds like your situation is different from ours?”
At this point, Shad told the truth:
"I come from another dimension, and I can only stay here for fifty minutes. I know that the spacetime here is chaotic, so this refers to my own perceived time. Let's get moving quickly. I'm currently trapped in the [House of the Pseudo-Humans]. If I go back empty-handed this time, I won't be able to come back next time."
"You can come back?"
She was increasingly surprised:
"What are you doing back in this godforsaken place? I mean, this hotel?"
"This matter is much more complicated to explain, but just believe that I am trying to help you."
Miss Noiret trusted him enough by now, so she went with him to the third floor:
"However, you are not the first time traveler I have encountered here."
"Oh? Who else have you met?"
Shad asked curiously, "After Emilia became a Chosen One of Time, she could theoretically use the Time Key like Shad and truly experience stories from the past." But unlike Shad, who was passionate about adventure, Emilia wasn't interested in such things. Even with Shad and Iluna present, her experience at the Otherworld Academy had made her fully realize just how terrifying the Time Key's reality truly was.
And the vampire lady certainly didn't refer to the pointy-eared elf:
"That happened before I met Joanna and Lady Gerd. I accidentally wandered into the 15th floor and immediately encountered an accident in the corridor. It was the witch who claimed to be a time traveler who saved me and shared the room with me."
But she left quickly, and she wanted me to keep it a secret and not tell anyone except another time traveler. Unfortunately, that empty room lacked the protection of the Old God statues, which is why I later encountered danger and was rescued by Joanna and the others.
When she reached the third-floor stairwell, she finally finished recounting her past:
"She was a werewolf witch. I used to think werewolves were just a branch of beastmen, I never imagined I'd be saved by one. She said her surname was Bicester, and I remember that in ancient texts, that surname itself means 'beast,' right?"
The image of the wolf-eared girl immediately popped into Shad's mind. He had only seen her once in a dream not long ago, and now he was hearing news of her again here. Shad had met her in Ash River Valley in the Fifth Age 3733, more than three thousand years later.
It's a pity that the girl is no longer here.
“Hibbel Bister, I know her too.”
Shad said this, and the red-haired vampire girl smiled:
"I guessed it. The moonlight she used was also so pure. I was just wondering if there was a connection between you two. Do you belong to some kind of time traveler organization?"
"No, no, there's no such thing. Actually, I haven't seen her in a long time either."
"She told me she was on a pilgrimage following the moon, but she was running too fast and accidentally entered different times. She came here because there was an ancient evil creature here that had once come into contact with the primordial moon - the Moon Beast. When I met her, she had already achieved her goal."
He paused for a moment after speaking:
"I don't know how she dealt with that moon beast, but she said it was in room 2530 on the 25th floor. I don't recommend you go there to look for traces of your old friend, after all, the 25th floor is really too high."
As they were talking, the two arrived at the third floor of the hotel. The spatial anomaly also took effect in the stairwell, but the stairwell was forcibly given a certain order, otherwise they would not have been able to determine which floor they had reached.
The temperature on the third-floor corridor was slightly lower than on the tenth-floor corridor. The two took a step away from the stairs, and the key in Xia De's hand immediately emitted a faint golden light. The golden light drifted to the right.
"It seems to be the third floor."
Shad returned the lantern to Miss Novare, and the area illuminated by the vampire girl's lantern was slightly larger than that on the tenth floor, but still quite limited.
They walked to the right, and when they were no longer visible in the stairwell, Miss Noiret, with her keen sense of smell, suddenly asked:
"Can you smell anything?"
Xia De frowned and sniffed lightly, then discerned a strange floral scent.
Their expressions immediately turned grim. The normal smell of the corridor was decay; any other odor meant that something else lurked in the darkness. And the fact that it only approached after they had moved away from the stairwell indicated that it was definitely there for them.
So, without bothering to save matches, Shad lit the candle and stood back to back with her, each facing a different direction.
He held the candle in his left hand to illuminate as much area as possible, partly to guard against attacks from the ceiling. His right hand held the Dawnbreaker sword, which gave Shad a great sense of security. While this relic sword wasn't as dangerous as the Night Watch, it coincidentally shared a similar function—sensing evil.
Suddenly, the dim dawn light on the surface of the longsword flashed for a second. Xia De, who was prepared, swung the longsword forward, and the sword mark in the colors of holy moonlight and golden dawn transformed into a long whip, which swooshed into the darkness.
A shrill scream rang out the next moment. Realizing that the enemy was in Shad's direction, the vampire girl hurriedly turned around. Then, together with Shad, she saw the edge of the area illuminated by two lights, and an extremely beautiful face suddenly disappeared into the darkness.
The left side of his face bore the marks of a whip, but that was enough to demonstrate his power. That was the "Moonlight Greatsword" wielded through the "Steel Serpent," capable of easily cleaving even the hardest special steel of the Sixth Era, yet the opponent only suffered a red and swollen face.
Miss Novare identified what it was from the horns on the other person's head and its scent, which made her quite "famous" even among outsiders.
"Succubus!"
The vampire girl said with considerable certainty:
“I dealt with this kind of thing for a while half a century ago, so I’m sure I’m right.”
Both of them faced the darkness where the succubus had disappeared, and Shad was quite puzzled:
"Why can't we see through this darkness, but these monsters can see through it even without lights?"
The vampire girl then lowered her voice and explained:
“I know that. Ms. Gerd warned us that if we can see through the darkness, it means we have adapted to the environment here, but it also means that we are becoming part of this hotel, and then we really won’t be able to leave.”
As she spoke, she released a large swarm of bats in front of her as a test; the bats all flew out from under her skirt.
"found it!"
She spoke softly and snapped her fingers, causing bursts of blood-red light to explode in the darkness. The succubus, pursued by the exploding bats, charged at the two, her target appearing to be the male, Shad.
With a serious expression, Xia De raised his longsword and then slashed it with a sharp backhand, severing the pale right hand that had reached up to their heads from behind.
The hands are human hands, but the arms are extremely long, reaching out from the dark depths behind.
As the longsword struck the pale right hand, the succubus that had emerged from the darkness vanished like a bubble. [Dawn] clashed with the wrist, producing a metallic clang.
But Xia De still managed to cleave a huge gash in his pale wrist, so he quickly retreated into the darkness with his right hand hanging limply over his wrist.
At that moment, Shad and Miss Novare made the exact same movement, clenching their fists and crossing their arms in front of them:
"Moonlight Slash!"
The crimson and silver moonlight crosses chased after the arm simultaneously. The two beams of moonlight crossed the stairwell and struck the arm on the side of the door of room 0397, successfully severing the right hand from the wrist.
But they never saw what the thing actually was, because the slender right hand had emerged from the crack in the door of room 0397. As the pale right hand landed, the bare wrist vanished into the darkness inside the doorway.
But the door did not close completely; it remained slightly ajar, allowing anyone to push it open or close it completely with a simple reach.