Crossover Anime: Starting from Soul Society and Slicing Through All Worlds

Chapter 69 The boss's way of clearing the level is to brute force!

"Once we enter the maze, I expect you to follow my instructions. Is that alright?"

Of course, I don't mean to force you, but the maze is different from the outside. If you impulsively step into a trap, you won't even have a chance to escape, and you might even endanger the rest of the group.

Hearing Ye Cheng's earnest instructions, Alicia and the other two swallowed hard, then nodded quickly like chickens pecking at rice, indicating that they had no problem.

"You are the senior adventurers, so naturally we will listen to the experienced seniors."

We are already very grateful that they are willing to broaden our horizons, and we certainly wouldn't be ungrateful.

Hearing Alicia and the other two's assurances, Ye Cheng couldn't help but nod silently. The trio's values ​​were quite sound, and it wasn't for nothing that he and Shima Yosuke had rescued them earlier.

After entering the maze, the group first arrived at an extremely long passageway. The narrow passageway was empty, but it connected to several secret rooms.

Even novice adventurers like Alicia and her companions could see that the seemingly simple passageway was definitely not as simple as they imagined.

However, they didn't know what to do at that moment, so they could only wait anxiously for the two big shots to give instructions.

With the help of the micro-sprites, Yosuke Shima quickly scanned the entire maze's structure and analyzed most of the traps.

Then he turned to Night City and said, "Some traps are unbreakable by the spirits and need to be triggered directly. It seems that this maze is of a high level."

There are five traps in the passageway in front of us. I have already eliminated two of them, but the remaining three can only be deactivated by triggering them.

The first point is two spots on the wall where about a hundred arrows will be shot out.

The second location is where a giant, spherical rock, the same width as the passageway, will fall from above the passageway.

The third location is a summoning circle at the end of the corridor, which will summon a certain number of monsters to surround us from the front and back.

Seeing that Yosuke Shima had gathered so much information simply by squatting down and striking a pose, Alicia and her two newbies were stunned on the spot.

Are all the big shots this awesome? If they hadn't entered this maze together, Alicia and the others would have even suspected that Night City and Yosuke Shima had been here before.

"This is a pretty old-fashioned trap trigger. You guys wait here for a bit while I go trigger the trap and come back."

After hearing what Ye Cheng said, Alicia and the other two were speechless again. Since they had detected the trap in advance, shouldn't they be trying to eliminate it or find a way to get around it?

But if they hadn't misheard, Night City seemed to have said they were going to trigger a trap...

"Mr. Kuroki, is it really alright to just let Mr. Ito go like this?"

The law of summoning monsters is one thing, but didn't you just say that arrows would be shot from both sides and giant rocks would fall from above?

In such a narrow passageway, Mr. Ito had nowhere to hide, didn't he?

The passageway was only ten meters long and less than three meters wide. If the trap was really as Kuroki said, Makoto Ito would be riddled with bullets and crushed into a meat patty in an instant.

Therefore, Alicia and the others really couldn't understand why Kuroki didn't stop his companion from acting so rashly.

"While destroying or bypassing the trap isn't out of the question, it would be a huge waste of time. Don't worry, Yi Ye... with Cheng-ge's skill level, this level of trap is no problem at all."

If the big shots all said that, what could Alicia and the others say? So at this moment, they could only keep a close eye on Night City's figure, ready to provide rescue to Night City at any time.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

As soon as Ye Cheng stepped onto the floor of the corridor, numerous magic circles appeared on the walls on both sides of the corridor, and then a barrage of magic arrows with different attributes shot towards Ye Cheng in the corridor.

When they saw this scene, Alicia and her two companions, who were in the audience, almost had their hearts clenched.

The scene unfolding before their eyes clearly differed from what "Kuroki" had described earlier.

They said they had hundreds of arrows, but there are at least several hundred here!

And the arrows that Kuroki mentioned earlier, Alicia and the others thought were ordinary arrows, but the arrows that appeared here were all elemental arrows with magical damage.

And most fatally, the magic array that fires these elements also has an automatic target-locking feature, so there is absolutely no possibility that these elemental arrows will miss.

Such a confined space, coupled with such a large number of elemental arrows, and these elemental arrows can even lock onto enemies on their own—this isn't a trap at all, it's just sending people to their deaths!

There is almost no other way to break such a trap except by sacrificing lives until the elemental arrows on both sides of the wall are exhausted, at which point the trap will naturally be dispelled.

"Elemental arrows? But to me, they don't seem to make much of a difference."

Yagami-ryu Second Form – Omikami: Dance!

When the colorful elemental arrows rained down on Night City, Alicia covered her eyes, unable to bear watching.

Partly because she was afraid, and partly because she didn't want to see her benefactor riddled with thorns.

However, Alicia, who had been covering her eyes, soon heard a clattering sound beside her. Lyca, who had been standing next to her, exclaimed, "Alicia, look! Makoto Ito… oh no, Makoto-san is amazing!"

Out of curiosity, and also out of trust in her childhood friend Leica, Alicia quickly and carefully lowered her hands from her eyes.

However, what Alicia saw before her eyes soon left her completely dumbfounded; the scene of rivers of blood she had imagined did not appear.

Not only was Mr. Makoto Itō not riddled with holes by the elemental arrows, but at this moment, he held a black longsword and walked with the ease of a leisurely stroll amidst the sudden rain of elemental arrows.

The rain of arrows that burst forth could not even get close to him within the circle of his sword. The clanging sounds earlier were from Ye Cheng's longsword deflecting the arrows.

Faced with the elemental arrows raining down like a sudden storm, Alicia and her two companions seemed to be seeing a hallucination—a peerless martial artist dancing gracefully amidst the arrow rain!

What would be a deadly rain of arrows for others, seemed to the opponent merely a stage to showcase his martial arts skills.

As the magic circles on both sides of the wall gradually dimmed and the rain of elemental arrows subsided, Alicia and her two companions, who had been mesmerized by the sword dance, were still not fully recovered from their previous state.

(End of this chapter)