Cheat Awakening-Chapter 753. Chess Piece

"Sylphy! Need any help?!"

Myne shouted out as Waffle and Sylphy found themselves surrounded by a large swarm of one-meter-tall giant bees, seemingly in big trouble.

"No need!"

Both of them called out together before using all their firepower to deal with the hundred or so giant bees surrounding them.

"Although the monster level of this dungeon isn't high, the quantity is quite huge. Suppose someone with limited strength gets surrounded by them. In that case, even if they are powerful enough to kill a dozen alone, it won't take long for the noise of battle to attract other nearby monsters, leading to them getting overwhelmed and dying," Aisha said seriously while firing arrows, watching more bees emerge from other cave entrances and join the battle.

"Indeed, but what I'm worried about right now is that the noise we're making is too loud and might alert those people ahead of us. I really don't want to see another empty boss room," Myne said with a frown.

"Now you can take action."

Finally, after nearly five minutes of nonstop battle and seeing no hope of killing all the seemingly unlimited bees, Sylphy and Waffle returned to Myne's side. Sylphy wiped the sweat from her forehead and spoke. There was no embarrassment on her face for wasting so much time or alerting their enemy just because she was feeling bad and wanted to find someone to vent her anger.

"Sigh, you guys are such troublemakers," Shaking his head, Myne snapped his fingers, and two giant red hexagram arrays appeared on the ground in front of them. As the bees got close, two pillars of fire shot out from the arrays, large enough to touch the cave ceiling, burning all the bees near them to ashes.

But since there were more bees ahead, Myne didn't stop there. He first created three wind tornadoes, made them pass through the fire pillars, creating giant fire tornadoes. While maintaining mana output so those fire tornadoes didn't dissipate, he let them move forward and clear their path.

"I thought I heard someone talking about making less noise so we don't alert our enemies?" Aisha taunted him, rolling her eyes, as she watched Myne use skills powerful enough to destroy an entire dungeon floor.

"What else can I do? Sylphy's previous high-profile action was more than enough to alert them. So what's the point of pretending as if they don't know about us and continuing to be low-key? Isn't it better to do our best and move forward as quickly as possible? Maybe we'll reach the boss room before them?" Myne replied with an innocent smile and a shrug of his shoulder.

"Myne, we're going to arrive!… However, it seems like those people are still ahead of us and have already gone inside to challenge the boss," Waffle's voice was full of disappointment.

"What bad luck. Seems like after hearing the noise, they sped up their exploration as well," Aisha shook her head. She had already expected this outcome when Sylphy started making trouble.

"What should we do next? Wait for them?" Sylphy felt sorry for her mistake, but there was nothing she could do about it. At that time, she was too emotional and urgently needed something to vent, so now she could only try to change the topic.

"Otherwise? Unless you can open this door forcefully somehow, or we return home and come back tomorrow, there's nothing we can do except wait," Myne tried to open the door with brute force, but it didn't budge an inch.

"But at least there's good news: as soon as the door opens, we can get inside and finally meet those bastards. I can't wait to have a nice chat with them," He continued with a smile, and others also had expressions similar to his. Obviously, everyone was looking forward to meeting those hard-working people.

After that, everyone sat down near the door and started having lunch. Normally, at the entrance of a boss room, it is deemed a safety zone. So, no monsters came to bother them, and they enjoyed their picnic.

However, maybe their luck was good, or they were just unlucky. They had barely taken a few bites of food when, with a loud rustling sound, the boss room door opened.

"Damn it, can't those bastards waste a few more minutes?" Myne put down the sandwich in his hand with an unwilling expression as Aisha and Sylphy, like hot-blooded chickens, had already stood up and walked toward the boss room. Obviously, they were more interested in catching their opponents than leisurely eating lunch with him.

Complaining, Myne got up, packed everything, and quickly caught up with them, but to his surprise, he found them standing at the entrance of the boss room with no intention of moving forward.

"What's wrong?" He asked while poking his head out from behind them, but seeing the thing that stop them, he was also left dumbfounded.

"Is that a figure covered in blood lying down there?"

Although his eyesight was the best among everyone in his group, he still didn't want to believe his eyes at the scene he was seeing. He asked with a frown because he recognised the person on the ground, and if possible, he didn't want to meet him in any good condition and stay as far from him as possible.

The figure of one adventurer, who was covered in blood and collapsed near the left wall, was seen by everyone. If not for the fact that the lighting in the boss room was good, and they could see his chest moving, by the amount of blood he lost, it would be easy to mistake him for a corpse.

"Isn't it the guy who caused trouble at the clan opening ceremony yesterday? Should we check on him?"

Although Aisha usually didn't mind saving people if she could without getting into any kind of trouble, for Merlin, who left a very bad impression during the clan opening ceremony and forced them to kick him out of the clan, she only had one thing for him: that middle finger.

"Let's go, take a look, but if possible, we better not get involved with him. This person is nothing but a trouble-attracting magnet," Myne said with a frown on his face.

He walked toward Merlin, who was badly injured, with a heavy claw mark on his back deep enough to show his bone. If not for the fact that Myne knew this guy was a chosen one and carried a maxed-out luck attribute, and was more difficult to kill than a cockroach, he would have thought he was seeing a miracle.

If I remember correctly, after dying, this guy can resurrect within a one-kilometre radius, right? So technically, for him, dying is a much better option than getting injured and falling into a coma, which wastes a lot of his time.

But with the amount of luck he has and the care he gets from the world's will, since he's not dead but in a coma, which is a very rare case given how badly he's injured, maybe there's a reason behind all of this... It can't be because the world's will wanted him to get close to me, right?

Otherwise, it's a bit too much coincidence that after I threw him so far away from the centre of the kingdom, he still managed to come back to the capital city within one day and even somehow managed to get involved in the exploration of a dungeon that was unknown to most people.

Why am I smelling a scent of conspiracy from all of this, as if someone is manipulating everything behind the scenes?

As he thought all of this, Myne felt a chill run down his entire body. There's no way anyone likes to be arranged like a chess piece, especially when you're not the protagonist and just a side character who can get replaced at any moment.

"Myne! Myne..."

Myne, who was in deep thought, feeling anxious and wondering whether he should run to Fenrir to get some advice about this matter, had his thoughts interrupted by Waffle's loud voice.

"What?!" He replied irritably.

"Look, that damn bird is here too; it seems she's about to die as well," Waffle, who was right opposite them near the left wall, answered happily. The moment he met Cynesuke, he never liked this bird, who was the number one asslicker of her master, who was a big idiot.

"So? You want me to heal her?" Myne, who didn't want to have anything to do with Merlin or his pets and was thinking about how to get him away from his ass, didn't understand why Waffle was telling him about his bird.

What did it have to do with him if that bird died or not? Yes, he acknowledged that the bird was indeed very rare, but her character obviously had a big problem, and he didn't like her behavior of being a complete bootlicker of her stupid master. Her master didn't care about her, but she was willing to do anything for him. According to him, such a foolish bird would rather die than waste air in this world.