*Whoosh*
Like a thunderbolt, he cut through the hall.
*Pyuu Pyuu Pyuu*
Arrows shot at him from his sides, but due to his speed, they couldn't even touch a hair on him.
However, before he could start feeling complacent, spears also started shooting out from the walls, and not only arrows.
This sudden development startled Lei Shi but he quickly adapted to it. However, something out of his expectations happened as soon as he was halfway through the hall.
On the wall, some runes lit up, and then a circle of light appeared on top of them. Out of the circle of light, a light sword shot out at Lei Shi.
"What the..." Lei Shi quickly dodged to the side.
*Whoosh*
The light sword narrowly missed him.
"Crap" Lei Shi jumped and spun to the side, narrowly dodging two spears that shot from the ceiling and floor.
"Clang" the spears collided.
BAMM
As soon as Lei Shi's foot touched the ground, he sprang forward, towards the hole in the ceiling once again.
*Crash* a group of arrows landed on the spot that he was a moment ago.
Lei Shi charged forward, this time with his saber in hand, blocking the arrows and spears that he was unable to dodge.
By the time that he was close to the hole in the ceiling, many runes on the walls had lit up. And from the light circles which formed on them, light swords pierced towards Lei Shi.
"Goddammit... Fuck!" a light sword pierced Lei Shi thigh, causing blood to spurt out. It went through his HTB suit's defense like it was paper.
His HTB suit's defense was able to block the arrows, while he had to block the spears using saber because although the damage they did to his HTB suit was a little, receiving many of such attacks would not only slow him down but weaken his defense to the point that the arrows would also begin to threaten him. But for the light swords, he could only dodge.
The weapons in the air were like raindrops. Lei Shi couldn't hope to block them all.
"Haa-AAAH" Lei Shi gave a battle cry and simultaneously released a wave of electricity in all directions.
This discharge was rather effective, it deflected the weapons.
Not dawdling in the slightest, Lei Shi dashed towards the wall that was near the hole.
He jumped, bounced on the wall, and propelled himself into the hole, causing the light swords that were hot on his heels to crash into the wall.
As soon as Lei Shi went through the hole, he rolled to the side and dodged the light swords that followed him to the second floor.
"Pieces of shit" Lei Shi cursed as soon as he stopped rolling.
But before he could even fully appraise his surroundings, he felt a sense of impending crisis. He quickly jumped to the side.
BOOOOM
A supreme light ray landed on the spot that he was a moment ago.
The supreme light ray came from a ball at the top of a pillar which was right under another hole in the ceiling. This hole led to the third-floor.
"Give me a break" Lei Shi jumped to the side, once more dodging a light ray.
This light ray was different from the light swords. If the light swords cut, then this light ray annihilates. And with the prior experience of HTB suit's defenses being weak to the light swords, he couldn't take chances.
*Bamm* he dodged once more.
Lei Shi didn't immediately charge forward because he knew that the only reason he was able to dodge the light ray was because of the distance between him and the ball on the pillar. However, Lei Shi wasn't one to keep running.
"Okay then. You want a Harry Potter Abracadabra-Experiamus showdown? You'll get a Harry Potter Abracadabra-Experiamus showdown!"
Lei Shi drew his gun and fired at the light ray as it pierced towards him.
BOOM!
The collision was terrifying, but Lei Shi didn't shy away and he continued to maintain the electric beam he was firing.
*Step Step* Lei Shi began running to the pillar that the ball which shot out the light ray was on top of. When he was halfway there, the runes on the walls of the second floor lit up, and the light ray, which was already so powerful, multiplied in power.
"DAMN" Lei Shi yelled and also increased his output, offsetting the light ray.
He wasn't as laid back as before. He knew any slight misstep or deviation as ran to the pillar would mean death. When he reached it, he held the Spear, which was on his back along with the Giant-Axe, and smashed the ball, shattering it.
The light ray stopped along with the ball's destruction.
"Huuu" Lei Shi exhaled. Receiving such pressure repeatedly wasn't good for his health.
After calming himself, he jumped through the hole in the ceiling and entered into the third-floor.
SLAM
As soon as Lei Shi landed on the third-floor, an immense pressure fell on him. Gravity here seemed to be multiplied a dozen times.
However, Lei Shi straightened his back and walked forward, using the strength provided by his HTB suit to resist the pressure.
Just like the other floors, there was a hole in the ceiling at the other end of the third-floor. Once again, just like the other floors, when he was halfway to the hole in the ceiling of the third floor which led to the fourth-floor, the runes on the walls and floor of the third-floor lit up, and the Gravity multiplied to an outrageous degree, that Lei Shi found lifting up his feet to be extremely taxing.
"Titania, change the configurations once more, give me strength"
Titania obliged, and after thirty seconds she announced that she was done.
This time around, when Lei Shi tried moving, it wasn't as taxing. But he still had to break a sweat with every step.
When he finally reached the hole, he didn't know how he would go through it. He tried jumping but he was quickly brought down. It was like the weight of the heavens was on his shoulders.
He fired his thrusters and jumped once more, but he could only float and couldn't get through it.
"How am I supposed to do this for chrissake" Lei Shi was stumped.
He thought about dropping the Spear and Giant-Axe, but ended up deciding against it. Even though, dropping them would've made him go faster when we was dodging those weapons earlier and might let him fly through this hole, he refused because he didn't know what lay ahead. There could be a giant Nightshade Scorpion on the next floor for all he knows. And if he doesn't have such heavy weapons, he could only run away or die.
For the same reason of not knowing what lay ahead, Lei Shi refrained from even trying to break through the ceilings and going to the next floor. Imagine if he had broken through the ceiling of the first floor and barged into the second-floor, that supreme light ray would have taken his life on the spot.
"I guess I just have to play Lizardman"
Using his Saber and Spear as hooks, Lei Shi crawled up the wall, to the ceiling, and into the hole.
The pressure didn't disappear till he landed on the fourth floor.
On the fourth floor, he looked around.
The fourth floor was empty, save for ten statues, sentinels, which stood in a line.
The ten sentinels all wielded different weapons.
One wielded a sword, another a spear, another a bow, another dual sabers and so on. They were wearing armor from head to toe.
The sentinels were made of stone but their weapons and armors were made of a special kind of steel.
Lei Shi upped his guard and approached them.
*Creak* the sentinels suddenly simultaneously all looked at him as he took the second step in their direction.
*Pow* they all rushed towards him, asking no questions.
The sentinels moved in an organized way, as a single unit. Lei Shi didn't shy away either and charged at them.
BANG
Lei Shi clashed weapons with the sword-wielding sentinel who was the vanguard of their charge.
*Swoosh*
*Pow Pow* Lei Shi jumped immediately after the clash, leading to two light-arrows landing on the spot that he was a moment ago.
*Swish* an Axe- wielding sentinel jumped and hacked at Lei Shi who was still airborne.
BANG Lei Shi was sent flying backwards like a meteor.
Lei Shi's feet dragged on the floor when he landed. But as he was stopping, he rotated, using his right foot as a pivot, then threw his Spear with all his might at the sentinels.
*Swoosh* the spear tore through the air and pierce through five sentinels consecutively. It only came to a stop after hitting the floor.
*Thud Thud* the pierced sentinels fell to the floor in the order they were pierced through.
"Huuu" Lei Shi inhaled, about to charge towards the remaining sentinels. But he immediately halted when he saw a strange phenomenon.
The runes on the walls and floor of the fourth-floor lit up, then the bodies of the five destroyed sentinels regenerated and they stood back up to their feet, after which the eyes of all ten sentinels glowed red and their bodies released a great pressure.
"Fuck me..."