Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 194 Is it all Alice’s fault?

After resting and gathering their strength, everyone set out again.

Using the key to open the door, I arrived at the second-floor corridor of the castle. Except for the area illuminated by the lantern, it was still dark, but it seemed different.

"It's so quiet."

Aoweila said softly. The silence and quietness around her made her lower her voice unconsciously: "There are no shadow beasts in the corridor. Could it be that all the troops have been transferred to the gate?"

After all, this was already the second-floor corridor, and going down one more floor would allow her to leave the castle. If the person who secretly cast the curse did not want to see her escape the darkness so smoothly, then it was conceivable that they would use various means to obstruct her.

When Alice heard this, she was afraid that she would say something unlucky like "Everyone is working hard, I am also a knight who is working harder", so she quickly interrupted and said, "Don't worry, it might be a trap. Anyway, let's go over and take a look first?"

This didn't sound like much of a comfort, and knowing it was a trap, they still went over to take a look, just to watch the fun? Her words left everyone speechless, but there was no better way at the moment, so Olvera nodded, raised her guard, held the holy sword in her hand, and explored forward cautiously.

After walking for less than half a minute, there was no road ahead.

To be precise, the road was cut off. The ancient dusty bricks seemed to be devoured by the huge mouth of a beast lurking underground. All traces disappeared, leaving only a blank abyss, like an insurmountable chasm, blocking the way forward for travelers. Its depth is unpredictable, containing the deepest darkness, which can easily cut off even a person's vision. If you accidentally fall into it, you will probably be assimilated by it immediately and become a creeping shadow.

"It's actually very simple." She deliberately said in a deep tone: "This is a jumping level."

"Yes, I believe you have already seen that there are no enemies on this floor, but if you want to reach the end of the corridor, you must pass through various obstacles. The abyss in front of you that can only be crossed by jumping is one of them. In addition, there are other types of traps, but I don't know what they are!"

"Does that mean," Ovella frowned, "if we want to get through here, we have to jump over these rocks?"

The others wanted to express their opinions, but were interrupted by Alice before they could say anything: "Ah, I remember now!"

"Jumping music?"

"I want you to take care of it!"

Her tone of voice, as if she had just woken up from a dream, successfully attracted everyone's attention. The little fairy Xie Mi said unhappily, "What did you remember again? Why do I feel like you don't remember anything?"

Linger replied: "It looks like that."

Under the friendly supervision of Metien, Alice, who had temporarily signed a verbal peace agreement with the goblin, finally remembered to explain the specific situation of this corridor to everyone.

Regarding the question of "My genius player can't be a tsundere amnesiac", the golden-haired maid and the fairy maid had a friendly exchange of words due to their different opinions, until Medien, who couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward to mediate. This shows that even in the different world, the infighting in the maid industry is very serious.

These three simple words caused endless doubts among the people.

Fortunately, the internal fighting was limited to verbal confrontation, barely maintaining the moral standard, and did not cause an ideological decline in the spiritual civilization of the other world.

What’s strange is that above this abyss, there is a stone platform suspended at regular intervals. The area is neither too wide nor too narrow, just enough for one person to stand on it. The suspended positions are also high and low, and clearly distinguished.

Looking around, whether it is this dangerous abyss or these stone platforms suspended in the air, they all seem to be telling everyone one thing -

"..."

Everyone was silent for a while, and then Linger expressed their common feelings: "It's amazing that you can say this with such confidence."

"I just don't know." Alice's tone was also very aggrieved: "Although I designed the map, the specific enemies and mechanisms were all generated by the game console itself. Otherwise, if I had told Olvera the BOSS's mechanism directly before, would she have had to rely on flashbacks every time to burst out?" The topic suddenly turned to herself. The princess, whose memories had been read three times, was embarrassed and annoyed and unable to refute. She quickly drew everyone's attention back to the main business before the topic went off track: "Well, let's not talk about those things. In short, this corridor can be passed without fighting, right?"

Alice said, "That's right, but don't think it's too simple. In fact, if you don't operate it properly, these jumping music will be more torturous than the boss - and you don't even have a chance to start over."

Once you fall into the abyss, it's GAME OVER.

Olvera looked at the floating stone platforms above the abyss, estimated their heights and distances, nodded in agreement, and said, "I don't think I can jump that high or that far."

Even with double jumps, there is still a considerable gap to the nearest stone platform.

What method can be used to shorten this gap? Holy sword? Holy book? Or holy chain?

"Of course, the holy staff!" Alice said, "Come on, Metien, explain to her how to use this weapon. If I remember correctly, it should be very suitable for dealing with this kind of jumping mechanism."

Holy staff?

After hearing this, Olvera immediately switched the holy sword Broken Steel in her hand to the holy staff - Star Key. This half-human-high pink staff has a golden ring on the top and star-shaped ornaments inlaid inside the ring. The whole style looks completely different from other weapons, and it even makes people feel that it should be a toy in the hands of a little girl. And it just so happens that Metien is a little girl.

"Yeah!" The pink-haired little girl's voice sounded at the right time: "Sister Olvera, let me teach you."

Olvera nodded seriously, not underestimating the power of the Holy Staff because of its appearance. Facts have proven that any heroic weapon has extremely powerful power, it just depends on the user's operation method. I believe the same is true for the Holy Staff - Star Key: "Please, Metien."

"In fact, the method of use is very simple." Metien said: "First, what you need to do is to make the star on the top of the holy staff glow. Just think about it and make it glow."

Olvera did as she was told, and the star on the top of the holy staff really emitted bright and soft starlight. Every tiny stardust floated and revolved around the magic circle, just like the stars in the universe orbiting fixed tracks. The thin stardust formed a complex, vast and beautiful nebula.

"And then?" asked the princess.

"Then, just imagine that this starlight is something you need and release it."

"..."

How should I put it? This step seemed a bit abstract, so much so that the princess's brain did not react for a moment, and she subconsciously asked, "What?"

"Alas." Metien in his mind sighed, "I knew it would be like this."

Aoweila was immediately ashamed: "I'm sorry, my comprehension ability is too poor..."

"There is no such thing."

The pink-haired girl kindly consoled her, "The holy staff is indeed difficult to use. If you want to blame someone, blame Sister Alice. After all, she was the one who designed the game like this."

"Okay." Olvera accepted her suggestion readily.

Alice, who was watching from the sidelines but was caught in the crossfire, looked confused. If you could see her expression at this moment, it would definitely be like this: "?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)