Cosmic Peak

"What! Boy, you better not be lying!" Reto said with a dark face.

Aren looked at him as he wiped away the sweat from his forehead and said with a grimace, "Why would I lie about such an important thing? I can't really see the damn traps anymore!"

Kozark and Lamila looked at Reto and asked, "What now, Reto? Anyway, we didn't expect them to see the traps in the first place."

Reto nodded as he looked at Aren, Lorain, and Hemila deeply before saying, "But we need those with the blessing and...I am fucking sure that this little bastard also got a blessing, right?"

Aren frowned as he shook his head, "I didn't."

"Screw it! I don't care whether you are lying or not about this. But when we reach the end of the dungeon, you will realize that we can't clear this hidden dungeon without blessings, and you will have to use them when the time comes." Reto snapped before saying and looked at Luna and Quinn.

"You two, go forward and start moving," Reto said.

Aren was startled and said, "What!? No, I will go first!"

Reto looked at Aren as he stretched both of his hands forward and created two whips of blue fire before saying, "Boy, you better stay there and don't move!"-He then looked at Lorain and Hemila, "You two as well."

Lamila snorted as she looked at Aren and Hemila, "We can't be sure if you two have received the blessing as well or not, and that's why you will stay alive, tsk..."

Aren was internally thinking about the plan, which he thought of when he realized that he couldn't see the traps anymore, 'Let's hope this plan works. Otherwise...'

Aren used <Gear Upgrade> on his Astral-X eyes, and the process was already happening.

But to buy time until his Astral-X eyes can finish the upgrade, he asked Reto, "Wait, can you tell us more about the traps? How dangerous are they? Will they kill you in one shot if you get caught in the trap, or some other things will happen?"

"Humph, why should we tell you that?" Kozark spoke with a snort.

Hearing that, Aren's face turned dark, "If I understand things correctly, we are in the same boat right now. You need blessings to clear the dungeon, and I might tell you that I also have one blessing, and auntie Hemila also has one. So, If you don't co-operate, then we are done here!"

With a maddening expression, Aren shouted, "I am fucking done with you and your suppression! We can all just die!"

Aren was not totally acting because he was indeed fed up with them. With how controlling and annoyingly they behaved as they threatened them every once in a while, anyone would be fed up.

Reto looked at Aren deeply for a few seconds before speaking, "Fine; I'll tell you since there's no harm. But remember, we need blessings to clear the dungeon."

"The traps have varieties; They will usually damage you like the moment you touch the traps, it will blow up like a bomb, or freeze you, etcetera. Some traps will directly cut one of your body parts like limbs or such things with invisible blades, while some traps...will directly kill you. Anyway, no matter which traps you hit, you won't survive because of your low level." Reto said truthfully because he didn't entirely believe that Aren couldn't see the traps. That's why he said that traps would kill them due to their low level.

Aren nodded, and just as he opened his mouth to speak, his eyes throbbed as he felt intense pain and a scream left his mouth. He fell to the ground with his head towards the trap path as he continued to scream painfully.

'Damn...this pain! But...this is a chance!'

"Aren! What happened?" Lorain shouted worriedly as he moved towards Aren.

"Don't move! or I will kill him!" Reto spoke as he conjured a blue fireball and aimed it at the screaming Aren.

Aren was kneeling with his head buried down so no one could see his eyes, but they were pulsing with blue pixels and patterns.

Lorain stopped in her tracks while Quinn, Luna, and Hemila also worriedly looked at Aren.

But after twenty seconds, Aren stopped screaming and started taking a deep breath in the same position while looking at the trap path.

'Yes! I can see the traps again. Time to start the plan. Quinn, three steps forward, one step left, then one forward, one step right, and two steps forward. Luna, four steps forward, two steps left, one step forward, and three steps right. RUN!'

Suddenly, Luna and Quinn started running in the trap path while everyone was focused on Aren and took one blessing each.

"What are you doing?!" Lamila shouted while Kozark pointed his spear at Lorain as it cracked with lighting along with his whole body.

On the other hand, Reto had an exceptionally grim face as he looked at Aren's back, "Bastard..."

Aren turned around as he smiled at Reto, "I don't need to tell you what happened, right?"

Lamila and Kozark soon understood as Kozark uttered with anger on his face, "Both of them got blessings as well?"

Aren smiled as he nodded, "Naturally, they got it. Now the five of us each have one blessing, and...we need them to clear this hidden dungeon, right?"

Reto looked at Aren coldly before he spoke with an ugly smile, "Hehe, well done, boy. Now...,"- Reto waved his hands as the blue fireball disappeared,-"Now go and fucking lead the way since you can see the traps and...blessings as well, right? bastard!"

"I was not joking when I said I couldn't see the traps at first. But now I can. Don't worry, From now on, I will leave one blessing for your group if we get two blessings in the next area." Aren said plainly before he turned around and started walking while also leading Quinn and Luna to the safe side.

Quinn--"Aren! We are safe now, right? Since we all have blessings, then they can't kill us."

Aren--"Don't let your guard down. We can't blindly trust whatever they say."

Aren internally shook his head as he didn't think that things were that simple. Reto still had the upper hand because he had the knowledge of this hidden dungeon and who knows what else there in this mysterious dungeon?

He was ready to pull the life-saving trigger but he also didn't want to waste it when there was a chance of them coming out alive and even getting benefits in this place.

Lamila and Kozark looked at Reto, but Reto just told them to be silent and continue.

Reto was the last one to cross the path, and as he reached safe and looked at Aren, he thought maliciously, 'Bastard, trying to over smart me, huh? Hehe, too bad that you will fail. We indeed need blessings to clear this dungeon, but according to the scroll, those with blessings who die here will have their blessings transferred to me, who possess this scroll! Hehehe. you were all going to die in the first place!'

That was the reason why he brought along cannon fodders to clear the trap path until they died. After all, even if they get blessings, they will die while passing the traps, and their blessings will transfer to him.

It's just he didn't expect that Aren would be able to see the traps, 'But if traps do not kill you, I will kill you in the end while you live in the illusion that we can't kill you anymore since we need blessings you possess, hehehe.'