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Manuke FPS - Chapter 23




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Chapter 23

I dived down into the third floor of the labyrinth . Following the same procedure I did above, I left the mapped path that headed down towards the 4th floor . After studying the map ahead of time, I found there was a room called ” Spring of Purity” which was the only safe zone in the labyrinth on the 3rd floor .



In this world, a labyrinth attracts monsters into them to use as their life force . Despite this attraction, it had a restroom where the monsters couldn’t enter . I wondered why it had such a thing, but there is an old tale that labyrinths were created by an ancient evil spirit . Apparently, the reason was to destroy all the living races above ground . Although the tale doesn’t say why the demon wanted to do such a thing .

Even why such an entity that wishes to destroy all living beings, a being against God, would have a thing such a safe room in its trap . Many Labrinthologist has also given up on this point . Maybe there was a reason somewhere but was lost to time . Even in the end though, the labyrinth constantly supplies mana stones and if you managed to conquer it, you’d get a large dungeon core .

With these thoughts, I headed towards the safe-room while making contact with several monsters along the way . That was the plan, but…

“Oddly . . I feel a little hungry, but I don’t feel tired . I’ve been running around and fighting since I got here though…”

It started to nip at the edge of my mind about why I haven’t been getting tired . What is going on with my body? Was it that so-called “cheat ability” you get for going to another world or was it a unique “skill”? Out of curiosity, I pulled out my combat knife that was attached to my right leg . I hesitated for a moment before I took the knife and made a small cut across my fingertips . Crimson blood overflowed from the cut, swelled up and began to drizzle down my hand .

“I feel the pain and I bleed…”

However, the blood stopped flowing . I put one of the fingers that had blood on it in my mouth . When I did, I tasted the expected iron taste of blood . I was slightly relieved that it was actually blood and not something else . Staring at the wound, I noticed something…

“The wound… Is closing itself?”

The laceration I made with the knife healed itself, not even leaving a scar in its place . If I hadn’t done it myself and watched it, I wouldn’t have ever believed I cut it . I didn’t speak about it anymore . This body isn’t my original body and even then . I couldn’t call this body human . I felt a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach and my legs began to tremble . Then my one of my legs gave out, leaving me kneeling on the floor…

I couldn’t feel fatigue and my body had a quick regenerative ability . It wasn’t a cheat ability or a skill . Neither was it something I acquired the moment I was transported into this world… It was simply this body .




Not limited to just VMB, in most basic FPS games, your character would auto-regenerate health over time . Granted there was Hardcore, which one you couldn’t recover health, but that wasn’t the base setting . Players never run out of stamina, your arms and legs couldn’t be amputated; health lost from taking hits and falls would eventually recover so long as you didn’t die . VMB had a lot of things going in it such as acrobatics, precision shooting, and even large-scale fights . In order for all this to happen, the game never implemented Stamina stats so players to dash and jump as much as they wanted .

Even now that I’m in this world, the character parameters are still the same . Thinking about it, I never had a date with someone in years, but if I can’t return to my old world . I may end up settling down here and try to start a family, but now another question was… Could I even produce offspring with this body? Could I even have sex?

In the first place, I didn’t even understand how I’m even still alive .

While I was distracted by all this revelation and the shock of it, a goblin had come upon me . Seeing me kneeling, it thought I was but weak prey . The club in its hand was raised and then swung down at me with a cry

“Kkyaaa!”



The club made contact with my CBS or Circle Barrier Shield and from the bottom . I thrusted the muzzle of the P90 into its unprotected belly before squeezing the trigger . It died quickly after that and fell to the floor . I watched the face of the goblin as it faded into the labyrinth, leaving behind a single mana stone . I honestly was startled . I had to stop thinking . Undoubtedly, whatever this body was, I was alive . I felt hunger, I felt sleepy at night and I felt pain . I was still living and breathing . Logically thinking, it was a convenient trait to have

I cleared my mind and continued on towards the Safe room .

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Entering the safe room, I noticed it was quite small . Only 6m x 6m . Even then, it still had a different atmosphere from the rest of the labyrinth so far . In the center of the room was a small spring that kept boiling up .   This was the Fountain of Purity . There wasn’t a single light flower growing anywhere in the room, but it was still well lit .

In my original plan, I should have arrived here by the afternoon, but I already past that .   Each level was wider than the previous one, which I didn’t expect . It took much more time to map out the floor completely . With that, I had to alter my plans a little so that’s why I decided to come here .

” I guess I should get some camping equipment…”

Although I didn’t build up fatigue while fighting, I don’t believe I’d be immune to sleep . If I didn’t sleep, it’d affect me drastically . Causing my aim to be off and eventually, that would cause a fatal misstep . Calculating the number of floors, which was 26 . There was a transfer gate every 10th floor . Each gate needed its defender killed with its blood and a little bit of magic to activate it . Since I couldn’t use magic, that meant I wouldn’t be able to use those gates . Thus I would be even longer and would need to pack accordingly .

There’s also the fact that the 25th-floor boss hasn’t reigned undefeated, so no one knows how much further the labyrinth expanded . If it did that is . It’s said that when a new floor has been added, you could feel the vibrations, but so far no one could confirm if it’s happened or not .

Wouldn’t that mean it’s impossible for me? No, I felt a desire to conquer this dungeon . Like it was calling out to be, sparking something in me… I felt like I’ve finally found a purpose . A clear goal if you will .   With the power I gained in VMB, I could clear this Labyrinth . For a normal human, it’d be suicidal, but not for me . With this resilience, I could conquer it…

I sat down by the edge of the spring, staring at it’s rippling water that kept coming up . I spent about an hour or so in silence, thinking about all of it . After that, I decided to set aside the Labyrinth for now . Getting up, I turned back the way I came and decided to return to the city .



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