"Hmm, there isn't actually a torch on this wall?"
Knock, knock, knock—
"No, why does the sound of knocking on this wall feel so crisp?"
Midway down a corridor somewhere.
Liriel looked curiously at the wall. Logically, with the double walls staggered and a torch every dozen meters or so, this wall should have had a torch as well.
Yet this wall was completely bare?
With that doubt in mind, Liriel subconsciously touched the center of the wall and immediately sensed that something was wrong.
A solid wall actually felt very thin? She even gave it a light shove, and it felt as though it might collapse at any moment.
She promptly knocked on it a few times, and the wall gave off a crisp sound completely unlike that of a solid stone wall.
At that moment, Decayer beside her also noticed the abnormal sound. It stepped forward, met Liriel's gaze, and the two tacitly extended their hands, exerting force together as they fiercely shoved the wall.
After the sound of stone fragments shattering.
A two-meter-wide hidden compartment appeared before them.
There was only one thing inside: a treasure chest carved from marble.
"They actually hid a treasure chest here?!"
Looking at the chest in the compartment, Liriel felt as if a whole swath of little question marks had floated above her head.
She had previously thought all the treasure chests were placed at the ends of branching paths, meant to give them a little positive emotional feedback through the chests whenever they chose the wrong route.
Yet treasure chests could be hidden too?
And hidden this deeply?
Liriel rubbed her slightly dizzy head. If most treasure chests were hidden like this, how were they supposed to collect all ninety-nine of them?
Just as her head began to ache, a