On the jolting journey, time seemed to stretch into a dull, monotonous line.
Over the past few days, Cui Ciyou had devoted all his attention to a book.
He read as he traveled, and had already gone through this book, Record of Exploring the Teleportation Labyrinth, several times.
It was the labyrinth guide the Human God had given him.
The book was not thick, and was about the size of the pocket notebooks common in later times, small enough to hold comfortably in one hand.
The edges of its yellowed pages had begun to curl slightly, carrying the quiet air peculiar to old books. Clearly, many people had leafed through it before it was borrowed from the Ranoa University of Magic.
The entire book ran to a little over a hundred pages, which was not particularly short for a story.
Compared with a webnovel, however, it was remarkably compact.
At three thousand characters a page, the whole thing amounted to just over three hundred thousand characters.
The book chronicled the tragic epic of an adventurer from the Northern Lands named Animus Macandonias, who had led his team in challenging a legendary labyrinth.
The labyrinth he had challenged was called the Displacement Labyrinth.
Its name alone was enough to make experienced adventurers frown.
First, Teleportation Magic was taboo in this world. Second, this was an S-Rank labyrinth.
As its name suggested, the Displacement Labyrinth was a rare labyrinth with no physical traps inside—no rolling boulders, poisoned arrows, or floor spikes. Every trap was a "teleportation trap," or "teleporter."
Cui Ciyou's fingertips brushed lightly across the pages as his eyes absorbed the information word by word.
"...Five kinds of monsters live inside."
The book's description was concise and deadly.
Without exception, all five kinds of monsters possessed intelligence far beyond that of