"Whoa."
Murder crouched on an energy-powered elevator that held gemstones, quite curious about how the thing worked.
Well, the giant golden ring from earlier had sent him into this colorful world of gemstones.
This place was full of purple crystals, red-and-yellow springs, and searing lava.
It looked like some sort of magnificent, treasured sanctuary.
The technology here astonished Murder even more. They could actually use gemstones as a power source to build elevators like this.
The creatures who had built these devices were absolute geniuses.
Murder shook his head, then continued straight along the path laid out through the place.
Only after arriving here did Murder truly relax.
Back in that other place, he had constantly sensed something watching him. Thinking about it now, it had probably been that terrifying hedgehog.
If what that metal hedgehog had said was true, Killer and Insanity should have arrived here too...
If the two of them were still alive.
Murder was a little worried about Killer. She was such a scaredy-cat. Previously, a single slightly scary episode of a cartoon had frightened her into switching forms, which showed just how little she could handle.
Still, she was pretty strong. That terrifying hedgehog probably wouldn't have killed her.
This place really was beautiful, and there weren't any truly difficult puzzles. Murder soon reached a high wall.
Powerful energy fluctuations came from atop the wall. Murder guessed this was the end of his journey... no, his route.
Using magic to make his hands sticky, Murder climbed to the top.
Come to think of it, Murder didn't seem able to use shortcuts here.
That was why he had been forced to solve puzzles and make his way through.
"Murder, you're here?"
Killer and Insanity were sitting up there.
Beside them was a huge green crystal,