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Labyrinth (9)

On the right wall, it had the battle against the Demon King and his army. There were bodies of demons and humans falling to the ground, while the Hero and his party charged through. In the distance was the Demon King's castle.

Finally, the last part of the mural showed an epic battle where the Demon King got stabbed with the Hero's sword.

The most notable thing about the mural was that it replayed the same scenes over and over.

"I wonder if the other places with Holy Relics have this same mural..." Grey mumbled to himself. It was quite detailed so he wondered who had the time to make this and even paint it! How was it moving like that? He had a lot of questions...

It was unfortunate that they gave no clues for the locations of the other Holy Relics... According to Andrea, the relics moved every time they were found. There were no set patterns for finding them. They had to rely purely on chance, which was quite a nuisance.

Grey said to System 225, 'I wonder, how many relics Andrea will find?'

[*Chirp chirp* That's a good question. Because of his premature death, it is impossible to calculate. I am learning about this world as you go through it.]

That was true. System 255 was only given the world plot that the editor had created, not what the original author had created. This caused discrepancies between the world plot and the world Grey was in. He knew from the moment they escaped the labyrinth, that they were writing on blank pages in a book. Meaning Grey was changing the fate of the Hero and his party.

Grey thought System 225 would give him a bonus mission of some sort but there wasn't any.

He hadn't been told about the completion of the last side mission, which was finding the secret of the labyrinth. They probably had to find the helmet first before completing the mission. Or was there something more to this labyrinth?

"What are you thinking about?" Reyner asked Grey who was staring at the last part of the mural in a daze.

Grey was brought back to reality. Reyner was looking at him with a smile on his face. Hm, no matter how many times Grey looked, his husband was always handsome. It truly wasn't fair.

"I think that this labyrinth has more to it than we know, but I could be wrong." Though his gut was rarely wrong, there were still times when he was wrong.

After looking at the murals, Grey went back to the group and told them what he saw. This made everyone else want to have a look for themselves. They felt that maybe they would each pick up on something the others hadn't.

Grey especially wanted Andrea to do this because he was the Hero of this generation. Maybe the mural would show something only the Hero would be able to see.

"I understand, I will take a look," Andrea said and walked over to the mural.

Felicia was next to him and she didn't see anything different from what Grey said, but Andrea was a different story.

"The Gods... No, but that doesn't make sense." Andrea closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. His head was aching like something was splitting his brain apart.

Andrea suddenly shouted, "That's not me! That's not... Urgh!"

"Andrea, Andrea?! Are you okay? What happened?" Felicia grabbed onto him to make sure he didn't fall, but Andrea was a bit too heavy for her.

They were looking at the mural but Andrea suddenly started screaming and shouting. It happened very fast and it gave them no time to relax. Reyner and Grey rushed over to help Felicia stabilize Andrea. Grey touched Andrea's head and noticed he had a fever. He tried to use healing magic but it wasn't easing the pain. It didn't do anything for Andrea, but at least it didn't hurt him.