PAID

“Phew... I really thought I was going to die this time.”

Still clinging to my arm as we escaped, Chris heaved a sigh of relief, running her fingers through her hair as she mumbled.

“If this keeps happening, maybe it’s just better to die and respawn.”

“Weren’t you the one telling me not to die?”

“Oh. Right, right, of course! Haha.”

Catching my disgruntled expression, Chris gulped audibly and let out a sheepish laugh.

To be fair, that’s how most players would think.

“But seriously, what was that?”

“What else? A special phase.”

“So, we barely manage to stop the barrier with precise timing, and now it forces us to rack up hits?”

Chris shook her head in disbelief. I agreed entirely.

It was brutal. Only a few seconds passed between the orbs’ creation and their rampage.@@novelbin@@

“We’ll have to deal with those orbs somehow. Where were they positioned?”

“Hmm, if the entrance staircase is at 12 o’clock, mine was at 5 or 4 o’clock, maybe?”

“The one behind me was around 9 o’clock. They weren’t directly opposite each other.”

“No fixed positions? Random spawn?”

“Once the special phase begins, we’ll have to identify them as quickly as possible. If they have durability, they might be destroyable.”