Curse the Mainframe! 166 How Typical of a MC...

There wasn't any other way for him to describe it, but whenever he approached any of the doors, they all gave off vaguely dangerous feelings to him.

However, he was the only one who felt that.

Even Vivian, with her finely honed battle sense didn't feel anything from the doors, puzzling him.

While the rest of them wandered around the hallway to see if there were any notable differences other than the doors, Alec stayed around the doors, staring at them.

Sure enough, the barriers that surrounded the doors were particularly thick, but they only activated upon contact with the doorknob.

Touching any other part of the door was a no-go either, since that would lead to complete obliteration.

With Alec's current level of mastery, he was unable to do anything about that for the time being.

The barrier's core was inside the doorknob, expanding to envelop the entire door.

Compared to the first layer of the barrier in the entrance and the barrier here, it was obvious to see that the barriers on the doors were much more lethal.

It was like comparing claw wounds from a cat to that of a ferocious tiger.

Alec squinted at the door harder as if the barrier would start to make sense the longer he stared at it.

He was having a hard time deciphering the full range of the barrier's abilities and what the door itself led to.

Were they just different rooms within the place, or did they do something else?

Why was it so complex?! But… the more complex it was, the more Alec felt his professional ethics get riled up. How could he call himself an array master if he didn't try his hand at breaking it!?

An array master was also a master at breaking arrays!

"Bunbun, Fenrir, go with Mini."

As Alec worked on breaking down the barrier on the doors, the rest of them were wandering up and down the hallway.

The place was truly vast, with widespread spaces. Sometimes, there was a door, sometimes, there wasn't.

So far, there hadn't been any traps within, so it seemed like the true trap was the doors themselves.

They made sure to keep Alec's lecture in mind whenever they saw something that made them want to touch.

Even Vivian, who had forgotten many things due to the erosion of time that she'd spent here, felt like she woke up a little as memories started flooding back into her mind.

The skills that she had not used in such a long time started coming back in full the longer she explored the place.

Even after the countless number of years that had passed since she'd last explored a dungeon, this had been her livelihood once upon a time.

Muscle memory like that wasn't so easily forgotten! It was how she'd met Dorian, after all.

More than that, Vivian didn't want to die in vain. After all, she'd just only reconciled and reconnect with her kit, but she still hadn't met her mate again!

Her husband was probably keeping a long face all the time, and she had to go back and pounce on him.

Dominique loathed parting from his boss, but he also knew that he should look around for a way back to the other crack between realms. He kept thinking about it. How could he have left his boss behind previously?

Impossible! There had to be something more at stake here.

While he would prefer to have his boss all to himself, he also knew that this tiny place couldn't possibly hold all of boss' grandeur.

It wasn't like he was concerned whether or not his mother was sick from staying here all the time.

Anyway, he had been the one who brought them here in the first place, so he should be the one to get them out, right?

The boss was working hard trying to decipher the barriers around here, so Dominique couldn't be the only one who didn't pull his weight.

The different hallways all looked identical to each other, only the doors that were within them changed.

There were many gaudy and inefficient designs amongst them, but Dominique didn't really have an opinion on them either way.

There were ten different paths in total, but when Dominique walked around, he realized that they all led back to the same area.

If you would, it was like a circle within another circle. The way back was probably within that 'inner circle'.

The paths were carved in such a way that they curved ever so slightly, leading back to the same end.

In the inner circle, there was were ten doors in total, and other than the colour of the doors, the design of the doors matched perfectly.

Dominique's eyes sharpened as he tried to recall the numerous doors.

He went around each hallway a couple of times again, carefully looking at the various doors and memorizing how they looked, mapping it out in his mind. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

It took roughly half a day's time, but he finally had a clear map of the entire place in his mind.

There was a total of a thousand and fourteen doors, including the ten in the 'inner circle'.

Of those doors, some of them matched, and most of them didn't.

If Dominique's guess was right, then they should have something to do with the 'inner circle' doors, possibly unlocking the last room.

Dominique picked up his boss' two familiars and kept them in his arms for now, walking around to the various doors to test his theory.

He ignored the baffled look on the two creatures' faces as he went around pressing on doorknobs.

Meanwhile, Bunbun and Fenrir were sending their owner frantic feelings over their bond to let them know that his human was doing something stupid again.

Bunbun squirmed, trying to get out of Dominique's hold, but wasn't able to.

In the end, taking drastic actions, he enlarged himself, pressing Dominique down onto the ground and trapping him under his body.

Alec's brows twitched when he felt the feelings over their bond, his smile darkening on his face.

Yuki, who had been in a conversation with Alec, took an unconscious step back, a shiver running up and down his arms.

His boss looked so scary!

The smile on his face was almost thunderous, and Yuki privately thought that if his boss showed this smile to his enemies, they wouldn't even need to fight. They would probably just roll over to avoid being on the other end of that terrifying smile.

Alec was so young, but he was already so terrifying.

Yuki quietly lamented that the boss would probably be even more terrifying in the future.

Not to mention, as a couple with Dominique, weren't they just doomed?

They were terrifying in different ways!

But the problem was, he didn't think Dominique could calm the boss down!

Ah, what to do?

Alec didn't care about Yuki's thoughts, giving him a curt order to gather the rest of the Spectres and gather near Dominique since he was doing something foolish.

Alec himself started tracking his wayward subordinate down, resisting the urge to start cursing him out the moment he found him.

All he saw was the giant ball of fluff on the ground. The only part of Dominique that he was able to see was the one arm that was sticking out from under it, patting Bunbun futilely like he was trying to get the bunny off.

Bunbun, seeing Alec appear, got off the Sin.

"Good job, Bunbun, Fenrir."

He just knew that a Main Character wouldn't be able to obediently sit still! Luckily he had Bunbun and Fenrir to keep an eye on his actions.

Dominique appeared rather ruffled after he got up from the ground, his eyes slightly dazed.

"Boss."

Alec's smile twitched in annoyance.

Like with Rosabel, Alec gestured for the Sin to bend down. Despite Dominique already knowing what was about to come, he still leaned down obediently. Alec pinched both of Dominique's cheeks, tugging them. "What did I say about going around recklessly!"

Alec pulled the poor Sin's cheeks, only letting go once his anger was abated.

He checked the Sin over, who thankfully wasn't hurt because of his reckless idiocy. For some reason, it felt like he was a bit happy?

That couldn't be.

Chapter end