Chapter 342: Dungeon
Atlan concentrated on his Soul System and activated his Spinster LifeSkill.
—Conjurer: (A) Spinster
——— 1st stage Intern realm
———— 130x F class fragment
————This LifeSkill allows the user to create creatures purely from imagination. The user is also able to imbue these puppets with LifeSkill powers. The user temporarily loses access to the LifeSkill whenever it is imbued to the puppets. Subsequently, the LifeSkill the puppets wield will match the realm of the Spinster LifeSkill.
——— Saved Puppets
———— Huntsman
———— White Beauty
———— Prince
Since Carmine couldn't see through the camera anyway, Atlan didn't have to worry about his humanoid puppets getting seen.
A huge needle and a giant ball of yarn manifested in the air above him. In the darkness, the two summoned objects started sewing in the air, creating three distinct puppets that each glowed with different powers.
Once the sewing was complete, the puppets turned from being made out of strings to being made out of human skin, making them humanoid.
The three puppets kneeled towards Atlan and awaited his instruction.
"Protect me if anything happens," he ordered.
The three humanoids nodded their heads and walked forward. One of them, the Huntsman, stayed behind Atlan and made sure that there weren't any surprises that could endanger his master. Meanwhile, the Prince and the White Beauty continued forward and scanned their surroundings, searching for any hostile beings.
Since they had the power of an Intern-level Savior, Atlan wasn't too worried about the dangers he could face in this dungeon-like place.
As they slowly reached the end of the hallway with the only torch in the room, he saw a single wooden door.
Using his Thermal Vision, he didn't see any sign of magic within it.
The Prince walked forward and inspected the door. But then, he suddenly stepped into a piece of stone on the floor that immediately sunk deep into the ground.
The sound of a gear mechanism sounded out through the walls and suddenly, hundreds of arrows flew from both walls and targeted the unsuspecting Prince humanoid.
The puppet became riddled with arrows throughout his body.
But even so, he didn't even flinch a single bit. Once the arrows were done firing, he looked down and started to pick out all the arrows sticking out of his body.
The humanoid didn't bleed, and all the cuts and holes in his skin were soon regenerated by strings that sewed itself back together.
The Prince then opened the door and walked to the other side. After a few seconds, he walked back and signaled to Atlan that it was safe to pass through.
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Atlan walked forward to the next room.
There, he saw that he was presented with three doors.
Judging from the arrow trap from before, it looked like this place was trying to trick its inmates. Atlan did not doubt that beyond these doors, there were more traps laid out to try and kill him.
Since there were three doors, Atlan ordered his three humanoid puppets to go through each one.
They all opened the door obediently. And when they walked inside, the door suddenly closed behind them. And no matter how much they tried to budge it out, even using all their force, they couldn't open it again.
Seeing as there was no use, they continued forward through similar hallways.
Meanwhile, Atlan stayed behind the three doors and waited patiently.
After a few minutes, he suddenly felt his connection with one puppet disappear completely.
The humanoid puppet died!
And another few minutes after that, he felt another connection cut from his Soul System.
Atlan summoned those two humanoid puppets who died and saw that it was the Prince and the Huntsman.
This meant that the doors at the center and the right were complete dead ends and were only filled with deadly traps.
This means that the right way is the left door.
Even after all this time, Atlan didn't feel his connection with the White Beauty disappear. This meant that she was safe and sound.
After a lot of consideration, Atlan walked to the left door, with his other two puppets right in front of him.
And just as he thought, this door only led to a normal hallway without any deadly traps ahead. After a few minutes, they finally reached the end of the normal hallway, with the White Beauty patiently waiting for them on the other side.
At the end of the hallway was another room.
This time, they weren't alone.
On the other side of the room was a large cage containing a monster with red eyes. It looked at Atlan and the puppets with vicious mockery, as if it had found another source of food for today.
But no matter how much excitement it got to try and kill these humans, the monster was confined by the cage. It couldn't get out.
Atlan spotted another door right next to the cage.
He commanded one of his puppets to go and try to open the door, and just as he thought, the doorknob couldn't be rotated.
There was also a keyhole under the knob, meaning that to pass through, they needed to find the key.
Atlan had a feeling about where he could find the key.
He used his Thermal Vision and looked at the creature in the cage. Now that he could see it clearly, it turned out that this monster was a giant rat, with huge canine teeth that could pierce through a human like a skewer.
And with his Thermal Vision, he saw that there was a suspicious cold spot in the giant rat's belly.
When he squinted, he could see a key-shaped object inside it.
Whoever trapped me here wants me to kill the rat.
Atlan had no other choice. With a telepathic order to the Huntsman, the ranged puppet took out an arrow from his quiver and pointed his bow toward the rat in the cage.
TWANG!
A bluish green line of fire appeared in the air following the arrow's trajectory. And as the arrow landed through the small gaps, it successfully hit the monster, creating a huge explosion of blue and green together.