While I fought desperately, I couldn't help but begin to lose my composure and began to sob and wail.
I felt the magic power within me decrease ever steadily.
Meanwhile, I noticed one bright light.
In this wide room were six magic formations.
Yet, not a single demon has appeared for a while from around any of them.
Perhaps, there might possibly not be any more demons around the place where the magic formations are.
It's All-or-Nothing.
I used every spell at my disposal to break through the swarm of demons, and I launched myself onto the magic formation.
And at last, I had arrived at this room.
I had managed somehow to survive.
It was pure luck.
I could produce as much water from magic as I wanted.
I had a bit of food stored in my backpack.
Somehow I will recover my magic and escape from here.
And so I spent the rest of that day in thought.
The next day, I stepped on the metastasis magic formation.
And the destination point was a passage I was still unfamiliar with.
Apparently, being teleported to these random locations was a typical characteristic of the metastasis magic formation.
However there were no signs that there were people nearby.
I was doing the mapping by myself, in order to escape the labyrinth, I continued moving forward.
Though I had thought about waiting for a rescue effort, but there was the possibility that the rest of Paul-san's party had been wiped out as well.
I can say with confidence that the metastasis trap is a terrible thing.
I walk around the passageway, and discover 3 metastasis magic formations.
I make a mark on a nearby rock, and jump into the first one.
I metastasize to an unfamiliar passage.
I repeated this action several times.
If I don't do things this way, I won't be able to advance in this metastasis labyrinth.
While I try and be careful not to step on a trap, or any of the metastasis magic formations hidden in or by rocks, I advance ahead.
Have I managed to advance ahead, or have I ended up just going back? I just don't know.
I cannot seem to grasp where my current location is in this metastasis labyrinth.
My senses are unreliable.
Though I am uneasy, I must somehow keep on moving forward.
And I need to secure some new food supplies.
So I defeat a demon, eat its meat, and continue onwards.
How many times have I metastasized into a demon's den?
I fight desperately, and find similar magic formations where demons don't emerge from.
Then, I return.
To this same narrow room.
How many times have I repeated this I wonder?
Five times? Ten times?
The magic formation before my eyes always sends me to a different point.
However, I somehow always end up returning back here.
I became drained, mentally and physically.
As could be expected, I was tired.
My biological clock tells me about a month has now passed by.
And after a month of going around and around, there are no useful results.
The fights are not easy.
No, there is never an easy fight.
I receive many attacks, blood loss often causes my consciousness to dim.
How many times now have the demons begun to run into the magic formations to block themselves from my magic?
I began to think that these demons actually have brains after all.
In the end though, I cannot help but just waste my magic power breaking through their blockade.
I feel like I'm being cornered.
My joints ache.
I ate all the food already.
The demons here are tough and taste horrible too.
If I don't use detoxification magic when I am eating, my body health becomes poor.
I can feel my physical strength falling.
Only my magical power do I possess in excess.
I have no idea what will come next.
Will there be many more enemies?
Will there be more cleverly coordinated enemy attacks?
Will my magic be exhausted, and my limbs torn from my body and eaten by these demons?
Only good luck will allow me to avoid having to break through a group of demons just to end up back here, the next time.