Versatile: Alternate World



After exploring the first floor and clearing the second floor, we descended to the third floor where we then are welcomed by multiple shapeshifting golems. These golems are annoying as they are not similar to other golems that stay in one single form, they had a liquid body and can form different kinds of forms to freely attack us. Not only that but they became too annoying so quickly as they can easily reform themselves to dodge any of our attacks, making them too annoying.

"Gah, these f*ckers are now getting annoying," Even Queen Tanya who is doing fine just now is getting annoyed.

"Destroying their bodies doesn't help much. We should expose their core and destroy them to fully stop them from moving."

"Ugh...I know that. But these liquid bodies of theirs are just annoying. I cut them multiple times but they can just combine again and cover up their core so fast that I don't even get to attack their core without using magic spells to immediately take it out!"

Well, she is not wrong. The f*ckers just take advantage of their bodies, get attacked and dodge, then wait for a bit before attacking again. Without using magic, it barely gives us any opportunities to destroy it as they easily recover their bodies and reform them again.

"Lucia!"

"You got it, Master!"

Lucia spreads her fire to the surroundings and lights up any of the liquid golems in flames. Despite their liquid forms, it seems they are flammable as they burn instead of extinguishing their flames.

These melted their bodies a lot faster and this gives the other men to attack and destroy them one by one.

"Good, we thinned them out, let's keep up the pace. Make sure their cores are broken for good or else, we might be attacked from behind. Make sure it was crushed to dust!" Queen Tanya ordered.

With the thinning of the liquid golems carried out, we are now able to properly explore the place without getting attacked any second. Sure, there are still monsters present but they are being disposed of as we continue to explore.

Compared to the first and second floors, the third floor is more of a futuristic-looking place now. The walls glow in futuristic neon lights, and the gears on the walls are moving, powering something in the ruins. And some walls even have monitors that display some information as well though it is unreadable for us except for Lucia who is still looking around with us, You can say it looks very much like a cyberpunk vibe here compared to the previous floors.

"I must say, the one who designed these ruins has some unique sense of fashion and design in mind. Every floor of the ruins seems to have its own theme and I must say that I don't know why they put that in here, but I guess I am not stopping anyone in what they are doing with it," Queen Tanya scratches her head.

"Perhaps it has a reason why it looked like this?" I guessed.

"No idea. Oh well, it doesn't matter much to us, Let's clean up these guys first before we go and find some information here."

We continue cleaning up the liquid golems, destroying their cores, and continuing our exploration until we eliminated every single of the liquid golems. The elimination process is quick with the help of others as well. They became good at dealing with them in a short while and as fast they became proficient, the faster the monsters are also gone in the process as well.

"Alright, with all the enemies gone, time to check up this place and find some useful things to know, and perhaps we can stop here now? Hope we don't need to keep descending as well?" 

"I doubt it. I found a staircase leading to the next floor when we are fighting those liquid golems so it is entirely possible we still needed to descend a little bit further. just to find out more information.

Compared to the first and second floors, there are much bigger machines present and it looks like those big containers where experiments in laboratories are kept. Very similar to what we are seeing today but the difference is that instead of glass, it's metal and it does not contain anything like humans or other creatures. It's pretty much empty and the machine here is broken beyond repair as well.

"These new machines look like  they are from laboratories but what are they used for?"

Just as we are asking the questions, Lucia seems to have found the answers.

"Master, it seems the machine that we are seeing are Air Purifiers. They clean up the surrounding air and pump out normal air for everyone to breathe."

"An air purifier huh? That would indeed be something that would happen but aren't air purifiers tend to be only present in lower and deeper areas instead where the air is stuffy and it's hard to properly breathe?"

"According to the logs, the air has already been really bad since descending to the third floor and according to why it was like that, there is a natural gas deposit in the area that decreases the breathable gas since the very beginning. If not for the purifier, the air here would have been really bad. Since the purifier has been working for so many years, the bad air deposit has been cleaned up and as a result, the air now is in a much more breathable place and we don't need to gasp for air."

"Hmm, interesting. They even have some of the machines on the previous floors as well," Queen Tanya pointed to the machines on the side as well, the only thing different is that these things are now broken.

"Oh yeah. It seems this floor is the beginning of telling us some sort of story on what is happening currently on the timeline where the owner of this place is living here. The diary he got here is complete and not damaged, therefore, we can check out what happened here with great clarity as well."

"Do they also mention how many of them were here when they entered the ruins?"

"So far, no. I just skimmed through the diary so I am not too sure whether there are multiple of them who have been living here but I guess they do have multiple occupants here," Lucia noted.

"I see. We should hold off on that for now. Let's continue searching for some clues here. It seems this place is much bigger than normal, we might see something else in here."

And so, Queen Tanya and the others explored the place for a bit and just like what she just said, there is a hidden room and this time, the hidden room is full of different treasures. It's pretty much ancient tech since out of all of us here, only Lucia can recognize the usage of these things.

"Seeing all this stuff stuffed in that room, perhaps the owner of these ruins has stayed much longer than they should have been?" Queen Tanya rubbed her chin.

"Yes, it seems this floor was indeed the longest floor they have remained. But just like the previous floors, they have been overwhelmed as well which is why they have to descend further below," Lucia confirmed.

"Oh, then that means the monster that is overwhelming the people here is now recorded?"

"I still don't know if they recorded it, but I am quite sure they have written something on it as they keep mentioning something about the invaders."

"How about we learn what it was now? We needed to make sure that we needed to continue descending here and whether we needed to do so just to find the enemy we are looking for," Queen Tanya suggested.

However, Lucia shook her head.

"Based on the current part, we needed to descend once more to learn about who these guys writing these diaries are. And if what my theory said is true, then the last floor is the conclusion we are looking for."

"Is that so? But aren't you curious about what your ancestors have done before?" Queen Tanya tilted her head.

"I do have curiosity about what it was but based on the information we have, we have to ensure the final information we needed is currently on the next floor. I also feel that I know these people who have been trying to survive. Therefore, even though we really needed to get to know what and who they are, we needed to prioritize getting the information much well."

Queen Tanya was confused but she didn't voice it out and nodded as a result.

"There are 2 diaries full of the information we needed to know about these ruins but it seems something else deeper is existing and that is the place we needed to know about in the future. The demons who are doing this will soon be revealed next floor."