Venerable Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Layer 3

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After the trio rested for another ten minutes, having declined the option to leave the dungeon, a new notification popped up. DING! [ To reach Layer 3, you need to walk through one of the two doors up ahead. ] Sigh— Dustin looked at the notification with exhaustion and stood up slowly. "Let's get going." The trio stood up and started walking. After roughly a hundred steps, two doors appeared in their vision. The doors were completely dark. They were unable to see anything beyond the frames. "We have reached the gates of the abyss," Saya joked. "Let's just choose one and walk through. They look exactly the same, and I'm really tired of all this now." "Okay, but shouldn't we at least think it through?" Zac looked toward Saya with narrowed eyes. "At Layer 1 you were really fired up at me, and now you are saying we should just choose one randomly." "Let's get going, Zac," Dustin said, putting his hand on Zac's shoulder and leading the way. "Let's go to the right one." "Yeah, because right is always right," Zac laughed heartily. The trio stepped forward, quickly engulfed by the darkness. In the very next moment, they appeared in a completely new room. "Is this some kind of funhouse?" Dustin muttered, taking in the scene in front of him. The room was once again extremely large, but this time it was filled with countless obstacles. There were spinning bridges over water, moving weapons swinging through the air, and strange contraptions that blasted fire from time to time. "I think the objective this time is to cross all this and get to the other side," Zac deduced, rubbing his chin. "We might have some company this time," Dustin said, nodding toward a similar door some distance away on their right. Just as he spoke, three figures walked out of the other door. "That same bastard," Zac said, frowning as he recognized one of the men in that group. "Who?" Saya asked. "See that muscular one? He is the cocky one," Zac said, slamming his fists together. "Now I'll show him how to behave." DING! [ Both teams have reached Layer 3. ] [ You will all now receive one cinder ball each. ] Magically, a red ball appeared in the hands of Dustin, Zac, and Saya. It wasn't hot as the name suggested. It was just a deep red colored ball. "It feels like a rubber ball and is bouncy, just slightly translucent," Dustin noted, analyzing the object in his hands. [ Task: To clear Layer 3, you must place your balls into one of the three circular slots on the other side of the room. Whichever team successfully places two balls first wins and will advance, while the failing team will be thrown out of the Dungeon. ] [ If a team wins by placing all three balls, they will receive the rewards of this layer and enter Layer 4. If the team wins by placing only 2 balls, they will not get any rewards, but they will still be allowed to enter Layer 4. ] “So basically, we are going to fight,” Dustin told himself internally, keeping a close eye on the other team. Dustin's hands were trembling slightly. One couldn't clearly see it unless they focused. This trembling was not just due to exhaustion. It was not like he hadn't fought people before. He had fought many times during his martial classes before he quit. But those fights were just friendly spars. But here this gs were totally different. Dustin was no fool. He knew that in a place where there was no law binding them, people would eventually start killing each other to gain benefits. “Will I be able to kill someone if such a situation arises in front of me?” [ Below is the information of all the participants in this layer. ] Holographic images of all six participants popped up, showing Dustin, Zac, Saya, and the three men of the opposing group alongside their respective classes. In the opposite group, Dustin and Zac quickly recognized the heavily built man named Zama, who was a Warrior. The other two had normal builds in which one was a Rogue, and the other was a Healer. "They have a healer. We need to be careful," Saya warn