Lucifer sighed in boredom. His sigh was so loud that Nothing and Volcanic Slime could hear it very clearly, but they chose to pretend they didn't know what was going on.
Lucifer was in a bad mood, he had wasted so much time going to this statue and got nothing in return.
Putting that aside, since there was nothing left to do at this statue, Lucifer was forced to go down and return to his and Nothing's base before the sky turned dark.
Lucifer didn't like the night at all because that was the time when his chances of dying would be at their highest. Uhm, didn't Lucifer say a few days ago that he loved the night?
Lucifer turned around and called out to Nothing:
"Hey Nothing, there's nothing here, let's go back. We can't go forward anymore because there's a wall blocking the way."
"What? So we wasted our time coming up here?" Nothing replied in a tone of disbelief, even Volcanic Slime was displeased even though it didn't walk but was carried by Nothing.
"That's a shame, but we have to get back to our base before it gets dark."
Just like that, Lucifer walked down the stairs, still feeling extremely frustrated. But after taking a few steps, or even less than 10 steps, Lucifer bumped into something soft that could have been Nothing's back.
That's why Lucifer almost fell backwards.
"Hey Nothing, why aren't you moving anymore?"
Nothing was silent, but it seemed like he was doing something. Since this place was completely covered in mysterious darkness, Lucifer couldn't tell what Nothing was doing.
After waiting for a few seconds, Lucifer finally received an answer to his question.
"Hey Lucifer, it seems like we can't go down anymore. The way down is somehow blocked by a wall."
"Huh? Are you kidding me? This gotta be a joke right?" Lucifer's eyes widened, but since there was no light here, Nothing couldn't see Lucifer's actions.
"I'm not joking, if you don't believe me, come here and check yourself."
Sure enough, in front of Lucifer and Nothing was a wall made out of stone, Nothing wasn't joking.
They were stuck inside the statue. They couldn't move forward or back, and what's worse, they didn't even have any light to see their surroundings more clearly.
Although Volcanic Slime was the same color as lava, it couldn't glow like lava. How useless.
They were stuck in a narrow space, and they couldn't jump down because the path to jump down was gone.
With no other choice, Lucifer sat down on the stairs and thought about what he should do to escape from this statue. But he was pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to escape from this place due to the walls.
Maybe he should break those walls with his bare hands? That might sound impossible but it was worth trying, right?
'What should I do? Think about it, you idiot! You don't want to spend the rest of your life in this place, do you? So think! Think! Use your tiny brain to think for a way to escape!'
Suddenly, Lucifer's eyes lit up, he had an idea. However, this idea had nothing to do with escaping from this statue, but at least this idea would be able to dispel the mysterious darkness.
'Why couldn't I have thought of this from the beginning?'
Lucifer took out Dagger Of The Night, gently used the dagger to prick his thumb to let the blood flow, and then, a faint orange flame began to dance on the blade.
Thanks to that, Lucifer was able to see the entire place where he and Nothing were more clearly.
'I'm so smart! I'm truly a precious genius of the world! I should be awarded for being the smartest person in the world!'
Lucifer kept praising himself in his own world.
***
After having a source of light, Lucifer discovered something quite interesting. The two walls that had been blocking his way up and down were actually not ordinary walls. They were much more special than that.
Both walls were engraved with strange characters that Lucifer had never seen before. According to what Owen had told him, perhaps these characters were the language that this world used.
Lucifer quickly moved towards the higher wall and touched it, trying to decipher its meaning but it was too hard for him. Lucifer wasn't even good at reading normal words, so how could he know how to read letters he had never seen before?
'I should have paid more attention to Owen's lesson. Wait, but what does that have to do with reading the characters in this world?'
As if sensing Lucifer's difficulty, the system immediately translated the words on the wall for him:
[No matter what people do, humans can never fight against fate. Humans are just puppets dancing in the palm of fate. Can you, the one reading this message, do what I can't? - Demon King of Remorse.]
Lucifer didn't understand the content of this line very well, but he completely understood what "Demon King of Remorse" meant. It seemed that the Demon King was the one who wrote this line, which meant that this island belonged to him or at least the Demon King had been to this island once.
Lucifer unconsciously took a few steps back when he thought that he was staying in the territory of the person he and the Trial participants were forced to kill.
But at least Lucifer was still alive, which meant that the Demon King either didn't notice his presence or ignored him because he was too weak. Lucifer didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Maybe both?
After the line was read, the wall disappeared into nothingness, and Lucifer could move forward without being hindered by the wall anymore. But he didn't want to do that yet.
Lucifer walked towards the remaining wall that was blocking their way down and placed his hand on it.
"System, please translate these lines for me!"
Lucifer begged the system, but the system made no move. Everything was still the same, nothing had changed except for Nothing and Volcanic Slime looking at him like they were looking at some crazy person.
Embarrassed by his actions, Lucifer took a few steps back, preparing to continue going up.
But Nothing was still standing there, staring at the remaining wall without saying anything. This was exactly like the time Nothing stared at the Unknown Ring.
Lucifer couldn't help but feel curious about Nothing's unusual actions. He decided to stay a while to see what Nothing would do next.
Ignoring Lucifer who was watching Nothing from above, the black-haired boy just walked towards the wall without saying anything, as if he was a zombie.
Nothing slowly placed his hand on the wall, still using his other hand to hug Volcanic Slime.
After a while, Nothing took his hand off the wall, turned to Lucifer, and continued walking up with him. Nothing didn't say a word to Lucifer no matter how much he asked.
Since Nothing touched that statue, he had changed quite a bit, or at least that's what Lucifer thought.
Even though Nothing still talked to him like usual after that day, Lucifer always felt that there was something wrong with him. But he chose not to care about it if Nothing didn't intend to let him know.