The Legend of William Oh - Chapter 256: Curiosity

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“Loth’s awake.” Brianna said from across their little stone table. They’d been taking a break between searching for a Key Site and moving large quantities of meat received from Zodiac.“For good?” Will asked.“For good.” Brianna nodded.Now that Loth was awake, they needed to find a Key Site and clear it to rejoin with the others and resume the Climb.Where’s the nearest Key Site in need of clearing? Will asked the Tower. It was something he’d picked up over the years. The System always told a Climber where the closest Key Site in need of clearing was when they entered the Floor, but they could also directly ask whenever they wanted.There is a Key Site in need of clearing to your north East, twenty-five degrees upward.Will consulted his Map, spotting the place in a matter of seconds.“looks like the one we passed last time we came through got infested.” Will mused.Some floors had very few monsters and took a long time for Key sites to be in need of clearing again, but thankfully the 12th Floor that wasn’t the case.Little boulder-like crustaceans liked to swarm around the Key Sites and soak up all the miasma as soon as no one was looking.Their larval form resided in the endless stone beyond the narrow tunnels of the 12th Floor, so there was no way of getting rid of them.Let’s see here…Will traced a mental line from the distant Key site, down through the labyrinthine tunnels towards where they were currently.The view pulled out like it was, the tunnels looked like an angry snarl of wool, each strand of hair one tunnel, and not all of them connected.After a few minutes of tracing and starting over a couple times, Will found a route that didn’t require cutting through any walls, and he applied the line to the map, making a semi-permanent mark that he could follow.“Alright, I have a route.” (...)