“Login.”

“Chuu”

Tuesday, the next day.

After my lecture in college ended, I logged into CNP.

I immediately headed towards the 3rd layer.

The rats along the way?

One was killed through poison and I collected its corpse, but as for the others, I either ignored them, beat them to death, or poisoned them and left them there as a distraction.

I’m already this far into it after all.

“Now, I’ll be investigating the 3rd layer but…”

Other than the dangling meat fern flowers that were growing abundantly from the ceiling, there was a maze solely made of concrete.

It most likely wouldn’t have an obvious end to it since it was ultimately structured to be an endless loop.

Even if that wasn’t the case… the space here has become distorted in a way that wouldn’t allow me to apply regular logic to this maze.

Moreover, I don’t know how credible the map is, so I’ve given up on marking things down.

I came up with a better idea anyways.

“Appraise”

I used the『Appraisal Loupe』on the air in front of me.

The curse concentration displayed was the same as last time, 11.

When I stepped into the area where the stairs were and appraised the space around the low fence that intervened between here and the floor below, the curse concentration was then shown as 10.

I stood at the boundary between the two and tried to memorize as much as I could regarding the differences when it came to sensations and visuals.

“It seems do-able.”

“Chuu?”

“I’m saying, I’ve found a clue as to where the center of the curse was located.”