Re-Awakening: I Became a Pay To Win Boss Monster-Chapter 843: The Cat

After nearly half an hour of searching around and about, Rael felt like he was just running around in circles.

Obviously, there was a limit to how far he could go. There was an invisible barrier near the gates of the city, and if he tried to cross it, he would be teleported back to the center of the city where he first spawned.

As for anything around it, Rael couldn’t find much aside from some weapons that he would never use, and even a nice iron cap.

Of course, Rael looked like he came from an asylum when he put it on, but that just made it better. With his new iron cap and plain sword that he got on the first floor, Rael decided to just go back to the very center, sighing in defeat.

Yet once he arrived, he was spotted by Nyx, who just stood there with her arms crossed, acting smug as though she had found something.

And to his surprise...

"I found it."

She really did find something.

"Are you serious? How do you know you found it?" Rael asked, approaching her.

She let out a chuckle.

"Trust me, you’ll understand when I show you. Follow me."

He half expected her to start leading him deeper into the city. Instead, she started walking toward the goddess statue that would normally transport them to the next floor.

Then, to his surprise, Nyx went ahead and touched the wing of the goddess. In the next instant, her eyes began to glow, followed by...

<Ding!>

<Would you like to proceed to the Boss Floor? Yes / No>

<Notice: A boss floor allows you to skip the 6-9th floors and directly go to the 10th floor upon completion.>

"So it was literally just there?" Rael mused.

Nyx nodded.

"After searching around and finding nothing, I decided to look in plain sight. Thankfully I did."

Yep.

Had she not found it, Rael was sure he would’ve continued looking around for several dozen more hours. But of course, the more time they spent here, the more floors Renoir was climbing. He wouldn’t be surprised if in the half hour, he already climbed all the way up to the 15th floor.

Regardless of that, since the opportunity was literally right here, Rael decided to take it.

However, he also wanted to go along with Nyx, so he decided to do the one thing that had popped into his mind. That was, of course, to approach her and interlock his fingers with hers.

She was a little puzzled why he didn’t just grab her hand. Instead, he made it a little more intimate.

Despite that, she didn’t complain much and instead began the countdown.

"Three... two... one... press!"

<Ding!>

<You are being transported to the Boss Floor!>

In the next instant, Rael felt his consciousness slightly leave his body, making it feel particularly trippy as he stared at his own back from the sky. But thankfully, Nyx was also there, right beside him, floating and looking at her own body.

She tried to speak, but no words came out, so she decided to speak directly into his mind.

[Be very careful. We are currently in our soul forms. If we accidentally injure ourselves, we’ll get severely weaker,] she warned.

Rael nodded.

Don’t worry, I’m the expert at not getting hurt.

Allegedly.

Despite that, several minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and finally, their consciousness traveled back into their bodies. Just then, they found themselves standing in the center of a giant gladiator arena.

There was even a throne up ahead, followed by thousands of stands for the spectators. There were no kings or spectators though, sadly.

But there was a giant door in front of them, and someone was banging on it very, very enthusiastically.

<Ding!>

<You have entered the Boss Floor!>

<The Boss Fight will begin in 60 seconds!>

"Wow... This is pretty cool," Rael muttered and finally let go of Nyx’s hand.

"Is this your first time in a gladiator arena?" Nyx asked.

Rael shook his head.

"Nope. I fought a guy to the death in one of these once. It was pretty sad though, since that guy was manipulated by his father into thinking that I was the villain."

Nyx paused for a moment, then raised a brow.

"Reinhardt?"

"Yep. Good lad. I wonder how his sisters are doing. I should also reach out to his mother one of these days, since she’s technically a widow," Rael said, then froze.

He realized that with his current track record, and Nyx’s personality, those words sounded particularly wrong.

And right as he was about to correct himself, Nyx chimed in:

"One more to the harem, eh? Tsk tsk... Such an unfaithful husband." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Shut up..."

Anyhow, Rael decided to do some stretches in preparation for the boss that was about to come out and beat their ass.

In Nyx’s case though, she just sat down and relaxed for a bit. Only then did Rael realize that her weapon of choice was the spear. He honestly thought she wasn’t much of a fighter, and so she would choose something simple like... knuckles, maybe?

Instead though, she chose one of the easiest weapons with one of the highest skill ceilings.

Anyhow... after the one minute was up, the monster finally stopped banging on the giant gate. Instead, the giant locks on the gate began to crumble one by one until eventually there was not a single lock remaining.

And so, with a single push, the door crumbled as well, revealing the boss monster we were going to fight.

However, despite the massive cage and giant door, what was sealed away was nothing but a small black cat.

It was pretty cute.

Honestly? Rael felt like going up there and picking up the cat. Maybe he could tame it? He still couldn’t open his inventory, but he would work something out, probably.

However, right as he had that thought, Nyx suddenly swung her spear at him, pushing him away.