THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE 116 Two Choices

Guide said, " Because I was told to guide all honourable guests after they complete the quest in the second door."

Rick asked in surprise, " Told? Who told you to do that?"

Guide said, " My creator!"

Arjun and Rick were stunned.

Arjun asked, " Who is your creator?"

Guide said, " My creator is a G.o.d!"

" WHAT??" , said Rick in astonishment.

Arjun asked, " What is the name of your G.o.d?"

Guide said, " I can't. I was forbidden to say anything about my creator!"

Arjun said, " Alright! Then could you tell us why this maze was created? What is the purpose behind it?"

Guide replied, " My G.o.d left a legacy behind! If you clear the challenges in all 14 doors, then you will gain the legacy! Then you will be free from this place."

Both Arjun and Rick were stunned!

Rick asked, " A Legacy? What kind of legacy?

Guide said, " I don't know."

Arjun said, " Fine then! Why was you supposed to appear after we clear two doors? Why not at the beginning?"

Guide replied, " Because I was asked to give you two options after you clear first two doors!"

Rick asked, " Options? What options?"

Guide said, " The first two doors are just the beginning of the ultimate horror! It is for you to experience how tough the challenges from the third door could be! After two doors, I give you two options. First option is, you could carry on and enter the third door. The second option is you could stop everything and exit the maze."

Both of them were dumbfounded. They didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Arjun asked, " What if we choose to continue?"

Guide said, " You will face the challenges which are far greater than you could ever imagine. The challenges from the third door will be very harder than the first two doors. If you could clear the third and fourth door, then I will appear again to give you the choices. You could continue to advance or you could exit after that. Like that I will appear for every 2 doors that you complete."

Rick asked, " What if we choose to exit?"

Guide said, " Then you could leave The Maze Palace. I'll show you exit. But exit will be much more tough and horrible than you could expect. If you exit after the second gate, then you exit way will be filled with dangers. But if you exit after 4th door, then the danger level for exit will be little less. Just like that the danger level for all the exits will be lessened as you clear more doors. Do you understand?"

Arjun and Rick were stunned.

Arjun said to Rick, " Now I understand how that person came out alive from the maze. He somehow cleared the second door. But he understood how dangerous this place is! So he choose to exit."

Rick said, " Even though the exit after second door is filled with nothing but dangers, he choose to exit. Because if he continued to go for the third door, then he would die. He knows that very clearly. So he choose to face the one time danger. If he could overcome this danger, then he could go home. So he choose to go back home.

Arjun replied, " Yes!"

Guide asked, " What will be your choice? Do you wish to continue or do you wish to exit?"

Arjun and Rick discussed for a moment.After some time Arjun said, " We wish to continue our march towards the third door!"

Guide said, " Alright! Then please enter the third door. I will come after you cleared the fourth door. We will meet then?"

"Yes." , replied Arjun and Rick in unison.

The guide left.Arjun and Rick started to head towards the third door.

Rick said, " Boss! Don't you think what that guide said is little strange? I mean she could come and give warning to all the adventurers before entering the first door! But she was ordered to appear only after the completion of the second door. Why she was asked to appear once every two doors? Why not before the first door?"

Arjun said, " She said that the first two doors are for us to experience the toughness of the maze! After two doors we can choose to exit. But exit is totally filled with dangers. If the first two doors are for us to experience the toughness of future doors, then why not let them go from the maze safely? Why would they make the exit very tough? I don't understand."

Rick said, " That means that G.o.d doesn't want anyone to get out of this place that easily. That's why, first he let's us to experience the challenge of first two doors. Then he gives a hope by showing the exit. But that exit is much more dangerous than anyone could imagine. Later whoever chooses to leave this place will almost die."

Arjun said, " That person whom big sis said about, might have cleared the first and second door. Then he choose to exit. Because just like us, he faced the challenges in the first door and the second door. He knew how difficult it is to go for the third door. So he choose to exit. He might have faced all the dangers on his way out. That's why he was dying when he came out."

Rick said, " But I don't understand one thing? Both of us has the Divine Power. We have the Willpower. And yet we felt that first two doors very challenging. We cleared the second door using our clones. Our clones died once too. So how did a magician like him cleared the first two doors?"

Arjun thought for a moment and said, " If my guess is right, then he might be a light element user. He might have fast reflexes and good judgement of the situation. He might be an excellent and very experienced fighter.He might have used all his experience and fought against all these constructs to clear the first and second doors. Later he choose to exit because he knew how tough the third door is going to be."

Rick understood. He felt that, that was a logical explanation. Only an experienced fighter could do something like this.

Both of them walked and stopped in front of the third door. Both of them were nervous and at the same time they were very excited.

Arjun and Rick created one clone each. They took a long breath.

Arjun said, " Alright! Let's see what exactly is there in the third door."