Reborn in another world as a Hermaphrodite

After walking for almost what felt like an hour to Alex, they finally arrived back in the giant room with the throne.

"What do we do now?" Mary curiously asked.

Both Sophia and Alex looked over to teach each other again, only to have zero clues in their head.

"No idea... Let's just split up and try to find something."

The three of them quickly agreed to Alex's suggestion, heading their way in an attempt to find something in the room.

But with one minute gone by, Mary and Sophia had already given up, realizing they had already looked the entire place before.

Even Alex soon gave up, heading next to the two of them as they sat down and leaned back against the giant throne.

"Mom! I give up!"

Despite Mary complaining it out loud, Katherine still didn't show up at all.

"Mom, can you give us a hint?" Sophia asked out loud.

Once again, not a single soul appeared in the room. The three kids sat on the floor, all looking a little bored.

"There has to be a way to continue... How about you two sit here and wait while I go in——"

"Hell no. If we're going in, we're going in together." Mary interrupted, refusing Alex's offer.

"Fine... Fuck it, let's just go back to that tunnel and walk all the way to the end."

After getting up from the floor, Sophia and Mary both got up from the ground and started following Alex.

"Wait, I got an idea... Can you go back and take that crystal out?"

The two thought for a second and then agreed as they began heading towards where they had put the black crystal.

Alex waited for them to be turned around and started moving their hands toward the crystal itself.

He quickly sneakily walked into the tunnel just as the two of them used their mana to create a magical hand.

"Alex, we pulled it... Wait, where the hell is he?"

Both Sophia and Mary immediately panicked as they ran back towards the hallway entrance, only to find it closed.

"Shit, he ran inside when we pulled it out."

Just as the two of them were about to head back to put the crystal back in, the entrance suddenly reappeared again.

But rather than the dark hallway, it was a bright tunnel filled with light.

Sophia looked over to Mary for a second before they held hands together as they walked into the darkness.

---

"Shit, that wasn't the solution."

Alex was now in complete darkness until he cast a light spell around himself.

Around him was the same stone floor and wall, just like when he first entered the hallway entrance.

But there was no way back, with the wall in the place that used to be the entrance.

After almost ten minutes, he gave up trying to wait for the other side and began heading forward.

Walking alone, he was a little spooked out by the dimmed light he created, as it only illuminated a few steps ahead of him.

However, he couldn't make it brighter because he felt he needed to save his mana.

"Is it really just the same thing?"

Alex wondered as he had already lost count of how long he had walked. His mind was unable to focus despite nothing distracting him.

Inside his mind, he just felt something was a little off. Almost something was disturbing around him.

"Come out! I know you're there!"

As Alex radiated the light orb to the max, almost the entirety of his surroundings was illuminated.

Yet, there was not a single thing in sight other than just more stone walls and ceilings.

"Calm down, Alex, stop being so paranoid... There is nothing here."

Continuing forward, the sound of footsteps started ringing inside the ear, forcing him to turn around to check.

But once again, there was nothing there, with all of the noise disappearing within an instant.

"For fuck sake. Stop playing games with me. Just show yourself already. I don't have all day."

Despite the attempt, Alex was forced to keep walking forward towards an endless hallway tunnel.

However, he finally noticed something a little off that made him realize he wasn't just hallucinating.

His shadow was constantly flickering despite the light orb he cast, which was a constant light.

Seeing the hallway having no end, Alex suddenly stopped and turned off his light orb.

Within seconds, the darkness swallowed him as he couldn't even see his finger.

But he waited patiently, standing still until he felt something pushing his armor piece on the back.

He quickly drew his sword and slashed backward, but he couldn't feel he had hit something.

"Please don't be a ghost." Alex thought to himself as he took a step forward.

Just as he expected, the feeling appeared again. But this time, it was much harder than before.

The push was almost a slash from something if it wasn't for his armor, rendering it into a blunt push forward.

Once again, his attempt to spin his sword in a circle results in hitting nothing.

However, he refused to turn his light orb, as if he was gambling that turning it on would just lead to the same situation earlier.

"You want to play? I'm all for it."

Alex stood still as he closed his eyes, putting his sword and shield aside as he waited for the next attack.

The moment he felt the push against his armor, mana immediately began surrounding his entire body.

Within seconds, a clunk sound could be heard as the wind barrier surrounding him seemed to have finally hit something.

"Finally. There you are."

Even though his surroundings were still completely dark, he lowered his wind barrier again to let the mysterious thing hit him.

"Bang!"

An explosive suddenly went off right behind Alex, with a bright flame right behind him as he quickly lunged for his shield.

Just as he turned around and raised his shield, he could finally see the thing attacking him.

It was some sort of a long snake, sliding up and down as it tried to put the flame on its body out.

Alex immediately cast a fireball straight at the snake, aiming it at its clumped-up body.

Unfortunately, the snake dodged as it leaped upward.

At the same time, it finally revealed right before his eyes how the snake avoided being found out.

It somehow faded into the wall, disappearing after touching the ceiling.

"Shit, how am I supposed to kill that thing?"

As the fire ran out of mana to sustain itself, the hallway once again fell into darkness.

All he could do was wait, dropping his shield again as he ready up his next booby trap for the snake.

"Hiss!"

A clunking sound echoed in the hallway as something landed right on top of his armor.

After casting a light spell to check, he was completely shocked as his shoulder pad was starting to melt away by some sort of acid.

He immediately removed and cut the cloth string aside, causing the shoulder pad to fall onto the floor.

Seeing the entire armor piece withered into green bubbles, Alex regained a sense of urgency as he held his shield with his right hand.

He wasn't daring enough to let his back be exposed again, opting to lean back against the wall as he turned his light orb off.

In complete darkness, Alex quickly caught the slithering sound as he started casting a spell with his left hand.

Blood immediately flew all over his face and body as he launched a wind blade, managing to hit just as the snake struck downward with its tail.

Feeling the snake starting to move slower and slower, he quickly picked up his sword as he waited patiently.

After almost an entire minute of nothing, the snake finally shot out another shot of acid right at him.

His shield blocked it, but the metal quickly began to melt, forcing him to throw it to the side.

With only a sword, Alex moved both of his hands onto it, putting his full faith in it as he waited for the snake's last attack.

From just a slither of sound echoing through the hallway, he immediately slashed forward before stabbing down.

As he cast an orb of light to see again, he saw that his sword had pinned the snake's tail to the ground.

It was constantly trying to struggle out, but it only caused more and more bleeding as the sword dragged up and down at its body.

Alex didn't dare to take his sword out as he cast several wind blades right at the snake's head.

Not a single gap remained as the snake failed to dodge two of them, letting the wind blade easily separate its head and body.

"Holy shit, that was exhausting..."

Alex murmured as he pulled his sword out of the body and wiped the blood against the wall.

Suddenly, the darkness began to disappear as the bright light began to surround him.