30 Labyrinth Minotaurs
"I wonder how you taste like," the Sphinx gave the young king a look of desire to devour him.
"What if I answer all your questions? Are you going to point the way to the Blood Altar?" The young king crackles his neck.
"You still don't know if there's one you desire, plus why would I point you the way?"
The young king revealed a smile. "You said you hate my guts, but you need to be fair, too. After all, I won't take the weapons and treasures of your Ashura race."
"Hmm... Alright, you promise to not take anything but the Blood Altar only." The sphinx said.
'So there is one, what a luck.' The young king thought,
"Alright, go on... I'll guess all your riddles."
'Wait something's wrong,' the sphinx realized and thought, 'What a cheeky brat.'
"Listen carefully, here is my first riddle... What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon and three feet in the evening?"
The sphinx eyes are like a clock with an unending swirl.
"That's quite easy. The answer is a person."
The sphinx trembles with its eyes wide open, but he added,
"Why?"
"Is that important?" The young king asked.
"Yes, after all... You fooled me and ask me to lead where's the treasure you seek."
"Alright, A person because as a baby in the morning of their life crawls on four feet, which are hands and knees. As an adult in the noon of their life, they walk on two feet."
'I...' the sphinx is speechless, the man is right.
"Continue..." The young king said, 'I know these riddles because It's given to us before we answer. I also love to read because I can't cultivate and improve, but I'm alive.'
The sphinx cleared its throat and continues,
"Let's proceed to the next one..."
After an hour of riddles and guessing, the Sphinx was staring at the young king with an unbelievable look.
"How did you guess it? All of it! How?!" The sphinx said with a horrified look.
The young king stood up to the giant lion with a man fave with confidence,
"Didn't you know? I am not something from this Universe."
The sphinx doesn't know what to say anymore, it's just his guess. The young king stretched his hand and says,
"I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?...
"It was a hard riddle you got there. This riddle relies on tricking me into thinking about ears and a mouth. I got a hint about wind to encourage me to think broadly and avoid the literal. But fortunately, My power is like it."
Curious, the sphinx, "Power?"
The young king made a cracking sound to his bone and says,
"Nothing, now take me. Where's that Blood altar? I'm excited to get my thing and talk to my other selves."
The Sphinx felt confused, "What? Other selves?"
"It's nothing, just take me there."
The sphinx felt so uncomfortable like his world was crumbling; he didn't like anyone telling him what to do or say, but this time he knew he made an oath.
'Sigh, I thought I can finally eat him alive. Whatever, I'll just make him disappear from the labyrinth with that rascal beast in it after he got the treasure he is looking for.'
The giant sphinx led the young king to the door of a labyrinth. The sphinx didn't notice that the more they come closer the irritable the young king become.
"Walk faster. You are pissing this king off. You are only talking. You look like you are not honoring your words. Are you a great sphinx? You should be glad that I did not force me to this disgusting labyrinth."
The young king's change of tone was so sudden that surprise even the king,
'What happened to this little creature? Heh! I'll throw you to the labyrinth later and meet those hungry beasts later to beat you to a pulp. I hope you die.'
The scheme by the sphinx to the young king, but the young kings felt nothing and ignored the sphinx. He is looking at the labyrinth full of authority.
"Here we are. This is the only place I could take you. Once you pass this labyrinth, even if you take the other treasure, I won't stop you."
Said the sphinx, but the young king only entered the labyrinth not caring about this giant mad, ugly cat.
'Heh! I wonder how did he become so irritated, but his arrogance would turn into a pulp once he met one of those horned hungry beasts. They will respond to him with an angry answer too, hehe.
'A pity, his body would be eaten by them. And If I forcefully entered, I don't know if I could see his corpse. Not to mention, those beasts are far stronger than me together. One of would've been hard to fight in one versus one, what more of fighting a lot of them.
'Lucky, they are not bonding together. I won't be able to protect this Pyramid. Kehehehe!'
ROAR!! ROAR!! ROAR!!
ROAR!! ROAR!! ROAR!!
ROAR!! ROAR!! ROAR!!
"They are starting. The king is the prey. Hungry beast for a thousand years. Show them all your might!"
The sphinx shouted with maniacal laughter, even if he didn't get to taste. At least he got to witness a murder, and that's enough for him.
Inside the labyrinth.
"HATRED! HATRED! HATRED!"
"LET IT OUT! LET IT OUT! LET IT OUT!"
On the ground, the young king was holding his head like crazy. His aura was pulsing as his veins were bulging with light green blood like a plant.
With a maniacal smile, he constantly screams of anger,
"HATRED! HATRED! HATRED!"
"LET IT OUT! LET IT OUT! LET IT OUT!"
All of a sudden, red mist comes closer to him, accompanied by a sound of rumbling walks of gigantic creatures.
The overall look of the beast is a horned creature with a hoof. It was a humanoid and holding a bloody gigantic sword easily like it's holding a toy.
HOROFF
Nose-splitting blood-red smoke that surrounds it, these strong, menacing, and dangerous creatures are legendary...
Minotaurs!
The young noticed the minotaur,
'It's not attacking? I wonder why is it? They are stronger and even one of them could pin me down. If they attack me, I'll be dead, but what is this?
'They are concentrating on me with blood-red mist and they are not killing me? Don't tell me-'
The young king didn't even have the time to think of everything. The mist was entering his body, and he was absorbing it happily.
"HATRED! HATRED! HATRED!"
"LET IT OUT! LET IT OUT! LET IT OUT!"
The mist became stronger as the minotaurs concentrated and their numbers are going up surrounding him,
'I forgot, labyrinth minotaurs must have thought I am one of them. They are now forcefully checking my potential.'
In a labyrinth, it is always known there are always labyrinth minotaurs waiting for them. Labyrinth is said that is not that easy to get through. Adding that there's a minotaur guarding it makes it harder.
However, some of those are wrong...
Labyrinth minotaurs are passive blood controllers, their blood mist ability makes everyone lose their mind by getting inside the body, turning them into a mad killing machine but if one is a minotaur, they would surround it and...
The giant minotaurs waited as the young king's arm extended.
'I love it! I love it! The blood that releases my anger! The anger! Keep me angry!'
All of the sudden, the young king slowly became a massive shadow. Its body was bigger than the minotaurs, they look like a child in front of him.
"MOOooohhh?!"
When the minotaurs saw the size of what the young king had become, they became dumbstruck that they drop their weapon.
This is a symbiotic beast of transformation. A behemoth, a kaiju, a titan minotaur!
The shadow beast's eyes wandered at the kneeling similar-looking beasts.
'Labyrinth minotaurs, one of the most dangerous minotaurs in the past. One of them will destroy a kingdom just to satisfy their never-ending hunger. I never thought they would worship me.
"I will use them. I will be their king. For them to be loyal to me, I have already shown them I am stronger and younger. However, there is one more!!"
ROOAAAARRRR!!!!
Far away, the sphinx was laughing silently like a maniac,
"Go tear that arrogant bug. I want to see his head separated and his body beating up into a pulp,"
His eyes are crying because of laughter,
"Kehehe those brainless non-cryptid would have been happy killing someone that doesn't look like someone from this world."
As someone proud of a half Crypted race and beast, having intelligence, he sure looks down to those suppressed beasts.
"Sigh, I need to eat someone from the outside to get out of this confined place. To advance my cultivation and not be suppressed, I will open these tombs of treasures.
"I will all those who come and enter with my riddles. I will get out and not stay in this rotten place with those beasts and the other brainless creatures,"
All of the sudden, his cat-like eyes became small.
Sphinx moves fast far away from the place he is sitting, and then...
KABAM!
"YOU!!!" he said.
Fortunately, he moves instantly because the ground he is lying on earlier was smashed by a war hammer.
