ALL TROOPS DEPLOYED

PING!

Metals were clanking.

BOOM!

WHOOSH!

Another trembling sound that now causes disturbance to the once silent labyrinth. Three gates but there are thousand possible paths each with underlying traps and lurking monsters. Explosions simultaneously occurred, all randomly, from different sections of the maze. Their hearts' leapt after every sudden noise spreading somewhere. Following noises of destruction of could be anything. But men and creatures from either side masked their fear with bravery and fuel their passion with their respective desires to win and obtain the twilight orb. Darkness and misty cold chills fill the labyrinth. Every hero, allies, and travelers was struggling with the traps they met along the way. While the army of the Dark felt a little advantage because of the darkness. Yet everyone's so careful. And Aldous had started creating conflicts to clash the invaders against each other because the faster it would be for him to eliminate unwanted visitors as he thought. It was the first stage of the maze. The Minoan Maze had three stages. The obstacles needed to survive in every stage also increases in difficulty. However, only ten heroes allowed to enter the last stage which composes two doors dividing them into two teams. And only the winning team will have the chance to get near the twilight orb. But winning the third stage leads to facing the guardians that further eliminates four. Only one was allowed to get near the orb. Thus, from the first stage to the last, survival is the key. So, eliminating the enemy by giving them death or suffering was most likely the fate of most of them. And meanwhile, Selena immediately plotted her abyssal creatures randomly while waiting for their prey. She was assisted by Alice and Vexana, the demon queens and Faramis the vicious alchemist. While, the Light on the other side had split into three teams each taking different lanes. Tigreal, Natalia, Freya and Zilong were the first three. Then, Pharsa, Roger, Layla, Karina and Fanny were the second group. So, Miya, Alucard, Hilda, Irithel and Gord were the last group. Night grew even colder and gloomy surrounding was experienced further by the heroes and allies. Although, the dark army marveled their advantage as darkness was their source of strength. Helcurt most of all, enjoyed lurking behind shadows. It was hard to tell what was happening on the other side of the maze because the walls extended way too long and rise high in structure. Aside from the creepy fogs, were deadly traps underlying beneath the floor or walls that each may surprisingly encounter. Yet, the distant howling of wolves could also be heard as the moon finally peeked behind the scarlet clouds. Still the night was too young.