Kazuma hit his head on the wall over and over again while at the same time cursing his luck.
Heaven had sent him here after he and his friends had defeated the demon king, according to them it was his punishment for breaking the reincarnation cycle.
Not because Aqua kept on bringing him back to life, or because he had successfully stolen Aqua from Heaven when he chose her as his cheat item, no it was because he had figured out how to enter Eris's throne room while he was still alive.
Luckily for him, the King of Heaven interfered and forced every other god and goddess to give him what they called a slap on the wrist because he had managed to kill what was once believed to be an unbeatable opponent.
And as a result, he was dropped into another version of earth, unfortunately for him as he was falling to the ground a portal opened beneath him and he fell into it just a giant monster wearing a white mask walked out of it.
And now he finds himself here, trapped inside a giant labyrinth with no way of knowing how to get out.
A cold and deep howl that echoes through the tunnel forces him to stop hitting his head on the wall and so he's forced to start walking again.
If it wasn't for the sphere of light that his flare skill creates he would be completely blind here, even if he used his enemy detection skill and dark vision skill along with his snipe skill.
Hell, he was still using those three skills to avoid the monsters that lived in the tunnels, and if it wasn't for his dodge skill that forced him to turn and walk in another direction than the one that he had wanted to go in he would have been eaten along time ago.
"Where am I?" he asks himself as none of his skills activate anymore, so he knows that he's not in danger at the moment.
As he sits down to get some rest and catch his breath, he lowers his head but forces himself to raise his head and look for something, anything that he can use.
It doesn't matter if its a stick or a ball of dirt, he doesn't know what he will use it for or why he's looking for it, he just wants to find something anything that isn't a monster or white sand and white rocks like the ones that he has been seeing ever since he fell into this place.
He can't help but smile when he sees what looks like a white pillar that has blue light coming out of it, as he stands up and walks closer to it he notices that there are several burn marks covering the pillar and the walls beyond it.
Because none of his skills have activated he knows that it's safe for him to walk down the tunnel even if it's pitch black and there's a faint blue light at the end of it.
As he walks into the dark tunnel his flare skill begins to flicker as if something was draining the magic from it, but he manages to make it to the end of the tunnel just as the light from his skill dies.
The blue light from the end of the tunnel begins to glow brightly as the wall in front of him starts to move away from him revealing what looks like a giant white room, that has what looks like tables that are made of blue light.
Normally he would know better than to walk into what looks like an abandoned laboratory but considering that his only other option is the tunnels that are filled with monsters he decides to go in.
As he walks closer to the tables made of blue light he hears the wall behind him cover the only exit.
"Greate." he says to himself as he starts to look at the things that are on the table.
Normally he would either be excited by what he just found or worried that if he touches any of them then an alarm or a defense system will activate, but he's too tired and hungry to care.
The first thing that he picks up is a pair of disks that don't seem to do anything, so he puts them into his pocket.
Next to them is a bow, but there aren't any arrows for it, so he moves on and he finds what looks like an instruction manual, unfortunately, the moment that he touches it turns into dust.
The blue light that made the tables begins to fade until the tables are completely gone, now there's nothing in the room but him.
The ceiling begins to open and he doesn't question the fact that stairs start to come down, he just starts to walk and as he leaves the room he finds that he is walking into a desert.
"Well at least I'm not surrounded by monsters anymore." he says to himself as he looks at the starless sky and smiles at the full moon.
He starts to walk again but considering that he hasn't had anything to eat or drink he begins to run out of energy and collapses on the desert floor.
"Drain touch." says to himself as he hopes to gain some power from the ground beneath him.
His skill begins to flare and pull the desert sands towards him as it turns them into power for him to use, as more and more of the white sand is crushed and turned into energy for him to use he begins to feel his hunger and thirst vanish.
Kazuma can't help but smile as his exhaustion finally catches up to him, but he doesn't care anymore as he falls into a deep sleep.
Kazuma begins to wake up, he doesn't know how long he has been asleep but considering that the moon is still up and there are no signs of the sun yet, he knows that he couldn't have been asleep for too long.
With nothing else to do, he begins to walk again but after what felt like hours he finally stops walking and looks at the full moon, he knows now that there isn't a sun in this world, because the moon hasn't moved.
"So this is my life now." Kazuma says to himself as he sits down and looks at the bow that he found in that room.
He pulls on the strings and pretends to fire an arrow, but he is surprised to see that the strings on the bow begin to glow green and when he lets go of them a green arrow is fired into the distance.
He doesn't bother to wait and see what happens when the arrow he just fired land, instead he quickly gets back up and starts to run away and it's out of pure luck that he runs into another portal that a monster is using to leave the desert.
He blinks as he realizes that he's standing in what looks like a town, but he doesn't know if this is the earth or another world, but he decides that it doesn't matter as it's better than where he just escaped from.