[Since you planned to use everything you could in this Rule Horror Maze, you didn’t care if you had to swindle anyone here in this attraction.]
[The security guard’s favor wasn’t something you’re interested in since you didn’t need the help of these staff. They were not only expensive to hire, but you could do what they could do.]
[And if you ever need any information from them regarding the Rule Horror Maze, you wouldn’t have to pay anything. Using Hint Prompt on them was more than enough.]
[After the security guard figured out your bandit-like intentions, his face contorted in disbelief and anger. However, he didn’t expect you to pull off such a plan, so he didn’t have any countermeasures against it.]
[Helplessly, the security guard could only add 5% more amusement park coins, and he handed them to you, which you accepted and weighed them.]
[Knowing that it wasn’t enough yet and you could extort more, you exclaimed, "I knew you indeed pocketed my amusement park coins! But to think you are still being dishonest, do you think I can’t do math?"]
["This still isn’t enough."]
[After a back-and-forth argument between you and the security guard, the security guard could only relent and give you 5% more.]
[Happily taking the pouch of amusement park coins, you left the security guard, not caring about what it would do afterwards.]
[One of the main reasons why it could only relent and give you 10% amusement park coins was that it had previously cheated weaker Explorers out of their Amusement Park Coins.]
[The only reason why it was honest when dealing with you was due to you being at Peak Gold rank, and him feeling that you could threaten him.]
[Previous Explorers were not only way weaker than you, but they also didn’t know the exact price of each rule horrors and props they captured. Because of that, the security guard could pocket some of them.]
[If you had reported him to the manager, although the manager couldn’t come here now in this current session of the rule horror maze exploration, your report could still bring suspicion towards the security guard and cause the manager to do an audit on him.]
[Since he had indeed pocketed the amusement park coins of previous Explorers, whether he pocketed yours or not was no longer important as your report would bring light to his previous misdemeanors.]
[After you had extorted amusement park coins from the security guard, you kept exploring the Rule Horror Maze with the intention of finding the Merch Seller.]
[’If I’m not mistaken, the Merch Seller has a merchandise that can allow a shortcut to this maze. This maze actually takes a lot of time, and the longer I stay here, the more I’d get assimilated by the Explorer identity.’]
[’Although the assimilation won’t affect me now, the longer I stay here, the more spirit energy I’ll consume just to maintain the protective mental barriers. In a dangerous place like this, even that much consumption is a risk to me.’]
[’Unfortunately, my Train Conductor Authority is insufficient to send these amusement park coins for trading with Jade. Because of that, I could only swindle the security guard for more of them.’]
[’If only I could make use of Jade’s Equivalent Exchange talent to exchange for more amusement park coins, I wouldn’t even have to risk my life just to get these mere coins.’]
[It was only until now that you had discovered that some items couldn’t be sold or traded in the trading market due to insufficient Train Conductor Authority, and the Amusement Park Coins were one of them.]
[The amusement park coin was issued by the Rule Horror Maze, and its existence was maintained by it. If it ever left this attraction, the anomalous energy used to maintain its existence would be cut off, causing it to disappear.]
[So, a higher Train Conductor Authority was needed to put it on the trading market while preserving the anomalous energy.]
[Of course, if Jade were with you, you could hand it over to her, and she could exchange it for more coins. From what you discovered using Hint Prompt, Jade’s innate talent had enough grade to exchange for these coins.]
[’Well, I can’t risk Jade’s life for these mere coins anyway. If I don’t take some merchandise used for dealing with rule horrors and just those that could assist my exploration, the coins I have are more than enough.’]
[’The longer Zenith and I stay here, the greater our lives are at risk. I might as well speedrun this now that I have what I need.’]
[Although you weren’t in any danger now, staying here made your skin crawl, as if someone was eying you and wanting to kill you but couldn’t.]
[Moreover, you know that the Rule Horror Maze is not fixed. One of the main reasons why it was so difficult to complete, aside from the illusions, was that the flesh walls would change the layout of the maze.]
[If you take a lot of time, it’s not impossible for the rule horror maze to screw you up and make you stay in this station longer than you wanted.]
[Since you have a limited dwell time, you couldn’t stay in this rule horror maze for that long, or else your Train Conductor Authority would be revoked by the World Will.]
[Knowing that risk, you no longer dawdled, immediately using your multiplication ability to focus on multiplying your agility and movement speed.]
[With a dash, you sprinted while rapidly firing Hint Prompts whenever possible, reading the hint prompts as soon as they appeared.]
[Under its guidance, you traveled in the Rule Horror Maze for two hours.]
[Within those hours, you encountered rule horrors and props, only subduing those that you could easily subdue within a short amount of time.]
[You also encountered another security guard, but that security guard hadn’t swindled previous Explorers, so you couldn’t pull off the same trick.]
[You didn’t have time to extort those amusement park coins, so you exchanged the neutralized rule horrors and props you have for amusement park coins.]
[Eventually, as you traveled and your coin pouch became bulkier, you finally saw a Merchandise Booth just straight ahead.]