NOVEL NEXT Chapter 25: Did i back track?
He walked across the modern office, Every time a floor would run out of contents for him to see, he would go up a level. There was art hanging all through the walls of one of the floors, the number of which he didn't count. But it was there, and it was somewhat well made. Those paintings were of locations in the backrooms, a small few of them were known to him. "Mhm..." He looked at one of the painting which seemed to intrigue him, while holding his chin with one hand and his elbow with the other. 'What is noclipped through that?' He thought to himself, as he simply went for it. And jumped through through the painting as he was quickly spawned back into the building back on the first floor. "I should goof more. It's actually quite entertaining." He said to himself as he stood up from the floor of the building and began climbing once again, in hopes of finding anything worth joking about.
After a bit of walking, opening random doors, and searching for something he can entertain himself with, he was met with a random door which lead into level 4. He could take it now, or continue to explore here. He was asking himself, why would be the reason he would want to leave right now. So he didn't, He had more to explore and with that choice set, he began to climb the floors, until he reached another floor, but this time he was met with some random people, who just looked at him. They weren't welcoming to him, they were cold and distant. But he didn't mind it and instead of exploring continued going upwards. After a while of walking in and out of random rooms in every other floor he reached the top floor where there was a spacious well decorated room with a desk with a computer on it, As if something drew him in he sat in the boss's chair and turned on the computer. As if he knew what he was doing. There was a force behind his actions... The backrooms have given him all the information he needed to identify and use any object.
He looked around the desktop and after a bit of reading through the names he found a folder called "Info" He clicked on it and was revealed a whole page with nothing other than files which contained the names of levels. He recognised a few of them but most of them were blank. But by his rules he didn't had much of a permission t~...
The rules he made were applying only for the wiki. So he now had the courage to open one of those files. Without a number it was hard to classify the information he was getting from it, So he decided to just leave since it wasn't that useful if he couldn't understand it. As he got down, and reached the floor with those people, he gave them a peace sign as he noclipped through the wall and returned to the first floor. But now he forgot where that door leading to level 4 was. So he went through the whole building until he found it again, he left it open so it was easier to spot.
He looked around level 4 as the door behind him vanished leaving him with a no way of returning to the level unless he went back to level 11 then to 48 and so on the chain goes. He could go try and find a pocket in level 9, but the way there would be long and hard, unless he found a way to skip the first 8 levels.
He wandered around and grabbed few bottles of almond waters. 'Didn't i have some?' He thought to himself. He didn't remember if he lost them. 'Oh yeah... That...' He didn't want to comment on his "death?" So he grabbed them just in case and continued exploring, which at some point lead him to finding an elevator, fully functional. He went into it as it would probably lead to another floor, but once he closed the doors there was no turning back as he descended. It took a bit, but when the doors opened, he was met with a loud hallway, with the sound of machines working as a background. As he stepped out of the elevator and lost sight of it. It quickly disappeared, and there was truly no way for him to leave, but to go through the level and find another exit.
As he began walking he wasn't anxious of getting his face eaten off, because he can force weak willed entities into doing as he pleases.
So he began walking, he wasn't going to use this power unless it was an emergency, because he was mostly enjoying himself.
He looked around and found a few more bottles of water. As he was about to enter a room, he saw some entities coming his way, so he quickly went in and hid behind the corner, before closing the door. It was a hound and a clump on the other side which seemed to have followed him. They simply passed by each other as the clump began to try and grab on the nob of the door to open it. The child looked toward the other corner of the room and saw a smiler staring right into him. The room wasn't well lit, but there was something on the floor some type of crystal, which he quickly grabbed. Causing the smiler to try and attack him, but wasn't quick enough as the child noclipped through the wall and threw the crystal instinctively, before he heard a loud boom inside the room he was in. He looked at the clump still trying to break in with somewhat disgust. It wasn't this beautiful the chaotic formation of human limbs on a meatball.
So while the clump was still distracted with the thought of him being in that room. He slowly snuck away, and successfully escaped through this scenario. He walked around occasionally having to wait out entities within the walls, which seemed to let him ignore gravity as if he was in the in between, now aspired to be a hotel his level.
He found more almond water some more of that little explosive crystal. And then... Something... "What's that?" He grabbed onto it and the first thing that his mind told him to do was to bite into it... The Jell which was just laying on the dirty ground. His instincts were the one pushing him into giving it a try, but his brain was skeptical of if he should eat this, as if he couldn't see the dust and small rocks from the floor sticking onto it. At least the top part wasn't dirty. So he decided to take his chances and took a small bite out of the top part.
It was tasty, a taste he couldn't truly explain, but it felt as if it was just suited for him.
He gave a smug look as he realized he couldn't store it anywhere. "What do i put this in my pockets?" He said sarcastically, as he felt the pain of not having a pocket right now. He put his free hand on his face as he heard steps coming towards him, but those weren't the ones of an entity, they were synchronized... As if the one behind it was trying to say, i am a person don't worry. In the meantime he waited with a dumbfounded look on his face, just to joke with himself as he took another small bite from the jelly.