Spiders Den
"Anyway, what do we have here?"
After entering the doors, I went through a lot of traps.
Well, there were not any new or out-of-the-ordinary traps except for one.
Compared to the other traps, maybe it was the most difficult one to pass through.
The trap was a straight hallway full of all kinds of insects. In that mont, I went through hell.
[Hahaha]
"What is so funny about it?!"
[Nothing, nothing...]
"You are still laughing!!"
[Absolutely yes, your facial expression was just too funny for not to laugh about it, and the way you were screaming...]
"Stttoop, I don't need you to remind ."
[Alright, alright.]
"By the way, why did you tell to take these insects?"
I said hesitantly, taking a closer look at them; one of them was a two-headed centipede, and the other one was a red mantis.
Both of them are so weird in a way I can't describe; they are both the size of my forearm.
[What else? It was just a prank. I an, it was way too funny to see you struggle just to catch them.]
"..." After hearing the answer, I was left speechless. In that mont, I wished to hit him; effectively, I tried to do so.
[What are you trying to do with that sphere of darkness?!]
"Ah, nothing special, just a quick experint."
[Sorry, sorry, I was joking. Those insects are useful for their skills!]
"I hope for you it is worth it!"
[...!]
And just like this, I activated [Sin Of Gluttony] on them both, and yes, it was worth the effort.
[Due to the predation, you acquired the following skills:
[Rot Attack: Lv2] [Paralyzing Attack: Lv4] [Corroding Attack: Lv5]
"Wooow, those are quite the useful skills."
[I told you.]
"Ok, I'll forgive you for the joke."
[Thank you.]
"All right, let's go and search for those insects again!"
[Really?!]
"Yes, I want to max the skills out and also gain so resistance to them if the [Rot Attack] is similar to the one I know.
It will be better if I gain the [Rot Immunity] skill, and maybe if we find other useful skills, it will also be great."
[Ok, let go then.]
Just like this, I exterminated and devoured all the insects in the trap; needless to say, I leveled up quite a lot and gained a lot of skills.
As I walked through the hallway, I noticed that in this dungeon there were no monsters.
I and [Global Wisdom] found this quite suspicious, so I activated my [Abyssal Shadow Body].
to increase my stealth efficiency and keep going forward.
After walking for around an hour, we were in front of another door.
"Hey, [Global Wisdom], can you tell what is going on in this place and why there is another door?"
[I think you're asking to the wrong person.]
The door in front of was different from the one at the entrance; this one was completely covered in spiderwebs.
[I think maybe we found from where that Venomous Blood Spider co from!]
"You think so too? Eh." I was kind of anxious about what was behind the door.
I activated all my stealth-related skills and perception skills; I took a deep breath, and once I was ready, I opened the door.
What greeted was a hallway full of webs; I could not move if not by breaking them.
But in the mont I tried to break it, [Global Wisdom] stopped from doing so.
[If you break it, you'll just alert the spiders.]
"You're right..."
[And there is no guarantee you'll not get trapped on it instead of breaking it.]
"True, then what do we do now?"
I said while checking my status.
"Will [Abyssal Shadow Imrsion] work?"
[I'm not sure, after all after it evolved you did not use it for this propose.]
The reason why [Global Wisdom] was worried about this skill was because after it evolved, I could not fully control it like before.
When I activated it, it would randomly turn one of my body parts into shadow, and when I try to hide into my shadow, I could maintain it for a little ti before getting ejected out.
"I understand your concern, and I don't have anything to say against it, but we must keep moving forward."
"We never know; maybe the weapon is here."
[...You got a point.]
"Ok then, here I go!"
And just like this, I activate the skill.
At first my whole body was turned into a shadow, and till there everything was going as planned.
The past few days of training were showing their results, but now cos the difficult part: to imrse myself in my shadow.
The problem here was I didn't know how long I would last, but because I didn't have the ti to figure it out, I just went for it.
After imrsing myself in the shadow, I started to walk through the hallway.
It was like walking in a castle hallway for how big it is, but due to the amount of webs, it looked more creepy than anything.
After walking for a while, I started feeling uneasy, like sobody was looking at .
[What is wrong?]
"Eh!? N...Nothing."
Since [Global Wisdom] didn't notice anything, I thought it was just my imagination and tried to ignore it, but I didn't last long before the anxiety didn't allow to go any further.
[What's going on?]
"Hey [Global Wisdom], it is only , but is my [Fear Immunity] not working properly?"
[It is just your imagination; the skill is working properly.]
"Then why am I feeling scared?"
[There are a lot of reasons for a resistance skill malfunction; the most common is the status abnormality be of a higher level of the skill, but in your case it may be caused by a trauma.]
"Well, I'm literally inside the last trauma, but do those traumas also cause hallucinations?"
[!?...Eh?]
"Eh?...What? It has been a while that I have kept on seeing red eyes in the distance that keep on following ! It's just so creepy."
I complained while trembling in fear. If this was just my mind reacting to a trauma, I'd be scared but not that much.
[WAIT...WHAT? Where are those red eyes!?]
[Global Wisdom] started panicking; I started sweating cold while indicating where the eyes are.
Once he saw what those eyes really were, [Global Wisdom] lost his composure; he was agitated like I had never seen him before.
[SHIT!!!...RUN!!] He shouted out of nowhere, causing to almost lose control of the [Abyssal Shadow Imrsion] skill.
"What the..."
[LATER THE EXPLANATION; GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.]
I started running back to the doors, but out of nowhere, spider threads started coming my way.
"What is..."
[Don't turn around and run faster!]
Before I could even finish talking, [Global Wisdom] just told to go faster.
I kept on running while [Global Wisdom] told where to go, so I was able to avoid the constant threat coming at .
"...We're almost there!"
I said as I saw the doors, but to my surprise, sothing strange was happening even there; all the webs on the walls started moving and tried to catch , even if I was still moving within my shadow; I was barely able to escape them.
Those webs were not normal.
After barely escaping from the hallway, I asked [Global Wisdom] to explain what was going on.
"So, do you want to tell what that was?" I said while gasping for air.
[That was the spider queen.]
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