If there is any place for us to get in trouble here on the second floor, then there is no place better for it than the Trap Room. Just imagine it: were brimming with confidence, thinking that everything is going to be fine as long as we can one-shot everything with Durandal and avoid the attacks coming our way and then BAM and were getting jumped by so many enemies that all our advantages can just go fuck themselves. That is also why I think that being wary of it is not a bad thing to do at all.
[In the first place, stumbling upon the Trap Room is already a pretty rare occurance. Its that kind of luck that you just dont see everyday.] [Can you really call that being lucky though?] [Well, I guess normally you would call that unlucky, but since youre here, master, then we will be able to take care of all the monsters in no ti! We might get surrounded if were not careful, but isnt that why we worked so hard on obtaining the Monk Job for ourselves? So that we could use Healing Skills in the hour of need? That way, we will fight lots of monsters, waste them with one or two attacks and obtain a lot of their Drop Items. Thats why I said we are being lucky.] [Y-Yeah.]
I know what she wa trying to say, but I still find that idea to be rather strange, but of course Im not going to say that out loud.
Going beyond the would-be Trap Room, we happened upon another Needlewood-Green Caterpillar pair. Without even thinking about it, I charged at the Needlewood and slashed it with Durandal. Now that one nuisance is taken care of, I can focus on supporting Roxanne by attacking the Green Caterpillar from the back if the need for that arises. For now though, I can just stay on the sidelines and watch how its going to turn out.
As expected, Roxanne was avoiding Green Caterpillars attempts at harming her without much difficulty. Whats more, she does so by only tilting her body ever so slightly to the sides, dodging the attacks at the last possible mont without making any wasteful or unnecessary movents. After witnessing so many of her fights, I developed an absolute trust in her ability to avoid attacks, and I am confident that she can handle every normal attack thrown her way, probably as much as she must be. When the Green Caterpillar Roxanne was fighting missed its Rush attack and briefly stopped moving, that was a cue for to whack it with Durandal from the side, so I guess that makes it another ti where I have basically defeated all of the enemies by myself, and that makes feel kinda bad about myself. But just a little bit.
The next group Roxanne guided us towards consisted of two Green Caterpillars. As per the usual routine, I ran up to the nearest enemy and promptly dispatched it with one strike. But just as I was about to turn around to how Roxanne was doing
[Look out, master! Sothings coming!]
She shouted a warning towards .
Looking closely at the second Green Caterpillar, it had an orange magic circle glowing under its body. I was too far to interrupt it in ti, so it had all the ti it needed to finish casting whatever it was that it was trying to cast, and when the circle disappeared, it opened its ugly mouth wide and spat out sothing.
Its a thread.
Much like with that one other attack that we saw earlier, Green Caterpillar threw webbings from its mouth, only this ti, the threads it spat looked a lot stickier and covered both more distance and had a much bigger radius, flying widely in all directions. Such a move was definitely more befitting of a spider rather than a caterpillar, but now is not the ti to be worrying about such technicalities!
Sensing the danger behind it, Roxanne made a hasty retreat to put as much distance between herself and the flying wave of webbing as possible. I tried to slash it away with Durandal, but there was too much of it, so I ended up covered with the sticky stuff. The feeling was every bit as creepy as I expected, and to top it off, the web that landed on seed to restrict the movents of my arms and legs, as if a sticky tape was wrapped all around my body. I writhed and trashed about, but no matter how hard I tried, the web just didnt want to co off!
anwhile, the Green Caterpillar that spat all over turned its attention away from Roxanne and started to move towards . Damn it! Does it prioritize the targets that it managed to immobilize with its web attack?! Roxanne hurriedly ran towards with the aim of drawing its attention away from with her Scimitar, but she will not make it in ti.
If the Green Caterpillars intent was to slowly devour , then I guess it will try to do so by biting into , in which case I should be able to endure a few bites, since with my current levels the damage I would take from a Lv.2 monster should not be all that big, but if at all possible, I would like to avoid being chowed down on altogether. So how about if I try to do THIS?!!
The web bound my legs below the knees, so thankfully I was able to bend them and move them just enough to kick the Green Caterpillar in its ugly mug just as it entered my lee range. Following up on that, I threw my bound hand, which were still gripping Durandals hilt tightly, into the air, allowing the gravity to do its thing for . As a result, Durandals blade was driven into the Green Caterpillars back as if it was made out of jelly, splitting it almost in half, after which it just rolled onto the floor, green blood spilling out of the fatal wound I inflicted.
Not gonna lie, that was a closer one than I would have liked. I wonder if the webby restraints had no negative effect on my attack power, or they did, but it was so miniscule that I was still able to defeat the Green Caterpillar in a single blow despite being under their influence?
The Green Caterpillar disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving its usual Drop Item, its thread, behind. At the sa ti, the threads that were restraining my movents also disappeared.
Note to self: these assholes have not one, but two web attacks. Avoid at all costs.
It really does look that they possess such an ability. Im sorry, master. Due to my incompetence you found yourself in a position where the enemy could easily target you
Its fine, dont beat yourself up over it. There was nothing you could do about it, and besides, its also my fault for letting my guard down around them too much, so it is as much my L as it is yours. One saving grace here is that as long as you defeat the monster that use the Skill, then the threads disappear. If it wasnt for that, then I guess you can say that we would have been in a pretty sticky situation.
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Also, if we just watch the Green caterpillars more closely from now on, we should be able to easily avoid their attacks and stop them from casting that Skill.
But the one who got caught in it was just . Roxanne managed to avoid it without any difficulties.
So from now on, lets defeat the Green Caterpillars every ti we happen upon one, okay?
Yes, no objections here!
Green Caterpillar can use the Skill that makes them spit sticky threads that seal the movents of whover it touches. Still, weve been around the second floor for quite a while now and that was the first ti I saw one of them actually use that Skill, so it has to an that they do not use it all that often. If we just focus on dealing with them first. The only potential problem can happen once they start appearing I large numbers, like, for instance, in yes, thats right, you guessed it, the Trap Room like the one on the first floor. If an entire rooms worth of them were to use their sticky threads at all ti, we definitely wouldnt be able to dodge them all or kill each and every one that used them.
And then there is also the other web attack that will slow you down when it hits you. My bigger concern with it is that if we get hit with enough of those, we might end up becoming so slow that the fight might be grinded into a complete halt, and we will be opened for more thread attacks that will slow us down even more, Durandals HP Absorption included.
That, Ill have you know, would suck so serious scrotum.
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