Lana: "We are back in the darkness."
Alan: "As long as we don't run into these powerful beasts, then all is well."
Everyone walked through the darkness into the cave opening that was found behind the waterfall, which proved to be way deeper than they had initially thought.
Ti went by, and they did not know how long of a distance they walked. Inside the dark space where you can barely see your feet, they had to walk slowly and stay alert at all tis.
After all, the spider-type beasts love to assassinate their prey, attacking from the darkness and finishing the kill in one move.
Lana: "Alan, look, there's an opening."
Alan: "Hold your spear tightly, Nova. Stay alert. Tell us if you find anything nearby."
Carefully scouting the outside of the opening, they were surprised to find themselves in another huge open space.
Lana: "Just how high the ceiling of this cave is, I can only see darkness up there."
Alan: "Look over there; there's even a mountain here, unbelievable."
Looking at the few mountains that were lined up before them inside this huge opening that looked bizarre.
Nova: "Master, there are so many powerful beings around us; many of them Nova can't beat."
Alan's nerves tightened as he listened to Nova's reporting about their surroundings.
Alan: "How many are we talking about, Nova?"
Nova: "Thousands; almost all of them are spider species."
Lana: "Why don't we head back to the waterfalls? I think the lake is much safer than this huge place."
Alan: "That's where you are mistaken; those powerful beasts must have sensed our presence back there, so going back is not an option."
Lana: "What do we do now?"
Alan sank deep in thought as he was pondering their limited options, asking Nova to deliver them back to the entrance point of the secret realm, which was much safer than these deep areas.
But reaching that point does not an that they can get out, as they were practically teleported into the secret realm when they entered.
Or they can continue moving deeper, hoping that they will not be discovered by powerful beasts that lurk in every direction.
Alan: "It is a gamble, but we have no choice but to take it. We will continue moving forward to find a way to get out."
Having made up their minds, everyone moved carefully while Nova did her best using her talents to mask their presence.
...
Nova: "Master, a powerful spider beast that specializes in the dark elent found us."
Alan: "Let's hide behind that hill and wait for it. If we can ambush it, we will. If we can't, Nova, be ready to teleport this away."
Lana's face was pale as she held her breath hiding behind the scattered rocks on the hill with Alan, Nova, and Lucy.
A huge spider that was as tall as the hill itself ca crashing down from the dark ceiling of the cave.
With a terrifying aura wrapped around it like a mantle.
Na: [none]
Species: [dark Shadow spider]
Stage: [9th stage]
Potential: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Talents: [silk thread, shadow manipulation, shadowless movent, poisonous claw, size adjustnt, presence detection, silent whisper]
Description: [a dark shadow spider of the spider species with a high potential for evolution, faint as the silent killer and the assassin of the shadows, capable of finishing its prey with one move, adapted at manipulating the shadows, hiding in them, waiting for the right mont to go for the kill, an extrely patient and bloodthirsty enemy, hard to ta]
Evolution paths: [4]
Alan: "Shit, that thing is probably stronger than your father, Lana."
Lana, who felt the bloodthirsty presence of the shadow spider, could not even utter a single word.
Nova: "Master, we can't try an ambush. It definitely knows that we are here. I'm so sorry, Master, Nova can't win against it."
Alan: "What are you sorry about, Nova? We are facing a ninth-stage beast, and you are only at the fourth stage. If you were in the sa stage, you would probably have crushed this beast easily. I guess we have no choice; be ready to teleport us when I give you the signal, Nova."
Just before Alan could give the signal, the still shadow spider cunningly attacked the hell with its huge legs.
Lana: "Ahhhhhh."
Nova imdiately teleported them hundreds of ters away.
Alan watched the small hill flattened to the ground with a grave expression on his face.
Alan: "Nova, do it now, Tele…"
Before he even could finish the sentence, a pressure like no other ca descending on everything that was walking on the ground.
Alan has been pressured with terrifying auras multiple tis, even counting the woman in the forest or Florence from the black market. But compared to this pressure, it was nothing.
Lana passed out imdiately, while Alan's consciousness was giving up, but to his surprise, the shadow spider was also affected by the pressure.
Sadly enough for Alan, he did not have the ti to do anything as he passed out.
....
(??????): " wake u… wake up."
Alan opened his eyes as he listened to the voice telling him to wake up.
Suddenly he found himself on a body of water floating. He was feeling weird as if he was dreaming.
(??????): "You finally woke up. I was impressed at first that you managed to fight the pressure; you must have a firm will, but you are fragile and weak."
Alan: "Where am I? Who are you?"
(??????): "You walked all over my body, and you don't know who I am?"
Getting up dazed as he looked. He found himself talking to a young girl; out of habit, he activated his Eye of Ra.
Na: [??????]
Species: [?????????????]
Stage: [???????????????]
Alan sobered up imdiately as he watched the many question marks reflected when he looked at this girl.
(???????): "It is rude to prey on the privacy of others; didn't your mother teach you that?"
Alan's face stiffened as this was the first ti soone perceived his action of activating his talent.
Alan: "I am sorry. It was out of habit. May I know who you are and where I am?"
(???????): "I told you you walked all over my body; haven't you realized where the huge pressure ca from?"
Alan took a deep breath as he analyzed everything that happened before he found himself in this weird space.
The hills and the mountains, that weird shape, and these caves full of darkness, he analyzed everything trying to find an answer until he rembered the na of the secret real, the Jewel of the Spider.
Alan: "It can't be. You an those mountains are…."
(???????): "Exactly, you are thinking in the right direction."
Alan: "You an that they are part of your body."
(???????): "The mountains you saw earlier were the legs of my dead body."
The color on Alan's face changed as he rembered the huge mountains, which turned out to be nothing more than legs for this beast.
Alan: "The pressure that we felt earlier, that was coming from your body. Wait, did you say your dead body?"
(??????): "The pressure you felt is a remnant that is leaked from my dead body, and yes, I say dead body, because I died long ago; you are talking to a remnant of my soul."
Alan could not fathom how colossal the existence of such beasts was, what kind of terrifying power it had, but what terrified him more is that such gigantic and powerful beasts are actually dead.
Alan, taking a deep breath, asked politely.
Alan: "May I ask why the senior brought here?"
(???????): It has been a long ti since I died, and you and that female, together with your beasts, were the first I have ever seen in a long, long ti.
Alan: "Senior, what about the spider beasts inside this secret realm?"
(??????): "They can be called my descendants, as they were born from my remains, but they were born here inside the secret realm and have never seen the outside world, so you are the first visitors that we have had."
Alan: "Can I ask what senior intentions are for us?"
(??????): "Nothing complicated; I just want to see the intruders who ca here following the trap I have set."
Alan turned pale as he completely understood the gravity of the situation he found himself in. The mont she ntioned a trap, he could not help but curse his luck.
Alan: "So we are lured inside; I guess you need so food for your descendants."
A smile could not help but form on his face as he looked straight at the young girl in front of him.
(???????): "I do have a question for you, human: Do you want to live or do you want to die?"
Alan: "I have tasted death, and it's not delicious, so of course I want to live, senior."
The girl looked at Alan with a weird expression on her face as she saw him smiling.
(??????): "You are one weird individual, aren't you? It is simple: just kill the female companion you have, and I will let you out."
Alan's face darkened as he looked straight into the eyes of the young girl who looked dead serious.
Alan: "Then I guess I can only taste death again. Sorry, senior, but I can't do that."
(???????): "But it is illogical of you; as if you did not choose to kill her, you both will die anyway."
Alan: "Still, I will not be a plaything for you. I kill who I want to kill, not because soone else tells to, so senior, it was an honor eting you. Go ahead and do your thing."
Suddenly there was a terrifying pressure grabbing on Alan's soul, threatening to crush it. It was the first ti that Alan felt such crushing pain that cannot be described by words.
Alan: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."
(???????): "Do you feel like changing your mind?"
Alan did not answer and kept screaming in a withering pain.
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