novellaaa Chapter 34 I burned it all for you
Chapter 34 I burned it all for you
The battle ended in three seconds.
Rom snapped his fingers skillfully, and a ball of firelight ignited at his fingertips once again.
By the light of the fire, Jack peered out.
In a distant corner, a huge black shadow was curled up in a ball.
Several large spider legs, neatly severed, were scattered around. Half of the demon spider's head had been cleanly and neatly sliced off by the wind blades, splattering black liquid all over the ground.
Those green compound eyes were still staring intently at them, but the monster's body was no longer moving.
"That's amazing! They took down a second-tier magical beast so quickly! No wonder they're the boss!"
Jack cheered excitedly, all his fear gone.
"I'll go and dig out the magic crystal for you!"
As he spoke, he drew his short dagger and stepped forward.
"etc."
Rom suddenly shouted and grabbed Jack by the back of his collar.
He stared at the motionless corpse, raised his right hand again, and unleashed two more wind blades without hesitation.
"Pfft! Pfft!"
Two wind blades precisely crossed and slashed at the junction of the spider's massive abdomen and chest, cutting the huge corpse into several pieces of flesh.
Just as its body was completely shredded, the spider's mangled remains, which had been "dead" before, suddenly twitched violently, and its massive legs swung wildly a few more times.
Then, the spider curled up completely into a ball, and after spitting out a few streams of slime from its half-broken head, it became completely still.
It was cut into several pieces; this time, it was as dead as could be.
"He was just pretending to be dead?!"
Jack's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
If he had rashly gone up to dig for the magic crystal, he would definitely have had his head bitten off by this beast in its death throes.
"Boss, you're so thoughtful... I thought it was definitely dead since its head was chopped off in half..."
Jack wiped the sweat from his brow, still shaken.
Rom put away his gesture and calmly explained:
"Have you forgotten what the guild's Warcraft Compendium says? Insect-type monsters are different from ordinary monsters; their weakness isn't necessarily in their heads."
Even after decapitation, their torsos retain the ability to deliver a deadly counterattack.
Jack couldn't help but feel a wave of fear.
I was too impulsive. The dangers of the wild are indeed far greater than what we learn in academy.
Jack cautiously stepped forward, enduring the stench, and used his dagger to cut open his abdomen, preparing to search for the magic crystal.
Rom, holding a fireball, stood aside observing the corpse of the demonic spider.
Rom frowned slightly as he watched Jack rummage through the spider's abdomen, which had been completely ripped open by the wind blades.
Not right.
As a second-tier magical beast, this cave spider was enormous, but its abdominal cavity... was incredibly shriveled and hollow.
It's as if something is missing.
Romé decided to move closer to get a better look.
Suddenly, a crisp "crack" sound came from under my feet, as if I had stepped on something and crushed it.
He moved his feet aside and shone the torch on the spot.
On the ground, there was a semi-transparent gray shell.
"Could this be it?"
Romü swept the firelight around and his heart skipped a beat.
In this dark corner of the mine, hundreds or even thousands of these gray empty shells were piled up densely.
"Isn't it because I'm starving!"
Luo Mu instantly realized what was happening and felt a chill run down his spine.
This burrowing spider is female! Its abdomen is empty because it has laid eggs!
"Haha! Boss, I touched it!"
Jack, who was rummaging through the monster's corpse, suddenly shouted excitedly.
"Another mid-grade magic crystal! Shall we... uh?"
Jack's cheers abruptly stopped.
Both of them heard a faint rustling sound coming from the darkness all around them.
Even in the passageway behind them where they came from, there were the same ones.
The sound was initially weak, but it grew louder and louder, and in the blink of an eye it became as dense as a tide.
Jack turned his head stiffly and raised the torch in his hand.
At the edge of the firelight, countless small eyes glowing with an eerie green light appeared in the darkness, staring at them from all directions.
A swarm of small burrowing spiders.
Moreover, their numbers were overwhelming, completely surrounding them.
"Boss...boss!"
Jack jumped in fright and quickly stood next to Rom.
"How come there are so many demon spiders?! Didn't they say there was only one? That mayor lied to us!"
Although these little spiders are not as big as the mother spider, each one is about the size of a hunting dog.
Even if they take a bite from each of them, they can instantly reduce the two people to skeletons.
"Prepare to fight our way out!" Luo Mu shouted coldly.
"Wind Blade!" Jack quickly waved his staff, and several cyan wind blades whistled as they were flung into the spider swarm.
Although the wind blade instantly shredded more than a dozen small spiderlings, it was nothing compared to the countless spiderlings.
The other spiders, stepping over the corpses of their companions, continued their frenzied surge forward.
The two stood back to back, unleashing wind blades to block the spider swarm, while retreating back the way they had come.
Unfortunately, that passageway was also blocked by the demon spiders.
"No, boss! We can't get out!" Jack's voice was filled with despair as he looked at the approaching green eyes.
As Rom retreated, he felt the warm, sulfurous wind blowing from the depths of the mine, his mind racing.
"This kind of geothermal mine... has extremely poor ventilation, plus a large number of monsters gather and breathe... the concentration of swamp gas at the bottom must be very high."
Luo Mu glanced in the direction of the cave entrance.
"There's no other way... Although there's a risk of a landslide, it's still better than being eaten alive."
"Jack!" Rom shouted.
"Prepare the strongest wind shield! Cover us for five seconds!"
"Huh? But even the shield can't stop so many demonic spiders..."
"Shut up, just open it!"
Jack dared not disobey, gritted his teeth, and poured all his magic power into the staff.
With a whoosh, a solid cyan wind shield instantly formed, trapping the two of them upside down in the center like a sphere.
Just as the shield was formed, Romu faced the tsunami of attacking spiders and pushed them away with both hands.
[Invoke: Fire Wall 2.0]
Maximum power
【run!】
"boom--!"
Suddenly, a violent flame erupted out of nowhere, and a huge wall of fire instantly filled the entire mine.
The raging flames spread rapidly, engulfing all the demonic spiders within a radius of several dozen meters.
"Hiss!" The spiders screamed in agony as they were instantly burned to charcoal in the intense heat.
"Wow, boss! That solved it!"
Hiding inside the wind shield, Jack looked at the sea of fire before him and shouted excitedly, "We're safe!"
"Safety my ass! Lie down!"
Rom ignored the spiders completely. He smelled the increasingly strong sulfur odor in the air, then shoved Jack to the ground and made him lie face down at the bottom of the wind shield.
Before Jack could react, the out-of-control flames, like a snake, surged rapidly into the depths of the mine along some invisible gas at the top of the shaft.
The mine is about to be blown up.