『17』

After resting for about 10 minutes, I got back up and started walking towards one of the holes.

Entering it, I couldn't help but cringe a little, there were a few dead corpses here that looked like it had been bitten off or rotted. There were four different pathways I could take, knowing me, I took the left where nothing is right.

And nothing truly was right, dead corpses of all kinds of animals were here. Just how long has the centipede stayed? There were a larger amount of magicules here than the other paths, that was probably why there were so many corpses.

As I started walking deeper, I couldn't help but didn't think about the corpses. There were dogs, cats, monsters, and human corpses. All of them had a limb torn out or their bones looked like they were crushed together.

Perhaps it will be the monster I'll be facing next.

I was glad that I didn't have to walk in this tunnel without night vision, I would've never entered if it was like this. Though how did the monsters, animals, and humans get her.

Were there monsters here that could pick humans from the bridge? But that was impossible, unless this cave is already known by the higher ranking people but it's kept a secret.

Somehow, I felt like I figured out something that I shouldn't have.

Oh well, I do want to face some stronger opponents. These monsters aren't allowing me to go all out.

I'd say I've been walking for about 15 minutes with the internal clock I had in my head, though it does feel like I've been getting closer.

And I was right, what I entered was a large cave, with a large amount of magicules, and a bunch of magic ores. What was more intriguing was that it looked somewhat similar to the Veldora cave, there were a few magisteel ores.

Looking above, there were sticky threads hanging from the ceilings to the pillars. I guess it was from the spiders, the human's limbs were crushed by the threads tying the person up.

That's a horrible way to die, must've hurt.

In the corner of the large cave, a large creature with 8 eyes, 8 legs, with a black and yellow color was watching me. Memories came over me again, it had 2 type of threads.

Sticky thread for trapping enemies and prevent them from moving, the other one is steel threads used to defend against enemy attacks or to make a nest.

Speaking of nests, there was one behind the black spider.

The spider and I stared at each other for a moment before I decided to make the first move.

I ran towards it and a flash of blue lightning appeared is what I thought would happen but instead, I nearly face planted onto the ground if not for my quick reflexes and stabbed my katana to the ground.

Looking over at what I tripped over, it was a string of sticky thread. It sure was sticky, I wouldn't get off my foot no matter how hard I tried.

THUD!

Looking over, the spider had landed onto the ground and was making it's way towards me.

"Not letting me recover eh? Well too bad~"

I cut off the sticky thread from my foot and jumped back.

It made a weird noise and 3 more spiders came out, seriously how much spiders are there going to be? Threads from all sorts of directions came at me but one of them were a net made of webs. I ran towards the netted one and cut it in half like butter, it wasn't even like steel when it met my blade.

ZTTT!

Sparks appeared and a trail of blue lightning went through the first spider, it's body fell apart a second after I stood up. Not bad for a war up I guess, though I don't think I'll able to go all out.

More threads came my way and I jumped into the air but that was a mistake, another thread came my way but I twisted my body to dodge it. Thank god for acrobatics, if not for that it might've gotten me. By the time I landed back into the ground, three nets made of threads were coming at me.

I swung my sword in an infinity symbol and the steel threads fell to the ground in multiple pieces. I appeared in front of the second spider, before it could even do anything, it's head was already pierced.

A web of threads came my way and I decided to test out my physical strength a bit. I used my katana as a handle and threw it to use it's body to shield me from the web coming my way.

There were two left, I ran to the one to the left since it looked a bit smaller than the other 3 spiders. So far, I've only seen it use one type of thread, sticky thread, I guess it's level wasn't that high.

Sticky threads came my way but they were too slow, although the steel threads shot by the other spider tried to shield it, I cut the spider's head in half along with the spider.

The last spider let out a cry, I could only hope it wasn't calling for help. I guess it was probably it's parent and the last spider was it's child.

"My bad, I guess it was too weak to die a slow death so I gave it a quick one."

The spider rushed at me without using it's threads, it was blinded by anger and sadness.

ZZTTZZ!

A trail of blue lightning appeared,

SHING!

With my speed, I cut it's body in half without it even realizing,

*click*

I sheathed my katana as I heard it's body cut in half and drop to the ground with a thud.

Suddenly, noises came from the nest.

Over a hundred small spiders started crawling towards me, I could only groan in frustration.

This was going to be one hell of an annoying battle...