Chapter 9

We begin our setup for the next patrol as Cody still has that suspicious look at me constantly as I hold up my sword along with the others as we are inside many different caverns and holes around as soon the next spider patrol is coming over their legs beating onto the ground as they start to walk by, as we ready our given swords and throw them toward the direction of one of the spiders and hurry back to hide within the caverns and wait

one minute, we hear screeching as a spider stomping around in anger as another screech is heard but more painful and loud

two minutes we start hearing its footsteps being louder as it goes around searching through the many caverns its now up to luck for those too close, as the other ones' screeches are getting weaker by the second

four minutes, I could hear it near as its searching through the caverns, though whether it was because I was lucky or they weren't, I couldn't tell

ten minutes the thing is now moving away, as for the other one all we can hear is its screeching moans it's almost gone but we must continue to wait just in case

fifteen minutes it is now completely silent as I go out of the cavern I Hid in to see that one of the spiders basically popped its body silent and unmoving, it's acid blood seemingly, is spattered all around though the dirt soaked up most of it, as I look over to see its eyes are glazed over as I pick up a sword that missed and not covered in acid from pop

"hey, guys! we got it !"

I say in a bit of a shout nobody moving from their spots

"guys?"

I look back at the spider that is still dead as I got their worries

"Don't worry! I'll make sure it's actually down!"

as I raise the sword and slice down at the head As I no longer feel the stare of suspicion as it cuts into it as I just remembered these things have acid in their insides as I jump back only for not much of any splash as I figured out that since it already popped it doesn't have enough pressure to do such a splash in the first place as soon others come out of their places to also take a look at the thing

so after the first few like the guy, Cody, and the two people with muscles, being later followed by the skinny guys, Brownie along with the rest as we can all tell that most of the body is covered in acid and not many places to pull from other than parts on the legs and since most of the spider's weight is on the ground even with the lack of grip we can drag it

"it would be much easier with a flare"

I grumble a bit as I get a leg as the others have already readied to do this, we'll mostly the muscle couple and the thin guys

"I doubt that would be a good idea as the spider nest is still in the distance and the next spider patrol might be coming so it might-"

"got it, Cody, I got it"

as Cody and Brownie, along with whatever others can hold onto a piece that isn't in acid as we begin to pull it toward the moving city as another platform other than the elevator goes down with a sign clearly saying "put spider here" with yellow lettering

"well, at least the platform is nice right?"

muttered Brownie as we start to pull the corpse onto the platform which thankfully is pretty on the ground so not much lifting is needed to get it on there, even with most of its weight gone its still very heavy from the exoskeleton and muscle tissue

as when it's on we hold up the few swords with enough of their body not covered in acid to hold and turn them into the elevators compartment that opened in response

as we all start to squeeze into the elevator Cody whispers to me

"I have a question jake"

"what is it ?"

as Cody was about to say something but stops as the elevator is now full again

"nevermind, let's talk later"

as they look away and the elevator begins to rise as I look over to Brownie

"How you think it went Brownie? though it wasn't perfect we got it!"

"you sound, strangely used to it? I still remember the sight of it"

as they shiver a moment and I get a weird idea as the elevator soon traverses all that to back at Wolf's building we all exit the elevator yet again, seeing the lady at the desk as she waves to greet us

"Hello everyone! thank you for completing this mission! thanks to this you all get fifteen points each!"

as soon Cody speaks to me with a questioning tone as they look over to me with a Mattar of fact tone

"you should buy some gear, otherwise anytime a creature comes the acid can always come through you"

as soon as Brownie also speaks up as the people start to squeeze out of the elevator as she begins to look over at me as well

"but be sure to take it off other than missions since your, well uncomfortable with the entire concept after all, but at least at the missions ok?"

the thought of it makes me cautious as the armor from the shop probably came straight from the leaders that control this whole city, no, most definitely as I look over to the clerk

as I take a gulp of my saliva and walk over to the Clerk who looks right over to me

"is there anything that you wish to ask!"

they say with their smile

"umm, I would like some, armor "

"well that's perfect we got leggings, torso, and arms plus a helmet!"

"o-okay I'll get the leggings wait how many points do I have?"

"Ah you don't know?, don't worry I can just look at your record! so let's look through it shall we!"

as the clerk looks over at the desk as they pull out some papers and look through them

"Ah, your one of those that did every quest so far, as you helped in the collection of acid, in the finding of a base area, and of today's for hunting an acid spider!"

"so right now you have thirty-five points meaning you can buy one armor!"

"Okay then the leggings "

I say so as even if I die from the torso and head if I get hit in the legs I would be unable to run and simply watch, I rather not have that kind of end, to say the least

as soon my points decrease to fifteen as the clerk pulls out a pair of legging for me to wear with a second look at the armor it seems white and smooth with a metallic sheen, and strangely thin as I hold it and then look over to the clerk

"so, I'm not one to wear armor all the time so, any place I can store this? "

as the clerk nods with their constant smile seemingly bouncing up at the question

"Of course! it's not like you would be the only one with such a question! why to look above you! man storage rooms for all your needs floors high!"

while it seems to make sense the issue is the floors look more like rooms than storage

"so which storage unit do I put it in?"

"Since you are one of the first people to ask this you get room two on the second floor!"

as they pull out and give me the keys to the room from the desk

the keys were small and can fit in my hand as a fist easily as they are attached by a simple key ring with 3 of them all looking identical as I look up at the clerk

"copies?"

"Indeed! people can be forgetfulness you know!"

"Right"

as I hold up the keys and bring along my leggings up the stairs as I can already tell if the place gets more popular the rest probably won't have a good time

I soon make it to my door and put one of the small keys into it and turn it as the door opens showing an empty room it does look clean and high-end even though it's said to be a. storage room

as I soon place my legging armor at a corner near the door take off one of the keys and bring it with me putting it in the pocket without a hole in it just a small reminder

as I throw the other keys into a corner of the room I open the door again leave and lock it, ready to pick up the leggings tomorrow

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I walk over to the 3rd floor where I can see a farm getting set up, leaders probably the only reason we even have this

as I begin to walk around I see the small families working all at the farms as for the water I see an open portal that has a water flow into the system as I walk past people seeing children with new clothes yet not a hair to be seen on any of them like cancer patients

"she is at it again"

as I walk past them and into Slimers workshop I see piles of hair some put into a mechanism making it into strands that are then used to work the whole machine, Slimer operating it as I see two golden chained together Sickles nearby

as I lean to peak them up Slimer speaks

"Hello Wolf, I do hope you don't have any ideas"

as Slimers head turns with their wide and empty smile and eyes looking toward me

"Right"

as I move away from the golden weapon and look at her

"continuing your human sheep thing huh?"

"where else will I get the material, yours messes with the machinery, and the others don't have that"

"t-rue, so you wanted to ask me something?"

"Oh, very much so, I just want you to add something, I even got our leader to agree to it besides this mission thing is still new to them"