“Dismantling the traps is impossible?”
“Yeah. This whole passage is marked with traps… this place is probably not originally a normal path, so it's a passage connected separately. By the look of it, it seems like we chose the wrong direction ever since the boulder came rolling.”
“…”
Rumi's skin turned pale. Still, before she gave up she asked hopefully, “Then what's the unlucky news? Isn't there nothing worse than this?”
“Yeah. Right now that the one who is coming to where we are, that the sole person who can help us… is Weed hyung.”
“…”
The party members who sank into despair, hopelessness, frustration, and dejection!
They could easily feel Nide's drooping meaning from his tone.
'It ends here.'
It seemed like they'd somehow be going back with the dungeon exploration assignment as a failure. The points for finding an undiscovered dungeon would probably be high, but if they all died in the middle of it, it would become a total failure in the end.
The assignment in itself was regretful, but the level or skill proficiency they would lose from dying could be nothing but extremely upsetting.
Then Hegel strode in with a detached step. After resting quietly, his exhausted stamina had been restored.
“What're you all doing. Are you just going to sit here quietly and die?”
“Hegel! It might be dangerous.”
“We don't have the freedom of choice anyways. Then we'll press on. And it's a dungeon where weak monsters like Kramanoims come out… even if you say it's dangerous, it's probably not that bad.”
Hegel's remark was strangely persuasive.
Even if they were still standing here, they would move forward. If they were going to die all the same, be it this way or that, they would not die standing still.
Although it was a Swordsman-like action, it was before he had even taken just a few steps.
“Hegel!”
“What?”
Hegel didn't turn around to look and was only walking forward.
The party members could see the spiders clinging to Hegel's back and shoulders. They were spiders the size of fists that furtively crawled over the walls, floor, and ceiling. Because of the armor he had equipped, only the person involved couldn't feel them.
“Umm, you're in danger right now.”
“What is it.”
“On your armour…..”
“Is something there?”
By the time Hegel turned around to look, the spiders had already spewed silk and had tightly encased his whole body in it.
His body was completely wrapped up so he couldn't even swing his weapon.
The so-called airtight seal!
Every time he squirmed, trying to escape, the spider silk didn't break and became more and more tight instead.
“Ah!”
A scream burst out of Hegel's mouth. His Health didn't fall by a lot because he was wearing good armor, but no matter how much strength he used, he couldn't move an inch in the spider silk.
All the other party members were also tightly tied up by the spider silk that fell from the ceiling, wall, floor, and behind them.
The entire passage was filled with spiders, so there wasn't even a place to escape to.
Even though Ranger Twitter's arrows got in the way of the spiders' approach, it wasn't that much of a help, and even Thief Nide's dagger only managed to cut a few spider silk strands.
“Kruuung!.”
A Demonic Spirit that resembled a huge spider appeared from the wall of the passage.
Elfin Queen Spider.
The boss level Demonic Spirit leisurely watched over the dying party members.
“Oh no. Looks like we're dying just like this.”
“It was still a fun exploration.”
It was a point of comfort that at least they could still have a conversation since only their mouths weren't covered by spider silk.
Weed was wandering the forest of dried up trees and was searching for the dungeon's entrance.
The darkness had fallen deeply, and the forest gave off a gloomy spirit.
“Where the heck is the entrance supposed to be.”
If he were a Thief or an Adventurer, he could follow them just by looking at the preceding party's footsteps. However, it wasn't just that Weed didn't have those kinds of tracking skills, but because he had flown in with the outstretched Wings of Light to the middle of the forest of dried trees, he was struggling even more.
Hunnng hunng.
He heard the rough sound of breathing from a living thing somewhere, and the chirping of grasshoppers died away.
The desolate and lifeless forest!
Something was thudding, charging towards him from between the trees.
“D-I-E, IN-TRU-DER!”
Growlers!
Monsters holding axes came rushing at him.
A group of a hundred. It was the advent of a Growler charge.
Instead of running away, Weed drew and raised his sword.
“These experience points and items! Come quickly!”
It was just that he welcomed the appearance of an enemy because he hadn't hunted in awhile.
“Call Death Knight!”
With smoke, even Death Knight Van Hawk appeared.
“Master!”
Van Hawk quickly recognized the sight of Weed. Even though he was in the form of a Dwarf, he had seen Weed as an Orc in the past, so he wasn't surprised. They weren't simply in a relationship of training together for one or two days, either.
“They're enemies. Fight.”
“I understand. Master!”
Van Hawk turned round and swung his sword. The earth was turned over, and Growlers were pushed and fell over.
When Van Hawk was fighting with group of savage Growlers, the rest of them made a detour and made Weed their target.
“Moonlight Sculpting Blade.”
From within the forest of dried up trees, Weed scattered beams of light as he ran forward. He grazed past the trees at a rapid speed.
The dried up trees became obstacles, so the number of opportunities the Growlers chasing after him had to attack were limited.
“Intruder!”
“I'll chew and eat you alive.”
Two Growlers leapt forward as if to intercept him.
The axe strike overflowing with energy! It was a reckless act to take the attack charged with all the Growler's weight head on.
“Seven Celestial Footsteps!”
Weed's body left an afterimage as it moved brilliantly.
A skill that could perfectly ignore the law of inertia! A skill that could move you in a completely different direction even at full pelt!
When he took the first step, his whole body faced backwards. In the next step, he moved to the right. After completely evading the Growler's attack, he swung the sword as if to cut the enemy entirely.
It had been a really long time since he'd fought, but that much wasn't a problem.
Pow pow pow!
The rampaging cut that pursued the intercepting Growlers!
When he had hunted two of the Growlers, Van Hawk had already cleared away at least five enemies. Van Hawk stood in place and was mowing down Growlers that rushed at him like moths to a flame.
“Seven Celestial Footsteps!”
Weed activated the skill without reserve. Quick skill use to attack the Growler's openings, a useful skill even in the moments when he was picking up japtem. Since his Mana and Stamina were unparalleled, there was no hesitation in skill use.
At that moment, a whisper from Rumi was relayed to him.
— Weed-oppa.
— Yeah, what is it?
The calm voice even while crazily hunting and collecting japtem!
It was illegal to speak on the phone while driving. That was because it diverted attention and increased the probability of an accident.
Since whispering while fighting was incomparably dangerous in Royal Road as well, most people knew to restrain themselves.