Chapter 128 Volume III – Chapter 49: Smart but Stupid Spiders

“Aid-”

My eyes slowly widened at first at the sound I heard. And when I focused on what the half-heard whispered voice was trying to say, this time I understood it completely.

“Aiden, if you’re awake, don’t move.”

Don’t move…? What don’t move?

“Al… Alex?”

“There’s something at the entrance to the cave. Sorry, ‘somethings’. They’ve even infiltrated the darkness around us a bit.”

“Oh…”

The cave we chose to rest in was a bit big and there were many small rocks around it. So it was not difficult for someone to sneak in.

From the moment I thought about it, I didn’t move a muscle in my body. I even closed my eyes again, but I kept my hand close to where my sword was.

“How many are there?”

“I’m not sure, but minimum ten, maximum twenty.”

There are quite a lot of them…

“They must not be very big to have infiltrated the cave. Most likely apins, but let’s be careful. I’ll count down from three, then send a wind blade toward what I think is a creature. If we’re lucky, I’ll take out two. Then we fight. Your crossbow and needles are within your reach, right?”

“I need to reach around my waist for my needles. My crossbow is closed on my arm, but it won’t take long to open it.”

I took a deep breath and slowly reached my hand under the duvet towards the entrance of the cave.

“Good, now wait for my move.”

As Alex stood at the ready waiting for me, I called out to my mind.

‘Sith, wake up. I need you.’

I heard a slight yawn echoing in my mind first, and then Sith’s tiny body appeared in front of me. He looked sleepy, but when he looked around a little and looked at my face, his sleepiness was quickly replaced by surprise.

‘I know it’s sudden, but we’re surrounded, I need your help.’

Sith continued to look at me with the same confusion. He turned his head and looked around us. Then he sighed and began to dazzle his eyes.

‘I’m sorry, but we need to move fast. Can you see where they are and help me aim?’

Sith nodded quickly, even if he was sleepy. Then he flew past me into the darkness of the cave. After moving a little from where he was, he suddenly stopped.

‘These are spiders. And they’re quite big, almost the size of cats.’

Spiders…

There is only one type of spider that size in this dungeon and they are not nice creatures. They’re too smart for their own good.

‘How many are there? Can you tell me where they are?’

Sith quickly began to circle around us. Meanwhile, he counted every spider he saw, pointing to them with his finger.

‘Two… four… seven… thirteen… seventeen… There are seventeen of them, but I saw one more heading outward, and they look like they’re about to attack, be quick.’

It must have gone out to call its friends… but seventeen, huh…

‘All right, come back and help me. I will send two wind blades, they are not close to each other.’

Sith quickly turned to me. He started directing my mana with me. Then I pointed the fingers of my right hand toward one of the spiders and the fingers of my left hand toward the other one.

Of course, I did all this secretly from under the covers.

“Here we go, Alex.”

Alex did not answer but nodded slightly, afraid that the spiders might hear him.

“Three.”

He raised his arm slightly and positioned himself so that he could activate the mini crossbow resting closed on his wrist.

“Two.”

Meanwhile, he slowly moved his other hand to his waist and stood at the ready to draw his needles.

“One.”

I took a deep breath, readjusted my aim, relaxed myself to make it easier for Sith to direct my mana, and exhaled.

“Zero!”

Both of my fingers shimmered with a teal-colored glow. The glow then turned into a blade of wind that pierced through the quilt as it formed and shot out to either side of me.

The cave filled with a sea-green color. The mini crossbow on Alex’s wrist opened and three needles appeared in his other hand. Since the cave was illuminated, a few spiders had been spotted and Alex attacked them.

One of the wind blades found its target. A high-pitched, strange sound echoed through the cave, like a hiss and a scream at the same time. The other wind blade had cut its target’s legs, but not its main body. In comparison, Alex’s attacks were quite accurate. He missed only one target.

In just a few seconds we had killed five and seriously injured two of the seventeen spiders that surrounded us, but the spiders had also realized that we had noticed them.

The spiders suddenly tensed. The strange sound that could be heard from those who had just been hit suddenly echoed throughout the cave as the spiders began to scream at the same time. Their screams echoed off the walls, grew louder and louder, and reached our ears.

The sound the spiders made together was so high-pitched, so loud that my head instantly started to throb. The inside of the cave seemed to shake, but I was the one shaking, and I knew it.

I gritted my teeth, my ears hurt like they were tearing, but I managed to protect myself a little by closing them quickly. Alex was in a worse situation than me. He had reflexively covered his ears as soon as he heard the sounds, but blood was oozing from his right ear and I could see from his expression that he was in a lot of pain.

The voices stopped as suddenly as they came and the moment I realized this I grabbed my sword. The spiders turned toward us at the same time and took a strange position. I couldn’t understand what was happening at first, but when I saw the white webs flying at us from the air, I quickly went to Alex and activated my Mana Barrier skill to protect us both.

A transparent, spherical barrier materialized around us, protecting us, and the spiders’ webs got caught in it. With the barrier active, I quickly put our bags inside a dimensional button, and then, without wasting time, I quickly expanded the barrier, shattering it, and the web fell to the ground around us.

I hadn’t even taken a proper breath when I saw the spiders charging at us.

“Damn it, hold on!”

I concentrated my mana in my lower body, felt my legs fill with power and I grabbed Alex by his clothes and threw him forward with me.

I watched a spider pass over me. Its eyes, glowing red, were focused on me as I passed beneath it, I was sure of it, even if I couldn’t quite understand it, but I didn’t have time to think too much about it.

The moment I made contact with the ground, I pulled myself and Alex to my feet and shouted.

“Run!”

Alex nodded, albeit holding his right ear, and started running toward the exit.

The spiders were smart. They didn’t all pounce on us at once, instead only a few of them attacked. The others had stayed behind to give us a quick chase in case we escaped. So as soon as we landed, I let Alex run away and turned around myself.

Just as I had predicted, the moment I turned my eyes behind me, I found almost ten spiders charging at me. Their saliva was dripping from their mouths, their red eyes glowing with excitement.

“Not today, you little rats.”

I turned my hand toward them, directing it outward as the mana in my body swirled inside me and I imagined a strong gust of wind blowing.

A strong wall of wind came out of my hand and blew rapidly toward the spiders. The spiders in the air were instantly thrown back, while those on the ground clung to the ground to keep their balance. Knowing that this would slow them down enough, I moved with a smile on my face in the direction Alex had run.

I was thinking of meeting him outside, killing our enemies back to back like the previous times, and then running away.

But after moving along the short corridor of the cave… I was forced to pause, even if I didn’t want to.

It wasn’t because I was tired or injured.

I expected to meet Alex outside, but I found him standing in the middle of the corridor. The exit of the cave was only a few steps away, but he wasn’t moving.

He wasn’t waiting for me, he couldn’t go on if he wanted to and that’s why he was just standing there.

The exit was completely covered with spider webs. And behind the webs, at least twenty spiders were waiting for us.

I opened my mouth, tried to say something, but I couldn’t speak, my mouth just stayed open. My eye twitched and the shock and the nerves that came with it took over my whole body. I clenched my fist and shouted.

“STUPID SPIDERS!”

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