31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 72)
Snowfall went down the long passage while being protected by Jamad..
Cheeeeee…
tdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd…
The sharply protruding terrain and stones allowed their intrusion without leaving a single scratch on the jamad's hide..
“doesn't exist! There is no wall!”
“Good, let's go down like this..”
Karen and Jamard steeled themselves, remembering that they had put in a lot of effort to seize this opportunity..
Slowly, the end of the long passage began to come into view..
“fall!”
“Hold on tight!”
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
Finally, as I exited the passage, a feeling of emptiness came over me..
“Eh? radish….”
Fuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
‘water?’
Snowfall never expected that there would be an underground lake of this size. He fell down quite a bit due to the impact of the fall, but Jamard grabbed his hand and lifted him up..
“Fuhahahaha!”
“Keck… Wow... A lake?.”
“Everyone seems to be okay, so let's go out first..”
Cheolgruuk, Cheolgruuk.
The group finally escaped the underground lake with Karen draining the water from her armor and getting out..
“If I had fallen in the middle of the lake, it would have taken a year to get out..”
“Is the groundwater flowing out from here scattered throughout the canyon??”
“Well, it's not that important..”
“I'm glad I fell into the lake. I wasn't hurt.”
“The ceiling is really high? I think the size of the community is considerable..”
It was just as Karen said..
Snowfall looked around the space they were in and checked the terrain..
Bumpy stalactite pillars and hard, slippery ground. And a huge joint.
Snowfall touched the bulging part of the cloak to check for accuracy..
Tuk.
[Venta's Veil activates..]
Ahhhhh…
[The surroundings become brighter.]
“Ugh, it’s dazzling.!”
- Karen lol
- *_* my eyes!
- Sergeant Kyle, it's time to leave for duty..
“Come in front of me, it'll be a little better.”
“Ha, it's much better. You're not a general store, but you have a lot of unusual items.?”
“It's the result of all my efforts..”
“I won't deny it. Good, looks good. hmm….”
Karen said, looking at the surroundings illuminated by light..
“It's all spider webs. I see that?”
“ceiling?”
“Yes, there was a reason there was a hole in the ceiling. I climbed the spider web all the way there and made a hole..”
At that time, a quiet message came to mind..
[‘Major changes to 'Her Last Descendant'.]
[‘‘Her Last Descendant’ changed to ‘Predator Below the Canyon’.]
Adventure 11-1. ‘Predators at the bottom of the canyon’’
Finally, after a long search, we caught traces of the spider. You have escaped Koopa, the predator of Shady Canyon, and chased it to the home of Spider, another predator of the canyon..
There is no way there is no owner in this wide cavity..
You must find out who owns this place and end the long chase..
However, the owner of this place will not welcome you..
Goal: Obtain the blood of Anakindria's last descendant..
If the goal is not achieved, Xiamen's favorability decreases and the Red Lotus Sword fails to be re-sharpened..
Current remaining time 「71 : 59」
Snowfall clenched her fists..
‘You came to the right place!’
The change in the adventure content was nothing short of proof that Snowfall was going in the right direction..
Jamad asked..
“What are you going to do??”
“uh?”
“The last offspring or something, a big bird snatched them away.”
“No, maybe it's not a descendant..”
“After all, do you think so too??”
“The spider was big, but it didn't make sense for it to have a cavity this size to itself. Plus, there are spider webs all over the ceiling and walls. There's no way he could have made all these webs by himself..”
“I agree. If the house is this big, the owner must be that big too. Probably he's a minion.”
Karen urged while listening to their conversation..
“The bottom line is that we have to move forward.?”
“Okay, let's go.”
At that time, I heard a whisper from somewhere..
It was a voice as light as a breeze..
- Come closer... closely…
Kang Seol opened her eyes wide and asked the two..
“who said?”
“no?”
“I am not.”
“I just heard a voice….”
“What are you talking about??”
“is not it… Let's go first.”
Karen placed her hand on the shoulder of Kang Seol, who was taking steps. And she's been pulling pranks like kids would do.
“woah!”
“…What are you doing?”
“I'm not surprised.”
“Don't play around.”
“It's not a joke, I confirmed it.”
“check?”
“I heard you talking earlier, what did you say??”
“Come closer, come closer.”
“hmm….”
The three gazes crossed.
These are the three who fell and fell in Pandea..
By this time, everyone should have noticed..
“mental magic.”
“They even use mental manipulation.?”
“It must be a pain in the ass.”
Karen said, pounding the center of her chest..
“Believe me. I have no such thing as mental magic….”
“Resistance to mind manipulation? It's sealed..”
“this….”
Jamard slowly headed forward and warned the group..
“Seeing that there are no enemies nearby, it seems like a mental attack was made from a very long distance, so I guess this level is pretty high..”
“It would be nice if you were only familiar with mental magic, but the opponent is a spider. Everyone remembers?”
“I remember. Eight eyes on eight legs. Normal spiders are like that.”
“Since we've settled in a place like this, we're sure to be big, and even with all our legs combined, we're no match for it..”
“Let's go while being careful.”
As Venta's curtain brightened the surroundings, Kang Seol and his party continued to move forward..
Sticky spider webs were spread everywhere, but what was unusual was that old carriages, dishes with rare patterns, and other miscellaneous items were also tangled in the spider webs..
And even the white bones.
“I ate a lot.”
“…I know.”
Kang Seol felt bitter after witnessing the end of the victims over a long period of time..
‘Is Kiri here too??’
It had been more than 10 years since Kiri lost his life in vain, so he could have been one of the white bones lying around over there..
Tuk.
I held up the snow-covered skull and looked at the black holes where both eyes had been..
You too will face this kind of ending someday. I didn't want to be like this….
A terrible echo kept coming to mind..
Swish.
Snowfall shook her head and put the skull in a corner..
A whisper of courtesy was once again delivered to Snowfall's ears..
- Come closer, child… Receive the grace of fire…
Crackling…
Snowfall frowned..
Sigh-
Karen, who was walking ahead, blocked the snowfall by extending one arm horizontally..
“stop.”
Before I knew it, Jamard was behind Snowfall..
It was to protect him..
Snow covered the entire space, including the ceiling. All he sees are red circles.
Kiyi-!
They were all spider eyes.
Even though the goosebumps were busy moving, no sound was heard, which made the sight even more repulsive..
- For a life of fire... sacrifice your life…
“Noisy.”
Snowfall said to his summons.
“kill them all.”
Kiyiyi-!
Spiders similar in size to the spider that Koopa disappeared with came flocking from all directions..
[Jamard uses rock armor.]
[The special effect of Fist of the Mountain activates..]
[Snowman gains the effect of Rock Armor.]
First, Jamard protected Kang Seol's body and his body from spiders by surrounding it with rocks..
Whoa whoa-!
Kwasik!
The spider's head exploded with a light swing..
[Experience points are accumulated.]
[Killed a Sulfur Spider.]
profit…
The area where the blood of the sulfur spider touched was slightly dented..
“The blood smells like sulfur, be careful. fairy!”
pot-!
Karen had already killed a few spiders and was kicking the head of another one..
Puhuaak-!
[Experience points are accumulated.]
[Killed a Sulfur Spider.]
“Kahaha! Are you kidding me? This is it?”
profit-!
Karen's right shoulder armor was exposed to the web spewed by one of the many spiders..
“Wow!”
Karen felt that the spider web was unusually strong and spun around..
Hwiik-!
The large spider rose into the air and fell head first..
Pajiik…
key profit!
Kwasik!
[Experience points are accumulated.]
[Killed a Sulfur Spider.]
“Do you like it hot? So do i!”
Karen is all gray.
If there was one thing that burned in her reduced to ashes, it was her eyes..
Red eyes were shining with heat..
“I'll kill all the spiders!”
Kwasik!
[Experience points are accumulated.]
[Killed a Sulfur Spider.]
Jamard swung the carriage wheel from behind..
Huh-!
Puhuaak-!
profit!
thud! Wow!
[Experience points are accumulated.]
[Killed a Sulfur Spider.]
key… key profit!
I could feel the spiders panicking..
Whispers continued to reach Snowfall's ears..
- Don't resist... embrace the fire…
“hey. I'm listening?”
- …….
“I'm waiting there. I'm leaving soon.”
When it seemed like Snowfall was in danger, Karen and Jamard stepped in and crushed the spider..
The large number of spiders gradually began to decrease..
Kiyi!
When one spider turned and ran away, crying, other spiders followed suit and ran away..
“Should I chase you??”
“No, let’s move slowly because we don’t know what might be hiding..”
“Well, whatever..”
The floor was soaked with spiders' blood..
“Should I call this blood or sulfur?….”
“It's annoying, but it's not a problem..”
Snowfall poured the blood pouring from the spider's corpse into one of the bottles she brought in advance..
[Got the blood of a sulfur spider.]
‘I knew it.’
These spiders were not descendants of Anakindria. Either that subspecies or a completely different species..
“I don't think it will end easily.”
“Snowman, look here..”
There was more than just spider webs in the cavity. Cocoons wrapped in spider webs also gradually appeared..
“cocoon?”
“there is something inside.”
“…Isn't it a spider??”
“No, it seems like he was prey to a spider..”
Saying that, Jamaard stirred up a piece of broken wood and tore the cocoon..
profit-
“It's terrible.”
Karen made a disgusted expression..
Inside was a mummified body with all its bodily fluids sucked out by spiders. It was so sad to see her dying, shedding bloody tears..
Kang Seol became increasingly angry at the thought that Kiri would also have met a death like that..
“Let's go, we'll finish everything, spiders and all..”
Jamard asked Karen.
“Is it okay if I can’t draw my sword??”
“So, wouldn't it be a good idea to pick it up in advance??”
“I can swing it?”
“…That's right. Just smash it like you do, whatever.”
Although Karen spoke casually, her condition was actually serious. As if her heart was locked, she would be tormented inside, unable to draw or swing her sword for anyone..
‘But there's nothing I can do, so we'll just have to wait and see..’
watching.
Snowfall was the only option for her..
Jeez. Jeopuk.
The common passage gradually expanded.
As if there was a huge presence inside, it continued..
“master. I guess….”
Stand tall.
When Karen stopped walking, the group followed suit and stopped..
“I think it's here?”
It's so huge that you might mistake it for a dragon's nest..
Spider webs and cocoons everywhere.
In particular, the sight of cocoons piled up as if to show off made Snow Seol dizzy..
Kiyiyi…
- Hehe… To come this far on my own... What a fun kid. I am Atarak. Anakin Dria, the last descendant she left behind in her world..
Snowfall raised her head and looked at the wide space..
Truly, a spider of such overwhelming size that it could not even be described as gigantic was hanging on a diagonal spider web..
Insight eyes filled her with information before her eyes..
[Atarak: Last descendant of Anakindria.]
Rank: Hero
estimated level : 18~30
Ancient Fire Spider Queen, Anakindria.
At one time everyone in the world feared her presence..
However, she is gone and now her legend is also forgotten. And a new Queen Spider, who inherited her blood, appears and her name is Atarak..
Basic abilities: [Bite 2], [Neurotoxin Injection 3], [Spider's Whispers 2], [Sweet Dreams 1], [Cobweb Bomb 1], [Passive: Defend House 1], [Passive: Movement Capture 1]
Special Ability: [Sulfur Saturation 1]
‘hero level….’
Snowfall’s eyes became fierce..
As expected, Atarak was not an ordinary opponent..
Kiyi…
- Talking to food is an unfamiliar experience, but... Since you’ve whetted my appetite, I’ll give you a chance… Hey kid.
Kiyi…
- I am still hungry, you cannot satisfy me. more… Bring more food to the canyon.
“The price is?”
Kiyi…
- I will grant you the grace of fire.
A choice appeared before Kangseol’s eyes..
[You face Atarak, the giant spider queen. But instead of preying on you, she made you an unpleasant proposition. How would you answer?]
1. What is the grace of fire??
2. Whatever it is, I'll accept it. New fire queen.
3. Is Anakindria dead??
4. Please tell me exactly what I need to do.
5. Do you have any other suggestions??
……
This kind of suggestion was quite novel, so normally, Snow Seol would have been very cautious in his response..
He postponed his answer and looked around..
countless cocoons.
Many lives were lost here. His horse Kiri also.
So, there is no compromise.
Kang Seol laughed while looking at Atarak..
And I answered like this.
“The offer is rejected. Now get ready to fall out of there.”
Atarak trembled with rage..
Kiyiyi-!
- Kill all those little guys.!
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