CHAPTER 29: ALEX JOINS THE SPIDER DUNGEON

Alex joins the spider dungeon

29

The group retreated in formation as Brem fired covering his groups retreat, as they retreated they saw a pattern.

It seemed like the creatures were deliberately luring them somewhere, they weren’t chasing at speeds but rather leading Tiffany’s group.

Each side attack pushed the hunters to a point covered in webs like walls, the path narrowing with each step they took was a hurried march for survival.

At a certain point a tunnel was waiting for them like a door that announced salvation.

When they passed through the tunnel everyone could finally breathe a little, relieved that they were still alive.

They were in a sort of clearing, however, there were countless crazy lines weaving the place, the webs were intertwined like a hunting map that only spiders could understand.

Tiffany looked around, contemplating the silence, she felt that something was wrong, and she wasn’t the only one, the other hunters felt the same way, you could see a certain urgency on their faces.

Above the hunters’ heads, something slid by without them noticing, it had no concrete form, just a distortion in the surrounding darkness and the sound of webs being pulled to some unknown place.

Finally the hunt had begun, but none of those present knew that they were the prey nor that there was a hunter hidden in the darkness.

At this moment night had fallen, the darkness in the clearing deepened, the torches that the hunters had lit barely illuminated their noses, the flames trembled slightly to the rhythm of their hearts.

"I feel something watching us, everyone resumes battle formation"

perception tribute screamed for danger, even though he was a two star his class was still ordinary, he was very strong for his level, but his authority and class were ordinary.

"I can also feel something moving in the darkness," Sarah said, displaying her staff and administering the cure to everyone.

The hunters saw their HP recover at a considerable speed.

Tiffany’s heart still trembled with the movement of the darkness

"Did you guys see that? It wasn’t just me, was it?" A hunter asked in terror. Rouke raised his fist, signaling everyone to be quiet.

Brem slowly turned his bow, ready to fire an arrow at anything that dared move in the darkness. His trained ears picked up something other than the wind, it sounded like a voice.

It must have been a chant or some murmur, but he could not understand whatever the darkness had said.

"I think someone is talking?" He said tensely and uncertainly.

"I don’t see or hear anything, are you sure you didn’t just hear the wind rustling?" Liam retorted.

"I’m sure, it sounded like some people’s voices, but I can’t make out whatever they said," Brem insisted, he knew what he had heard, the voices were coming from all sides, mixing with the wind.

During the confrontations with the spiders, some including Tiffany had leveled up, but there was no way for them to check their system panels, any distraction would be enough to lose their lives.

They could not rest, to survive they had to be vigilant at all times.

Suddenly something moved from behind the hunters, a shadow tore through the darkness, not even Rouke reacted in time.

"Watch out, behind you," Sarah shouted to the line of hunters in defensive formation, but it was too late.

The claws that pierced the darkness pierced the hunter’s chest, he had no time to scream for help or lament for his life, the second hunter turned his head and his arm that carried his weapon was missing, he tried to scream when he was swallowed by the darkness.

In a single pull the bodies disappeared into the darkness of the night.

Daniel’s eyes shone as his aura erupted from his body, mark of the lv3 predator, a beautiful crimson shone, locking onto the creature that walked through the darkness, in an instant the skill broke.

The mark that shone in the darkness disappeared as if it had never existed.

"What the hell, the creature is immune to my tracking ability, this has never happened to me before, leader do something" Daniel shouted in warning.

Rouke did not hesitate, the find was stuck in the ground when the skill, seismic hammer lv3 was used, the forest trembled at the display of brute force, the hunters around suffered damage even though they were not targets of the skill,

The trees fell, ripped from the ground by the power of the skill, but even with the powerful attack they could not see the creature, somehow everyone knew that the monster was still there.

Brem drew his bowstring through the darkness, Sarah illuminated the surroundings with her staff, Tiffany felt the air change, the other hunters became vigilant.

The silence on the scene made the hunters’ hearts tremble

"The creature seems to be everywhere, what do we do now? Where should we attack?"

Liam whispered, dread tinged in his words, unfortunately there was no answer to this concern.

***

Alex found himself in a dead forest, apparently it was early, the dawn could barely be seen through the fog, the dungeon seemed to be an open world, and this time, there were no companions to guide him.

He seemed lost and very worried, he barely knew his sister and she had already been kidnapped, It couldn’t be said that he had very strong feelings for her, after all Alex barely knew her.

But he remembered those eyes that reminded him of his father, even if this reality was different, he should still honor his father’s teachings, and the girl had him as her brother, so he should act accordingly.

Alex chose a random direction and ran to the best of his abilities, he had to clear the dungeon as quickly as possible.

Something moved in the shadow of a tree, he stopped to see what it was, and at the same moment, a golden arrow came towards him at high speed, a gravitational field formed protecting him.

He saw five silhouettes of what appeared to be human beings, Alex sighed thinking he had encountered members of the Blue Spirit Guild, but his perception attribute warned him that the figures were dangerous.

It was then that they revealed themselves, they were not human, they were monsters that resembled humans.

Their skin had gray tones, their arms were twice as long, on top of their heads they had two antennae, they had eyes like these, there were four eyes on each face staring at Alex.

"Hey brother, look, we found the one who ran away from the queen." A figure pointed at Alex and spoke to the other monster beside him.

"Your antennas are defective brother, because you are not looking properly, it seems to be a male"

"Really? Well humans , it’s so hard to tell if it’s male, if it’s female, it looks the same?"

"Don’t pay attention to him, he’s very stupid, females have a reservoir, what’s it called?"

While the other monster was thinking, one of them stepped forward and finished the other’s thought.

"Mammary glands"

One of them looked at the speaker and said with admiration, "Brother, you are so intelligent. How do you know all these complicated human things?"

The praised monster slapped what was supposed to be his chest and said.

"I can access the memories of the humans our queen devoured before creating me. I think I’m smarter than the smartest brother in the hunter world."

The showed looked enviously and said again.

"Brother, one day I will also be as smart as you."

"Of course you will, it’s enough, you smell my ass every day, before the sun rises"