BXBX NOVEL Chapter 90: BOOM!
Chapter 90: BOOM!
"This is it..." Knoxx whispered, hunched behind a half-sliced tree.
Adam squinted his eyes and looked over at the small mountain before them.
It was fully built with sticks and tree trunks, with several holes created for entrances. Within the small mountain, the Spider Demons roamed freely, their shadows occasionally moving by.
"Weird... there is no one outside." Hana whispered.
There was only movement inside the strange, small mountain. The outside was eerily quiet and empty.
"Sigh..."
Adam heaved a sigh, then drew his sword and took his shield from his back.
"Once we enter, we cannot hesitate," he said. "We'll have to keep moving onward."
Everyone nodded.
Adam, Knoxx, and Alan shared a glance. They then nodded, left their hiding places, and took their positions in front of the group.
Everyone else slowly followed right behind them.
Soon, they stepped through the hole in the mountain and entered a dark, gloomy cave made out of sticks, leaves, and mud.
It was, luckily, as narrow as they expected.
Adam, Knoxx, and Alan stood beside each other. Then, they placed their shields in front of them and continued moving cautiously deeper into the cave.
Merely five meters later, they started hearing quick tapping noises.
It was almost like there were hundreds of people running above them.
Adam eyed the ceiling with a narrowed gaze.
"Just how many are here..." Hana wondered aloud and then let out an audible gulp.
"Hey, look..." Alan whispered and pointed his sword ahead at the hunched figure in the distance.
Knoxx and Adam slowly advanced towards the figure.
At that moment, the figure let out strange clicking noises and turned around just enough to reveal its face.
It had the face of a spider, with eight eyes and sharp fangs protruding from its mouth. It was standing on two feet with two arms attached to its body, but it was far from human as it had a strange black exoskeleton covering its entire body.
"Click, click, click, click!" The Spider Demon clicked its fangs together menacingly and stood up from the ground.
Behind it, two more Spider Demons emerged from the depths of the cave.
They were equally ugly and terrifying.
"Disgusting..." A player mentioned while shuddering in disgust.
"Brace..." Adam planted his feet on the ground and put his weight on his shield.
Knoxx and Alan finished up the wall of shields.
"Click, click, click!"
With three clicks of the fangs, the three Spider Demons sprang forward with their jaws stretched open.
Swoosh!
One of the Spider Demons suddenly extended its hand and shot out a wall of spiderweb towards the three vanguards.
"Hana, fireball!" Adam shouted.
"Roger!" Hana waved her wand and shot a ball of fire towards the spiderweb.
As soon as the fireball landed on the spiderweb, it ignited and quickly spread, burning
through the sticky threads. It vanished as soon as it was created.
The second Spider Demon suddenly leaped off the ground and attached itself to the ceiling, then started crawling towards the group.
"Wall Crawler!" Alan shouted.
"Don't panic; ignore it for now!" Adam shouted.
At that moment, Knoxx's body froze in fear as the third Spider Demon's eight eyes locked into him.
"Something is wrong with Knoxx!" A player behind Knoxx shouted. "He is trembling!"
"It's Fear Inducement!"
Adam, without hesitation, elbowed Knoxx in the waist.
It shook him immediately awake.
"Ngh..." Knoxx shook his head and shouted. "Thanks!"
After seeing their attacks fail, two of the Spider Demons launched themselves into the
shields.
They tried to break through, but Adam, Knoxx, and Alan held their ground.
Bang, bang, bang!
The Spider Demon's punched, but the shields held strong.
"Hold your ground!" Adam screamed.
At that moment, the Wall Crawling Spider Demon crawled above them with drool dripping
from its fangs.
"It's above us!" Hana screamed.
"Stab it!" Adam shouted and drove his sword through the wall crawling Spider Demon's back.
Knoxx and Alan hacked their swords through its exoskeleton with all their might until it screeched and finally collapsed to the ground, defeated.
Bang, bang, bang!
After seeing one of them die, the Spider Demons grew erratic and started to claw their way
through the shields.
"Ugh..." Adam was forced to step back, as were Knoxx and Alan.
"T-they're strong!" Knoxx screamed. "What do we do?!"
"Smash your shields at their face!"
Adam shouted and swung his shield across the Spider Demon's face.
Knoxx followed suit and swung his shield upwardly through the Spider Demon's jaw.
Alan bashed his shield into the Spider Demon's chest, causing it to stumble backwards.
"Attack!" Adam screamed and lowered his shield slightly, then pushed his sword through the Spider Demon's face.
Knoxx slashed through another Spider Demon's neck. Then Alan hacked his sword through the
same Spider Demon's head, finishing it off.
The two Spider Demons fell in front of them, dead.
"Whoo..." Adam and the rest breathed heavily.
"Damn, this was only the first wave, and it was already this dangerous." Alan said with a
heavy sigh.
[You killed a Spider Demon!]
[5 XP Acquired!]
Adam made the notification disappear and then focused on the cave in front.
"Like I said, we'll have to keep moving forward. If we stop to catch our breath, we'll get
overwhelmed."
"Right..." Knoxx turned to others and raised his sword. "Move onwards!"
With that, they ventured further into the darkness.
--
"Click, click, click!"
At the Spider Lair's chamber, loud clicking noises echoed off the walls.
A massive, large-bellied spider with eight steel legs and an enormous head scuttled right in
the middle of the chamber.
It was hideous-looking and covered in thick, black fur with a strong exoskeleton underneath.
The Spider Demons were delivering food to her-their mother-and she was not pleased with
the delay.
At that moment, she let out an ear-piercing screech that echoed throughout the entire small
mountain.
'Intruders... intruders... My children... dead...'
'FIND THEM!'
With her telepathic abilities, she communicated with every single Spider Demon in the
vicinity.
Her order was absolute.
The Spider Demons dropped whatever they were doing and began their search.
...
"Something is wrong." Adam came to a sudden halt with a frown. "I sense great anger. I think
they know we are here."
"How?!" Knoxx asked in shock.
"I might know how..." Adam turned to them and said, "I guess this Spider Mother has
Kiryoku. A strong Kiryoku that allows her to be connected with every one of her children."
"Wasn't this known?" Hana asked with a frown. "I thought everything was known about this
floor."
"It is different with the boss." Adam said, "Their abilities can change. Sometimes, they have the abilities of Kraft or Magick, sometimes Kiryoku, like now, and sometimes none of them. "It is the game's way of making things unpredictable and hard.
"However, this means the reward will be greater. But it will be much more difficult. It is a matter of time before they find us."
"Should we leave?" A player asked. "This raid was suicidal to begin with. Now, we have to
fight Spider Mother that has Kiryoku!"
"That might be fine." Adam said, "She is slow, and even with Kiryoku, she couldn't possibly dodge our attacks. The bigger threat are those Spider Demons now.
"Spider Mother can communicate with them telepathically. She will definitely discover when
we are close to reaching her chamber, and then she will summon all of her children to protect
her.
"To stop that from happening, I think we have to kill every Spider Demon."
"Every?!"
Others were taken aback. They never planned to kill all of them.
They planned to get to the chamber quickly, fight Spider Mother till her health was below
forty percent, and then blow this place up.
"Well, extra experience points." Adam said and shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe I can reach
level 2, after all."
"You are crazy." Knoxx said and then let out a short laugh. "But I like your style." "Insanity..." Hana said and chuckled. "We are all going to die."
"Hah, Miranda, I guess I'll also die..." Alan laughed. "I guess I can start from level 1 again
with her." 'It might take several months before I can join raid again. It is too much time to waste. I
joined Crimson Hound so I can have more freedom about what I'll do and grow at my desired
pace.
'I'll have to take some risks and make reckless decisions. This is one of them...'
Adam tapped his sword against his shield.
"By the way, I never said to fight each Spider Demon." Adam suddenly said.
"Huh?" Knoxx turned to him with a frown.
Adam opened his inventory and took out the black bomb.
With a crazy smile, he ignited the fuse and tossed it towards the end of the cave.
"Huh?" Knoxx looked at the bomb with wide eyes.
Everyone froze for a moment.
"Umm, run?" Adam suggested before turning around and running away.
"So that was your plan?!" Knoxx and others quickly ran after him as fast as they possibly
could. "You should've said so from start!"
"You thought I was going to fight through the horde of Spider Demons?!" Adam shouted back
while moving his legs as fast as possible. "I'm not stupid!"
"Ah, you maniac!"
They all left the small mountain and rushed inside the forest.
After the tenth second passed, the small mountain, in a brilliant fashion, exploded into a
cloud of fire and smoke.
BOOM!