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Extermination? - Ch 8

Extermination? - Ch 8

"Alright it is just up ahead" - Zack.

"Are we finally there, I swear if you are lying I will.." - Henry

"We know, we know, you will turn around and leave, I get it, I get it. this is the 50th time you have said that Henry." - Lisa, in a defeated tone.

The party continues on until they reach an entrance, covered in webs, with a cut the size of a person in the centre of the webs.

"I assume this is it, with all the webs, this pretty much screams spiders. Alright everyone gather for the planning." - Zack, to the rest of the party.

"Alright Lets go with the usual, when we get in, Henry since you are a warrior, you will be at the front, Tyler as the thief, assist from behind, Luke, as the archer, and Lisa, as a mage, deal with any that get past the two of them, or any ranged ones, and since I am an alchemist, I will assist with buff, resist and health potions, just remembe-" - Zack

"yea yea potions don't work the same as healing skills or spells, health potions will only recover your blood and so on and so on, we know." - Henry, stopping Zack from ranting on and on.

"Good, You better, because I cannot help if you get a chunk ripped out of you." - Zack

"Yea yea, so are we going to do this or..." Henry

Everyone looks at Zack

"As long as there are no issues.. we can go." - Zack

With that, the carefree tone suddenly vanishes as everyone begins stepping through, Henry going first.

As soon as henry is fully, he pulls a few sticks out, and a rune out. He hits the sticks off the rune, as soon as the sticks begin to light he drops then to the ground as he sees a spider about to land on his face and pulls out his sword, not fast enough.

The spider lands on him and begins biting at random across the face, it would have taken his nose off, if not for sudden arrow from Luke that hits the spider in the side, knocking it off of him.

the spider hits the floor with low thud but appears to be uninjured until a downward swing from henry beheads it, ending the fight there.

You have slain: Lesser Black Spider (Common) +15 Exp

Henry and Luke look around for anymore spiders in the now visible cave, which they find is oddly square, throwing them off.

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They reign in their curiosity, and continue to remain on alert, guarding their party members as they get in and in position.

When everyone gets in. "Carful, the spiders are tough, my arrow bounced off of it." - Luke, waring everyone now that they have all gotten past the webs.

"Alright Everyone take heed. Lets continue." - Zack as he picks up he sticks, looking for the way deeper.

Everyone looks ahead to see a tunnel going deeper and proceed with Zack now holding the only light source.

As they all enter the room they notice the spiders standing on the opposite side of the also oddly square room, the spiders also notice them, and start scurrying toward them.

Lisa forms a small ball of energy above her and fires it at one of the spiders, piercing it's head, killing it. Luke launches arrow after arrow at the second spider, all of which either miss or simply bounce, leaving cracks across the spider.

The spider ignores it's fallen kin, and continues to the closest enemy (Henry) and jumps.

Tyler quickly runs up and stabs the spider in the side, the spider's shell breaks as the dagger hits it and goes through, the spider then dies, remaining stuck to the dagger, until the thief (Tyler) turns it downward, allowing the spider to slide right off, leaving a stain of blood as it does so.

You have slain: Lesser Black Spider (Common) X2 +30 Exp

The party on alert scans their surroundings, no new enemies. before them are 2 paths, 1 straight ahead, another to the right.

"This is weird, why are there no spiders coming here after all that noise?" - Lisa asked.

"Maybe they cannot hear?" - Henry.

"What does it matter, all we need to do is clear them out, just chuck it up to spiders being spiders." - Luke.

"Which way, straight or right?" - Henry

"Straight." - Zack

Everyone focuses on the path ahead.

Walking into the room they notice 2 things, there is 1 big spider and that this room is a dead end.

The spider notices them and charges, creating little scratches in the ground while doing so.

Lisa and Luke begin launching ranged attacks, all of them miss as they are too close for proper aiming. Henry raises his shield as the spider jumps and bashes into it, creating scratch marks across said shield, Henry then moves his shield to go for a swipe, but all it does is crack the spider and send it flying to the left.

the spider lands on its feet and continues it's charge, Luke sneaks next to the spider going for it's neck, the spider notices the sudden dagger and dodges, switching targets to Luke.

Luke begins retreating but the spider is faster and goes for a bite at his leg but gets stopped by the sudden arrow which for once goes through, the spider still lives, Henry pulls his signature attack and cleaves it's head, off killing it instantly.

You have slain: Lesser Black Spider (Uncommon) +45 Exp

"You alright Luke?" - Zack and Lisa ask at the same time, it would be funny, if not for their concern.

"Yea just a scratch no real damage." - Luke

Luke was then checked on by Zack. He noted that Luke was left with a very shallow cut, as the spider was stopped before it could bite down properly.

"Ok he is fine. Be more carful next time, this could have turned out very badly, after all bandages can only do so much."

"I know, I just got surprised at how quick it began to target me."

They continued talking for a bit longer before turning back and going down the other path.

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